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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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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.

How many of those have declared themselves to be the Nation-State of the X people? (at least after the 1940s)

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.

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.

You should consider that AI is often wrong and stop using it as a source of truth.

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