I think a shared culture is infinitely more important than ethnicity. Although ethnicity and culture tend to go together, they can be separate. Shit was working fine during the,few decades of the US being colorblind for the most part.
It is, but I'm sure Aristotle saw the same thing that we see today. Ethnicity being used to divide and exploit.
Remember, Aristotle was watching the birth of the Roman republic, probably the first significant multi-ethnic experiment in governance.
The Romans understood the value in a multi ethnic empire, they needed it in order to expand. However, they underestimated the cost. The speed of expansion needed to be balanced with the time it took to "Romanize" it's new subjects and citizens.
You're kind of on point. Where I would disagree is that the roman empire survived for 500 years. At the tail end if which, they failed to secure their borders and allowed differences in cultures to pervade, instead of encouraging commonality via education and induction into their own systems of culture and governance. However, I will say I haven't spent a ton of time reading about the fall of rome, merely the highlights. So I could be wrong.
I think a shared culture is infinitely more important than ethnicity. Although ethnicity and culture tend to go together, they can be separate. Shit was working fine during the,few decades of the US being colorblind for the most part.
It is, but I'm sure Aristotle saw the same thing that we see today. Ethnicity being used to divide and exploit.
Remember, Aristotle was watching the birth of the Roman republic, probably the first significant multi-ethnic experiment in governance.
The Romans understood the value in a multi ethnic empire, they needed it in order to expand. However, they underestimated the cost. The speed of expansion needed to be balanced with the time it took to "Romanize" it's new subjects and citizens.
You're kind of on point. Where I would disagree is that the roman empire survived for 500 years. At the tail end if which, they failed to secure their borders and allowed differences in cultures to pervade, instead of encouraging commonality via education and induction into their own systems of culture and governance. However, I will say I haven't spent a ton of time reading about the fall of rome, merely the highlights. So I could be wrong.