One of the intresting things we are taught about unconscious bias, is besides people actively discriminating agianst outer groups, most people simply reserve postive emotions for inner groups leading people to be kinda like this without really realizing it.
So remember don't just reconsider your views on natinoalism, but consider everyone else probably has unconscious prejudice agianst others, so don't just attack them for thier views but at least try to educate them.
Then if they continue to be willfully ignorant shrug....
Right, but that's just post-hoc rationalisation by Americans crying that their "culture" breaks down to authoritarianism, slavery, and genocide.
This is what our prehistoric ape ancestors on the western plains thought of our prehistoric ape ancestors on the eastern plains half a million years ago. .... stupid eastern plains apes >:(
Hard to fall for this thinking when you have no favorites.
you don't have a favorite cheese? heretic!
I use the cheese that is appropriate for the dish.
Even for something like a cheese tray its based on expectations and variety; a plain, spicy, and aged.
I am surrounded by people who have preferences but I will happily go with whatever is cheapest without sacrificing quality.
Having lived in like 7 different countries for long periods of time I'm convinced there is no objective measure of the quality of food, art, or music.
There are things that have measures if high quality in Japan that American would find absolutely foul, and the same in the other direction.
Hah, my country stole all the best food. I am British.
Imagine having access to most of the world's herbs, spices and meats, yet the only culturally significant meal of you country is fish and chips.
What did you do with it? Because you sure as fuck havent cooked any of it.
We have loads. Curry, kebab and Chinese are probably some of the more common ones.
This is silly and I love it.
I am silly and I love you.
Hot take: if someone says "my country has the best ____" and has not ever lived for an extended period in another country, you can just ignore anything they have to say.
Australia has the best Vegemite.
My country has the best people that come from my country. Fight me.
Even that might not be true, my experience with people from my country is all the best ones go live somewhere else lol.
We were deeply brainwashed to believe we were the best and discovered the world. Never were we enlightened about we being at fault for bootraping the slave market across the Atlantic. Ups, a silly omission in our history lessons.
Anationalism, yay!
Now if one of them has a recent genocide, I'm voting for the other one.
Nationalism is a archaic ideology that has outlived its usefulness in the modern era of globalised capitalist plundering and climate catastrophe.
