Ethnic Nationalism

Ethnic Nationalism ­defines nation through concept of ethnicity, always including some elements of ancestry. It also contains the idea of shared culture and language of its members. Membership in a nation is hereditary. State derives it’s legitimacy through it’s status – to defend a national group and strengthen it’s culture and social life. An idea of ethnicity is too old, but recent nationalism was heavily influenced by Johan Gottfried Von Herder, who made the concept people soundness, and by Johan Gothlib Fixte. Nowadays, ethnic nationalism is a prevailing form of nationalism and generally it is quoted as nationalism. We have to note, Anthony Smith, an influential theoretician of nationalism studies, uses the term ethnic nationalism to refer to the non Western conceptions of nationalism. He confronts this term to the Western viewpoints, where a geographical territory plays a crucial role in nations’ definition[1].
According to the essence of ethnic nationalism ethnos should be exclusive politically, endowed with the right of self-determination[2].
[1]Wikipedia http://www.wikipedia.org/
[2]Wikipedia http://www.wikipedia.org/