What is a nationalist?
Answer:
1) Devotion to the interests or culture of one's nation.
2) The belief that nations will benefit from acting independently rather than collectively, emphasizing national rather than international goals.
3) Aspirations for national independence in a country under foreign domination.
Look out FREEPERS.. the UN will be gunning for you.
Really? Some here on Free Republic equate nationalism with fascism.
Well, the line between "patriot" and "nationalist" then becomes a very fine one -- as it is in Europe and is becoming so in the US.
I feel sorry for the Europeans where it is a sin to say that "France is for the French", or "Italy is for the Italians", lest one be labeled "a nationalist" -- a very dirty word in the EU, where anyone in an EU country is allowed to move & live anywhere in the EU with no paperwork. Lately, it seems that the US is taking the same attitude as the Euros in that one gets labeled "a nationalist" for saying that "America is for Americans (native and naturalized)".
Want to see what this kind of out of control bureaucratic thinking can do?
This article is from a few years ago, but it discusses what the EU wants to do about Mt. Athos, where the entire island is covered by Orthodox monasteries and no women have ever been allowed out of respect for the belief that the Virgin Mary once visisted there.
http://www.acton.org/ppolicy/comment/article.php?id=156
The EU says that forbidding women to visit there is "a denial of their basic human rights"! Gimme a break!