4. (240) In the second to last paragraph, she distinguishes retronationalism from nostalgia for the East. What is her distinction and what do you think of it?
Simpson distinguishes retro-nationalism from nostalgia by defining retro-nationalism as articulating a critique of contemporary German-German society that cannot be explained away by invoking sentiment and/or retrograde politics, where as nostalgia is the uncritical longing for the past. She distinguishes the two by saying that retro-nationalism cannot be subsumed into the emotionalized model of nostalgia.
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