How did ideologies create the modern world? The human psyche is based on ideologies. Whether you put a name to it or not, many of the decisions that one makes in their day to day life are based on the ideologies that either they grew up around or they have chosen. While religion and ideology are closely associated with each other, there does exist several secular ideologies that are responsible for the existence of the world as we know it. A few of the basic ideologies that are responsible for the way the world now is, are nationalism, liberalism, imperialism, utilitarianism, and isolationism. The largest overall contributor to the formation of the modern world is the idea of nationalism. In a world where movement beyond the village or …show more content…
Although the English people share an island, they do not possess an English nationalism as the Scottish, Welsh, and Irish believe their nationality to be separate from the entirety of the British Isles. The British are still to this day fighting, politically, to have a cohesive nation on their islands. When the ideology of nationalism was introduced to Germany, it led to in-fighting for unification within the three hundred Germanic states of the time. Eventually Germanic nationalism escalated into a belief that the nation-state was right in all that it did and the people should support the state without question, resulting in the Nazi party of Germany, the rise to power of Adolph Hitler, and the advent of World War II. Italian nationalism was similar to Germanic nationalism, with fighting occurring between the pope and the state, and the Fascists and Mussolini causing Italian nationalism to turn radical. As people became more accustomed to the idea that the nation is always right and will provide you with everything you need to be happy, nationalism became less of a uniting force and a source of pride and instead opened the way for dictators and tyrants to hold sway over the