David Hobby wrote: > >> ??? >> >> AFAIK, every other western nation has it too. Brazil certainly has it, >> except that the Roman Catholic Church has too much power because >> it's a rich organization. > > Certainly not all. Why do they call it the "Church of England", > for example? And see my quote below on France... > Maybe it's a traditional thing. But I doubt that the "Church of England" has any _real_ power.
>>> A good rule might be that only people who were born in >>> a place could vote on which country it would join. >> >> But this is what happened to Kosovo, who was a serbian zone, >> until the albanians grew in number and began oppressing them. > > The former Yugoslavia is a good example. The different > ethnic groups were pretty-much separate, although the border > between their regions had a fractal look to it in places. If > two ethnic groups were set on not wanting to live together, some > people would have to move to achieve that. This would be better > than ethnic cleansing, however! > But what happened _was_ ethnic cleansing, with the support of NATO: the serbians were cleansed out of Kosovo, a traditional serbian zone. Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
