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Entry: Race, Nationalism, and Patriotism, Part I: Race Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/race_nationalism_and_patriotism_part_i_race#15512 Post contents: @Brad C: Excellent points. Race, by itself, obviously has no place in that ranking. Rather, it is a potential attribute of any or all of the types of men listed. Which brings us to an important point: Love of neighbor really does mean, as the order you quoted shows, that actual neighbors--those people with whom we come into contact--have a greater demand on our charity than those people whom we will never meet. And that means that I have obligations to the black family that lives on my street that I don't have to, say, the Englishman in London whom I'll never meet--even though the Englishman and I are both white and, therefore, share something that my black neighbor and I do not. What my black neighbor and I do share is, in this case, far more important and concrete than what I share abstractly with the hundreds of millions of white men I'll never meet. Sent at: 2008 09 07