On The Conflict Between Ethnic Identity And National Identity

This paper mainly analyzes the ethnic problems in many countries in the world based on trying to find the root of ethnic problems in modern society in theory. The national question is the conflict between ethnic identity and national identity in the form of performance, based on the ethnic identity and national identity(countries) the definition, connotation, relation of literature, on the basis of this, and the generation process of national carding, especially distinguish the difference of nationality and ethnicity, pointed out in China the ethnic issues of the concept of abuse, in the study of ethnic issues in the west, people usually refer to the modern democratic country, the most fundamental characteristic is the protection of citizens’ rights, national identity is actually to citizenship and national identity; under the category of groups can be called ethnic groups. The difference between ethnic and national biggest lies in the nation is a group of people to the democratic rights of citizens as the foundation and gather together, and establish the basis for civil rights groups not. Then, on the basis of a group, namely legitimacy factor groups were analyzed, including blood, geography, culture, race and ethnicity, and points out that these factors play what role in the process of ethnic identity in the form. Then pointed out that these elements in the composition of traditional country, before the capitalist countries in the country play a role, then the form of traditional society are described from the productive forces, the social division of labor and the social and cultural aspects of the related analysis. To demonstrate the traditional national identity on the basis of ethnic identity is.Then, starting from the perspective of modernization, describes the social change and the result with the development of capitalism, in turn from the productive forces, the social division of labor and the social culture and the traditional social comparison, pointed out that with the social change, the traditional state based on ethnic maintain social cohesion has undergone great changes. The country could not legitimacy and then by virtue of ethnic identity to maintain state, must re-establish legitimacy. The nation has gradually become the basis of legitimacy of the modern state. However, in the process of transformation of the legitimacy foundation, many countries have not completed this process, the ethnic identity remains a big role in maintaining the legitimacy of the state, which leads to the conflict of two rights, resulting in ethnic identity and national identity has had the conflict, led to ethnic issues.