I seriously doubt any of those three countries are gonna balkanize anytime soon.
I’m intesely staring at UK right now.
Please take Northern Ireland from those twats
For the UK my best guess would be wales and scotland continue their “devolution” while Ireland becomes united once again. I think at some point Wales and Scotland will be independent of England.
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I don’t think Wales will ever be independent. Scotland maybe, but it will immediately join the EU if it does which kind of makes independence a moot point, going from one master to another. Northern Ireland almost certainly will be liberated and re-united with the Republic sometime in the future.
China has large investments in the UK. I potentially see northern Ireland returned if China continues it’s economic ties with the UK. Especially if Xi can project the anti colonial power we’ve seen domestically outward.
Those are not languages, though, those are dialects, and this happens in every country.
“Dialect” is the point of the meme. It critiques the China-balkanizers, who justify their ahistorical bullshit by saying that Beijingers and Shanghaiers have different accents and stuff
Most linguists are critical of the divide between language and dialect because no objective measurement can discriminate the two. The origin of this distinction is political
Free Corsica!
graffiti on some french building in Yugoslavia during nato’s economic and military dismemberment of Yugoslavia
How strong is regionalism in France, really? Or rather, how much is it fueled by the likes of RFE?
- Brittany : mostly a big meme
- Alsace : people actually speak the language
- Corisca : very fucking serious holy shit
yeah corsica serious to the point of violence.
I thought in Brittany they actually spoke their own language, Breton?
I also wonder about the south coast of France, especially around Marseille, which always seems to see itself as outsiders, if what I have read in the past is accurate.
Yes Breton is spoken but it’s a small minority and young people tend to learn it by conviction, not organically by their families. There are still some schools that teach it as a secondary language but it’s optional.
Marseilles doesn’t have a separatist movement but a strong anti-Paris sentiment. Southern French has a significant accent and some linguistic variation
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I’d put money on it happening to the US, UK or Spain before anything happens to France
I mean, Catalonia has been wanting independence from Spain for ages.
They had a go at that a few years back, both their poor and bourgeosie were united in wanting independence, but the spanish state crushed it.
And the Basque Country. Together they make up a sizeable chunk of the Spanish economy.
