Nationalism as a counter-revolutionary tool
The world today is so clear cut out for us that we don't seem to question the rudimentary aspects of our identities, although we have been aware and conscious of social constructs like race and gender and class for quite some times. However, that of nationality is still not poked at greatly. The social construction of nationality seems, in a way, quite harmless to us since we don't come into contact with it on a daily basis as we do with race, gender and/or class. Similar to the idea of geographical luck, the social construct of nationality is crucial to understand as it has played a fundamental role in the shaping of history (world dynamics). What, then, is nationalism? It is an ideology which promotes the idea of a nation state that has entire autonomy over a group of people with shared race, culture, language, etc. (and sometimes even pride of the historical past). The inherent belief in the supremacy of one's nation state is a crucial pillar, and with this belief comes...
