The primordialist argues that every person carries with him through life 'attachments' derived from place of birth, kinship relationships, religion, language, and social practices that are 'natural' for him,'spiritual' in character. Some go so far as to argue that such attachments that form the core of ethnicity are biological and genetic in nature. But it is not actual descent that is considered essential to the definition of an ethnic group, but a belief in a common descent.
The primordialist argues that every person carries with him through life 'attachments' derived from place of birth, kinship relationships, religion, language, and social practices that are 'natural' for him,'spiritual' in character. Some go so far as to argue that such attachments that form the core of ethnicity are biological and genetic in nature. But it is not actual descent that is considered essential to the definition of an ethnic group, but a belief in a common descent.
The primordialist argues that every person carries with him through life 'attachments' derived from place of birth, kinship relationships, religion, language, and social practices that are 'natural' for him,'spiritual' in character. Some go so far as to argue that such attachments that form the core of ethnicity are biological and genetic in nature. But it is not actual descent that is considered essential to the definition of an ethnic group, but a belief in a common descent.