Империя тогда и сейчас

Все-таки обе вещи не так уж и хороши. Это колониализм и постколониализм. Или все-таки ре-колониализм, когда бывшая страна-метрополия, набравшая силу, пытается восстановить свою империю. И вполне естественно поведение бывших колоний.
Конечно, это интересно наблюдать мультиэничность, мультикультурализм или мультиконфессиональность в границах империи. Даже если за это ты платишь спецналог, как продемонстрировано в отрывке. Да и куча языков, что особо даже и не парятся с изучением языка страны-метрополии.
Но вряд ли все бывшие колонии захотят быть обратно снова колониями.

In the 1500s the Ottomans were in control of most of the Balkans, had made forays as far north-west as Vienna and controlled present-day Hungary. In the north they commanded the Black Sea, and in the south and east were in what is now Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Algeria. It was a multi-ethnic, multicultural empire prone to absolute savagery, and yet did not always insist its subjects convert to Sunni Islam, although Christians and Jews were considered inferior. They were granted ‘Dhimmi’ status, usually translated as ‘protected’, but this meant they had to pay the special jizya tax, which perhaps should be translated as ‘protection racket’. Arab Muslims in the Ottoman colonies had an easier time, but all the conquered peoples were left in no doubt who was boss. This is why there is such resentment in Arab countries now that Turkey is again pushing its way into their world. In Saudi Arabia, for example, one of the main thoroughfares in Riyadh, Sultan Suleiman the Magnificient Street, was renamed in 2020 following Turkey’s involvement in Syria and Libya.