All empires understand themselves to be missions

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Endowed by fate or the gods or God to build civilization out of chaos and to defend its subjects and their way of life from the darkness of those who live beyond, in the lands where the half-men live, the savages, the non-civilized, the barbarians. When an Empire loses prestige or cannot quickly demonstrate its ability to enforce order, long buried but not forgotten demands for freedom resurface. Empires are very sensitive about etiquette and the respect owing to their officers, their flag, their symbols. An empire is a procedure, which once successfully flaunted or turned over, can never be restored to full strength because its strength lies not in numbers but in prestige, hence the imperial admonition "not to let the side down".

Empires rely on an elite and their educational system job function email list grows around the exclusiveness of a small caste chosen to lead the empire. The British Public School was the training ground for the rulers of the "Empire upon which the Sun never set". Himmler's S.S., modelled in large part on the Society of Jesus, whose members Saint Ignatius of Loyala conceived as being the vanguards of the Empire of Christ, belongs to the same imperial, not national, tradition.

But the refusal of the Dritte Reich (Third Empire) to treat gypsies and Jews as citizens with full citizens' rights was nationalist in inspiration, not imperialist. The typically nationalistic hostility towards what was seen as a parasitical element in society was not tempered by the pragmatic tendency of an empire to profit and learn from foreigners. National- socialist ideology lies uneasily between nationalism (its populism) and imperialism (its universalist pretensions). Empires are usually open to new experiences, new ways of understanding the world, they are flexible.