[Jeff Head]

When you have a fascist state (particularly the economic model), and the people buy into the message of their "culture" or race or nation being elevated to a sort of master status that needs to expand and control others...you get into a real dangerous situation.

The Nazis of the 1930s and 1940s, a relatively small nation in size anbd numbers of people...but very industrious, got that mindset and it took the entire free world and Russia combined to put that genie back in the bottle. Red China is large in land area and large in population, already has nuclear weapons, and poses a threat to world peace an order of magnitude greater (IMHO) than the Nazis did.

As Napolean (I believe) is rumored to have said...

"When China awakens, the world will tremble."

Well, they're now awake.

[RightWhale]

people buy into the message of their "culture" or race or nation being elevated to a sort of master status

They have that no doubt about it and in spades.