First and most straightforward, there is a strategic dynamic
based on the vast difference in size between the small external homeland and
the fraternal community’s much larger host. In other words, considerations
of Realpolitik constrain the smaller state. Second, a complex cultural dynamic
emerges between the two communities, partly because of their similar
size, partly because they each confront a rather different set of cultural threats
and opportunities. The external homeland’s lack of numerical preponderance
over the fraternal community generally makes the external homeland less
able to maintain any kind of cultural dominance over its fraternal community,
while the fraternal community may appear to present a cultural threat to
the external homeland. And third, the larger state in each case is constructed
partly on a form of programmatic nationalism which has offered a powerful
alternative to ethnic nationalism at crucial historical moments.