Nationalist

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Nationalism is often interpreted as being similar in meaning to love of country. However, a nation can extend beyond the borders of a country. Nationalism in modern parlance is no e-the-less usually interpreted as being support for a particular country, without this having deeper ethnic, racial, religious, or other cultural foundations. Such forms of argued nationalism can then include support for multiracial/multicultural countries, which consist of many different groups with few shared interests and identities, except possibly an arguably superficial, arguably artificially created civic "fascist" identity. See also CivNat.

In a nearly opposite view, nation states and nationalism are often seen as 19th-century European creations, associated with developments such as obligatory state-mandated education, mass literacy, and mass media, supposedly creating in the general population socially constructed senses of national identity and nationalism.