The idea that ethnics should have the right to govern themselves as they see fit.

The idea that ethnics should have the right to govern themselves as they see fit.

• A. Sovereignty
• B. Ethnicity
• C. Nationality
• D. Self Determination

Answer: (D)

Self-determination is the idea that a group with a shared identity has the right to decide its own political status and to govern itself according to its own preferences. This directly captures the notion that ethnic groups should be able to govern themselves as they see fit, whether through independence, autonomy, or other arrangements that grant self-rule.

Sovereignty refers to the ultimate authority of a state, not specifically the right of a distinct group to determine its own governance. Nationality concerns citizenship or membership in a nation, not the political right to self-rule for a group. Ethnicity is about cultural or ancestral identity, not the governance or political rights of a group. So self-determination best fits the idea described.