The significant truth is not that you are lucky to have been born into one of the best—the richest or most powerful—countries; but that others are unlucky not to have been born into it. You are not a starving Indian peasant, but you might have been. That you are not is not a matter for self-congratulation, but one for charitable action, for concern. The proper domain for nationalism is art and culture; not politics.
—John Fowles, The Aristos, chap. 9.
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