1.0 link 24373 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thomas-de-zengotita/thoughts-about-patriotism_b_24373.html I remember arguing with Noam Chomsky about this back in the mid-'70s. I was trying to identify a certain level of patriotism, something short of nationalism, that I wanted to call natural and inherently admirable. He was skeptical, of course, but when I got it down to the level of locality and accident, he was much more open to it. The bonding that happens between people thrown together in a situation -- everything from summer camp to members of the...

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