Raghu writes: >> 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".
Three down. 191 more to go. Actually, to be fair, a lot of countries created at the end of the imperial era were not based on homogenous ethnicity. Of course, most of those creations are also failed states and ethnic conflict often plays a big part in the failure. I think most successful democratic nation-states are relatively ethnically homogeneous. The US is arguably the exception that proves the rule, but the US is really historically unique in material ways. David Shemano
