tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3008298301693102330.post6006200996320786836..comments2024-01-19T00:39:36.935-08:00Comments on Northern Gaijin 北外人: Pseudoscience (1)Northern Gaijin 北外人http://www.blogger.com/profile/06714062070032658416noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3008298301693102330.post-11044329462571485242011-07-03T19:58:45.883-07:002011-07-03T19:58:45.883-07:00Of course, it's pseudoscience. I was taken on ...Of course, it's pseudoscience. I was taken on a lot more Communist parades in the Soviet Union than the number of July 4th celebrations a regular kid can attend. (There were several major parades per year in the USSR.) It didn't make me a Communist.<br /><br />Of course, events such as July 4th celebrations are aimed at creating a sense of national identity. At this particular point, I'd say that the Republicans are doing a better job of appropriating the national identity discourse and filling it with their own values. However, there is no guarantee that within a short period of time the national identity discourse will not be appropriated by the Dems. <br /><br />National identity is a completely artificial construct aimed at creating emotional attachments to weird things like pieces of fabrics, strange symbols, arbitrary dates and historic figures. In every nation-state, there is always a fierce struggle at which political force will have the decisive power over shaping this fairy-tale. Historically, this power shifts quite a bit.Clarissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11027134365260069910noreply@blogger.com