So when European Americans went to the moon, or built all the infrastructure in the last century then that would be something that the average American could feel proud of. But the average Japanese would have no reason to feel proud about it.
Although it was arguably the rivalry of other nations, of other groups, other people which pushed them.
Now, in a globalist mindset with muh humanity preaching, suddenly everybody gets to feel proud of the accomplishments of muh hymanity, no matter what they actually enabled or hindered.
Civic nationalism is not that dissimilar from globalism. It inevitably leads to the latter because if it’s all about ideas and laws and everybody is an exchangeable cog then why really have borders in the long run?
The actual crucial element about nationalism is the body thus ethno-nationalism it is.
The Puerto Rican either likes himself and wants to preserve himself and his potential or he wants it to be washed away and be appeased by some feel good ideas and consumerism.
Ideas and books mean nothing when the quality of people who were able to read and understand them have disappeared. Either the biology is preserved or it’s all gone in the long run, whatever it is.
Sure but just because I expect something in return doesn’t mean that I get that in return. And what if what I get in return is just a fuzzy feeling? Giving it away for a good feeling is not something new and not something only found among a do-goody-mc-good kind of people.