Weak state peoples could not assimilate self-confident minorities

Evidence

In almost every case, official nationalism concealed a discrepancy between nation and dynastic realm. Hence a world-wide contradiction: Slovaks were to be Magyarized, Indians Anglicized, and Koreans Japanified, but they would not be permitted to join pilgrimages which would allow them to administer Magyars, Englishmen, or Japanese. The banquet to which they were invited always turned out to be a Barmecide feast. 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. How much it was a conjuring-trick is suggested by the equanimity with which metropolitan popular classes eventually shrugged off the ‘losses’ of the colonies, even in cases like Algeria where the colony had been legally incorporated into the metropole. In the end, it is always the ruling classes, bourgeois certainly, but above all aristocratic, that long mourn the empires, and their grief always has a stagey quality to it. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 401 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Formerly colonized peoples risk adopting the dominating discourse against themselves; Groups invoke state neutrality only when they cannot dominate it; Official nationalism invited colonized peoples to assimilate but barred full inclusion — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 401 (+2 more)

Related

• Rising national consciousness forced the state to recognize only nationals as citizens (similarity 0.86)
• Official nationalism invited colonized peoples to assimilate but barred full inclusion (similarity 0.83)
• Metropolitan nations resisted ‘foreign’ colonial rule just as colonies did (similarity 0.81)
• Britain transplanted its nation through colonization rather than building a multi-peopled empire (similarity 0.80)
• Minorities resisted assimilation when majority culture seemed less distinguished (similarity 0.80)
• Once a national-state model exists, even reactionary nationalisms must adopt populist standards (similarity 0.79)
• Assimilationist colonial policies generate nationalist independence movements (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Official nationalism invited colonized peoples to assimilate but barred full inclusion #expands (0.85) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 401
• Groups invoke state neutrality only when they cannot dominate it #complicates (0.75)
• Formerly colonized peoples risk adopting the dominating discourse against themselves #complicates (0.70)