Ethnicity, Race And Nationalism

Ethnicity, race, and nationalism are interrelated. We cannot define one concept without elaborating how the other concept plays a crucial role to shape up its agenda. Such as, Nationalism derives from ethnic beliefs, and from cultural religious similarities. Nationalism deliberately supports it 's deeply enrooted believes towards ethnicity. However, race plays a significant role to distinguish the differences between ethnicity and race itself. Due to that, people feel a sense of identity, in many cases superiority due to their own differences. Further has been explained below the concept of ethnicity, race, and nationalism.
Ethnicity:
Ethnicity emphasizes on one 's own cultural, religious background. Although, one may acquire his or ethnicity at birth because it is being assigned to them. However, ethnicity is often based on customs, language or religion. But ethnicity also can be based …show more content…
The end of the conflict was the “Appeasement Strategy”. It caused the apartheid to take place and the purpose behind it was to unify whites in the country. The ultimate result of it was the anti apartheid movement (1950-1994). The second example will be the Civil War of the United States. The result of the war was reconstructed. However, the aftermath was the Jim Crow law against the blacks. Again, the purpose behind it was to unify the white community, which caused the civil rights movement. Finally, when the shift in racial change was taking place no conflict took place. However, even though the “racial democracy” was established discrimination is still taking place. As it has been shown in the documentary, still in this era a man cannot find a job due to his skin color. All these examples show the role of race plays in a country and how racial social movement can bring changes. But if we let the racial hierarchy which is caused by superior nationalism let go social discrimination will be continuing to take