AHC: Territorial Nationalism more popular in Eastern Europe

Territorial Nationalism is an ideology, that one belongs to and identifies not with a particular ethnic group, but with his or her country of birth and/or citizenship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_nationalism

For example, while an ordinary Nationalist Hungarian in Romania would identify with other Hungarians around the world and feel a connection to the country of Hungary, a Territorial Nationalist Hungarian in Romania would call himself a proud Romanian (in the sense of being someone who was born and raised in Romania) and identify with the country of Romania, while keeping his Hungarian culture and language, and emphasize his unique Romanian-influenced Hungarian culture, and how different it is from the culture of Hungary.

Your challenge is to make this kind of Nationalism more widespread in Eastern Europe after the fall of Communism.
 
A common ideology about what it means to be "a citizen of a country" seems important. The US, Canada, France, Mexico, Great Britain, Scandinavia, etc. seem to place lot on adherence to a certain set of beliefs, common history, location, or loyalty to a concept, be it a constitution, a flag, a republic, a monarchy, or whatever. In Eastern Europe this used to be provided by the communist ideology of the USSR or "Titoism" in Yugoslavia. But in 1989-93 we found how fragile that ideology was once the will or ability to use tanks was gone.
 
Partly due to the fact the ideology was imposed on them by the Russians. Once it was clear the Russians weren't going to impose Communism by force any more Communism was gone. Communism didn't sink any "deep roots" in most of Eastern Europe as it was seen as a sort of Soviet Colonialism.
 
Territorial Nationalism is an ideology, that one belongs to and identifies not with a particular ethnic group, but with his or her country of birth and/or citizenship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_nationalism

For example, while an ordinary Nationalist Hungarian in Romania would identify with other Hungarians around the world and feel a connection to the country of Hungary, a Territorial Nationalist Hungarian in Romania would call himself a proud Romanian (in the sense of being someone who was born and raised in Romania) and identify with the country of Romania, while keeping his Hungarian culture and language, and emphasize his unique Romanian-influenced Hungarian culture, and how different it is from the culture of Hungary.

Your challenge is to make this kind of Nationalism more widespread in Eastern Europe after the fall of Communism.

There must be a change in the nature of the state of EE,change them from national states in to multi-national states,or at lest change them in such a way that the majority will not see the minority as threat,and have nobody exploit or use the minority as a threat.Which means you have to turn the country’s of the EE in some sort of Switzerland's,the problem is the country where not build as such,and that did not change after the first world war,or did it change during the communist period,and after the fall of communist was a bit late,not to mention that some where planing to use (and have) use the ethnic but minority (and not only the ethnic but also classes and generations) in an attempt to conserve power (am referring to Romania).
 
Territorial Nationalism is an ideology, that one belongs to and identifies not with a particular ethnic group, but with his or her country of birth and/or citizenship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_nationalism

For example, while an ordinary Nationalist Hungarian in Romania would identify with other Hungarians around the world and feel a connection to the country of Hungary, a Territorial Nationalist Hungarian in Romania would call himself a proud Romanian (in the sense of being someone who was born and raised in Romania) and identify with the country of Romania, while keeping his Hungarian culture and language, and emphasize his unique Romanian-influenced Hungarian culture, and how different it is from the culture of Hungary.

Your challenge is to make this kind of Nationalism more widespread in Eastern Europe after the fall of Communism.

If you allow me to go back in history rather far, then here are a few ideas:
- Have the Hussites find broad support among both German- and Czech-speaking Bohemians, Moravians and Silesians, and have some Hussite confession survive as majoritarian in the whole area, and you might see the creation of a multi-ethnic, multi-linguistic anti-Habsburg nationalism and nation state where speakers of Czech, Polish, German and Slovakian identify as proud citizens of the Calixtian Republic of Bohemia.
- Have a democratic revolution akin to the French Revolution in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, creating a republican sense of identity there
- Have some Moldavian, Vlachian or other rule in the proximity pull a move like that of Russian autocephaly after the fall of Constantinople and forge a fighting alliance of Orthodox Christians in Moldavia, Vallachia, Bulgaria, Serbia and Transilvania, which only has to last long enough against the Ottomans to leave such cultural imprints behind that, when the Ottoman Empire severely weakens in later centuries, Balkan independence movements spanning Serbian, Bulgarian, Szekely, Saxon and Romanian ethnolinguistic backgrounds fight together for a resurrection of this mythicised state.
 
There is also a very important aspect of nationalism that is usually ignored by authors from the "west" writing about eastern/central europe (balkans included).

The nationalism that exists here is both ethnic and territorial it is just the belief that the area you live is rightfully part of the country their ethnicity has formed elsewhere.

To use your Hungarian in Romania example. Hungarian nationalist in Romania doesn't see the land he lives on as Romania but Hungary that has "temporarely and unjustly" been occupied.

From personal experience and doing some research of nationalisms in my part of the world and near surroundings I came to the conclusion that all of them are based on the "Land and Blood" concept which is unseparable.
 
I guess having the trans Danubian federation ideas work out is the way to go here. If it eventually splits it will be Transylvanias moaning about Vienna taking all the money rather than a particular ethnic group causing trouble.
 
A territorial nationalism in the Old World is either a result of several polities coming together to jointly resist outside threats without one being really dominant over the others (e.g. Switzerland), the political ties overcoming ethnic ones due to a population mixing (much of Western Europe, especially UK/France), or externally imposed (pre-WW2 Luxembourg). The latter is an interesting example of the "imposed differentiation"; while an average Luxemburgian in 1850 spoke a Mosel-Franconian dialect almost indistinguishable from that of a Trier or Saarbrücken resident, the strong French political influence resulted first in an attempt to francophonize the country (which backfired) and afterwards the local dialect was officially codified as an own language, it got its rules written down, people were learning dialect in the schools instead of standard German - and now an average Luxemburgian is sure that Letzebüergisch is very certainly a completely different language from German, and Luxembourg (which was just another of the many, many German princedoms, pre-Napoleon) has always been a culturally completely separate country... or so.
 
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