Comment by jacquesm
5 days ago
> Especially in multi-ethnic states, most cohesive national identities are forged through extremely popular singular leaders.
And before you know it you have a genocide on your hands.
5 days ago
> Especially in multi-ethnic states, most cohesive national identities are forged through extremely popular singular leaders.
And before you know it you have a genocide on your hands.
Sometimes, but it can go the other way too.
Napoleon Bonaparte, Toussaint Louverture, Simon Bolivar, Giuseppe Mazzini, Otto von Bismarck, Mustafa Atatürk, Gamal Nasser
A whole bunch of those are not the counterexamples you think they are.
Want to point out which / why?