On 9/11/07, David B. Shemano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Ethnic nationalism" can be mundane, if not redundant of the nation-state > itself, as Jim Devine appears to agree with in a later post. Try and become > a citizen of Japan if you are not ethnically Japanese. There are very few > nation-states that are not ethnically based.
If by "not ethnically based" you mean multi-cultural, then the United States is not ethnically-based. I don't think Canada is, either. I believe Singapore is very multi-ethnic. In general any country that has had extensive immigration would not be "ethnically based". Australia is a very dubious exception because of their historically racist immigration policies. But it is plainly not the case that there are "very few nation-states that are not ethnically based". -raghu.
