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From: jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
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Subject: Re: Call for discussion: soc.culture.polish
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Date: 16 Jan 90 17:20:31 GMT
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Some while ago a soc.culture.slavic group was proposed.  The proposal got
derailed by a nitpicking discussion about whether Lithuanians counted.  It
seems odd to me that we're proposing a group for a specific part of the
Slavic world (or of Eastern Europe) before having a more general one.  Do
we need to create a soc.culture.montenegrin group before we can mention the
place, for example?

What's happened with the East Asian groups has been a chaotic mess we can
well do without replicating elsewhere.  A soc.culture.slavic or
soc.culture.ee group would help prevent that.  Both soc.culture.arabic and
soc.culture.celtic have worked reasonably well without tying themselves to
a specific nation-state.
-- 
Jack Campin  *  Computing Science Department, Glasgow University, 17 Lilybank
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