IT IS to be hoped that the Scottish people can rise above the passionate nationalism that Geoff Robb calls for (Letters, August 16).
Currently we have a surfeit of such passion, as we see the cruel effects of Israeli nationalism, Russian nationalism, North Korean nationalism, and the petty nationalisms in Iraq, and Syria and Libya and the Ukraine.
As the old rhyme points out: “Large fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bit ’em, little fleas have lesser fleas and so ad infinitum.”
Will Mr Robb welcome Orcadian nationalism?, which we are told might follow Scottish independence .
A nation can be proud of its culture without requiring political boundaries. What the world badly needs is a greater acceptance of the Brotherhood of Man; peaceful co-existence worldwide requires us to have wider horizons not narrower horizons.
Maurice Vassie, Deighton, York.
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