you flat out refuse? or are you merely saying how it isn't useful to look at the history? I dare ask why you bothered to comment at all? :p

I also found the Nope curious. Perhaps if we read it in wingdings it's an intelligible message.

Sorry, I was partly trolling and partly bemused by the fact that you didn't give us a proper OP. I'll stop being a troll and ask you properly:

Why do you want the forum to predict the future of nationalism? Why does it interest you? What are you really asking here?

It was not a question, a simple instruction, and to hide my own biases I didn't answer myself. This was hopefully to get others to reveal their biases.

That said, the interest is definitely coming from the idea that Nationalism as a concept began only a few hundred years ago, and all of history before that time must be taken from a context of understanding that they didn't have this concept in the same day as we have it now...

This raises the question, what cultural changes will the future hold?

Some people would argue that nationalism did not truly begin only a few hundred years ago. How do you separate the community of a greek city state, or the Roman republic with what we term today as "nationalism"

so the moral would be that nationalism is not something that could easily be put on a time line, beginning here, ending there, but a state of communal identity that depends on certain factors

@ orathaic: Who are you to give us "instructions"? I think being a mod is really going to your head! (only joking)

I've no idea what the future holds for Nationalism but I hope for a future where Nationalism is no longer as powerful a force as it is today. People are people whichever country they were born in. You can be proud of your heritage and culture but national pride should have no place in politics.

In fact, I think Billy Bragg's version of the Internationale sums up my position on the matter:

"Let no one build walls to divide us,
Walls of hatred nor walls of stone.
Come greet the dawn and stand beside us,
We'll live together or we'll die alone.
In our world poisoned by exploitation,
Those who have taken, now they must give!
And end the vanity of nations,
We've but one Earth on which to live.
So come brothers and sisters,
For the struggle carries on.
The Internationale,
Unites the world in song.
So comrades, come rally,
For this is the time and place!
The Internationale,
Unites the human race.

I think the white mans burden describes my views of nationalism (jks)

I am generally very in favour of smaller states, both in terms of government and country. Countries with less then 10 million people generally fair better (in GDP per Capita, PCI, Literacy Rate, etc.). For this reason the breaking up of bigger nations in favour of multiple smaller nations stands to reason as an ideal.

So for example, I would support the breaking up the USA into 50 different indepedent countries.

In this sense I am sorta anti-nationalist, despite Putins beliefs that I am (mainly due to previos trolling opportunities)