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Subculture is not the same as opting out, though. Nor is there a dichotomy of being either a member of a subculture vs society at large. There are American otak
by opportune 7y ago
Subculture is not the same as opting out, though. Nor is there a dichotomy of being either a member of a subculture vs society at large. There are American otaku geeks who are nationalistic christians. I mean, that is a lot of what 4chan is these days.
>You can test this yourself. Tell yourself —‘The country I live in now is the best country in the world for people like me; I would be terribly unhappy if I was exiled.’ If your mental reply goes something like, ‘Why, what’s so special about the USA? It’s not particularly economically or politically free, it’s not the only civilized English-speaking country, it’s not the wealthiest9…’, then you are headed down the path of opting out.
This is just wrong. There are plenty of well adjusted people who aren't nationalists.
- squiggleblaz 7y agoThinking "The country I live in now is the best country in the world for people like me; I would be terribly unhappy if I was exiled." is not being nationalist. At most it's patriotic. I miss my home country and I feel exiled by (one of) the government's policies. Every bit of my home is a deep part of me. I hope one day to return to live. I wouldn't want my home country to be divided, for security reasons, nor to be ruled by an outside power (though one can hear the English salivating at the possibility they could re-invade once Brexit is complete). But probably the transfer of power back downwards would, in my home country as in America, help heal the wounds of the last decade more than anything.