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I disagree with Bruno Garnier as borders between countries move, so, what is the point of respecting them. Recently, Bosnia was part of Yugoslavija for example. Instead of, geographical borders do not change! I also remember sometimes ago there was a similar discussion on IBERPAL@LISTSERV.REDIRIS.ES, and the person that started the discussion was expelled unfairly from the list because he he belonged to one of the "nations, tribes or races" that Europeans do not care about them! respectfully, Xavier Panades I Blas, Ms Please, send letters to: Fuhlrott-Museum / ARCO-Nepal Auer schulstr. 20 D-42103 Wuppertal cogombra@hotmail.com Tel. 0049 202/563 2636/4891 Fax 0049 202/563 8026 Student from: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Fakultät für Geowissenschaften Luisenstrasse 37 Zi. 223/I 80333 München,Germany ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Bruno GRANIER" <brcgranier@wanadoo.fr> Reply-To: paleonet@nhm.ac.uk To: <paleonet@nhm.ac.uk> Subject: Re: paleonet Palaeontology versus Geography versus Cultural Respect Versus Politics Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 14:29:12 +0100 (MET) My feeling is that there are official international borders between countries and we do not have to care about so-called "nations, tribes or races" ... For instance, Bosnia is Bosnia (if you just want to say one part of it is part of the Great Croatia or the Great Serbia, you put yourself into "Great" trouble), Padonia is not a country, Europe is a super-country, Palestine and Israel are countries ... Paleontology should not care of "ancient civilisation/nations/not to say cultures" when dealing with present-day geography ... The concept "one nation = one country" is just a facist ideal! I remember sometimes ago there was a similar discussion on IBERPAL@LISTSERV.REDIRIS.ES Niko you are right: we should probably stop the dicussion right there. Cheers, Bruno >Messsage du 11/03/2003 13:02 >De : <paleonet@nhm.ac.uk> >A : <paleonet@nhm.ac.uk> >Copie à : >Objet : Re: paleonet Palaeontology versus Geography versus Cultural Respect Versus Politics > > Latitude and longitude provide an objective, non-cultural/political > means of locating points upon the Earth's surface. > > Duncan McLean > > _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself with cool emoticons http://messenger.msn.co.uk
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