ABSTRACT
Human life contains certain dimensions that are so much with us that we have come to take them for granted, rarely if ever asking ourselves, “Why really is it that way?” or “Does it have to be like that?” Striking among them is the passion of ethnonationalism, that intensity of feeling that attaches to an ethnic group or a nation state, and a force of such emotional power that once caught in its spell, human beings will sacrifice everything, may kill one another, or can order the killing of others without many feelings of hesitation or regret.
