Declining ex-imperial societies scapegoat minorities to explain their problems
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- Dependent elites believed they had to westernize or perish. (similarity 0.82)
- Even anticolonial Egyptian nationalists reproduced demeaning stereotypes of Sudanese slaves. (similarity 0.82)
- Migrants become scapegoats for the loss of an imaginary Golden Age of homogeneity (similarity 0.82)
- European plutocrats tried to reconcile anachronistic demographics with ultra-modern production. (similarity 0.81)
- Democracy can function on recognition by only a minority (similarity 0.81)
- The 1964-67 second republic pitted democratic nationalists against self-interested sectarian entrepreneurs (similarity 0.81)
- Both Egyptians and British failed to conceptualize southern Sudanese former slaves politically (similarity 0.81)
- Nineteenth-century European control of Africa long remained marginal before imperial conquest (similarity 0.81)
- Egypt’s nationalism embodies a colonized-colonizer paradox the binary model misses (similarity 0.81)
- Modern society replaces stratification with juridification and democratization, both already overloading (similarity 0.80)
- Black anti-imperialist intellectuals centered their struggle in the British metropole (similarity 0.80)
- Antislavery ideology was used to dismiss Egypt’s empire and justify Britain’s own. (similarity 0.80)
- Deindustrialization trapped white working-class towns in decline and pushed men toward war (similarity 0.80)
- Egyptian anti-British nationalism preserved the internal racial hierarchy over Sudanese (similarity 0.80)
- Conquest by a nation-state provokes national consciousness and blocks empire building (similarity 0.80)