Imitatio Inaugural Meeting-Pt2 

I apreciate the value of Mimetic Theory, as it's one of the fundamental achievement in improving of interpersonal relations, but I often met this detail and don't know, why for such emerited professor, like Rene Girard, nationality and cosmopolitism, internationality are concepts, which exclude each other... When they not only could go well between them, but also reinforce each other..

For example?

That being selfish is good, anyone should pay for himself and don't care about the others. That if there are problems is because of the external 'enemy', the scapegoat, not because of the system that guarantees the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer. That people are free to fight to get richer and don't care about morals. And so on and so forth.

Obviously, in the concept of Nation I mean not its' modern sense: State, understood as something like an institutional mechanism, but in ethno-nationality meaning. Each real Person is nationalist in ethnical sense and each such type a Person is a cosmopolist too in its best meaning.

He would not define himself an American...well I can understand his reasons. All what he says is just the opposite as what Donald Rumsfeld says.