The chapter of Primordialism in Hearn, Jonathan’s book deeply defines the academic approaches to nationalism.
Many scholars are stating various kinds of different standards in defining and approaching the primordialism theory.
There are four categories that Hearn mentions when looking into the concept of primordialism; descent, territory, language and history.
The blood relations and ancestry are routinely mentioned in the context of ethnical and racial nationalism and this is an important reason why we should look into the theme of primordialism in the sense of descent.
Territory is explained to having a very close relation with the notion of ancestry and family.
What Grosby is arguing is that “all humans are born to someone, somewhere