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| | Opinion: Why patriotism is not necessarily healthy, News, Germany, Expatica |
 | | However, in the same way that an individual can rid herself of feelings of insecurity without necessarily becoming arrogant, the fact that one should not feel guilt about one's country does not necessarily entail that one should have patriotic feelings instead. |
 | | In this sense, supranational organisations are imposing a new kind of monopoly on violence, preventing war between nation states in the same way that a national monopoly on violence prevents civil or inter-tribal war. |
 | | Perhaps these two developments, the relationship of the individual to a supranational organisation like the EU and the relationship of expats to their country of residence, point the way to a new kind of relationship to the nation state, one which does not hold the dangers of traditional patriotism. |
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