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> Ethnic nationalism has a bad track record Pre 1940s Europe is a transnational jumble of overlapping ethnic groups. Result: war after war after war. Post 40s
by rubashov 15y ago
> Ethnic nationalism has a bad track record
Pre 1940s Europe is a transnational jumble of overlapping ethnic groups. Result: war after war after war.
Post 40s and 50s after millions of people relocate to their linguistic and ethnic homelands and coalesce into new nations carved out of empires: lasting peace. Last major war was in former Yugoslavia, which failed to get with the ethnic nationalist program.
Hell, even Belgium is falling apart now. You are dead wrong on this. Ethnic nationalism is the only system that works, long term.
- jbm 15y agoWould you say that Jews and Protestant Brits are of different ethnic nationalities? (Any answer other than "yes" is a cop-out or word-play.) Wouldn't your statement then be implying that the US would be better off without a large part of its congress, its best teachers, and scientists? In the long term - we are all heat decay. In the short term, all we need is a set of common values we agree on.
- jarek 15y agoYou conveniently left out the late 1930s and 1940s, in which a nation-state perpetuated ethnic war and genocide before being stopped primarily by two fairly transnational states. Would you be interested in a summary of 20th century armed conflicts, classified by the type of states involved? There are a couple in Asia and Africa I'm thinking of.