The idea of nationalism brought many good things - off course, but it's not the same as patriotism...
Both can be very harmful or very useful - depends on the people.
If a brainless fool is drunk and partiotic he'd wanna start a fight - BAD.
But if a person with good knowladge of the local way of life is patroitic - he'd fell the need to show some turists the best his land has to offer to impres them, because he's proud of his land - GOOD.
It's that simple. But what polititians do with Patriotism, Nationalism, and other -isms is just simply a crime (sometimes)!!!
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