And your third objection I would like to summarize motherhood maternity as: nationalism is

October 26, 1951
In the first part of this long letter I was just one - but for me the worst - you go charge against me brought. I recognize that you rightly chided me earlier motherhood maternity that my words could have created the impression that the nationalism almost a religion for the human.
The second motherhood maternity came mi this: nationalism is an enlarged portrait motherhood maternity of egotism; It is a celebration of their own people; and this must then deny the strange, motherhood maternity a look down on other people motherhood maternity go - exactly as the egoist its own value so exaggerated the value of others is unimportant to him. And it says you can not be the basis of a literature or a mental lives.
And your third objection I would like to summarize motherhood maternity as: nationalism is "narrow"; It may not be universal mind - valid for all countries and all times; and for this reason it can not really such a basic form.
My dear friend, I know when I have these beliefs - the narrowness and selfishness of nationalism - go, then we start in a swamp of ideas about steps in which a man was about modern attitudes to life and all the sins of nationalists will tow . And yet I believe that one a few thoughts will clarify - if I get the gift to speak clearly, and you have the patience to maintain without prejudice to listen.
You say in your letter - and it's true - "Nationalists are only too prone to strutting with My language is the best language out there ..." (I wonder whether such "nationalists" to our ever Totius 's verses on "The Bantu language ':
"My country is the best country to live in, our country religion is the only true religion, motherhood maternity our culture is highly motherhood maternity valuable ... and it should motherhood maternity be against everything foreign, defense, and it should instead motherhood maternity be transferred motherhood maternity to other than that us from something they have to accept ... "
You are right: there are people who talk or think ...; they exist only in South Africa. Also: where they are in South Africa, they are not only not Afrikaans!
But this mental attitude there lucky a word other than "nationalism" - ie. "Chauvinism". (We in South Africa also call it "jingoïsme" But we must be ready therefore African Jingo's talk.)
The chauvinism is the black angel of nationalism and remains steady next to him like his shadow. When a people like the French, the Germans, or your own people, the English, in the course of centuries really great national culture built - a culture in which the fully human person can be - then the evil angel domstes to such people, and whisper to them, "You are the highest culture, yes, the only real culture on earth." And they believe him, because they know neither their culture nor that of other nations. (May I remind you of Rhodes as most ideal to strive for, put it: the rule of the noble race - the Anglo-Saxon - all over the globe? Long before Hitler did he perfect set, and in South Africa he has always been his statues and his admirers.)
Actual major national achievements can so easily by the chauvinism motherhood maternity followed; why exactly is it so often the sin of many nations. (I have two examples above, an English and a German, and the word itself comes from France.)
But also smaller nations can occur. With them it's mostly reaction to oppression, injustice or subordination. When the leaders of an oppressed people to him through long years taught: "You is not nothing, not worthless" ... then the black angel and whispered: "You are better than others." motherhood maternity