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Hold on, are we talking about patriotism or nationalism? There's a difference.

• perakojotgenije 11y ago
  Not really, one can easily lead to another.
• dang 11y ago
  The article goes into this distinction in detail.
• lsc 11y ago
  > Hold on, are we talking about patriotism or nationalism? There's a difference. I'm not saying you're wrong; it's just that the difference is not immediately obvious. You need some links, citations, things of that nature to make the difference clear to people who have used the two as synonyms with different connotations. edit: okay, as another poster pointed out, the article gave definitions "Mina Cikara, a psychologist who runs the Harvard Intergroup Neuroscience Lab, says there is an important distinction between patriotism and nationalism. Patriotism, she notes, is “ingroup love”: We sacrifice out of love for the greater good. Nationalism is about “outgroup hate”: We punish those not like us. “Nationalism is more like ‘We’re better than everybody else,’ as opposed to patriotism, which is ‘We’re great,’ ” Cikara says. “One is just really about being prideful of your group, and the other is about being oriented specifically toward superiority over other countries. That’s why people think nationalism is gross and typically associate it with Nazi Germany. Whereas patriotism is something everyone should possess as a virtue.” That still sounds like two sides of the same coin to me, but I... am pretty far removed from most of the groups we're talking about here. Nothing gives me an experience of "the other" quite like witnessing a sports game.