Nation-states require population homogeneity and soil rootedness to function

Evidence

The inadequacy of the Peace Treaties has often been explained by the fact that the peacemakers belonged to a generation formed by experiences in the pre-war era, so that they never quite realized the full impact of the war whose peace they had to conclude. There is no better proof of this than their attempt to regulate the nationality problem in Eastern and Southern Europe through the establishment of nation-states and the introduction of minority treaties. If the wisdom of the extension of a form of government which even in countries with old and settled national tradition could not handle the new problems of world politics had become questionable, it was even more doubtful whether it could be imported into an area which lacked the very conditions for the rise of nation-states: homogeneity of population and rootedness in the soil. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 673

Categorization

• DEFINE: The passage explicitly names the two preconditions for nation-states (homogeneity and rootedness), a core scaffold concept.
• XREF: Connects to later Islamophobia readings on how the nation-state’s ‘homogeneity’ premise produces the outsider/muslim as unassimilable. — connects to: Liberal state neutrality presupposes cultural homogeneity among the governed — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 358; Demographic change makes cultural homogeneity permanent and unrecoverable; American soil across the United States conceals indigenous peoples’ remains and heritage (+1 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 673

Broader Connections

• Liberal state neutrality presupposes cultural homogeneity among the governed #corroborates (0.82) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 358
• Migration and foreign labor eroded the nation-state’s prestige #contradicts (0.80)
• American soil across the United States conceals indigenous peoples’ remains and heritage #exemplifies (0.78)
• Demographic change makes cultural homogeneity permanent and unrecoverable #qualifies (0.75)