Nationalism

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This paper looks at how nationalism is ostensibly a term which covers such elements as national consciousness, the expression of national identity and loyalty to the nation. It analyzes the concepts of civic and ethnic nationalism and attempts to highlight some of the contrasting aspects, while, at the same time, examine connections between the two ideologies which strive for the establishment, retention or advancement of a nation state. It contains a theoretical, as well as practical discussion of the two forms, citing examples from Europe and South East Asia.

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"Ethnic nationalism usually refers to nationalism determined by descent. Ethnic attachments are inherited rather than chosen, and those who exercise an ethnic form of nationalism are generally considered to be those who have been adversely affected by the political development of alternative civic societies elsewhere - the Jews in pre-war Europe, the Kurds in northern Iraq/eastern Turkey or the Muslims in Bosnia and Kosovo to name but three examples. Subject to the dominance of, and perceiving an inferiority to, such other territorially demarcated nation states, these individuals, feeling the need to adopt statehood in order to survive and progress, unite into groups, with the intention of achieving political recognition in the form of their own nation states."

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