A Corrupted Nationalist Identity

For a group of people, as a person living together and working on sovereignty, they must have some sense of commonality and freedom among them. Between the state and individual groups, this sense of commonality is called nationalism. According to Anthony D. Smith, nationalism is "... a social group is an ideological movement to acquire and maintain autonomy, cohesion, and personality, and some people make it a real or potential country (In short, nationalism focuses on attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs focused on the collective identity of the group.

Identity politics is different from political nationalism. The national (economic) nationalistic political movement is claiming the unification of the national identity and the rights of the controlling territory. Modern identity politics derives from the idea that universalist humanism developed by enlightenment social philosophy supports equality and human rights and is welcomed by Western democracy. This is claimed to be due to many factors, including different historical experiences, that the relationship of power between the culture and the group leads to a systematic denial of the right to lead to the exploitation and suffering of the repressed and suppressed population at all times. The supporter thinks this is not intentional or intentional and denies the clear intention of equality and human rights philosophy.

Indeed, in the Maori political movement from the late 1970s to the early 1980s, as the rise of cultural nationalist strategies and the control of the philosophical and political paradigm of identity politics are assumed, more essential Maori identity concept flourishes - Smith 1996) The political ideology and practice of cultural nationalists definitely defines Māori's identity based on the assumption that there is an unchanged "natural" or a series of unique and essential features throughout history (See the discussion below).