There are offcourse DE and DK minorities left on both side of the border
and they function quite well.

But in many parts of the world minorities within a country is a source of
unrest or potential unrest.

Just imagine Africa today if the colony borders were drawn along "national"
lines.

There was no point in forcing thousands of Germans (including Flensburg)
to change country just because DK wanted more land.

Jesper

>-- Original Message --
>To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>From: "aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>
>Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:30:49 -0000
>Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: eupen and malmedy
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>
>
>

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well you know it is widespread if not general opinion everywhere 
to not think much of foreign elements 
 
call it racism or barbarophobia or merely ethnocentrism or just 
local cohesiveness or whatev

>r

but clearly all our countries are riddled with it 
 
& that is why i think our everyones land 
in being an affirmation of all elements everywhere 
even those who dont have a country or even a body yet 
is the next small

>tep for the human race

but yikes thats human racism 
hahaha 
or lets just call it 
racism with a human face 
 
--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, jesniel@i... wrote:

> The winners of WW1 wanted to make DE weak
>so they would

not make war again.

> Taking land from DE was also a way to punnish DE for the war. 
> 
> In the case of DE-DK the peace conference thought DK was

too modest. DK

> was just being realistic, not w
>nting foreign elements inside

her borders.

> 
> 
> I have a BE friend who does not think much of the Germans in

Eupen - but

> I am not sure if he represents the general BE opinion. 
> 
> Jesper
>BR>
> >-- Original Message -- 
> >To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com> 
> >From: "Bill Burke" <billb@l...> 
> >Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 13:53:51 -0000 
> >Subject: [BoundaryPoint] eupen
>nd malmedy 
> >Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> These two areas with Moresnet were transfered to Belguim in

1920 . Why

> was Eupen, a largely German
>speaking area transferred

across? The

> TREATY OF VERSAILLES encouraged people to choose the

country to which

> they wished to be attached eg Nor 
> >hern Schleswig went to Denmark, 
> Sout
>ern Schleswig stayed in Germany. Can anyone answer

this . 
 
 
 
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