1. Nationalism
Gellner states that ethnic nationalism: " was active on behalf of a high culture not as yet properly crystallised, a mere aspirant or in-the-making high culture." ... Oxford: Blackwell, 1983. p100 Requiring a short cut towards a high culture necessary for modern development, these groups, in the absence of the vital foundations and institutions in place in society, are forced to create one from what they have - language, culture, skin colour, religion, etc., thus bringing about the belief that ethnic/blood consciousness, rather than civic/civil consciousness is dominant in the emergin...
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