02-09-2011, 02:17 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-09-2011, 02:23 PM by [wcip]Angel.)
(02-08-2011, 09:58 PM)Concillian Wrote: As has been said, the holiday celebrating the birth of a nation is not a holiday celebrating the birth of another nation.
They would probably argue that they are not necessarily celebrating the birth of their own nation, but rather showing that the country they live in is a multi-cultural one, and that each flag symbolise each individual culture.
To put it differently, is the concept of "nation" slowly deteriorating as globalisation and internationalisation transform the globe into what Marsall McCluhan referred to as "The Global Village"? With so much migration of both people, ideas, impulses, norms and cultures, as well as the subsequent effects this trend has on previously homogenous "national cultures", is national pride still relevant? When we are so affected by the rest of the world, and many among us come from other parts of the world, shouldn't that diversity be celebrated?
It sounds like I'm arguing FOR something here. I'm really not; but simply trying to provide perceived counter-arguments to what has been said in order to stimulate a response
