Meaning of nationism | Babel Free

Definitions

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

countable, uncountable

Examples

“In determining language policies, Fishman contends that a country needs to balance the concerns of nationalism (the feelings that develop⟳ from a sense⟳ of group identity) and nationism (the practical concerns of governing).”

“For these nations language was a prior criterion of national identity, in the sense⟳ of ‘nationalism’, and only later became and issue⟳ at the level of ‘nation’, once these societies had made the transition from nationalism to nationism.”

“Instead of this, the dominant role of language in nation-building in many states, at least in the early post-independence era, has been […] pragmatic nationism rather than aggressive nationalism.”

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