Nationalism and secularism

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Then why doesn't everyone listen to bluegrass Mehm? Why do I continue to listen to irish folk songs? I think you're full of shit...again.

Hey, do you know how to make a million bucks in the bluegrass scene? Start with two million bucks.

Because I listen to irish folk songs. It's quite accessible to you, and to me.
So is bluegrass.

However, what I was trying to tell here, is that the popular music that exists in where you will emigrate, will eventually destroy your own.
Not everyone listens to bluegrass, but I'm sure everyone has listened to at least one Britney spears song.
Either voluntarily, or involuntarily.
Bluegrass is a regional popular variety.
However, irish ethnic music is done by irishmen in ireland, or by enthusiasts in other countries, but I'm quite sure that these are rather rare. And it's not a very popular type of music, unknown to people in say, United Arab Emirates, meaning, it's regional, it's *ethnic*, it belongs to an ethnicity.

Bluegrass is a regional variety of popular songs that were not popularized by the creeping American media around the earth and in your own country aswell.

It seems to me that you are terrified that your "superior ethnic identity" would just melt away in the face of opposition or contact with any other culture. Well just how "superior" could it be then bud? .

Well, if you do not protect your own culture from foreign influences, then it will eventually melt away. However, our culture thrived even with the influence of foreign cultures, and has eventually gotten the best of them.

You seem to be blissfully unawares that this is exactly how you ended up with your "turkish identity" in the first place....

I don't know just what you're trying to suggest, but this probably speaks true that our culture is indeed a superior one, in the case of what you think is true.
You shoot at your own leg, sonny.
But thankfully, you are wrong, the Turkish identity shares it's bonds with those who share a relationship of blood with it. Else, the slavic bosniak, called "Turk" by it's christian neighbors of the same blood for so long, would continue to call itself by this name, and they have adopted too much of our culture and even our religion.

I say you're a south african, just like the rest of us. You disagree, instead claiming that you are a "Turk" and that this actually means something.

South african doesn't really hint on an ethnicity. It simply presents a geographical location. The term *Turk* on the other hand, specifies of what ethnicity you are.
And yes, it does mean something. But I now know for sure that it means nothing to you, just as I said, and you denied it.
It's unfolding.

Well, if it does then so does "American" as you and I are in the same boat, both immigrants, neither of us ultimately "from" the place we now claim.

Are you reading what I'm writing down? I put no value on geographical Abstammung. The Turk from Turkey, and the Turk from Kazan are still nothing more than Turks, living miles away from eachother, while still being Turks.

Neither of us a pure specimen of anything at all beyond human beings.

Well, I guess that you don't really know what purity means.
I don't really have to explain things to you any further. You just don't listen anyways.