No, my friend, it doesn't have to be respected. You could be a serial killer because that is "you". Should I respect that? I think not. Just because one thinks like they do, is not a "carte blanc" reason to respect how they think. Not by a long shot. It sounds good though. I'll give you that.

William

Blind nationalism has been the result of this kind of mentality in the past, a call to blind nationalism, my country right or wrong, is a call to relinquish ones humanity.

No one is a serial killer at heart. But I supose this should be a seperate thread. "The Essence of Self".
Your totalitarian approach to arguments is also not respected. Not everyone has to think like you. And let me hit you with a shocker
Wait for it...
You could be wrong sometimes.
I know I know.. it may be hard to beleive, but it's possible.
William is not the Judge, Jury, and Executioner of the entire world. He is not God, and I am entitled to my own oppinion.
And I have a nation that I very much love, and I will never leave it for any other nation, especially a so called "World Nation".
But I'll give you a flower for being an aggressive hippy.:flowers:

Would you please elaborate on what you mean by "blind nationalism".
Thanks,
William

Is blind nationalism even nationalism then, because if the underlying true reason is for the administration then it is not about living up to the nation as a whole, only a part of it.

Binyamin Tsadik, I guess that minute is up and I think you need to realise I am not American. Now I know that in the land where I am, we have nothing in common with the naturalness that creates a nation, which is less than you could imagine in your passive, aggressive way and it is completely dissimilar to the land nation that I stand upon in abjection of inheritance. So unless that in some way you vaguely understand the full extent of my point, you may want to consider that as an opinion I may be correct. For as much as you consider that point where you live a nation, I consider this is not. I believe I can distinguish between the two and hence think what I do for a reason.

For what reason do you think America could be considered a Nation in and of itself?

William,

It is really every simple, my country right or wrong, it killed 50 thousand young Americans and One million vietnamese during the Viet Nam war. It is to go to war for country, probable out of unawareness of the reality of the situtation. Most young men who go to war do not understand why they are going to war. Perhaps to find weapons of mass destruction, or just to secure oil resources. It is repeat throughout history, going to war in ignorance of the truth of the modivation of the adminstration of the country at the time of declared war, or even undeclared war.

Actually, there is no "America", though it's often used to describe the U.S. The "Americas" are 3 continents. If you're referring to Canada, the U.S.; Mexico or any individual nation-states organized from that continent; then yes, each one of those meets that definition. I've looked at several, here's one

I saw this same statement in yet another bitter-sounding post a ways back. Would you mind clarifying? You've got my curiosity.

Thanks

EDIT: Added clarification on the continents

The Hebrew word is "Goy".
Goy is most commonly translated as "Nation".
The first criteria for a Nation is a specific people.
This specific people must have a specific land
It must also have a specific language, dress, and names

Though by your definition Binyamin Tsadik, China is not a true nation as it is a peoples enforced to the one ideal, though different at different times, say as during the Ming Dynasty as compared to the Han. The field of what you call nations narrows with each description and interpretation of your definition. Clearly as you first described, I find the land upon which I live, not a nation. This I know but what I also know is, the United States is more like a nation than you would expect. We are all one people, one race, so you can throw that point out the door and try looking with your eyes open rather than squinting so as to peer through the shutters. One belief, well let's see. When in the history of the Americas was there one belief or come to that matter when in the history of Judaism was there one belief. So you can throw that point out the door. Francs a nation, let's break that down into Celtic heritage, Vandal Bastardisation, Roman equivelance, border variations and raids, probably leaves a community no bigger than a small town of the Mid West or a kibbutz in your neck of the woods. East, West, Nation, Country, these are all modern terms for Empire, Kingdom and Fiefdom, unless you consider that a nation begins with a community rather than a territory, you have gone off the rails. Try denying that of the United States. A community is a group that begin with the care of each other, it doesn't specify anything other than that. Belief and gender, inherited body conditions and things of this nature, don't enter into it. A select community can only build boundaries.

We are a break off of England, though still tied through certain procedures, we are fundamentally Englishmen in the sun. My heriditry is not soley English and I can count numerous ways that the Americans have diversed from the English way, through defiance and in other ways. You notice they seem English because they are essentially modern. I mean no disrespect but your ancestry was not entirely of the land where you live. Could I venture a guess at saying they would have been part of the Eastern block of recent times. This is irrelevent of course, until you take a refrigerator to a farm village in middle Greece during the seventies. Modern, Western, English.

Now that statement is not a term reffering to similarities across the world. It is the timeline that represents the periods, where the other nations fell from the group. Modern now applies to this millenium, Western applied to post WWII and English died in the War to end all Wars. Could it not be said, of the nation that you inhabit, that it is part of your parents nation, brought back into your ancestors nation. Some language, some foods, some culture and some ideals. Is your nation what it was supposed to be. Is it more or even less.

Do you think that the USA is made up of mostly British subjects. You are not listening to what you are being told.

Although America has all of those things it is closer to Rome. It is a Nation that adopts the cultures of the Nations that are around it.

We are a break off of England, though still tied through certain procedures, we are fundamentally Englishmen in the sun. My heriditry is not soley English and I can count numerous ways that the Americans have diversed from the English way, through defiance and in other ways. You notice they seem English because they are essentially modern.

I could say that China is a Nation (however) because they are a specific people in a specific land.

The modern state of China does not seem to fit your definition of nation. Modern China encompasses many different people, and occupies land that is not traditionally Chinese. Tibet is a great example.