NATIONALISM?

Can anyone explain how nationalism isn't bad? Pretend I'm someone who says nationalism is racist, unfair, etc.

I'm looking to form an argument of how nationalism isn't bad, but I'm terrible at putting it into words.

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It's a large scale manifestation of tribalism. Tribalism is human nature.

Therefore, if you're against nationalism, you're, by extension, against humanity.

Blues work better and live happier together. Same for the other colors. When the colors are mixed up, it causes problems and they are unhappier.

Watch this
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People with similar ideas living in the same place can make democracy work, but when there are two competitive ideas of how a country should be run, or two peoples within the country with different goals and ideologies, democracy becomes mob rule, and a cluster fuck

It is in the best interest of the state to be a unified whole. It's people united under the idea of their shared nationality and culture. Nationalism is the natural state of the nation, a nation without it is either under subversion or forfeits its status as a nation. Patriotism and Nationalism are synonymous.

Loving these statements so far. Please, feel free to continue.
This is all much appreciated.

this family and i would add that ethnicity probably came from our ancestors spliting from the main group by choice and staying together, then after some time they leave for different climate and by evolution they change just a bit that's what makes the certain ethnicity different from other ethnicities and the instinct of tribalism basically sas that the more similair the people are to you by looks the more possible it is for you to have similair opinions and morality(which came from the choice long ago)

Thanks for the link.

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Also a short little tale

Before we basically had anarchism. Some worked their ass off, but then others just came and took it from them. Much easier to take others labor than to do it yourself.

Figured they might want to make walls and protect themselves.
Whole community worked together and produced shit for themselves and EVERYONE contributed.
Then one guy get the idea that we should just tear the walls down again. Who are we to not let them have.

It doesn't make sense.

>that first 1 minute and 32 seconds

what a fucking gauntlet

multiculturalism and nationalism aren't at odds with each other, USA being one of the most nationalist western nations is also the most multicultural while a country like sweden or germany which are incredibly anti-nationalistic aren't very multicultural despite the memes

Can you explain how sectioning off anything isn't bad.

The problem you'll probably run into is that nationalism is an inherently flawed ideology that presupposes certain racia, physical, and cultural characteristics are required to reach an objective membership within an ethnic in-group when in fact the whole concept is a socially constructed wall of exclusion and chauvinism.

The United States is the country most currently guilty of promoting a nationalistic agenda while hypocritically building and maintaining an overseas empire of multicultural makeup the same way the Austro-Hungarian Empire tried to create a ruling ethnic class over a plurality of minority groups. Nationalism has given us the holocaust, the Cold War, xenophobic lawmaking that has damaged the global economy and a deleterious energy policy that continues to execacerbate global warming. Nationalism had its chance to prove itself and all it showed was an ugly face with an even uglier personality and the time to move beyond it has long been here; Europe has mostly answered the call to end nationalist sentiment, it's our turn now.

Think for a moment about how many groups there are in america who's main issue in the world is race.

The American people are not united.

This. It is sad but its also true. There is so much distrust between us at the moment. The way blacks tend to not givea fuck about anything and the way whites work hard and pay taxes is causing a major divide.

You should be comparing nationalism with globalism. If your intent is to protect multiculturalism you should be comparing it against homogeneous cultures such as Switzerland, Finland, or Japan.

Assuming in your picture the Rubik's cube represents the world, the goal of the world is nationalism

Now how can favoritism and understanding for Nationalism be persuaded when disregarding race?

For example, in Venezuela, Colombians were let into the country. But last year, the Venezuelan president shifted Colombian residents and ordered that their homes be torn down.

They're Latinos, right?

It was an act of Nationalism.

How do we still justify Nationalism?

shit happens in shit countries, who cares
a better example of nationalism is the australian government denying a chinese government owned corporation from purchasing a large portion of our power grid
is that a sensible idea? you fucking bet
another one is USA denying a UAE company (government owned as well) from leasing a port in new york