This post continues from False Myth #1
The mere existence of “nationalism” doesn't itself prove that a nation exists. In other words, the existence of a nation is not a necessary condition for the spout of a nationalist feeling that claims it, because this feeling could be artificially created trough the falsification and invention of a history and a national personality inexistent in realty.
The 'national Basque identity' is simply an invention. Although for some this could be hard to accept, his perception and feeling of belonging to a Basque Nation is based in huge lies, falsifications and hidings.
They have invented all: the history, the celebrities; even the flag and the very describing word “Euskadi” (the term together with “Euskal Herria” used by separatists to name their dreamed “nation”). All of it is artificial. The Flag was invented by Sabino Arana copying an English Football Team!
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The 'national Basque identity' is simply an invention.
Creo que eso resume todo.
Saludos
Es imposible criticarlo, no te equivocas en nada de lo que dices.
Un saludo!
More to come guys.....(up to 10 false myths)
El nacionalismo es una herencia del romanticismo, es decir, de la reacción contra la ilustración. Por tanto, no es de extrañar que se base en mitos y en ficciones -es más, que a veces incluso los mismos nacionalistas lo reconozcan: La supeditación del concepto de "verdad" al sentimiento o a la voluntad es algo también típicamente romántico (Nietzsche, etc).
Un saludo.
Absolutamente, I will elaborate on that in the coming days...
By that same thread, the US, Canada, Mexico, Guate-- well, every country on the American continents would have no right to exist, since they all created a nationalism that never existed before. Lack of a past nationalism doesn't equate to lack of a present nationalism.
I'm not agreeing or disagreeing on your main point, just this specific one. Just because a people unite under a new flag doesn't mean that they don't feel a sense of cultural unity to it.
But what do I know? Silly Americans, setting precedents by gaining independence from Britain, p-ffah (can you smell the sarcasm in that last sentence?).
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