Quote Originally Posted by Husar View Post
That may be somewhat true about internal conflict. The problem with homogeneous groups of people is that they tend to blame all their problems on some outside group and this leads to more and more conflict.
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Not to forget that they, especially with capitalism, require growth and can only grow after a certain point by growing into their neighbors.
As would, then, any diverse country.


WW1 largely happened because the rather homogeneous nations wanted to preserve their glory, show their superiority or gain either of those. There was territorial conflict over who gets to eat the smaller nation of Serbia and so on.
It also heavily involved empires (often a heterogeneous lot) and monarchies with dubious democratic credentials, and was sparked by someone who wanted to join the territories of a people geographically disunited.


Yes, in today's environment of short term profit over everything else, my position has to be outrageous indeed.
Time here is money, lives and stability.