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> a nation is a thing Even that there is the result a couple centuries of propaganda. Again, propaganda isn't false, just promoting a certain viewpoint or perc
by giraffe_lady 3y ago
> a nation is a thing
Even that there is the result a couple centuries of propaganda. Again, propaganda isn't false, just promoting a certain viewpoint or perception. That you share anything with people living hundreds of miles away in one direction, but not in another, is not a conclusion you came to without help.
- notahacker 3y agoAnd whilst nationhood can have tangible effects on your life (you might live in a US city closer to Tijuana than Ohio, but opinions and issues in Ohio are having more impact on who governs you), in this case caring most of all about the people closest to you tends towards having the opposite position on US entry into the war. Its the choice between clamouring to send a bunch of people from your hometown to Europe to avenge the deaths of a small number of people you'd never met who weren't targeted because of anything they may or may not have had in common with you, or not. Takes a lot of talking up American identity and the threat to all of us and what wonderful and inspirational people the Germans have killed to convince you that avenging these strangers is worth a death or two in your own community or family. (I say this as a Brit who thinks that the US speeding up the end of the conflict was a good thing, Fwiw)