Nationality is what. How to determine the nationality

In the modern world the question is quite acute:"Is nationality a political, social or biological concept?" Before talking about nationality, you should get acquainted with the accompanying terms.

People. Ethnos. Nation

Народ - "новый род", "народившийся род" людей, united by one common territory is a fundamental concept in our topic. From the definition it is clear that this is an exclusively biological term - people who have a close relationship.

Этнос - это народ, то есть с течением времени a group of people formed from close nations that have the same language (belong to the same language group) and a common origin, roots, but are not connected geographically.

A nation is a people with a common history.development, culture, customs. If one nation creates its own national state, it will be called a nation. Thus, this is a more aggressive, political concept. A nation may include several close national groups.

Nationality is ...

Nationality refers to any nation bybiological features. It has no connection with a country or a specific territory. For example, the Germans, Kazakhs or Englishmen who live permanently in Russia - their nationality remains the same with the change of residence, state. Without nationality (the characteristic of kinship between people) there will be no development of the people, it will not become a nation.

Now almost all states are multinational, although there are still separate national republics.

It is important not to confuse citizenship and nationality.The first concept is social, which means the society of which country an individual belongs to. The second, as can be seen from the definition, is biological and shows who the person is by birth, descent.

Although in some countries the word "nationality" is still the definition of the nationality of an individual.

People's nationality

The people are the smallest unit in today'sdiscussion, you can literally take this word as a kind, family. In the course of their development, families (tribes) grew, divided, united with neighbors. But since they had common roots, and life took place in interaction with each other, territorial proximity, common, similar features, so strong genetically, were gradually formed that they were transmitted () to descendants regardless of time and distance - nationality of peoples or national nationality.

So, if you look at the Germans, for example: the non-Saxon Germans, Franconians, Saxons, Swabians, Bavarians - these are how many subethnos (peoples) belong to the same nationality of people.

The Russians have about thirty ethnic groups throughout Russia and abroad. And only two dialects - North Russian (okay) and South Russian (akayuschy).

How to determine the nationality

It would seem that something easier.He lives in Germany, father is German, mother is German, he is also German! But the path of humanity on Earth is already quite long. Everything was mixed up - peoples, ethnic groups, nations ... It is very difficult to determine whether a person belongs to a particular nationality. Especially when the Pope in the family is Poles and Jews, and my mother has Spaniards and Finns, and everyone lives in Australia.

There are several ways:

1. Nationality child takes from his father.The father is from his father, and in this way a rather clear relative (national) line is built. This happens in almost all the world, except for a few nations. For Jews, for example, a child accepts the mother’s nationality.
2. Some folk groups have very bright, similar outward signs. Body structure or character traits. According to such signs, a person is classified as one or another nationality.
3. People who have no opportunity to learnthe nationality of their ancestors (orphans, for example), take or accept in the process of education, growing up features of the national group with which they interact most (adoptive parents or employees of the orphanage).
4. The most basic method has two interrelatedthe definition process is subjective and objective. The first is what nationality a person considers himself to be: what traditions he observes, has features of appearance and character, the carrier of which language he is. The second is how his relatives perceive it. That is, do people of the chosen national group identify this person with themselves? Thus, nationality is a personal consciousness and the surrounding agreement with the fact that a person belongs (is related by kinship) to a certain group of people (peoples, ethnic groups).