alt Hacker News> Especially in multi-ethnic states, most cohesive national identities are forged through extremely popular singular leaders.
And before you know it you have a genocide on your hands.
> Especially in multi-ethnic states, most cohesive national identities are forged through extremely popular singular leaders.
And before you know it you have a genocide on your hands.
Sometimes, but it can go the other way too.
Napoleon Bonaparte, Toussaint Louverture, Simon Bolivar, Giuseppe Mazzini, Otto von Bismarck, Mustafa Atatürk, Gamal Nasser