> Plenty of ethnostates waging war on each other as well as stable multiethnic states. How many multi-ethnic states were created by an outside power, from two

> Plenty of ethnostates waging war on each other as well as stable multiethnic states. How many multi-ethnic states were created by an outside power, from two or more warring ethnic groups? That was the argument put forth: > > They did that in Africa: they created some arbitrary country lines without regards for the local tribes. The results? Constant political fighting and wars because you now forced two tribes which hated each other with a force of a thousand suns into the same new country. ... > > The belief that you could force two hating cultures into loving each other because you draw up some arbitrary lines on the map and say "now get well together, children" is [redacted] to say the least.