An Expidition to The Slavic Union

[loannes]

[quote name='Il Terra Di Agea' date='09 May 2010 - 05:47 AM' timestamp='1273380441' post='2292176']
"You seem to have your logic reversed. If you supported the self rule of a culture, you would be supporting PEPTO, for refusing to allow a diverse ethnic group to be defined by a single word, but instead, by their own, individual cultures and histories. So say the 'Slavs' are a unified mass is as if I were to say that all of Africa had a distinct, continental culture, or as if I were to say that all people of Chinese decent belong to a single culture. Neither is true. In Africa there are Sudanese, Nigerians, Zulu, Algerians, Moroccan and Egyptian Arabs and the Habesha; All are independent of each other, with a history and culture all their own. The same is entirely true for the Slavic peoples. Though they started of the same beginnings, the Slavic peoples have never been a unified entity as so many wish to force into our heads; Even in their earliest times, they were independent villages and tribes. They were free of each other, of any hegemonic Pan-Slavic force, a force, I must say, that has only served to create a sick and twisted homogenization of peoples to fit a definition that can only loosely take the name 'Slavic.' What is the point of claiming to unify a culture if the culture you pull them into is a mere shell of the proud, varied cultures and states that the Slavs once were. We are not destroying their culture as you so foolishly say, we are allowing it carry on in all its glory, rather than become another proud nation buried in the cause of Pan-Slavism, much the same way the Greater Nordlandic Reich buried almost all of the independent cultures of Europe. If the Federation proved they would not infringe on the sovereignty of these proud people, we would be less imposing about this whole matter, but thus far, all we have seen is an assurance that a nation with 'Slavic' in it's name will be invading."

OOC: This post has been made before the second page even existed, so it may be a bit outdated a to current developments. meh
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OOC: We already reached an agreement

[The FSM]

We are happy to see our ally in the Slavic Federation is willing to work with the larger European community for the sake of the peace, stability and security of the region. We sincerely hope that the signatories of PEPTO will be receptive to the agreement as we feel it would be the best way for the signatories to fulfill their obligations in maintaining peace and tranquility in Europe. Should our ally need it, Sicilian security forces can be made available to assist PEPTO and the Slavic Federation in maintaining stability in the former Khislav-SU.

-Hossein Al-Hussein
Sicilian Director of Foreign Affairs