Kyllsa Siikanen
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Posted - 2013.10.05 11:32:00 -
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Pieter Tuulinen wrote:Because managing a population that is culturally so different from your own is very difficult without either imposing your prejudices on them or vice-versa. Managing the security of a bloc that locally outnumbers you means that you cannot take for granted which way they will jump politically or socially - or your ability to enforce control in a pinch.
Inevitably, once a cultural minority reaches a certain size, it encysts itself within the body politic. You get districts where your own language is spoken as a second tongue. Where the street gangs operate according to rules you don't understand. Where the population instinctively mistrusts your law enforcement personnel - unless you recruit heavily from within that community, whereupon you simply take an external problem and internalise it!
Pieter, this is an excellent post, because this highlights (inadvertently!) what is likely the number 1 problem in the Republic, and which will be the number 1 problem of any Minmatar government, regardless who it is or what form it takes.
We are not a single ethnic group. We are seven, as different from each other as any other groups anywhere. We all speak different languages, adhere to different customs, settle in different communities organized on different rules, and who conduct our business in vastly different ways. About the only unifying thing between all of us is our shared history and the fact that almost all of us, traditionally, practice shamanistic, spirit-centered religions.
Any diplomat or chief must wade through such a cultural miasma of potential offense and misunderstanding that anything, absolutely ANYTHING resembling a decision, if it impacts more than the Clan, or perhaps the Sub-Tribe at most, will seem to take forever. And, frankly, we're still trying to figure out how to work around it.
I am not saying that we do not deserve answers. far from; this call is just. Yes, I am sure I state this with a bit of bias; the OP is my cousin, the "partners in crime" my alliance. I want my council to succeed. I want them to step up and face this.
I am just saying it is sadly very likely that this is a divisive issue within the council itself, as it certainly has been within the Republic. Not everyone on the Council would likely agree on where to have lunch, let alone a thing like this.
We've been a nation, in our current form, with our current government, for less than a year.
I hope we make it. GÇ£Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.GÇ¥-á
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