On 11 Sep, 2007, at 20:07 PM, raghu wrote:
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".
More: India, the second most populous country in the world, is not
"ethnically based" either.
Shemano's example of Japan in fact makes Jim's point: that there are
these N current states which are ethnically based and Israel is one
of the worst of them. No Nazi spectre required.
--ravi
