Do you believe nationalism to be a good/bad thing? In all cases?

How Nationalistic do you believe yourself to be?



p.s. I'll give my own personal beliefs later in the thread. Really more interested in hearing yours.

Localism >

Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
--HERMANN GORING AT THE NUREMBERG TRIALS

Nationalism => patriotism => war => death.

No need for that. If people wanna die, good for them. Count me out.

Some sense of nationalism is alright. Too much can be a very serious problem.

Nationalism is a big no-no.

I don`t think there`s a middle way to it.
Either you are one, or you`re not. you can`t be partially nationalistic, as an oven cannot be pre-heated. Its either heated or not heated

Not really. If America wasn't the worlds police, didn't kill brown people, and didn't allow people to murder their unborn children, I would definitely be proud to be American. However, this pride wouldn't stop me from critiquing every action we take.

This post was edited by IceMage on Jul 16 2010 03:15pm

Seems legit.

Nationalistic and proud of it although that's kind of repetitive if you think about it .

Imaginary lines on an imaginary map.