From: Che DeBarna
Message: 8939
Date: 2001-09-01
That's what I was trying to explain! It's not the same a catalan nationalist that a USan one.
And that, besides that, nationalism is not a mere question of "wishywashy emotion", but also is conditioned by scientifc, mesureable, rational factors like economy.
Thanxxx a lot!
>From: "Danny Wier" >Reply-To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com >To: >Subject: Re: [tied] Re: AIT >Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 11:25:31 -0500 > >He meant "nationalism" in a bigoted sense: nationalism in Eritrea, Chechnya, Kosovo, East Timor and the Indian reservations in America is way different than White Anglo-Saxon Protestant nationalism in the US (i.e. the "Religious Right"). The former is a struggle to obtain and preserve liberty to speak one's own language, to live in one's own culture, to follow one's own spiritual path. The other is just chauvinism. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: S.Kalyanaraman > To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Friday, 31 August, 2001 15:19 > Subject: [tied] Re: AIT > > > --- In cybalist@..., markodegard@... wrote:> This group is too > loud, too overrun by nutcase nationalists. It's like > trying to talk > about the US Civil War on a group run by the Sons of > Confederate > Veterans. > > What is wrong with nationalism? The history of civilizations of the > last two centuries is a history of adoring nationalism. See, for > e.g., what is happening NOW in the Balkans or in Central Asia.