Author(s)

Xiaoxia Shao

Corresponding Author

Xiaoxia Shao

Abstract

Advances in globalization have rapidly altered people’s lifestyles and ideas, which has directly affected the national identities of ethnic groups in multiethnic nations, particularly in minority areas. This paper investigates how the national identity of students in Northwest Chinese minority areas. By investigating the situation of students’ national identity at primary and middle schools, this study found that students’ national identity is unbalanced, national awareness and cultural identity are higher than political identity, and political identity is low and must be strengthened. Furthermore, influenced by gender, school grade, ethnicity, and school type and location, the national identity of students in these areas was diverse and had various characteristics.

Keywords

Students in northwest minority areas, National identity, Core socialist values, Cultural dissemination