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Patriotism that started lifting weights and now won't stop talking about borders.
means Someone who believes their nation's interests, culture, or sovereignty should come first, and organizes their politics around that belief.
from Built from 'nation' (from Latin natio, 'birth' or 'people born together,' from nasci, 'to be born') plus '-ist,' the suffix that turns a belief into a believer. The word itself is a relatively modern coinage, rising in the 18th-19th centuries alongside the nation-state as political movements started defining themselves by shared birth, language, and land rather than loyalty to a king or church.
- vs patriot
- patriot loves country, nationalist ranks it above others
- core belief
- nation and state should perfectly align, always
- 19th century boom
- redrew Europe's map after empires crumbled
- irony
- movement itself spread via international cooperation