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Re: Britain outside the EU
Sounds more like Nationalism than patriotism - Papa must have used you to calibrate his radar… 
I think this sums it up….
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Nationalism trumpets its country's virtues and denies its deficiencies. Nationalism is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. It wants to be and proclaims itself to be "the greatest.
Patriotism is an attachment to a homeland. The love and adoration for the place where an individual is born, brought up, and the nation that place belongs to. Patriotism is also being proud of a country's virtues but with an eagerness and readiness to correct its deficiencies to be better. Patriotisn acknowledges the patriotism of citizens of other countries and respects their virtues.
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Nationalism is a zero-sum game, where the only way to feel better is to show that others are worse, whereas Patriotism is being proud of your country whilst acknowledging it’s successes and it’s faults, and understanding that other countries feel the same way.
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Last edited by Hugh; 22-07-2021 at 14:46.
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