richard5za wrote:FishbellykanakaDude wrote:How to Divide the World
What reaction would this elicit in the Public Square?
This is a form of Youth Church, and many older people too. I love this. Can be very popular as a feeling of together; a feeling of goodness, belonging. Another good example is Catholic World Youth event; more than a million people together at mass. Even at Vatican square mass on big occasion; when 300 000 people say Amem' together its a very special feeling
Uh, yeah,.. it is, sorta...
It's actually "just" a summer school program (
https://lurgan.biz/) in the Indreabhán gaeltacht (gaeilge/irish speaking area), of some three weeks in length where the kids MUST speak the language (gaeilge) exclusively, for full immersion.
It IS an inspirational program, that's for sure. If only there'd been such a thing when I was a kid,.. and we had 1400 Euros (in dollars 'cuz I'm in the US) to spend,.. and I'd have been practicing my gaeilge for a few years, which I hadn't.
Anyway,.. the real point I was illustrating is that a very nationalistic (reviving a nearly dead national language is about as wholesomely nationalistic as you can get) program like this, if run in the US, for example, would LARGELY be seen as a fascist white nationalist "movement".
Yes, that WOULD BE transplanting the program out of it's "national boundary" (and into the US), which might sort of "denature" it in terms of it's "nationalism", but as long as anyone with the interest and moderate practice of the gaeilge could get into the program, why would it be "justifiably" accused of being a white nationalist front?
The point is that it just simply WOULD be so accused, and for the simple reason that "busy-bodies" are actively looking for things to complain about, regardless of how good they are for "minority" (Gaeilge interested) people and the surrounding communities as well.
More DEEP nationalism is needed for each group of people within the larger society, so that they can learn to appreciate others natural "diversity" of culture.