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Author Topic: Things that made you sad today thread.  (Read 9711402 times)

Darvi

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #67155 on: November 01, 2013, 10:38:08 am »

Not quite. National/regional identities remain very important in the modern age to the point that you can't really escape it,
Says you.

But then again, I'm a secluded introvert from a country that's 45% immigrant families, so what do I know.
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« Reply #67156 on: November 01, 2013, 10:40:38 am »

Says you.

But then again, I'm a secluded introvert from a country that's 45% immigrant families, so what do I know.

Says I and most of Europe apparently, otherwise I'd be speaking to you from the United States of Europe. We're still knee deep in old world thinking, especially the UK. People are still fighting and dying for the sake of nationalism outside of Europe but in those areas "ethnicity" and "nation" blur, as in Mali, Chechnya, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Myanmar etc. The idea of civic nationalism hasn't exactly reached those areas yet.

I think nations have to go through a process of breaking up into smaller ones based around what people are most comfortable with (usually historical lines i.e. the original tribal kingdoms that remain very clear to us to this day), ensuring no Moscow, London or Madrid based elite controls any more empires. Those movements must be based around civic nationalism, not ethnic nationalism. Once states are formed by people who are united in their commitment to their nations and their desire to make it better regardless of their heritage, then we can all get on with our lives, form bigger, peaceful federations or whatever. The world just needs to get this old world stuff out of its system, all of it.

If we don't do this and keep it all simmering under the surface as it is now then stuff like ethnicity can bubble to the surface from people frustrated and confused about their identities. That's when things turn ugly.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #67157 on: November 01, 2013, 11:17:37 am »

Yet I did manage to avoid it. Yay being a shut-in!
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #67158 on: November 01, 2013, 11:27:18 am »

Yeah, I'm a Canadian born and raised, and I identify more with Scotland than Canada. 'Course, I DO like being a Canadian. So I use a Scottish Canada flag, I need to get it made so I can hang it in my room.

Anyway, the only connection I have to Scotland is a name and a grandfather born in Nova Scotia (before that, don't know how long ago they moved to Canada from Scotland) but still!
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #67159 on: November 01, 2013, 11:31:49 am »

What is the Scottish Canadian flag out of interest?
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #67160 on: November 01, 2013, 11:49:32 am »

Got it from alt-history forum (the big one).

Dunno if there's an -actual- scottish Canada flag, but I like this one over the others I've found because it actually looks like a flag? Rather than like, the Canadian flag with the maple-leaf turned into a Cross of St. Andrew.

Anyway, here:

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #67161 on: November 01, 2013, 11:53:31 am »

That's great. I really like that, especially the way they've got the Lion Rampant's colours and the Maple Leaf combined.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #67162 on: November 01, 2013, 01:37:09 pm »

And then Owlbread and Descan had sloppy makeouts. It was hot.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #67163 on: November 01, 2013, 01:43:09 pm »

I will just sit here, not at all bitter that the Union Jack kinda forgets my cold damp corner of the UK then...

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #67164 on: November 01, 2013, 01:45:40 pm »

Och, Scanada!  :P


Where law enforcement is handled by the brave Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen, of course.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #67165 on: November 01, 2013, 02:24:24 pm »

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #67166 on: November 01, 2013, 02:44:16 pm »

Och, Scanada!  :P


Where law enforcement is handled by the brave Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen, of course.
Never a poor excuse for some R&S

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #67167 on: November 01, 2013, 02:47:40 pm »

Wrong thread.

 :-\

Never knew there was a Scottish-Canadian flag. I thought the closest to that would be the flag of Nova Scotia. I have one hanging up on my wall.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #67168 on: November 01, 2013, 03:09:06 pm »

Like I said, it's a "fan-made" flag. No institution uses it, and in fact, no alt-hist fic (afaik) uses it. I got it from a Flag request thread. (Someone else requested it, I just yoinked it~)

And yes, Scanada. >_> Or Cheanada.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #67169 on: November 01, 2013, 03:31:04 pm »

One day, I'll figure out my family history. As it sits, I still know absolutely nothing farther back than my great-grandfather, as far as my father's side is concerned.
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