• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    I’m not sure “ethnostate” isn’t some fucking used-car-lot buzzword

    Allow me to put you at ease, then: it’s not.

    An ethnostate is a country that enforces by law the supremacy of one ethnicity at the expense of all others.

    Examples other than Israel include Nazi Germany, Apartheid South Africa, most of the former Yugoslavian Republics during the war in the 90s, as well as current day countries such as several Muslim/Arab majority countries, Hungary, Russia, Belarus, and increasingly the US.

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      1 month ago

      How is that different from China, Japan, South Korea, or any of countless other countries with a dominant ethnicity and laws that try to preserve it? Heck, I would even call Quebec an ethnostate if it were independent of Canada.