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It is right to highlight parochial nature of Nationalist viewpoint

THE comments by Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa ("'Nationalism has produced the most brutal and cruel wars in history'", Herald Arts, June 9) have riled a few of The Herald's Nationalist readers (Letters, June 11).

However, sometimes it's those who are a little removed from the field of play who can see things as they are, and Vargas Llosa is right to say that "the basic idea of nationalism is wrong".

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