RE: Nationalism and secularism
April 18, 2012 at 6:20 pm
(This post was last modified: April 18, 2012 at 6:38 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
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. 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? You seem to be blissfully unawares that this is exactly how you ended up with your "turkish identity" in the first place.....Well, fear not my long lost cousin, people manage to hold onto the stories of the ancestors over here just as well as you hold onto them over there, sometimes their stories are as fanciful as your own.
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. 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. Neither of us a pure specimen of anything at all beyond human beings.
Hey, do you know how to make a million bucks in the bluegrass scene? Start with two million bucks.
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. 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. Neither of us a pure specimen of anything at all beyond human beings.
Hey, do you know how to make a million bucks in the bluegrass scene? Start with two million bucks.
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