RE: Is Nationalism to blame? (It sounds like you mean Imperialism)
If you live in Holland and you are 5 minutes silent at the 4th of May, celebrate liberty day (only once every 5 years) and Kingsday it is nationalism.
There is nothing wrong with that. Every country and culture has it ls own celebration Days.
Moreinteresting is why those who shout out the loudest about discrimination and nationalisme and racism are forcing their own culture and life style upon others. Not only in their homecountry but also abroad or in their new home country. If you hate the rules so much leave.
My family emigrated partly to.Holland but also to Germany, Belgium and the USA, they all had to accept the rules, make their own income and speak the language. This has nothing to do with nationalism or racism or discrimination (words my family never used, neither do I) but with intergration and understanding culture, habits, etc better.
There are many words used nowadays totally out of their context.
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Well said. The word has been hijacked an weaponized for propaganda. That is why I wrote the post. It is not NATIONALISM that is guilty of the things they point out. They single out a few nations to use to say why nations are bad, yet most nations in history have been nationalist. Those they are pointing out were actually very imperialistic, and in most cases also fascists and socialists.