Kim,
Does the suppression of the Spanish language in some US schools, however
deplorable this is, constitute "genocide" in the United States? Suppose
that the US was successful in eliminating Spanish in the United States.
Wouldn't they still speak Spanish in Mexico? Just to make this clear: I
oppose the suppression of Spanish in the United States. Suppose in South
Africa, the black population drove out all of the whites. Genocide?
Suppose they suppressed the language of the colonizers. Genocide? Now
suppose the goal of the ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, or at least the KLA,
is to drive all other Yugoslavians out of Kosovo, break Kosovo off from
Yugoslavia and join the territory to the Albanian state, thus producing an
ethnically-circumscribed Albanian state clean of Serbs. Genocide?
What puzzles me in all the hype over the conflict is how it is
consistently missed that the Yugoslavian government seeks to keep as part
of their state a territory with a majority Albanian population. Here is
Yugoslavia, trying to preserve a multiethnic state, and the Albanians,
like the Croats, etc., before them, seeking to break territories off from
Yugoslavia and draw ethnically narrow political-juridical boundaries.
Doesn't the KLA desire to control an ethnically pure territory? I think
they do.
One other thing I find interesting in all this is how the US propagandists
so easily swing the ethnicity talk, but when it comes to our country they
pretend racism doesn't exist.
Andy
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