Nationalism and Federalism

Nationalism is a good thing. A single national government likes it, because nationalism can reason over emotion, such as Nazi Germany. In this case, will become a purely patriotic nationalism. Multi-ethnic government is both love and fear of nationalism. Love it, because the balance of inter-ethnic nationalist forces can also be, in some cases become the tool of the government. Frightened is very clear: nationalism is a dangerous thing, played the fire is burning up. For ordinary people, nationalism can give them the label on the racial pride and sense of superiority, at least reflects a tradition of kinship.

Today's Chinese society, it is taboo to talk about geography, because the region in a sense related to the ethnic relations. Thus many users on the network quarrel curse, saying that more than a liar Henan, Beijing exclusion, many people in Xinjiang thieves, petty snobbery of Shanghai, Hubei, nine birds, Changsha people love feet, these are not all regions What characteristics. There are characteristics we go, what is not being displayed vast land. Does the country have to stick as the weather words like "sunny country" go it? Side soil support people, not to mention we can not act with a handful of people to promote to the evaluation of a region. Even so, the great geographical phenomenon is not only a socialist China, upstart United States, Germany has a long history, even the Canadians even went to the Quebec people do not deal with it.

China's geographical problem is not generally talk about the past, nor is it once you can figure out. I personally like the Chinese are divided into two major regions. That is, north and south. This can also be from the Internet article on "Spring Festival" the ratings Glimpse Shallow.

CCTV in the ratings: around 2008 CCTV Spring Festival Evening ratings list

Liaoning 88.9
Jilin 87.7
Heilongjiang 85.3
Beijing 73.2
Hebei 70.2
Tianjin 68.8
Shanxi 68.6
Shandong 68.4
Ningxia 67.7
Gansu 64.2
63.8 Inner Mongolia
Shaanxi 61.5
Henan 59.2
55.4 in Xinjiang
Anhui 24.8
Hubei 19.3
Jiangxi 18.7
Jiangsu 18.6
18.4 in Guizhou
Shanghai 17.4
16.5 in Sichuan
14.7 in Yunnan
Hunan 14.1
Zhejiang 13.9
Fujian 12.2
Guangdong 5.3
Guangxi 2.6
Hainan 1.3

More generally can be classified as northern Anhui right, following the return of South Anhui, Anhui themselves what can also be considered south of the. Obviously, the Spring Festival as a major national television launch of a national program should be consistent with national policy time. Despite the rumors of the North Celestial political politics, but did not dare say it out loud. Spring Festival is now the phenomenon of North and South have become a tool for speculation. In my previous blog, I also raised the federal territory as large as a large country's political system a possibility. The key is how to reconcile the federal multi-ethnic conflicts.