On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 11:59:32AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > and he will try to harm any other people is someone tell him that it > > helps USA. His approach is completely nationalistic. You cannot > > understand him and agree with him until he drops this attitude or > > until you adopt it. > > Considering I am an Indian, this is getting hilarious; the US > is merely my country of adoption. Actually, I am given to understand that many immigrants are more passionate nationalists about their adopted country than native-born folks are of their default country. This makes sense when once considers that many immigrants to a country have to make some sort of sacrifice to get there and stay there, which makes them more likely to seek justifications for their decision. It's human nature; people are passionate about their choice of automobile or computer for similar reasons -- they represent a relatively large outlay of capital (or a relatively large assumption of debt), and people are loath to second-guess their decisions under such circumstances, lest they be characterized as "suckers". Look at the example of Ayn Rand, for instance. (Not saying you're a nationalist, Manoj.) -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | Please do not look directly into branden@debian.org | laser with remaining eye. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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