The Social Group Distinction of Nationalists and Globalists amid COVID-19 Pandemic
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The Social Group Distinction of Nationalists and Globalists amid COVID‑19 Pandemic Zhining He1 · Zhe Chen2 Received: 15 July 2020 / Accepted: 7 November 2020 © Fudan University 2020
Abstract The primary discussion in this article is the classification of the typical reactions of social groups in various nations as nationalist and globalist. Subject to the new coronavirus pandemic, nationalists have adopted extreme national security policies, namely, “the nation’s interests prevails;” globalists have adopted moderate policies by complying with the faith of society in the recommendations of the scientific community. The disparate contrasts in values and actions between the two groups are extensively manifested in domestic disease control, attitude toward the World Health Organization, identification of the disease’s source, vaccine research, international cooperation, and social reaction. This research indicates that nationalists largely consist of conservative country leaders, “social elites,” populists, and individuals in the middle-lower class, many of whom uphold racism and extreme nationalism, and that globalists largely consist of international organizations and regional leaders, medical practitioners, intellectuals and philanthropic entrepreneurs, the middleupper class population. This social group distinction is clarified in accordance with converse ethical value perspectives, ideologies, social group-economic interests, and even national competition positions. Regarding cultural and institutional basics, nationalists uphold neoliberalism, social Darwinism, the law of jungle, and individualism, whereas globalists advocate for social democracy and collectivistic ethnic codes. The two parties have been competing for the high moral ground during and the pandemic, thereby profoundly affecting the relationships of nations worldwide. Keywords COVID-19 · Nationalists · Globalists · Social group distinction
* Zhining He [email protected] Zhe Chen [email protected] 1
Southeast University, Nanjing, China
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The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK
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1 Introduction Under the global new coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, all countries have implemented different measures and achieved disparate response effects. The COVID-19 pandemic is a novel topic of contemporary globalization. Globalization has long indicated close communication and division of labor and cooperation between nation-states. Thus, this study will answer why different countries have implemented different measures against the same pandemic, as well as the type of social structure and international political mechanism. The differences in attitudes and strategies of different countries and groups are attributed to the current differences between nationalists and globalists. Given the response of social groups in different nations to the COVID-19 pandemic, this study splits social groups into nationalists and globalists. By tracking the responses against a global pandemic, findings we
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