George Orwell's Definition Of Nationalism

Nationalism can take on many different forms such as racial nationalism and imperialism. It is easy to see this by looking at the definition of nationalism that George Orwell gives and compromising it to document wrote about racial nationalism and imperialism. George Orwell’s definition of nationalism can be applied to not just these document or points in history but many other points in history as well because it is so broad and unspecific to a certain time or place.

In George Orwell’s Notes on Nationalism, he defined nationalism as identifying with a single nation or group, whom has a desire of power to further the nation or group, and view their nation or group above the moral standard . If one was to take Orwell’s definition of nationalism

The best way to show that nationalism can be seen in racial nationalism views is using the documents written by Houston Stewart Chamberlain and Cecil Rhodes and comparing their ideas to the definition of nationalism that George Orwell gave in his essay Notes on Nationalism. If we first look at the document that Chamberlain wrote, it appears that he holds nationalist views of the Aryan race. In the document, Chamberlain says “Nothing is so convincing as the consciousness of the possession of race,” with this we can see that he holds the Aryan race above other races and that just because someone is a different race, he views them as less and only sees them as an equal if they are Aryan . In addition, he also gave an example of how crossing two different kinds of dogs would eventually resulted in mongrels, therefore the Aryan race should not be mixed with another because it will be the same as with the dogs. This shows that he had a nationalist point of view because it shows that he thought anyone other than an Aryan he seen them lower than a dog, that he did not see them as a human being. The one thing that Chamberlain says that stands out as a Nationalistic view is “The work of Teutonism is beyond question the greatest that has hitherro been accomplished by men,” because he is saying that the work that they had done is the greatest accomplishments for all people,

The best way to show that nationalism views are a part of imperialism is by using the documents written by Joseph Chamberlain, Karl Pearson, and Fredrich Fabri to compare their ideas to the definition of nationalism that George Orwell gave in his essay Notes on Nationalism. The first document that we will look at is by Joseph Chamberlain, one can assume that he held imperial views. His views can be seen by looking at what he said, “In carrying out this work of civilization we are fulfilling what I believe to be our national mission.” In this statement it shows that he had views that people would considered Imperialism because he talked about taking over places and bringing civilization to that place but if one looked at Orwell’s definition of Nationalism, his view hold nationalist threads. His views are a part of Nationalism because he is talking about furthering the power of the British. Karl Pearson is another person who held imperialisms views but his views could also be considered that of nationalism. If one examine these statements he made like, “Yet their intertribal struggles have not yet produced a civilization in the least comparable with the Aryans” or “The struggle of tribe with tribe, and nation with nation, may have its mournful side, but we see as a result of it the gradual progress of mankind to higher