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Post by indigo on Aug 18, 2009 14:10:54 GMT 10
The map below is in Dutch, but it tells quite a story nonetheless. And the story is this: which is the juridical world or Official World, and which is the empirical or Non-Official World? I really don't know the answer, but Yiddish linguist Max Weinreich once wrote in Yiddish: A shprakh iz a dialekt mit an armey un flot. Translation: A language is a dialect with an army and navy. I think he was right.
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Post by George on Aug 18, 2009 15:57:02 GMT 10
It appears to be a map of some major ethnic minorities - quite a number of them self-governing.
What's the big deal?
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Post by sogoln on Aug 18, 2009 16:40:59 GMT 10
There seems to be major errors in the map too. Eastern Turkestan and Tibet should have a common border and Suriname was obviously mistaken for French Guiana.
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Post by George on Aug 18, 2009 18:59:46 GMT 10
I'm also puzzled by the large areas marked on the Australian continent.
They don't correspond to any known ethnic or linguistic sub-group that I'm aware of.
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Post by sogoln on Aug 18, 2009 19:02:11 GMT 10
It also shows several former Bantustans (the so-called homelands created under the Apartheid to make sure the natives would be strangers in their own land), but not all of them (I don't see Transkei and Ciskei).
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Post by George on Aug 18, 2009 20:01:02 GMT 10
Perhaps a Dutch-speaker in our midst may be able to elucidate?
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Post by D. N. Vercáriâ on Aug 18, 2009 20:41:23 GMT 10
Approximate excerpt from the text:
"... but worldwide there are 200 small and not recognized regions and peoples who hope to secede from the states that are existing today. In any way they are more or less possible candidates for becoming new nation-states... Some are wanting to escape from oppression by all means, such as the Kurds, Tamils, Chechens; other countries want to preserve their wealth and want to quit the poor rest, for example in Bavaria, California, Padania.."
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Post by George on Aug 18, 2009 21:42:33 GMT 10
mmm... I see.
Sounds like someone has created a map to try to reflect the geographical aspirations of the various members of the UNPO.
The Australian component still makes no sense at all, however.
...and off the top of my head, I don't recall Wales being a member of the UNPO.
...not to mention that Araucania-Patagonia seems to be completely missing - and they are a UNPO member.
Curioser and curioser.
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