康沃尔:一个新民族的诞生——基于民族主义与建构主义的考察

Cornwall: the birth of a new nation——Investigation based on nationalism and constructivism

2014年4月,英国承认康沃人为本国的少数民族,这被视为一个国家对本国内部族类群体地位承认的最新案例。从民族政治学的角度看,民族获取"名分"除了自身的建构努力之外,也离不开国家的认定与确认,民族主义不能单方面"生下"民族。在主权国家的格局中,族类群体的地位是由特定的时空条件所决定的,是族类群体与国家之间政治互动的结果。

In April 2014, the Great Britain admitted that Cornish was the ethnic minority of their country, which was regarded as the new case that a country admitted the status of inner ethnic groups. From the per- spective of ethnic politics, apart from the construction by the nation itself, it also needs the identification and affirmation by the country. Nationalism can not give birth to a nation unilaterally. In the pattern of sovereign- ty, the ethnic group＇ s status depends on special condition of time and space, it is the result of the political in- teraction between ethnic groups and state.