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It can be argued that the U.S. is not an ethnostate either.
No "it can be argued" about it -- it isn't. And its resulting failures should be obvious.
"The U.S. has numerous failures" is beyond dispute. "The failures of the U.S. are caused by its unique multicultural, multiracial, and multinational characteristics" is a lot harder to defend.
How about "some failures of the US are caused by some characteristics of races and cultures in the US"?
Then it becomes a trivial statement, the scope of "some" being adjusted to the preconceptions of every individual reader.
Yes, as it should, because unless you want to go into specifics there is no statement both true and general that you can make.
Note, though, that the "standard" view says "no failures of the US are caused by any characteristics of races and cultures" (with the possible exception of white men being just evil) :-/