Adopting the nation-state model did not erase ethnic differences but often intensified them.

Evidence

The adoption of the nation-state model, however, did not eliminate ethnic and/or religious differences overnight. In fact in some instances it exacerbated them. Thus, in Palestine the emergence of Israel immediately created an ethnic Arab Palestinian issue, both as a minority within the new State of Israel and as refugees in a variety of other Arab states. Furthermore, the new Israeli State also faced an internal “ethnic” problem between the hegemonic control of the European (and later American) Jewish immigrants and those of Asian and African origin. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3480 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Philly Desai has pointed out that to see the involvement of young Bengali men in violent conflict with white peers as a manifestation of “poor race relations” is to miss the patterns of masculine embodied culture that they share (Desai, 1999). In this sense he argues that the process of “assimilation” has been all too effective, in that Bengali men have been integrated into cultures of conflict that both predate immigration and prefigure the experience of growing up in these urban locations. Here it is not a matter of “difference,” but rather, of marking division within shared patterns of masculine culture. Violent confrontations are racialized, which in turn become a means to exclude or differentiate between groups of young men who in many respects mirror each other in terms of the forms of cultural embodiment that they perform as they move through the city. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2999 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Postcolonial Third World states grew more competitive and fragmented, not unified. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 81; Minorities resisted assimilation when majority culture seemed less distinguished — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 677; Race is constitutive of the modern nation-state, not incidental to it. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1651 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Importing the European nation-state model exacerbated rather than resolved regional ethnic divisions. #corroborates (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3480
• Assimilation can integrate minorities into shared masculine conflict cultures rather than difference. #complicates (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2999