It also includes the diaspora of multi-ethnic states and societies that have a shared sense of common identity identical to that of a nation while being made up of several component ethnic groups.
[1] The European Union's Racial Equality Directive prohibits discrimination on the basis of national origin.
[1] In the US, it is illegal to discriminate against a person on the basis of national origin in education, employment, housing, lending, or other specified areas.
[2] For example, employers cannot refuse to hire job applicants or treat employees differently because of where they were born, their ancestry, their culture, the languages they speak, or speaking with an accent.
[2] Workplace rules that require employees in the US to speak only English on the job can be a form of discrimination on the basis of national origin, but employers may have a legitimate business need for employees to speak English at work, such as to provide adequate supervision or to prevent the isolation and alienation of employees and customers that do not speak the same non-English language.