Why is it that west European countries are generally bigger, more stable and more ethnically homogeneous, and East European countries are less so?

Question

I am mainly thinking of UK, France, Germany, Spain as big, but all of them (with the possible exception of Ireland) could be thought of as stable, ie no wars or revolution since WW2.

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Answer 1

> ethnically homogenous

I’m not sure that Western European countries are more ethnically homogenous. Most have some colonial past with many peoples from these colonies now in the country. ie UK has lots of people from India, Bangladesh, France many Algerians etc

Many East European countries are less diverse.

Of course it depends how you group people. In the UK should the Welsh, Cornish etc be seen as ethnic groups?

But overall I think you are using ethnically homogenous to mean something other than it’s actual meaning.

As an aside different countries eg France and UK have very different views on how they see the integration of non native people into their cultures