What is the difference between nationalism and patriotism and how are they connected

Chaos seemed to rule. There have been many news stories and commentaries, some attempting to be relatively impartial and others clearly being very biased. I decided to do some of my own research on what might be going on in our brains when it comes to differentiating between nationalism and patriotism. I took the liberty of viewing nationalism as a description of what seems to be happening in our country these days with people aligning themselves with groups that hold certain beliefs and values that in many ways can seem to be in opposition to those of other groups or of the values of our country.

I think it is important to say that I am only scratching the surface of the subject. We benefit from recognizing that knowledge is power and we all need a little power these days. When it comes to political patriotism, things start to get fuzzy. What comes to my mind is " Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. The result being that the line between patriotism and nationalism getting blurred to an extend with "patriotism" becoming a dirty word.

The spelling. Both have the same meaning drr we pending on whether or not you are a patriot or nationalist. I think Japanese people can be a good example to show the difference between nationalism and patriotism.

Most of them tend to obsessed with a desire to share ethnic aspect with others such as looking. On the other hand, lots of them do not have any interest in national affairs and politics, which shows that Japanese do not have an affection toward the country.

Patriotism favors only one, the own country, but is slightly less strong than nationalism in that. Nationalism differs and favors first of course the own nation, economy, culture etc.

So to say, not everyone or everything mixed and the same in all countries, but everyone or everything preferably there, where it stems from or originally belongs to. A patriot highlights the failings and vulnerabilities of their nation so they can be fixed. A nationalist covers them up or ignores them. Patriots consider their society and need not say a word or display anything. Ethnocentric nationalists only wrap themselves in a colored cloth without any deep thought.

It can also mean deep pride in one's nation and feel unity with its people, culture and history, and traditions. The negative connotation depends on how the person perceives the meaning. Being a Nationalist doesn't mean by any means that a person is a racist, in thinking so is extremely ignorant. Some want to reduce political discourse to a simple label-making exercise.

Convenient, but not necessarily truthful or even desirable. Take Nationalism. We see it every day: Mr. A just said Blank. Blank has been attributed to a Nationalist viewpoint. A and all of his ideas as extreme, arrogant and dangerous. But remember Dr.

Goldmann: Nationalism at its core means being a nation conveying a right to statehood, and the interests and values of one's nation to take priority over all other interests and values. Next step will be key: Does it followers use it as a principle to act to universally advance and defend a national identity and independence AND allow compromise with competing claims and balance with competing powers?

OR do they use it as a bludgeon to act solely to advance and defend the one nation's interest against all competitiors and their foreign ideas? Is it grounded in reality and fact, or on false political abstraction?

Historian John B. Thompson looked at Napoleon and his brand of Nationalism, and how Napoleon used the term, "ideologue," to refer to those trusting to dangerous or revolutionary ideas that de facto could not be trusted. Is that where we want to take this? Convenience versus an honest and open examination of worldviews and their valuable critiques? Take away is not to be caught up in fallacious arguments in everyday discussion.

Logical fallacies are real headache producers. Temptation leads us to going down a rabbit hole to believe that an idea from someone from a particular origin, identity, or social class, is automatically somehow virtuous or lacks virtue, and it takes considerable effort to avoid it.

No, that was nationalism. You can tell, because afterwards, the US went out and murdered tens of thousands of innocent civilians in another country. Remember, patriotism is love for your own country, nationalism is hatred for others. America hated Afghanistan, then they hated Iraq, and this hatred led to them invading and murdering tens of thousands of innocents. Deep pride? What did these people and you?

Nationalism , however, tends to find itself modified by specific movements, most frequently of a political bent. In one respect, the insanities of are reverberating now with growing Hindu nationalism in a professedly secular India. Today, more than two decades into a democratic South Africa, Afrikaner nationalism has been severely diminished and along with it the standing of Afrikaans in the public sector. Canadian Nationalism emerged years ago, and has always been defended and protected not only by the spoken word but also, if required, by a dedicated military.

Founded in —two years after Burma experienced religiously motivated riots largely targeting the Muslim minority—and now with sub-chapters across the country, Ma Ba Tha has become virtually synonymous with Buddhist nationalism.

Over the last few years, however, a strong contender in the form of Tamil nationalism has emerged because Tamil Nadu got into river water disputes with all the neighbouring states and the neighbours did not seem to care much for Dravidian niceties although Telugus, Kannadigas and Malayalis are putatively Dravidian.

The answer is: it depends. It seems certain that, at least with nationalism , it may mean different things to different people. Of the six different kinds of X nationalism cited just above, it is likely that most people would find some politically questionable, and others not.

Patriotism is rarely used in these contexts. Some of us imagined that we dented the nationalism, hatred and racism that roiled the world in the first half of the 20th century.

As a dictionary, we must weigh all matters of semantic and regional difference. Therefore we can offer no firm guidance as to whether or not nationalism qualifies as an insult across the board.

We can, however, advocate for the revival of the tradition of insult with precision. Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free! Log in Sign Up. But it's more complicated than "'patriotism' good; 'nationalism' bad.