[Foundation-l] How to dismantle a language committee

[Marcus Buck]

Ray Saintonge hett schreven:
> That's an outrageous assumption.  Canadians who attend an international 
> sporting event between Americans and any other country will most often 
> cheer for the other country.  Since 1959 Canada has never broken 
> diplomatic relations with Cuba, and has not participated in the US 
> adventures against Vietnam and Iraq.
>
> Ec
>   
Rivalry in sports is a good example of what I spoke of: animosities 
between neighbors. There can even be outspoken rivalries between 
neighboring villages or towns, although both places share every single 
value or custom or mentality. The mindset is identical and still they 
can be engaged in contention. But if their basic values or customs are 
threatened by a third party, they will forget their little animosities 
and stand side by side.
Cuba is just a little Communist island off the coast of America. There's 
no reason for Canada to show aggression towards Cuba cause Cuba does not 
threaten anybody. If Cuba would threaten common values of the USA and 
Canada, Canada would join the USA in its anti-Cuban actions.
But we are rapidly degressing from the topic...

Identity has layers. Some layers are very emotional, but still 
unimportant. Sports for example. People can get very hot about sports, 
but they won't fight wars about it (the Football War being no 
counter-example). Other layers seem to be less hot-blooded, cause they 
emerge only rarely, but they can be existential and thus lead to 
embittered enmities.

Marcus Buck