What is the difference between being Patriotic and being Nationalistic?
At school I wasn’t really good at languages, nor with English, Public Speaking, grammar, spelling & the like. And I normally use words that merely sounds right (inside my head). Differences between many English words can be very subtle and such is the case between ‘patriotic or patriotism’ & ‘nationalistic or nationalism’. In my head I believe they mean basically the same thing–a love for one’s country. So patriotism is the same as nationalism & nationalism is the same as patriotism, in this sense. The difference in my mind is that a nationalistic person is more inclined to do something about their love/loyalty/devotion/pride for their country than the patriotic person. A patriot in my mind can say it all the time, even shout it on the mountaintops but at the same time may never lift a finger to do anything “constructive” about it. So the former can be lip-service at times & the later is basically your more or less active partipant. Do not get me wrong though, a patriotic person would
