Can’t speak for other places, but I know in America “patriotism” a lot like a religion. Academics have even called it a “civil religion”. And a lot like religion here, being a good patriot and have quasi-religious reverence for the founding fathers is a way of signaling that you’re a good, moral person. Good people love America. It’s why Obama seeming to admit that the United States may have done anything wrong ever and implying that other countries *might* be as good as America was seen as a political blunder, at least among conservatives.
What goes through nationalist/traditionfags minds...
Jaxon Green
Matthew Rodriguez
You do not owe shit to them. They are dead and you concern yourself with what they would think.
Austin Young
You cant be "literaly your ancestors"
All scientists agree that nurture has either equal or bigger effect than dna
Easton Ramirez
Also humans are free thinking autonomous individuals with the ability to learn and make their own decisions.
Jason Taylor
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Camden Gray
They are nothing but shills for capitalism, they can dress it up anyway they like, ie. anti-political correctness. They know modern capitalism is in crisis, and want a cultural revolution to reaffirm its position. These people think that if they can replicate the social realities of the past (ie. all white neighborhoods, nuclear family) they can bring back the economic conditions.
John Campbell
Twin studies disagree
James Jones
because they have nothing else in their lives
Adam Martin
For /po/ it's pure LARP, since they're mainly lower middle class mulatos/mestizos. For bourgeoisie and petit buorgs, I would think it justifies the class system and economic exploitation. A typical thought in my country is that poor people "are [fundamentally] just not the same" as rich people. This is espoused by rich and many times by poor people as well. A big traditional value here is seeing rich people as elegant and refined, while everyone tries to pretend to be rich as much as their class permits. This permits the whole new rich vs old rich shit. Since whiter people have traditionally been "old-rich" this creates the "white american elegance" traditional value (or whatever country). It is important to note that this "nostalgia" is pure fantasy. The rich class merely puts on a facade of decency while being degenerate (according to their espoused values) in their private lives. Americans have been force fed fake images of it's own culture for decades. I wouldn't be surprised if their idea of their own cultural heritage is a complete fabrication.
Counter-evidence: your capitalist shithole country's education system didn't give you the mental faculties to understand materialism. What good is your (self-asserted) race and traditions if you have the mental capacity of a child?
Ryder Ramirez
Methodology of twin studies has been criticized for decades since other angles of research have had outright contradictory results at times.
In reality, "nature vs. nurture" is now considered a false dichotomy. Epigenetics is a major example.