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287 - Richard Rohlin - Universal History: The Symbolism Of Nationalism

The Symbolic World

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The Anti-Catholic Culture of America

The French Canadians have access to a national epic, but they basically don't want anything to do with it. The story of the early settlers who came and died and were kidnapped by natives and tortured is so Catholic that people can't talk about it. And of course, American culture as a whole is extremely anti-Catholic. But again, I think probably America is just too large for one national epic.

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