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Nationalism vs Particularism - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between nationalism and particularism

is that nationalism is patriotism; the idea of supporting one's country and culture while particularism is the principle that only certain people are chosen by God for salvation.

nationalism

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Patriotism; the idea of supporting one's country and culture.
  • Support for the creation of a sovereign nation (which does not currently exist).
    • '', ''Kurdish '''nationalism
  • Jingoism; the support of one nation's interests to the exclusion of others; the hatred of other nations.

    • Derived terms

    * micronationalism

    See also

    * nationalist (wikipedia nationalism)

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    particularism

    English

    (wikipedia particularism)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (theology) The principle that only certain people are chosen by God for salvation.
  • An exclusive focus on a particular group, area, sect etc.
  • (politics) The principle that individual states, races of a federation etc. may act independently of a central authority.
  • *2011 , (Norman Davies), Vanished Kingdoms , Penguin 2012, p. 221:
  • *:Despite the dominance of Castile and the stream of centralizing measures flowing from the new capital in Madrid, Aragonese particularism continued to make itself felt right up to the early eighteenth century.