[nice spread matey!here's my response to the polotuks.
Nationalism is a shallow comfort for the part of our brain that deals with recognition of other humans as 'familiar'. It was useful in the feudal mid-ages of Europe, but became less useful as the world 'grew smaller'. Culture, and nationalism can be considered as distinguisable from each other. Or perhaps the other route would be to say nationalism is a sub-part of culture? I would recommend reading the MonkeySphere...
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Nationalism is a shallow comfort for the part of our brain that deals with recognition of other humans as 'familiar'. It was useful in the feudal mid-ages of Europe, but became less useful as the world 'grew smaller'. Culture, and nationalism can be considered as distinguisable from each other. Or perhaps the other route would be to say nationalism is a sub-part of culture? I would recommend reading the MonkeySphere...