The Criteria and the Characterizing Reports in the Objectivist and Subjectivist Point of View

Abstract

The aim of this study is to submit different theories on the nation and to realize the access on its determining criteria. The notion of the nationality describes the affiliation of an individual to a nation. A nation cannot change its symbols, the language and the culture as they determine its existence. The nation requires a long period of time to be created. In wide territories there are individuals of various nationalities, with language, culture and different habits. Many researchers agree with the theory that the nation is a modern phenomenon, but they add an important objection; they argument that the nations did not appear from nowhere, but the pre modern ethnic associations are transformed into national identities. The modern societies nowadays are transformed in “multi ethnic societies”.

DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2015.v4n3s1p374