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comment by tacocat

I was glib the other day in a different hubski post about the browning of America but the Salon article is closer to my actual feelings. It also left me wondering if a level of nationalism isn't always a bad thing. Norway has a robust social safety net in part because almost everyone there is Norwegian. In America certain people want to take away the ability to eat food because we have conflicting ideas of national identity and it's easy for the ignorant to unconsciously disregard the needs of fellow citizens just because they perceive them as largely not American enough. Anyway I don't really want to go down the path of examining the benefits of nationalism. America is unique and weird