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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
I don't think I've actually heard the term "un-Christian" before.
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I don't know how long that term has been around or who invented it, but searching for "unchristian" on Google gave me about 346,000 hits.
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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
"Un-American," on the other hand, seems to have entered common parlance in the American media. And sure enough, Google searches will turn up hundreds of thousands more hits of the latter term than they will the former. Moreover, I can't think of another country off the top of my head where they have a similar use of such a term. (i.e. "un-Canadian," "un-British," "un-French" (non-Francaise?), "un-Iraqi," you get the point.)
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When someone is accused of being "un-American" it's usually because the accuser believes the accused is acting against American interests or values. I'm pretty sure that such a concept exists in some other countries, even if it doesn't go by the name of "un-[insert name of country here]".
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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
While I agree that it could be an overstatement, I doubt it's the case. I would be a bit surprised to find someone I know who would disagree with me if I told them that I think America is a nationalist country.
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If true, that could say as much (or more) about the political views of the people you know as it does about the current political climate in America.
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Just like how Iraq was going to attack?
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No. More like how Japan
did attack on December 7th, 1941.
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Of course it's only natural to fight while being attacked, but this pre-emptive, with-you-or-without-you, with-us-or-against-us mode of handling things smacks of nationalism.
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It's more like unilateralism, which isn't necessarily a bad thing and isn't synonymous with nationalism. If somebody is attacking a nation or making credible threats to attack, it's silly to expect that nation to wait until others give the thumbs up before it defends itself.