Nationalism operates in history while racism operates outside it
Evidence
The fact of the matter is that nationalism thinks in terms of historical destinies, while racism dreams of eternal contaminations, transmitted from the origins of time through an endless sequence of loathsome copulations: outside history. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 570
Categorization
- DEFINE: A crisp binary definition distinguishing nationalism from racism by their temporal orientation — destiny-in-history vs. eternal contamination-outside-history.
- SEED: Angles for an essay contrasting historical-destiny politics with purity politics, applicable to contemporary immigration debates that frame demography as contamination.