Patriotism is loving your country and wanting it to prosper. Nationalism is believing your country is superior to other countries and seeing all others as adversaries.
It’s the difference between working on self-improvement because you care about yourself vs. wanting to take things from others and being paranoid about them taking from you.
That’s a nice idea, and if you can maintain that distinction good for you, but the inevitable widespread consequence of loving one’s country more is that one loves other countries less. And that leads to xenophobia, which in turn leads to racism.
Patriotism is loving your country and wanting it to prosper. Nationalism is believing your country is superior to other countries and seeing all others as adversaries.
It’s the difference between working on self-improvement because you care about yourself vs. wanting to take things from others and being paranoid about them taking from you.
That’s a nice idea, and if you can maintain that distinction good for you, but the inevitable widespread consequence of loving one’s country more is that one loves other countries less. And that leads to xenophobia, which in turn leads to racism.