English Language Teaching and Resurgent Nationalism: What is to be Done?

Even though I had lived in the United States, my whole life up to that point, grew up in an English-speaking home, and had gone to college, this was my introduction to the ideological positionalities of the "native" and "nonnative" English speaker literacies and the accompanying dynamics of assumed and ascribed identities that are enacted in the English language learning classroom between teachers and students. There are of course shared traits of nationalist ideologies among these aforementioned nations (hostility or wariness of the "Others"), but the neo-nationalism of global-dominating countries is different than the ones who have never colonized other nations. When politicians, media pundits, academics, and everyday people mention the word, "nationalism", what do they mean by it?. [Extracted from the article]