National Identity in a United Germany: Nationalism or Patriotism? An Empirical Test With Representative Data

Political Psychology - Tập 24 Số 2 - Trang 289-312 - 2003
Thomas Blank1, Peter Schmidt2
1University of Münster, Germany
2University of Giessen, Germany

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Nationalism and patriotism can be thought of as consequences of national identity that represent positive evaluations of one's own group but imply different social goals. This paper investigates the ways in which these concepts are related to attitudes toward minorities. The data analyzed were drawn from a representative sample of residents of the former East and West Germany who responded to items on the national identity of Germans in 1996 as part of a panel study. A model with multiple indicators was tested via a multiple‐group analysis of a structural equations model followed by latent class analyses. Both East and West Germans displayed attitudinal patterns that link national identity with tolerance toward others; in both subsamples, nationalism and patriotism were respectively associated with greater intolerance and greater tolerance toward minorities.

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