Mary Dorothy S.

Manlapaz
BS - Entrepreneurship
GEC105, W23

NATIONALISM VS. PATRIOTISM

If you come from a typical or a regular citizen ‘s perspective,

nationalism could be defined simply as the love for country. However,
nationalism in much complicated terms is the ideology wherein a state or a
certain country must be in unison. It is where everyone living in the same
nation must be united and coordinating as one state. It is a movement that
upholds the citizens that should be in constant agreement with the nation.
In lay-man’s terms, nationalism is the loyalty and dedication to a particular
nation. It is the situation in which the nation comes first or is primarily
considered before anything else. The country above anything else. To
further explain, imagine falling in love at the age of 26 and starting a
family at the age of 29. Once you have a household to provide for and
mouths to feed on a daily basis, normally it could come to a point where
everything you can think of is how to do this. To simply put this in context,
your family comes first in every situation. Nationalism is like that of the
same scenario given where instead of a family, the country comes first.
This system first originated in the 18th century as a known method to
determine,distinguish and promote a state depending upon their
anthropological principles. It utilizes the political, economic, and cultural
aspects of the nation to nurture the welfare and authoritative power of a
state among everything else.

Patriotism on the other hand is a much more vague political

ideology than nationalism. It mainly focuses on the love and devotion for a
certain country. It is the feeling of being attached to your country or a
political movement or community. If you ask a certain regular person
working a 8-10 hour shift, patriotism would be defined simply as the
passion and a great sense of adoration for a certain country, movement, or
political views. It is the extreme desire to love the country and serve it in
all conditions. This ideology is deep rooted in the heart of a man who is
willing to sacrifice his own precious life for the sake of serving his nation.
He or she can easily and willingly sacrifice his life for the land of his birth.
This love is not the typical love one would feel for another person. It
means much more than that. It is a one a kind admiration for a country
that is untouchable and unchangeable. In other words, it will forever
remain that way even to the last second of his/her breath. Just like
nationalism, patriotism is a powerful force that drives the people in certain
areas that will most likely make them prosper or the other way around.

Most groups would say that nationalism and patriotism are

completely the same thing. However, apologies for bursting this bubble but
this is far from the truth. There are people who are claiming to be
“patriots” but they are in fact nationalists or the other way around. To
further elaborate, what exactly is the difference between patriotism and
nationalism? Let us go back to the basic definition of patriotism which is
love for one’s country. Generally, anyone who loves their country is
considered a patriot. However, in the context of nationalism, it’s not about
it’s other definition which is the desire for a certain region to be
independent or stand alone but its similar definition with patriotism. These
ideologies can be both defined as the love and adoration for one’s country
but this is where their similarities come to an end.
Unlike patriotism, nationalism is the love for one’s country at the expense
of other countries. Countries who are extremely nationalistic are the ones
who often result to war with other countries in the strong belief of inferiority
over the other. It cannot be denied that throughout the entire timeline of
our history, millions or billions of people have died due to war. Come to
think of it, were all of those casualties because of nationalism? Probably
not but the ideology alone is enough to be considered frightening. How
would our present day be, if all the countries strongly believed in
nationalism? To further explain, nationalism is the deep rooted devotion of
a person for his/her country and believing that it is the only superior thing
in the world. In patriotism, it is basically still the love for a country but only
for the reason that he or she is a citizen of that particular country. Their
difference can be easily distinguished once you finally get to understand it.
Patriotism focuses more on the moral values and beliefs of a country while
nationalism is more reliant on the cultural similarities and language to and
to their heritage. It’s actually similar to how generation z and millennials
are supporting their favorite korean artists. One supports a group and
loves this certain group because of their songs and visuals. While the
other does the same but engages in fan wars to prove that this particular
group is the best group to ever exist and does all the things just to
degrade the other groups. Patriotism is being symbolized in the first
example while nationalism is the second example.

Both of these ideologies have deliberately affected a nation’s social,

political, and cultural movements. In the context of social influences,
nationalism in general has affected the social communities around the
world. Patriotism initiates individuals to follow a specific strategy, mission,
and improvement proposition, regardless of whether they have an
irreconcilable situation. Enthusiasm empowers building social agreement
among the general population, hence aiding society's turn of events and
progress.

As numerous feature writers, instructors and officials have it, the

shortfall of loaded with life patriotism is at the premise of a wide range of
issues, thus, throughout the long term, the expression, however
consistently rehashed, has been given an opening ring to it. The
summoning of "patriotism" as a fault all can be related with reality that
during nearby Tagalog-Filipino the idea is innately dubious. Counseling Fr.
English's Tagalog-English Dictionary, we find the proportionality of
nasyonalismo and pagkamakabayan, pagkamakabansa,
diwang-makabansa, pag-ibig sa bayang-tinubuan o inang-bayan. Since
adoration for US of america is consistently thought to be love of its
country, one may likewise find the equivalency of estado and bansa,
bayan, and pamahalaan, and with this hotchpotch we may likewise have
gone to the stock of the helpful ambiguity of the term. Roughly
interpreted, the previously mentioned thoughts of patriotism can be
delivered as "to be favorable to US of america", "to be supportive of
country", "to be supportive of country energetic", "to like one's
neighborhood soil" or "to like mother-land"; on the indistinguishable time,
country will become people/country, US of america, and
system/government. Such equivalences bother the subject,simultaneously
as it may now presently don't take a humanism sophomore bounty
endeavor to unravel the wreck. At the point when a movement withinside
the southern Philippines calls itself Bangsa Moro, it truly sees itself in light
of the fact that the representative for the Moro Nation, that is, a gathering
of individuals on the reason of the idea of sharing records and character.
To sum things up, bangsa or bansa alludes to Anderson's fitting term
"envisioned local area" (1983). Normally, the Bangsa Moro movement tries
to run its individuals' very own undertakings of their place of birth or
bayan. In any case all the expressiveness about "nationhood", "moral
recuperation", and the underdevelopment of "patriotism", there isn't
anything that helps with remembering a public standard other than
senseless blueprints of public pictures and significance spots, and
ever-repeated tune of responsibility singing and flag raising. The
qualification with Indonesia's Panca Sila thinking and Thailand's
hypothesis of The Three Institutions is striking, as these models
unquestionably spur an exemplary focus that progresses realness to the
foundations of the State and that characterizes express cutoff points
inside which public conversations can thrive. They likewise eventuated in
Indonesians and Thai relating to their country states true to form results.

Indeed, both of these ideologies can either build or break a country

apart. Everything must be in moderation and nationalism and patriotism is
not exempted from this. As citizens of our respective countries, we must
already know the virtue of loving one’s country but never at the expense of
degrading and destroying others. Each country has different ideologies
that empower them and make them a nation. How nice would it have been
if no country ever tried to make the other feel inferior but this grand wish
will forever remain a wish that cannot ever be granted.