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Full Idea
Nationalism pretends that there is only one identity, that we cannot be more than one thing at once.
Gist of Idea
Nationalism pretends that we can only have a single identity
Source
Ian Dunt (How to be a Liberal [2020], Today)
Book Ref
Dunt,Ian: 'How to Be a Liberal' [Canbury Press 2020], p.10
A Reaction
Dunt is a defender of liberalism, which assumes a wide degree of pluralism. Could I be a British citizen, but love France more than Britain? I don’t see why not, but it is not an ideal situation.
23273 | In a good state the goal of the citizens and of the whole state are united [Hegel] |
23042 | National spirit only exists in the individuals who embody it [Green,TH, by Muirhead] |
23194 | People feel united as a nation by one language, but then want a common ancestry and history [Nietzsche] |
23810 | Charity is the only love, and you can feel that for a country (a place with traditions), but not a nation [Weil] |
23828 | National prestige consists of behaving as if you could beat the others in a war [Weil] |
22816 | Socialists reject nationality as a false source of identity [Miller,D] |
21123 | Liberal Nationalism is more communitarian, and Constitutional Patriotism more cosmopolitan [Shorten] |
23535 | Western workers turn to nationalism, to avert the effects of globalisation [Berardi] |
23130 | Popular imperialism gives the poor the belief that their acts have world historical meaning [Gopnik] |
23131 | Patriots love their place, but nationalists have a paranoid ethnic hostility [Gopnik] |
22592 | Nationalism pretends that we can only have a single identity [Dunt] |