National identity

Am I in the way? Can I lean out?" And then on a, on a global level, I hope our show is an example of how important it is for Canadian storytelling, uh, to exist, for us to tell very Canadian stories to ourselves and to the outside world.

'Cause at the moment I feel like a, a strong national identity is a matter of national security.

Mm.

And if we're not supporting Indigenous stories, yes, but also stories from, uh, minority communities around the country, then, you know, that fabric of our cultural identity isn't as strong.

I think the other lesson I can take from Ukraine is that there are variants of nationalism and patriotism that can be extremely positive that in fact are required.

But when you combine that with a tolerance for innovation, when you combine that with the ability to problem solve, then these senses of national identity can be extremely positive and energetic.

When that sentiment is tied to, you know, unreconstructed, the imperial desire to dominate others or to put yourself above other countries.

And when it's tied to sort of grievance and nostalgia for a lost past and despair and nihilism towards the future.

I do not recognize dual national or democratic loyalties.

And if the Russian intelligentsia does not identify with its nationality, it is simply because until now, it has not had the opportunity or need to feel sharp pains over its national identity to worry about it.

But that has changed now.

Now the Russian intelligentsia has to cast aside its aspersions to be a universal all-Russian intelligentsia and instead to regard itself as the great Russian democracy.

I mean, Australia is, uh, you know, as we know under Labor governments as well, is so tightly woven itself into the American strategic web in Asia that it's really sacrificed a lot of its agency and its sovereignty

For Keating foreign policy wasn't just an aside from his prime ministership, it was part of the vision that he had for Australia as a whole um around national identity.

Now National Identity is back at the center of our politics there's Pauline Hanson's monoculture

Mm-hmm

Liberal Party president Tony Abbott going on about Anglo Celtic culture.

And so now when those foreigners who come at much greater numbers and in concentrations never heretofore seen, they come through institutions that instead of gendering a kind of cohesiveness, contribute to the hatred and the discohesion, the coming apart of our culture.

And so, I mean, the project of finding again our national identity, reasserting it, finding our confidence as a people will require not only that we secure our borders and end the kind of mass immigration we've experienced, whether legal or illegal, but also a recapturing by those sort of common sense, America-loving citizens of institutions like the military and our public libraries and our schools.

Absolutely.

You know, it's interesting.

I'm going to read something from Cardinal Gerhard Mueller from the Vatican.

Mass immigration is not about helping people, but about destroying national identity.

They say that national identity is nationalism, which has caused all wars.

So they say they are against nationalism, but they are really against the nation.

They want everybody... to be completely isolated and not connected by language, culture, family ties, or a native land.

Actually, very interesting, former president of Hungary, Viktor Orban, said he believes that mass migration agenda is part of a global plan to create a new proletariat in the West.

And what did Mao do? He empowered the proletariat to overthrow all the landowners.

The great replacement agenda is advanced by elites who care nothing for culture and national identity and consider only economics, profit, and global power.

It says, "What are Americans supposed to know about the history of their country?" What are Americans supposed to know about the history of their country, right? So we got this history of their country.

And that, just thinking about it that way, it's a national identity.

One people, one nation.

I used to use a history textbook, people in a nation.