Nationalism and federalism

Nationalism is a good thing. Single nation's government likes it, because nationalism can reason over emotion, such as Nazi Germany. In this case, patriotism becomes the pure nationalism. The Government of the multi-ethnic nationalism is love-fear. Love it, because nationalism can balance between the forces of the nation, can also become the tool of the government's rule in some cases. Afraid of him is very clear: nationalism is a dangerous thing, and played the fire is self-immolation. For ordinary people, this tag of the nationalism so that they have racial pride and sense of superiority, at least reflects a tradition of kinship.

Today's society, it is taboo to talk about geography, geographical, in a sense related to ethnic relations. This a lot of friends on the network quarrel curse liar What Henan, Beijing xenophobic people in Xinjiang thieves, the people of Shanghai snobbish stingy the Hubei nine birds, Changsha people love feet, like, these are not all geographical the characteristics of it. Features go, not being show vast land. Do have to stick States Weather Forecast word "National sunny we go what? Side soil support people, not to mention we can not by virtue of the behavior of a handful of people to promote to the evaluation of a region. Take a step back in terms of geographical phenomenon is not the great socialist China have the upstart United States, has a long history in Germany have, even the Canadians even went to Quebec to deal with it.

Geographical problem is not people talking about, nor is all of a sudden you can make clear. Personally, I like to think of China is divided into two large tracts of land. That is, north and south. This can also be Viewed from the ratings of the online article on the "Spring Festival" Dynasty.

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

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
Inner Mongolia 63.8
Shaanxi 61.5
Henan 59.2
Xinjiang 55.4
Anhui 24.8
Hubei 19.3
Jiangxi 18.7
Jiangsu 18.6
Guizhou 18.4
Shanghai 17.4
Sichuan 16.5
Yunnan 14.7
Hunan 14.1
Zhejiang 13.9
Fujian 12.2
Guangdong 5.3
Guangxi 2.6
Hainan 1.3

Generally more normalized in Anhui for the northern right, Anhui, following normalization for the South Anhui own, but also can be considered the south of the. Obviously, the Spring Festival as a large national program launched by the national television should be consistent with national policy moment. Despite the rumors of heavenly politics is the northern political, but did not dare to say it out loud. Today Spring Festival have become a tool of the association with the North-South phenomenon. In my previous blog, I also raised the federal system can be used as the possibility of the territory the majority of the country as the political system. The key is, federalism how to reconcile the contradiction between the multi-ethnic.