[jacquesm]

> Especially in multi-ethnic states, most cohesive national identities are forged through extremely popular singular leaders.

And before you know it you have a genocide on your hands.

[ethbr1]

Sometimes, but it can go the other way too.

Napoleon Bonaparte, Toussaint Louverture, Simon Bolivar, Giuseppe Mazzini, Otto von Bismarck, Mustafa Atatürk, Gamal Nasser

[jacquesm]

A whole bunch of those are not the counterexamples you think they are.

[ethbr1]

Want to point out which / why?