Passions excited by Chavez, pro & con, are a good example of what Orwell called transferred nationalism: http://orwell.ru/library/essays/nationalism/english/e_nat …
@michaelbd @alexios13 Yes, but GKC's Francophile much preferable to more typical English Francophobia (more cosmopolitan, for one thing).
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@alexios13@michaelbd Sure, but GKC was trying to correct a widespread fault in English culture, which led to him going overboard.
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