Talk:Scenario: World War III (Obama vs. Putin)/@comment-26577560-20150721020034/@comment-26577560-20150723021531

Hi Steve! You say nationalism is something new is not accurate. Nationalism actually exist about 1,000 to 2,000 years ago or even longer than that and can be said the oldest and most influential ideology in politics. Throughout history, different tribes and ethnics conquer other and assimilate other to become a larger nationality or ethnic. Nationalism is not difficult to explain. Peoples with common identity, common racial or ethnic background, common language and even common religion can be group as common nationalities and that is how nationalism come about. Nationalism is how thats make one big group of ethnic become proud of and willing to do anything for the ethnic group, the country or empire. The USA do not have this type of Old world's traditional nationalism as many Americans are descendants of immigrants from different parts of Europe. Even some Americans like Americans of German and Italian origin may have stronger nationalistic feeling for their ancestor country in Europe than towards the USA. The type of nationalism in the USA is more like patriotism which is a bit different. Patriotism is only a love for the country. Traditional nationalism is more than that. Traditional nationalism is a strong love for the ethnic group you belong to and also the country. Some ethnics like the Kurds do not have a country but have very strong nationalism. Germany and Japan has very strong nationalism during World War 1 and World War 2 and even until today. Again I want to stress that Old World's traditional nationalism is very dangerous and I hope the West Europe countries and the USA do not play around with the nationalistic feeling of the Russians in Ukraine and even Russia. This will give Putin more excuses to spread propanganda among the Russians in Russia. Please respect each other and prevent war.