I don't really care about solving Japan's problems. I mentioned the as an poignant, example the end-game to nationalism in a modernized, industrial nation, that didn't even need to purge foreigners because there aren't that many: it's not sustainable, and the population of the country is literally dying.
-Europe is a continent, not a culture
-White is not a culture or ethnicity, but a race.
In the Americas, we witnessed Irish, Italian, Polish, German, etc etc etc people immigrate here at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. They overwhelmingly gave up their ethnic identities to take on the fabrication of whiteness, as white = good, everything else (especially black) = bad.
White supremacy is American Nationalism. There is no legitimate defense for it.
I agree that Europe is not a culture, because it's too big to be a culture. It's made up of many cultures.
However, "white" is a skin color. It's a generalization of many races. Kind of like when you hear the words "brown people" these days. But white Americans and black Americans have both a culture and an ethnicity. The idea that children of Irish, Italian, Polish, German, etc immigrants no longer have a culture or ethnicity because they decided to mix together is absurd. It's like saying you put a bunch of ingredients in a pot, so now the pot is empty. No, there's just a new thing there.
A quick wikipedia definition:
An ethnic group, or an ethnicity, is a category of people who identify with each other based on similarities such as common ancestry, language, history, society, culture or nation.[1][2] Ethnicity is usually an inherited status based on the society in which one lives. Membership of an ethnic group tends to be defined by a shared cultural heritage, ancestry, origin myth, history, homeland, language or dialect, symbolic systems such as religion, mythology and ritual, cuisine, dressing style, art, and physical appearance.
It's why I feel the term "African American" is usually quite inappropriate. People who live in the US shouldn't have a qualifier put on the word American. Black people who live in America are every bit as much of Americans as white people.
White supremacy is American Nationalism. There is no legitimate defense for it.
There's no defense for white supremacy, but that can be a very different thing than American Nationalism. I would think any sane and non-racist view of whatever American Nationalism is would absolutely include black people. How could it not? It wouldn't make any sense to suggest otherwise, not that racism makes sense. But xenophobia is just a possible negative result of nationalism, not a requirement.
Another wikipedia definition:
Nationalism is a political, social, and economic system characterized by the promotion of the interests of a particular nation, especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining sovereignty (self-governance) over thehomeland. The political ideology of nationalism holds that a nation should govern themselves, free from outside interference, and is linked to the concept of self-determination. Nationalism is further oriented towards developing and maintaining a national identity based on shared, social characteristics, such as culture and language, religionand politics, and a belief in a common ancestry.[1][2] Nationalism, therefore, seeks to preserve a nation's culture, by way of pride in national achievements, and is closely linked to patriotism, which, in some cases, includes the belief that the nation should control the country's government and the means of production.[3]
"We're doing just fine on our own, and we don't want you people in our country" is nationalism.
"Welcome to America, where we're self-governed and don't rely on outside help" is also nationalism.