Meaning of ethnonationalism | Babel Free

Definitions

A type of nationalism which defines the nation in terms of a shared ethnicity.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“This ultimate concern⟳ underscores the elitist, bourgeois and ultimately conservative dimension that is one of the several faces of Catalan ethnonationalism, although in fact throughout its history the movement has a history of 'pacting' across class lines.”

“As central Party control⟳ weakened, independence demands grew in other republike, inspired in part by local ethnonationalisms and fear of living in a Yugoslavia dominated by Serbian ethnonationalists.”

“Since 1863 Polish 'National Democrats' like⟳ Roman Dmowski had abandoned the idea of a multinational commonwealth for a more 'modem' Polish ethnonationalism.”

“In the post⟳, Mr. Johnson wrote that his initial reaction to Mr. Breivik’s killing spree was “largely anger, because I feared that his actions would harm⟳ not just Norwegian ethnonationalism but white nationalism around the world.””

“In Bosnia and Herzegovina, ethnonationalism has taken center stage⟳. Mr. Dodik is not alone in his radical ways: Muslim Bosniaks, the largest ethnic group, have⟳ agitated for a unitary state, and Bosnian Croats have⟳ demanded an autonomous Croat region.”

CEFR level