Nationalism Nationalism takes its root in most people’s supreme loyalty to the nation. Nationalism may also be termed as the belief that people of the same language, history, and traditions need their state or country. An ideology of nationalism seeks to protect the rights of people with a common identity as noted by Conner (36). Nationalism has its origins set in northwest Europe during the eighteenth-century wars and especially the Second World War. It came as a universal idea that manifested itself in terms of different ideologies like communism and democracy. The conditions that set nationalism on stage include intellectual traditions, cultural history, and social structure. On the other hand, ethnicity has its definition as discussed here. Ethnicity may relate as the characteristic of a human being group that has the same linguistic, racial, and religious individualism together with other traits defining them as one ethnic group. The individuals in an ethnic group or set up have many characters in common that they share. These characters define and distinguish between a particular ethnic group and another. About the study that Brass (84) puts forward, many issues emerge. To handle this, our discussion bases its argument on the issues that Paul Brass brings out in his argument. This is by his sentiment that the study of ethnicity and nationality is in large part the study of politically induced cultural change. Also, where Brass asserts “that it is specifically a mode of looking at the privileged and those who are not within cultural groups select aspects of the group’s culture, attach new value and meaning to them, and uses the symbol as a tool to mobilize the group” (82). This discussion tries to emphasize on these sentiments. Brass (83) in his discussion has pointed out the roles of elites about the ethnic group they represent. The elites find ways of mobilizing the ethnic group they belong to. They do so by coming up with strategies favoring their coexistence in society. Paul affirms this through the states he makes concerning the elites in society. This state clearly shows the reality concerning the elite, as Paul says the elites draw upon and distort while fabricating materials form their own culture. This may include the ethnic language change, the existing status of the; political-administrative devolution. The elites do this in a way that opens avenues and highways to their superiority in the society. According to Brass (58), ethnicity is the product of modernity; where the elites fabricate cultures by using raw materials sourced from different groups while they aim at creating nations. The elites do this to ensure their economic and political advantage. As it stands Paul’s opinion that, the lessons of ethnicity or customs and nationality is just the study of politically induced literary transformation. This idea comes out clearly as Paul talks about how the elites strategize on how they mobilize and survive in the society they live in. The elites devise ways in which they erode the original cultural values to make a suitable environment for their emergence. To this end, the study of ethnicity today conforms to the study Paul Brass pointed out. That is the study of politically induced cultural change. In this case, the politics of the elites surfaces when then mobile and erode the existing political-administrative devolution, cultural norms, and