[roncesvalles]

Most (serious) separatist movements that appear religiously/ideologically motivated on the surface have a lesser known but critical ethnoracial exceptionalism myth that underpins them (e.g. Kashmir).

Again, I don't consider de-colonization movements to be separatism. A rough criteria would be that you must be physically contiguous to the state that you're trying to separate from.

Also heed my second criteria: a people who perceive themselves to be inferior to the majority group will never, ever develop ambitions of separatism. It usually goes like: "we're better than these other guys but they keep us under their thumbs, hence we want our own country."