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Seems like they have been going for the last 700 years. Which makes me feel that the feelings of pride my Muslim friends feel are unjustified as they have very
by frozenport 12y ago
Seems like they have been going for the last 700 years.
Which makes me feel that the feelings of pride my Muslim friends feel are unjustified as they have very little in common with the world that made al-Jazari. Or perhaps more importantly, the rest of the world has advanced in 700 years, but they have staid behind.
- lotsofpulp 12y agoGenerally, I don't completely get why do humans feel pride for things they didn't have anything to do with? Probably has something to do with ego.
- knodi123 12y agomore about tribalism. "I share in the glory of every member of my tribe".
- chetanahuja 12y agoAlso known as "Teamwork". The basic mechanisms of tribalism are the same whether the scale is a world religion, a country, a ship's crew, a basketball team or whatever.
- ramblerman 12y agoBeing part of the team that achieved something versus vicariously enjoying a victory of ancestors you never knew is not really the same thing.
- ekianjo 12y agoThat's what we call "Halo Effect", as well.
- MisterBastahrd 12y agoI once had a friend who was routinely incorrect in his football predictions tell me that I, who won about 85% of the office pools during my time there, didn't know anything about the sport because my team had never won a Super Bowl. I then informed him that he must know five times less than everyone else in the room, given that he was a Bucs fan and virtually all of our coworkers were Cowboys fans. We'll talk over the phone periodically about football, and my predictions about his team are usually spot on for the season. When he asks me how I'm so good at predicting what will happen with his team given that I really don't follow them all that closely, I just tell him that the Saints finally won a Super Bowl, and hence my knowledge was greatly enhanced.
- ehamberg 12y ago“Nationalism teaches you take pride in shit you haven’t done and hate people you’ve never met.” You can probably substitute any us-and-them term for “nationalism”.