Open access to the imperial center preempted colonial nationalist movements

Evidence

In effect, in complete contrast to the Thirteen Colonies (and to a lesser extent Ireland), there were no barricades on all these pilgrims’ paths towards the centre. (Compare the clear highway before Latinand German-reading Hungarians to Vienna in the eighteenth century.) English had yet to become an ‘English’ language. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 359

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Assimilationist colonial policies generate nationalist independence movements; Bilingualism gave colonial intelligentsias access to modular models of nationalism — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 452

Related

• Assimilationist colonial policies generate nationalist independence movements (similarity 0.94)
• Bilingualism gave colonial intelligentsias access to modular models of nationalism (similarity 0.88)
• Colonial nationalists copied and adapted European national models (similarity 0.82)
• Empire size forced recruitment of bilingual native clerks who later became nationalists (similarity 0.80)
• Nationalism originated in the New World colonies, not in Europe’s ethnolinguistic movements (similarity 0.79)
• Britain transplanted its nation through colonization rather than building a multi-peopled empire (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Bilingualism gave colonial intelligentsias access to modular models of nationalism #qualifies (0.75) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 452