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The Return of Ethnic Nationalism
Writes Muller: “A familiar and influential narrative of 20th-century European history argues that nationalism twice led to war, in 1914 and then again in 1939. Thereafter, the story goes, Europeans concluded that nationalism was a danger and gradually abandoned it. In the postwar decades, Western Europeans enmeshed themselves in a web of transnational institutions, culminating in the European Union.†Muller contends that this is a myth, that peace came to the Old Continent only after the triumph of ethnonationalism, after the peoples of Europe had sorted themselves out and each achieved its own home.
Rather than seek to halt the inexorable, we should seek to accommodate it and ameliorate its sometimes awful consequences.
So, what is to happen to America, with its extraordinarily diverse population? Is the answer America will find: secession, amalgamation, war… or are Buchanan and Muller wrong?
Bede on 26 Feb 2008 at 2:38 pm #
This is a great article and well worth reading in its entirity.
roho on 26 Feb 2008 at 4:04 pm #
I agree Bede………But, there will be those that are so infected with political correctness that they will not get it.
csason on 26 Feb 2008 at 4:10 pm #
Political Correctness…
Isn’t that a fancy way of saying closet bigot ??
Hey, really I have no idea how to email y’all…I tried and I think I succeeded
once..but anyway, for those that care to, there is a poll in the Orlando
Sentinel which asks a strange question about heritage and license plates for vehicles…
Here is the link
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-bk-confederate022508,0,3841558.story
roho on 26 Feb 2008 at 7:16 pm #
csason………Good link. I lived in Pensacola for 16 years and found the people to be a lot more like Alabama than Talahasee.
Weaver on 26 Feb 2008 at 8:41 pm #
Y’all are brave wanting one of those plates; I’m incognito – no one knows what the bonnie blue flag is on the back of my car, eh eh.
csason on 27 Feb 2008 at 12:16 am #
roho, there was a ‘push’ for Alabama to annex the Panhandle years ago..
My home is no longer..Weaver is right about being brave, but I swear I will park one of those plates on my Cadillac. The one with the wheel in the ditch and the wheel on the track.
I have found an excuse to leave though…my family ‘started’ in South Carolina, so I am giving serious thought to the low country…or maybe even the high country there. Somewhere, I just don’t know if I can be one of those who stays put in spite of the hordes.. I am literally surrounded
by heathens. My bestest neighbor, Earl..God Bless him is dying of near whole body cancer, and he was my last hope, nearly.
Weaver on 27 Feb 2008 at 5:28 am #
Charleston is a bastion of civilisation, though many blacks are there too. Columbia is another nice town; Savannah, GA (near the SC border), is another; all along the coast is beautiful (Debordieu is where my folks have a house at – I’ll likely get one there too); and upcountry has fewer blacks and less density in general.
Dunno if you’d be interested, but you might enjoy Abbeville… (living near the Abbeville Institute.) I’ve always liked Santee; it’s a bit cheaper and, ah, native than Debordieu (which is full of Yanks) too.
RonL on 27 Feb 2008 at 3:55 pm #
Peace and stability were not created by ethnonationalism, but by a reduction in nationalist tensions caused by ethnic seperation. Moreovoer the imposition of the Cold War alliances played a large role in European stability.
Muller is right that World War 1 was not a function of nationalism. None of the original powers involved, save France and Germany, were ethnonationalist countries. And neither of these was acting on volkish lines.
One could argue that it was the supra-nationalist movements that cause World War 1. Slavophilia pushed Russia’s die-hard support for Serbia. the Greater Serbia/Yugoslavia movement was one to unite all southern Slavs.
Of course perfidious Italy and Romania joined the Triple Entente in order to sieze ethnically heterogenous territories (Tyrol and Transylvania respectively).
roho on 27 Feb 2008 at 10:42 pm #
Weaver…………………How funny!………..You have the “Bonnie Blue” on the back of your car and nobody knows it’s origin?……What a great idea!……I love it!…………So much focus on the Battleflag, that they think that your from Svetlianis?……….Ha-Ha……..Ha-Ha.
Weaver on 28 Feb 2008 at 2:06 am #
Yea folks just figure I’m another foreigner (heh, I’ll say Svetlianis next I’m asked); only fellow rednecks know what the heck it is.
Weaver on 28 Feb 2008 at 8:32 pm #
John Savage of Brave New World Watch makes some good comments on this: