folkism

noun10

1. •
   An ideology that emphasizes racial or ethnic identity, especially when combined with nationalism.

   • The stage animator of the Good Soldier Schweik, the teacher of Peter Weiss and Ralph Hochhuth, Piscator would have despised Utpal's glowing outbursts of patriotism, nationalism and folkism. — 2020
2. •
   An ideology, articulated by historian Simon Dubnow, that declared Jewish people to be a diaspora nation without a territory.

   • Folkism viewed itself as a present-oriented phenomenon called into existence not by individuals or ideals, but by the exigencies of daily life in the Diaspora. — 2011
3. •
   Völkisch nationalism; the desire for a homogeneous population that excludes foreigners and the belief that different racial or ethnic groups have different rights.

   • For folkism, human value and human rights were associated with cultural identity just as they are for contemporary postmodernism. — 1999
4. •
   A Japanese ideology that emphasized a common identify among East Asian peoples, associated with the fascist movement during the WWII era.

   • Harootunian calls this "an ideological/cultural order calling for authenticity, folkism, and communitarism” in pointing out fascism's “ideological appeal to culture and community.” — 2004
5. •
   A movement within the Heathen or neo-pagan community that states one cannot convert to Heathenry unless one has the appropriate ancestry.
6. •
   An artistic aesthetic that is based on traditional practices that are passed on from individual to individual, such as folk tales, folk music, common cultural practices, etc.

   • The emergence of folkism in Bangladeshi cinema had much to do with what in the romantic tradition is called escapism. — 1996
7. •
   A movement within Nigerian theater started by Sam Ukala that focuses on folk tales as a reaction against colonialism.

   • Apart from the African folktale's capacity for clear communication and its popularity among the folk, there are other reasons why it should provide a matrix for folkism. — 1996
8. •
   A folksy saying, expression, or practice.

   • Quaint folkisms, rejected by the folk, did exert some influence – a selective influence, surely – on upper-class and noble writers, such as the great poet Aleksandr Pushkin. — 1998
9. •
   A philosophical stance that meaning is based on common usage by ordinary people rather than an abstract principle.

   • Once one accepts the concept of folkism in man's thought, this leads to a consideration of folkism in religion. — 1982
10. •
    Synonym of populism.

    • These movements were intensely nationalist, highly moral and, although middle class, discovered folkism 'as a reaction against bourgeois society' (Joll, 1983: 154). — 1999