(October 15, 2015 at 8:57 am)abaris Wrote:(October 15, 2015 at 8:54 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: Well as has been mentioned it can just be taking an interest in where you live and recognising that that is why you like it.
No, it can't because there's a distinct line between a cultural interest and heritage and waving a flag at every given opportunity. Cultural lines go smack through the middle of many countries. To take the UK for an example, I don't think, the Scotts or Welsh want to be culturally the same as the English. Same goes for most countries obviously. The Germans are an assembly of many cultural groups and heritages.
So, one is nationalism, the other is simply feeling at home in a certain place.
Which sources are you getting your definition from? Most nationalists are not skinheads waving a Swastika and a national flag - In fact, most people are nationalist to some degree, as long as they support the right to sovereignty of the territory and the independence of their people. The Brazilian integralists promoted race-mixing and were fascist-nationalists.
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