The article Bullets and Borders gives us such an example over in the village of Pervomayskoye, where the Chechen separatists, who had taken innocent hostages, were beaten to a pulp by the Russian army. The Chechen were ready to take the lives of others or give their own for their own country, and the latter is how it turned out. Now, they do have a right to seek their own country; land on our planet is being broken down into smaller and smaller nationalized states. However, it has become a deadly addiction for everyone who wants it, and it is turning into nothing but bloody chaos.

For me, I don't even feel a need to read the article to explain if national identity is real or imagine

Well I guess I'll focus on some good aspects of nationalism before I shift back to the bad. Nationalism can be a very useful tool. It never hurts anybody at all to dream of living in a country where their culture is preserved, and it is a right to be able to look into this even further. Nationalism can be what establishes healthy pride in a country, makes friendly competition that much more exciting, and it defines the unique cultural groups that make up this thriving planet. No one can tell me that the Olympics would be better of if Team Canada's hockey teams didn't stand to their anthem. It gives not only a feeling of belonging, but also unity. As I was also mentioning, though, it can be over used and abused. War is taking it to the extremes, but it is right to place as much blame on the people denying the right to separate as it is to put it on this who rebel. We were given mouths for a reason, but sometimes people fail to use them rationally to solve their problems. It can be taken too far, when it turns

I can not sit here and say that nationalism is outdated. How can the need for a country that cherishes your own culture be outdated? People sometimes believe that separatists want to separate just for the fun of it, do things their own way, as if it were payback for bad treatment. No matter what alternatives there are, nationalism would not even be an issue if we could all just get along and accept each other. Honestly, why can't we? Why can't Israel and Pakistan just share land, share resources, or follow what is already there? Why did Iraq have to do what it did to people; why couldn't Saddam Hussein just lead a country? The song Imagine by John Lennon, without a doubt, applies to nationalism fully. God rest his soul, all he wanted was for people to get along; to worry less about borders and worry more about becoming one united planet. Martin Luther King Jr. once said that if a man has nothing to die for, he is not fit to live, but would John Lennon's view of the world bett

Some topics in this essay:
Pervomayskoye Chechen, Middle East, Kenichi Ohmae, Team Canada's, John Lennon's, Nationhood Nationalism, John Lennon, Canadian Forces, Israel Pakistan, King Jr, national identity, own country, seek own, own culture,