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The phrase refers to the objective existence of distinct ethnic groups in a country; whereas Multiculturalism refers to an official policy of acknowledging the equality of these distinct groups. A country may be, or may have been, multi-national but not multicultural.

Multinational states differ from states like Japan , Somalia , Poland or the Korea s in which an overwhelming majority of the population is ethnically homogeneous.

Empire s may be dominated by one particular nation, sometimes organized as a nation-state. For example, the Austro-Hungarian Empire , which consisted of Austrian Germans, Magyars (Hungarians), Czechs, Romanians, Slovenes, Poles, Croats, Serbians, and Italians.


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