Sunday, August 22, 2010
Response to question nine
I disagree that soveriegnty is the best way to keep people safe. You may be there because you all look the same or you all speak the same language, but it's not going to work. You may all look the same but you think differently. Religions come into play alot and so does ethinicity. In Germany during the Holocaust over six million Jews were murdered because Hitler didn't like they're religion. So, now here let's give the Jews Palestine so they can be separated and have their own homeland. That didn't work because the Arabs said their ancestors were there first. So, now you have just created another conflict. When, Europe divided Africa they were just carving the land and not looking at where they were placing people. Rwanda ended up with two ethnic groups fighting for power. That created yet another genocide that spilled into the Congo. Even if you were to separate all ethnic groups and give them their own land there wouls still be problems. People would be fighting over how much land they got, and where it's located. You're never goingto satisfy everyone. Separating everyone isn't going to work either. Mary Rosenblum's idea of separating people was only based off of apperance. We already did that and look where we are today
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I think that you bring up a really good point here. I didn't really think about any of that stuff when I was answering that question. Now that you have said it though it makes a lot of sense. I was assuming that everyone in a sovereign state would have the same ideas, burt that is totally not true in every case. I think that you supported what you were saying iwth really powerful examples.
ReplyDeleteSee! It's that horrible thing called assuming. nobody relaizes that htey're doing it. It causes half the problems today. Thank you for agreeing with me though
ReplyDeleteThe whole Rwanda and Congo area really gets me going for whatever reason. Val, I like what you said about Yugoslavia.
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