As an ethnic Filipino, I have always believed that my nation is great. to be clear, I am not talking about the government, but rather the rich culture and the culmination of thousands of years of history that define my nation.

I believe globalism is a driving force for cultural homogenization, and I argue that nationalism is a superior framework for the following reasons:

Cultural Preservation: Without some level of nationalism, smaller cultures like ours get swallowed whole. Globalism doesn't "exchange" culture in my eyes it replaces indigenous traditions with whatever a multi-national corporation wants to sell us.

You can’t have a "global community" because you can't actually care about 8 billion people. Nationalism creates a manageable scale of social glue where people actually look out for their neighbors because they share a common history and identity, I see globalism as a framework to waterdown cultures to a point where everything just becomes a commodity.…