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I think we all [americans] think we're a special country. But the question is, what - what call does that give us?
The best way to be GLOBAL is to be LOCAL
Another Country,
Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.
American Muse, whose strong and diverse heart So many men have tried to understand But only made it smaller with their art, Because you are as various as your land.
Homeland is not a blot on a map but the living essence of man
Somebody
who's passionate about life and does
their own thing.
There's no question I am an idealist, which is another way of saying 'I am an American.'
In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence. Convincing cases have been made to show that all great art is provincial in the sense of reflecting a place, a time, and a Zeitgeist.
'Time' is an internationalist publication catering to internationalist readers who are not only interested in their own backyard.
Place is character. And all writing is regional.
I am a Westerner of Westerners!
What am I doing here, what is the point of these smiles and gestures? My home is neither here nor elsewhere. And the world has become merely unknown landscape where my heart can lean on nothing. Foreign - who can know what this word means?
To know yourself is to know where you're from
Foreigner is a word created by guilt and the fears, ignorance, and weaknesses of your own ego.
A U.S. of modern A. where the State is not a team or a code, but a sort of sloppy intersection of desires and fears, where the only public consensus a boy must surrender to is the acknowledged primacy of straight-line pursuing this flat and short-sighted idea of personal happiness.
I'm a traditionalist.
Futilitarianism.
If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me.
neighborhood - his name's pronounced 'Kirry,' but it's spelt 'C-i-r-e.'
An annibaptist is a thing I am not a member of:I am a Pisplikan just now & a Prisbeteren at Kercaldy my native town which thugh dirty is clein in the country.
Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.
I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.
A proud Jew after all that had happened to them over a period of history, for geography.
Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.
We believe that the local church is a community of regenerated believers who confess Jesus Christ as Lord, and that the universal church is all of God's people in all times and places.
People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be great, but the foreigner must deny that he has any outstanding virtue - this is what will endear him to the locals.
Have concern about where you're from, where you live, and where you may travel. The village is global.
These transnationalists have little need for national loyalty, view national boundaries as obstacles that thankfully are vanishing, and see national governments as residues from the past whose only useful function is to facilitate the elite's global operations
What does he stand for?
Instead of a homeland I hold the metamorphoses of the world.
You could say that we are living in an internally globalized country.
An American is insubmissive, lonely, self-educated, and polite.
"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations.
We know that art is connected with the land, with its salt, with its smell, that outside of national culture there is no art. Cosmopolitanism - a world in which things lose their color and form, and words lose their significance. We love in our past all that we consider native, wonderful and fair.
It is typical, in America, that a person's hometown is not the place where he is living now but is the place he left behind.
A translator, caught in the space between two tongues. Such people tend to come a little bit unglued from the task of trying to convey meaning from one code to the other. The transfer is never safe, the meaning changes in the channel - becomes tinted, adulterated, absurd, stronger.
I am an isolationist.
Upon the civilization of the world. The best one can do is to estimate, as intelligently as possible, the national characteristics of the peoples engaged,
NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.
All too easily, we confuse the world as we symbolize it with the world as it is. As semanticist Alfred Korzybski used to say, it is an urgent necessity to distinguish between the map and the territory and, he might have added, between the flag and the country.
Words are a homeland.
I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.
What species is he?" "British
Foreign visitors ... how impressed you all are with foreign visitors! But they come in many different varieties.
As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work.
When you live in a country where your own language is considered foreign, you can feel a continuous sense of estrangement. You speak a secret, unknown language, lacking any correspondence to the environment. An absence that creates a distance within you.
[A]n unpleasant nest of nasty, materialistic and aggressive people, careless of the rights of others, imperfectly democratic at home though quick to see the minor slaveries of others, and greedy without end.
UNIVERSALIST, n. One who forgoes the advantage of a Hell for persons of another faith.
The recognition of a distinct 'national identity' among members of the Body of Christ can keep before us our ties with Christians who live under different secular governments, with whom we have bonds that transcend and override our commitments to governments and groups outside the church.
An American store is generally a very extensive apartment, handsomely decorated, the roof frequently supported on marble pillars. The owner or clerk is seen seated by his goods, absorbed in the morning paper - probably balancing himself on one leg of his chair, with a spittoon by his side.
A Southerner, inferior.
In the particular lies the universal.
We're often told that we live in a globalized world, and we talk about it all the time, but people don't stop to think about what it means.
A strong Protectionist, believes
In everything but Heaven.
For entertainment, dines, receives,
Unmarried, 57.
Language is the only homeland.
To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
Laistry ... I can't even say that. What would you call them in English?"
"Canadians.
I'm a complete globalist. I think like a global CEO. But I'm an American. I run an American company. But in order for GE to be successful in the coming years, I've gotta sell my products in every corner of the world.
The regional tags are often pejorative and dismissive. Don't think of place-bound stories, in other words, but of stories with a strong sense of place.
Our true nationality is mankind.
A relatively small and eternally quarrelsome country in Western Europe, fountainhead of rationalist political manias, militarily impotent, historically inglorious during the past century, democratically bankrupt, Communist-infiltrated from top to bottom.
I'm not defined by where I came from.
The artificial preservation of local identities is essential to tourism. In other words, the tourist represents both the attempt to transcend all borders and identities and the simultaneous attempt to fix the identities of non-Western subjects within its gaze.
I personally think of Linux development as being pretty non-localized, and I work with all the people entirely over e-mail - even if they happen to be working in the Portland area.
In Geneva, I was seen as an outsider. In the U.S., I was considered Eurotrash. And in London, I'm seen as an American.
Today, local economies are being destroyed by the pluralistic, displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.
In America, you have this kind of individualism and in the West, essentially, you have this individualism - this idea of my own personal fulfillment.
I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.
The world is your real country! Replace your local mind with the universal one!
I'm a one-nation Tory.
Cosmopolitanism emphasizes and is grounded in a _singular relationality between and among people
Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.
To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners.
American? Indian? I don't know what these words mean. In Italy, it is all about blood, family, where you come from. I'm asked where I am from. I'm from nowhere; I always was, but now I am happy knowing it.
Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
We are all 'foreigners' to [the remainder of: the human race minus our countrymen].
He is a foreigner, he is from nowhere, from everywhere, citizen of the world, cosmopolitan. Do not send him back to his origins.
To be native to a place we must learn to speak its language.
When 'my' and 'I' are gone, it is known as a state free of wrong beliefs (nirvikalp)!
I try to understand place on a deeper level than just the physical or environmental aspects. It includes cultural and intellectual forces, too. It's an inclusive approach that brings in many disciplines and sees place as a dynamic thing.
The national characteristics ... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in a place with which the ordinary tourist can get in touch just by sitting quite quietly over a glass of wine in a Paris bistro.
I am the enemy of anything parochial.
The strong belief that the interests of a particular nation-state are of primary importance. Also, the belief that a people who share a common language, history, and culture should constitute an independent nation, free of foreign domination.
The local paper is called the World.
The children of God should not have any other country here below but the universe itself, with the totality of all the reasoning creatures it ever has contained, contains, or ever will contain. That is the native city to which we owe our love.
We love the indomitable bellicose patriotism that sets you apart; we love the national pride that guides your muscularly courageous race; we love the potent individualism that doesn't prevent you from opening your arms to individualists of every land, whether libertarians or anarchists.
Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations.
We tend to think of the problems of globalization and cultural identity as peculiar to our times. In fact they are rooted in ancient problems of civic belonging.
I am local, rural, communal. And I find that the whole world is a community. We have made progress in asserting our local community rights globally. We shall continue to do so.
Mi-yammi! The extraordinary city, with its Judeo-Cubano population, its mix of surgical-appliance and sex-fetishist obsessions, takes the American melting pot past the boil. It represents pretty much everything Patrick J. Buchanan hates.
Think globally, act locally.
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
India Lima Yankee
The lost, the lonely, the bicultural misfits with a foot in two worlds and a place in neither.
There's no locality on the web - every market is a global market.
I am definitively not a 'universalist'".
~R. Alan Woods [2012]