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Sunthreit wrote:

Because of two reasons.
1) "Civic Nationalism" doesn't mean anything anymore. It could be because of the centre-left using the term while simultaneously considering themselves "citizens of the world", or it could be something else. I dunno, but "civic nationalism" in much of the west is a pretty useless thing, except maybe in the USA which has horrible race relations anyway.
2) in many cases foreign mass immigration for the purpose of expanding the labour pool is actually a direct threat to various Western national identities, especially in Europe where the EU has actually remarked that it wants to use immigration to blend everything together and create one "European" identity.

Hmmm. Probably because the Europeans are, well Europeans (Whether they're German or British), and are more used to be homogeneous than heterogeneous, they're more inclined to be nationalistic by ethnicity. While Javanese (like me, for example) are the largest ethnic here, the ratio are far, far smaller between each ethnicity than between Europeans. [Plz don't call me racist. I don't mean to]