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Ethnic nationalism is the form of nationalism in which the state derives political legitimacy from historical cultural or hereditarygroupings ( ethnicities); the underlying assumption is that ethnicities should be politically distinct. This was developed by Johann Gottfried von Herder, who introduced the concept of the Volk ( German for Folk).
Romantic nationalism is a form of ethnic nationalism infused with Romanticism.
Ethnic nationalism is often simply referred to as "nationalism".
Fascism is usually marked by virulent ethnic nationalism, the most extreme example being Nazism in Nazi Germany.
The concepts homeland, fatherland, and motherland are notorious for having sometimes been used as an ethnic nationalist concept, sometimes with fascist or war-mongering connotations.
See also
- nationalism for ethnic nationalism conflicts and ethnic nationalist organizations.
- territorial dispute for a list of territorial disputes, many of which involve ethnic nationalism.
- irredentism, revanchism
- racismRacism refers to beliefs, practices, and institutions that negatively discriminate against people based on their perceived or ascribed race. Sometimes the term is also used to describe the belief that race is the primary determinant of human capacities, o for concepts of ethnic/racial distinction, segregation, supremacism
Ethnicity EthnocentrismEthnocentrism coined by William Graham Sumner, is the viewpoint that one's ethnic group is the center of everything, against which all other groups are judged. Within culture, language, behaviour, customs, and religion can be a basis for ethnic distinctio Nationalism
