This is such an enormous country, that has grown so far so fast, that it has
needed to almost impose some degree of uniformity so as to establish and
maintain some form of national identity.

I thought that was the excuse of the Chinese Communists.

Iris,
Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
"If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming
train."
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)