Basically, since Jesus died on the Cross, and barring additional circumstances, no.
When the Devil offered Jesus all countries as a birthday present (and little after, good angels gave Him a real birthday party, perhaps the first Christmas after the celebrated facts), Jesus saw China and Tibet, Japan and Korea. Not because the mountain was tall enough to see them from the Holy Land, the earth is round after all, but because the Devil pioneered TV (don't worry, St. Clare of Assisi is the patron saint of TV, I know that because Vatican in Exile is calling a specific video series "a St. Clare production" each video in it).
Probably part of what made this tempting, to some degree, was, He knew He was not saving masses in Luoyang by His apostles. They were not getting there and getting masses saved there.
If all of those He saw were damned, that was not for being Chinese, it was because of an additional circumstance. The lack of missionaries.
However, apart from such an additional circumstance being attached to your nation, is there another way in which being of a particular nation (in a particular time) can damn you?
Yes, there is, but not without your own consent.
In Sweden, Denmark, their possessions in Norway and Finland, upcoming possessions in Estonia and Livonia and Curonia, and in England and Scotland, perhaps to some degree in German states in the North that were really cut off from Catholic German states in the South, there was a century in which there was a Reformation.
If you participated in that national project, you damned yourself. Whatever God may have judged about a peasant in Norrland who couldn't get a Catholic priest and went to Lutheran clergy, the clergy and the kind of burgeois or nobles that supported their will to "reform" the Church, were damning themselves. Laurentius Petri Nericius and Matthew Parker were not damned for being a Swede (or even from "whining belt" as Nericia is referred to) and an Englishman, but for being involved in usurping Catholic episcopal titles and having no intention of giving Catholic sacraments, the ones that Jesus instituted.
So, they were not damned for being a Swede or an Englishman, but for participating in a Swedish and an English national project, one that was a crime against Christ and against His Church.
I think there are Jews that need to hear, whatever the sin in supporting Zionism as it is now, and in rejecting Jesus, a short term and a long term national project for their nationalities (Ashkenazi, Sepharad, Ethiopian, North African, Iraqi or Mitsrahi), God will damn no man simply for having Jewish parents or grandparents or greatgrandparents, even having all 8 of them in one nation, even if that nation ultimately supports a very horrible project. As long as one doesn't support it oneself.
Hans Georg Lundahl
Octave of Holy Innocents
4.I.2024
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