How nationalism and globalism can coexist | Wanis Kabbaj 

It’s one thing to share culture through interaction it’s another to be ruled by politicians not from your country, not elected, and not accountable.

"If I redefine two contradictory terms to mean something that doesn't contradict, then there's no contradiction!" - This talk in a nutshell. Saved you 13 minutes.

Nationalism is good! every country should practice Nationalism! If i go to Japan, i want to see Japan!

So if we call patriotism “nationalism” and then call free trade “globalism” then everyone is cool, right? Sounds like a plan. I love word games.

I guess all us nationalists have been misunderstanding globalism all this time. 🙄

On personal level, I have affections for Stockholm, Sweden, Europe and the world

Globalization made economic equality larger within counties and regions but smaller between countries and regions

You just listed positive things about borrowing cultures. While ignored the fast difference in moral values that different cultures have.

My only problem with this is that most time this dilemma posed under the umbrella of financial and economic policies. When creating new tax laws or business reforms what should we prioritize the national good or the global good? This among others is the platform used by leaders when pushing for nationalism or globalism

You know looking at the title I didn't expect this to go over well, but this was a wonderful talk and I really loved it. I think we need more of this, I wouldn't consider myself a globalist or a nationalist since they are both loaded terms, but if you get to the true meaning of the words they aren't anything to be ashamed of, hopefully we can reach a time when we can be both.

If you are reading this, be conscious that most of the comments will just make you feel worse. Why don't you just close this tab and go build the better place Wanis Kabbaj was just talking about?

Feeling proud of your country or having national satisfaction doesn’t make you a nationalist. You’re talking about patriotism.

Wanis Kabbaj! Standing ovations to you.

I hear his next TED talk is on how to successfully mix oil and water without any emulsifiers.

Love your neighbor as yourself. One cannot properly care for others when they do not care for themselves. Certain countries for far too long haven't not fully cared for themselves.

Its funny how the crowd laughed at the insults towards nationalist but not at the insults towards globalists

There are always more options and it feels to me this talk is basing its whole argument or ideas on their only being 2 options Nationalist or Globalist. I think this called a black or white fallacy. Still an interesting video with interesting ideas.

AWESOME TALK! Thankyou for imparting sanity and hope.

If people had ultimate freedom to move between countries. Would we find ourselves living in a beautiful world where people with similar outlooks and lifestyles could all gather together and each group have its own little slice of land? Or would we just be throwing ourselves into a resource war? This is a question I think about a lot.

It’s really refreshing to see people’s opinions on both sides in the same comment section

I like how most people in the audience are smiling deeply.. They are really enjoying him speak.. Just as I am too..

Nationalism+Globalism=Oil+Water No real solutions

People claim that Nationalism causes wars, It doesn't. Bad Nationalism causes wars, there is good nationalism as well which is what most nations, good or bad have practiced throughout their history. The anti-nationalist arguments of today are as bad as the anti-urban arguments of the late 20th century where people argued that Urbanism causes crime, violence, civil disorder etc. but the truth is that the bad urbanism of America and Desegregation brought these issues, it was nothing inherent about Urbanism itself.

All I have to say is, as a citizen, it's fairly easy to show up to your mayor's house and ask for change, vs the impossible task of flying to a global entity's secured and surveilled iron gates asking for change. It's also a fairly small task to move out of a town if you disagree with policy, vs being unable to escape from a nation, let alone an entire PLANET if you disagree with policy. It's also a lot easier to go up against a small business than a mega corporation. Take your pick where you want the majority of power to lie... Locally, or globally. 😳 Globalization is also the new colonialism with regard to obliterating and watering down local cultures and customs. Only the opulent elite aren't after a nation or two this time, they're after the entire planet. The mere word 'community', or commune or communism can work fine on a very small homogenous population. Because when it comes time to divvy up the revenue raised, there's trust and a very easy way for citizens to make sure it is done right. A GIANT conglomeration can not be trusted to take care of each group fairly; the citizen can't track the change, nor can the citizen make change when it's done poorly or wrongly, nor can the citizens tailor the structure to THEIR community. What happens now is a total breakdown of local community. Again, do you want the power structure to be small and localized? Or a giant, untouchable, one-size fits all structure? Because once you hand over power, as history has shown, it's very rare you'll ever get it back.

I don't see how humanity can survive without being united.

Completely agree with this guy that all cultures/ nations are influenced by other cultures/ nations. The issue for me lies that in globalisation with some external pressure other than the benefit of humanity, such as dominance, leads to a culture developing in spite of what the people of that population may want. He said it himself, nationalists are afraid of greedy capitalists. I'm sure the millions who died to Marxism in China didn't agree to that influence on their lives, but now it is a part of the culture. In my personal context, I don't want a religious context developing in my country, with new waves of migration bringing fundamentally different view points on what is considered 'good', to the Eurocentric, Kantian/ enlightenment, view points of individuality and accountability. Ignorance to the reality of the world is being force upon European/ first world countries, in the name of compassion, which is to the direct benefit of those who don't care for compassion, the elite capitalists that will profit from it at the expense of a loss of the most technologically progressive culture the world has seen. It doesn't seem right.

Nationalism is the thing that drives you to do something for your country simultaneously for the humanity because you know that if you become successful you along with your country would be glorified . But in case of global problems we should try to solve it unitedly and for For that we already have a good institution named as UN .The meaning of globalization and Globalism should be restricted to business only ... Besides this what I have seen that when you try to disrupt and destroy a society with an evil intention you bring the concept of so called Globalism . I'm naming a person who is Currently doing such things in a massive scale in India is Dhrub Tatti . Be Nationalistic because if you are not then probably you are destroying your own nation Unknowingly.Jay HIND ...love every one from India ...

I have no words to express my happiness watching the presentation.

Great message! but wouldn’t Patriotism be the better word for your definitions of nationalism??

Word Salad, but one fascinating omission, no imagery for Globalists, I wonder why!

Fantastic insight!

I like this ted talk and I think it is far better than all the blinded think happy ted talks, it has some depth and something new to offer

I wathced this on TED app. It was insightful. I am waiting to see further discussion after this lecture. Thank you for sharing knowledge.

Make globalists scared again🐸

In overall, insightful video, especially regarding WVS

Compromise can be good and has been occurring since the beginning because absolutes don’t really insure continuance or survival. Change and evolution are undeniable

Great talk!

Did I miss his answer?

Who's here watching because of their module???😉

Freedom is the best path forward.

We need to establish with our own governments that the people have a right to decide if they want to be globalist or not.

I agree with this video maybe 100%. That's relatively rare.

This is one galaxy brain of a title....

Summary plz?

Nationalism is the way to go, whilst also adopting some of the 'socialist' principles like that of mutual economic cooperation.

The speach that has to be heard by aeach and every modern politician in the EU

Wonderful talk, a message we need more people to hear

The coexistence is the very hard to do

He didnt touch on alot but i liked the message over all

Ya3tik Essaha , you said it all

“Unification of the whole of mankind is the hall-mark of the stage which human society is now approaching. Unity of family, of tribe, of city-state, and nation have been successively attempted and fully established. World unity is the goal towards which a harassed humanity is striving. Nation-building has come to an end.“ ~ ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Baha'i Faith

Totally agree. Nationalism & Globalism don't bring goods or bad only. Why force people to pick one, why can't we have both? Balance is always the crucial and difficult.

Balance is the Key

Highly Insightful

Thanks

I'm looking for the Wanis Kabbaj song Superbass

Are there only two options? I don't believe so.

The content of the video does not match the title as it does not describe the "how", it simply gave examples. The question should be, how to strike a balance and the answer is simple, if not in practice... Homogeneous Cultural Values with the non agression principle recognized globally.

People are scared to lose cultures but internet has managed to conserve and preserve cultures. People learn many variety of culture in the world by that they learn to respect each other e.g Muslims they have mosque around the world and people acknowledge that

I really dont get this discussion, Globalism vs Nationalism. They are not opposite's they exist together at the same time. That we present them as being opposite to eachother comes from the agenda of the speaker not by fact. I admire his will of creating a better world but by making globalism work that can lead to the same violence levels nationalism can create. When will people allow eachother to believe or follow where their heart leads them instead of raising the finger of morality.

Bharat maa and mother Earth 👍❤️🌎 🇮🇳

I’m sorry but glocalization is not a new concept? That has been thrown around since 1990’s.

Sooo this talk should be about HOW to combine them. But that question hasn't been answered

So I was really curious about why he used different dictionaries when he defined the word Nationalism vs the word Globalism. So I googled the definition of Nationalism. This is the definition of Nationalism in most other dictionaries: nationalism: "The strong belief that the interests of a particular nation-state are of primary importance. Also, the belief that a people who share a common language, history, and culture should constitute an independent nation, free of foreign domination." Yeah. He's using the most edge-case definition of what is essentialy xenophobia in this speech. He's not actually talking about Nationalism, just pride in your own country. For people wondering why you can't actually work with Nationalists is because they don't want to work with you. They don't like you.

It can coexist, but people disagree about what comes first.

👽 Though this was a good lecture, not knocking the speaker, but..... What Relevance Does This Topic Have To Technology, Entertainment, or Design?

#Nationalists✌️ favor selected international cooperation. #GoNationalist✌️ #PeaceAndFreeNations✌️ #ProtectWildernessAndWildlife✌️

One cannot really love a country as a biological person. But one can have affections for a country as on basis of freedom and human rights

This talk is more opinion than fact. Social "scientists" wouldn't know a frequency distribution if it came up and bit them on their alpha level :)

His nationalism is patriotism. Don't get the two mixed up. It is a difference that could produce our extinction.

Good pov

One problem with the term national identity is that is often presented as something very unique and essential. But different people have different affections and national affections were often developed by inspiration from universal ideas

prejudice will miss this message, nor will watch the video great talk..

If we just think of people like people, not Chinese, not Russian, not Australian, not American, French, British, Mongolian or any other country than peoples arguments about one “country” controlling all the others through a global government can all be thrown out the window, and our cultures should always remain respected in a Global Constitution

"How can nationalism and globalism coexist?" Education and intelligence helps. And what's missing? Yep...you guessed it: Education and Intelligence. Is there hope? Nope.

Exchange of culture will happen with nationalism to. We are less nationaliatic as a whole now than we have ever been before, still he is talking about all these things imported from other cultures. Globalism has never really been tested as nationalism has. I fear that by exchanging to much of our cultures too quickly will end up in one single culture. But that is not what a globalist wants, is it? Back in time some businessman that had traveled overseas could bring home a new kind of spice, and that later became a part of his country's culture. But I think that forcing too much of this new spice into another country will not be appreciated. Islam and christianity, for instance, is known for forcing their beliefs into another country and that was not appreciated in the short term. But in the long term it was accepted and eventually even forgotten. But now that we have so much extremely lethal weapons and terrorist groups, polarised countries etc. I dont think that we have the ability to get through the short term period of the extreme change. I got these thoughts when I watched a video from Sweden and a video from the UK where Islamists said to newcommers that "we can make this country Islamic" if we work together. I have feared for what my ancerstors would think about Sweden nowadays and that is why I have had these thoughts.

Good chat

Good speech. Watch before commenting.

The global vision that I prefer is a world without Banksters or boundaries, where communities share their skills and resources for the benefit of all. If it's not good for everyone, then it's no good at all. Checkout the "One Small Town" RU-vid video

One central aspect of Citizenship is you have the right to vote on someone who will try to change society in the direcion of your personal philospohy. But since (thankfully) there's yet to be a global goverment, I fail to see how you can be a citizen of the world.

writing was convergently invented at least twice in history.

Very funny coming from a Frenchman

Reading the comments after watching the video makes me realize that the definitions people have of nationalism and globalism are varied and seem to be affected by their personal biases. The whole point of this TED talk is moot in my opinion because Mr. Kabbaj defines the terms he employs using simple dictionary definitions, even though the phenomena are much more complex. To some commenters, nationalism can mean a white ethnostate (..?), the affirmation of one country's individuality (which is the definition I personally adhere to), or the interaction of distinct countries on the world stage (which matches my definition of globalism, but whatever). This is highlighted by the multiple people arguing that Kabbaj is talking about patriotism, not nationalism; what is a patriot? It also seems that, sadly, the debate is devolving into an immigration one. This is inaccurate, as some immigrants come to harbour a strong attachment to their country of adoption, while some "natives" exhibit a loathing towards it. Unless I'm mistaken, at this time on Earth, there is no "nationalist" government that favours entirely closed borders, and no "globalist" whose policies include completely open borders. Both ideas are demographic suicide. Are there some significant challenges brought on by immigration? Absolutely, it's foolish to deny it. But this is not the subject being discussed here. Moreover, dividing the emotions that people feel into binary camps is rather counter-productive as humans fall on an ideological spectrum, though I suspect Mr. Kabbaj did this because adherents to both ideologies can be closed-minded (though I'd wager it's a minority). Tl; Dr: this debate is too complex for a 13-minute talk. One last note: given the comment section, I'm pleasantly surprised by the like/dislike ratio. Ah, who am I kidding, no one is ever going to read this.

Final warning globalism means the Mark .

Does ' globalisation' mean colonialism too? Cuz that example at 10:28 re: cricket and India was a result of 400 years of British colonial rule, and not necessarily open migration or economic cooperation between governments of different sovereign countries that defines globalist policies today. There are loads of examples of culture that's been imported over the ages which local people now consider part of their identity. But let's not forget many were the result of mainly imperialistic Europeans conquering and oppressing natives, and even imposing their traditions on them giving the locals no choice but to adopt their foreign ways (whether food, religion, sport or music, etc.) and make them their own.

There are many who are proud of their city or region and also proud of their country. They can be proud of a peaceful, orderly and sustainable world too.

The world is not black and white but endless shades of grey.

Well explained.. awesome talk

Graph at 6:30 does not tell much about extreme poverty rates.Things that can be bought with $1.90 in 1990 and in 2013 were not close.

This is his opinion, most don't share.

Excellent talk. Both should do better.

Thanks for the insight!

THERE IS NO WAY, YOU CANNOT

Well there is "football nationalism" but one can support a team or a player on the basis of individual performance

Cosmopolitanism connects both local and global

Most people's current understanding of the term "nationalism" is too narrow, and only embraces a limited range of concepts of nationalism e.g primarily identarian or ethnic nationalism. There are other forms of nationalism, and civic nationalism is the foundation of most liberal democracies. This is the framing of the values upon which a nation state is based, and does not have to be framed in terms of ethnicity or exclusionism, but can be inclusive and values-based; values of equality, justice, civil rights, sustainability, and fairness, embracing diversity and inclusion.

Good lesson. How do we preserve both nationalism and globalism? By trading with other countries, get inspired by other countries and let other countries get inspired by us - AND in the same way STILL let other countries people stay in their countries and not go to our countries and start living on welfare. When sushi came to Europe - it did not come together with 100 000 japanese people. We got exchange of culture ANYWAY!

Brexit is about the British people electing a British parliament that controls British affairs. Borders law immigration business etc. Not global bodies. Unelected by us.

It is reprehensible to call British colonization "A wave of globalisation". As a descendent of Arab invaders in Northern Africa, i'm not surprised he said it.

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