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How so? There are so many multinational states in the world that manage to exist, somehow.
by TimorousBestie 1y ago
How so? There are so many multinational states in the world that manage to exist, somehow.
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> there are so many multinational states in the world that manage to exist Not many with that sort of history. It's barely working in the EU, and that's because America took away the toys for a while.
- TimorousBestie 1y agoYou don’t seem to be a particularly reliable narrator of history in this thread, so I’ll take your uncited assertions with a grain of salt.
- JumpCrisscross 1y agoNot a real argument, but I don't think I can come up with a real argument for your case, so fair enough. Show me a single case where previously-warring nations peacefully unified (i.e. not through conquest or subjugation)? Poland-Lithuania and England-Scotland are the only two I can think of. Because the counterexample--multiethnic nations that split along national-identity lines--is far more frequent since the age of conquest. Former Yugoslavia. Pre-Partition India. Sudan. Ethiopia. Algeria. Multiethnicisim is hard. Where it works, it happened through immigration. Combining previously-warring nations under one roof is basically just assisted civil war.
- cyberax 1y agoMostly the ones where multinationality has been reduced to a different set of cuisines. If you look around the Middle East region, then every multiethnic state there has had civil wars recently.