Patriotism and racism 
 
This is the second part or 'babies still cry'. 
 
In the early stage of human development, a group of people (a 
family, a tribe, a village or a country) would invade other 
groups of people to survive, to secure scarce resources for 
survival or to enrich their resources for their own better 
living. 
 
The conquered might lose what they had, or even became 
slaves. To prevent themselves being conquered, they must 
defend their group as a whole. I believe this was how 
patriotism originated. 
 
Now conquest by armed invasion is no longer accepted by 
mankind at large. Therefore I am here to question the validity 
of advocating patriotism. 
 
1. The advocating of patriotism leads to xenophobia. We all 
know the world is a small globe we have to share to survive, 
why should we set up borders and protect them vigorously 
even we know there is no body going to enslave us? I 
understand that humans are not capable of maintaining order 
without law and confinements (borders) yet, at least we can 
admit the purpose of modern country is to make the village 
earth manageable by not fully evolved humankind. The 
existence of the organisation has a practical meaning. If we 
ignore the practical side and put too much feelings into it, it 
would be false proud. History has shown that a population 
filled with false proud could be manipulated by persons of 
wicked ambition. Remember how Hitler led the Germans to 
mass destruction. 
 
2. It is a form of racism. There is a dominant race in most 
countries. The culture, the ideology, and the interests of the 
dominant race, are so often the interests of the country. It 
lures people to think that a particular culture (often their 
own) is superior to others, hence their country and race are 
superior too. In fact, every culture (total way of life) has its 
own importance in the flow of human history, in the past, 
present, or the future. 
 
3. The next stage of human evolvement is unity. Heritage, no 
matter originates from which part of the world, is part of 
HUMAN HERITAGE for all human beings to share. 
Patriotism limits people's sight on a particular point of the 
world, focusing on one's surroundings, rather than urging 
people to look far and beyond, knowing the world as a whole.  
 
4. Marxism is claimed to be the ideology of communist 
countries. But the dictators of these countries never told 
their people the fact that Marx clearly saw the fault of 
patriotism. One of Marx's famous idea is "workers have no 
country", a direct denouncing of patriotism. Why? Because 
the dictators know patriotism is the most convenient tool of 
suppression: any thing against their rule is "unpatriotic", any 
one against them is a "traitor"; and the best of it is, every body 
is brought up to hate "traitors" because they believe 
patriotism a virtue. 
 
I invite all forms of discussion. Please send email.