05/22/2016
Re: Steve Sailer’s blog post Is Nationalism Really Only Two Centuries Old?
From: A Canadian Reader
Steve Sailer writes
“English nationalism catalyzed French nationalism as a defensive reaction against English predation (notice that Henry V is giving his do or die speech about once more unto the breach speech not on English soil, but on the Continent)”Steve has forgotten an earlier manifestation of nationalism — the Battle of Bannockburn. Nationalism in Europe may be dated from the Scottish Wars of Independence, where Sir William Wallace (Braveheart) made a specific appeal to Scottish nationalism, and Robert the Bruce kicked it into touch, as it were — 1296-1328, coupled with the Declaration of Arbroath, a full century before Henry V and Agincourt.
Scottish Nationalists Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon tried to evoke this history during the recent referendum.
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