Argumentative Essay On Ultra Nationalism

Ultra-nationalism is not nationalism, but what does it take to make an ultra-nationalistic nation? What is the difference between nationalism and ultra-nationalism? Is the source one-hundred percent correct when it says ultra-nationalism doesn’t come from the nation or the people themselves? Though most of what the source say’s is correct, ultra-nationalism must come from more than just one person, or else the term ultra-nationalism would not include a whole nation.
The definition for ultra-nationalism is the, “extreme devotion to or advocacy of the interests of a nation, especially regardless of the effect on any other nations.” As well as “extreme loyalty to one's country.” Even though the source doesn’t go as far as it should, it does include a very key factor that these definitions don’t include. As the source say, without a leader to feed the peoples wants for power, nothing will happen. People always need a leader for their actions to be justified or to placed on, and just so, people need a leader to fuel their mind-frame.
As the source suggests, nationalism and ultra-nationalism are not in the same category. Being that ultra-nationalism is fabricated from “power hungry” individuals, where as nationalism is a “profoundly constructive

force”. This meaning that nationalism is a justified mind frame of a nation and its people, who are proud to be who they are. Hence nationalism being a constructive force. While ultra-nationalism is a destructive force in which the people and nation itself are being forced into an ultra-nationalistic mind frame. But is this a fully correct understanding of ultra-nationalism? The source is correct when it states that ultra nationalism sprouts from the lies and greed of power hungry individuals, but why blame just one individual? How does a nation become so ultranationalist without the help of an equally power hungry and greed centered people? It doesn’t, and really, how can a nation simply be forced into such a centralistic mind frame? There must be some other factors in making a whole nation covert from nationalism all the way to ultra-nationalism.
Some leading factors that can cause such a conversion is suffering, oppression, and defeat.

One example of this is the Treaty of Versailles in the days of Adolf Hitler. The same way that the Treaty of Versailles prepared the mind frame of the people of Germany, is the same way suffering, oppression, and defeat reaps ultra-nationalism in other nations. This point proves that even before anyone can proceed in fueling the peoples mind frame, the people themselves must already be in a state in which they feel they must achieve superiority. This being the main difference in opinion between myself and the source. To put it this way, the people must be willing to hear the lies given to them, before the lies are viable in their

ears.
So, as was said, the source was not fully correct in context to ultra-nationalism. Without the inclusion of the people themselves, there is no one left for the power hungry individual to persuade or fuel in the ultra-nationalistic mind-frame. Ultra-nationalism is not just from one person alone, but from the collective persons of an entire nation. People will be people, and the thirst for power is in all our blood, but weather we choose to let it be feed or not, it for us to decide.