Metropolitan nations resisted ‘foreign’ colonial rule just as colonies did

Evidence

The reason for all this was not simply racism; it was also the fact that at the core of the empires nations too were emerging – Hungarian, English, and Japanese. And these nations were also instinctively resistant to ‘foreign’ rule. Imperialist ideology in the post-1850 era thus typically had the character of a conjuring-trick. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 402

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to earlier chapters on dynastic self-naturalization; the national core inside the empire rejecting its own administrators echoes the Hungarian gentry chapter.

Related

• Weak state peoples could not assimilate self-confident minorities (similarity 0.81)
• Nationalism’s internal contradictions pushed ill-fitted nations toward imperial oppression bridged by racism (similarity 0.80)
• Britain transplanted its nation through colonization rather than building a multi-peopled empire (similarity 0.78)