Read "Us and Them: The Enduring Power of Ethnic Nationalism" by Jerry Muller Foreign Affairs 2008, versus "A Cosmopolitan Among the True Believers" by Michael Ignatieff Harpers March 1994. It got me thinking about who is really right about nationalism, the desire to belong, and how it affects the world as a whole. So before we get to who's wrong and who's right, or if there really is a definitive distinction, I need to give you an idea of ​​what the articles are about. So you can understand my comparison. Foreign Affairs, “Us and Them: The Enduring Power of Ethnic Nationalism” by Jerry Muller, Foreign Affairs, was an interesting article. But it lacked simplicity in that it repeated the same idea too much over and over again, now I understand that the idea is to prove the point of his theory that the more similar the ethnicities of the population are, the less likely they are to fight. He went on for several long pages with the idea that ethnic nationalism was not the destructive force, but was the cause, the result, a way of forming borders. Which is not wrong, it's like the way to look at guns, Guns don't kill people, People with guns kill people. So it's about looking at ethnic nationalism as if people with different ethics don't harm/kill people, people who come into contact with and live around people with different ethics kill people, with a class example of Jerusalem with the war of struggle for that piece of land spanning centuries, because two ethnic groups have disputed claims to the Holy Land, and both are willing to fight for their religious holy land (Muller, 5). Now we don't discuss religion in this sense, the author just uses this case to solidify his point to make it even more concrete that, if a group of ethnically similar people are together, things will be fine... middle of paper. .. knowing which side is winning at the moment.” (Ignatieff, 4) this is the nicest statement found in both articles together. It makes it right due to the lack of a suggestion on a solution to cure it. Since logically there is none, it is not possible to make people feel comfortable with the imposition of ethnic groups once they have established comfort. If we had all been interacting with all the people in the world from the beginning, this term might be non-existent. But I believe that in the future, as technology opens up the world market and people become more open-minded, we will be able to accept our ethnic groups and understand them, and as I have read and learned from the wise words of these two men . In conclusion; I have summarized articles describing ethnic nationalism and compared them, showing my belief in the solution to this cycle of like attracts like and opposites hate.