When it comes to nationalism in Hugary, I could probably point to many examples throughout history. But the easiest and probably the most people know is the Austro-Hungarian empire in WWI. There’s few examples that can top what was the Austro-Hungarian empire. A collection of many ethnicities, all living together. A World War was started here because a Serbian nationalist decided to assassinate Arch-Duke Franz Ferdinand Sarajevo. It feels like one of the fewest talked about empires of the war, but most people hardly even recognize it. Everyone just looks at Germany, which makes sense since most Americans are familiar with the western front of the war, but just looking at Germans vs French causes one to lose scope of the entire war. From personal experience, I didn’t even know that much about World War I until I had taken a European history class in College. To me, I barely even knew who the hell Austria-Hungary was when I first started reading about World War I. To me though, there are few better examples of what unchecked nationalism can lead to.
People fighting over tiny pieces of land purely on the basis of national identity, and causing the deaths of millions. It begs the question of is it really worth it? Here’s a nice chart showing division of languages in Austria-Hungary via wikipedia:
This is all pre-world war I, and we can see the aftermath of the Austro-Hungarian collapse in the many nation states that fill the Balkans region today. It’s also easy to see the connection between Nazi Germany and their desire they to conquer land they thought rightfully belonged to Germans. Nationality creates tensions and conflict, but it’s hard to say if we just gave every ethnic group it’s own spot of land would that really fix anything. Personally I think that it may have more to do with ethnicities learning to live together than fighting wars to separate one another. In America we’ve seen the same thing in the way a lot of our history has been built around whites and blacks learning to live together and realizing we both share the same country. Most of this is just built off my opinions though so take it for what you will.
Zakaria in his Rise of the Rest, makes a similar point to what I was talking about earlier when he talks about his experience with a Chinese man who was seemingly globalized in his viewpoint. But, He then says this:
“But when we began talking about Taiwan, Japan, and the United States, his responses were filled with bile… I felt as if I were in Berlin in 1910, speaking to a young German professional, who in those days would have also been both thoroughly modern and thoroughly nationalist.”
Another theme I’ve been writing about Hungary recently has been it’s hard turn towards nationalism and anti-immigration. It shows things we fought 100 years ago still rise their ugly head today. Zakaria explains about the dangers in the rise of nationalism is that it causes people of certain identities to assert their presence in these countries. Just as regions with places like Britain where the Scots want to break away from England and Wales or the tensions rising between groups in India.
https://missouri.instructure.com/courses/18212/files/3732434?module_item_id=1103906
I think the Orientalism reading is a great example of what I’m talking about the ways in which differing groups of people create tensions with one another. Sort of the clash of civilizations and the mixture of cultures sometimes creates tension and nationalism can lead to violence ect. I believe we’re starting to see more clearly when it comes to nationalism vs globalism the type of tensions differing people can have.
Globalization 3510W 
