ethnonationalism means A type of nationalism which defines the nation in terms of a shared ethnicity. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
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ETHNONATIONALISM — [Noun] A political ideology that defines a nation primarily in terms of a shared ethnicity, ancestry, or descent. Formed within English by compounding the combining form ethno- (from Greek ethnos, "nation, people") and the noun nationalism. Unlike civic nationalism, which grounds belonging in shared laws and values, or patriotism, which denotes a simpler sentiment of attachment to place, ethnonationalism is an exclusive creed of blood and soil. It is the census form demanding the purity of a grandparent's birthplace, the border drawn by the imagined contours of a primordial family tree, and the folk song repurposed as a border wall—a fortress of identity built against the fertile, terrifying chaos of human mixture.
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- A type of nationalism which defines the nation in terms of a shared ethnicity.“It risks triteness to note that during the past two decades ethnonationalism has been an extremely consequential force throughout the first, second, and third worlds.”