That’s how a lot of nations became relatively homogenous. France went through this as well.
BasedAustralhungary on
There was no homogeneous nation-states, that’s why recent rants about multiculturality seems so fun to me… multiculturality of states was not the exception, but the rule before 19th century
DeoDatusIV on
The centralized school system, mass text printing and radio allowed to assimilate
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NorthKoreanKnuckles on
Sweden is getting less and less homogenous tho.
ALPHA17I on
Classic National-Conscious building problem.
Most modern nation-states were never homogeneous in their demographic. The communities and groups furthest from the mainstream have their identities erased/folded into the greater whole, et voila, a homogenous nation appears.
It’s something most modern nationalists do not want to face up to because it will break a lot of creative mythmaking that had to be created to prop up the farce of “internationally enforced borders”, societies being strictly dominated by a certain race = nation, and more that I would have to research before putting it out here.
Beat_Saber_Music on
For much of its history half of Sweden was Finnish until 1809
Fellbestie007 on
Is it it like a joke in linguistiscs that Northern Germanic language are more like a dialect specctrum with cut clear differences between all the dialects in Swedish, Danish and Norwegian?
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That’s how a lot of nations became relatively homogenous. France went through this as well.
There was no homogeneous nation-states, that’s why recent rants about multiculturality seems so fun to me… multiculturality of states was not the exception, but the rule before 19th century
The centralized school system, mass text printing and radio allowed to assimilate
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Sweden is getting less and less homogenous tho.
Classic National-Conscious building problem.
Most modern nation-states were never homogeneous in their demographic. The communities and groups furthest from the mainstream have their identities erased/folded into the greater whole, et voila, a homogenous nation appears.
It’s something most modern nationalists do not want to face up to because it will break a lot of creative mythmaking that had to be created to prop up the farce of “internationally enforced borders”, societies being strictly dominated by a certain race = nation, and more that I would have to research before putting it out here.
For much of its history half of Sweden was Finnish until 1809
Is it it like a joke in linguistiscs that Northern Germanic language are more like a dialect specctrum with cut clear differences between all the dialects in Swedish, Danish and Norwegian?