Comments by "buddermonger2000" (@buddermonger2000) on "What if the British Commonwealth was a Superpower?" video.

I'll be honest I have to disagree. I think it simply comes with being an empire as when it weakens and falls the countries which form the cultural heartland lose their holdings and revert to their more homogenous center. The Roman empire eventually fell to its more Italian center under Ordoacer and founded the kingdom of Italy. The byzantines which carried on the empire were majority Greek until the turkic migration which displaced the majority of the population and thus rose the Ottoman empire in its place. Which then expanded to the more Middle Eastern from its imperial status (as well as incorporating the Greeks and Serbs) to then fall and retreat to its more homogenous heartland of present day Turkey. Persian empire fell and retreated to its more homogenous heartland of Iran. Btw I said "more" homogenous not just completely. But the point is that as an empire expands, they incorporate more and more diverse peoples from the lands they conquer. And thus they pull their conquered peoples into the fold. Until the empire falls. The exception to this: is migrations. When it's basically the population being the dominant one in the area, then they retain a lot of their ties to their homeland. Case in point: the Latins first conquered Italy and now the people before them basically don't exist. Which is how you see the current Italy. Now more important than ethnicity is culture, however it is entirely disingenuous to say that the success was of very mixed populations when they're almost exclusively empires which conquered those populations and then lost those terroritories later on as they fell.
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@bruhtonbruhkkinson6848 Tbh even China is an empire and its not a particularly loved one by the people in its western holdings (especially Tibet)
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