08-30-2002, 11:15 AM
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Join Date: May 2001
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Originally posted by Pathfinder
I conur. By the way [Labret], I am interested in knowing your definition of a "Nationalist".
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Thats a tough one. I will quote others that I think best sum it up. Off the top of my head I would bumble an otherwise difficult subject matter.
Anthony Smith
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the ideological movement for the attainment and maintenance of autonomy, cohesion, and individuality for a social group, some of whose members conceive it to be an actual or potential nation."
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A common postulated interrelationship - a "blood" bond between members. This blood relationship may be actual, but more often, it derives from myth.
A shared cultural heritage. This heritage, and particularly the cultural artifacts (and sometimes also, institutional structures) that it has created, represents the "patrimony" of the nation, and is often invested with considerable sentimental value, to the extent that attacks on it are responded to with violent emotion.
Linguistic coherence, in the form of one or more languages identified with the national identity. The more unique or difficult these languages are, the stronger the emotional attachment to them, as something that must be defended. In the world of mass telecommunications and the omnipresence of English as a lingua franca, bitter struggles are taking place all over the world to protect the national languages (most notably, in Iceland and France).
A sense of identification by members with the nation. The idea of national affiliation is a deep-rooted one in the human psyche, and members of a nation suffer a very visceral response to any threat against it, real or perceived.
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