Ideological commitment can override national loyalty without dissolving national attachment

Evidence

Almost as frightening as these new dangers arising from the old trouble spots of Europe was the entirely new kind of behavior of all European nationals in “ideological” struggles. Not only were people expelled from country and citizenship, but more and more persons of all countries, including the Western democracies, volunteered to fight in civil wars abroad (something which up to then only a few idealists or adventurers had done) even when this meant cutting themselves off from their national communities. … What the European governments were so afraid of in this process was that the new stateless people could no longer be said to be of dubious or doubtful nationality (de nationalité indéterminée). Even though they had renounced their citizenship, no longer had any connection with or loyalty to their country of origin, and did not identify their nationality with a visible, fully recognized government, they retained a strong attachment to their nationality. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 690

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to the concept of the unassimilable refugee as a distinct political category, which Arendt develops further and which frames later Islamophobia readings on exclusion and the outsider. — connects to: Nationalist demands follow ideology even when they hurt national unity. — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 239