Migration and foreign labor eroded the nation-state’s prestige

Evidence

Wachirawut, his son and successor (r. 1910–1925), had to pick up the pieces, modelling himself this time on the self-naturalizing dynasts of Europe. Although – and because – he was educated in late Victorian England, he dramatized himself as his country’s ‘first nationalist.’ The target of this nationalism, however, was neither the United Kingdom, which controlled 90 per cent of Siam’s trade, nor France, which had recently made off with easterly segments of the old realm: it was the Chinese whom his father had so recently and blithely imported. The style of his anti-Chinese stance is suggested by the titles of two of his most famous pamphlets: The Jews of the Orient (1914), and Clogs on Our Wheels (1915). — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 382 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Migrants become scapegoats for the loss of an imaginary Golden Age of homogeneity; Official nationalism redirected resentment onto imported ethnic minorities — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 382; Post-war successor states claimed national purity while their populations remained mixed (+3 more)

Related

• Immigrant communities serve as scapegoats for national change (similarity 0.89)
• Official nationalism redirected resentment onto imported ethnic minorities (similarity 0.85)
• Resurgent nationalism fuses invented tradition with narcissistic minor-difference resentment. (similarity 0.80)
• Siam’s first nationalism targeted imported Chinese, not colonizing Europeans (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Migrants become scapegoats for the loss of an imaginary Golden Age of homogeneity #expands (0.85)
• Official nationalism redirected resentment onto imported ethnic minorities #corroborates (0.80) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 382
• Post-war successor states claimed national purity while their populations remained mixed #expands (0.78)