A Study Of The Contemporary Arab's National Identity

Based on the historic review of the Arabian Identity, the characteristics and changes of the contemporary Arab's Nation-Identity will be mainly discussed with the ethnological theory. The Arab-Identity is pullulated from unique conditions of identity, including language, traditions, history, and so on. Under the pressure from outside, the Arabs identified with the common benefit, and completed the construction of Nation-Identity with the impetus of the Nationalism.The background of the contemporary Arab's Nation-Identity consists of three layers which are the system of Nation-State, international politics and globalization. In respect of Nation-State, the Nation-Identity has played an important role in awakening of the consciousness of the Arab-Nation and the Arab Nation Liberation Movement. But its condition was weakened in the construction of identity which was leaded by the government of Nation-State. In respect of the international politics, the pressure of anti-Arab influence in the geopolitics and international structure helps to strengthen the Nation-Identity. In different degrees, the effect of Globalization makes the Arabs maladjusted. And in the maladjustment, the Arab's Nation-Identity lost.On the synthetic analysis of the evolvement of Arab's Nation-Identity, the summarizing of the contemporary Arab's Nationality and the characteristics of Identity is following. Furthermore, approximately, the evolvement of Arab's Nation-Identity went through the following phases, from unconsciousness to consanguinity, religion, state and culture. And finally, the diversification has formed in the structure of the Arab's Identity. In the diversification, the conditions of the Arab's Nation-Identity will become more and more complicated.The Arabs is the most influencing nation in the Middle East. The nationality and the mode of the Nation-Identity represented the Middle East. In the era of the globalization, the diversification of the Arab's Nation-Identity is becoming more and more dangerous. So a more macroscopical view is necessary, and the research is meaningful through the civilization view.