Separatism

Seperatism is a term used to describe a belief hed by a specific group of people, that is, the desire to remain seperated from different groups of poeple. The reason, as well as the degree of the desired separateness, may vary dramatically from group to group.

Forms of Separatism

Religious Separatism

This is a belief held by most conservative christians of many denominations and is especially common in Fundamentalist Christianity. They believe that Christians should remain seperate from other religious groups, and intermarriage with non-christians is avoided.

Cultural Seperatism

There are many different forms of cutural seperatism, however all aims towards the same goal: preserving a certain ethnic/cultural group's culture. These groups desire seperateness from other ethnic groups and races. In some cases cultural seperatism is merely a form of Christian Seperatism, like the Calvinist Boers and paleoconservatives.

Racial Seperatism

Very similar to cultural seperatism, although here the emphises falls on race and not culture. While cultural seperatists desire their ethnicity to be protected against all other cultures, regardless of race, racial seperatists seek to preserve a the purity of a specific race, which may consist of many ethnicities. It should be noted, however, that cultural seperatists can be ragarded as partially racial seperatists, since an ethnic group always consists of people from the same race.