I used to be a very nationalistic person growing up, and my feelings towards that happen to be the same as they are today about religion.
I feel that there are simply two routes to tolerance and peaceful living for human beings:
1) Preferred but impractical (hard to believe everyone can achieve this and even a minority not achieving it can create problems): go beyond our borders to learn about other people's culture and/or religion, and understand them as we do our own. Only doing that will we grow to respect them and enrich our own views.
2) The only practical solution in today's world (because of the inability to do the above): Leave culture and religion in a second degree to a secular/global vision of the world (probably following a liberal mindset) where we put our commonalities ahead of our differences and we see ourselves as citizens of the world (and not of a particular country or members of a particular religion).
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