Demographic homogeneity and religious unity were treated as core state ideals.

Evidence

The population should be homogenous; where two or more cultures exist in the same place, they are likely either to be fiercely self-conscious or both to become adulterate. What is still more important is unity of religious background; and reasons of race and religion combine to make any large number of freethinking Jews undesirable. There must be a proper balance between urban and rural, industrial and agricultural development. And a spirit of excessive tolerance is to be deprecated. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 413

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Echoes the homogenizing state-building discourse underlying ethnic cleansing and settler-colonial population management theories.

Related

• Cultural homogeneity was openly prescribed for the ideal society. (similarity 0.90)
• Enforcing ethnic and linguistic homogeneity fosters rather than prevents disunity (similarity 0.79)
• Nation-states require racialized others to justify their claimed homogeneity (similarity 0.79)