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1. leeree+(OP)[view] [source] 2025-06-29 00:10:54
Ethnostate is not a slur, it's an accurate description of a country that itself passed the Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People.

(A basic law in Israel is roughly like a constitutional amendment in the US.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Law%3A_Israel_as_the_Nat...

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2. throwa+22[view] [source] 2025-06-29 00:35:33
>>leeree+(OP)
Ethnostate is an ambiguous word. Does it mean ethnically homogenous? Israel is certainly not that. Does it mean, essentially, a nation-state whose "national group" is an ethnicity? Israel is that - but so is much of Europe and some parts of Asia.
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3. leeree+w5[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-06-29 01:19:15
>>throwa+22
How many of those have declared themselves to be the Nation-State of the X people? (at least after the 1940s)
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4. throwa+M7[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-06-29 01:49:57
>>leeree+w5
Many former Soviet and former Yugoslavia nations did this.

I ran the question by AI, and it seems to think that somewhere between 30-50 since WWII have done so explicitly.

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5. leeree+jj[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-06-29 04:52:19
>>throwa+M7
Seems fair to call those ethnostates as well.

Edit: I asked ChatGPT "How many nations have declared themselves to be the Nation-State of a people?" earlier and got the same answer as you. I asked again just now and got "Israel is the only nation in the world that has legally declared itself the “Nation‑State of the Jewish People.”" [I didn't specify Jewish]

Can't rely on AI.

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6. pepper+8o6[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-07-01 13:37:40
>>throwa+M7
You should consider that AI is often wrong and stop using it as a source of truth.
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