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> I feel it just artificially and pointlessly divides us and create needless "us vs them" situations. You may be objectively correct, but if it weren't for nat
by jhgb 5y ago
> I feel it just artificially and pointlessly divides us and create needless "us vs them" situations.
You may be objectively correct, but if it weren't for nationalism, my culture wouldn't exist today and I would have been a German, as would have been my ancestors for more than a century. Just because something is "artificial and pointless" doesn't mean that it's bad.
- worrycue 5y ago> but if it weren't for nationalism, my culture wouldn't exist today I wouldn't be so sure about that. Frequently the conqueror gets culturally influenced by the people they conquer - especially 100+ years ago where totalitarian levels of control were much harder to implement. Also when your people repelled the Germans, it might have more to do with cultural differences than nationalism - empires who succeed in holding on to capture territory are often those that absorb and incorporate the culture of the people they conquered.
- jhgb 5y agoNationalism itself has a lot to do with cultural differences. Especially Czech nationalism. > empires who succeed in holding on to capture territory are often those that absorb and incorporate the culture of the people they conquered Well I didn't notice a lot of Germans and Austrians speaking Czech, to be honest.