RE: Nationalism and secularism
April 18, 2012 at 12:15 pm
(This post was last modified: April 18, 2012 at 12:49 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Fail of epic proportions. The many cultures and ethnicities that came together in this melting pot is exactly what it means to be American. Turkey is also a melting pot, and it's been cooking for a fair bit longer than the US. You clearly don't have any idea of just how easy it is to pin down this or that "American" thing to it's ethnicity of origin. We didn't abandon where we came from, we combined them all, and we now have pride in all of them collectively. Sometimes too much, there are "American" things which are most likely nothing to be proud of. The same is true of your own culture, whether you like to think about it or not (clearly you don't, you just maintain that these things never happened, we've been here before, that's a head-in-the-sand sort of pride). The "american identity" is a construct, and so is your "turkish identity". You have one set of rules for everyone else's identity and then a different set for your own? Again, garbage.
I believe that your blood is pure, purely human, same as mine. The rest of this is likely to be a family fairy tale. Go get sequenced with your new-found wealth? How do you know what languages I can speak? Pro-tip, you don't, and pro-tip...I can. But this is completely irrelevant, am I required to be able to speak every language my ancestors ever spoke to qualify as "proud"? Are you? Bullshit again. I actually refer to our president as "American", you're projecting. He's about as "black" as I am "white".
Your vision of "Turan" is exactly what I perceive it to be, you just don't like to call it such because you have a special set of rules for whatever your own ethnicity does or deems it's "rights".
These are not my last words on the subject...lol.
I believe that your blood is pure, purely human, same as mine. The rest of this is likely to be a family fairy tale. Go get sequenced with your new-found wealth? How do you know what languages I can speak? Pro-tip, you don't, and pro-tip...I can. But this is completely irrelevant, am I required to be able to speak every language my ancestors ever spoke to qualify as "proud"? Are you? Bullshit again. I actually refer to our president as "American", you're projecting. He's about as "black" as I am "white".
Your vision of "Turan" is exactly what I perceive it to be, you just don't like to call it such because you have a special set of rules for whatever your own ethnicity does or deems it's "rights".
These are not my last words on the subject...lol.
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