Summary Of Is Nationalism Good For You

There are a lot of definitions and understandings about nationalism. In the article "Is Nationalism Good For You" Gustavo de las Casas argued against the assumption of many scolars that nationalism is the root of different political violences. The author's claim was that nationalism have positive impact on welfare of countries. To be more precise, the author relied to three main arguments that supports his claim: the greater the level of nationalism in a country the wealthier, less corrupted and more law-abided the society is.

To begin with, many people accustomed to consider nationalism as policy which lead to violence, evil and hatred to nearby countries. Political scientists consider that civil wars caused by nationalism. Economists blame

These characteristics are unlikely to cause disasters. However, there can be some exceptional cases when nationalism can cause violence and just these exclusive cases serves as the basis of bad reputation of nationalism. This hasty conclusion is also due to scientists' considerstion that only coolheaded person can make logical, optimal decisions, when nationalists are absolutely not coolheaded. Nationalists are altruists, selfless people who can sacrifice himselves for other compatriots if it is needed. And this can lead to trouble in economics and politics according to scholars(Is Nationalism Good For You). Scholars consider nationalism as uninteligent and primal policy that cannot manufacture wealthy country. But Gustavo de las Casas argue that it

This data was defined as a result of a survey, which was carried out among 34 countries in 2003, ranging from developed countries such as Australia and Canada to younger countries like Czech Republic and Slovakia. After this survey it become immediately apparent that people from wealthier countries are more nationalists than people from less wealthier countries. The lowest level of nationalism was in Latvia and Slovenia and the highest was in Australia, USA and Canada. Thus it is argued that nationalists makes country more wealthier, but, in my opinion, it is also possible that there is another sequence: people from wealthy countries are proud of their developed country, so they become nationalists, and citizens of developing countries are not satisfied fully with the level of their lives, so they are tended not to be so loyal to their