Comments by "Goldenhawk583" (@Goldenhawk583) on "Why is Viking Culture Constantly Being Attacked and Discredited?" video.

@gonsonandenschinder Pride can be both negative and postive. It is not only an ego driven, negative thing as you seem to claim. If your grandfather buildt a house, and you never met him, would it be bad then, to like that house more than you like other houses? It belongs to your roots, your history.. feeling a connection, end jaoy about that, is that a bad pride? Do you owe strangers to feel the same about their houses? I come from viking roots, I feel that connection, I feel the history.. that is the foundation of me and my life. I like several other cultures too, old ones, like the native american for instance, but I do not have those roots. I can feel a kinship, but no foundation, it is not where I come from. Pride is wrong when mixed with arrogance. When you feel above others because of it, better than others because of it. When your children does well at something, are you not proud of them? Is that a negative feeling? Ego is another word that can be both good and bad. Like pride, it is bad, when you think it makes you more important than others, better.. that you have a right to treat others badly. But it can also be a good thing.Remembering that we are ALL individuals, we are all important, yet unique. A society is made up of individuals, not 2 are the same, not 2 have the same dreams, and needs, and we need all those little differences to create a good whole. But today, it is all about the group, all about the common good, as if there are no individuals, and the single person does not matter, only the group does. This is the way downhill, towards complete destruction, because if the individuals can not live their lives to the fullest, they become miserable. If only the group maters, then noone can really live, and everyone ends up miserable... and we are supposed to think that this is for the common good. I put it to you, if the individual can not soar and feel alive.. how can a group, a society, ever do the same?
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@karlosvulture5014 Lets be fair.. people of white color has also done a heck of a lot of bad.. just look at the british in India as an example. Our color does not decide who we are.. only how we look.
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@Abyyss33 which is why one can learn from the past, keep what is good for today, and leave behind what should remain history, like slavery. This is not the same as focusing on the past rather than the present. Fact is, without knowing and being aware of past mistakes, we are bound to repeat them. A good example of that is mandatory injections of chemichals that are bad for most people. The Nuremberg protocol have strict rules for this, but we are still about to repeat the same things nazis were judged for.. Perhaps it is better not to remember what Mengele did, in order to accept this new injection without argument....
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@talknight2 Remove the word, and you remove what people connect to the word. and like Bjørn says, here in norway, we connect way more to the word than raids only. we differ between "vikings" and "going viking". There is absolutely a problem ;)
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