This article helped me to realize that many millions of people in my country are getting nationalism and patriotism confused. It's easy to do, especially if you're stupid and trust me, if you've been into Wal-Mart lately you know there are millions of stupid people hiding out in the USA.

I thought to myself, "before I post about this observation in my blog I should check out the definitions and see if people get them confused because their definitions are similar."

Ha ha.

1. patriotism, nationalism -- (love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it)

Very funny. It's things like this that cause everyone to put US flags on their SUV and not complain when the US breaks international law to invade another country without compelling evidence that we are threatened. Because we're 'special'.

I could go off into the vortex of the history of nationalism, but instead I'll just say it with links.