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A. Before independence movement, whose ideas of the nation are mainly civil and
territorial, will seek first to eliminate the first foreign leaders to impose a new nation-state in
the old colonial territory. These are anti-colonial nationalisms.
B. After independence movements whose ideas about the nation remained mostly civil
and territorial, will seek to collect and integrate into a new political community even
underestimated ethnic groups and create a new "territorial nation" from the old colonial state.
These are the integration nationalisms.
2. Ethnic nationalisms
A. Before independence movements whose ideas about nation are mainly ethnic and
genealogical will seek to secede from the the big political entity (or to secede and to bring in
the targeted ethnic homeland) and establish in its place a new political "ethnic" nation. These
are separatist nationalism or nationalism Diaspora.
B. After independence movements whose ideas about the nation remain mostly ethnic
and genealogical will seek to expand and include ethnic "relatives" who live outside the
present boundaries of "ethnic nation" and their land, or build a much larger "ethnic national
"state through the union of culturally and ethnically similar ethnic national states. Tray are
irredentist or pan-nationalisms.
Collective memory is a tool of nationalism. Through it can be attributed to a larger
community of the nation. This is done by creating a national historical narrative - national
myth such as "Slav-Bulgarian History" or national pantheon of heroes - like "Epic of the
Forgotten." Used as their conductors social mechanisms of memory tombstones and mounds,
holidays and rituals, mass education, museums, etc.
Examples of nationalist projects are:
1.
Megale idea - (from Greek: Μεγάλη Ιδέα) - The great concept or big idea is an
ideological project of Greek nationalism to restore Byzantium. The symbolic start of the
project puts Ioannis Koletis with one of his landmark speech delivered in 1844 in the
Greek Parliament. The dream of restoration of Byzantium as "Greek State" ceases to
exist among the Greek community since the time of the conquest of Constantinople by
the Ottoman Turks in 1453. But after World War Greece embarks on Asia Minor
military adventure of the 20s of XX century. The collapse of its ends and allusions that
former Eastern Roman Empire, named after the fact by historians Byzantium can be
restored as a Greek nation-state.
2.
National Socialism (from German:
Nationalsozialismus) or called for short
Nazism, an
ideology which was formed in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s years. After coming to
power in 1933 Nazi Party building political regime, which is also called National
Socialism and is a totalitarian dictatorship in the country, structured nationalist model.
Nationalist outlook provided the ideological basis for WWII criminal ethnic killings and
death camps (concentration camps). The main features of Nazism connect racism,
glorification of "Aryan and Germanic race", "racial hygiene", "positive selection" of a
master race "policy of living space", "living space in the east ', protection of native"
blood land, "a reference to the" Prussian virtues "and others. The phrases are quoted in
quotes as they are presented by the Nazi propaganda.
3.
Pan-Arabism - movement for unification of all Arab countries in the EU, similar to
today's European Union. There have been several attempts of pan-Arabism for the
creation of such a union: 1. 1958 Iraq and Jordan create a confederation, which
subsequently decays; 2. 1958 Egypt and Syria are teaming up in confederation existed
until 1961 .; 3. separated North and South Yemen were united in a single country
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Yemen existing today; 4. Emirates 7 united and the so created. United Arab Emirates
(1971-1972).
In relation to understanding the concept of nation should be clarified and other social
phenomena associated with it: national ideals and national interests.
National ideal
The ideal (from Latin idealis and from Greek: ίδέα — image, idea) is a high value or
high principle that a person pursuing a goal, both in terms of reaching more sophisticated
personal qualities and abilities, moral conduct, and striving for perfection in human relations
or more perfect structure of society.
The national ideal is a cherished dream of a nation. Reflecting on the future of this
ideal is a dynamic category that reflects the resolution of future goals and tasks facing the
nation. It incorporates criteria for assessing the present and that which must seek every nation.
Strengthens its unity idea of creating future values that it needs to pursue. Meanwhile, the
national ideal is a fundamental core of national identity.
The national ideal occurs at a certain stage of development of the nation and is
determined by the combination of different factors: historical, political, social, cultural, etc. It
is not eternal and can change over time in case those factors.
The ideal of the Bulgarian nation includes covenants for freedom and dignity of the
Bulgarian nation alone sashtestvevane the political map of the world and the unification of all
Bulgarians in the common state. Progress and prosperity of all Bulgarians worldwide.
What are the stages Bulgarian national ideal during the Renaissance to the present day.
Aspirations of the Bulgarians during the Ottoman rule are: obtaining ecclesiastical and
political freedom. This is the line at which the ideologues running the two currents - of
Plovdiv, Sofroniy Vrachanski, Neophyte Bozveli, Ilarion Makariopolski, ekzarsite Antim I
and Joseph I; Georgi Rakovski, Vasil Levski, Stefan Karadja and Hadji Dimitar, Hristo Botev,
Angel, Panayot Volov, Georgi Benkovski Stefan Stambolov, Zahari Stoyanov and others.
Liberation ideal is characterized by aspirations to build a modern Bulgarian state in the
period 1878 - 1944, at the political, economic, cultural, educational and religious activities.
This period is characterized by the desire for national unity to fragmented Bulgarian
territories.
The transition from totalitarianism to democracy and the changes over the last 22 years
in our socio-political life imposed discussing new doctrines related to Bulgarian national ideal
at the end of XX century and the first decade of the XXI century.
The national ideal has a complex structure reflecting different aspects of the activities
and interests of the nation. Determines the content and priorities of our national interests in
domestic and foreign policy. Reflects national values, understanding of national identity and
spirit.
National interests
National interests still labeled with the French expression raison d'État cover all issues
relating to the conservation and preservation of the national community and ensure its
security, unity and prosperity. In different historical periods they are different because they
are driven by the specific political, socio-cultural and economic conditions.
National and state interests overlap in meaning, only when the state is a national. When
the state is not national interests and the interests of its nation may be diametrically opposed.