The politics of national diversity (original) (raw)
1987, Salisbury Review
It is reported that Saint Stephen, first Apostolic King of Hungary, had advised his son Emmerich that he should not spare to invite foreigners into the Kingdom. His grounds were that'unius linguae uniusque moris regnum imbecile et fragile esC: a kingdom with but one language and one custom is weak and fragile. This remark is, one notes, at odds with much recent conservative philosophical theorising. For the latter has tended to stress the virtues of social and institutional homogeneity-the virtues of the nation state as classically conceived ...
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