a key part of the system of rebuilding Europe and a new political order there after World War I. Nationalism has taken root in many European countries and cultures. In France, Germany, Britain, and America, nationalism manifested itself in various ways. In France, the French Revolution asserted the sovereignty of the people, the nation, and stressed individual freedoms. The objectivity and the cause bound them together, yet in the end, they were attempting to restructure society, formulate a new way of life, and a new nation in a futuristic manner under an absolute ruler bent on a form of expansionist nationalism. They lost sight of their commonalities which were linked to the past. This is where a European country like Germany succeeded. The typical characteristic of German nationalism was one with a conservative emphasis. Johann Fitchte, a German writer, spoke of a common desire when calling for Germany to assert its cultural supremacy, in hopes that the common desire of uniting all Germans into one fatherland would ignite action. More recently, German nationalism has been engineered by an architect with a desire to severe the connection between the reactionary and the nationalist within his culture. This reactionary fervor also played a part in the conflict between British and American nationalism. Both stress self-determination as key, and both have shown to be overcome by their international power at points, leading to an expression of national supremacy, just as Germany had. However, in the United States, there has been a much more diverse expression of nationalism. It aroused many internal conflicts, seeing as nationalism has usually bound groups of individuals together according to their ethnic or cultural backgrounds. The most recent expression of nationalism in the U.S. was that of black nationalism, taking root originally in the brain child of Marcus Garvey, a group called the Universal Negro Improvement Associat...
