Along with basically every Asian and middle eastern country, several European and African countries, and a few South American countries. There are a lot of ethnostates in the world.

In fact, I’d say most countries outside of the EU/the anglosphere are a lot closer to being ethnostates than they are to being any sort of cosmopolitan melting pot.

But most of them have been that way for a long time so people just accept it.

[–] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

An ethnostate isn't just a country with a majority ethnic group.

It has to explicitly give legal preference to one group over another.

[–] jaspersgroove@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I’m well aware, and stand by my original comment.

[–] Thief_of_Crows@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

Very few countries, if any, give legal preferance to one ethnicity except for israel. China is almsot entirely chinese people, but if a white person moves there they are not discriminated against by the government.

[–] Microw@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah there are a lot of ethnocracies. Turkey being one of the most obvious examples. Even within the EU you have countries like Latvia or Estonia who have been labelled that in the past.