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> Not to cherry pick but do you really think the Yighurs in China get a fair shake in a court? I really want to hear if you've read differently.

Definitely not. Multiethnicity is necessary, but insufficient condition

> Pretty much any and every country you mentioned fails to meet atleast one or - in most cases - all of the criteria.

That's obvious. I didn't say they were perfect, just far from homogeneous. And there's not much to learn from very homogeneous societies in this regard.

The question for the complex heterogeneous societies isn't whether they fail, but rather what direction they are moving in. Arguably both China and the US have moved backwards of late.



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