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Entry: Race, Nationalism, and Patriotism, Part II: Nationalism Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/race_nationalism_and_patriotism_part_ii_nationalism#15690 Post contents: @stari_momak: <i>"Patriotism, without institutional embodiment, is not enough."</i> You're making an unwarranted assumption there. Who says that patriotism cannot have an institutional embodiment? John Lukacs, for instance, has written extensively in defense of the nation-state, and has written with some trepidation about what is likely to follow once the nation-state--an essentially modern institution--disappears from the historical scene. Yet he is not a nationalist. The answer to this seeming contradiction is that national identity and nationalism are not the same. Interestingly, I find that few self-identified patriots make the mistake of conflating the two (Sid Cundiff is an obvious exception). The mistake is made most often by self-identified nationalists and admitted "rootless cosmopolitans" such as yourself. Sent at: 2008 07 09