In my podcast, I sit down with my fellow classmate, Emily Gilmer, to discuss the difference between patriotic and nationalistic people, and how they relate to xenophobia.
Patriotic people are people who will accept their in-groups, but when it comes to the out-groups they are willing to respect the rights of those groups but avoid them. Nationalistic people are similar to patriotic people, however, they fully go against the out-groups and will degrade them. Xenophobia is the prejudice against foreigners and immigrants and plays a role in both patriotic and nationalistic people. The world citizen is a mindset people have when they don't see themselves as a citizen of the world and accept all.
The way the two groups share major similarities with each other but then differ drastically when involving foreigners. Both patriotic and nationalistic people have some connections to xenophobia, with only the world citizen group avoids xenophobia. Patriotic people show less xenophobia than nationalistic people.
Both, however, feature tensions with the out-group. Social tensions rise as the out-group goes into the in-group's domain, the clashing cultures will cause more xenophobia as the two cultures exist in the same space. Economic tensions also rise as in-groups will accuse the out-groups of job-stealing, but with no proof of that being done.
The world citizen mindset is a mindset more people need to have. This group of people avoids having xenophobia and contrasts the mindsets of the patriotic and nationalistic people, accepting all cultures and claiming none for themselves.