Ethnic nationalism

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

The central theme of ethnic nationalists is that "nations are defined by a shared 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 theory of nationalism as opposed to Western views of a nation defined by its geographical territory. Diaspora studies scholars advance 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.

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Herodotus stated the leading characteristics of Greek identity: kinship in blood, speech, religious worship, and customs.

Ethnic nationalism is proposed in numerous states' immigration policies in the name of ] administer automatic or rapid citizenship to members of diasporas of their predominant ethnic group, if desired.

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In German nationality law, citizenship is open to ethnic Germans. According to the Greek nationality law, Greeks born abroad may transmit citizenship to their children from set to mark indefinitely.