tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post4878023037292168818..comments2024-03-01T08:19:54.547+00:00Comments on BobFromBrockley: our humanly racebobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-45503185135913644352012-09-20T23:52:09.850+01:002012-09-20T23:52:09.850+01:00Your writing is a joy to read.Your writing is a joy to read.Elliott Broidyhttp://www.elliottbroidy.incracing.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-65965559514741864412011-03-21T15:29:50.548+00:002011-03-21T15:29:50.548+00:00Well! I believe that the people have a big race to...Well! I believe that the people have a big race to be better humans , I would like to get the main sentence of the post to analyze it and ca say a better comment!!22ddbuy generic viagrahttp://www.xlpharmacy.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-55119945049171100342008-08-26T16:41:00.000+01:002008-08-26T16:41:00.000+01:00Sorry, I meant the post a couple of posts below th...Sorry, I meant the post a couple of posts below this one, entitled "Flesh is Grass rocks".bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-42316909865280597012008-08-26T16:39:00.000+01:002008-08-26T16:39:00.000+01:00Transpontine- your point echoes a point TNC made o...Transpontine- your point echoes a point TNC made on a discussion thread at Flesh is Grass, linked to in the post befor this one, which is odd. Yes, historically empires have been far more hospitable to minorities and to diversity than nation-states. Nation-states require purity, unanimity, or at least overwhelming demographic majority. <BR/><BR/>When states are nationalised and nations get states, there is always a minority produced. Once that minority is thus identified, they are then made move-able, or, worse, eliminable. (I know those aren't all words.)<BR/><BR/>(Hence the massive trasfers of "Greek" people out of Asia Minor (including many people who didn't even speak Greek but were just nominally Christian). Rembetika music carries the memory of that act of ethnic cleansing. Hence the Armenian massacre, the violence of the Partition of India and on-going pogroms against Muslims in Gujerat. And on and grimly on.)<BR/><BR/>Empires, of course, have generally been horrible institutions, and they found ways of using diversity to manage populations - as with the Ottoman millet system, and all the "middle man" ethnicities that Britain shipped around the world (e.g. Asians in East Africa and parts of Caribbean). But by doing this they allowed all sorts of cultures to flourish that subsequent nation-states have tried to kill off. <BR/><BR/>Sorry to go on at such length, but this relates to the comments on the Flesh is Grass post below this one, so it's on my mind.bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-69802663898365683802008-08-26T16:09:00.000+01:002008-08-26T16:09:00.000+01:00Harry's Place has been attacked, and is functionin...Harry's Place has been attacked, and is functioning from a backup blog, http://jennadelich.blogspot.com/<BR/><BR/>Your support in this matter would be appreciated.ModernityBloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06354254639321208955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-43295974958767449372008-08-24T17:54:00.000+01:002008-08-24T17:54:00.000+01:00Fascinating stuff about Baghdad in the 1920s, very...Fascinating stuff about Baghdad in the 1920s, very similar to some stuff I've been reading about Salonica in same period which I will post about soon. Interesting to compare the cultural diversity and relative tolerance of the muslim Ottoman Empire (though Baghdad was British ruled after WW1) with the ethnically-cleansed nation states that replaced it - not that the Ottoman Empire was in itself a good thing..https://www.blogger.com/profile/17026835814805695527noreply@blogger.com