Q. What is a nationality?
A. A shared cultivated identity with common speech, history, war, finance & art.
Q. What is patriotism?
A. Natural instinct of loyalty to your land and its families of creatures.
Q. What, thefore, is nationalism?
A. Emotional empowerment of nationality by patriotism.
Q. What is Planetary Nationalism?
A. Political feeling of emotional loyalty to planet Earth, all human beings, and the productive balance of the whole biosphere.
Q. Is there such a thing as Planetary Nationalism?
A. For several centuries people have been having motivated political reactions to the entire "frame" of the World. The impulse of large commercial corporations to move forward through globalization is one example. Another is the wildfire growth of environmentalist causes. Ever time we look in horror and disgust at unethical behaviour perpetrated by agents of one human sub-group against another -- violated their common humanity -- we are being called to a level of planetary political concern.
Q. What are the causes of Planetary Nationalism?
A. One critical contribution comes from electronic technology which presents all of us in a simultaneous world theater and impresses us with a common interest in geo-historical events that affect us all. Conventional electricity is also harnessed in most of the impressive transport vehicles which allow the shipping of people and supplies quickly to distant locations.
Q. Haven't there been humanism & globalism for a long time?
A. Yes and no. Periodically some people have expressed a broader intellect and wider circle of compassion but prior to the last few centuries the "whole world" was mostly a guess for the majority of human beings.
Q. Isn't nationalism a source of trouble?
A. We only can see this trouble because we compare it a senior principle of international human civilization and existential worth. The saintly individuals of history, real or legendary, demonstrate a forceful push-back against sufferings needless inflicted upon human sub-groups.
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