Cosmopolitan and exclusionary nationalisms differ by future-orientation versus past-orientation

Evidence

One ideal called on America to enlarge its national character by accepting contributions, the other to protect that character by a quarantine on infections. One pictured the nation as great in the universal range of its ties and sympathies, the other as great in the purity of its separateness. One looked toward the future growth of a still unfinished nationality; the other looked back to the past perfection of a completed pattern. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1515

Categorization

• DEFINE: A clean conceptual frame: the two rival Americanisms are distinguished by temporal orientation (expanding unfinished nation vs. receding completed pattern).
• XREF: connects to: Revolutionary belonging is temporal and unconditional while nationalist belonging is spatial and exclusionary — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1866