Cultural nationalism, ethnic nationalism, and civic nationalism have been falsely divided

In a praiseworthy article for The Burkean, Maolsheachlann Ó Ceallaigh's thesis is that "there are three basic varieties of nationalism, cultural nationalism, ethnic nationalism, and civic nationalism,” and he argues that “cultural nationalism is by far the most important of the three, but that the other two cannot be disregarded.” He concludes his essay with a suggestion of how the “three nationalisms” might be blended: “cultural nationalism above all...and an “acceptance of the importance of blood ties, even if they are not paramount; and a place (but very much the third place) for civic nationalism, so that those left out of the first two categories are not entirely excluded.”

The problem with that thesis is that cultural nationalism, ethnic nationalism, and civic nationalism have been falsely divided in the modern world by politically correct cultural Marxism when in reality they are not divided and were not divided through human history.

There is a co-evolution between culture and biology. The great sociobiologist E.O. Wilson has also found that there is a co-evolution between group-selection and individual-selection with group-selection paramount in successful human survival and reproduction. Group-selection created altruism which favored genetically related groups over more distantly related groups. There is a natural continuum of altruism where concern for the world comes after concern for ones own land and people. Ethnocentrism and racialism are part of real human nature and were genetically selected because they were the most  successful in survival and reproduction.  Ed Dutton concluded that universalist humanitarianism is ultimately a losing strategy because it is “unable to sustain high levels of in-group cooperation.” Humanitarian groups invariably “waste their precious reproductive potential helping out free riders who give them nothing in return...”

But the biggest damaging error that has been foisted on us has been equating or confounding racism and ethnocentrism with supremacism, which has been the constant propaganda of the Media, who portray marauding barbarianism any time race or ethnicity is mentioned---especially white racism. They have managed to make even the discussion of this subject illegal in some countries.

The Ethnopluralism Hypothesis has tried to counter this propaganda. Real human nature remains kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual, marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and religious-making, among other things, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection, followed by individual selection, and this leads naturally to the cultural expression of regionalism, localism, ethnostates, and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates. Given who we are this appears to be the best way, the most humane way, for all distinct groups to thrive and develop, with the ethnostates protected from marauding imperialists, supremacists, and global money grubbers, by a light federalism.