Types of Nationalism
Media
Part of Panorama
- Title
- Types of Nationalism
- Language
- English
- Source
- Panorama Volume XVII (Issue No.7) July 1965
- Year
- 1965
- Subject
- Nationalism
- Nation building
- Rights
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- Fulltext
- ■ Make your choice. TYPES OF NATIONALISM There are two kinds of nationalism, between which we must choose. The choice we make will reveal the kind of people we are and the di rection in which we want this country to go. One kind of nationalism: “The nationalism that savs I am the salt of the earth and everything that I am and have should be glorified is something to glorify. I have seen and heard enlightened Filipinos justifying our worst traits as a people and advo cating their preservation. We speak bloatedly about our virtues and our strengths, abotit our fierce and uncom promising pride, our place in the Asiatic sun, and yet in the next instant breath, as if driven by compulsive schizophrenia, we are quick to go begging around from anybody, especially America, for any project that our re sourceful genius can think of.” The other kind of nation alism: July 1965 “Nationalism is a tremen dous transforming force be cause it makes a people cons cious of its inner strength, which, harnessed in full flood, and channelled in the right direction, can make a people truly great. The sense of oneness and consensus, the sense of high destiny that refuses to be stilled until it attains fulfillment — this force, if rightly understood, can move mountains. Na tionalism preserves the good and rejects the bad of what is one’s own. It is ready to appropriate anything that comes from whatever source as long as it adds to the na tive strength. Anything from the outside that will weaken us we must reject, and any thing from the . inside that has the same weakening ef fect we must jettison.” Evolving theory in making the choice: "We must forever debate the all-important subject of selectivity. We must be se lective of what to accept and id what to reject. The law to abide by is continuous discri minating selectivity internal ly and externally of past and present. Never mind the fu ture. If the present is taken care of the future will take care of itself.” Comment: “We can either harness nationalism and be lifted by it, or we can pros titute it and by it be cursed — and, therefore, by it pe rish.” — Rex D. Drilon, Ma nila Bulletin. FATHER DONATES KIDNEY TO DAUGHTER Because it was “something a father ought to do,” John Honeycutt donated a kidney in a deli cate transplant operation to his teenage daughter so she might live. Jonnie Gail Honeycutt, 14, and her 48-year-old father John were doing well after the surgery. A tulane university surgical team which has performed numerous kidney transplants, including several animal-to-human operations, transferred a healthy kidney from father to daughter. Jonnie Qail was slowly dying of a kidney ail ment. Doctors felt a transplant was her best chance. Doctors made no prediction on the possible success of the operation. But in two similar cases where transplants from close relatives were involv ed the patients are in good condition after more than one year. Jonnie Gail will be under close observation for at least two years. Her father will not be able to go back to work as a foundryman for about two months. — U.P.I. 20 Panorama