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Originally Posted by Sadistic-Savior
I do not agree with your definition of "national identity". Most Americans (I would say the vast majority) have been here several generations. That is sufficient time to establish many common experiences.
Is that all you can find? How much of our population is made up of KKK members and their sympathizers?
We are a nation of 300 million. The KKK, according to this source, makes up 1/37,500th of our population. Hardly representative of our culture.
Um...what exactly leads you to believe they have any power at all?
I agree. Our ancestors were still tainted by the ideological pollution of the Europeans that spawned them. It is probably the main reason they were morally inferior to us.
It took us many decades to purge it from our culture. But we finally succeeded.
I never made the claim otherwise. I never made the claim that you should not show them gratitude for their sacrifices. Quite the opposite.
Some aspects of national identity are unworthy of being preserved. Should America have preserved the racist ideals of our forefathers? Slavery was certainly part of the national identity of America at one point. Right?
Of course those ideals were unworthy. So we purged them and replaced them with our own. I am suggesting you do the same thing with the ethnic prejudices in your own country.
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Look that happened 200 years ago. I dont blame today’s Americans for that. But do you know with what i have problem? With western films. They were the worst propaganda, that was a master crime against native Americans. And that happened in second half of 20 century. It was washing of bloody hands for crimes against one civilization. It made them look like savages that deserve to die. It made it look like it is there fault for there own destruction.
Look. You have European blood, don’t run away from that. You cant say people were infected by Europe hate and such. That is how life is. You cant throw away your ancestors.
I don’t think that society evolved morally. Today’s moral in world is in lowest point.
About KKK.I think that there are a lot of people that are not enlisted as members, but are ones. And also there are a lot of supporters .Also there is a speculation about NRA that is a cover up for KKK. What makes KKK powerful is not number of members but the power of leaders(in shadow).
ps: National Identity is not ideology. Don’t mix it.
Go to Octobers fest in Munich and you will find your national identity
