With the Nazis' rise to power, artists who dared to deflate the nationalistic self-importance of Wagner with humor began to face persecution.
If nothing else, Canada may be covering all its bases, such that a return to American protectionism, unlikely as it may be, doesn't severely impair Canadian growth (trade with America constitutes over half of Canadian GDP).In that sense, the move can be read as nationalistic self-interest, in the same vein as American trade-scepticism.
The school board meets to reconsider its move; at the meeting, a hundred and sixty-six people speak, each for three minutes, "by turns pro, con, eloquent, inarticulate, sentimental, arrogant, humble, coolly analytical, belligerently nationalistic, self-righteous, philosophical, and, of course, unassailably patriotic".
To clarify, this essay intends to undo any singularly assured "mask" [End Page 77] visual trope by running among diverse exemplars (with all their anthropological, horroristic, and ethnic trappings) to map their sensible geographies, and to ask what their often polarized and racialized valences might tell about the investments of nationalistic self-imagining.
We are shamelessly nationalistic, self-centered and obsessed with fame.
The availability of labour and land has fallen, domestic capital is abundant, the local market is now understood to be among the most attractive in the world and sentiment has become more nationalistic and self-satisfied.
Now Instinet is bringing its revolutionary zeal to bear on stock exchanges from New York to Milan, traditionally structured on nationalistic and self-serving principles.
The assumption that political fragmentation means more nationalistic, inward-looking, self-aggrandising cultures in the separated nations, particularly England, might be wrong.
"Hondurans recovered their nationalistic mystique, their self-esteem, motivation and their pride in their flag and their country". Came through thanks to the USA managing a 94th-minute equaliser against Costa Rica to finish third in the Concacaf group, their own 4-0 win over Costa Rica in August and 3-1 win against Mexico being key.
It was possible for the Nazi interpreters to assemble, quite selectively, various passages from Nietzsche's writings whose juxtaposition appeared to justify war, aggression and domination for the sake of nationalistic and racial self-glorification.
The book is decidedly a page-turner, but its focus on a single American's punishing ordeal and amazing recovery inhibits almost any impulse to move beyond the platitudes of nationalistic triumphalism and self-absorption or consider (among other things) the racism that so dramatically shaped American combat in the Pacific.
