Cultural Posturing/Quotes

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"We tell ourselves, self-servingly, that nationalism breeds monsters and choose to ignore the fact that internationalism breeds them too. Ours is the culpability not of the assassin, but of the bystander who takes a snapshot of the murder. Or, when the revolution catches fire, hops on the next plane out."
—Pico Iyer on the posturing of world travellers like himself, Living in the Transit Lounge, 1998
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