Nationalism
The term “nationalism” is difficult to define, and any universal definition would be incomplete and oversimplified. Certainly history, culture, language, race and religion are important in the building of nation-states but they are not necessarily essential or universally applicable; the unifying factors for a Swiss in Switzerland, and for a German in Germany, are quite different. Studying the events of recent history and the evolution of modern social organization is not possible without a study of nationalism. This modern phenomenon has been evolving from its conception, in the Napoleonic Wars of the early 19th century. It has transformed and recently become, not so much an ideology, but an “identify,” as something you are rather than something you merely prescribe to or believe in. Modern nationalism is a movement based on exclusion and opposition, as compared to the ideology that once sought to include people and populations. Understanding this contemporaneous phenomenon, especially in one’s own context, is synonymous with understanding the events of modern history and predicting the repercussions it will have in the future. Taking into account merely the goals of the nationalist, nationalism can be loosely defined as th
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Approximate Word count = 1058
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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