Whatever Happened to Internationalism? - CounterPunch.org

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : It is the ultimate expression of inclusion that has many positive implications for peace, justice, environmental protection and economic sustainability.
58% : The uber-patriotism that is nationalism takes it to the next level, defined as loyalty and devotion to a nation; especially a sense of national consciousness exalting one nation above all others and placing primary emphasis on promotion of its culture and interests as opposed to those of other nations or supranational groups.
58% : It is the italicised part that distinguishes nationalism from its more compassionate and caring semantic cousin, patriotism.
54% : The international education profession, especially in the United States, has devoted untold pages, bytes and conference sessions to the red hot, perennial topic of intercultural competence, but very few to nationalism, a cultural superiority complex and exclusionary state of mind that transcends gender, race, social class and political affiliation.
54% : The world, but especially those countries in which nationalism holds sway, such as the US, desperately needs more global citizens - with or without national affiliation.
51% : As I outlined in my 2016 article on US nationalism to which this essay is a long-awaited sequel, it's necessary to define some of these concepts because there are colleagues, including those with a PhD after their names, who confuse patriotism and nationalism.
49% : What many utterly fail to recognise is that intercultural competence and nationalism are not mutually exclusive.
47% : Again) supporters in particular do not have a monopoly on nationalism.
47% : To give you an idea of how much fear surrounds this issue in the US, I co-authored a book chapter about nationalism, patriotism, intercultural competence and global citizenship in a comparative Vietnam-US perspective that was mildly censored because my then employer, whose slogan, ironically, was Opening Minds to the World, was afraid that it might anger certain powerful individuals in the government who controlled the organisation's purse strings.
46% : While nationalism is not new, this dangerous ideology has been in the ascendancy in recent years, supported in word and deed by authoritarian leaders and wannabe dictators, and energised by globalisation that has left certain segments of the population behind.
43% : Any avoidance of 'overt religion and politics', two of the most powerful forces now and throughout history, is problematic, plays into the hands of the nationalists aka neo-conservatives and many red, white and blue evangelical Christians, who are often one and the same, a toxic marriage of nationalism and fundamentalist Protestantism.
42% : Colleagues who refuse to acknowledge nationalism as a pivotal issue that demands our attention, scholarly and otherwise, especially in the US, are figurative prisoners who are bound up with intellectual and psychic shackles.

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