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10/27/2007: "Caring for people requires ethnic nationalism"

Altruistic and warlike aspects of human nature may have a common origin. Altruism--benefiting fellow group members at a cost to oneself--and parochialism--hostility toward individuals not of one's own ethnic, racial, or other group--are common to human nature, but we don't immediately think of them as working together hand in hand. In fact the unexpected combination of these two behaviors may have enabled the survival of each trait according to new research.

[ Atomized modern people have nothing in common. Under a nationalist society, everyone is an extended family, so cooperation can occur. ]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071026173536.htm