Questions of political, linguistic and ethnic allegiance and identity are highly complex in Navarre.

These people, it seems, don't come to Sip Sak out of ethnic allegiance: few of them look Turkish.

They remained Indian in their loyalty and their ethnic allegiance.

Listless through war fatigue, poverty and hunger, Afghans willingly swap ideological and ethnic allegiances for survival and cash.

In terms of declared ethnic allegiance the Scottish figure rose to 93.61%.

It pledges adherents to a pan-European outlook, recognizing national and ethnic allegiance, but stressing the value of all European peoples.

The difference, he said, is that Latinos have both ethnic and national allegiances.

Elsewhere, questions of ethnic allegiance are treated with shrewd comic flair.

Many of the freshmen, raised on television's multiculturalism, are cheerfully blind to ethnic differences - and the subtle tug of ethnic allegiances.

Since 1996, there has been a greater emphasis on celebrating and projecting a fluid and inclusive notion of "Irishness" rather than an identity based around traditional religious or ethnic allegiance.