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33-559: 19th-century ethnic-nationalist Fennomans saw East Karelia as the ancient home of Finnic culture, "un-contaminated" by either Scandinavians or Slavs . In the sparsely-populated East Karelian backwoods, mainly in White Karelia , Elias Lönnrot (1802–1884) collected the folk tales that ultimately would become Finland 's national epic , the Kalevala (published from 1835 to 1849). The idea of annexing East Karelia to Finland as part of

66-605: A " Greater Finland " had wide support in newly-independent Finland after 1917. It was especially popular during the Russo-Finnish Continuation War of 1941–1944, when such annexation seemed feasible in the wake of an expected German conquest of the Soviet Union . Finnish forces occupied most of East Karelia from 1941 to 1944. The war meant hardship for the local ethnic-Russian civilians, including forced labour and internment in prison camps as enemy aliens . After

99-414: A UN Special Rapporteur on racism , released a UN Human Rights Council report which states that "more than 75% of the world's known stateless populations belong to minority groups" and highlights the role of ethnonationalism in the international deprivation of citizenship rights. In the report, Achiume re-stated that international human rights law prohibits citizens from discriminating against non-citizens on

132-419: A common nation based upon ethnicity, or for the establishment of an ethnocratic (mono-ethnocratic or poly-ethnocratic) political structure in which the state apparatus is controlled by a politically and militarily dominant ethnic nationalist group or a group of several ethnic nationalist groups from select ethnicities to further its interests, power and resources. In scholarly literature, ethnic nationalism

165-410: A conceptual collective of dispersed ethnics. Defining an ethnos widely can lead to ethnic nationalism becoming a form of pan-nationalism or macronationalism, as in cases such as pan-Germanism or pan-Slavism . In scholarly literature, ethnic nationalism is usually contrasted with civic nationalism , although this distinction has also been criticized. The study of ethnonationalism emerged in

198-613: A frequent target of ethnonationalist rhetoric related to "ethnic purity and religious, cultural or linguistic preservation". Even countries with proud histories of immigration have fallen prey to the vilification of "certain racial, religious and national groups" on prejudicial grounds. Achiume called the case of the Rohingya Muslims a "chilling example", with the Burma Citizenship Act of 1982 discriminating based on ethnicity and rendering many Rohingya stateless. The violation of

231-459: A particular ethnic group. The central tenet of ethnic nationalists is that "nations are defined by a shared heritage, which usually includes a common language , a common faith, and a common ethnic ancestry ". Those of other ethnicities may be classified as second-class citizens . Diaspora-studies scholars broaden the concept of "nation" to diasporic communities. The terms "ethnonation" and "ethnonationalism" are sometimes used to describe

264-431: A positive association between ethnonationalism and anti-immigrant attitudes among white Americans, whose opposition to immigration is "often grounded in fears of the threat that immigration poses to the robustness of America's national identity" that is shaped by the belief set concerning the traits of "true" Americans. Hans Kohn Hans Kohn ( Hebrew : הַנְס כֹּהן, or קוהן , September 15, 1891 – March 16, 1971)

297-554: Is usually contrasted with civic nationalism . Ethnic nationalism bases membership of the nation on descent or heredity, often articulated in terms of common blood or kinship, rather than on political membership. Hence, nation states with strong traditions of ethnic nationalism tend to define nationality or citizenship by jus sanguinis (the law of blood, descent from a person of that nationality), and countries with strong traditions of civic nationalism tend to define nationality or citizenship by jus soli (the law of soil, birth within

330-664: The Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People as part of its basic laws under the Fourth Netanyahu government , an act which was highly controversial within Israel itself and among various Jewish groups in the diaspora , as it potentially threatened the formula of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state . This law was controversial especially with many Left Zionists , who saw

363-485: The 2016 US presidential election , ethnonationalism has been pushed to the fore of the American political consciousness by the identity politics of Donald Trump surrounding what it means to be a "true" American, which has resulted in ethnocentric ideals becoming "a robust predictor of vote choice for Trump" among white Americans . Thompson notes that data from the 2016 American National Election Studies (ANES) has revealed

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396-556: The Cold War , the independence movement initiated in former European colonies in Asia and Africa reinvigorated research into ethnic, tribal and national identities and the "political difficulties" stemming from their interactions with territorial statehood, while the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1980s and 1990s and the "resurgence of ethnic and national claims and conflicts in its aftermath" only further spurred ethnonationalism scholarship in

429-660: The Malaysian New Economic Policy is based on race, not deprivation. For instance, all Bumiputra, regardless of their financial standing, are entitled to a 7 percent discount on houses or property, including luxurious units, but low-income non-Bumiputra receives no such financial assistance. Other preferential policies include quotas for admission to government educational institutions, qualifications for public scholarships, marking of universities exam papers, special classes prior to university's end of term exams, positions in government and ownership of businesses. Most of

462-797: The Mandatory Palestine . Kohn taught modern history at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts . From 1948 to 1961, he taught at City College of New York . He also taught at the New School for Social Research , Harvard Summer School . He wrote numerous books on nationalism , Pan-Slavism , German thought, and Judaism . He was an early contributor to the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia . In 1944, he published his major work, The Idea of Nationalism , on

495-815: The Moscow Armistice of September 1944, calls for the annexation of East Karelia to Finland virtually disappeared. After Finland and Soviet Russia divided Karelia between themselves in 1920, the Soviet authorities promised far-reaching cultural rights to the Finnic peoples that made up most of the population of East Karelia. However, within the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic these rights were never realised, and under Stalin (in power c. 1928 to 1953) ethnic Finns were persecuted and an intensive Russification programme began. Since

528-513: The Rohingya , have been identified as causes of various genocides and episodes of ethnic cleansing . In his 2005 book The Great Game of Genocide , historian Donald Bloxham argued that the Armenian genocide "represents a clear logic of ethnic nationalism when it is carried to its absolute extreme in multinational societies". Ethnic nationalism is present in many states' immigration policies in

561-597: The assimilation of minority ethnic groups into the dominant group, for example as with Italianisation . This assimilation may or may not be predicated on a belief in some common ancestry with assimilated groups (for example with Germanisation in the Second World war). An extreme version is racial nationalism . Recent theories and empirical data suggest that people maintain dual lay beliefs about nationality, such that it can be both inherited biologically at birth and acquired culturally in life. In 2018, Tendayi Achiume ,

594-505: The dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Finnic culture in East Karelia has experienced a revival. Ethnic nationalism Ethnic nationalism , also known as ethnonationalism , is a form of nationalism wherein the nation and nationality are defined in terms of ethnicity , with emphasis on an ethnocentric (and in some cases an ethnocratic ) approach to various political issues related to national affirmation of

627-474: The "most obvious driver of racial discrimination in citizenship and immigration laws" and driven by populist leaders defining nations "in terms of assumed blood ties and ethnicity". In the 19th and 20th centuries, European colonial powers used ethnonationalism to justify barring colonial subjects from citizenship, and in Europe, Jews and Roma were excluded from citizenship on the same grounds. Today, migrants are

660-637: The United States. The central political tenet of ethnic nationalism is that ethnic groups are entitled to self-determination . The outcome of this right to self-determination may vary, from calls for self-regulated administrative bodies within an already established society, to an autonomous entity separate from that society, to the institution of ethnic federalism within a multi-ethnic society, to establishing an independent sovereign state removed from that society. In international relations, it also leads to policies and movements for irredentism to claim

693-437: The United States. His writings began to generate books, where he discussed current geopolitics and nationalism. In 1929, he wrote a resignation letter from Keren HaYesod titled "Judaism is Not Zionism". Eventually the couple immigrated to America in 1934. They had one son, Immanuel Kohn. Kohn was a prominent leader of Brit Shalom , which promoted a binational solution for promoting the co-existence of Jews and Arabs in

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726-489: The basis of their race, descent, national or ethnic origin and she also stated that citizenship, nationality, and immigration laws which discriminate against non-citizens are violations of international law. She also noted the role of laws restricting marriage rights with respect to certain national, religious, ethnic or racial groups, which she said were "often deployed by states to preserve notions of national, ethnic and racial "purity"." Achiume called ethnonationalist politics

759-657: The bill as undermining Israeli democracy. In Malaysia , the Bumiputera principle recognises the "special position" of the Malays provided in the Constitution of Malaysia , in particular Article 153 . However, the constitution does not use the term bumiputra; it defines only "Malay" and " indigenous peoples " (Article 160(2)), "natives" of Sarawak (161A(6)(a)), and "natives" of Sabah (Article 161A(6) (b)). Some pro-Bumiputra policies exist as affirmative action for bumiputras since

792-647: The creation of a state for the Jewish people in Palestine as a solution to the Jewish question in Europe posed by Romantic nationalists . In his later work, The Old New Land , Herzl envisioned a bi-national state , where Jews only made up a majority in a few cities and everyone spoke German . Concerns about ethnonationalism in Israel were raised since the Knesset 's adoption of

825-582: The early 20th century in the interwar period between World War I and World War II , with the "redrawing of the political map of Europe in part along ethnic and national lines according to a proclaimed "right of peoples" to self-determination and the rise of fascist ethnocentric ideologies (including Nazism ). Philosopher Hans Kohn was one of the first to differentiate ethnic nationalism from civic nationalism in his 1944 publication The Idea of Nationalism: A Study in Its Origins and Background . During

858-413: The form of repatriation laws . Armenia , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Bulgaria , Croatia , Finland , Germany , Hungary , Ireland , Israel , Serbia and Turkey provide automatic or rapid citizenship to members of diasporas of their predominant ethnic group, if desired. The State of Israel originated from the conceptions and principles of Theodore Herzl 's work Der Judenstaat , which envisioned

891-403: The late 20th century. Increased international migration as a function of contemporary globalization has also given rise to "ethno-national" movements, including reactionary " nativist " groups focused on exclusionary identity politics . In the developed world, such trends have in some cases taken on an explicitly xenophobic and racist character, as seen in the example of " white nationalism " in

924-475: The nation state). Ethnic nationalism is, therefore, seen as exclusive, while civic nationalism tends to be inclusive. Rather than allegiance to common civic ideals and cultural traditions, then, ethnic nationalism tends to emphasise narratives of common descent. Some types of ethnic nationalism are firmly rooted in the idea of ethnicity as an inherited characteristic, for example black nationalism or white nationalism , often ethnic nationalism also manifests in

957-424: The policies were established in the 1970s. Many policies focus on trying to achieve a Bumiputra share of corporate equity of at least 30% of the total. Ismail Abdul Rahman proposed that target after the government was unable to agree on a suitable policy goal. Although American nationalism is typically described as a paradigmatic example of civic nationalism, political scientist Jack Thompson has argued that since

990-445: The rights of Afro-Caribbean British citizens from the " Windrush generation " is a pertinent example of similar prejudice in the developed world but states all over the world use misinformation to portray "certain racial, national and religious groups as inherent threats to national security" and justify stripping or denying rights. Extreme forms of ethnic nationalism, as in the case of Myanmar and its government's persecution of

1023-705: Was an American philosopher and historian. He pioneered the academic study of nationalism , and is considered an authority on the subject. Kohn was born into a German -speaking Jewish family in Prague , Bohemia , then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire . After graduating from a local German Gymnasium (high school) in 1909, he studied philosophy, political science and law at the German part of Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague. Shortly after graduation, in late 1914 Kohn

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1056-826: Was called into the infantry of the Austro-Hungarian Army . Following training he was sent to the Eastern Front in the Carpathian Mountains , facing the Imperial Russian Army . He was captured in 1915 and taken by the Russians to a prison camp in Central Asia (in present-day Turkmenistan ). During the civil war following the Bolshevik revolution, the pro-western Czechoslovak Legions came into Central Asia and he

1089-500: Was set free. With them he traveled further east (called by Czechs the "Siberian Anabasis" ), until stopping at Irkutsk . The political situation then allowed him to return to Europe, arriving in 1920. Kohn then lived in Paris , where he married Jetty Wahl in 1921. The couple moved to London , where Kohn worked for Zionist organizations and wrote articles for newspapers. He moved to Palestine in 1925. From there he would frequently visit

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