National identification is bound up with positive appraisals of the group’s history

Evidence

In general, identification with a social category (especially with something as complex as a national group) can take on several different meanings. To be a high national identifier, one probably needs to feel good about something one’s group has done or is doing. For some Dutch people, it may be bound up with the colonial past or the nation’s mercantile success. For others, it might be about the success of the national soccer team or the enormous artistic and cultural contribution that has been made by this small nation. In the Netherlands, as well as the United States and Australia, identification might be potentially bound up with a national commitment to liberal-democratic and humanitarian ideals of justice or economic achievements. However, we suspect that many low Dutch identifiers may be low identifiers precisely because they are ambivalent about the nation’s colonial past. The two poles of the identification scale may capture, for these Dutch participants, the essence of a dispute in Dutch society about just how glorious the past was. — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 837

Categorization

• QUESTION: This frames identification as inherently needing positive group evaluation, which would explain why the content of that positivity (glory vs. humanitarian ideals) matters - suspiciously close to the glorification/attachment distinction the reader is seeking.
• SEED: A possible essay comparing how multiple nations’ founding myths (colonial glory, competitive success, humanitarian values) offer different valences for national pride.
• XREF: connects to: High national identification blocks acceptance of the group’s immoral history; low attachment enables it. — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 688; High national identification requires a source of collective pride — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 837; Attachment to country is one component of national identification — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt: Modes…, 24 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• High national identification requires a source of collective pride #expands (0.92) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 837
• Attachment and glorification are distinct facets of national identification. #expands (0.85) — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt, 142
• Selective forgetting of a nation’s negative history is required for national identity #complicates (0.85) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2087
• National glorification but not attachment blocks critical evaluation of ingroup wrongdoing. #qualifies (0.82) — Bernhard Leidner et al., Ingroup Glorification, Moral…, 25
• Attachment to country is one component of national identification #qualifies (0.78) — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt, 24
• Ethnic communities are physically distinguishable and bonded by shared customs and history #qualifies (0.72)