For the reasons I described it's easier for Americans to be "ignorant about the condition of those outside the nation".
"willful" ignorance... Do we really need to spend time distinguishing nationalism from the fact that the US gets the NBA?
You can't keep hurting someone and not even notice you do in a symmetrical conflict because they will hurt you back, and then you will want revenge in turn.
So what you want to claim is that asymmetrical conflict is more likely than symetrical conflict to lead to people in one country being ignorant of the animosity against them in the other country. This is plausible though several counterexamples come to mind and I'm not sure it applies since a large portion of American nationalists appear to conceive of the conflict as a symmetrical one (this has been a minor issue in American politics, of course). I'm not sure I see how this issue relates to nationalism exactly and what it's relevance is. But as you can see below I'm not sure I understand what you're claiming at this point.
You seem to be of the opinion that you can't even coherently/rationally (?) think a certain thing and I disagree. That disagreement is independent of the question whether anyone had actually been thinking that.
WHAA? This is incredibly vague and confusing. I honestly have no idea what you're talking about.
"willful" ignorance... Do we really need to spend time distinguishing nationalism from the fact that the US gets the NBA?
And the fact that you neither need to make any significant sacrifices nor engage in double-think doesn't make willful ignorance easier?
So what you want to claim is that asymmetrical conflict is more likely than symetrical conflict to lead to people in one country being ignorant of the animosity against them in the other country.
Not really. The term nationalism is unhelpful. There seem to be at least two kinds, the we're...
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