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Originally Posted by Skybird
The argument is made since long that "patriotism" focusses predominantly on a quality of "loving one's own peer group and its culture and living place", where as nationalism more defines itself by aggressively keeping separate from the foreign people and maintaining kind of a hostile attitude towards others that are not one's own peer group that one identifies with - this could lead as far as to violently wanting to eradicate the identiy of the other by wiping him and his nation out. So the one focusses more on preferring or loving one's own group, the other focusses on being hostile towards the others, the foreign country.
Personally I use the phrase "historically grown sense of identity" since long. It makes more sense to me, is closer to what the human focus is about, and seems to match realities on the ground more often. I can tolerate patriots, get along with them. With nationalists I see nothing but problems.
For these reasons I can still be against the EU and what it wants to achieve in identity ideology - and still not feeling affected when somenbody accuses me that therefore I must be a nationalist. I am not.
And if I would plan to become one, I first would prefer to change my German nationality.   |
I found it kinda ironic when another poster tried to differentiate between 'tribalism' and 'nationalism' as if there was a vast difference between the two.
