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Most humans throughout history lived under empires. These empires viewed ethnic diversity as an asset or not worth bothering themselves about. The Ottoman Empire, the Roman Empire, the Austro-Hungarian empire were all multi ethnic states. Even in pre industrial Europe you would be hard pressed to find anything closely resembling an ethnostate. The French peasants all spoke local dialects, merchants a more universal version and their rulers (who wouldn’t even necessity be French)spoke Latin. The concept of nationalism is modern and has been used by the state to make retards go to war.