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Nationalism is just dumb.
That's all that needs to be said.
Although it's worth noting that nationalism not only pulls us into conflict, but prevents us from helping those in need exactly through sentiments like this:
Where do you draw the line? Your neighbours in your street or town, your cousins, your siblings, your children, your wife? Who should you care for over and above you?
This is a hugely difficult question to answer, but the idea that we have a stronger moral obligation to support people in the Lake District after a winter of flooding than refugees living in terrible conditions in Calais certainly seems wrong to me.
Nationalism is just dumb. We're at the 100 year anniversary of some of the greatest losses of life due to wars fought by nationalism and one of the most telling things in all of the letters from the frontlines, the poems, the art... isn't that anyone, at all, died for King & Country... they fought and died not for the nation, but because of their family, their friends.
Nothing in that mentions racial background, language, passport (let's not even get started on the fact that the passport is an essentially modern invention that only really has gained it's current status since World War 2), religious beliefs, gender, shoe size, preference for wearing mustard trousers or any other factor.
People don't die for nations, they die because rich people with power send them off to war, and in the midst of that war they fight to preserve the things they love, which ultimately are friends and family, the person in the trench next to them... not country.
Muhammed Ali had it spot on when he declined to go to Vietnam:
The only war is class war. It's always been true, but the ones who suffer the most are blind to the underlying root cause.