Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
The US [..] has a stronger sense of national identity than European countries.
Call it 'sense of purpose' and we are in agreement. Purpose is forward looking, identity politics is stagnant, inward-looking and plain dumb.
Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
Ah, but now you reveal yourself to be an adherent of [..] a new, and 'better' post-national and multi-etnic identity.
I want to work for a better state and a better country, if that's what you mean. Yeah, I subscribe to that.

But a 'new multi-ethnic identity'? What is that? Does it imply that The Netherlands is at present mono-ethnic or something, and that it could or might be changed to multi-ethnic? Do you know how many people from all parts of the world have lived here, intermingled and built their own lives here for hundreds of years.

And pray, what exactly would it mean if I had a 'multi-ethnic identity'. Would I be part white, part black? Part Chinese, part Albanian? Hahaha. It's just fashionable nonsense.