On Nations and "Nationalism"

On Nations and "Nationalism":
Language is just a vehicle for communications. The love for your country can be expressed in any language, and many great countries and empires used two or more languages for their various communications. "Nationalism" (in quote marks because many different people mean many different things by it) is the love for your country and your people taken into extreme, and like all "extremes" is too far off the mark, besides being intellectually quite limited, to put it mildly; in difference with "patriotism" which is a healthy and mature such love. For example, there is no inherent contradiction in being a Puerto Rican and an American at the same time. Just the opposite: this is exactly where the "synergy" is.