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The Russian Character Again
2008-06-07 06:48:00 Updated June 18:It's always a bit difficult to touch on national characters, especially nowadays in PC times, but as long as one avoids biological racism and instead sees national character as cultural and shaped by history, geography and whatnot, it certainly is a valid endeavor.The very notion that examinations of national character (national culture, really) is "racist" is one of the most sickening notions that has warped out of the anti-racism of the 1960's. In inventing the most un-progressive notion of Identity Politics (essentially ethnic nationalism of one sort or another, and automatically a precursor to some sort of fascism, thus) the Left in the 1960's opened the barn door for this kettle of worms.Nowadays, rightwing nationalists probably scream racism as much as leftwingers do. If anyone criticizes their crappy and reactionary culture (note the long Left tradition of cultural critique here), the Right, and increasingly, even the Insane Left, screams racism.This is sad...
By: Robert Lindsay
Earthquake in China Has Stoked Nationalism and Freed the Olympics from Crit
2008-05-28 03:03:00 I asked a couple of weeks ago what the effect of the Sichuan earthquake would be. The main focus of the article was a possible rise in nationalism. As TIME Magazine points out in an article linked below, that forecast definitely was realized. But there was another geopolitical consequence: sympathy for China from the rest of the world after weeks of China-bashing. The earthquake, in the long run, probably came at the best of times for the government in Beijing.Time: China: Roused by Disaster"We Chinese people are growing closer and closer together," says Wu Xiangping, 28, who took a leave from his job at a Beijing advertising firm to join the relief effort. "And because of that, the country's morality is rising too....But from a monstrous humanitarian crisis has come a new self-awareness, a recognition of the Chinese people's sympathy and generosity of spirit....In turn, some of China's most xenophobic bloggers have expressed astonishment at the sympathy shown for China by th...
You only get to Negro nationalism after you pass intelligence and universal
2008-05-25 06:17:00 The 'secret Garveyism': By THEA RUTHERFORD, Guardian National Correspondent - Nassau, Bahamas: UCLA professor and prominent Caribbean scholar, Robert Hill, introduced an audience on Thursday to a Marcus Garvey that perhaps many of us have never known. For decades after his death in 1940, the world has been most familiar with the military Garvey, the "Africa for the Africans" Garvey. And people of African descent have celebrated the Garvey who established the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in 1914, a vehicle for pride amongst blacks living in a time when crushing racial prejudice seeped into the psyche and tortured self esteem. Yet during his lecture given at the College of the Bahamas' Michael H. Eldon building, and jointly hosted by BACUS and the college's School of Social Sciences, Hill presented images of a multifaceted Garvey, one far too big to be stuffed into one chest of history. In Hill's presentation "Marcus Garvey's Mission," the historical and...
The Jews Have No Right to a State
2008-05-23 04:55:00 Commenter James Schipper makes an argument that I have made many times - that the Jews had no right to a state. I would still argue that they have no right to one now. I would add that the Jews have no right to a state, unless someone wishes to donate one to them. As people without a territory similar to the Gypsies, there is no way that territory-less ethnics have a right to a state.The Gypsies don't have a right to one either. The persecution of the Jews was lamentable to horrifying, depending on the period, but it was close to the same for the Gypsies too. As it stands, the only way for the Jews to get a state was to steal one, and it's the only way the Gypsies will get one either. He coins the phrase "non-territorial nation" to describe both Jews and Gypsies. It's a nice phrase.Ilan Pappe, the Israeli scholar, makes a similar argument. Pappe says that the Jewish nationalist movement had two positive aspects: it argued for Jewish self-determination and it offered a way for th...
By: Robert Lindsay
Open Borders is Bad For Workers
2008-05-21 09:22:00 Commenter James Schipper of Canada points out what any economics student or especially Marxist ought to be able to figure out: that open borders is terrible for workers in high-wage countries. That the Left in high-wage countries supports such an obviously detrimental to workers agenda means that it completely misunderstands the economics of modern capitalism.Nowadays, the Western Left can only be said to be worker-hostile towards native workers. They support immigrant workers, and it is a known fact that immigrant workers in many cases in the West have been shown to actually lower wages for native workers. The Left responds that this is a lie.Even worse, the Left calls any Western Leftist who opposes certain modes of immigration racist. At best, this is a grotesque abuse of the term similar to the way many objectively reactionary groups are overusing this word these days. At worst, it is slander and name-calling.The Left's objective hostility to native workers in the West has resu...
By: Robert Lindsay
What Businesses Need To Know About Chinese Nationalism
2008-05-18 16:31:00 Excellent post on The ACF China Co - Millstone Trading blog. This blog describes itself as "a blog for Asian furniture industry professionals offering invaluable insights, comments and ramblings about importing home furnishings from China," but this post is highly relevant for any business involved with China. The post is entitled, "Rising nationalism - Will it affect the business climate in China?" The post starts out explaining why the post is being written at all, when the blog normally focuses on Chinese furniture: If I were worried about one single element of doing business in China today, it wouldn’t be inflation. Nor would it be the rising costs of exports due to the rapid appreciation of the Yuan. Or rising fuel costs for that matter. Air pollution? Nope. The cost of labor going up would not be my main concern either. No, all of these issues seem unpleasant yet manageable, in one way or another, even if difficult. So what then pray tell would it be? Definitely it wou...
By: China Law Blog
So I'm a Nazi?
2008-05-17 13:42:00 Repost from an earlier post. It was transferred to a separate post because it distracted from the post it was in. I also significantly expanded it with some new comments about Muslims and how in many ways many of them behave in ways that strikingly resemble the classic anti-Semitic stereotype of Jews.Updated May 17:What the Hell? I haven't been called that in a while, but I do get called no good Commie mass murderer a lot. That actually doesn't feel bad. It sort of feels good really. I used to get called Nazi a lot on here, and, yeah, I admit that it pisses me off. I say it pisses me off cuz it's not true.I used to get called Nazi or anti-Semite on here quite a bit, mostly because I am opposed to Zionism. Most of the people calling me that are Zionists, often but not always Jewish (kind of hard to tell on the Internet!) My opinion about Zionism is, at best, that it is ridiculous. In August 2007, I got called that on the so-called "liberal" Democratic website Democratic Undergroun...
By: Robert Lindsay
Will the Earthquake in China Stoke Nationalism? How can the West use it?
2008-05-13 00:19:00 CNN: Quake kills thousands, traps hundredsBackgroundThis year?s Beijing Olympics, as any good wonks knows, was supposed to be a coming out party for the new China. To say it isn?t going well is an understatement. First came the Darfur activists. Darfur activists, in particular Amnesty International, had been preparing massive protests and boycotts for the 2008 Olympics because of China?s support for the government of Sudan. That was before protests in Tibet. Protests in Lhasa and the harsh crackdown that followed inspired a new group of protesters that wanted greater autonomy and freedom, if not independence, for Tibet. Even more recently, there have been calls for China to disassociate itself from the government in Myanmar after the disastrous cyclone there.AnalysisThese protests have created a backlash in China and around the world. Chinese nationalism has been stoked. But as The Economist warns in the previously linked article, new nationalism is also a danger to the current Chin...
Cinco de Mayo 2008
2008-05-06 00:07:00 The 5th of May is not Mexican Independence Day, but it should be! And Cinco de Mayo is not an American holiday, but it should be. Mexico declared its independence from mother Spain on midnight, the 15th of September, 1810. And it took 11 years before the first Spanish soldiers were told ...
By: Mexico Trucker
Rep. Tom Tancredo - Hypocrite, Racist and a Horses Ass!
2008-05-04 17:46:00 Or perhaps that is too strong of a statement because it disrespects a horse’s hind end. Tom Tancredo, Colorado representative who tried to run a Presidential campaign on one issue, ridding the US of all Hispanics, while in the past he hired illegals to remodel his Boulder mansion amongst other things. This man is a hypocrite ...
By: Mexico Trucker
The gamble of nationalism
2008-05-01 21:20:00 Gambling has never tempted me. The thought of losing money for the slim chance of winning a greater amount fills me with dread, rather than anticipation.I feel the same way about nationalism, because its effects are also unpredictable. It can lead to stirring music, family picnics and fireworks displays or genocide and mass expulsions ? sometimes both.After the United States affirmed Kosovo?s declaration of independence and I saw the Serb hooligans subsequently trashing the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade last month, my first thought was, ?Well, at least they?re not attacking defenseless civilians this time.? I then reflected that I have never known nationalism to make anyone kinder, more just or compassionate. Indeed, far more examples exist of nationalism leading to human rights abuses. But I also wondered what separated the nationalism of Kosovar Albanians from the nationalism of the Serbs, or the nationalism of the Croats who had also committed atrocities for patriotic reasons during t...
Rise of Nationalism Frays Global Ties
2008-04-28 16:00:00 In a globalization manifesto, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman declared that the Internet and other planet-spanning technologies were erasing national boundaries. The world, he said in a 2005 best seller, was flat. No longer. The global economy appears to be entering an epoch in which governments are reasserting their role in the lives of individuals ...
By: 1913 Intel
The Pretty Faces of Nationalism
2008-04-28 07:27:00 One point of view. And another. These images were passed on from The Western Confucian and The Marmot. State worship at its finest.
By: ZenKimchi
Chinese Nationalism Erupts Against French And West
2008-04-20 14:43:00 The Chinese people endured over a hundred years of being treated as a second-rate nation while European nations seized “spheres of influence” in a country whose history had created strong feelings of pride. Recent protests in Tibet were viewed by many Chinese people as an insult to their nation since many regard the struggle for ...
Egyptian DNA
2008-04-17 08:06:00 Alright, so I’ve been slacking off with the regular posting. After promising I wouldn’t. Again. But instead of apologizing and putting myself through a grueling punishment once more to atone for my blogging sins, I’ve decided to make it up to u… …by bringing u an exclusive, mind blowing report from the forefronts of microscopic technology that finally explains ...
Globalization and Nationalism - The New Deal
2008-04-07 09:50:00 From The Edinburgh Lectures - March 4, 2008 : Source: Scottish Government " ... The underlying puzzle has always been not why there are so many nation states and distinct ethnic cultures but - why are there so few. In his classic Nations and Nationalism (1983) the social anthropologist Gellner observes that, although no one will ever know exactly, there can't be less than somewhere between six and eight thousand identifiable ethno-linguistic populations scattered round the globe. Why, then, are there less than two hundred or so national states? When he was writing in 1983 there were well under two hundred U.N. representatives, and though this number has grown, forecasts for the later twenty-first century don't usually envisage more than something between two hundred and twenty or thirty new (and naturally mostly smaller) independent states. Gellner's characteristic explanation of this disparity was in terms of overall social and cultural development. Th...
By: Circle of 13
Caucasian Nationalism - A New Movement
2008-04-07 02:26:00 I just created this movement because no one else did. I did it because it is so dumb I do not expect anyone to join. Caucasian Nationalist.I advocate for the cause of all Caucasians everywhere, including Jews, Indians, Berbers, Arabs, Iranians, Egyptians, Afghans, Bangladeshis, Pakistanis, Tajiks, Uzbeks, and even the Sahelians such the Fulani, the Kosonke, etc. in the Sahara. They get it because they are 53% Caucasian. You need to be over 50% to get in.If you have less than 50%, we will still pause a moment in your presence to bow before the Great White Man within you. That goes for US Blacks, Hispanics, Mongolians, Altai, Uighurs, most US Amerindians and possibly Siberians.It is true that we will cleave off from a large section of humanity, but that is ok. For the Asians, we will just fuck their women and take over their laundromats, and if the men object, we won't care about their inscrutable asses cuz they are skinny and wimpy and yellow and weak, and we will kick their asses.F...
By: Robert Lindsay
Why Jews Hate Ethnic Nationalism Except Theirs
2008-04-05 12:41:00 I just got banned from another blog, a Leftist one of course. The usual charge being that I am a White Supremacist and and anti-Semite. I'm banned from all sorts of Leftist sites on these grounds, hopefully I will be banned from many more, and I'm happy as punch. Neither charge is the remotest bit true, and anyway on White Nationalist sites I am often regarded as a lunatic antifa anti-racist Enemy of the White Man.Keep em guessing, what the Hell. Life is a role-playing exercise and I can wear lots of hats, and sometimes you might not even recognize me.It started when went over to this great big anarchist blog where some of the most famous anarchists in the blogosphere star and I tried to start some fights as usual. Like good anarcho-fishies, they bit the hook, ran me around the boat a few times, gave me a good fight and almost broke my rod. In the end, yeah, I was banned, but they were flopping in the gunny sack. Win-win.My crime was suggesting that White people should be proud of...
By: Robert Lindsay
Chinese Nationalism Fuels Tibet Crackdown
2008-03-31 04:29:00 BEIJING - Like so many Chinese, Meng Huizhong was horrified by the violent Tibetan protests in Lhasa. She cringed at videos of Tibetan rioters attacking a Chinese motorcyclist.
By: Get rich
Chinese Nationalism Fuels Crackdown on Tibet
2008-03-31 03:54:00 BEIJING - Like so many Chinese, Meng Huizhong was horrified by the violent Tibetan protests in Lhasa. She cringed at videos of Tibetan rioters attacking a Chinese motorcyclist.
By: Get rich
Mexico honors Irish-American Saint Patrick?s Brigade (San Patricios)
2008-03-17 07:01:00 From behind the bullet-scarred walls of an ancient fortress, the wail of bagpipes and a thundering bass drum echoed through a plaza in the center of Mexico City. Passers-by stopped in their tracks. Children craned for a look as a platoon of Mexican bagpipers marched through the gates in tribute to a strange and divisive chapter ...
By: Mexico Trucker
Felipe Calderon foresees a ?friendlier? US in 2009
2008-02-08 20:18:00 "It seems to me that the most radical and anti-immigrant candidates have been left behind and have been put in their place by their own electorate," Calderon said.
By: Mexico Trucker
EVERYONE should watch this!!
2008-01-27 10:05:00 I think it wouldn’t be a surprise to anyone to find out that I’m a self-confessed conspiracy theory nut. I’ve been very interested in the dodgy aspects of life and I’ve been asking about history, politics, banking and religion ever since I can remember. The fact that a lot of areas still remained shady even ...
Orwell on nationalism
2008-01-04 13:12:00 All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts. A British Tory will defend self-determination in Europe and oppose it in India with no feeling of inconsistency. Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them, and there is almost ...
By: Way of the Mind
Nepali Nationalism and Prashant Tamang
2008-01-01 13:38:00 (Courtesy: Roop Joshi)The latest display of nationalism, or at least a variation of it, which I saw recently came about in rather an ironic fashion. An Indian Policeman from Darjeeling won the ?Indian Idol? song competition and Nepalis went wild with pride and joy. This is not to take anything away from Prashant. A clean cut young man, who probably looks more ?Nepali? than you or me, he has a beautiful voice and sings Nepali songs from the heart. The irony, obviously, is that the latest show of Nepali nationalism can be attributed to the musical talents of an Indian policeman. Where then are our Nepali icons and idols?Nationalism is defined as ?Patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts; policy of national independence? by the Oxford English Dictionary. In today?s Nepal, nationalism means different things to different people. It is a concept either mutated for political convenience or, more often, ignored altogether. What makes us proud to be a Nepali and how do we express this pride...
By: Prashant Tamang
Defying the myths: the rational, educated, secular, prosperous suicide bomb
2007-11-14 16:24:00 Suicide terrorism. A term that in today?s political climate carries a certain image, like the one depicted to the left. One of irrationality and illiteracy, with fanaticism, religious zeal and 70 virgins promised in heaven for the martyr. Etymology The term “terrorism” comes from Latin terrere, “to frighten” via the French word terrorisme, which is often associated ...
Progressive Nationalism: Citizenship and the Left
2007-10-23 14:01:00 Progressive Nationalism: Citizenship and the Left By David Goodhart, Demos Progressive Nationalism: Citizenship and the Left argues that new citizens need to more visibly ‘earn’ their citizenship through tests and probationary periods. It also argues that there needs to be a clearer link between citizenship and welfare entitlement for all citizens if the solidarities underpinning the welfare ...
The Great ?Arab? Conspiracy
2007-10-23 02:58:00 If you’re a frequent visitor to this site then you should probably know by now that I am far from considering myself an Arab. Matter of fact, I’m barely human. But ever since returning to Egypt I’ve been searching for my original heritage. Not that I feel the need to finally belong and cry myself to ...
Soul and Soil (to hell with nationalism!)
2007-10-21 02:36:00 This is starting to drive me crazy. Is it just me, or is anyone else sick of hearing about countries and nationalities? Perhaps it’s because I have been moving around from country to country ever since I was two years old (and thereby don’t feel like I belong ANYWHERE), but when someone makes a statement about an ...
So you say there is no racism in the Mexico Truck Debate?
2007-09-26 22:06:00 Makes me proud, I say PROUD! to be an American truck driver (in your dreams) and this moron is a very good representative for Jimmy Hoffa, The Teamsters and the poster child for the opposition Uh, by the way, this moron is featured on a site entitled “White Now”! Need I say more? Share This
By: Mexico Trucker
Sukarno, A Political Biography by J. D. Legge: nationalism revisited.
2007-09-26 16:24:00 I don’t read a lot of history, contemporary or otherwise, and when I do, it is usually in the area of political economy. In recent years, for instance, I have delighted at the scholarship and intellect of Eric Hobsbawm. But what always strikes me about history is how perfect our vision can be from the distance of time. Not so if you are closer, and so I can forgive J. D. Legge my single criticism of his book, Sukarno – A Political Biography, which is its lack of overview. Legge published the book in 1972 and so did not have the luxury of 35 years of clarifying hindsight that we have today.J. D. Legge’s biography charts the life and career of Sukarno in intricate detail. Particularly strong are the descriptions of the internal machinations and wheeler dealing amongst the Indonesian political elite. Sukarno is presented as one of the major political figures of the twentieth century. If anyone should doubt this, then recall that the terms “Third World” and “Non-Aligned”, ...
nationalism illusion illusion
2007-09-22 05:42:00 this artistic poster only with mengunakan above painting to draw attention. poster be like this can in making with Corel Draw13 or Adobe Photoshop
By: poster-event
What does Islam has to say about nationalism and racism?
2007-09-21 20:55:00 Yeah! Nationalism and racism!We seem to have a lot of those here in Malaysia. Sadly, we have a lot of those in other parts of the world too. :-(Do you really know what nationalism or racism is all about?According to Wikipedia, nationalism is, quote:?Nationalism is a term that refers to a doctrine[1] or political movement[2] that holds that a nation?usually defined in terms of ethnicity or culture?has the right to constitute an independent or autonomous political community based on a shared history and common destiny.[3] Most nationalists believe the borders of the state should be congruent with the borders of the nation.[4] Extreme forms of nationalism, such as those propagated by fascist movements in the twentieth century, hold that nationality is the most important aspect of one's identity and attempt to define the nation in terms of race or genetics.?On racism, Wikipedia defined it as, quote:?According to the Oxford English Dictionary, racism is a belief or ideology that all mem...
What does Islam has to say about nationalism and racism?
2007-09-21 20:55:00 Yeah! Nationalism and racism!We seem to have a lot of those here in Malaysia. Sadly, we have a lot of those in other parts of the world too. :-(Do you really know what nationalism or racism is all about?According to Wikipedia, nationalism is, quote:“Nationalism is a term that refers to a doctrine[1] or political movement[2] that holds that a nation—usually defined in terms of ethnicity or culture—has the right to constitute an independent or autonomous political community based on a shared history and common destiny.[3] Most nationalists believe the borders of the state should be congruent with the borders of the nation.[4] Extreme forms of nationalism, such as those propagated by fascist movements in the twentieth century, hold that nationality is the most important aspect of one's identity and attempt to define the nation in terms of race or genetics.”On racism, Wikipedia defined it as, quote:“According to the Oxford English Dictionary, racism is a belief or ideology th...
Amien feels Indonesian nationalism moving in uncertain direction
2007-09-03 01:18:00 Chairman of the Advisory Board of the National Mandate Party (PAN) Amien Rais felt that the sense of nationalism in Indonesia has become increasingly uncertain.He made the remark when delivering a political address to thousands of PAN cadres from throughout Indonesia here on Sunday. "The direction of nationalism in Indonesia has now become uncertain. I also tend to say that it has now become `keblinger` (confusing)," he said.He took as an example the sale of Indosat to Singapore, and the many mining contracts which were only in favour of foreign investors, and the defense cooperation with Singapore which had never sided with the people of Indonesia. When Amin Rais met former Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim in cell and when he visited Jakarta after his release from jail, he asked Anwar to comment on Indonesia`s nationalism. According to Anwar, Indonesian nationalism was too weak. "It is like a house surrounded with a high fence, and everything in the house la...
Whither Nationalism
2007-08-26 17:39:00 This is one of those posts I’ve debated about writing because I am, at heart, a coward. I don’t like it when people I don’t know leave nasty comments for me on my blog, and I don’t like it even more when they’re not from deluded teenaged girls who clearly think that the only ...
Aspirational nationalism or nationalist aspirations?
2007-08-21 15:51:00 In a speech given yesterday, Howard set out the "agenda" for a fifth term in government. The third item on the agenda was "to embrace a sense of aspirational nationalism to guide relations between different levels of government in Australia". The term "aspirational nationalism" sounds like a political slogan rather than a concept with meaningful ...
By: Talk It Out
PARIS: Beware of energy nationalism, warns global agency
2007-07-10 09:28:00 A growing trend towards nationalism over... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By: ENERGY BLOG
Colbert Report: Torture versus nationalism
2007-05-18 18:28:00 I can certainly understand nationalism and wanting to protect your country, but this subtle tone of endorsing torture is a bit disturbing. What do you think?http://todayshottopic.com-/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/col-bert-goptorture.wmv Bookmark to:
By: Today's Talk
What a racist army video says about modern German nationalism
2007-04-15 16:41:00 I found this story surprising: A German army instructor ordered a soldier to envision himself in New York City facing hostile blacks while firing his machine gun, a video that aired Saturday on national television showed… The clip shows an instructor and a soldier in camouflage uniforms in a forest. The instructor tells the soldier, “You are ...
Palo Alto Sidewalk Graffiti and Argentinian Nationalism
2007-03-30 23:01:00 Seen on Webster street, a relic from the early 1980’s… Consumer, Real estate
Scottish nationalism, palestinian fraud
2007-01-03 21:56:02 Michael Medved talks about the sharp differences between Scottish nationalism with its very rich history and the big lie of there ever having been a "palestinian people". It's a column well worth reading in full.
By: Tel-Chai Nation
Secular Nationalism & Jahiliyyah
2006-12-18 16:47:13 As I have previously discussed on Wa Salaam, I think many of the problems of the Middle East (M.E.) stem from socio-political events occurring at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. However, reaching this far back is too difficult to make conclusive and believable arguments, especially since no one [...]
By: Wa Salaam
On Nationalism
2006-12-15 10:06:01 [I had written this post a while back but following the feedback to my previous post, I thought it would be interesting to share it here as well.]We, Pakistanis, are a very patriotic and nationalistic lot. We tend to wear our nationality on our sleeve. Home and abroad we celebrate our sense of belonging to Pakistan. In fact we love to do so! At home, as the independence day draws closer, you witness a hike in the wave of patriotism streaking across the nation: road side stalls spring up that sell patriotic souvenirs of all sorts, the media begins to air patriotic programs and national songs grace the airwaves. Majority of this constitutes harmless display of nationalism, but there is also a dark dangerous streak of nationalism that is becoming evident now. This particular form of nationalism breeds on self-glorification and the demonization of the enemy. A natural consequence of this behaviour is the cultivation of bigotry and xenophobia in our society. No, I don't think that I a...
By: Light Within
Energy Nationalism
2006-08-25 09:54:02 Energy nationalism has been on the rise for some time, with oil- and gas-rich states such as Russia and Venezuela flexing their muscles in foreign markets and harassing private-sector operators at home. In its lead article on August 15th the Economist Intelligence Unit of The Economist magazine outlines why a key player in this movement--Bolivia--has seen its plans for energy nationalisation grind
By: Power Encounter
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