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Originally Posted by Rodozashtitnik
nationalism is not a political orientation. It's a feeling, which means that you love your country but most of all you love your nation and you put them above all.  |
In general terms, I agree with that.
However, we must make clear a subtle difference between love for one's country (Patriotism) and love for one's nation (Nationalism). Not that they are not compatible, one the contrary. But each on their own, they can have very different meanings.
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An extreme nationalism (radical nationalism, chauvinism) is a political orientation though.
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Chauvinism is not a political orientation either. As for what you call "radical nationalism", that is probably jingoism, which is a perversion of Nationalism or of Patriotism.
Jingoism is what you get instead of Nationalism in many Black African countries, in the form of tribalism. Another example of jingoism would be Nordicism or [Nordo-]Germanicism.
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