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Obama warns of risks from ´crude´ nationalism
Geo News / AFP ^ | 11/15/2016

Posted on 11/15/2016 8:33:28 AM PST by tekrat

US President Barack Obama on Tuesday warned against succumbing to "crude" nationalism in the aftermath of populist shocks in the Brexit referendum and the American vote, and with a wave of European elections looming.

"We are going to have to guard against a rise in a crude sort of nationalism or ethnic identity or tribalism that is built around an ´us´ and a ´them´," Obama said in Athens as he embarked on a farewell trip to Europe.

"We know what happens when Europeans start dividing themselves up...the 20th century was a bloodbath," Obama said, adding that the United States was also painfully aware of how "dangerous" it was to "(divide) ourselves along lines of race or religion or ethnicity."

(Excerpt) Read more at geo.tv ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: brexit; nationalism; obama; trump
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To: MinuteGal

Unless his false birth certificates catching up on him via Arpaio/Zullo !!!


41 posted on 11/15/2016 10:06:01 PM PST by danamco
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To: tekrat

Who?


42 posted on 11/15/2016 10:10:13 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: tekrat

So The Moron-in-Chief is lecturing us about tribalism?


43 posted on 11/15/2016 10:31:56 PM PST by gogeo (That's my Trumpy!)
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