Germany is so strange. when you aim for a multi-ethnic state that fights against all nationalism and bans the ideas of state=ethnos, how to form cohesion? what's the basis of your morality? no wonder people turn to ideologies that give them some kind of guidance like islam in a society devoid of all culture and standards.
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15When there's no national culture people turn to religion as a culture only.
@kaia
I imagine Germany like the Citadel in Mass Effect.
A place where cultures convene without an inherent culture of its own.
An agora, not a home.
That's mostly Berlin, though. The rest of Germany still has a bit to go.
if native germans returned to christiainity or even paganism that would restore cohesion unlike like this secular post-WW2 guilt that's been imposed
@kaia
civic nationalism:
Brings different people together, but real dissidents are enemies of the state by merely disagreeing on ideas (Liberalism is quite prescriptive on a lot of social things if you think through it)
ethnic nationalism:
May (or may not) be higher in diversity of thought, but disagreeing on skin color makes you an enemy of the state
Juche (Worker's Nationalism):
Just werkz