Mitchel and the great confessors of Irish nationalism would have laughed it to scorn. Nationalism was taught in schools, emphasized by newspapers, preached and mocked and sung into men. Nationalism more often represents the interests of the few rather than the many. Nationalism has had a long trial with comparative freedom, and one of its grand finales is the present European war. As long as such an extreme and pathological form of nationalism exists no permanent peace is probable, if not impossible.
The strong belief that the interests of a particular nation-state are of primary importance. Also, the belief that a people who share a common language, history, and culture should constitute an independent nation, free of foreign domination. New Word List Word List. Save This Word! See synonyms for nationalism on Thesaurus.
Nationalism , while it refers to loyalty and devotion to a nation, tends to imply the placing of that nation above others, a tendency that is not necessarily implicit in patriotism. Proper noun is defined as "a noun that designates a particular being or thing, does not take a limiting modifier, and is usually capitalized in English.
However, jingoism , unlike nationalism , always implies military aggressiveness. These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'nationalism.
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After the English Civil War of , the Puritan work ethic of Calvinism merged with the optimistic ethics of humanism. Influenced by the Bible, an expression of English nationalism emerged in which the people equated their perceived mission to that of the people of ancient Israel. Swollen with pride and confidence, the English people began to feel that it was their mission to usher in a new age of reformation and individual liberty throughout the world.
Influenced by ideas of liberty put forth by Locke, Rousseau, and other contemporary French philosophers, American nationalism arose among the settlers of the North American British colonies.
Stirred to action by current political thoughts expressed by Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine , the American colonists began their struggle for liberty and individual rights during the late s. Culminating with the American Revolution in and the Declaration of Independence in , the influence of the new American nationalism was clearly reflected in the French Revolution of In America as well as in France, nationalism came to represent a universal adherence to the progressive idea of a future of freedom and equality rather than the authoritarianism and inequality of the past.
After the Second World War, most new forms of nationalism were driven by independence movements in the wake of decolonization. As they struggled to free themselves from their European colonizers, people created national identities to distinguish themselves from their oppressors. Whether based on race, religion, culture, or the political entanglements of the Cold War in Europe , all of these new nationalistic identities were in some way connected with the drive for independence.
World War I proved to be a triumph of nationalism in central and Eastern Europe. However, the policies pursued by France under Charles de Gaulle and the bitter Communism versus democracy division of East and West Germany until proved the appeal of nationalism remained very much alive.
It has been argued that at no time since Words War I has the power of nationalism been as evident as it is today. Especially since , there has been a significant increase in nationalist sentiment across the world. For example, it was a nationalism-driven desire to regain lost national autonomy that led to Brexit, the controversial withdrawal of Great Britain from the European Union.
In Germany, the nationalist-populist political party Alternative for Germany AfD , known for its opposition to the European Union and immigration, has become a major opposition force.
In Spain, the self-proclaimed conservative right-wing Vox party won seats in the Spanish parliament for the first time in the April general election. Similarly, nationalism is a common theme among right-wing politicians in France, Austria, Italy, Hungary, Poland, the Philippines, and Turkey.
Most recently characterized by the reaction to the global financial crash of , economic nationalism is defined as a set of policies and practices designed to create, grow, and most of all, protect national economies in the context of world markets.
For example, a proposal to sell port management businesses in six major U. Economic nationalists oppose, or at least critically question the advisability of globalization in favor of the perceived safety and stability of protectionism.
To economic nationalists, most of not all revenue from foreign trade should be used for what they consider to be essential national interests such as national security and building military power, rather than for social welfare programs. In many ways, economic nationalism is a variant of mercantilism—the zero-sum theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which the government should encourage through protectionism.
Based on an often unfounded belief that it steals jobs from domestic workers, economic nationalists oppose immigration. In convincing Congress to allocate funds to pay for the controversial wall, the President claimed the loss of American jobs to undocumented immigrants. Today, developed nations are typically made up of multiple ethnic, racial, cultural, and religious, groups. This recent increase in anti-immigration, exclusionary brand of nationalism could become dangerous to groups considered to be outside the politically favored group, especially if taken to extremes, as it was in Nazi Germany.
As a result, it is important to examine the potential negative aspects of nationalism. As it did in Europe during the 19th and early 20th centuries, nationalism was used to justify imperialism and colonization. Under the shield of nationalism, western nations overtook and controlled countries in Africa and Asia, the crippling economic and social consequences of which linger today.
During World War II, Adolf Hitler mastered nationalistic propaganda to rally the German people to rationalize his tactics of ethnic Aryan supremacy as being in the best interest of Germany.
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