User:NikoSilver/Nationality quiz
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You are proud of your country "X", your heritage, your culture, your religion, your values, your education. At the same time, you feel somewhat sorry and puzzled for what the neighboring semi-hostile country "Y's" people may feel. You consider their country arrogant or stuck-in-the-mud, their heritage pompus or zilt, their culture hypocritical or stolen, their religion outdated or inflammatory, their values antagonistic or barbaric, and their education propagandistic.[1]
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This page in a nutshell: Nationalism may serve the opposite cause, for more reasons than you may think... |
A new DNA ancestry identifier device is invented. You happen to know your family tree to -say- your great-grandfathers, so you go ahead and try to see where your "real roots" start. The results delay for a week, during which you picture your forefathers as some relatives to your known national heroes.[2] You imagine that the blood of your country's leaders runs in your veins. You feel that you must have great relation to great men or women in your X country's history.
When the results arrive, you anxiously open the envelope. You find out that your great-great-grandfather and your great-great-grandmother were actually members of the ethnic group Y. Digging back, you see that more and more of your ancestors are from that other "rival" ethnic group. The results are clear: You are 95% "Y" and 5% unrelated. Your not-so-distant ancestors were speaking Y, they were faithful to the Y religion, they had Y values, Y culture, Y heritage and they even fought to maintain those values against your(?) X country and specifically against the heroes[2] you thought you related to. Actually, they are considered the heroes[3] of that "rival" ethnic group.
What do you do?[4]