ABSTRACT
“Arab nationalism”, broadly speaking, seems intended to cover groups with a common Islamic tradition and a common language. There is a variety of such ideas and sentiments, ranging from the tenuous “special relationship” between Britain and the United States to the politically much more significant ideas of “Arab nationalism” and African nationalism Discriminations are made between outside powers. In “African nationalism” there may be an element of “racialism” in the true sense, as defined in physical anthropology. Some of the newly formed states as well as the previous states in Asia and Africa contain groups of different social heritage and regional interests, which were brought together generally under colonial or other rule based on external sources of power. Owing, partly, to rivalries among the colonising powers they sometimes cut through territories inhabited by peoples whose social heritage, habits of life, and sense of community had much in common.
