Patriotism is love and support of your country. It is equally clear that one cannot oppose oppression without admitting the right of its victims to rise against it. And, in so far as nationalism helps some oppressed groups organize themselves more effectively, it has to be recognized as a positive feature by all who support their struggle.
Poland's Solidarity trade union movement famously fused liberal and national aspirations Its leader, Lech Wałęsa, never failed to summon the martyrs of Poland's centurieslong quest for national independence, often in the same breath that he demanded political liberalization.
The only exceptions to this rule are for Navy chaplains when they're conducting church services, and the flag display at the United Nations headquarters. Because we need a sense of national ego to remember what binds us together. Nationalism, on the other hand, is seen as a highly exclusive, prepolitical, culturally oriented attachment that is antagonistic to liberty.
We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. Nationalism and Particularity. 16 Michael Ignatieff, Blood and Belonging: Journeys Into the New Nationalism (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994), 1. By doing so, she argues, our patriotism will leave room for serious, even radical criticism of our country, and will not be a force for dissension and conflict in the international arena.
Muslims are sometimes seen as owing loyalty to the Islamic community (ummah) rather than to the nation, even though many Muslims voluntarily enlist in the army and fight against Islamic extremists in other countries. Regional identity is different from localism as well as from nationalism or patriotism.
The way a nation in the sense of a social group comes to be intertwined with and interact with the nation as an abstract cultural community, as a commitment to humanity, is one of the basic reasons why I consider nations to be a specifically European phenomenon.
Poland's Solidarity trade union movement famously fused liberal and national aspirations Its leader, Lech Wałęsa, never failed to summon the martyrs of Poland's centurieslong quest for national independence, often in the same breath that he demanded political liberalization.
The only exceptions to this rule are for Navy chaplains when they're conducting church services, and the flag display at the United Nations headquarters. Because we need a sense of national ego to remember what binds us together. Nationalism, on the other hand, is seen as a highly exclusive, prepolitical, culturally oriented attachment that is antagonistic to liberty.
We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. Nationalism and Particularity. 16 Michael Ignatieff, Blood and Belonging: Journeys Into the New Nationalism (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994), 1. By doing so, she argues, our patriotism will leave room for serious, even radical criticism of our country, and will not be a force for dissension and conflict in the international arena.
Muslims are sometimes seen as owing loyalty to the Islamic community (ummah) rather than to the nation, even though many Muslims voluntarily enlist in the army and fight against Islamic extremists in other countries. Regional identity is different from localism as well as from nationalism or patriotism.
The way a nation in the sense of a social group comes to be intertwined with and interact with the nation as an abstract cultural community, as a commitment to humanity, is one of the basic reasons why I consider nations to be a specifically European phenomenon.
