ETHNICITY is identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions.
NATIONALITY is identity with a group of people who share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular country.
SELF- DETERMINATION is the concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.
NATION STATE is a state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality.
NATIONALISM is loyalty and devotion to a nationality.
ETHNICITY
The cultural values shared with others of the same ethnicity derive from religion, language, and material culture.
The American “ethnicity” identifies groups with distinct ancestry and cultural traditions, such as Africans or Hispanics Americans.
NATIONALITY
The cultural values shared with others of the same nationality derive from voting, obtaining a passport, and performing civic duties.
The American “nationality” identifies citizens of the United States of America, including those born in the country and those who immigrated and became citizens.
- ETHNIC GROUPS HAVE BEEN TRANSFORMED INTO NATIONALITIES BECAUSE DESIRE FOR SELF- RULE IS A VERY IMPORTANT SHARED ATTITUDE FOR MANY OF THEM!
- ETHNICITIES WERE TRANSFORMED INTO NATIONALITIES THROUGHOUT EUROPE DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY!
The French nationality fused together French ethnic cultural traditions, with a belief in the values of the French Revolution of 1789. Most of Western Europe were made up of nation- states by 1900.
Nationalism typically promotes a sense of national consciousness that exalts one nation above all others and emphasizes its culture and interests as opposed to those of other nations. People display nationalism by supporting a state that preserves and enhances the culture and attitudes of their nationality. Nearly all countries control, or at least regulate, most forms of communications including mail, telephone, telegraph, television, radio, and satellite transmissions.
