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Re Nationalists Are Trying To Rewrite History (Opinion, Nov. 27): Contributor Marie Favereau’s fascinating piece on Genghis Khan notes that “the Mongols were also able to build and maintain their regime by absorbing and harmonizing the different societies and cultures of their subjects.” She might have added that they followed three precedents: Confucian China, the Roman Empire and Charlemagne’s Holy Roman Empire.

Modern China borrows from postmedieval Europeans the idea of a state based on ethnicity – in this case Han nationalism. Canada, as one of the most diverse countries on the planet, is a multinational state.

The Romans distinguished between natio and patria, and we, along with the Mongols, espouse the latter.

Ian Morrison Toronto

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