farmelantj at juno.com wrote:
>but the idea of international competition to attract people to one's
>country seems a neoliberal idea.
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It also makes nationality into another shopping experience which,
judging from the experience of my family, is the farthest thing from the
truth because it takes a certain degree of desperation to abandone
mother tongue, friends, family, culture and start from scratch.
If it were a way to dampen ultranationalistic feeling it might be a good thing, unfortunately it seems to do just the opposite, since the looser and more virtual the identity, the more fervently it has to be asserted.
Zionism is the ideology of nationalism. Consider Avenry latest on Tannhauser, Hertzel, and the seeding of the Zionist ideal:
http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20050527&fname=uri&sid=1
Joanna
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