Pendekatan instrumentalis taler ngawigunayang etnisitas utamanyane pinaka pahan ad hoc saking strategi politik, sane kawigunayang pinaka sumber daya majeng kelompok sane muatang, mangda prasida manggihang tatujon sekunder sekadi, panincapan arta brana, kekuasaan miwah status.
The instrumentalist approach on the other hand, treats ethnicity primarily as an ad hoc element of a political strategy, used as a resource by interest groups for achieving secondary goals such as an increase in wealth, power or status.