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What is Nationalism?
What ignorant people say when they mean "Ethnicity".
Person number one: "Wow! You have blue eyes, a Semetic nose and African hair. What's your nationality"?
Person number two: "American".
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Nationalism - what is it?
An indie-rock band from Brooklyn. They have been on David Letterman and have several albums, including The National, Alligator, and Boxer. Their main members are Matt Berninger, Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner, Bryan Devendorf, and Scott Devendorf.
The National, Boxer, Alligator, Fake Empire, Mistaken for Strangers, Karen, Looking for Astronauts, Daughters of the Soho Riots, Apartment Story, Brainy, Green Gloves, Slow Show.
What does "Nationalism" mean?
To put something serious up on your gang or on your set to prove that you telling the truth
Person 1: Man theses niggas just tried to five
Person 2: For real lord
Peron 1: On nation
Nationalism - what does it mean?
The belief that sliding out of a vagina in one area rather than another is important.
Nationalist: Wow, my country is the best country in the world and I totally do nationalism!
Someone: Why, and who cares?
Nationalist: Because, um, hey shut up or I'll hurt you.
Nationalism - meaning
An extremely dangerous philosophy exploited by misfit individuals with severe inferiority complexes to compensate for their shriveled-up genitalia. Currently competing with organized religion in the race to spread intolerance and progressively destroy the world.
Screw nationalism, all it does it stir shit and start wars.
Nationalism - definition
The view that geography is the best means to determine how wealth should be distributed.
"Oh, it seems like our cavalry stopped here in 1786. Ted, your village is almost one hundred metres further down the road. Because of that, we're going to pursue the economic interests of those who built on land which the cavalry crossed, and actively compete against you, no matter how massive the wealth divide gets. Makes sense, doesn't it?"
- Cromwell20
"Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception."
- George Orwell
"Nationalism ... is like cheap alcohol. First it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you."
- Dan Fried, US Diplomat
Nationalism - slang
The second step towards fascism.
Patriotism. Nationalism. Fascism.
Nationalism
Nationalism comes from the word "Nation". a Nation is a group of people of (usually, but not always) the same race, history, culture, language and geographical territory.
Nationalism is the belief that every nation has the right to rule independantly the land that they lived on for the whole history.
Nationalism was the reason for many wars for independance in many countries.
America is NOT a nation, because it is an immigrant country, and each immigrant has his own race, history and culture (that they often try to keep).
Nationalism
Essentially, nationalism is the belief in a nation's right to self-determination. There are however many variants of nationalism, although the two more commonly known are civic nationalism and ethnic nationalism. The two are entirely different due to their unique definitions of a nation.
Civic nationalists are indiscriminate towards members of their nation with regard to their ethnicity, and thus prefer to define a nation more by its geographical borders and their struggle therefore is rather more focused on the preservation of culture as opposed to race or ethnicity. Under its not-so-charismatic leader, Nick Griffin, The British National Party is slowly shedding its ethnic nationalist past and becoming more a civic nationalist party, and some of its supporters and indeed some councillors are not Caucasian or British in origin.
Ethnic nationalists are often rather more authoritarian however and tend to define their identity not along cultural lines but along ethnic or racial lines. This therefore leads to their struggle being aimed more at the preservation of their ethnicity or race. A good example of an ethnic nationalist would be Hitler, though he is certainly an extreme form, and should not be seen to represent ethnic nationalists as an entity. It is a shame however that many ethnic nationalists are racist, which is often why nationalism is so wrongly synonymised with racism. The National Front is an ethnic nationalist party in the UK.
Contrary to popular belief, nationalism is most commonly a left-wing ideology. This is partly because many people wrongly associate authoritarian 'tough' stances with right-wing politics, when left and right on the spectrum is determined entirely by economic stance. Mainly however, nationalists tend to prefer a slightly socialistic economy as opposed to a capitalistic economy. They often oppose globalisation in many forms, saying that the outsourcing of jobs to foreign lands increases unemployment in their homeland, which ultimately stifles the nation's ability to determine itself. It is no suprise then, that with that immigration and sometimes emigration is opposed.
Nationalists are not only concerned with the welfare of their own nations, although they do not wish to interfere at all in that of others, because they often believe that every nation has a right to self-determination. So when mass immigration occurs in their country, they are not only concerned that this might cause a dissolution of their culture/ethnicity and a strain on the national infrastructure (eg NHS, public transport etc), but also that it will certainly cause a dissolution of the migrant's homeland's culture/majority ethnicity and infrastructure due to the leakage of contributors to art, science and general employment (thus a general breakdown of that country's national self-determination).
Nationalists oppose wars fought for reasons that do not affect the national interest - the Iraq war was opposed by the entire nationalist community in the West. There is also often an environmentalist wing to the nationalist's beliefs, particularly focusing on renewable energy and the maintainence of an independant energy supply.
Nationalism's birth was in England under the reign of King John.
Nationalism
Extreme pride in one's own country and a disregard for international opinion.
CDONationalism