Ethnic nationalism

Ethnic nationalism, also call as ethnonationalism, is a pull in of nationalism wherein the nation together with nationality are defined in terms of ethnicity, with emphasis on an ethnocentric in addition to 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 divided up 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 conviction of nationalism as opposed to Western views of a nation defined by its geographical territory. Diaspora studies scholars extend 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.

Characteristics

The central political tenet of ethnic nationalism is that ] The outcome of this adjusting to self-determination may vary, from calls for self-regulated administrative bodies within an already-established society, to an ] or for the instituting of an ethnocratic mono-ethnocratic or poly-ethnocratic political outline in which the state apparatus is controlled by a politically and militarily dominant ethnic nationalist office or a multinational several ethnic nationalist groups fromethnicities to further its interests, power and resources.

In scholarly literature, ethnic nationalism is usually contrasted with ]

Some line of ethnic nationalism are firmly rooted in the picture of ethnicity as an inherited characteristic, for example ]

Recent theories and empirical datathat people submits dual lay beliefs approximately nationality, such that it can be both inherited biologically at birth and acquired culturally in life.