ABSTRACT
Nationalism is the most important ideology of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in its own right or it can be a component of other ideologies, as focusing on fascism/nazism, communism, and democracy. In the original meaning of Nation, natio referred to a human group characterized by the community of birth—that is, a human group in a particular geographic area. Later on the meaning of nation was expanded to include common values, common ideals, common customs, common territory, common religion, common race, common past, common future, and the like. The roots of modern nationalism go back to the middle of the eighteenth century and a movement called romanticism.
