Emphasizing a dominant ethnic identity exacerbates conflicts with minority groups.

Evidence

The newly established Republic of Turkey, for example, attempted to affirm its “Turkishness” at the end of World War I and emphasized constitutionally its secular status as a way of distancing itself from the Islamic identity that it had acquired during the era of the Ottoman Empire. The emphasis on the “Turkish” identity almost immediately accentuated the problem with its Greek minority, which led to the transfer of populations in the early 1920s, and of course generated the Kurdish “problem” which is currently not far from a civil war situation in certain parts of the Republic. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3476

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racial demographic shift threatens Whites only when they identify strongly with their ethnic group. — Brenda Major and Alison Blodorn and Gregory Major Blascovich, The threat of increasing diversity: Why…, 58; Ethnopopulism frames elites as colluding with ethnic others to justify hardline measures. — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 41; Hybridity theorists and conservative commentators both treat ethnicity as rooted identity. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 914