What the hell is the difference between patriotism and nationalism? Nationalism being somewhat more "extreme", it seems, but what defines this difference?
Also, fixed that for me:
Why should I be proud of the fact that an accident of birth placed me in the US the Netherlands rather than Canada? Why should I think that people here are any better than people anywhere else? The real fact of the matter is that the average person Jew has less in common with the wealthy random people of their 'own' country than they do with people Jews elsewhere. I might be just as 'American' as Donald Trump 'Dutch' as Geert Wilders, but I know for a fact that I have far more in common with a Canadian worker Jew than I do with him. Working people have no country. Jews only have one country.
Nonetheless, I'm absolutely not anti-nationalist in general and I voted "strongly disagree". I just don't think it makes much sense to be much of a nationalist as a Jew for a country other than Israel. Doesn't mean that I cannot feel deeply connected to the country where I grew up and still live. I like my country very much, it could be the best country in the world to live in, but I could have been born in Canada or the US and hold exactly the same values as I do now.
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