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Is this person correct? Are most people in China and Vietnam intensely nationalistic and patriotic? (lemmygrad.ml)

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Also, I always wondered, do most people in China, Vietnam and other socialist countries identify as communist?

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[–] Babs@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

American nationalism is bad because we use it to further justify our oppression of the rest of the world. Nationalism for Vietnamese and Chinese people was a tool to unite and kick out colonizers, which is good. Nationalism among marginalized people in America is a tool to fight oppression, which is also good.

Nationalism is bad when it does bad things, and good when it does good things. This is just hard to see as western leftists when the form we witness most often is the really bad "let's oppress people more" kind.