<p>I love how by page 3 none of the posts have anything to do with the OP</p>
<p>I haven’t read Galapagos next. The other book I own by him that I haven’t read is Breakfast of Champions.</p>
<p>Mapleleafs, what’s your teacher’s opinion on IRA?</p>
<p>^ Irish Republican Army? We haven’t covered that yet, though I imagine she’d dislike their terrorist tendencies. (?)</p>
<p>or do you mean Roth IRA? :b</p>
<p>EDIT: lol I see what you mean. I made that opinion by myself. Hypothetically though, if Irish unity means political subjugation for the Protestants in Ulster (as was the fear in Pakistan), it would not be fitting</p>
<p>I can’t claim to be up in modern Irish history though, nor do I really understand the purpose of the post-independence Civil War</p>
<p>Irish Republican Army. I ask because all educators seem to have something against them (like calling them terrorists!) but where I went to school none of our history classes acknowledged any good nationalism. Anything that didn’t involve genocide they basically just called not nationalism. </p>
<p>If you can’t tell I have a low opinion of my history teachers. Atleast in that aspect.</p>
<p>lol sorry for multiple edits. I was mostly basing this on my huge dislike for Bismarck (why I said “bad nationalism” - very biased) compared to my favorable opinion of German romanticism, Hambachfest, and, as I said, the Hamburg Congress.</p>
<p>Patriotism - good
Nationalism - sometimes good, sometimes not
Ethnocentrism - always bad</p>
<p>^^So, Maple, do you like Sturm und Drang? </p>
<p>What this thread is actually about: Normally, I’ve realized, I like nationalism in places that aren’t autonomous, independent states (Scotland, for example) and dislike it in places that are.</p>
<p>I’m more of a Caspar Friedrich guy myself</p>