Enforcing ethnic and linguistic homogeneity fosters rather than prevents disunity

Evidence

If the contra-indicated position is actually the case, however, then far from ensuring national unity, the denial of ethnicity may well be a principal catalyst of disunity. In short, attempting to enforce ethnic, linguistic, and/or religious homogeneity is far more likely to foster disunity than to ameliorate it (see May, 2001). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 891

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reading on multiculturalism critique in previous chapters of this same volume, and to broader nationalist-imagined-communities scholarship. — connects to: Language policy framed as zero-sum triggered counter-nationalism.; Language-identity links are ideological, not natural — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction: A…, 50; the MOC “The Tongue of Power: When Language Becomes the Battlefield of Empire”