My Serbian husband is in depression (I think)

First she relates Nationalism with Race in her (common) personal head, then goes “you can be secular without being National, which was a mistake of Atatürk”. That’s her thought behind these sentences as she also believes Nation=Evil! First of all Atatürk didn’t invent Nationalism, the French revolution did and others (Greeks Bulgarians Armenians aka enemies of Turks) have followed after. Thus even if you hate Nationalism and Nation States, Atatürk (and just so Turks) are one of the last people (Nation) you can accuse of choosing the National-way. Secondly, Nationalism has nothing to do Racism. Racism came later/ happened in parallel with the Nazis. From the very start of Turkish Nationalism, it was clear that Race wasn’t meant, as we Turks (yes, as opposed to many other ethnicities) were fully aware of our overly mixed genetics. Why? Because marrying people out of your tribe was a highly valued, wanted custom of Turkic people since 1500+ years into our “ethnic” history. So the day Turks have entered Anatolia (about 1071) we weren’t 100% genetically Turkic people with slanted eyes whatsoever, but were a unity of many little tribes who looked nothing like each other, totally aware of their diverse genetics. What united us was our way of life - Nomadism. She sees Atatürk as a Racist, which is nonsense. If Atatürk would have a DNA test and see that he’s %100 Greek whatsoever (which doesn’t exist as DNA tests don’t work that way and you people obviously understood nothing about DNA, but anyway let’s say these tests function like you falsely imagine in your heads), Atatürk would still be a full blown Turkish Nationalist, as a nation-state was the only way of keeping Turks (his people) alive, in a world where all others were full blown Nationalists anyway. The circumstances have forced every cultural entity to either become a Nation, or to disappear. Nationalism happened to all of us, and those who wouldn’t be say Bulgarian Nationalists, would become Greek Nationalists. If not Yugoslavian Nationalists, Serbian Nationalists etc. Anyway anyhow a somewhat cultural or totally imaginary border would be drawn and those remaining inside that border would have to (or be forced to) describe themselves as a Nation. Where this didn’t happen was the East, starting from East Anatolia going into the Levant and Iran. There, despite the French revolution happening and the West pushing the idea of nationalism, people didn’t have such an understanding in their heads thus have pretty much become “non-nation” states, or totally fake-nation states, by their borders being drawn not after organic wars / cultural differences but by the French/British instead who had no idea about those ppls differences or similarities. Yugoslavs were another awkward example who didn’t get this new nationalism thing as others maybe would, and have split into Croats/Orthodox/Muslims as if Nationality had anything to do with religions. Which it didn’t because a Nation wasn’t (at least not solely) a Religion either. Anyway, anyhow, these people have either split up or have (rarely) united as new Nations. While Race (=DNA) was the least important thing for them in doing so. All you people who relate race/DNA to nations are utterly nonsensical thus misread history and historic leaders. You can hate or love Atatürk for whatsoever other reason, but not for his non-racial Nationalism. It just doesn’t make sense.