File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2003/anarchy-list.0303, message 54


Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 12:52:34 +0000 (GMT)
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Volodya=20V=20Anarhist?= <volodyanarchist-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: RE: amerikan hegemony


 --- Dave Coull <coull2-AT-btinternet.com> wrote: > 
> 
> Roger asked
> 
> 
> > so what the hell is amerikan nationalism?  
> 
> 
> America is one of the most nationalistic societies
> on the face of the globe. The first time I visited
> the USA, long before September 11th, I was astonished
> to see so many American flags everywhere. There
> were flags on every public building, there were 
> even flags on the  _schools_ . You just don't get
> that here. There were also flags on a lot of private 
> houses! What's more, American schoolchildren are 
> required to swear allegiance to the flag every day. 
> There would be all hell to pay if anybody tried 
> to introduce anything like that here. You take
> this sort of thing so much for granted, you just
> don't realise how way-over-the-top Nationalist
> it looks to outsiders. Your hysterical reaction 
> to quite mild criticism of American Nationalism 
> on the anarchy list is, unfortunately, a fairly
> typical reaction. 
> 
> 
> Dave Coull

My dear friend,
You've never been to russia, or to ukraine. Although i was
in the states and do know that it is very much
nationalistic, but there it's gov't that is playing a big
role in that. Today in "my country" (russia) (where we
celebrate March 8th and May 1st as you would christmas)
there are tonns of nationalistic crap that comes from the
bottom. And the "funny" thing is right now the government
is trying to work it up more. So by the time this soup will
finish cooking i'd hate to be inside of this machine. (On
top of it all there is a large attempt for the use of
religion as population control that comes into russia right
now with all the openly racist, xenophobic, sexist and
heterosexist attitudes that you'd expect out of that).
But you probably don't care, coz it's much easier to have
just one big wolf to fight not the 100s of them.

Free your mind and seek the truth.

               - VolodyA! V Anarhist

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