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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (6050)	5/23/2000 1:03:00 PM
From: marcos	Respond to of 9127

Yes, i think what's to be done about it is to move on, deal with the world as it unfolds now, and get along together ... borders continue to lose the significance they once had, anyway ... as communications and trade develop ... education is my answer to everything, for everybody - quite equally for the hate-filled redneck sitting on the border stroking his gun and for the mexicano looking for a drink of water on his way to some shit job. When i bring up my 'half of M‚xico occupied by the US' rant it is always in response to some particularly jingoist bit of myopic arrogance from one of your good ol' boys ... and lord knows we've seen some of that on this thread, lol. Yes, Slovakia splitting ... as they were about to do that, i was seeing a young german lady who had spent time in Praga and had known several checoslovaks in university in Germany ... she was amazed that the slovaks would want to split, the two economies were quite different but entirely symbiotic in her opinion, and slovaks she knew were opposed quite strongly [at the same time as they felt their heartstrings pulled by the independence rhetoric] ... still, she would point out that the new border meant less than it might have in the past, less than other nearby borders still did ..... at the time, the plan was to continue trade and cooperation between czechs and slovaks as before, i don't know how that turned out. Lately in British Columbia we've had a whacko left-wing regime which in its wisdom chose to settle a treaty negotiation with one of our dozens of indian bands by granting them self-government in perpetuity over a considerable chunk of the province ... it sets up a whole new level of government, and is race-based ... i don't like this, and i'm a good part indian [though not of a BC tribe] ... the rationale was that it would redress injustice of the past, but i see in it huge potential for injustice of the future. There are all sorts of degrees of borders - When the volcano Chichonal erupted a few years ago several tens of thousands of mayas were displaced ... their movement affected other groups in a variety of ways, like a chain reaction, and this combined with a trend just before that of nouveau riche oilfield workers to 'buy' from the government traditional lands of the maya which had [supposedly] been 'unoccupied' for several decades led directly to a whole lot of people getting shot ... in every case each group felt its borders violated ... the territorial thing is deep within us, brainstem stuff.