Thread: your historical background

Results 21 to 40 of 95

  1. #21
    Join Date Jul 2002
    Location califas
    Posts 918
    Rep Power 16

    Default

    great words kahoe, great words.
    Yo soy un caracol
  2. #22
    Join Date Oct 2002
    Posts 2,924
    Rep Power 18

    Default

    Why should you be pride on a nationality. A country is formed by boundrys wich are just lines drawn by argueging politicians. Im 100%afgan. Born '86 in moscow from communist parents(something to be proud of!!)Im not proud of my nationality or any nationality cause that would be nationalism and nationalism is one of the greatest opponents of uniting the world.
    Let no one charge that socialists have arrayed class against class in this struggle. That has been done long since in the evolution of capitalist society. One class is small and rich and the other large and poor....One consists of capitalists and the other of workers. These two classes are at war. Every day of peace is at the expense of labor. There can be no peace and good will between these two essentially antagonistic economic classes. - Debs
  3. #23
    Join Date Nov 2002
    Location canada
    Posts 370
    Rep Power 16

    Default

    Mitad canadiense mitad "jarocho" Mexicano
    <span style=\'font-size:14pt;line-height:100%\'><u>St. Patrick&#39;s Breastplate</u></span>
    I arise today
    Through the strength of Heaven;
    Light of sun,
    Radiance of moon,
    Splendor of fire,
    Speed of lightning,
    Swiftness of wind,
    Depth of Sea,
    Stability of earth,
    Firmness of Rock.

    I arise today
    Through God&#39;s strength to pilot me,
    God&#39;s might to uphold me,
    God&#39;s wisdom to guide me,
    God&#39;s eye to look before me,
    God&#39;s ear to hear me,
    God&#39;s word to speak for me,
    God&#39;s hand to guard me.

  4. #24
    Join Date Jul 2002
    Location califas
    Posts 918
    Rep Power 16

    Default

    cool avatar MEXCAN
    Yo soy un caracol
  5. #25
    Join Date Nov 2002
    Location canada
    Posts 370
    Rep Power 16

    Default

    thanks
    <span style=\'font-size:14pt;line-height:100%\'><u>St. Patrick&#39;s Breastplate</u></span>
    I arise today
    Through the strength of Heaven;
    Light of sun,
    Radiance of moon,
    Splendor of fire,
    Speed of lightning,
    Swiftness of wind,
    Depth of Sea,
    Stability of earth,
    Firmness of Rock.

    I arise today
    Through God&#39;s strength to pilot me,
    God&#39;s might to uphold me,
    God&#39;s wisdom to guide me,
    God&#39;s eye to look before me,
    God&#39;s ear to hear me,
    God&#39;s word to speak for me,
    God&#39;s hand to guard me.

  6. #26
    Join Date Sep 2002
    Location Venezuela
    Posts 845
    Rep Power 16

    Default

    My granparents from my mother's side are of spanish origin fron the canarie islands.My granparents from my father's side are syrian.They were all venezuelan but I was was born in Paraguay and returned to Venezuela wen I was 3.I'm very proud of my heritage.
    Muere lentamente quien no viaja,

    quien no lee,

    quien no escucha música,

    quien no halla encanto en sí mismo.

    Muere lentamente

    quien destruye su amor propio;

    quien no se deja ayudar.
  7. #27
    Join Date Nov 2002
    Location New Jersey, USA
    Posts 1,511
    Rep Power 17

    Default

    I'm American born to two Black Parents. I feel a great amount of pride in myself, and the gains of all Black's around the world, but I also feel shame about some Black mindsets that still seem to remain from slavery. They'll go away though.

    2006 Still Under Occupation&#33;

    You can&#39;t get any movement larger than five people without including at least one fucking idiot.
    -<span style=\'color:green\'>Green</span> Mars
  8. #28
    Join Date Jul 2002
    Location West Britain
    Posts 4,177
    Organisation
    Department of Redundancy Department
    Rep Power 20

    Default

    canikickit,

    might you call it a "stronger connection" to ireland, rather than pride?



    I've been asleep for the last month, sorry. I think that is accurate, amybe. I do feel a strong connection with Ireland.

    once you witness his words and actions,only then can you rightly perceive whether he is indeed a man.
    Nicely put. However like i said above, I believe our nationality can shape the person we become.
    That is solely due to the fact that culture is a part of a nation. hmmmm....

    Why should you be pride on a nationality. A country is formed by boundrys wich are just lines drawn by argueging politicians.
    Not neccessarily. I live on an island. Also I know people who live on the British ruled part of this island who consider themselves Irish. Like Ciaran B (I presume). Nobody should ever forget that there are two meanings to "nationalism". One is inherently racist, the other just means you like a place, the place where you reside.

    (Edited by canikickit at 1:45 am on Nov. 13, 2002)
    -insert witty phrase in between two equals sign here-
  9. #29
    Join Date Mar 2002
    Location Stockholm
    Posts 4,068
    Organisation
    Committee for a Workers' International
    Rep Power 26

    Default

    I do agree that nationality can shape who we are but in history, nationalism has become more of a danger and connected with racism that us being proud of our culture and that is one reason I oppose it.
    There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror... --- Mark Twain
  10. #30
    mcleodstickle
    Guest

    Default

    born in shetland, moved to aberdeen, back to shetland, back to aberdeen again lol. My mum is from aberdeen, her parents are english, my dad is also from aberdeen as well as his parents, all other relations on my dads side are shetlanders though.

    I love shetland... im proud of... what i suppose is what you would my "culture". I love the doric language... which is shetland and aberdeen, but i dont know whether it is "pride" as many people have said before me.

    I dont wanna lose my heritage, and "culture" (of sorts) from shetland.

    But im def not a nationalist... i just love where i was born. Does that make sense??
  11. #31
    Join Date Feb 2002
    Location Colchester, Essex, UK
    Posts 1,932
    Rep Power 18

    Default

    Both my parents are English, but oddly enough, there's Irish blood in both of them. I'm 3/32nds Irish, and I think it shows when I go out. :biggrin:
    <span style=\'font-family:Geneva\'><span style=\'color:red\'>SOUS LES PAVÉS, LA PLAGE&#33;&#33;</span></span>
  12. #32
    Join Date Jul 2002
    Location West Britain
    Posts 4,177
    Organisation
    Department of Redundancy Department
    Rep Power 20

    Default

    From McLeodstickldgggf...
    But im def not a nationalist... i just love where i was born. Does that make sense??
    Absolutely.


    I'm 3/32nds Irish, and I think it shows when I go out.
    How dare you engage in racial stereotyping!
    -insert witty phrase in between two equals sign here-
  13. #33
    Join Date Nov 2002
    Posts 24
    Rep Power 0

    Default

    im italian. my grandparents are from sicily though i was born in the nations capital. i'll admit that im proud of my heritage and sport an italian flag. am i proud of everything my country's done, fuck no. who would be?
  14. #34
    Join Date Feb 2002
    Location Colchester, Essex, UK
    Posts 1,932
    Rep Power 18

    Default

    Quote: from canikickit on 11:54 pm on Nov. 13, 2002
    I'm 3/32nds Irish, and I think it shows when I go out.
    How dare you engage in racial stereotyping!
    Awh...fuck off you pisshead. :biggrin:
    <span style=\'font-family:Geneva\'><span style=\'color:red\'>SOUS LES PAVÉS, LA PLAGE&#33;&#33;</span></span>
  15. #35
    Join Date Nov 2002
    Location Kamloops Canada
    Posts 23
    Rep Power 0

    Default

    i was born in canada in the kootneys of british columbia, my moms side is french canadian with irish and scotist ( it hink tehy all are) but on my dads side is fully Latvian(Latvia) and during world war 2 my grandparents were at first with the USSR but fled with the nazis for feer of exicutions by stalin. my grandmother became a nurse and my grandfather became a communication lines repair man untill they both found refuge in britian wher they met and wher my fatehr was born then imigrated to canada
    \"Its not a matter of wishng success to the victum of aggression but of sharing his fate one must accompany him to death or to victory\"
    Che Guevara 1929 - 1967
    Welcome To Canada. Kick us in the ass and we will thank you for it tomoro
  16. #36
    Join Date Nov 2002
    Location BRASIL!
    Posts 41
    Rep Power 0

    Default

    Nasci no Brasil....
    Pais e avs sao daqui tambm...
    COmpletamente orgulhoso do meu pas...

    ...exceto pelo que ele fez ao Paraguai.

    Mas isso passado...
  17. #37
    Join Date Nov 2002
    Location Capitalist Hell, Finland
    Posts 84
    Rep Power 16

    Default

    I think it's absurd to be proud of the country you were born in.
    \"Socialism is not an ideology, it is a state of mind.\"
  18. #38
    Join Date Dec 2002
    Posts 97
    Rep Power 16

    Default

    im with you man of the cause..............
  19. #39
    Join Date Jul 2001
    Location Rhinish Council Republic
    Posts 6,131
    Rep Power 39

    Default

    Wow, you all have such a multi-cultural background, I'm jelous!
    I'm German, and my family is Germany since ever, I even have blue eyes and blond hair.
    "The proletariat, when it seizes power [...] should and must at once undertake socialist measures in the most energetic, unyielding and unhesitant fashion, in other words, exercise a dictatorship, but a dictatorship of the CLASS, not of a party or of a clique -- dictatorship of the class, that means in the broadest possible form on the basis of the most active, unlimited participation of the mass of the people, of unlimited democracy." - Rosa Luxemburg

    "An Rhein und Ruhr marschieren wir. / Für unsere Freiheit kämpfen wir! / Den Streifendienst, schlagt ihn entzwei! / Edelweiß marschiert – Achtung – die Straße frei!"

    Support RevLeft! Donate now!
  20. #40
    Join Date Dec 2001
    Location Glasgow,Scotland
    Posts 4,329
    Rep Power 21

    Default

    I am Glaswegian. My da was from Monaghan
    My ma glasgow.
    I love culture and only engage in the national question as far as it is a democratic question. I am particularly partial towards a plate of Irish stew followed by an Irish coffee and endless pints of guinness and some Irish music in the background. Thats a good day out.
    Man's dearest possession is life, and since it is given to him to live but once.He must so live that dying he can say, all my life and all my strength have been given to the greatest cause in the world, the liberation of mankind
    Ostrovski

    Muriel Spark:

    If I had my life to live over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.

Similar Threads

  1. historical materialism vs historical idealism
    By abbielives! in forum Theory
    Replies: 40
    Last Post: 18th June 2007, 18:58
  2. New Background
    By An archist in forum Cultural
    Replies: 30
    Last Post: 10th August 2006, 13:06
  3. Revolucion Background
    By RebeldePorLaPAZ in forum Cultural
    Replies: 8
    Last Post: 1st August 2004, 10:49

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts

Tags for this Thread