What is Nationalism? – Amelia May Johnson

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[–]fschmidt 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Not bad, but semantics is a bitch. Consider the words "country", "nation", "ethnicity", and "race". The words "country" and "race" are clear. The words "nation" and "ethnicity" aren't so clear. English has no word for "a people" like the Hebrew "am" or the German "volk". So does one use "nation" or "ethnicity"? It's a toss up. I chose to use "ethnicity" based on the corner case of the Jews. Zionism is considered Jewish nationalist, and the goal here is a country. Jewish ethnocentrism doesn't have a name, it is just built in. So I use "ethnocentrism" instead "nationalism" for loyalty to one's people. Compare definitions: nationality - "a people having a common origin, tradition, and language and capable of forming or actually constituting a nation-state", ethnic - "of or relating to large groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background". Not much difference.

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Most people conflate ethnicity and race, when the reality is: ethnicity is cultural and race is biological. This is why I say a better term for "ethno-Nationalism" would be "racial Nationalism." A pretty good example is Hispanics, who can be mestizo, white, or even black.

In Dixie, we use the word "folk" quite often, usually to refer to someone's "folks" or family, but if you say, "the Dixon Folk," everyone will know you're talking about the Dixon People (although a lot of Dixons don't know we're called Dixons).

I tend to use the word "People," with a capital P, to refer to a nationality, while the word "people," with a lower-case p, is used as the plural of person. Honestly, though, we should go back to capitalizing every noun.

[–]dikkeman2 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I adore her.Read "reddit is the cesspool of the internet."

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks.

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