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Multi-ethnic societies, in contrast to single ethnic societies, integrate different ethnic groups irrespective of differences in culture, race, and history under a common social identity larger than one "nation" in the conventional sense. All cities and most towns can be regarded as multi-ethnic societies, even ones where race hatred and ethnic intolerance is common.

The few nations that today are considered ethnically homogeneous (eg Japan, North Korea, South Korea) blend the meaning of a society, a nation, a people, and a state. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. North Korea is the commonly used short form name for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (or DPRK) a State located in East Asia, South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea and often referred to as Korea ( Korean: 대한민국 tɛː See multi-national state for the specific political and military issues arising from such a state. A multinational state is a State (country in which the Population consists of two or more ethnically distinct Nations (peoples that are of significant There is much overlap however between the concerns of running a state, and finding a common identity as a nation.

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History

Multi-ethnic societies have existed in various historical contexts such as ancient China, ancient India, Majapahit, the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, or the Austro-Hungarian Empire. China ( Wade-Giles ( Mandarin) Chung¹kuo² is a cultural region, an ancient Civilization, and depending on perspective a National India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country Majapahit was an Indianized kingdom based in eastern Java from 1293 to around 1500. The Roman Empire was the post-Republican phase of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial In recent times, the United States of America has been a more or less successful multi-ethnic society; despite past and current racial and ethnic tensions, the various ethnic groups that make up the United States still manage to live and work together mostly peacefully. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the

The ultimate step in multiethnic integration is the U.N., whose goal is to ensure the peaceful coexistence of as many different countries or ethnic groups as possible. The United Nations ( UN) is an International organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in International law, International security

Multi-ethnic societies do occasionally fail, however, as in the recent example of Czechoslovakia, which has broken up into two smaller nations divided along ethnic lines. Czechoslovakia may also refer to what is now the Czech Republic and Slovakia. In some cases, this disintegration is much more violent, as in Yugoslavia. The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( Serbo-Croatian, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Macedonian: Others fall into violent and long drawn-out civil war, like Rwanda. The Republic of Rwanda (ruːˈændə or /rəˈwɑːndə/ in English ɾwanda or in Kinyarwanda is a small Landlocked country in the


Historic multi-ethnic societies

Current multi-ethnic societies

Preconditions for success

An apparent precondition for the success of a multi-ethnic society is the availability of a common language, as was the case in the Roman Empire, and still is the case in the U. S. Alternatively, several "overlapping" languages, as found in India, the European Union or Canada, can serve the same function. However, even in the European Union, English is the lingua franca for business and scientific exchange.

Possible causes of breakdowns

Due to their ethnic or cultural heterogeneity, multi-ethnic societies in general are more fragile and have a higher risk of conflicts. In the worst case such conflicts can cause the breakdown of these societies. Recent examples of this were the violent breakdown of Yugoslavia and the peaceful separation of Czechoslovakia. Forced mixture or coexistence of ethnically different populations might be the reason for the outbreak of nationalistic and racistic tendencies which over the years can become so strong that they are able to destruct a multi-ethnic society.

See also

The term multiculturalism generally refers to a state of racial, cultural and ethnic diversity within the Demographics of a specified Separatism refers to the advocacy of a state of cultural ethnic tribal religious racial or gender separation from the larger group often with demands for greater political autonomy Europeanism refers to the concept of or assertion that the people of Europe have a distinct collective Cultural identity within the larger context of Western Meta-ethnicity is a relatively recent term (or Neologism) that arises occasionally in academic literature or public discourse and when it does seems to be an attempt to describe A multi-lingual ethnic group is an Ethnic group which has various subgroups with different primary languages
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