Brian Reynolds Myers Quotes

Usually the South Korean left is blamed for the public's lack of patriotism, but it is the right who made blood nationalism a state religion.

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• Usually the South Korean left is blamed for the public's lack of patriotism, but it is the right who made blood nationalism a state religion.

  

  Brian Reynolds Myers