If you understand the underlying spirirt of ethnonationalism it is as simple as a rigid, tribal and collective mentality of people bound by a racial/ethnic mentality with a common shared history, language and religion and it rejects multiculturalism, civic nationalism, or any other socio-political variants and actively advance the idea of a sovereign state for the particular ethnic/racial group entitled to self determination. It happenes to kurds in Turkey, Puerto Rican in America, CheChens in Russia and Serbs in Kosovo. "Human rights" and "democracy" in the case of Tibetan secessionist movement are nothing more than temporary political stickers compared to the historically consistent sentiments shared by ethnonationalists worldwide.
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