Are you a nationalist or a patriot?

I guess I fall in to the patriot catagory. I love this country and most things about it, icluding the system of government that was established, but hate the cancer that has taken over that system and perversed and twisted it. I have deep contempt for the people running that system and for what they have done to it.

For me the difference between these two words is that nationalism refers to the nationality, which means the ethnicity of someone, no matter what country you live in. Patriotism refers to your feelings which you have for your country and everything that it represents, when the nationality of the people who live in a particular country doesn't matter. I consider myself nationalist, because I love my nation, and the land where I am living on. Because I cannot call myself a patriot, because the part of the country where I live on belonged a cca. 1000 years to Hungary, and from 90 years to Romania. I am a Hungarian and I am very proud of my nation, which is the Hungarian one and I cannot be proud of the country I live in because I don't consider that it is a legit one. Because Transylvania has to be a part of Hungary and not of Romania, in my opinion. Hope it is clear what I am trying to say.

hello fheroan, you're not the only one, I too am a patriot, I love this country were we born too and it's people and resources. but like you i also hate the government because of their illegal activities. most specially when they started eating in the expensive restaurants in the US