National mission ideology has a natural affinity to race-thinking

Evidence

Because English colonists had spread all over the earth, it happened that the most dangerous concept of nationalism, the idea of “national mission,” was especially strong in England. Although national mission as such developed for a long while untinged by racial influences in all countries where peoples aspired to nationhood, it proved finally to have a peculiarly close affinity to race-thinking. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 479

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes ‘national mission’ as a concept in the genealogy toolkit — the idea that a nation has a predestined civilizing role, which later hardens into racism.
• XREF: Connects to how Orientalism’s civilizing-mission rhetoric later gets racialized in colonial governance arguments. — connects to: White mission aid treated blacks as both mission field and threat to national order — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 528