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>>8337813

That is true, and in this thread I agree with Chesterton, not Nietzsche.

Before the enlightenment, before modern republics, States were unified by their Kings-Emperors, and they didnt mind having many different nations, with different languages, religions and laws in their territory.

With the modern State, the modern Republics want everyone to be of the same nation, they create a school system that teaches everybody the national language, and in the History class they teach kids to be patriotic.

this is a map of native languages in France, before the French revolution, only a minority of Frenchmen spoke French.
The modern French republic destroyed all the local languages to replace them with French, the national language.

If Spain still has millions of Catalan, Galician and Basque speakers, it is because it has been less modern than France, not because they are more tolerant.