> > nationalism is an aberration that is found in many
> countries, and to
> > be abhorred. it is especially repugnant in nations
> where their
> > citizens actually believe they are better than other
> nations (like
> > some french, saudi, israeli, japanese citizens,
> etc.).
> jon
> I think that nationalism is not an aberration at all. I
> would be
> willing to guess that it is a larger form of xenophobia,
> which I would
> be further willing to guess conferred evolutionary
> advantages: kill
> off the other guys and your genes live on. The other guys
> can be other
> guys in the tribe (to hell with you guys, I am going to
> be the one
> whose genes live on in this tribe), other tribes (to hell
> with those
> guys, we are going to be the ones...) and so forth.
> Dave
or as Dr. Brin would say, "The Dogma of the Other"...
Jon
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