Icelandic nationalism

Þjóðernishyggja is the Icelandic term for nationalism; nationmindedness is a rough translation of the term. Its use was instrumental in the Icelandic movement for independence from Denmark, led by independence hero Jón Sigurðsson.

Þjóðernishyggja is now commonly used for patriotism in Icelandic interchangeable with another word: Föðurlandsást, i. e. Love of one's country or patriotism. There is little difference between the two in Icelandic and they are considered to be the same by most. Extreme nationalism in the English sense would be called Þjóðernissósíalismi, literally National Socialism, but that has never had any significant political following in Iceland and is openly derided.

Icelandic Nationalism or Þjóðernishyggja or Föðurlandsást is based upon the idea of resurrection of the Icelandic Free State, and its values (or what was believed to be its values): democracy, freedom of the individual, the need for the country to be independent, and respect for the cultural and religious traditions, specially the long preserved language. Historically, Icelanders have seen their current republic to be the reincarnation of the old Free state, and thus is Icelandic Nationalism today based upon preserving what was gained by the independence movement. Thus Icelandic nationalist sentiment, having some aspects of civic nationalism, is highly respectful of democratic parliamentary powers (see resurrected Althing) and skeptical of foreign control over Iceland, which is partly responsible for the fact there is little will in Iceland for joining the EU.

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Ethnic nationalism

Africa	Acholi Afrikaner Algerian Arab Berber Canarian Congolese Egyptian Ethiopian Hutu Libyan Nigerian Sahrawi Somali Tunisian Ugandan

Asia	Arab Armenian Assamese Assyrian Azerbaijani Balkar and Karachay Baloch Bangladeshi Belarusian Bengali Bodo Burmese Burmese Buddhist Chinese Circassian Dalit East Turkestani Filipino Gorkha Hindu Indian Indonesian Iranian Iraqi Japanese Jewish Kashmiri Khmer Korean Kurdish Lebanese Lezgian Malay Malaysian Hindu Manchurian Marathi Mongolian Naga Pashtuns Pakistani Palestinian Ryukyu Saraiki Sikh Sindhi Sinhalese Buddhist South Asian Muslim Sri Lankan Tamil Syrian Taiwanese Tamil Thai Tibetan Tripuri Turkic Turkish Vietnamese Zaza

Europe	Albanian Andalusian Armenian Asturian Austrian Azerbaijani Balkar and Karachay Basque Bavarian Belarusian Bosnian Breton British Canarian Castilian Catalan Celtic Circassian Cornish Corsican Croatian Czechoslovak English Estonian Faroese Flemish Finnish French Galician German (in Austria) Georgian Greek Hungarian Icelandic Irish Italian Lezgian Macedonian Moldovan Montenegrin Norwegian Occitan Polish Prussian Rhenish Romanian Russian Scandinavian Sardinian Scottish Serbian Sicilian Slavic Slovenian Soviet Spanish Swabian Turkic Turkish Ukrainian Ulster Valencian Venetian Walloon Welsh Yugoslav

North America	American Canadian Chicano Greenlandic Québécois Southern

South America	Argentine Brazilian

Oceania	Hawaiian Māori NZ South Islander

Other	Black Christian Islamic White

Note: Forms of nationalism based primarily on ethnic groups are listed above. This does not imply that all nationalists with a given ethnicity subscribe to that form of ethnic nationalism.

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