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@emilymaria93123 жыл бұрын
My essay is due in under 10 hours and this has saved me! Thank you!
@jamon67683 жыл бұрын
Hahaha , i always did this when i was lazy to make the essay
@kurtjappy2 жыл бұрын
What did you get grade wise
@jbw63516 жыл бұрын
You consistently deliver the most informative content and succinct videos-- one of the hidden gems on KZbin! Also your visuals are great
@ThenNow6 жыл бұрын
That's very kind of you to say - Thank you!
@ThenNow6 жыл бұрын
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@drewsykes81525 жыл бұрын
The concept of national identity is so foreign (for want of a better word) to me as someone who grew up in five countries and now lives in another to the one I was born in. It gives you an amazing perspective but does make you feel adrift and lonely at times.
@asmodean72394 жыл бұрын
Agree. I lived in Russia for 14 years, traveling during holidays, but never staying somewhere for too long, but then i went to school in Britain and in uni and now when i am back home i feel like i'm in a zombieland.
@appleslover4 жыл бұрын
Me too I was born in a country but lived all my childhood in another one and now I am living in a third
@ahd2003 жыл бұрын
Same here. I was born in one country, my lineage originates for another and finally I grew up in a completely different country
@mekingtiger90952 жыл бұрын
Somewhat relatable experience here. Except instead of living throughout different countries, I just simply remained anti-social for most of my life and have no connections to anybody because of a national flag.
@adrianotoiu33322 жыл бұрын
@@asmodean7239 I wonder if you feel like that even more these days?
@QuetzalOvejasElectricas6 жыл бұрын
Your use of graphics is amazing. What do you use for that? Your editing skills are amazing, as is the text.
@ThenNow6 жыл бұрын
Thank you! I use Adobe Premiere and After Effects
@mattschrage73306 жыл бұрын
Huge fan as well! Always have been curious where do you find the footage for your videos?
@JoeMama-gt9jg5 жыл бұрын
I was going to say the same thing. Awesome video editing.
@Hwillijonl3 жыл бұрын
Welfare, Ethnicity and Altruism: New Data and Evolutionary Theory (Routledge Studies in Nationalism and Ethnicity)
@winstonwins10964 жыл бұрын
Theories explained in an non-biased, educational manner!!!! You mean that I can decide for myself without having someone else's viewpoints shoved down my throat? Simply marvelous.
@kuroazrem53764 жыл бұрын
I partially agree with both the essentialist and the modernist views. This is due to the fact that kinship ties are probably essential for human survival, so they act as a basis for any identity movement, but "Nationalism" in the modern sense is a product of industrialization and the modern State.
@robertgould13453 жыл бұрын
you might like the ethnosymbolist approach to nationalism. It's a middle path between primordialism and modernism.
@muhammadhaqqi29322 ай бұрын
@@robertgould1345 Well actually I kind of surprised that he didn't mention it in this video. Arguably the best theory and most simple, yet it has a strong baseline and evidence in explaining nationalism.
@kubondroberk99424 жыл бұрын
could talk a bit faster ut it was the best video about nationalism i have ever seen!
@asmodean72394 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot, i have dissertation about why Nationalism exist and it's dangers.
@deepalijoshi46313 жыл бұрын
Could you possibly share it with me? I have to write an assignment on nationalism as well
@robertgould13453 жыл бұрын
@@deepalijoshi4631 if you do any further essays on nationalism, perhaps consider its pros. The nation, born of nationalism, is the required entity for modern democracies. Our democratic states would be unimaginable without the history of nationalising. Also, consider criticisms of anti-nationalism. In Banal Nationalism, Billig differentiates between hot and cold nationalism and says that most anti-nationalism is against hot nationalism while serving to hide cold nationalism. We also have to remember the history of Empires, such as the British Empire, who criticised struggles for national emancipation of countries such as Ireland.
@Miquelalalaa2 жыл бұрын
How brave of you. You have convinced yourself of the veracity of the dominant view and will now be part of the order that upholds its hegemony. If anyone took the opposite interpretation to you, especially in regard to favourable interpretation of white (incl, ethnic) nationalisms, they would be punished: dismissed, socially nuked, even arrested. That much is probably a significant reason as to why you're so vehemently opposed to nationalism! Your access to alternative perspectives has never been complete, you have always been kept ignorant by the socio-political and technological factors that limit critique of prevailing orthodoxies.
@AllanLimosin3 жыл бұрын
I live in France, my grandfather was a Turk who wasn't quite nationalist, went I went there, to Turkey, I haven't understood the purpose of Nationalism, it's not on a purpose of defending values and the image of the Turkish people but more on a purpose a provocative purpose towards “enemy” ethnicities. I've also noticed that France is divided in term of nationalism, Occitans, Corsicans or Bretons claim their identity (recognized regional language, traditions...) or a country for themselves but this is normal, what I wanted to talk about is the “nationalism” caused by football, mostly between Paris and Marseilles, or just between opposite _cités,_ it shoots with fire, and I don't understand this either...
@muhammadhaqqi29322 ай бұрын
I have an exam this morning. Wish me luck, brother. Thank you for a good video.
@Miquelalalaa2 жыл бұрын
The critiques of primordialism have always struck me as disingenuous, but are clearly engendered by the limitations placed on primordial theory itself by prevailing orthodoxies on nation and race. It is misleading to suggest that primordialism can only work if affinity between peoples is spiritual or mystical as, in actuality, ethnocentrism is an evolutionary trait. It's not spiritual, it's psychological. Research has demonstrated that even young babies show bias in favour of people who look like them, and this ethnocentrism is probably corroborated by awareness of ancestry, kinship, language, culture, etc as an individual grows up. In short, primordialism is afflicted with intellectual poverty, but only because its critics are complicit with maintaining taboos, extending into legal and social realms, that prevent full exploration of race. Obviously those people who believe that race, nation and even ethnicity are social constructs would prefer to maintain their hegemony, even if the methods by which they accomplish this are not conducive to reasonable terms of debate or rational discourse!
@mekingtiger90952 жыл бұрын
While I do not disagree fully with the idea of primordialism, it seems to me that it actually functions more on the basis of human nature to subscribe to socialization in general rather than a specific ethnicity or culture... at least in an "essentialist" kind of way. Someone raised since childhood in a foreign culture will eventually adopt the customs (including language) of that specific culture rather than retaining his "ancestors'". Also, describe what in the heck is an ethnicity. It often has a very broad meaning, and in many times what defines the difference between an ethnicity and another has changed A LOT throughout history as reasons for unification and desunification have come and gone in many different shapes over time. This whole "symbolic" unification factor for a nation-state honestly feels as concrete as any rando religion... So what does ethnicity even mean in this context to justify ethnonacionalism as a form of absolute unit for states? Does it include race? Does it include culture? A combination of both? I'd like the specifics.
@RR-mm6yl11 ай бұрын
Good comment.
@robertgould13453 жыл бұрын
I'm very much a fan of the ethno-symbolist approach to nationalism. It recognises that nationalism as we know it emerged in early modernity while also recognising the use of pre-modern identities. There's a reason Hungary didn't tell its citizens that they were Japanese.
@mekingtiger90952 жыл бұрын
But then you have to define _what is ethinicity._ Because it's such a vague and broad term that it can encompass just about any set of costumes and thoughts unless you're going for the extra specific and just use ""race"" as the main defining factor for ethnicity (please, tell me you don't use such superficial thing to defend national union. It is so wrong on so many levels and history itself proved that).
@robertgould13452 жыл бұрын
@@mekingtiger9095 Anthony D Smith, the main theorist of ethno-symbolism, defines an ethnie (ethnic group) as “a named human population with myths of common ancestry, shared historical memories, one or more elements of common culture, a link with a homeland and a sense of solidarity among at least some of its mem- bers.” His books go into more depth on what is and isn't an ethnic group. Ethno-symbolism does not refer to biological race to define either nations or ethnies. Like most theories of nations and nationalism, it accepts the part played by racism and race theory in nations and nationalism. Ethnosymbolism isn't pro-nationalist. It's a theory of how nations come to be and how they operate. For example, the imagined community of the nation of Serbia contains memories and symbols from a pre-modern ethnic group. These memories and symbols fuelled some of the atrocities of the Yugoslav wars. Also, I'm not pro-nationalist. I'm critical of nations and nationalisms. Ethno-symbolism appeals to me because it explains the symbolic differences between nations, the similarities of nations, and the influence of history, of elites, and of myths.
@robertgould13452 жыл бұрын
@@mekingtiger9095 As for the term ethnicity. Social studies of ethnic groups (my masters largely covered ethnic conflict) can be either broadly or narrowly defined.
@mekingtiger90952 жыл бұрын
@@robertgould1345 That sounds very, very interesting. Though I have lacked the references to search for, for quite some time now I've been quite a bit obsessed about learning and searching for answers about what forms and drives nations and how the creation of my own prison came to be... I'm also very, very critical of nations and nationalism, though my motives and base are quite different. I'm not driven by the discourse of "nations separate us" that most cosmopolitan leftists you see out there in this kind of discussion use. Instead, I'm on the very opposite end of it: Nations chain us, individuals, against our wills. I'm very libertarian leaning, and individualism and the claim for self determination down to each one of us is my go to path. I never asked to be part of the nation I was born and raised into. I never _wanted_ to be part of a nation to begin with. And yet here I am, being "defined" as "someone from nation X" because a bunch of political movements in the past said that we're stuck and chained to these... "national essences". And that's how deep down I am seen by both ingroups and outgroups. I wanted to be free to set my own path. Free to set my identity. I want to yell "I do not belong to a nation. Nor am I a 'citizen of the world'. _I am my own nation!"._ But nationalism just won't let me. When a nationalist says that it is human condition to always hang out with their "national peers", they are essentially saying that I have no choice but to be trapped and forever stuck with a bunch of people that I distaste so much. People who are just as strangers to me as anyone else. Nationalism doesn't divide us: It traps us! And from there you can also say it motivates the atrocities it has motivated throughout history by making people feel like they're somehow bound by fate to this phenomenon without a choice of their own, following the will of others and not their own... Human existence is a continuous struggle between the self, the individual and the collective, the struggle to create its own identity and to find a meaning or a purpose to his own life, and the way I see it, nationalism nothing more than a globalism applied on a smaller scale. If you don't mind, could you please cite the books that inspire you so much? This "ethno-symbolism" theory seems to try to answer many of the same questions that I have asked for so long.
@freeriding6665 жыл бұрын
Religion is stronger than nationalism. The myth of god and deities is infinite and borderless, unlike the myth of the nation, which is limited to its own pre-defined identity and political boundaries. This is why Islam and Christianity are spread globally, and even extra-terrestrials could adopt any of these faiths. Also, while nationalism always ends up becoming a religion (a cult of the nation, even Nation-State), religion can transcend everything even existence itself, making fanatics not only kill and die for the nation, but do it for the promise of an after-life.
@aldoushuxley59534 жыл бұрын
and christianity is slowly dying, and Islam to is kept alive more so in opposition to the west, against it, rather that for its own merit. The US is a lone bastion of faith in the west. In europe, especially central europe, noone goes to church anymore. Only the old christians remain, but there will be noone toreplace them. The richer a nation gets, the less it tends to believe in higher ideals. For such a world, a world in which the though of a god has been reduced to doubts by science, nationalism might be an adequate replacement for religion, so that there may be a shaded identity of the people to unite them
@bountyhunter61804 жыл бұрын
Brilliant
@pia19453 жыл бұрын
no no they’re just saying bc of the decline of religion caused by the copernican revolution and industrialization, nationalism became the ideal alternative to creating imagined communities. so u can say religion has a stronger hold of keeping people together but that wouldn’t be the case if generally less people believe in a form of a god ://
@freeriding6663 жыл бұрын
@@pia1945 Yes, well, I can't disagree with the presentation above. I'm just saying that, especially in the recent case of Takfirism (or Muslim extremism), religious fanatism goes beyond and deeper than nationalism.
@pia19453 жыл бұрын
@@freeriding666 yea but again that doesn't matter if less and less people adopt the religion HAHAHA but if u're just stating a fact then it's all good
@bryannapadilla72223 жыл бұрын
It's so hard to really pay attention because his voice is so low and I wanna just fall asleep hearing him. This speaker would definitely benefit more if he did "Calm" the app. His voice is too soothing and has a boring/sleepy/uninterested tone.
@samquik2 жыл бұрын
Great video. 1:32 can I ask why you used a graphic of Romania here? Is it a reference to Emil Cioran?
@meezanlmt6 жыл бұрын
Invention of tradition came across it few months ago. And have used it with few example. You should come down Hyde park corner.
@tasult77874 жыл бұрын
You didn't mention Perennialism. Perennialists don't think nationalism is natural from the beginning of time, but they can point out lot's of examples of national identity and nationalism from long before the industrial revolution. This is an ongoing debate, but it looks like the modernists are winning the popularity with ease. Most people want to look at our society today as something completely different and better than the society of the past. Perennialists think the modern society and nationalism is indeed very different from the past but maybe not as much as we like to imagine? Run debate
@robertgould13453 жыл бұрын
I like the Ethnosymbolist approach. It can be classed as perrenialist. It suggests that nations are modern (though the model may have its roots in premodern proto-Nations, e.g. ancient Israel) and that these nations base themselves upon premodern ethnies.
@funwillfunwill Жыл бұрын
@@robertgould1345 Modernists address this as well to a degree. Anderson sees modern national identity as partly being constructed by selectively emphasizing stories and symbols from the past to create a national narrative.
@ellencormack822410 ай бұрын
so so useful for my thesis research thank you!
@hansemist4 жыл бұрын
Norway is in Need of More Churches and "Kulturhus" in the next years!.
@SofaKing_Kong3 жыл бұрын
But every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud adopts, as a last resource, pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and glad to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority. -Arthur Schopenhauer
@Miquelalalaa2 жыл бұрын
@@shqiptariidukagjinit5650 Exactly. Pride is ones nation is not a meaningless pursuit of vainglory, that interpretation assumes that everyone's perspective is limited to their individual interests when, in fact, these are inalienable and inseparable from ethnic interests in the mind of healthy person. People who have pride in their nation, and by that I mean their people and their land, not their football team, actually seek to benefit the wellbeing of their national kin. Schopenhauer was too willing to conflate the state and the nation when he made that statement, a good nationalist never seeks to limit the advancement of their nation or embrace something that harms their people. What a good nationalist might not do is foolishly welcome open season on their people. Yes, their may be faults and follies in how members of your nation are treating members of other nations (such as if the wellbeing of the ethnos is already secured, and you're inflicting unnecessary hardship on those outside your national or ethnic group), but you can not allow for critique to remain asymmetric or you will lose out, your people will become the oppressed. Historical precedent proves this.
@Cheretruck_2 жыл бұрын
Says doomer
@SofaKing_Kong2 жыл бұрын
@@Cheretruck_ lol thats what he's talking about
@leilazadeh9395 жыл бұрын
So good! Thank you.
@jimvasconcellos64192 жыл бұрын
American Nationalism is rooted in extreme individualism. So they are not antithetical. You need to rethink that premise. Primordialism is also rooted in this American Nationalism.
@jackwalters55062 жыл бұрын
American individualism only masquerades as nationalism. However to them America isn't really a nation, but a representation of their ideology. They only love America because they percieve it to be liberal individualism incarnate, and would cease to love it if that were to change. That isn't nationalism that's ideological tribalism(ironic)
@anhelinahrytsei32844 жыл бұрын
Thank You!
@recomoto4 жыл бұрын
1:10 I think you meant to say 1957 not 1975
@owlnyc666 Жыл бұрын
I think that Nationalism is the Secular Equivalent to Religion.
@Ruonerful6 жыл бұрын
Great essay! Maybe it's just a subjective view but, in my opinion, you talk a little too slow. I watched the whole video at 1.25 because the regular cadence of speech makes me a little detached. Just trying to make a constructive note, try to watch it at 1.25 and see what I mean, apart from that, this is great video anyway!
@JulieTiger5 жыл бұрын
I loved the speed... any faster and I can't take mental notes/think on concepts.
@thebestfoodtoursstockholm80415 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this!
@ThenNow5 жыл бұрын
You're welcome :)
@حاتمأبوراق2 жыл бұрын
Excellent Job!
@lailarifqi4120 Жыл бұрын
I admire your video it provided me with so much help. I really hope you can you help me with the sources if you can provide me with them I'd be grateful. Thanks
@ThenNow Жыл бұрын
In the description
@LogicGated2 жыл бұрын
Great video.
@revolutionariesoffreedom23746 ай бұрын
Bro forgot to talk about French Revolution, the birthplace of nationalism
@louismandala14504 жыл бұрын
yes
@TriPham-j3bАй бұрын
Nationalism is not a theory , it is a religion and life and identity
@Miminov4485 жыл бұрын
Спасибо за твои видео
@jollylanji29373 жыл бұрын
I atleast got help with two of the seven theories of nationalism. If you could do a video tackling all of them I would be thankful 😊
@robertgould13453 жыл бұрын
I can recommend a couple of books. Theories of Nationalism by Umut Ozkirimli and another introductory book by Anthony D Smith. Smith is the father of the Ethnosymbolist approach and Ozkirimli is a big critic of Smith (I recommend Ozkirimli's paper 'Is the nation an artichoke?'.
@pia19453 жыл бұрын
hi i love ur work but i don’t earn money as a college student :c
@deadcrow9046 Жыл бұрын
Get a job then. Begging for money on KZbin isn't going to work.
@hansemist4 жыл бұрын
I think every European Nation should preserve its religion and national identity.
@БогданРезнік4 жыл бұрын
You mean paganism? Cause Christianity is Jewish lol
@robertgould13453 жыл бұрын
@@mattai2354 I think they were pointing out that Christianity has Jewish roots (the Old Testament is entirely Jewish and Jesus was a Jew).
@ivanbro12082 жыл бұрын
@@БогданРезнік yes, paganism
@Pedant_Patrol11 ай бұрын
How will that happen when you don't breed?
@loverdeadly612810 ай бұрын
Why? How? European nations have never been essential or stable. National identities shift and change because populations of people, language, and cultural practices shift and change. On what basis should national identity be preserved? And how? It’s not possible boil people down to some essential state and then freeze them in place.
@CCVP6666 жыл бұрын
WTF, not a single mention of pre-modern thinking on nationalism? You shouls have mention at the very least either Plato's Laws or Aristotle's Politics!
@tyercuuhbitu22196 жыл бұрын
Bah hambug!
@freeriding6665 жыл бұрын
The myth of the Nation didn't exist back then, only the republic. The Nation in Europe is a product of 17th century totalitarianism, and 18th century reformist republican movements.
@MMAhero975 жыл бұрын
You're confusing communitarianism with nationalism. The modern nation-state with it's ideas of sovereignty and identity didn't exist during classical antiquity. There was a shared conception of being 'Greek' however, but this was by no means a unifying conception; the Greeks were broken into various city-states (which for Aristotle was the highest form of community). Geller correctly points out it wasn't until the early industrial age that the notions of sovereignty, equal citizenship and national identity began to arise.
@MMAhero975 жыл бұрын
Furthermore, there are Neo-Aristotlelian philosophers, such as Alasdair MacIntyre who reject the modernist nation-state.
@KyleTremblayTitularKtrey4 жыл бұрын
@@freeriding666 the word nation comes from natio which was the word used back then. The greeks lived in city states but these citystates are functionally nations. Nationalism is all over the ancient world it just isn't explicitly defined by the word nationalism. This communitarianism thing is nonesene, an intellectual slight of hand to try and make nationalism into an evil thing recently made up.
@thunderstorm89265 жыл бұрын
KZbin Lauren Rose Kelly Aesop Nationalism
@joseph49375 жыл бұрын
Nice
@hansemist4 жыл бұрын
I think European countries should preserve their religion and culture!
@robertortiz-wilson1588 Жыл бұрын
They need to.
@owlnyc666 Жыл бұрын
I think ALL countries she preserve their own religions and cultures. They should not allow other religions in their countries. Saudi Arabia doesn't allow Christianity in their Muslim country. We in America should not allow Islam, or Judaism(?)in Christian America! Cultures should not change or be influenced by other cultures. Religious and Cultural Isolationism. King Jesus! ⛪🇺🇸😎😇
@Pilum10004 жыл бұрын
Primordialism is idiotism.
@oneugger39104 жыл бұрын
Why?
@Pilum10004 жыл бұрын
Because a historical, genetical, lingustical, cultured, and logical image of realitiy - it is like this. :) By the facts. In the History of Humans the phrase "isolated human population" sounds almost like a nonsense.
@oneugger39104 жыл бұрын
@@Pilum1000 Do you think that isolated human populations not exist?
@Pilum10004 жыл бұрын
Sure. And even on Easter Island isn't like that; And don't tell me about it - because if they really exist you wouldn't know about them... :)
@oneugger39104 жыл бұрын
@@Pilum1000 But Basque Country and Sentinel Island what are?
@bobdebaecke1943 жыл бұрын
Nationalism brought us two world wars with more than 85 million deaths! Today we are seeing nationalism resurfacing all over the world with many negative consequences, we only think about Trump and Brexit. That's why I made a song entitled 'The plague of nationalism': kzbin.info/www/bejne/eIaliImOqNOMjK8 This expression comes from the well-known Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, born in 1881. He had already experienced the First World War and when he saw the outbreak of the Second Wolrd War, in 1942 he committed suicide together with his wife. Albert Einstein compared nationalism to measles, a disease that always rears its head and is difficult to eradicate.
@grimwulf85474 жыл бұрын
human beings need to live among their own kind in their own territory. It is hard wired into our DNA.
@mekingtiger90952 жыл бұрын
Except... what exactly constitutes this ""kind""???
@grimwulf85472 жыл бұрын
@@mekingtiger9095 that's only a question in ur deluded mind
@mekingtiger90952 жыл бұрын
@@grimwulf8547 And yet I live in a country with one of the biggest ethnic and cultural miscigenations across the globe due to a heavy influx of immigrants from many different places throughout history without barely anyone actively caring about separatism or buying into the idea of regional identity pride based on such things, so any "borders" you can try to draw between the individuals in here based on a specific social criterion are ultimately pointless because cultural assimilation is a real phenomenon and you can't just simply deny it. So tell me with this other question: Do you think these are universal values? Also, spoiler alert, but I do not buy into globalism either.
@grimwulf85472 жыл бұрын
@@mekingtiger9095 kick em out
@mekingtiger90952 жыл бұрын
@@grimwulf8547 Well, I appreciate that you acknowledge my right to hate the people of my own country (which I do), but there's a little wittle detail I left out from the explicit radar: Said immigrants have already come over here generations and generations ago and now there's no going back as their descendants all assimilated into one same giant blob of a nation and they all identify themselves as sharing the same flag. Congrats, you've discovered that New World Colonial nations and countries outside of the US exist. Come to Brazil! And before you point out the violence, none of it has anything to do with ethnic tensions and instead it has more to do with people being scumbags in general. _At worst_ you'll see some considerable amount of police violence (even then it doesn't devolve into nationalistic separatism from any of the parties), but even the police itself isn't actually pure white european as you'd think they are. Go search their family tree and you'll find out... Soo, yeah, it's just a bunch of latinos beating down other latinos even though they're all latinos who formed different communities based on social classes, ideologies, politics and superficial phenotypes instead of actual shared ancestry (a considerable chunck of the population descents from Italians at some point in the bloodline, some regions even reaching more than a third or even half of it, and yet no one identifies themselves as Italian just so you can get an idea. This includes me aswell). . . Again, I do not play in favor of globalism. I hate my nation, but there isn't any group to pick apart here since each individual person is "random" in both ethnicity/race and culture practiced. There just isn't... Being brazilian is a civic phenomenon and not really a cultural one. And people just "go" with it despite everything. Unfortunately... For me, nationalism is nothing more than a globalism applied on a smaller scale.
@Hnw7616 жыл бұрын
Ethnic identity is vital in preventing authoritarian regimes. Countries should reflect a common lineage. All the critics of nationalism in this video were Marxists (and Jewish?) - convenient. Ethnic identity is the enemy of Communism and Globalism. Groups that embrace tribal identity will always conquer societies that are universalist. Look at Germany and Italy who put ideology over ethnicity in WW2 vs England which put ethnic identity above any economic or political ideology. We need homogenous nations to create a moral and peaceful world. And lastly this video, as another commenter mentioned, says nothing about the pre-modern ethnic based states.
@nanidachamman26456 жыл бұрын
DC ethnic identity creates an ideological mind . A mind traped within its past assumptions therefore an individual that cannot be within the present. He self creates or self replicates the very authoritarian institutions he hates. But now they manifest themselves as idea constructs. Finally unable to break out of ones very minds due to the lack of tools for ideological freedom he must resort to myths to tales of the subconscious. Its the ultimate trade. The man trades all his problems for one singular problems. One big sjw if u will.
@Hnw7616 жыл бұрын
Nani The Chaman Ethnic identity is what combats ideology. For example prioritizing blood over ideology prevents the extremes of ideology taking root. For example Armenian communists and anti-communists came together to fight Muslims. Obviously prioritizing blood over ideology allowed them to defend against this evil. The Soviet Union atrocities would not have happened if ethnic Russians were in charge. 85% were Jewish and the rest like Lenin were mostly either half Jews or married to Jews. Without Jews the gulags would have never occurred. The Soviet Union only started to change when the last non-Russian - Stalin- died and Russians came into control. Heidegger makes a similar argument in Being and Time about how for the truth to be revealed the individual must be placed in the context of an ethnic group and history etc. History has shown awareness of ones ethnicity and racial consciousness is the surest defense against authoritarian structures.
@Elzilcho876 жыл бұрын
The obsession with ethnic identity is merely the obsession of a manufactured myth.
@Realkeepa-et9vo6 жыл бұрын
'Groups that embrace tribal identity will always conquer societies that are universalist.' Unless you are Nazi Germany
@Hnw7616 жыл бұрын
Jetpack Rorschach Ethnic identity is a biological drive as natural as the need to develop myths to reveal biological archetypes. What you call obsession is intellectual integrity to biological imperative - a dedication to use myth to reveal truths about our nature.
@jasonye75486 жыл бұрын
first
@venture38005 жыл бұрын
God dammit Napoleon. Why. Whyyyyy
@Geckoman-eb9hg4 жыл бұрын
What's wrong with Napoleon?
@jhk62056 жыл бұрын
E plurabus fuckum...
@elvazquez92535 жыл бұрын
🖕🏻 va para trump mi querido Estados Unidos 😂
@TheHollandHS Жыл бұрын
Nationalism and it's identity has many forms and ways to get established that can psychologically make it vurnerable or confident in many ways. Island nationalism 🏝️ 🇬🇧🇯🇵 : people living on an island to define its borders. Pros 😁 : clear visible borders. it doesn't depend on any form of discrimination within the island. cons 😡: it sees everyone outside the island as a foreigner so no one can easily come in. 🤯 Breaking point : If the island gets into environmental damage or gets cobbled into continental borders in some way it could be completely traumatizing the national identity Ethno nationalism 👨🦱👨🦱👨🦱🇰🇷 (formerly 🇩🇪) People define national identity based on race and ethnicity 😁Pros: it creates certain solidarity between humans by birth 😡Cons : it dismisses every human being to be part of if born a different race of ethnicity. It could also lead to invading and questioning other territories if they share the same race. Breaking point 🤯: how do you define exactly pure race and ethnicity? Civilizational nationalism 🏛️ 🇨🇳🇮🇳 Seeks national identity based on ownership of civilization and culture