Nation National Nationalism Nationalize

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~ NATION       id+ | RACE or PEOPLE |        sug> CLASS
^u             id+ | SPIRITUAL SOVEREIGNTY | sug> NOTION
       maxim> "BEHIND EVERY NATION
               THERE IS A GREAT CRIME "
       note CULTURES CRYSTALLIZE AROUND MYTHS IN COMMON
            WHICH MAY OR MAY NOT ACHIEVE STATEHOOD    or!
       AS ILLUSTRATED BY THE HISTORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE
       NATION leads to NATALITY and NATIVE from
       consult FRIEND  FREE   FAMILY        <see
       lat NATUS     = BIRTH                 sug> INBORN
       sp  NACION      NATION                see> NATALITY
           NACER       NASCENT  BIRTH        sug> NEONATE
       ukr NATZIA      NATIONALITY           sug> NOTION
             TZE       THIS IS or IT also note
       lat GENS        A NATION  A PEOPLE    sug> GENTLEMEN
           GENTILI     idem  PEOPLE          see> GENTILE
           GENTILITAS  FAMILY
       sp  GENTE       PEOPLE
           GENTIL      GENTLE
       lat GENTILIS    FAMILY as in OF THE SAME HOUSE
       note Pope JOHN PAUL II [#] who pointed out to the
            UNITED NATIONS in OCTOBER 1995 how
       lit+ " MODERN TOTALITARIANISM HAS BEEN ...
              DENYING THE INALIENABLE VALUE OF THE
       INDIVIDUAL'S LIFE ... THE VISION OF MAN AS A
       CREATURE OF INTELLIGENCE AND FREE WILL
       IMMERSED IN A MYSTERY WHICH TRANSCENDS HIS OWN BEING
       ENDOWED WITH THE ABILITY TO REFLECT AND
       THE ABILITY TO CHOOSE  AND THUS
       CAPABLE OF WISDOM AND VIRTUE ...
       THE BALTIC STATES ...
       EXTENSIVE TERRITORIES IN UKRAINE AND BELARUS
       WERE ABSORBED INTO THE SOVIET UNION ...
       CANNOT BE IDENTIFIED ...
       WITH THE STATE
       NO STATE ...
       NATION ...
       IS EVER JUSTIFIED IN ASSERTING THAT
       AN INDIVIDUAL NATION IS NOT WORTHY OF EXISTENCE ...
       EVERY NATION ALSO ENJOYS THE RIGHT TO
       ITS OWN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE ...
       THAT WHICH I WOULD CALL
       ITS FUNDAMENTAL SPIRITUAL SOVEREIGNTY ..."
       for more see NATIONALISM below
       id+ NATIONALISM IS MYTHOLOGY OF A PEOPLE HELD IN COMMON
           IT IS A CLUE TO THEIR PSYCHOLOGICAL MAKEUP [12]
       MYTHOLOGY as an IDEOLOGY or SYSTEM TO INTEGRATE
       A SOCIETAL MENTALITY WITH A WORLD OUTLOOK
       IS ONE MEANS TO FILL A VACUUM IN COGNITION OF
       THE WORLD AND IN THIS SENSE  NATIONALISTIC MYTHOLOGY
       IS MORE AKIN TO A FORM OF KNOWLEDGE MERGED WITH SOME
       SCIENCE  HISTORY  THAN WITH RELIGION   SIGNIFICANTLY
       CULTURAL HERITAGE AND TRADITIONS OF A PEOPLE ARE
       OFTEN ABOVE OR BEYOND THE BOUNDS OF RELIGION
       note THE TASK OF A POLITICAL LEADER IS
            TO INTERPRET THE PUBLIC MYTHS OF HIS PEOPLE
       consider COUNTY  COUNTRY
       lit+ " MERCHANTS HAVE NO COUNTRY      sug> MERCURY
              THE MERE SPOT THEY STAND ON    sug> MERCENARY
              DOES NOT CONSTITUTE SO STRONG
              OF AN ATTACHMENT AS THAT FROM WHICH
              THEY DRAW THEIR GAINS " in letter by
              T JEFFERSON [#] to H G Spafford March 17th of 1814
       biol> IF NATIONS CAN NOT BE DENIED EXISTENCE
             THE HUMAN DENIAL FOR SPECIES TO EXIST
       MAKES THE SILENCE OF RELIGIONS DEAFENING
       sug> NATURE NATIVE NATURALIZED ABORIGINAL ORIGINAL
            ECOLOGY  GENOCYDE  ECOCYDE  PSYCHE  MYTH
            DOGMA  RELIGION  GOOD  GOD
~ NATIONAL  id+ SELF CONSCIOUSNESS OF A PEOPLE in particular
                CULTURAL HISTORIC RELIGIOUS and CIVIC
       ak TO PERSONAL SELF CONSCIOUSNESS
       hx> THIS CENTURY COULD BE VIEWED AS A
           PERIOD OF " SELF DETERMINISM "  one example
       COMMUNISTS USED "WARS OF NATIONAL LIBERATION" AS
       A DISRUPTIVE POLITICAL TOOL IN AFRICA AND ASIA
       in 1917 DJUGASHVILI [#] or STALIN [#] with
               VLADIMIR YLYANOV [#] or LENIN [#] signed a
       DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLES OF RUSSIA
       " ... THE FIRST CONGRESS OF SOVIETS
         IN JUNE OF THIS YEAR
         PROCLAIMED THE RIGHTS OF            sug> FRAUD
         THE PEOPLES OF RUSSIA               sug> MOSCOVY
         TO SELF DETERMINATION ...           sug> AUTONOMY
         IN NOVEMBER ...
         IT CONFIRMED THIS INALIENABLE RIGHT ...
         EQUALITY AND SOVEREIGNTY ...
         EVEN TO THE POINT OF SEPARATION AND
         THE FORMATION OF AN INDEPENDENT STATE ... "
         LENIN [#] WROTE TO ALL WORKERS AND PEASANTS IN UKRAINE
         AND ASKED THEM FOR THEIR SUPPORT AND HE RECOGNIZED
         THEIR EQUALITY WITH THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE
         BUT HE ALSO WROTE                   sug> HYPOCRITE
         " THE INTERESTS OF SOCIALISM ARE ABOVE
           THE INTERESTS OF THE RIGHT OF NATIONS TO
           SELF DETERMINATION "
         note that AFTER THE FIRST WORLD WAR
         FINLAND UKRAINE ESTONIA LATVIA LITHUANIA
         GEORGIA and ARMENIA DECLARED INDEPENDENCE FROM
         THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE BUT THE BOLSHEVIKS
         MADE WAR TO RECONSTITUTE THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE
         LED BY LEON DAVID TROTSKY [#] or BRONSTEIN [#]
         THE BOLSHEVIK RED ARMY
         SYSTEMATICALLY AND RUTHLESSLY DESTROYED
         ALL MOVEMENTS OF INDEPENDENCE
         NATIONALISM WAS EQUATED WITH ANTI COMMUNISM
         UKRAINE GEORGIA ARMENIA WERE "REUNITED"
         UNDER THE BANNER OF THE USSR BUT
         FINLAND ESTONIA LATVIA AND LITHUANIA REMAINED FREE
         UNTIL THE END OF WORLD WAR TWO
         VICTORIOUS USSR "REUNITED" THEM TO THE USSR
         AFTER THE IMPLOSION OF THE USSR IN 1990
         UKRAINE ESTONIA LATVIA AND LITHUANIA
         ONCE AGAIN DECLARED INDEPENDENCE AND
         REMAIN INDEPENDENT
         BELARUS ALSO BECAME INDEPENDENT BUT RECENT EVENTS
         SUGGEST THAT IT BELARUS WILL "REINTEGRATE" INTO
         THE "GREATER" RUSSIAN "FEDERATION"
         GEORGIA ARMENIA CHECHENIA ALSO DECLARED INDEPENDENCE
               AT THE TIME OF THE IMPLOSION OF THE USSR BUT
               WERE UNABLE TO LEAVE THE RUSSIAN "FEDERATION"
~ NATIONALISM  DEVOTION TO A NATION OR PEOPLE       sug> DOGMA
               as in PATRIOTISM CHAUVINISM
         note Pope JOHN PAUL II [#] POINTED OUT IN OCTOBER
         1995 DURING HIS VISIT TO THE UNITED NATIONS
         lit+ "... FROM BITTER EXPERIENCE ...
               WE KNOW
               THAT THE FEAR OF "DIFFERENCE" CAN LEAD TO
         A DENIAL OF THE VERY HUMANITY OF "THE OTHER" ...
         A CYCLE OF VIOLENCE IN WHICH NO ONE IS SPARED
         NOT EVEN THE CHILDREN ...      sug> HOLOCAUST GENOCIDE
         DIFFERENT CULTURES ARE BUT DIFFERENT WAYS OF
         FACING THE QUESTION OF THE MEANING OF
         PERSONAL EXISTENCE ...
         AN UNHEALTHY FORM OF NATIONALISM ...
         TEACHES CONTEMPT FOR OTHER NATIONS ...
         SEEKS TO ADVANCE THE WELL BEING OF ITS OWN NATION
         AT THE EXPENSE OF OTHERS ...
         DOING HARM DAMAGES BOTH THE           sug> RACISM
         AGGRESSOR AND THE VICTIM ..."          sug> SLAVE
         hx> NOTE HOW ROMANS PROMOTED THE EXTINCTION OF
             ETRUSCAN  A CULTURE THAT FERTILIZED THEIR OWN
         for more see> FREEDOM
         id+ NATIONALISM CAN BE SAID TO BE BASED ON CRITERIA
             THAT ARE INHERENT or INBORN or more precisely
         IMPLICIT IN A PERSON  THEREFORE SUCH A
         PERSON INHERENTLY HAS THE TRAITS OF A
         NATIONAL GROUP AND IS IMMUNE FROM REJECTION
         in this regard NATIONALISM OFFERS AN IDENTITY
         WHICH IS INSURED AND INDEPENDENT OF MERIT
         and akin to RACE TRIBE CLAN or FAMILY
         WHILE REJECTION CAN BE BASED ON CULTURAL or
         POLITICAL CRITERIA  A NATIONALITY LABEL IS
         IMMUNE TO SUCH JUDGMENTS as in
         note ISRAEL ASSURES PROTECTION TO ALL JEWS
               perhaps the above is one reason for
         NATIONALISTIC UNITS TO INCREASE IN NUMBERS BY
         A FRAGMENTATION OF MULTI ETHNIC STATES as in the
         USA WHERE FRAGMENTATION IS CONSIDERABLE as in
         SOUTHERNER  ALABAMIAN  CAJUN  OF AFRICAN ANCESTRY
         SUCH FRAGMENTATION MAY INSULATE or BE INSULAR
         HOWEVER IT ALSO PROVIDES FOR AN IDENTITY IN AN
         OTHERWISE AMORPHOUS MASS or PANMIXIS OF PEOPLE
         id+ NATIONALISM IS ABOVE POLITICAL IDEOLOGY
             A NATIONALIST CAN ESPOUSE A VARIETY OF
         POLITICAL PERSUASIONS
         note the contrast with PLURALISM WHERE A COMMON
         CITIZENSHIP AND CIVILIZATION IS UNDERSCORED
         hx> IN WESTERN EUROPE NATIONALISM EMERGED DURING
             THE RENAISSANCE    A COMPLEX LATE PHENOMENON
         WELL ILLUSTRATED IN UKRAINE                 <see
         MULTI ETHNIC STATES WITH VARIOUS RELIGIOUS
         AND HISTORIC HETEROGENEITY ARE BECOMING POLARIZED
         as in FORMER YUGOSLAVIA WHERE CROATS AND SERBS
         REJECT THEIR FORMER CONVIVIAL LIFE     sug> VITAL
         lit+ THE USSR PRETENDED TO BE          sug> MASQUE
              A UNION AMONG " EQUALS " BUT     sug> PAR
         RUSSIANS WERE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS   sug> FAVOR
         " RUSSIAN " BECAME THE NORM            sug> MEAN
         THE USSR BECAME " RUSSIA "             sug> IMPOSE
         AFTER THE COLLAPSE OF THE USSR         sug> FOIL
         THE " RUSSIAN " FEDERATION IS RULED    sug> REIGN
         BY A SINGLE AND RUSSIAN PRESIDENT      sug> PRESS
         WHO PRETENDS TO REPRESENT FAIRLY       sug> PROFESS
         " OTHER REPUBLICS "                    sug> COLONY
               DUBBED AS INDEPENDENT            sug> PATRON
               cont> in addenda                 sug> UKRAINE
~ NATIONALIZE  id+ OFTEN A EUPHEMISM FOR A STATE      sug> FISCAL
                   ACTION TO EXPROPRIATE or           sug> PROPERTY
  CONFISCATE  IMPLIES AN ACT TO TAKE                  sug> ROB
  BY GOVERNMENTAL FORCE                               sug> COERCE
  in sp FISCO  = GOVERNMENT                           sug> DOMINION
        FISCAL   PROSECUTOR                           sug> LOOT
  hx> RUSSIAN MUSEUMS DISPLAY VAST ART COLLECTIONS
      CONFISCATED or " NATIONALIZED " FROM PRIVATE COLLECTORS
  THE PUSHKIN MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS IN MOSCOW AS WELL AS
  MOST OTHERS IN RUSSIA DISPLAY MOSTLY "CONFISCATED" OBJECTS
  THE COMMISSARS OF THE PEOPLE PASSED A DECREE IN
  SEPTEMBER 19TH OF 1918 AND CONFISCATED FAMOUS COLLECTIONS
  AMONG THEM THOSE OF SERGEI SHCHUKIN AND IVAN MOROZOV
  note SIMILAR ACTS BY NUMEROUS GOVERNMENTS
  THE LONDON GOVERNMENT ENCOURAGED LOOTING OF FOREIGN ART BY
  PRIVATE  "NOT AUTHORIZED" ENTREPRENEURS   THE IDEA WAS THAT
  THE STOLEN ART WOULD WITH TIME END IN
  " NATIONAL " MUSEUMS as it occured in the case of the
  PARTHENON TREASURES
  note  ART WAS LOOTED BY NAPOLEON  HITLER  STALIN and others
  art> THE VIRGIN AND CHILD BY THE BOTTICELLI SCHOOL SHOWN IN
       THE PUSHKIN MUSEUM OF MOSCOW WAS " EXPROPRIATED " from
  the Princess Ekaterina MESHCHERSKAYA [#]