Quote (Caedus @ May 28 2013 09:43pm)
Authoritarian nationalist, fiscally centre-right, you could say I'm liberal on social issues because I think the government shouldn't care about those.
To explain the nationalist, more in the mold of support a nation. No racism, I don't believe such a thing exists as an ethnic national identity. If you support your country I don't care what part of the world your ancestors come from. There is a national identity though. Also traditional nationalist principles such as protectionism and isolationism are detrimental to a nation, and should be abandoned.
People who confuse racism and nationalism just do not understand the problem properly.
Countries do indeed have ethnic (national) identities and they can change over time, they can be conquered or reformed, and in the Western worlds through an almost unfettered immigration. I like diversity and support anyone in preserving their own unique ethnic lineage, language, and culture but a line also the respect needs to be mutual in principle. Monoculture, wrongly termed multiculturalism, does not respect differences in diversity and encourages a complete integration while demeaning the native population. We already know what happens when a population of invaders inhabits a foreign land, a brief glimpse into history can show us many examples of this.
Integration is okay but a peoples will to preserve their ethnicity and culture can also be respected without malice, it is not a pendulum like some believe. America had a good form in the 1950's, immigration was better handled, assimilation was also valued more so. When cultures stop respecting their own and let intruders dictate how they live, that is where problems begin.
I feel Eurabia will be an interesting view into the failures of '
multiculturalism' and unreasonable immigration policies. Europe was a beautiful example of many ethnic groups inhabiting their own and fostering unique interesting cultures of human achievement. The boundaries of European culture are not being respected, a few countries are currently being flooded willingly, and I cannot say for certain that it will be too pretty in the coming decades.