Ovi Magazine Issue #24: Nationalism - Published: 2013-01-31

Theme
his very neighbor Greek does not do the same. This
behavior motivates him more because as citizens
of this country we mobilize to a positive, creative
direction. The more activated the better our country
will do for all the people who live in it.
The Cover
If we all act in our collective patriotic sense,
the common good then surely there will be no
room for either phobic or for hostile and alienating
syndromes which are the source of fascist activities
under the cover of a poorly understood everything
nationalistic.
The cover of the 24th issue is a combination
of the semantics that consist the meaning
of the world “nationalism” – at least
how I saw them.
There is a chess board with all the semantics
this game of strategy and minds carries
and then there is blurred in the back a
hand moving a pawn. The arm behind it is
dressed into a military uniform.
While everything is in colour the caricatures
of Hitler and Mussolini – the other
side of nationalism and patriotism – as in
black and white, caricatures ridiculing all
that they represent both in comic attitudes.
Finally on the top next to the Ovi log is
a detail of an old cartoon showing where
blind nationalism can lead.
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