Nationalism is an ideology expressed by people who fervently believe that their nation is superior to all others. These feelings of superiority are often based on shared ethnicity, language, religion, culture, or social values.
From a purely political standpoint, nationalism aims to defend the country’s popular sovereignty, the right to govern itself, and to protect it from the political, social, and cultural pressures posed by the modern global economy. In this sense, nationalism is seen as the antithesis of globalism.
The first true expressions of nationalism occurred in England during the Puritan Revolution of the middle 1600s…