In 1948, the Afrikaaners' Nationalist Party won control of the national government from the British and imposed the apartheid system. Every black was expected to become a citizen of one of the black homelands. He was elected president in April 1994. We'll talk more about that later in the semester when we get more into political geography and the formation of states. Ethnicities transformed into nationalities.
Ethnicity is distinct from race and nationality.
Nationality is identity with a group of people who share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular country. It comes from the Latin nasci, which means to have been born. Nationality and ethnicity are similar concepts in that membership in both is defined through shared cultural values. In the United States nationality is generally kept reasonably distinct from ethnicity and race in common usage. Nationality identifies citizens of the US whether native born or naturalized.