• Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
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    4 months ago

    Pride in your nation (to me at least) is so intrinsically linked to the modern nation state that I can’t untangle it from nationalism. As such, it is always a tool for the powerful to override international class solidarity.

    I can get if you’re tied to and have positive feelings towards a culture that you identify with. But the nation tries to replace that connection to a culture by:

    1. Not making it opt-out (becoming stateless is such a disadvantage, if it’s even possible)
    2. assimilating different cultures that actually don’t have too much in common. E.g. Danes and Mecklemburgians have way more in common culturally that Mecklemburgians with Bavarians.