coocoolah:

“[M]ulticulturalism becomes an injunction that the ‘would-be’ or ‘could-be’ citizens must love the nation and its values (law, liberty, tolerance, democracy, modernity, diversity and equality – all these terms are presented as if they are attributes of a national body). It seems in such rhetoric that anyone can love these values: shared beliefs become how a nation bonds. […] [T]hese beliefs become ‘ours’ and even if this ‘ours’ seems open (to others who might share our beliefs) it is only possible as a gift, as what we already have and ‘they’ must acquire, often through force or compulsion.”

— Sara Ahmed, “Not in the Mood”