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Catalonia's independence movement died before it started
TristanLuigi:
--- Quote from: Kearn on October 29, 2017, 12:57:15 AM ---what constitutes a region? if i convince my highschool class to declare independence is the US obligated to let us establish a new nation in the schoolgrounds? can a city declare independence? a county?
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Wow, I can't believe it's taken you this long to ask a question that's actually relevant and open for debate. I can't claim to have a universal definition, but Catalonia has a separate language and a separate culture - I think that qualifies them as a separate region.
Kearn:
--- Quote from: TristanLuigi on October 29, 2017, 12:59:02 AM ---Wow, I can't believe it's taken you this long to ask a question that's actually relevant and open for debate. I can't claim to have a universal definition, but Catalonia has a separate language and a separate culture - I think that qualifies them as a separate region.
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so by the conditions you've given a school for the deaf is fully capable of declaring itself an independent nation, yeah?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaf_culture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Sign_Language
Rally:
--- Quote from: TristanLuigi on October 29, 2017, 12:59:02 AM ---Wow, I can't believe it's taken you this long to ask a question that's actually relevant and open for debate.
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Even Kimon wasn't this insufferable
TristanLuigi:
--- Quote from: Kearn on October 29, 2017, 01:00:21 AM ---so by the conditions you've given a school for the deaf is fully capable of declaring itself an independent nation, yeah?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaf_culture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Sign_Language
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Are you willing to argue that these things are qualitatively equivalent to languages and cultures like Catalan?
Kearn:
--- Quote from: TristanLuigi on October 29, 2017, 01:01:54 AM ---Are you willing to argue that these things are qualitatively equivalent to languages and cultures like Catalan?
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i'm using your exact definitions!!! you didn't have a quantitative threshold for it
is new york city allowed to secede? is each neighborhood in nyc allowed to secede? how many secessions can you have? are you in favor of a billion city states?