This "new patriotism" puts aside, or at least de-emphasizes, pre-political ties such as common ancestry, language, or culture, and enjoins love of, and loyalty to, one's political community, its laws and institutions, and the rights and liberties they make possible.
The euphoria that followed the summit meeting between North and South Korea last week has started to fade as their leaders face the reality of trying to reunite two countries with a common ancestry and language but drastically different ideologies and fortunes.
In spite of their diversity in ancestry and language, the countries of the West Indies share a largely common culture, the result of their somewhat parallel experiences as plantation colonies.
Hmong individuals were identified in the 2000 Census using a combination of (detailed) race, (first and second) ancestry, and language.
As people of resistance and resilience, however, we know that not all has been lost, and it has been part of our shared spiritual imperative to continue to reclaim our ancestry, our languages, and our claim to each other as kin.
By some estimates, 350 million people qualify as "indigenous" -- individuals bound together by their ancestry, lands, culture, language and, ultimately, self-identification.
Ethnicity is used to categorize on the basis of cultural characteristics such as shared language, ancestry, religious traditions, dietary preferences, and history.
With her Lebanese ancestry and English-language songs — with her huge bilingual hit "Hips Don't Lie," done with the Haitian-American singer Wyclef Jean, for example — Shakira showed how universal a Latin artist could be.
In the Australian context, individuals from a CALD background identify as having specific cultural or linguistic affiliation by virtue of their place of birth, ancestry, ethnic origin, religion, preferred language, or language spoken at home, or because of their parents' identification on a similar basis.
In the 18th century one tribe was discovered, the Mandans, who claimed Welsh ancestry and spoke a language remarkably similar to it.
Other South Asian languages are also widely spoken in Malaysia, as well as Thai A small number of Malaysians have Caucasian ancestry and speak creole languages, such as the Portuguese based Malaccan Creoles, and the Spanish based Chavacano language.
