<<Much of the world concluded that multiethnic empires could not be held together. The USSR, CS, and Yugoslavia tried to build multiethnic states, but the idea is essentially dead, and the future seems to hold further detailed partitioning and perhaps a gathering together in a high-level European Union, which curiously enough, allows for free migration and employment among the member states and absolute equality of human rights.>>
The US has held together quite fine, even composed of the very ethnic groups that in the Old World cant seem to find a reason to stop killing each other. This is a point which I was alluding to earlier. When a nation is a nation of "ethicities, not of law" you get precisely what you see in Kosovo. Despite all our troubles in the US, the old maxim of equality under the law and a government of "law not of men" has produced an amazingly tolerant country. |
