It is surprising that a mainstream, pro-Establishment source such as The Atlantic would publish a lengthy article detailing the difference between genuine nationalism and what is is called ‘civic nationalism’ – the stuff of which propositional ‘nations’ (multi-national empires such as China, Russia, the US, etc) are made. Real nationalism is based on the...
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Traditionalists often criticise the United States as a “proposition nation” since there is no ethnic, cultural or religious basis to US identity or citizenship. Everyone knows what a Japanese person looks like, the language they speak, the long history they share with other Japanese and so on. The same goes for Swedes, Russians, Zulus,...
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