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Is shifting in response to what you experience a bad thing? If you're not seeing much good coming from an external focus, then maybe it's worth pivoting and fo

• jacquesm 10y ago
  > You're supposed to be proud of your country and support it first and foremost. If that doesn't come at someone else's expense, then maybe yes. But 'nationalism' to me equates with stupidity. Putting a flag and other symbols above reason, supporting the troops, even when they're committing war crimes and so on. Nationalism is a dirty word in Europe for a reason, every time it rears its ugly head we have another war to deal with. America is lucky in that sense, it has only had two wars on its own soil (if you count the Canadian incursion), and none of those were because of foreign invaders (if you ignore the position of the Native Americans), and none of those in recent times. But imagine if America had been the stage of WWI and WWII, I wonder how you'd feel about nationalism if that had been the case. War is cheap if you export it, very very expensive to import. The scars of WWI and WWII still run very deep through Europe, it doesn't take any effort at all to find them, even if all for WWI and most of those that took part in WWII are now dead.