{"id":4311,"date":"2020-02-11T11:38:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T06:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=4311"},"modified":"2020-02-11T11:48:51","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T06:18:51","slug":"nationalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/11\/nationalism\/","title":{"rendered":"nationalism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nationalism has existed since the inception of divided territories. In recent times it has become a medium for propaganda. Be it, politicians, sales or marketing everyone is milking Nationalism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have divided the creativity and formed a wall on the concept of nation. Be it a developed or developing country, everywhere we have politicians talking about the country and reminding us about its past glory.  Why do we have to drink kool-aid of the past when in present most of us are barely surviving. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What happened to the meritocracy? Did it turn into a thing for the continual showcase? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why do we have to sell nationalism in our sales pitch or in our marketing brochures to get eyeballs? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why is your LinkedIn profile says India First or helping Indian founders when the reality is the opposite? Why is this duality in positioning and practicing? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Does that mean I am not proud of being born in India? I am very much, but I dislike throwing nationalism as a cure for all the problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p><br>\u201cImagine there&#8217;s no countries<br>It isn&#8217;t hard to do<br>Nothing to kill or die for<br>And no religion too<br>Imagine all the people<br>Living life in peace<br><br>You may say that I&#8217;m a dreamer<br>But I&#8217;m not the only one<br>I hope someday you&#8217;ll join us<br>And the world will be as one\u201d&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;\u2015  John Lennon, Imagine<br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nationalism has existed since the inception of divided territories. In recent times it has become a medium for propaganda. Be it, politicians, sales or marketing everyone is milking Nationalism. We have divided the creativity and formed a wall on the concept of nation. Be it a developed or developing country, everywhere we have politicians talking &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/11\/nationalism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;nationalism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4311"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4314,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4311\/revisions\/4314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}