Is it easier to rule as a dictator when you're an ethnic

>>3331830

YOU IGNORE WHAT THE WORD "ETHNIC" MEANS.

>>3331830
>Qing Dynasty
>Dictatorship

>>3331830
Maybe the reason why they fucked those people up was because they didn't really belong to them so they didn't feel as much emotional attachement.

>>3331864
It's especially absurd when he could have named Napoleon instead, who actually was dictator before he elected himself emperor, like Bokassa. For that matter Bokassa was from some tiny tribe too. Idi Amin was Muslim in a now-85% Christian country, etc

I think the pattern here is probably "frustrated manlet gets tired of being bullied and seizes power more or less forcefully"

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>>3331830
In the case of Saddam and Assad, it's because they can rely on the support of the minorities, as well as the support of some or even much of the majority ethno-religious group. Saddam and Assad both had near-universal support from religious minorities (especially Christians, who feared persecutions from the majority); then, they are able to get some support from people in the majority group by maintaining stability in the face of enemies.

Syrian Christians are especially sticking with Assad because they saw what happened to the Assyrian Christians (Iraq) when Saddam fell. Most Iraqi Christians fled the country in terror when Saddam fell, and many who stayed died when ISIS took over Mosul.

>>3331830
You are forgetting that many democratic countries have ethnic minority leaders aswell

It CAN be.

Often times rent-providing authoritarian states construct state apparatuses for the added bonus of maintaining power. IE some state bureaucracy is just as important for providing jobs for some group as it is for actually doing something.

That said, most dictatorships are not run by a minority. Being run by a minority just changes the institutional structures and bureaucratic tendencies of a dictatorship.

Also putting Tito in the same category as Assad or Saddam is dubious.