In a borderless European Union that boasts 23 official languages, one member, Slovakia, has enacted a law that limits the use of the languages of some fellow EU members.
TWO POINTS:
1. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY DID NOT "CRUMBLE" –ALONG WITH GERMANY IT WAS DEFEATED IN WORLD WAR ONE, AND SUBSEQUENTLY DISMEMBERED IN THE NAME OF "DEMOCRACY." IN PRACTICE THIS MEANT THAT THE DEMOCRATICLY EXPRESSED WILL OF THE DEFEATED WAS DISRESPECTED.
2. THE SUCCESSOR STATES OF THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE–CZECHOSLOVAKIA, POLAND (IN PART) ETC., HAVE NEVER SHOWN THE LEAST RESPECT FOR MINORITY RIGHTS. WHAT THEY HAVE PRACTICED IS SYSTEMATIC OPPRESSION, AND IN 1945-1945, MASS MURDER AGAINST THEIR GERMAN-SPEAKING MINORITY.
How funny that you guys should mention this yet you fail to mention the on going cultural genocide of macedonians living within the borders of modern greece. Since 1913 macedonians have not been allowed to speak macedonian or open macedonian language classes. Why are Hungarians more news worthy than macedonians?
TWO POINTS:
1. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY DID NOT "CRUMBLE" –ALONG WITH GERMANY IT WAS DEFEATED IN WORLD WAR ONE, AND SUBSEQUENTLY DISMEMBERED IN THE NAME OF "DEMOCRACY." IN PRACTICE THIS MEANT THAT THE DEMOCRATICLY EXPRESSED WILL OF THE DEFEATED WAS DISRESPECTED.
2. THE SUCCESSOR STATES OF THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE–CZECHOSLOVAKIA, POLAND (IN PART) ETC., HAVE NEVER SHOWN THE LEAST RESPECT FOR MINORITY RIGHTS. WHAT THEY HAVE PRACTICED IS SYSTEMATIC OPPRESSION, AND IN 1945-1945, MASS MURDER AGAINST THEIR GERMAN-SPEAKING MINORITY.
September 17, 2009 @ 3:34 pm
How funny that you guys should mention this yet you fail to mention the on going cultural genocide of macedonians living within the borders of modern greece. Since 1913 macedonians have not been allowed to speak macedonian or open macedonian language classes. Why are Hungarians more news worthy than macedonians?
September 17, 2009 @ 3:37 pm