Nationalism puts nation above the human being and that is inhumane. This speaks to a critically important problem with our dominant notions of patriotism because they have so much to do with borders which make those on the other side something different than the WE our songs and pledges celebrate. Our patriotism is very much about US and them, the capitalization of the one and not he other here of significance. As human beings who care about human beings, as humane beings, we would not discriminate between them and US because all who are they would be understood to be constituents of US. A just god, if there were such a thing as a god, would never prefer a nation and it would teach people that borders are, by their very purpose, inhumanely discriminatory.
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Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism. Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism. By putting our own interests first, with no regard for others, we erase the very thing that a nation holds dearest, and the thing that keeps it alive: its moral values.
