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wachi-delectrico · 1 year

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Spent all of yesterday studying on the problem of Nationality and the creation of a National Identity and ngl I haven't stopped thinking and trying to figure out how yankee's modern idea of nationality came to be, specifically thinking of white American people who say they're of a nationality based on "ancestry" with no personal cultural ties to it

#rambling #Not meaning to swing at the hornet's nest lol #But i think as a latinamerican guy in latinoamérica i think i can say with confidence this is something none of us understand about the USA #I think it's probably at least partially influenced by nazi ideas of nationality which evoked Nations as biologically inherent #And all nations having one singular race and language which bound them together from birth and gave them the right to their own land #somewhere along the way this also morphed into white americans claiming to be of national identities they have little to no contact with #based on their bloodlines and family history #it could be the american State's inability to create a national identity that matches the historical characteristics of its territory #Trying to build a national identity around nazi-like ideas of a white christian ethnostate in a place where the cultural diversity does not #allow such a plan to ever come into fruition unless they were to take on totalitarist strategies #Coupled with thw USA's history of slavery and open discrimination against non-white peoples creating the phenomenon of white guilt #So white people who dont agree with the ethnocentric facets of their national identity feel the need to ''flee'' their race and nationality #But since their construct of nationality is blood-based to say it in a way the only escape they can think of is escaping to a reality based #on a past and present they have never experienced themselves in hopes to be ''absolved'' of blame and freed of guilt #... But that's my guess lol #Also again specifically talking about white USA people with no or only tangential ties to the identity they claim

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