Premise: On primordial  I don't believe in single identities, but there are root identities such as being a Basque, a Catalan, a Kurd, or an Occitan, especially when there is a need to assert such a root identity against a larger, sometimes more smothering polity or culture.

Hypothesis: The presence of a smothering culture makes those of root identities more likely to assert themselves.
Relation: neutral