Why do some diverse countries survive and even flourish while other diverse countries collapse and break up? I've noticed that some diverse countries, such as Switzerland, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria, et cetera are able to survive and sometimes (in the first three cases here) flourish at least to some extent while some other diverse countries such as Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, the Russian Empire, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and the Soviet Union subsequently ended up imploding and breaking up. Sometimes there's a common theme with the breakups that involves a World War or Communism, but sometimes this isn't necessary, such as when British India broke up into India and Pakistan and then Pakistan itself broke up into Pakistan and Bangladesh. The US has survived in spite of it being diverse, but a lot of its diversity is relatively recent; the US was almost 90% non-Hispanic white back in 1940. Unsurprisingly, the US is currently experiencing a lot of tensions, in part related to this diversity but not completely since there were also a lot of tensions in the US in the 1970s when the US was much less diverse but when liberals nevertheless attempted to shove forced integration busing down America's throat (while themselves being quite capable of cherry-picking their diversity if they could actually afford to send their kids to fancy private schools), including in Northern US states which did not previously have a legally sanctioned Jim Crow regime. Anyway, even in recent years, diversity has been a mixed bag: For instance, Iraq was able to survive and recover from the rise of ISIS in its Sunni Arab territories while Ukraine actually benefitted from becoming more pro-Western as a result of it losing a lot of its pro-Russian inhabitants in Crimea and the Donbass--until Russia decided that it didn't actually have enough Ukrainian territory already and thus invaded Ukraine in order to get even more Ukrainian territory and human capital! But Yeah, overall it's quite interesting that the effect of diversity appears to be rather mixed. The Anglosphere is able to handle its own diversity a bit better than Western Europe, for instance, but even some countries in the developing world are able to handle their diversity relatively well or at least not too badly.
Anyway, what do you think?
Anyway, what do you think?