The Consequences Of Nationalism And National Identity In The 21st Century

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Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco asserted that “National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.”. Globalism and nationalism has been the debate of the 21st century, were both ideologies will shape the upcoming era as right-wing and left-wing shaped the last (Ip,2007, p6) However, liberals and conservatives may agree partially on ideas such as multiculturalism, legal immigration or democracy and disagree on climate change and energy while nationalism and globalism mostly disagree on everything, which creates an identity crisis. Nationalism is blamed for the identity crises because it isolates societies from the globe and creates …show more content…

Two scholars at the London School of Economics found that rising amounts of unemployment didn’t make British regions likely to vote to leave the EU but a growing migrant population did. These voters were bothered less by competition from immigrants than their perceived effect on the country’s linguistic, religious and cultural norms. (Ip, 2007, p25). The ideology of nationalism led the national society to be isolated from the outside world and not welcome foreigners, in return it has some numerous negative consequences on a society. A Nationalist society could not compete in the Information Age and has slow economic growth because of not embracing diversity and having closed borders, where there is clearly low innovation, creativity, and talent in addition to not sharing ideas, skills, and goods with the globe has resulted in nationalist societies failure to adopt changes in the rapidly changing global environment and having delayed market development has resulted in having unstable economic system. The Soviet Union in the twentieth century fell because they could not compete in the Information Age, in contrast, Dubai the leading entrepot of Middle East, is a hub in the global network of business centers in which the lives of the elites are virtually identical. Business leaders in all around the world have adopted same behaviors, While the people of their countries remain divided by culture, they have realized that to compete in the global marketplace they must conform to the culture of that marketplace. (Rothkopf, 1997,

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