Assimilationist colonial policies generate nationalist independence movements

Evidence

In effect, in complete contrast to the Thirteen Colonies (and to a lesser extent Ireland), there were no barricades on all these pilgrims’ paths towards the centre. (Compare the clear highway before Latinand German-reading Hungarians to Vienna in the eighteenth century.) English had yet to become an ‘English’ language. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 359 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The pan-movements arose from peoples denied national emancipation and sovereignty; Colonial rule’s native strata produced a renegade nationalist intelligentsia; Open access to the imperial center preempted colonial nationalist movements — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 359 (+5 more)

Related

• Open access to the imperial center preempted colonial nationalist movements (similarity 0.94)
• Colonial nationalists copied and adapted European national models (similarity 0.82)
• Britain transplanted its nation through colonization rather than building a multi-peopled empire (similarity 0.81)
• Bilingualism gave colonial intelligentsias access to modular models of nationalism (similarity 0.81)
• Nationalism originated in the New World colonies, not in Europe’s ethnolinguistic movements (similarity 0.80)
• Empire size forced recruitment of bilingual native clerks who later became nationalists (similarity 0.79)
• Weak state peoples could not assimilate self-confident minorities (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Open access to the imperial center preempted colonial nationalist movements #complicates (0.80) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 359
• Colonial rule’s native strata produced a renegade nationalist intelligentsia #expands (0.78)