Originally Posted by
Asturias56
Etudiant - are you suggesting that people should all be in one large country rather than a lot of smaller ones?
All those Canadians might disagree.
Canada is a fair example of making a country work, despite huge cultural and geographic challenges to national cohesion.
Ukraine had its borders shifted west after WW2, so it has lots of minorities that need to be tied into the national consciousness. That's a tough job, did not work for Tito's successors in Yugoslavia.
It sure won't work if the minorities are treated as second class citizens, a situation that almost broke up Canada because the Francophone community felt marginalized.