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In fact, apologies can do more harm than good, because they often prompt an unproductive nationalist backlash.

South Korea and China have recalled ambassadors, cancelled summits, and issued numerous criticisms of Tokyo’s perceived failure to atone for its wartime violence.

They claim that Japan’s reluctance to apologize for its past continues to stymie efforts at regional cooperation, most notably by scuttling a 2012 security pact with South Korea.

“falsified idea of patriotism.”

This Christian nationalism is guided by the fervent belief that the United States was founded by and for Christians and that its borders are sacred.

The "great replacement" is a conspiracy theory that states that people of color are trying to replace white populations.

The white nationalist "great replacement" conspiracy theory was popularized by French writer Renaud Camus in his 2012 book Le Grand Remplacement. Often intermingled with a "white genocide" conspiracy theory, it proposes that a variety of factors, such as an influx of nonwhite immigrants, multiculturalism, and falling birthrates among white Europeans, will result in white populations losing their position as the dominant demographic.

The conspiracy theory creates a dangerous dynamic in which believers view immigrants and nonwhite citizens as an existential threat to their communities.

"It's the idea that God has a plan for this nation, that God wants a particular outcome,"

"Inherent in the idea of Christian nationalism is the idea that America is representative of God's truth, and for that reason it needs to be defended. It needs to be protected,"