tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8813382491463594994.post3642419107749234336..comments2018-12-06T03:22:19.422-08:00Comments on Café de la Régence: Two brief thoughtsAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09399125024366524125noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8813382491463594994.post-23698014038144244262017-08-22T18:00:16.535-07:002017-08-22T18:00:16.535-07:00Funnily enough, there is an SSC post addressing th...Funnily enough, there is an SSC post addressing the biology/social construction dichotomy, and why it doesn't map easily onto mutable/immutable: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/10/society-is-fixed-biology-is-mutable/ <br /><br />I think I agree that the UK is more of a blood-and-soil nation than a propositional one, but I'm not sure why I think that. <br /><br />Are British nationalists notably more hung up on race than nationalists in other countries? They go on about Islam a lot, which suggests more cultural concerns, although that could of course be a smokescreen for outright racism. Conversely, the immigration debate in the supposedly propositional US hardly seems free of racial undertones. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15776605042857892390noreply@blogger.com