Editing Multinational state (section)

==Definition==

Many attempts have been made to define multinational states. One complicating factor is that it is possible for members of a group that could be considered a nation to identify with more than one nation-state. As Katiambo (2024)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Katiambo |first=David |date=2024-12-12 |title=Consumer nationalism in Kenya: tracing the rhetorical construction of the nation through anti-brand activism on Facebook |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725843.2024.2439423 |journal=African Identities |language=en |pages=1–15 |doi=10.1080/14725843.2024.2439423 |issn=1472-5843|url-access=subscription }}</ref> explains in ''[https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/3TWRGEUCHBGIJED5AJJU/full?target=10.1080/14725843.2024.2439423#abstract Consumer nationalism in Kenya: tracing the rhetorical construction of the nation through anti-brand activism on Facebook]'', many countries are multination states and there are only "few nation-states with a perfect match between the nation and the state." [[Ilan Peleg]] wrote in ''Democratizing the Hegemonic State'': {{blockquote|sign=|source=|One can be a Scot and a Brit in the United Kingdom, a Jew and an American in the United States, an Igbo and a Nigerian in Nigeria ... One might find it hard to be a Slovak and a Hungarian, an Arab and an Israeli, a Breton and a Frenchman.<ref>Ilan Peleg, 'Classifying Multinational States' in ''Democratizing the Hegemonic State'' ([[Cambridge University Press]], 2007), pp. 78–80</ref>}}

A state may also be a [[society]], and a '''multiethnic society''' has people belonging to more than one ethnic group, in contrast to societies that are [[Monoculturalism|ethnically homogeneous]]. By some definitions of "society" and "homogeneous", virtually all contemporary national societies are multiethnic. The scholar [[David Welsh]] argued in 1993 that fewer than 20 of the 180 sovereign states then in existence were ethnically and nationally homogeneous, if a homogeneous state was defined as one in which minorities made up less than 5 percent of the population.<ref name="Welsh">{{cite book|last=Welsh|first=David|title=Ethnic Conflict and International Security|editor=Brown, Michael E.|publisher=Princeton University Press|location=Princeton|year=1993|pages=43–60|chapter=Domestic politics and ethnic conflict|isbn=0-691-00068-9|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cstjhpRd-F4C&pg=PA43}}</ref> [[Sujit Choudhry]] therefore argues that "[t]he age of the agriculturally homogeneous state, if ever there was one, is over".<ref>{{cite book|last=Choudhry|first=Sujit|title=Constitutional Design for Divided Societies: Integration or Accommodation?|editor=Choudhry, Sujit|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|year=2008|pages=[https://archive.org/details/constitutionalde0000unse/page/3 3–40]|chapter=Bridging comparative politics and comparative constitutional law: Constitutional design in divided societies|isbn=978-0-19-953541-5|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/constitutionalde0000unse/page/3}}</ref>