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Post by confuzzled dude Thu Mar 13, 2014 10:14 pm

"Is cheering for Pakistan in cricket anti-national? If so, a lot of us watching the Indian team perform are also anti-national. India right or wrong is a slogan that does not work in cricket or politics. Is such idiot nationalism a part of the official code of conduct? I think this event for all its primness is sinister not because of the Kashmiri students but because of such an idiot officialdom. Chauvinism and patriotism belong to different worlds. Chauvinism is a belief that the nation-state can do no wrong. Patriotism is more open-ended, it allows for error and vulnerability to a nation. It seeks diversity and does not condemn or hierarchise difference. A patriot is loyal to the nation but cosmopolitan in outlook. Patriotism in that sense embeds an individual without turning loyalties into a procrustean constraint. Patriotism wears no uniform and caters to no official ritual."

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/chauvinism-and-patriotism-not-the-same/article5777844.ece?homepage=true


->  A few SuCHers, especially American [right] patriots could learn a thing or two about being patriotic Razz
 

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