Pop Nationalism || Acharya Prashant

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00:00In pop nationalism, you are a nationalist only when you hate someone.

00:04You have to be a hater.

00:05Whereas the real nationalist is like Swami Vivekananda.

00:08The real nationalist is like Rabinath Tagore.

00:11Bringing laurels to the country and doing something that can inspire other lands as well.

00:16These two personalities, they represent India abroad, even today.

00:20And the world loves India because of these two people.

00:23Those included as well, obviously, not only these two people.

00:25So that's the right kind of nationalism.

00:27But pop nationalism has gone insane.

00:31Pop nationalism is about saying, me, my thought, I was born here, so everything about me has to be great.

00:36That's very juvenile.

00:37Einstein saw the horrors of the world war and the atom bombs exploding.

00:42And he said, nationalism is the measles of mankind.

00:45It is so juvenile.