Re: Ethnic nationalism

[Anthony D'Costa <dcosta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Singapore is "managed" multiethnic.  The majority are the Chinese, then Malays, and (Tamil Indians).  There are small numbers of "euroasians" from the colonial days, some arabs also from the past.  And a quite a separate expatriate community consisting of professionals from world at large but mostly Chinese from China, India, the US, UK, Germany, Australia comprise this quite temporary group.

Anthony
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On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, raghu wrote:

> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:07:21 -0700
> From: raghu <mraghu01@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: PEN-L list <PEN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: PEN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Ethnic nationalism
>
> On 9/11/07, David B. Shemano <dshemano@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > "Ethnic nationalism" can be mundane, if not redundant of the nation-state
> > itself, as Jim Devine appears to agree with in a later post.  Try and become
> > a citizen of Japan if you are not ethnically Japanese.  There are very few
> > nation-states that are not ethnically based.
>
> If by "not ethnically based" you mean multi-cultural, then the United
> States is not ethnically-based. I don't think Canada is, either. I
> believe Singapore is very multi-ethnic. In general any country that
> has had extensive immigration would not be "ethnically based".
> Australia is a very dubious exception because of their historically
> racist immigration policies. But it is plainly not the case that there
> are "very few nation-states that are not ethnically based".
> -raghu.