User:Indy beetle/Territoriality and ethnicity

A study---

Generic info
Territory is crucially linked to ethnicity and identity of groups. It is thought of more often as "place" that plays into shared history and memory and "character". This leads to deep emotional connection which makes conflict very possible. As the gap between territory occupied by a nation and the territory of its state increase, so does the possibility for ethnic conflict. Social psychologists have observed that "people" and "land" are the two primary stimuli of patriotism and nationalism. This corresponds to the two legal doctrines of jus sanguinis and jus soli for obtaining citizenship.

Territory provides ethnic groups with resources and a means to express power (through control). Tension over ethnic groups seeking self-determination in territory results in the following:
 * 1) Secession
 * 2) Irredenta
 * 3) Autonomy

This tensions usually starts with one ethnicity's sense of economic or social grievances (i.e. discrimination) that have been inflicted by another (typically whichever one is in control of the state). This initiates a four-part process that may or may not be progressed through:
 * 1) Demands for civil equality
 * 2) Demands for cultural rights (e.g. recognition of a minority language)
 * 3) Demands for political autonomy
 * 4) Secession

Evidence
On 13 November 1947, W. Richter, the chairman of the Association of Nationals of Danzig Free State, announced the formation of a government-in-exile for the Free City of Danzig. The government made pleas to the United Nations, calling for official recognition, the deportation of Poles from its claimed territory, and assistance in reestablishing the Free City. Richter also announced that the association would accept a settlement from the international community that would grant them an alternative territory in a center of commerce.

Writing on the lack of official German recognition of the Free City of Danzig Government in Exile, Polish Foreign Minister Władysław Bartoszewski stated that the organization and like-minded Danzig cultural associations were seen in the eyes of the German public as revanchist and politically aligned with the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany.