Every country is implicitly an ethno-state. Yes, both China and Japan have foreigners of all races. But they are minuscule portion of their population. They are in no way threatening the cultural or racial integrity of historic China or Japan. Same with other non-European countries. India is deporting their invaders from the North, etc...
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You try and tell that to Russia mate. Your ilk likes to wank Russia so much for being muh conservative and ethnically stable, but they have been united from a bunch of fragmented warring tribes and kingdoms stretched out over the entirety of Siberia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_Russia
What invaders from the North? You mean the British people colonizing India?
There is only one human race.
If EVERY country is an ethno-state, and mixing "threatens the cultural and racial integrity", then Sweden, Denmark and Norway are all f**ked. It's cheaper to live in Sweden, and you earn more in Denmark, so a lot of people, used to live in Sweden and work in Denmark. (Until Sweden closed its borders to the refugees a year ago. Now it takes like an hour extra to get to and from work over the border, so not as popular any more.)
ethnically homogenous nation states are a pretty new idea, as such things go, and yet they're already outdated. people simply don't live that way, and never really have. modern states are multicultural by necessity, because as a simple matter of fact, they contain multiple cultures. they really always have, since ancient days on forward. sure, one culture may be in the majority, but allowing that culture to become oppressive towards the minorities never leads anywhere good --- history's proven that over and over. the Victorian-era idea of the single-culture nation-state was always a pipe dream, and a needlessly hurtful one at that.
Pay no attention to the time that China got conquered by their "barbarian" neighbors, who became the new ruling class.
Or the time that England was conquered by Frenchmen, of all things, who changed the nation so drastically that maybe 40% of our language is owed to them. (Not to mention the time before that when it was conquered by the Saxons... or the time before that when it was the Romans... England gets invaded a lot, is what I'm saying.)
China? You mean that place with fifty-six different native ethnic and cultural groups, and those are just the ones its government is willing to acknowledge? Fun fact, race and culture are significantly more complex than just "same skin colour as me = good, different skin colour = bad".
Pink Jackboots pointed it out before I did. These Nationalist seem to forget (conveniently) that they are living on stolen land, assuming they live in the US. Using their logic, the members of various Native tribes should deport their invaders from Europe.
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