[quote=@Skepic] Sorry, I meant @Everyone, not just you little Poohead. [/quote] [sub]Little!?[/sub] [quote=@mdk] I mean that all our social problems seem to vanish whenever there's a rally-round-the-flag. Almost as though putting your country first was healthy for one's relationship with their countrymen. It's been true in America for quite a while, I mean, so long as one ignores the Civil War...... ...but historically, the rise of nationalism solved all sorts of tribal problems in Europe. Not all of them, obviously, but it was a major advance. Now with the EU in charge, nationalism has been bleeding to death and -- well gosh, it's almost like this has had deadly consequences. [/quote] I think you might be confusing patriotism with nationalism. Or, you're using nationalism in one of its lesser known definitions, I suppose, which is being patriotic. Usual nationalism is thinking your country is superior and foreigners are lesser peoples.