Ultra Nationalism Argumentative Essay

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In source 1 the main focus is ultra-nationalism, the quote is saying that it is not enough to love and want your country to succeced you must fight others to prove this. This is the definition of ultra-nationalism the belief that it is not enough to care for your country you must kill to prove this. It is also saying that if you do not feel like you can fight for your nation that you have to leave and find a new nation to be a part of because the only way that one can be proud of their nation and prove it is by killing. The parts of that prove this is the point of view of someone who believes strongly in nationalism is that they are saying that if you are not willing to fight for your country it must mean that you are “ashamed” of your country. …show more content…

It is saying that you can believe that what your doing is for the right reasons but in the end it will kill you and that one would end up dead and in the same place as an alcoholic, some one who sat arounf and drank themselves to death. This view is also saying that in the end no matter what the leaders of the nation and the other citizens say that you might be getting out of it, at the end you just don’t. its like what the Japanese belive would happen if they were apart of the kamikaze a suicide squad of poilets during World War II, the believe that if they were to die while they were bombing Allied Powers ships then their death would pay the debt they owed and show the love they had for their families, friends, and emperor. But the truth is after they died they did not get anything from it and the government did not care about that poleit that died for their cause, just the affects of the attack on the Allied Powers. This is a extreme view against the belief of nationalism bevause the author is tying nationalism and everything it stands for with death. The other beliefs that this person would have that nationalism is not something that we shouldn’t be promoting to the extreme that some countries do and that to prove that you love your country you should not have to die for

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