How to understand that in today's world situation, national identity is higher than national identity and more urgent than national identity?

Novsky believes that the concept of "national identity" comes from the meaning of "identity" in the field of ethnic studies [5]. Kara believes that national identity refers to one's beliefs, attitudes and identification with one's own national identity. This group-level identity includes four basic elements: group consciousness, group attitude, group behavior and group belonging [6]. Melville Stewart believes that national identity means that members of a certain ethnic group identify themselves with others as the same ethnic group, and are close to the material culture and spiritual culture of that ethnic group [7]. Zhuang Xichang, a scholar in China, divides national identity into broad sense and narrow sense: broad sense refers to the identity of a sovereign nation-state, that is, national identity; In a narrow sense, national identity refers to the identity of each nation within a country with its own national culture, that is, national identity [8].

/kloc-the concept of national identity appeared in the political field during the behavioral revolution in the 1970s. With the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the drastic changes in Eastern Europe, the third wave of nationalism had a strong impact on the traditional national identity, and the importance of national identity became increasingly prominent. The premise of national identity is to identify with the citizenship given to people at birth. Refers to a country's citizens' recognition of their motherland's historical and cultural traditions, moral values, ideals and beliefs, and national political sovereignty [9]. National identity is essentially a person's and a nation's confirmation of their national identity, consciously attributing themselves or their national interests to the country, and forming a subjective consciousness of defending national sovereignty and the overall interests of the country. Therefore, national identity is an important civic awareness and an important link to maintain the existence and development of a country. Only when people confirm their citizenship, understand their close ties with the country, and attribute individuals to the country, will they care about the interests of the country, take the initiative to stand up when the interests of the country are violated, and take the initiative to assume the responsibility of national development when the national culture is discriminated against.

No matter in concept or connotation, there are many connections between national identity and national identity. These connections contain consistency and some conflicts.

First, the difference between national identity and national identity First of all, the objects of identity are different.

The object of national identity is "nation". Regarding the connotation of "nation", Max Weber first defined it as "a human group with similar body shape or customs or both because of colonial or immigrant memories, or with the same subjective belief in origin. This belief is very important for the formation of the group, and it is not necessarily related to the existence of objective blood relationship "[10]. Anderson believes that the nation "is an imaginary isomorphism" [1 1]. People with the same beliefs are different because of their myths, history, cultural attributes and national ideology. Therefore, Banton defined ethnic groups as "people with the same blood and culture" [12]. Guo Hongji believes: "Ethnic groups are mainly based on the same names, myths, values and customs, with ancestral home, historical narrative and folklore as their cultural roots. There are cultural elements such as race, descent, language, religion, customs and local culture, as well as psychological feelings and non-political behaviors based on historical traditions. As a symbol of a certain identity, ethnic groups have their own living space and related traditions, including religious organizations and clergy, such as temples, rituals and doctrines. And nostalgic motifs and identity symbol systems, such as national heroes, religious leaders, loyalty consciousness, grasslands, forests, mountains, ethnic origins, etc. " [13] In 2005, the Central Ethnic Work Conference in China gave a brand-new definition to the concept of nationality: "A nationality is a stable people * * * formed in a certain historical development stage. Generally speaking, all ethnic groups have the same characteristics in historical origin, mode of production, language, culture, customs and habits, psychological identity and so on. Religion plays an important role in the formation and development of some ethnic groups. " [14] The "nation" discussed here should be a group of people with * * * the same consanguinity and ancestor consciousness as the core and * * the same historical and cultural characteristics. In the process of national development, there are at least three States: first, as a part of multi-ethnic); Country, it will always maintain its national identity; Second, they lost their national identity because of their integration with another ethnic group; Third, dissatisfaction with the rule of the host country breeds a national sentiment, develops into narrow nationalism, and finally establishes or attempts to establish its own independent "nation state". This is the most complicated consequence and easily leads to domestic and international conflicts, which is also the root of ethnic conflicts in many countries and regions in the world.

Correspondingly, the object of national identity is "country". Cicero believes that the country "is the cause of the people, but the people are not a random aggregation of some people, and the people are an aggregation of many people based on the unity of law and interests." [15] Marxist classical writers, on the basis of in-depth study of the causes and development laws of the state, summed up the characteristics of various types of countries and their position and role in social life, pointing out that "the state is a machine in which one class oppresses another class, and a machine in which one class controls all the ruled classes" [16], "it is an irreconcilable product and manifestation of social contradictions." [17] When a nation lives in a fixed territory (usually the same nation or has the same sense of identity) and exercises legal political power in this nation, there is a country.