Did republicanism's valorization of individual land ownership necessarily inhibit class and
ethnic nationalist consciousnesses?
When it evolved into a radical
ethnic nationalist organization, many non-Puerto Ricans adopted its special attention to Puerto Rican independence.
But instrumentalism does not thereby undermine the legitimacy of
ethnic nationalist movements, since it endows them with the liberal virtue of rational self-interest.
Furthermore, due to its in creasing
ethnic nationalist discourse, it has no presence in the Kurdish-majority towns.
Now, such a formulation lies on the opposite pole to the divisive arguments of religious sectarian ideologues, or those of
ethnic nationalists, and can be seen to have a measure of historical validity.
We can blame
ethnic nationalists for stoking hatred at the behest of the 'enemies of Pakistan' all we want, but the truth is that the nation-building project itself remains deeply flawed.
His death saw the rise of
ethnic nationalists in power personified by the eventual president Slobodan Milosevic who pursued the idea of an exclusive Greater Serbia without minorities.
War soon emerged in BiH after the referendum, and the
ethnic nationalists in the country tried to take control of territories they claimed as their own.
Ironically, in his relentless defense of
ethnic nationalists, V"iatrovych ends up casting average Ukrainians in a bad light.
Afghanistan's secular groups and
ethnic nationalists are all suspicious of Pakistan, so the only path in is through those who see a common, religious ideology.
China's other great fear is that
ethnic nationalists in Tibet or Xinjiang, like democrats in Taiwan, might succeed in governing themselves.
The work of
ethnic nationalists to rediscover histories that have been ignored in the official versions encouraged by the state might fall into this category, providing they do not merely mirror and reproduce the projective errors of the official histories they are arguing against.
