I agree that Japan and China certainly were in their imperial past, but not really now. Although to be clear, there is certainly still racism and xenophobia to various degrees. The main difference between a country that is largely a certain ethnicity and an Ethnostate is most fundamentally Supremacy. With that in mind, it’s clear how Israel, Nazi Germany, Apartheid South Africa, Imperial Japan, and Chattel Slavery America would all stand out as Ethnostates
I am also a strong supporter of removing barriers to immigration globally and internationalism, but that’s separate from whether a country is an Ethnostate or not. Supremacy and dehumanization on a state level are key to that. ISIS and many Evangelical Christians in America also desire their own respective Ethnostates. People have a right to exist, the supremacy and dehumanization of an Ethnostate is directly at odds with that by way of ethnic cleansing.
Supremacy is a better marker than say, Nationalism, because the nationalism of anti-colonialist movements are not the same as ones of colonialist movements.
I agree that Japan and China certainly were in their imperial past, but not really now. Although to be clear, there is certainly still racism and xenophobia to various degrees. The main difference between a country that is largely a certain ethnicity and an Ethnostate is most fundamentally Supremacy. With that in mind, it’s clear how Israel, Nazi Germany, Apartheid South Africa, Imperial Japan, and Chattel Slavery America would all stand out as Ethnostates
I am also a strong supporter of removing barriers to immigration globally and internationalism, but that’s separate from whether a country is an Ethnostate or not. Supremacy and dehumanization on a state level are key to that. ISIS and many Evangelical Christians in America also desire their own respective Ethnostates. People have a right to exist, the supremacy and dehumanization of an Ethnostate is directly at odds with that by way of ethnic cleansing.
Supremacy is a better marker than say, Nationalism, because the nationalism of anti-colonialist movements are not the same as ones of colonialist movements.