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Well, let me give some examples. Citizenship is used to deny people without it participation in Democracy and deny them certain freedoms, for example. Borders
by Miner49er 7y ago
Well, let me give some examples.
Citizenship is used to deny people without it participation in Democracy and deny them certain freedoms, for example.
Borders deny freedom of movement and are currently being used to lock people up (deny them virtually all freedom) for crossing an imaginary line.
Nations create and enforce inequality is basically what it comes down to. They are created and enforced through violence.
- yesenadam 7y agoSome good points, but I don't think 'nationalism' means what you think it means. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalism
- Miner49er 7y agoWell, yeah I'm talking about "nations" but you can't have nationalism without a nation. And you can't have a nation without the idea of citizenship or borders right?
- gourabmi 7y agoDon't let the wordplay confuse you. There can definitely be nationalism without a nation. One of many examples being Kurdistan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan
- dragonwriter 7y ago> Well, yeah I'm talking about "nations" but you can't have nationalism without a nation. Correct, basically. > And you can't have a nation without the idea of citizenship or borders right? Wrong: citizenship and, especially, borders are features of the association with and territorial limits of the jurisdiction of a state. A nation is an identity group which may or may not have a state, a state is a political unit which may or may not be tightly associated with a nation. The modern nation-state system is one in which there is a norm that states tend to be coextensive with nations, and where that isn't the case either nations try to carve out states or states try to create new national identities.