Hoi, Is it like in "Animal farm" that all countries are equal but some are more equal then others? By calling NY a sub chapter, it is inherent that there is room for a USA chapter. Each chapter has one vote as I understand it or will each subchapter have one as well ??
Originally the notion of a chapter was very much that it was along the lines of legislatures. This no longer seems to be relevant or am I missing something? Thanks, GerardM
2009/1/20 Ting Chen wing.philopp@gmx.de
Gerard Meijssen schrieb:
Hoi, So in essence by having a New York chapter, it became impossible to have
an
USA chapter? Or do we need to propose an Amsterdam sub chapter that will
get
all the trimmings like New York? The argument that the USA is so big is
not
that strong either, we could have a Moscow sub chapter or one for Bombay. Thanks, GerardM
Yes, having a New York chapter pretty ruled out the possibility of establishing a USA chapter. But then, the USA chapter was discussed for quite long time and it is quite unprobably that it would become true in the near future. There are also suggestions that the WM-NYC could serve as a seed and gradually expand its covering area at sometime to become a WM-USA. But that's all speculations. We will see how everything develops.
Again, from the view of fundation WM-NYC is not a "sub chapter" but a wholevalue chapter. Its area doesn't covers a nation, but that doesn't make it less or more than the chapters whose area cover a country. And sub-national or cross-national chapters also may be established somewhere else than USA, right.
As far as I know, there are already two organizations in the Netherlands, why would you want to create an Amsterdam chapter and what is the beneficial of it? Or is the question just theoretical?
Greetings Ting
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