barneystinson69 said:
VGPolyglot said:
Nationalism is useless. What really separates the United States from Canada, Taiwan from China and North Korea from South Korea? Is it their language? No. Is it their ethnicity? No. They are just arbitrary divisions made by political leaders. The only reason nationalism exists is to keep the current policital borders in existence. I also think that you underestimate the influence of Western nations in the Middle East. The United Kingdom and France conquered the regions and arbitrarily divided them into administrative regions. The United States supported many extremists in order to fulfill their own selfish desires. Also, your point that the west didn't care about China is false: in the 1800s and early 1900s Germany, Austria-Hungary, the United States, the United Kingdom and France all carved up and controlled multiple sections of the country, trying to swallow it up land by land. Even during the Chinese Civil War the countries picked sides and gave their support to certain sides.
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Nationalism is useless? So you're telling me the culture's of Europe are indifferent, and we should just have a large mixed race with no genetic diversity and no identity? Should we just eat, work, have sex, and sleep? Guess the rich elite are going to get what they want...
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What does nationalism have to do with any of that? Of course there are going to be different cultures, that's not the same thing as nationalism. Nationalism is when people link their own identities to that of the state: if the country is strong and powerful we are happier, if not then we aren't. This removes individuality from the person.
