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This paper is with reference to both areas of research of an understanding of the political concept of nationalism and the social problems of integration inherent in plural societies. The political concept of nationalism is concerned with the term ‘integration’ in the fields of political and social geography respectively. The integration generally presumes the existence of an ethnically plural society in which each group is characterized by its own language or other self-conscious cultural qualities but the problem may also exist in a political system which is made up of once distinct independent political units with which people identified. Man’s diversity, however, is not always permitted self-expression within on political unit. If a society displays a largely homogenous identity within a given state area the problem of cultural pluralism is eliminated; on the other hand, due to accidents of history, to migration policies of the past or to the misguided concepts of boundary-drawing some states are forced to accommodate a heterogeneous society. Within the pluralist framework, a transaction pattern in the socio-economic and political system to a most probable voluntary incremental development of input conditions would be suggested for respective communities and creating a distinct political nationalism. The and improved oral and written communications in the plural societies are also suggested to engender mutual advantage, and to alter their unfriendly relation to be friendly, given the differences in ideologies, political and economic systems, considering societies of Switzerland or Singapore. Throughout these approaches, the degree of internal and, indeed, international tension and conflict could be significantly reduced, which gives lessons and benefits to the entire world community including the two divided Koreas in the peninsula.