National flags, national anthems, and other [[symbols]] of national [[identity]] are often considered [[sacred]], as if they were [[religious]] rather than [[political]] [[symbols]]. Deep [[emotions]] are aroused. Gellner and Breuilly, in ''Nations and Nationalism'', [[contrast]] nationalism and patriotism. "If the nobler [[word]] 'patriotism' then replaced 'civic/Western nationalism', nationalism as a [[phenomenon]] had ceased to exist." | National flags, national anthems, and other [[symbols]] of national [[identity]] are often considered [[sacred]], as if they were [[religious]] rather than [[political]] [[symbols]]. Deep [[emotions]] are aroused. Gellner and Breuilly, in ''Nations and Nationalism'', [[contrast]] nationalism and patriotism. "If the nobler [[word]] 'patriotism' then replaced 'civic/Western nationalism', nationalism as a [[phenomenon]] had ceased to exist." |