ultranationalism
IPA: ʌɫtrʌnˈæʃʌnʌɫɪzʌm
noun
- Extreme nationalism, the belief in the superiority of one's nation and of the paramount importance of advancing it.
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Examples of "ultranationalism" in Sentences
- (YB is really just Russian ultranationalism, Zhirinovsky-style, transplanted to the West Bank.)
- After the nationalist riot, President Dmitry Medvedev warned that ultranationalism is a security threat to the state.
- Within the Jewish community they have preached an admixture of ultranationalism, religious mysticism, and racial superiority.
- The deadline will be followed immediately in Quebec by St. Jean Baptiste Day, traditionally a celebration of ultranationalism.
- But there are forces pushing us in the other direction as well—radical Islam, militant evangelical Christianity and Jewish ultranationalism.
- The authoritarian regimes and hybrid forms of power such as dictatorships, authoritarianism, Baathism, or ultranationalism will succumb to one or the other direction, abruptly or gradually.
- Facism is known for its ultranationalism and populism, its anti-intellectualism, its culture of violence, its insistence that it represents the true and only national identity, its treatment of dissent as treason, and its vicious anti-liberalism.
- Among the examples he used to make his case was the fate of Bosnia's Muslims, who for generations lived in peace with their Christian compatriots, at least until those compatriots were swayed by Yugoslav ultranationalism to ignore or even take part in a genocidal campaign to wipe out the Muslim population.
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