22-07-2016
anon,Perhaps my Swiftian satire of "insulting upward" was a little too cohgincinv!"Tne Egyptians," Mr. El-Gamal not withstanding, are not a monolithic and amorphous mass. The attraction of nationalism is that it offers a chance of achieving power, and if it has that chance, it will take it.But plenty of perfectly stable and peaceful societies - the majority, in fact, I'd say - have been governed by a ruling caste which was culturally distinct from the body of the population.
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