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Europe is a big place and the level of nationalism greatly varies. Countries that only recently became (or reclaimed) indepence tend to be more nationalistic. Norway is quite nationalistic but it is mostly focused on sports and the national day. It is very common to have a flag pole outside your house but is mostly used on important days, Ironcally our present day nationalism is mostly a result of ww2. Until then it was mostly the upper class and the upper-middle class that celebrated the national day whilst the Labour class mostly celebrated 1 of may. After the war People from all economic classes felt a need to celebrate the nation and that feeling has never quite gone away. Most of Europe seems to link nationalism With facism, we seem to link it with the struggle against fascism ( much like the Russians, who quite frankly have earned the rigth to be smug nationalist after ww2). Recent polling seems to suggest that non-western immigrants are mostly cool With the big national day celebrations whilst immigrants from other Europea countries find it disturbing.
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