In his new book, liberalism and its discontents, John Rawlinson argues that a strong sense of national identity is actually a vital ingredient having a successful democratic, liberal state. He asks: Where do you want to anchor er identity? Is it in the group, an ethnic group, ind a religious group and so on? Or as cosmopolitans who care about everybody in the world equally? We'll always have special affections for our own town, our own community, our own country. But i don't think we're ever going to be able to care aboutEverybody in the world equal.

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