Nationalism Vs Orientalsim

Moreover, Nationalism has shaped the US culture to be dependent on liberal tradition, universal rights, individualism, civic republicans, self-governance, collective rights and white population’s desire for continued dominance. Bonikowski says "a large majority apparently viewed Jews, Muslims, agnostics, and naturalized citizens as something less than “truly American” (Bonikowski, 2016, p. 11). Nationalism in the US resulted in social attitudes and policy preferences. Nationalism created “Americanism”, which often means rough attitudes toward immigrants and immigration. At the same time, different forms of nationalist sentiments may reflect attitudes toward outsider groups. Nationalism divided the US as a nation into two groups of national attitude. Some groups might have negative views of religious minorities, whereas symbolic patriotism shows more solidarity, collective
Orientalism in the Arab World creates imaginative geography, where people place themselves imaginatively within a known territory, and geographic common sense of belonging and exclude the other. Orientalism is a form of imaginative geography that is focused on the Arab World. Al-Mahfedi states "the Orientalist mis-representation and misconception of the other people, regions and cultures...reduces human geography into a space of inequality and difference rather a space of hybridist and intertwined partnership" (Al-Mahfedi, 2011, p. 3). Thus, Orientalism divides geographies and makes geographical distinctions based on the imagination of “ours” and “theirs”, or "us" and "them". The idea of considering the Arab World as “them” accordingly means different territory and mentality (3). Labeling a group as "otherness" defines their geographical space. The West representation of the Arab World is driven by fantasy, desire, and comparative measures, which produces distance between the West and Arabs (Al-Mahfedi, 2011, p.