Icelandic nationalism

Þjóðernishyggja is the Icelandic term for nationalism; nationmindedness is a rough translation of the term. Its use was instrumental in the Icelandic movement for independence from Denmark, led by independence hero Jón Sigurðsson.

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Þjóðernishyggja is now commonly used for patriotism in Icelandic, interchangeable with another Icelandic word: Föðurlandsást, lit. 'Love of one's country', 'patriotism'. There is little difference between the two in Icelandic and they are considered to be the same by most.

Icelandic nationalism or Þjóðernishyggja or Föðurlandsást is based upon the idea of resurrection of the Icelandic Free State, and its values (or what was believed to be its values): democracy, freedom of the individual, the need for the country to be independent, and respect for the cultural and religious traditions, specially the long preserved language. These ideas are often encoded in the popular phrase land, þjóð og tunga ('land, people, and language').[1] Historically, Icelanders have seen their current republic to be the reincarnation of the old Free State, and thus Icelandic nationalism today is based upon preserving what was gained by the independence movement. Thus Icelandic nationalist sentiment, having some aspects of civic and ethnic nationalism, is highly respectful of democratic parliamentary powers (see resurrected Althing) and skeptical of foreign control over Iceland, which is partly responsible for there being little will in Iceland for joining the European Union.

List of Icelandic nationalist parties

Icelandic National Front

References

Veturliði G. Óskarsson, 'Heilög þrenning: Land, þjóð og tunga. Hugleiðing um orðræðu', Tímarit Máls og menningar, 74.2 (June 2013), 37-45. (in Icelandic)

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[1] Veturliði G. Óskarsson, 'Heilög þrenning: Land, þjóð og tunga. Hugleiðing um orðræðu', Tímarit Máls og menningar, 74.2 (June 2013), 37-45. (in Icelandic)

Ethnic nationalism
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Pan-nationalisms	American Arab Celtic German Hispanic Indian Iranian Latin Mongolian Pakistani Slavic Turanian Turkic
Movements	Assam separatist movements East Turkestan independence movement Faroese independence movement Flemish Movement Greenlandic independence Guangdong Independence Movement Māori protest movement Ryukyu independence movement Silesian Autonomy Movement Tibetan independence movement Walloon Movement
Concepts	Hutu Power Kashmiriyat Katarismo Ketuanan Melayu Marathi Abhimaangeet Saraikistan
Other	Racial American Indigenous Black Indigenous White Zionism
Note: Forms of nationalism based primarily on ethnic groups are listed above. This does not imply that all nationalists with a given ethnicity subscribe to that form of ethnic nationalism.