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Welcome... to the real world, Neo. (feddit.nl)
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[–] 5 points 9 months ago (8 children)

Nationalism is the ideology that a certain people should have a state for themselfes.

Patriotism is the love for one’s state, but that state may have one or more people in it.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    Which is why it doesn’t make sense to me, since I hate states in general and the United States specifically.

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Fundamentally there are two kinds of nationalism: civic and romantic. Civic nationalism is about people adhering to a society's set of laws and values. Romantic nationalism, also known as blood and soil nationalism, incorporates those concepts of birthright and bloodlines as important to one's status in a nation.

    The United States was a major pioneer and proponent of the civic kind, defying the traditional romantic nationalism that grew out of Europe. Despite our historical misgivings it's an important difference.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    I don’t even like society’s laws and values, though.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    I'm sure there's some basal level of them that make sense or seem natural. I do find it preferable to going off ethnicity or religion. Or the monarchist Divine Rights stuff with noble bloodlines and such.

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