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No country allows self-determination of it's regions. Do you think that USA would allow Texas or Lakota Nation to secede?
by spanxx 7y ago
No country allows self-determination of it's regions. Do you think that USA would allow Texas or Lakota Nation to secede?
- voicedYoda 7y agoActually, some of us wish they would.
- spanxx 7y agoWhat's the minimum size of people to ask for independence? One person, one thousand, one million?
- autoexec 7y agoI imagine it's dependent on boundaries not individuals. A nation, an island, a state, or a city might ask for independence, but not a person or a group of people. In the US we even have semi-independent spaces like reservations and embassy buildings where a single complex or structure is considered separate from the nation that surrounds it.
- hutzlibu 7y agoI would say, it depends.
- xondono 7y agoNo country recognizes your right to not be thrown into a black hole.. And yet I’d be willing to bet some would be opposed to it happening :)
- spanxx 7y agoHow this relates to what I'm saying?
- Symbiote 7y agoThere have been recent, legal self-determination referenda in Scotland, New Caledonia and the Falkland Islands. I'm sure there are more; these are just three I'm familiar with. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Sovereignty_referendums https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Sovereignty_referendu...
- spanxx 7y agoScotland did the referendum in agreement with British Law and Westminster pairlament. This, note there is no British Constitution that forbids them to do referendums. About Flakland Islands I don't know, so I don't have an opinion.
- SamReidHughes 7y agoAlso done legally under British law. With hilariously lopsided results! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Falkland_Islands_sovereignty_referendum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Falkland_Islands_sovereig...
- Gaelan 7y agoYour previous post: > Do you think that USA would allow Texas or Lakota Nation to secede? I think Symbiote was using Scotland as an example to prove that this wasn’t out of the question.
- pjc50 7y agoCzechoslovakia.
- spanxx 7y agoThey both agreed to split. Totally different situation there.
- maximente 7y agowhat do you mean "let"? a lot depends on the outcome. you can bet that the british empire didn't "let" the colonies secede, but they did anyway, persevered, and eventually the british "let them" by way of not pursuing the war. and so, here we are. the same could happen with spain, or a state in the US, or w/e. winners tend to write the history books, as well as perspective on past events.