This is a song about backward-looking violent nationalism contrasting with future-looking lift-up-the-weak nationalism.
He got into noisy arguments, defending the South, defending war as a means of ridding the planet of the weak, defending nationalism.
Croatia brought its case in 1999, when President Franjo Tudjman's HDZ party was weak and turned to nationalism.
Growth of economic interdependence, proliferation of transnational actors, nationalism in weak states, spread of technology, and increasing numbers of issues (such as global environmental problems and weapons of mass destruction containment) that are both domestic and international generated stronger incentive to develop international cooperation than ever before.
After a nationalist Web site was shut down by censors in 2004, one commentator wrote, "Our government is as weak as sheep!" The government permitted nationalism to grow at some moments but strained to control it at others.
Still, anti-Japanese sentiment is prevalent in China today largely because of indoctrination ordered by fundamentally weak leaders seeking to bolster their rule through nationalism.
Nonetheless, Chang contends that "anti-Japanese sentiment is prevalent in China today largely because of indoctrination ordered by fundamentally weak leaders seeking to bolster their rule through nationalism".
Those forces have been extraordinarily weak, in large part because of these dictatorships, because of Arab nationalism and Baathism and a lot of these ideologies that garb themselves in left-wing rhetoric but actually, in practice, are very oppressive.
Germany has traditionally nurtured and steadied Europe, helping weaker members and steering a pragmatic course between the economic nationalism favoured by the French and Britain's free-marketry.
In India itself, the prostration before Mammon, bellicose nationalism, boorish anti-intellectualism, and fear and hatred of the weak predates Modi.
