Nationalism

NY Times: How Nationalism Can Destroy a Nation - Citizens must have things in common and must also agree to forget many other things. By Lewis Hyde - Mr. Hyde is the author of “A Primer for Forgetting.”

What must citizens forget before a nation becomes a nation? Ethnic differences, for one thing: “No French citizen knows whether he is a Burgund, an Alain, a Taifala, or a Visigoth,” Renan said.