Elizabeth
先輩
- 22 Apr 2003
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If shame by association is the opposite of pride by association, I can easily conjure up 'counterfactual' scenarios that I would have been ashamed to have been born into. There are obviously countries, communities, families that are so undesirable, immoral, degenerate, beyond the pale etc and that have the potential to torment a person and warp their identity so badly, regardless of their individual gifts and ability to rise above terrible material circumstances, that the struggle of dealing with that 'baggage' then practically defines the individual their entire life.
Which is more or less how I reason from humiliation at one's roots back to national pride. One is nothing more than the flip side of the other. Although it probably all has much more to do with the positive or negative perceptions of outsiders than anything inherent to the situation itself...
Which is more or less how I reason from humiliation at one's roots back to national pride. One is nothing more than the flip side of the other. Although it probably all has much more to do with the positive or negative perceptions of outsiders than anything inherent to the situation itself...