Ethnonationalism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A type of nationalism which defines the nation in terms of a shared ethnicity. countable, uncountable

    "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."

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"The Holocaust was rooted in bigotry and militant ethnonationalism. We best honor the victims of the Holocaust by striving toward a just society, one where all members are respected and valued, a society where such horrors are remembered and never allowed to happen again."

Etymology

From ethno- + nationalism.

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