nationalism

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[ UK /nˈæʃənəlˌɪzəm/ ]
[ US /ˈnæʃənəˌɫɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. the doctrine that your national culture and interests are superior to any other
  2. the aspiration for national independence felt by people under foreign domination
  3. love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
    British nationalism was in the air and patriotic sentiments ran high
    they rode the same wave of popular patriotism
  4. the doctrine that nations should act independently (rather than collectively) to attain their goals
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How To Use nationalism In A Sentence

  • Because you're right, there is a great deal of sort of barely covered, sort of littling to nourish kind of (INAUDIBLE) kind of nationalism. CNN Transcript Nov 9, 2007
  • The plagues of aggressive nationalism, racism, chauvinism, xenophobia, anti-semitism and ethnic tension are still widespread.
  • Possibly in a bid to allay fears that nationalism and protectionism were driving the agenda--though it's hard to wonder how they couldn't in a country whose motto translates as "we wish to remain what we are"--a Luxembourg minister said on Tuesday that the takeover law, which it plans to enact in May, was in no way aimed at creating impediments to Mittal's play for Arcelor. Luxembourg Minister: We're Not Trying To Stop Mittal
  • It has now been engulfed in nationalism, religion and history. The Global Marketplace
  • This sense of internationalism can be traced right back to when Karl Marx and Frederick Engels wrote the Communist Manifesto in the 1840s.
  • In the late nineteenth century these movements developed into forms of religious nationalism.
  • Binationalism, as a general category, need not be equated - as Lama Abu-Odeh equates it - with the specific proposal for a binational state as opposed to a two-state solution.
  • Because of the invariable growth of the counteracting force known as Regionalism, or Nationalism, the Spiritual Power can not prevail.
  • The return of the popes to Rome after their exile in Avignon in the second decade of the century probably encouraged a new internationalism, as Dufay's career in Rome and his relations with Florence, Ferrara, and Rimini show.
  • Communism has been replaced by equally totalistic and militant forms of nationalism and religious fundamentalism.
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