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Comment author: taw 14 May 2009 01:01:07PM 2 points [-]

Really? nationalism is a purely American thing?

Right now, yeah, pretty much. In Europe the most you can find is politicians of country X talking about protecting "X jobs", but on "we look after our interests, others look after theirs" basis, not on any sense of superiority and uniqueness that is so prevalent in American political propaganda.

Comment author: MichaelBishop 14 May 2009 04:35:38PM 2 points [-]

Nationalism may be less potent in Europe than the U.S., but there are other countries in the world. And my impression is that, thankfully, nationalism is less potent in the U.S. than in many of them.

Comment author: taw 14 May 2009 05:38:21PM 1 point [-]

You have a point, I only looked at Western democracies, U.S. is an outlier in this set, but there's plenty of countries with a lot worse nationalism than U.S. if you look outside the set.