Definitions

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  • noun The practical concerns of running a nation, especially seen as divorced from emotional beliefs about national identity.

Etymologies

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From nation +‎ -ism, by Joshua Fishman, 1968.

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Examples

  • If we are to stop our haemorrage of votes in the north west of Wales, and keep hold of some sort of middle-ground unifying 'one nationism' that Plaid is now claiming, we need Huw Lewis to stay on the backbenches.

    Huw sees red-green 2008

  • Because your blessed leaders have played your xenophobia like a xylophone, your cheap flaghumping nationism like the banjo you play before the barndance at your family renuion, and you for total chumps.

    Think Progress » 26. 2007

  • Have you noticed how parochial British nationism is, in it's current stage of development?

    Media news, UK and world media comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2010

  • Have you noticed how parochial British nationism is, in it's current stage of development?

    Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk Herman Ouseley 2010

  • Thoughts on a Jewish variation of pan-Germanic / pan-Slavic "tribal" nationism - 11 March Jeff Halper at the University of Melbourne: Countdown to Apartheid in Israel / Palestine:

    Sydney Indymedia - Comments 2009

  • Thoughts on a Jewish variation of pan-Germanic / pan-Slavic "tribal" nationism - 11 March Jeff Halper at the University of Melbourne: Countdown to Apartheid in Israel / Palestine:

    Sydney Indymedia - Comments 2009

  • Thoughts on a Jewish variation of pan-Germanic / pan-Slavic "tribal" nationism - 11 March Jeff Halper at the University of Melbourne: Countdown to Apartheid in Israel / Palestine:

    Sydney Indymedia - Comments 2009

  • Thoughts on a Jewish variation of pan-Germanic / pan-Slavic "tribal" nationism - 11 March Jeff Halper at the University of Melbourne: Countdown to Apartheid in Israel / Palestine:

    Sydney Indymedia - Comments 2009

  • Thoughts on a Jewish variation of pan-Germanic / pan-Slavic "tribal" nationism - 11 March Jeff Halper at the University of Melbourne: Countdown to Apartheid in Israel / Palestine:

    Sydney Indymedia - Comments 2009

  • Thoughts on a Jewish variation of pan-Germanic / pan-Slavic "tribal" nationism - 11 March Jeff Halper at the University of Melbourne: Countdown to Apartheid in Israel / Palestine:

    Sydney Indymedia - Comments 2009

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