Ethnic identity, having a polysemantic character, represents the point of confluence between social identity, individual identity and cultural identity. The main points of interdisciplinary convergence that can be identified regarding ethnic identity are the following: identity does not represent an entity given forever, fixed and immutable, but a reality in the making and in continuous evolution; identity emphasizes both sameness and difference simultaneously; the process of identity construction does not take place only inside the individual, in conditions of isolation, but is of a social nature, defining itself in the interaction with other members of society and related to the ethnic context in which the individual is immersed. Thus, the concept of ethnic identity is born in the dialectic between equality and otherness, responding to the need for identification, "to feel similar" and the opposite need to assert your own uniqueness, "to distinguish yourself". At the same time, even if ethnic identity is of a partially unconscious nature, referring to the weakened or lost sense of common origin, the intensity of which can persist over time, it does not represent a monolithic construct, exempt from changes, but adopts structures of recent value systems, that gives meaning to reality. With reference to the content of the ethnic identity, it can be described by the components: cognitive, affective and behavioral, which leave their mark on the process of ethnic identity formation as a whole. The cognitive component represents the index of ethnic awareness, which matures with the development of cognitive skills through life experiences, referring to three important aspects: awareness of belonging to one's own race, awareness of the interests of one's own people and the representation of culture, language and territory. The affective component emphasizes the emotional aspects, related to group membership or the attitude towards this membership, expressed by the satisfaction for belonging to the ethnic community, pride for the ethnic group or the denial of one's own ethnic identity, translated by the feeling of inferiority, humiliation or preference for other groups ethnic, while the content of the behavioral component is interpreted as a permissive behavior of the individual in situations of ethnic contact.