The question about which ethnic identity should be dominant was a significant problem. It was ethnic nationalism that contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union, where many tensions arose when two or more ethnic groups shared the same territory. It generates a distinctive shared culture that all citizens embrace a community. Contrary, civic nationalism focuses on a common territorial homeland and involvement in its society. Ethnic nationalism focuses on the belief in myths of common ancestry, biological inheritance, blood relations, similarities in language and religion. Many scholars categorized nationalism as civic and ethnic nationalism. People with identification of their nation view national beliefs and values as personally meaningful, and translate these beliefs and values into daily practices. Under various social influences, people incorporate national identity into their personal identities by adopting beliefs, values, assumptions and expectations which align with one's national identity.
A person's national identity results directly from the presence of elements from the "common points" in people's daily lives: national symbols, languages, colors, nation's history, blood ties, culture, music, cuisine, radio, television, and so on. National identity is not an inborn trait and it is essentially socially constructed. The extreme expression of national identity is chauvinism, which refers to the firm belief in the country's superiority and extreme loyalty toward one's country.
The expression of one's national identity seen in a positive light is patriotism which is characterized by national pride and positive emotion of love for one's country.
Any deprivation or external modification of the cultural national identity seems to violate the basic collective human rights. Sovereign identity of the nation also represent a common denominator for identification of the national culture or cultural identity and under the International Law any external interference into the cultural identity or cultural beliefs and traditions appears to be inadmissible. State's identity by definition in related to the Constitutional name of the state used as a legal identification in international relations and an essential element of the state's international juridical personality. Under the International Law a term national identity, with respect to states, is interchangeable with the term state's identity or sovereign identity of the state. A postcard from 1916 showing national personifications of some of the Allies of World War I, each holding a flag representative of their nation.Īs a collective phenomenon, national identity can arise as a direct result of the presence of elements from the "common points" in people's daily lives: national symbols, language, the nation's history, national consciousness, and cultural artifacts.
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