Why consensus in a language & identity is important in a land...

I spend some of my time studying human nature. Partly to make up for the time I was accepted to do a Sociology degree but chose to go to another university. I often study other countries concept of national unity compared to South Africa's lived reality. We have two realities in South Africa each trying to enforce their way of life as the truth. One group of people believes in a decolonised land & one believes the "natives" are savages to be tamed. This is the simple truth, a bipolarised land with no identity consensus. Anything else; crime, poverty, racism, tribalism, inequality & even some corruption are a byproduct of this underlying conflict.

We have to ask why is it that the most multiracial & multicultural countries are the most racist & tribalist. While most monocultural ethnostates, simply get things done. This is especially pertinent to Africa because we're not like Europe & Asia, our concept of nationhood was stripped away in the 1800s. The most common type of state historically & most successful type of state today is the single language nation-state. Yet, somehow, modern-day Africa did not get this memo. 

Unfortunately, in many cases where there is exteme nationalism or "rabid nationalism" as it is sometimes called, we get bouts of ethnic cleansing. This is unfortunately often a bloody process which I think could be fast-tracked by a better process of amicable deportation, making less enemies while freeing a people from an imposing group. Amicable deportation can even involve swopping of non grata population groups among countries to solve problems on two fronts. 

A monocultural ethnostate can most definitely accommodate minorities, we see this all the time worldwide but it is the native majority that is the accepted creators of the national identity not the minorities. If minorities are not imposing, discrimination of them is less likely to occur. This is simple human nature & requires no degree to comprehend. 

Language unity goes a long way in expressing ideas within the land, this alone causes the unity required for a land to move forward without implementing further unifying measures like standardised national education. 

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