A sense of belongingness and commitment

towards one’s country in which one resides is

called nationalism. Nationalism binds us all in
one thread, despite all of us having different
customs, holding different beliefs, celebrating
different festivals and speaking in different
languages.
Nationalism can be consider both
constructive and destructive. Constructive
nationalism- this type of nationalism is very
harmonic and peaceful thought wave in which
people love their country and can die for it.
Our army is a perfect paragon of this they
protect us from external threat without even
thinking or caring of their lives their family.
One the other hand Destructive nationalism is
just opposite to previous one. This wave
believe in superiority of races, religion, cast
and skin colour this lead country to a
unstoppable race for ruling on all over the
world.
Nationalism has its own limits. Too much of it
could end up in meaningless fights among
religion, nations. If you feel or talk proud of
your religion or country. A person from
another country or relegion would be
bragging about the greatness of his nation.
The problem arises when a people tries to
dominate the other by speaking bad of each
others values,beliefs,tradition. This is where
Nationalism makes an individual forget the
basic ethics and brings a hatred, jealous factor
deep inside that person.
Many Nationalist leaders are representative
of one cultural group they promote their
goals. Thus , they fail the main aim of
nationalism or inclusive goal of a country.
One major limitation of Nationalism is it can
be use as a tool in election also, many political
party tries to gain votes (for instance as
recently in America, Donald trump tries to
ignite nationalist feeling by prompting slogan
like America first).
Existence of multiple religions is a typical
feature of India which signifies unity in
diversity. But at the same time it is posing
serious threat to nationalism. Communal
clashes have become a common feature of
Indian society Currently a popular crime i.e
mob lynching is also because of different
community and beliefs.
Nationalism leads to racism and can be
dangerous. It causes wars and history is
witness to the fact that excessive nationalism
leads to Fascism Hitler encouraged racism in
the name of nationalism and said that Aryan
race was the best race .He turned the Jews
out of Germany. Nationalism is a danger to
world peace and civilization. The small
national sovereign states are a source of
rivalry and war between strong and powerful
nations. Like Russian federation annexed
Crimea from Ukraine.
It demands a country to shun itself from rest
of the world as recently UK voted to Brexit,
the british exit from the European union.
They don't join global organizations or
collaborate with other countries on joint
efforts
Nationalism also affect Economy that
specifically prioritizes domestic businesses. It
advocates protectionism and other trade
policies that protect local industries.
President Trump initiates economic
nationalism when he announced tariffs on
steel and Chinese imports. Economic
nationalism opposes immigration because it
takes jobs away from domestic workers.
Trump's immigration policies followed
nationalism when he promised to build a wall
on the border with Mexico.
Nationalism has a very broader scope it can’t
merely reduce to one religion it has to do
with society one owns identity.
Throughout history nationalism has been
used as a driving agent, to bring the masses
together to achieve a common goal. Any
nation that has risen to the heights of its
prosperity has used nationalism as a driver.
We attain independence through the
overriding spirit of nationalism. Gandhiji
sparked nationalist sentiments within the
people of India and carried out khadi
movement and boycott of british goods
successfully.
Nationalism is good only as long as society
needs it and should discarded soon after it
served the purpose for.