Denying Bosnia’s culture logically implies America has no culture either

Evidence

Like culture in the United States, Bosnian culture cannot be defined by the linguistic and religious criteria of nineteenthcentury nationalism. Just as Americans share a language with the British and Australians, so Bosnians share a language with Serbs and Croats. Just as the United States has no single, official church, so Bosnia is made up of people of different religious confessions, and within those confessions, vastly different perspectives. If Bosnia has no culture, then the United States has no culture. If Bosnia should be partitioned into religiously pure apartheid states, then the same logic leads to the idea, proposed by the Christian Identity movement, that the United States should be divided into apartheid states of different races and religions. — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 387

Categorization

• XREF: The Bosnia-US analogy restates a leitmotif of the whole book: pluralist versus pure-identity models of nationhood, and where the same logic can lead.

Related

• Pure-identity frameworks cannot grasp cultures defined by intermingling (similarity 0.80)
• Bosnian identity is civic and multi-religious, not ethnoreligious (similarity 0.80)
• Bosnian pluralism directly contradicts the crusader worldview nationalists desire (similarity 0.78)