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Originally Posted by Belfaborac
Surely it's possible to be both proud of one's country and retaining one's national heritage and peculiarities without being either a nationalist or an isolationist? I certainly find it quite easy myself.
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Didn't prove so easy for the Native Americans.
I guess it depends on what exactly you mean by "nationalist" (ie, do you think, as many seem to, that both 'nationalist' and 'patriot' are synonymous with 'jingoist'?) and if "retaining a heritage" means allowing your customs and ways to be outlawed and stamped out, relegated to museums and reenactments, by foreigners who disapprove of them.
The 'isolationist' part might be little hyperbole on my end, but, like the "all or nothing" copyright poll, if it came down to all or nothing isolationism or one-world homogenization, I'd probably side with the isolationists. As long as the country I was isolating myself in had a viable space program.
By the way: what the heck forum section did I stumble into here? I'm quite sure I never opted into the P&R!