There are large tracts of the US that are mostly ethnically homogeneous - most everywhere is not an urban Babel like NYC or SF. Meanwhile, the Habsburg monarchy

There are large tracts of the US that are mostly ethnically homogeneous - most everywhere is not an urban Babel like NYC or SF. Meanwhile, the Habsburg monarchy was the prototype of a multiethnic state, and its capital was everything but uniform. Also Sanhedrin 38a: https://www.sefaria.org/Sanhedrin.38a.8 https://www.sefaria.org/Sanhedrin.38a.8