was away
Hey everyone,
i was out of brussels for a week. it was gorgeous. Back to Germany, Fulda. conference with many smart heads from former soviet space, reunions, tough debates, nice convos, bloody brilliant to be back to fulda for a while, with so many compatriots (i mean CIS)
back in Brussels... started raining immediately after i got off the train, in the morning i could hear loud noises, traffic, someone screaming something in french... rain dropping on the window... i woke up, in brussels.
new week in brussels: caught a cold, feeling rubbish, trying to work from home, on the same thesis, with less and less enthusiasm
top: last tuesday, reception of the Uzbek embassy... enjoyed watching various uzbek national dances, and eating uzbek national food... (bloody word 'national', i start disrespecting this word)
4 comments:
hehehehe.. national food, national dance, national costumes, national here and national there.. la la la.. viva la nationale.. =P
this is so boring that every spot on the earth has to be nationalised, and have a national anthem, national flag, and note that the flags don't differ much, i mean if u change the position of russian and french, belgian and german (vertically horisontally, or top-down) they are gonna be identical, i mean hello, where is creativity? this is a bloody harmonisation...
in the contrary, the 'national' sense of belonging within the EU members, like it or not, is growing increasingly day by day as a backlash of the 'oneness' offer from Brussels. More books and articles offer the 'national' identity overview; "everything about Britain", "history of Ireland", "all you need to know about Holland", "Facts about Germany" and so on and so forth. On one side, some countries attempt to be part of the "global society", where boundaries no longer exist. On the other side, backfire also appears which, we all witness, manifested in such books and articles about 'national' identity.
well, nation-hood as a concept emerged in europe in the 16th century, if i am not mistaken. then the nation-building concept... i dont think it is a success everywhere... many regions have been divided into a disasterously hostile entities, who think being nationalistic or schovinistic is being patriotic..., look at Central Asia. it is only a couple of decades ago that central asian states were built, now each of them have nationalistic antient histories of their own, which at times shape a hostile attitude to the neighbours...
but you are right about european nationalism... it cant be even questioned, it is a universal truth out of debate...
i just mean that in CA it was mission impossible, and many attempts at the moment to make states cooperate on a regional bases results in "error... please restart the system"...
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