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Cadrache
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Posted 04/13/08 - 06:22 PM: Subject: "The People"	#1
I've been reading again. And while reading, this mostly separate question came to mind. Say you have a culture, or a country. This country is defined by both racial and cultural bindings. Does the definition of said People, end when either the race is decimated, or the culture is decimated?

jaoman
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Posted 04/13/08 - 10:22 PM:	#2
A country, actually, is defined by legal borders and military sovereignty. What you are talking about is a nation. In that case the definition depends on the people. How do they define their own identity? The Christian nation, for example, clearly exemplifies a case where cultural bindings are ever more important than racial ones; whereas, say, the Serbian nation culturally defines itself mainly along racial criteria. Once all the people of the proper heritage are wiped out, no more Serbian nation.
"With no relation to class or social background, whether it suits them or not, people yearn for a dream. Sustained by a dream, hurt by a dream, revived by a dream, killed by a dream. And even after being abandoned by a dream, it continues to smolder from the bottom of one's heart... probably until the verge of death. A man should envision such a lifetime once. A life spent as a martyr to the god named "dream." - Kentaro Miura

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Posted 04/15/08 - 01:06 AM:	#3
Cadrache wrote: This country is defined by both racial and cultural bindings. Does the definition of said People, end when either the race is decimated, or the culture is decimated? Yes. Culture, civlization, ethnic groups can become extinct.
The standard view is that doctors are not at fault if they deceive their patients for their health's sake, and that fathers are not at fault if they deceive their children for their own good. For the crime of deception consists not in the falsity of what is said but in the harm done by the deceiver. -- Thomas Hobbes, 3rd set of objections on The Sixth Meditation, Descartes.

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