Nationalism is at the ideological epicenter, it is the basis of politics, it is similar to the foundations of the house with which to structure the social, cultural, economic and political progress of a society. It is an ideology and a socio-political movement that is based on the level of awareness and identification with the reality and history of a nation. Every social individual carries a nationalist inside, everyone wants the best for the place where they live, where they were born and where they are going to develop as social and political beings. Blas Infante, an Andalusian thinker, said:
"My nationalism, before being Andalusian, is human. I want to work for the cause of the spirit in Andalusia because I was born there. If I found myself elsewhere, I would strive for this cause with equal fervor."
Nationalism, like any current, has its beginning and its evolution. Being the identity feeling of belonging to a certain place, the spark to politicize into a tangible ideology. One's own history, language and culture, together with sports and musical aspects, is the fuse that leads the individual to feel the imperative need to care for and defend their people.
There is a tendency to demonize an ideology, which is certainly the trigger for politics, the one that marks the evolution of the left-right spectrum (a more complex cleavage). A system that makes you choose, position yourself and declare yourself, but at the same time, a system that tends to deception, to the abstract. The social being is pre-politically nationalist, however, the social group loses that individual character due to the politicization of the system. The media noise, marked today by political pressures and business lobbies that push to satisfy other interests, ends up contaminating the social mass.
We all have an origin with which we feel our own, equal, and that allows us to establish differences. But there are formations that believe they own that property. Anti-nationalism is a peculiar way of being nationalist and it is a position that has grown considerably in the Spanish State. The great paradox of not being a nationalist of the people to be a nationalist of the country, a patriot with sectarian overtones. I do not believe in nationalism that is lived in an emphatic and insistent way. I believe in nationalism in which power does not equate to the negative sovereignty of being detached from another, but to sharing a destiny, to living in a neighborhood community in equal conditions.
By David Toledo Niz
