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by krastanov
2769 days ago
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Is it fair to call it "nationalism" though. That word has a bit too many meanings, but universally it includes the idea of doing something on your own in a selfish fashion. The desire to be independent from an oppressive regime is orthogonal to nationalism. I am saying this as a Bulgarian citizen, one of the beneficiaries of the fall of the Ottoman empire (the Ottoman government was very oppressive to my people for centuries up until 150 years ago). It is not selfish nationalism that liberated us, it was the desire to stop being abused by a conqueror. |
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