The Significance Of Nationalism In The United States

Barack Obama once said; “There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America—there's the United States of America.” In this statement he spoke to the national pride of every American. Nationalism is an ideology which asserts that an individual's allegiance to the nation state surpasses other segregational differences such as race, religion, gender or sexuality. It provides a collective identity for people whose single greatest commonality is their belief in the strength and power of the nation state. Slogans and symbols, like a country’s flag, assist in capturing the essence of a country's nationalism. The United States is known for standing behind the famous stars and stripes, something which is iconically