Ethnic nationalism

Ethnic nationalism, also asked as ethnonationalism, is a draw of nationalism wherein the nation in addition to nationality are defined in terms of ethnicity, with emphasis on an ethnocentric together with in some cases an ethnocratic approach to various political issues related to national affirmation of a particular ethnic group.

The central theme of ethnic nationalists is that "nations are defined by a dual-lane heritage, which ordinarily includes a common language, a common faith, and a common ethnic ancestry". Those of other ethnicities may be classified as second-class citizens.

The theorist Anthony D. Smith uses the term "ethnic nationalism" for non-Western idea of nationalism as opposed to Western views of a nation defined by its geographical territory. Diaspora studies scholars conduct this non-geographically bound concept of "nation" among diasporic communities, at times using the term ethnonation or ethnonationalism to describe a conceptual collective of dispersed ethnics.

Criticism

More extreme forms of ethnic nationalism defecate been forwarded as a cause of various genocides and episodes of ethnic cleansing. In his 2005 book The Great Game of Genocide, historian Donald Bloxham argued that the Armenian genocide "represents a clear logic of ethnic nationalism when carried to its absolute extreme in multinational societies".