Independent Kosovo? What about an independent Vermont? Posted: 8 months ago by 2manyusernames
Sean Connery thinks a Scottish nation is a bonnie notion. How about Spain's Basque country becoming a REAL country? And what's wrong with a People's Republic of Vermont?

Kosovo's looming independence raises all those questions and more. For starters: Why is statehood OK for some people but frowned on for others? After all, isn't the right to self-determination the essence of democracy itself?
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Posted: 8 months ago by moe:
U.S. out of New Jersey!
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Posted: 8 months ago by runninutes:
« moe : U.S. out of New Jersey!
And vice versa! ;)
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Posted: 8 months ago by rambler:
Belgium could be the next country to face a big breakup: A nasty rift between Dutch-speaking Flanders to the north and French-speaking southern Wallonia has raised speculation that the kingdom may split in two.
Very interesting in this country which recently spent about half a year without a government due to this problem. Yet a country which is ostensibly the heart of a new and unifying Europe... A Europe which contains countries like Italy and Germany, which only became single countries relatively late.

And often when I talk to Dutch people they talk as if the Netherlands has always existed in its present form, which it has not. I think the old Duchy of Brabant, for instance, which now straddles the Dutch/Belgian border, existed for longer than either those two countries has. (Some of you guys living out there will know the details better than I do, I didn't learn it in school like you must have...)

Nations and nationalism are oversold concepts, in my view.
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Posted: 8 months ago by 2manyusernames:
And of course you also have the Quebec/Canada problem.
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Posted: 8 months ago by psycmoe:
Hell, Nor. Californians have been trying since the 1800s.
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