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I don't think that's necessarily the conclusion. One of the major changes after WWII is that now mostly all the Germans lived in Germany, Poles in Poland, Czec
by treis 6y ago
I don't think that's necessarily the conclusion. One of the major changes after WWII is that now mostly all the Germans lived in Germany, Poles in Poland, Czechs in Czechloslovakia, French in France, etc. That seems to have led to a stable solution. Conversely, the places where ethnicity and/or religion are mixed are constant sources of strife. This conclusion leads to a lot of dark places so it is rightfully rejected on those grounds, but it does seem to work.
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- igorkraw 6y agoI mean, that observation that you need cultural homogeneity (the most charitable version) is simply wrong. Switzerland has been multi cultural for hundreds of years and continues to be so, the US hasn't seen a civil war in a similarly long time, thinking of china or india as culturally homogenous is silly and on a larger scale, the roman, byzantine and ottoman empires were stable internally over stretches from decades to centuries. The root cause of strife isn't hetereogenity, it's lack of institutions and mechanisms to resolve strife without violence.