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"Patriotism", "Racism", "Functional programming", and many other things will qualify too then, at least for a non-negligible number of people. We tend to get u
by a-nikolaev 9y ago
"Patriotism", "Racism", "Functional programming", and many other things will qualify too then, at least for a non-negligible number of people.
We tend to get unreasonably attached and put our faith into stuff like that.
- ocschwar 9y agoPatriotism: plenty of ethno-specific religions out there. I was born into one. Racism: "race is our religion" - an explicit slogan for more than one neonazi movement. Functional programming: when an advocate moves past "one must" to "you must", the allusions to religion and holy wars get pretty justified.
- drb91 9y agoJust a note that patriotism is typically defined around nation states, not ethnicities, although many times they may align. But the largest nations are often ethnic melting pots!