Comments by "Awesome Avenger" (@awesomeavenger2810) on "Have our complex identities destroyed politics as usual? Randeep Ramesh | In my opinion" video.

  1. Then by your own argument, the EU itself must be built on what it is NOT rather than what it is. It is a club that defines itself by who is a member. And who is not a member. And that is based around the European cultural identity. We can see this in the way that Europe is fine with 'freedom of movement' between European nations. But not with freedom of movement that includes non European nations.  In a truly multicultural society, where unlike, for example, eastern Europe, the UK has a large population of non-European ethnic minorities, that loyalty to European culture is not there. Unlike most of Europe, the UK has always been a global player. And its diverse population and ties to non European cultures proves this. That is why the UK has not seen the rise of the far right, as many other European countries have Altho, I will admit that the rise of le Pen in France rather undermines my argument a bit, as France also has a large non-European population. Or, perhaps, you could also say it actually supports my argument.
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  2. It is. But there is a lot to be said for the nation state. A nation state is like an extended tribe. And a tribe is like an extended family. And you can be born into that family, or you can marry into it (take citizenship). You can point to one kind of extreme nationalism and say that it is bad (Nazism). But you can also point to the fact that it was nationalism that fought against that extremism. And won. After all, who would bother defending nothing?
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  3. In fact, that's pretty much where the left is now. It can't defend anything, because it doesn't stand for anything. Everything is morally equivalent to everything else. It can't defend one set of values against another, because all systems and cultures are seen as equally valid. In other words, when you have spent so long denigrating western values, you can't defend them. So who's to say what is right or wrong?
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