When i was a kid, i am thought that patriotism and nationalism is one. Nothing wrong in the term called nationalism since it was to protect a country from any external influence or foreign interventions. Ya, no wonder i was a proud Filipinac back when i am a kid.
Fast-forward, i am hearing these news in CNN that ultranationalists in Ukrajina are killing the Russian minorities and Pro-Russian Ukranians in the sense of nationalism. Now i know why the Western media is depicting them as nationalists despite being a foreign trained mercenaries and dependent on dollars and Saudi oil, made possible by the dreadded National Endownment for Democracy.
For me, nationalism is a strong national policy of binding the state together through patriotism and unity in diversity. The main ethnic group and minorities functioning as one regardless of group, religion and internal political factionalism when it comes to internal stability and external freedom. That alone said, it is not foreign backed and neither communism nor fascism even democracy but by the will of the people for their common good as a one state.
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