Toxic Multiculturalism

[Jacob]

Somewhat understandable though as a Poland has no indigenous people.

... left.

I guess all the original Poles were replaced by Russians and Germans?

[Ed Anger]

Somewhat understandable though as a Poland has no indigenous people.

... left.

I guess all the original Poles were replaced by Russians and Germans?

They are a grunting mixture of the two. One part hates jews, while the other part puts screen doors on their submarines. Also, that part hates jews too.

[Viking]

They aren't real nations, because they aren't represented at the United Nations.

Ah!  Far too may of the 'nations' repesented at the UN aren't nations.  And yet real ones aren't..



G.

The Kurds, Baluchis, Hazara, Tibetans, Uigurs, Sahrawis, not to mention countless tribes in Africa don't have states. While the Sabah family, the Thani family, the Khalifa family, the Saud family, the Mubarak family and the Assad family all seem to have their own seats at the UN.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Interesting how this debate has spiraled into a loggerhead of semantics over one word, that obviously has subtly different meanings depending on where you live.

Never thought I'd see that on Languish :p

[The Brain]

I find the fiction that Canadian Indians are sovereign both amusing and a bit unsettling.

[crazy canuck]

Clearly the international community does in fact the unique position of indigenous nations.

But not as sovereigns.

You can keep repeating that but it doesnt make it so.  That question is one of the things that drives the land claims issue and why modern treaty making is occuring.

[Martinus]

Interesting how this debate has spiraled into a loggerhead of semantics over one word, that obviously has subtly different meanings depending on where you live.

Never thought I'd see that on Languish :p

It's a legal debate. It's like saying that a criminal trial is a "loggerhead of semantics over one word" (namely "guilty"). 

[crazy canuck]

Interesting how this debate has spiraled into a loggerhead of semantics over one word, that obviously has subtly different meanings depending on where you live.

Never thought I'd see that on Languish :p

It's a legal debate. It's like saying that a criminal trial is a "loggerhead of semantics over one word" (namely "guilty"). 

You suck at analogies worse then.... oh wait, you are Marti.

[Barrister]

Interesting how this debate has spiraled into a loggerhead of semantics over one word, that obviously has subtly different meanings depending on where you live.

Never thought I'd see that on Languish :p

It's a legal debate. It's like saying that a criminal trial is a "loggerhead of semantics over one word" (namely "guilty"). 

For a legal debate you haven't given us a single legal citation, by the way.  On the other hand I've quoted the Canadian constitution, the Declaration on Indigenous People, a  link to a cite with many of the leading case names...

[Neil]

I guess all the original Poles were replaced by Russians and Germans?

The natives were massacred back in prehistory.  Of course, every single person that is considered 'Polish' these days is actually a Russian.