(July 25, 2014 at 7:33 pm)Blackout Wrote: Lol. Nationalism and patriotism are not the same, don't make senseless confusions. Nationalism is a political ideology that empathises one's nation. Patriotism is simply being proud of your own country and origins. I'm a patriot, I like my country and my origins, and I contribute to it as I can and try to be productive. Most people are patriots to an extent, at least they are moderate patriots. Nationalism takes patriotism to a higher level and puts everything submitted to the nation's will and good. Even nationalists won't kick out all immigrants, simply the ones who don't contribute to anything.
Nationalism requires patriotism, I did not say they were the same. Patriotism does not require nationalism, but the reverse is certainly true.
Don't defend with 'even ____ won't', because you'll find that somewhere one does. In this case, a good number more than six.
Quote:Can you try to be clearer? There is a difference between socialist and communist parties, at least in europe there is.
Only in branding. Modern socialism is a rebranded communism. They are different in the sense that Baptist and Methodist Christian churches are different: both are Christian churches, but each has a slightly different focus, and a few small things that an outsider wouldn't even notice are different between the two.
The republican party of today is NOT the republican party of 30 years ago, let alone the party of its origin. So holds true with modern communism and modern socialism. Perhaps one day the two will be so different that they are so distinguishable as various Abrahamic religions... but that day is hundreds of years yet to come.
Today they remain moderate synonyms. I'm sure that the parties are ten types of different on "the big issues", but in reality, these "issues" are really very small, and the *focus* remains very similar. False choice, ahhh... 'democracy'.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day