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To equate private wealth growth with development and progress is just flat out wrong. Unemployment particularly urban unemployment is particularly hugely disruptive force. Young men and women unable to find suitable jobs and ending up taking whatever work they can even as delivery workers. The impact of this is to tear at the fabric of the civil society. It creates ruthlessness, a sense of being marooned, a sense of not belonging. The concepts of nations and nationhood are now abstractions. They lack the immediate need and continuity. He attributed the rise of small and aggressive ground-level organizational units to this failure in growth and inclusivity of all in the development of the nation. - 'Our Identity Is Not Defined By The Majoritarian View Or The Assertion Of One Homogenized Religion Or Cultural History' : Justice G S Patel AT THE The Asiatic Society of Mumbai organized its 27th Smt. Bansari Seth Memorial Lecture : https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/our-identity-is-not-defined-by-the-majoritarian-view-or-the-assertion-of-one-homogenized-religion-or-cultural-history-justice-g-s-patel-161831
Cultural Nationalism is Nothing but Rogue Nationalism pitting ‘Us’ against the "Other" Sadanand Menon 09 Jul 2016 https://www.sabrangindia.in/article/cultural-nationalism-nothing-rogue-nationalism-pitting-us-against-other
Wilhelm Reich has so insightfully written in The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1993). For Reich, cultural nationalism is the basic emotional attitude of the suppressed man.