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As you know, that didn't last long--and it was always a strange way of being 'inspired' by the French Revolution in any case. In Germany, he idea was to replace aristocratically-led government by government legitimated by national 'belonging', but this movement resulted in Wilhelm I. being crowned Emperor of the extremely nationalist 'small German' empire (without Austria, as the Austrian Emperor refused to submit to the much more powerful King of Prussia). This coincided with the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine in the name of extending German nationalist influence, ultimately the First World War, and in turn the Second. Plenty of other examples apart from Germany, of course, e.g. in Turkey--the Armenian genocide, the catastrophe of Smyrna, and so on.
Leading to predominantly crackpot dictatorships within artificial colonial continuity boundaries, trying to impose 'nationality' on all sorts of people with very different identities.
Great for divide-and-rule, starting wars, and killing people. Rubbish for everything else.
(Obviously I know that you were just trying to give counter-examples to what Fox said.)