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>Has no historical perspective as tall
Nationalism,
at least liberal nationalism, in itself isn't bad, indeed it brought
about the modern world, built powerful states where citizens matter, and
more greatly defined/created cultures to a peak, however within the
past it has certainly been taken to far. Not to mention you're likely
confusing liberal and romantic nationalism. To make it simple, liberal
nationalism is what was preached during the French and American
revolutions, citizen and constitution stuff; Romantic nationalism, or
German nationalism was a reactionary movement to the so called French
nationalism, that was about how much better one's culture was than the
one's next door (such as German culture vs. French), I think its easy to
see where this taken. When Romantic nationalism was taken to the
extreme the European powers went nuts, setting the stage for WWI, and
the rape of cultures that had many advantages over European culture,
such as the Sangha literacy mentioned earlier.
I will give you
one supreme and objective reason why globalism and cultural diversity is
indeed a virtue--It gives us case studies. If every culture was the
same we'd have no/decreased perspective and insight to our own culture,
as there would be no foil, and to lose sight of one's own culture is
horrendous. Secondly, those other cultures serve as testing grounds,
just as we do to them; we can look at those cultures and learn from them
about things that we may want to apply or avoid applying to our own
culture. Diversity of cultures is supremely important as it allows us to
define what our culture is. A mono-culture would be as absolutely
horrid in the human sphere as it is the agricultural sphere. Also I will
not say we should celebrate diversity, but rather tolerate it as
necessary, similar to the Dutch attitude of 1500/1600s. |
