Nacionalnost - povijesni identitet
Nationality - historical identity

Summary/Abstract: Nationality as a phenomenon is derived here from the context of historical continuity and is presented as the historic individuality of a given ethnic group. The starting point for understanding it, therefore, is empire as the expression of human existence in the world; the fact that people seek their own world within the world as a means of survival – history as the irrefutable evidence of the creation of circumstances in which they are able to survive, not only as testimony of what they were but as suggesting what they have aspired to. This has occurred in communities that have thus evolved into nations as individual historical entities whose differences have given rise to mutual opposition and, in some cases, have turned them into hegemonistic and nationalistic intolerance and imperialist aggressivity leading to nationalist conflicts of genocidal wars as the result of the failure to find appropriate forms of collaboration or coexistence. On the other hand, the discovery of the unity of nations leads to internationalism as a union of nations and peoples and to the realization of humanism and of their historical unity, not to nationalist conflicts and genocidal wars.

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