Martin Perring

Orca Collaborator

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@Arbeitologist He’s an extremely readable writer and people get into all sorts of messes by misunderstanding second hand accounts

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@klinovp @postsocialismus Explaining and not overloading is good. Cramming everything not great. But honestly children should be learning at least one foreign language at primary school age imo. Ideally an instrument too

The cognitive benefit is rather clear

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@g1327462 @Madame_Ennui Franks weren’t even the majority group in the Frankish kingdom

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@g1327462 @S2Cigst @Madame_Ennui Homer does not once use the word Hellas.

Early medieval England was multi ethnic and completely fractured. Do you mean late medieval by any chance?

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@g1327462 @Madame_Ennui Gatt argues against ethnic identity being a social construct but sees it a genetic predisposition. This is his main disagreement with Anderson

Both understand that there was a fundamental change when modern nationalism emerged. A awaking

Risks becoming a language game

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@g1327462 @Madame_Ennui Using "nation" here as proof of an ethnic state is anachronistic. natio meant the elite class of princes and electors with political rights, not the population. It described who owned the political property, not a shared cultural identity after the loss of Italian territories

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@g1327462 @Madame_Ennui Pre-18th c. ethnic ties existed, but Kingdoms operated on dynastic loyalty. Look at army structures: they weren't national forces, but feudal vassals, foreign mercenaries, and criminals emptied from jails. They fought for a King, not a nation

Nationalism made total war possible

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@klinovp @throeng @postsocialismus You can be unable to write in your own language tbh.

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@PennyGongo @Madame_Ennui Well because we are virtually all nationalists now. We define ourselves by our nation state and nationalist identity

Expressions of nationalism, within existing nation states, is almost always jingoistic

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@klinovp @postsocialismus Forcing your kids into learning things they don’t want to is not bad parenting necessarily. It can teach them to learn.

Learning things is hard and very frustrating. That discipline does not come naturally to most people

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@klinovp @postsocialismus Yes I have seen something similar with piano classes and my much younger half brother.

But he now knows how to play music at a young age. This opens up many possibilities and almost certainly has benefits in grey matter development

The struggle is the point

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@olgakhazan Raising your kid’s bilingual is one of the greatest gifts you can give you children. Does not matter what the languages are.

New languages open up new worlds, and provide understanding of the limits of translation and variety of the human mind

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@jzux Went here by accident, it’s a little swanky but still affordable. By far the best meal I have had in Barca

https://t.co/izwuVTPSj5

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@Madame_Ennui @Rflohv2 But we still live in this transformative, revolutionary idea. With a long tail of consequences. One of the transformative social technologies

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@Madame_Ennui @Rflohv2 Yes, although the imperial nationalism stems from a progressive ideal. The sort that caused the French Revolution

While the oppressed nationalism, leads to resistance from subjection, it has also lead to ethnic cleansing.

There isn’t a clean moral divide here. 1/2

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@Madame_Ennui It is also imo inevitably reactionary in the end. Once it’s progressive ideals have been realised

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@Madame_Ennui Indeed, however modern democracy is also a product of nationalism and the idea of nation states and peoples. So we need to be careful in seeing nationalism as a purely reactionary phenomenon

Rather it’s a revolutionary one that’s an alternative to kingdoms

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@0ldstories There was still plenty of Indian migrants then. UK has a long history of south Asian migrants

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@0ldstories https://t.co/U677OCjjqa

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@citadel_ops @0ldstories You are living in the USA, of course you wouldn’t understand this