Post-1918 states claimed national unity despite mixed populations

Evidence

“The result of the Peace settlement was that every State in the belt of mixed population …now looked upon itself as a national state. But the facts were against them… Not one of these states was in fact uni-national, just as there was not, on the other hand, one nation all of whose members lived in a single state” (Macartney, op. cit., p. 210). — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2499

Categorization

• XREF: Direct evidence for the imagined-community / nation-state fiction that later exclusionary logics (including anti-Muslim statecraft) build on. — connects to: National unity is a falsehood masking class division within states — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 339
• DEFINE: The nation-state as ideological claim contradicted by ethnic fact — a core scaffolding concept for the field.