Editing Separatism (section)

==Motivations==
[[File:Somunanacio11(2).jpg|thumb|190px|Support for [[Catalan independence]] is based on the idea that [[Catalonia]] is a nation.]]
[[File:Hashim Thaci Joe Biden Fatmir Sejdiu with Declaration of Independence of Kosovo.JPG|thumb|190px|The former [[Kosovo Liberation Army|KLA]] leader [[Hashim Thaçi]] (left) and then-U.S. Vice President [[Joe Biden]] with [[2008 Kosovo declaration of independence|Declaration of Independence of Kosovo]]]]
Groups may have one or more motivations for separation, including:<ref>{{cite book|first=Metta|last=Spencer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dz6vDcL8Q90C|title=Separatism: Democracy and Disintegration|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|date=1998|pages=2–4|isbn=9780847685851|access-date=2015-08-15|archive-date=2015-03-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150319063955/http://books.google.com/books?id=Dz6vDcL8Q90C|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Emotional resentment and hatred of rival communities.
* Protection from [[genocide]] and ethnic cleansing.
* Resistance by victims of oppression, including denigration of their language, culture or religion.
* Influence and propaganda by those inside and outside the region who hope to gain politically from intergroup conflict and hatred.
* Economic and political dominance of one group that does not share power and privilege in an egalitarian fashion.
* Economic motivations: seeking to end economic exploitation by more powerful group or, conversely, to escape economic redistribution from a richer to a poorer group.
* Preservation of threatened religious, language or other cultural tradition.
* Destabilization from one separatist movement giving rise to others.
* Geopolitical power vacuum from breakup of larger states or empires.
* Continuing fragmentation as more and more states break up.
* Feeling that the perceived nation was added to the larger state by illegitimate means.
* The perception that the state can no longer support one's own group or has betrayed their interests.
* Opposition to political decisions.