Patriotism expresses love and devotion to one’s country as a whole, including all of its people. Nationalism, on the other hand, focuses on devotion to a specific ethnic, cultural, or “national” group within a country.
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nationalism in a nation that has freedom of the individual as a core tenent
Therefore, I contend, like a fever, nationalism can be curative or fatal. And, like fevers, it can come and go depending on the nation’s internal health or the external circumstances a nation finds itself in.
The reemergence of nationalist politics in America and abroad requires us to ask those simple questions. What is bothering them? Do they have a point? What do they want to do about it? Would it be just? In broad strokes I intend to take those questions up.
the tone is dismissive but it seems to be progress from NRO
But high hurdles stand in the way of amending the country’s founding document. Abe needs a super-majority in both houses of the Diet and the support of a reluctant public to win a referendum. Thus quiet, incremental change has been the preferred approach. His Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso outlined the strategy in a public relations nightmare in which he praised the Nazis for replacing the Weimar Constitution without anyone noticing and suggested that Japan might learn from the example.