Homogeneous society

A homogeneous culture is a society in which all its individuals share both the same racial ethnicity, as well as the same language and a series of common or very similar beliefs. It is a society where its members share a culture, customs and way of thinking. This is how societies and cultures around the world have always been for millennia, although during the rise of the first great empires, multi-ethnicity and diversity of languages became increasingly common, such as Egypt, the Ottoman Empire or the Spanish Crown. during the 16th century, passing through more recent examples, such as the Soviet Union.

Racial homogeneity in the past was arduously pursued for many different reasons, whether it was in pursuit of greater social, linguistic or religious cohesion, or for purely political or military purposes.

Due to rapid globalism experienced by an increasingly interconnected world, and immigration, today homogeneity is less and more diffuse in most countries in the world. Examples of culturally very homogeneous countries would be Japan, North Korea or Saudi Arabia, although in both cases there are minority autochthonous cultures such as the Ryukyu culture in Japan, or the various Persian and Turkish ethnic groups in Arabia.