"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."
Ephesians 6:12
Chris (09-24-2017)
MisterVeritis (09-24-2017)
As a white person, I could care less about being a minority if that's what she claims. I don't look at people based on race, instead look at them as fellow human beings. As for culture, my background is mostly Norwegian but I don't celebrate nor hold dear to me any customs of Norway, instead I'm an American whose culture is based on a huge melting pot of people from all over the world. I suspect that within the next 50 years, due to intermarriage many Americans will be a mixture of many ethnic cultures and race. Either way we shall see.
God Bless America, God Bless our Military and God Bless the Police who defended the country against the insurgents on January 6, 2021
Think 3rd party for 2024 folks. Clean up America.
Once I tell you that we agree to disagree there will be no more discussion between us in the thread so please don't waste your time continuing to argue your points because I will not respond.
Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution as written and understood by this nation's founders, and to the Republic it created, an indivisible union of sovereign States, with liberty and justice for all.
Mister D (09-24-2017)
gamewell45 (09-24-2017)
It's a construct because the "group" one chooses to identify with is a voluntary choice, not something objective.
Most Irish people don't identify as the same as British, though a white nationalist who wants an "all-white nation" would view all "whites" as belonging to the same group.
So if the formation of the EU is viewed as heading toward "globalism", one could also view the United States as "globalist" and believe that all states should be sovereign nations.
I think that voluntary globalization is mostly inevitable, and a nation which thinks it can completely "isolate" itself from the rest of the world and remain in existence ad infinitum is on the wrong side of history, because historically speaking, nations die and cultures change naturally.
Forced globalization via big governmental policies is a different issue.
Last edited by Devil'sAdvocate; 09-27-2017 at 08:51 PM.
It's relative; white nationalists view all "whites" as one giant collective, but most Scottish would not view themselves as the "same" as British, most Japanese would not view themselves as the "same" as Chinese. Whether they choose to identify as separate cultures, or as one homogeneous "race" is their voluntary choice.
Society, culture, race, have no inherent existence, they're merely relative mental constructs and only have meaning if a person voluntarily identifies with it; most people do not identify as "white", they are more likely to identify with their nation or ethnic group (e.x. Irish).