Consistent Rejections Of Nationalism

No one is either rational or irrational or either righteous or unjust because of the geographical location where they were born, and the same is true with regard to someone's country of residence.  All it takes to realize this is a grasp of the simple fact that any idea to the contrary relies on non sequitur fallacies.  Judging someone positively or negatively based on their country of birth or residence is the essence of nationalism, and there are plenty of people who overlook specific cases of this bias.

For example, it is easy to ridicule some Americans for legitimate faults such as a disregard for events occurring outside of the United States, for blind patriotism, and for default support of a preferred political party no matter what imbecilic candidates and ideas inevitably come from that party, but there are also those who ridicule Americans merely because they are Americans.  Proximity to people who believe in asinine ideas does not make a person unintelligent or deserving of mockery, and, ironically, many Americans are criticized precisely for stereotyping foreigners--which is exactly what such stereotypes of Americans deserve criticism for.

Most Americans are indeed stupid, inconsistent, and selfish, but this is not because they are Americans.  It is because most people from every region of the world are likely to be intellectually and morally useless, except perhaps beyond some happenstance minimal threshold they share with the majority of humankind.  Ironically, those who assume negative things about anyone born in America due to the supposed arrogance of all Americans are themselves arrogant!

It is one thing to legitimately criticize the Americans who regard themselves as better than the rest of the world simply because they live in the United States, but it is inherently fallacious and unjust to think that all Americans have this belief or that the ones who do are nationalistic simply because they are American.  This is a hypocritical stance on nationalism, for it rightly calls out some Americans for arrogance over their country of birth or residence while treating them as morally inferior out of nationalistic arrogance.

Oftentimes, people who oppose certain stereotypes use other stereotypes in their arguments against that which they condemn.  Though this is much more common and popular in discussions about gender and race, it is certainly the case with conversations about nationalism as well.  Hypocrisy must be called out for the sake of consistency everywhere it appears, whatever the context, rather than only where it is expected or encouraged to be confronted.