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Originally posted by Lilith
Belial,
Do you feel" kinship with people because they too are" members of this site? If so maybe that feeling can help you to understand what it's like to be part of a community. National patriotism is based on the premise that the nation is built up of similar communities and therefore people begin to feel a national connectedness. Well that's how I see it.

Not really, I feel kinship with the members of this site that I know and feel some friendship and/or affection for. The fact that the members of this site are more visible to each other than if they had no other association means I have some more opportunity to feel that friendship and hence kinship, but no, I don't feel kinship with them by default. At least, I don't think I do. I don't think of a communal or national identity because I don't deal with communities or nations.