patriotisme: hug de St Victor

Davant una Europa que es diu defensora dels valors cristians, i ja veiem com va la politització davant unes eleccions, ens hem acordar de Hug de St Victor, que sí tenia més clar això d'estimar, i compartir i perdonar.

Per exemple:
“És una font de gran virtut aprendre primer, xino-xano, en les persones exercitades a cambiar en les coses visibles i transitòries, de manera que més endavant puga ser capaç de deixar-les. És un delicat aprenent aquell que trobe dolça la seva pàtria; fort serà qui trobe que tota terra és com la nativa; però veritablement perfecte és aquell que trobe el món sencer com a lloc estrany. El primer fixa el seu amor pel món en només espai, el segon eixample el seu amor per tots els llocs, el perfecte ha aniquilat el seu.”
Hugonis de Sancto Victore Didascalicon. Liber tertius. Caput xix. De exsilio.

(Trobat per serendipity a Cultura e imperialismo d'Edward E. Said 1993)



At the other end of the string: frança i anglaterra. el conegut xovinisme i el no tant jingoisme.

French chauvinisme, from Nicolas Chauvin, character noted for his excessive patriotism and devotion to Napoleon in Théodore and Hippolyte Cogniard's play La Cocarde tricolore (1831)
First Known Use: 1851

Frequently used either as an expression of jingoism (extreme patriotism), in the sense “I will stand by my country whether it be right or wrong”

Jingoism is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as "extreme patriotism in the form of aggressive foreign policy".[1] In practice, it refers to the advocation of the use of threats or actual force against other countries in order to safeguard what they perceive as their country's national interests, and colloquially to excessive bias in judging one's own country as superior to others – an extreme type of nationalism.
The term originated in Britain, expressing a pugnacious attitude towards Russia in the 1870s. During the 19th century in the United States, journalists called this attitude spread-eagleism. "Jingoism" did not enter the U.S. vernacular until near the turn of the 20th century. This nationalistic belligerence was intensified by the sinking of the battleship USS Maine in Havana harbour that led to the Spanish-American War of 1898.


For right or wrong my country always comes first"