You want me to take it down? Memes are not rooted in truth.

@Admin I will add a comment on it

@Admin check it now.

@admin, @AZWoman, to be honest, I have a problem with the real definition too--the part that says,

especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.

I don't believe that to be central to nationalism at all. That's like saying I have walls and door locks to the exclusion or detriment of my neighbors.

We don't have walls and door locks to exclude or harm our neighbors--or good people in general. Locks aren't for good people. Good people won't enter your home uninvited. Locks are for bad people.

A border wall isn't for good immigrants who obey our laws and wait in line to go through the process to become citizens. A border wall is for law breakers.

Meh, I don't like it. Google being political. There are a ton of ways to define nationalism without ever excluding anyone or to anyone's detriment. I can see an argument for softening 'exclusion', but there's not really another meaning to detriment. Maybe, the meme's wrong, but it's right too.

By the way, I don't think we should post memes that are misleading without noting it.

Isn't that the purpose of the original post? To demonstrate how memes are often used to distort truth? I think this is a good example. That said, I have an issue with Google's portrayal of nationalism anyway, part of which @chuckpo illustrated above.

In my experience, whenever Google has an egregiously bad definition, people make a meme about it and Google changes their definition. So most memes trying to reveal problems in Google results will have a short shelf life before Google changes their definition.

I searched Google for <their extreme nationalism was frightening> (with no quotes or brackets) and my first result was a comment on Quora where someone discussed finding the text given in the above the meme on Google a few years ago.

[quora.com]

If I search Google for the exact quote "their extreme nationalism was frightening" (with quotes included) I get a different top response, but some of the links on the first page also quote it as part of a Google definition.

When I search now, I don't see that definition myself.

It's likely that Google had the above listed definition at one time, but changed their definition when too many people made memes about it.

Based on the data I have gathered, I don't think the meme is misleading, just outdated.

@Admin, I respectfully submit that just because that's not what you see doesn't mean that's not what somebody saw. My understanding is that Google tailors its search results depending one what a particular users past searches have been for. They've been doing this a long time. The meme may be outdated, but I don't believe it's entirely inaccurate or misleading.