Read this... “Why should we be a minority in your country, when you could be a minority in ours?” ....Will such questions be asked in Maharashtra as well as India in near future? Who? Where exactly?... .....Liberals are good at articulating universal principles for the equal sovereignty and self-determination of individual human beings. They get in a complete muddle when it comes to peoples. Why should Kosovars have a right to self-determination but not Kurds? If Scotland, why not Catalonia? If Catalonia, why not Padania? Padania is the name proposed by the Lega Nord for an independent north Italy. As empires and multinational states weaken, the cry goes up: “Why should we be a minority in your country, when you could be a minority in ours?” (I borrow the brilliant formulation of the Macedonian scholar Vladimir Gligorov.) Or, as the Russian nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky provocatively put it: if Ukraine can have its revolution, why not Crimea?......
Posted on: Sat, 08 Mar 2014 11:26:28 +0000