Cultural and Ethnic Rationales
Relationship to ethnic identity
Adjustment to complex social and cultural environment.
Relationship to values and tradition (considered in their functions of continuity, consensus, legitimacy
The rationales depend on the weakness and strength of the relationship between culture, language and ethnicity.
- Indicators of ethnicity: Self-consciousness and common name, common language, territory, peculiarity of psychological traits, ways of life, social and territorial organization, shared historical experience reaching to a mythical past.