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  • This House prefers religions to be ethnoreligions

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    Ethnoreligions are religious groups that also share ethnicity. In ethnoreligions, religion is traditionally hereditary, and conversion into the religion by someone external to the religious group is often difficult. Examples of ethnoreligious groups include Sikhs, Amish etc.

    34th NDDC Nationals 2023 · Round 5 · 2023-06-21

  • This house regrets the rising trend of glorifying Netaji.

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    Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was active in India's Independence movement. He personally believed in establishing an entirely independent socialist state, and was aggressively anti-partition. He garnered popular support for his use of military force to liberate India. But at the similar time, he also showed his support for the Axis Powers in WWII when the Alliance were attempting to liberate the sub-continent, which attracted much criticism. His mysterious disappearance has also captured popular imagination for decades. Recently, there has been a rise in his popularity as his family and others have started to present his legacy and ideas about military use, socialism, anti-partition ideology, and strong mindedness as desirable and appropriate for the present times.

    Heritage Parliamentary Debate 2023 · Semifinals · 2023-06-02

  • THS requiring streamers to promote national content to the exclusion of international media (i.e. listing national content before international content in search results, only recommending national content on "for you" pages, etc.)

    Hart House Women and Gender Minorities Debating Tournament 2023 · No Round · 2023-05-27

  • This house believes that it is in the interest of independent secessionist movements to prioritize creating autonomous zones within preexisting countries over full on statehood.

    Papillon IV World Schools Tournament · Round 2 · 2023-05-26

  • This house believes that it is in the interest of independent secessionist movements to prioritize creating autonomous zones within preexisting countries over full on statehood.

    Papillon IV World Schools Tournament · Round 3 · 2023-05-26

  • Following the collapse of the DPRK regime, This house as RK, W immediately pursue the acquisition of North Korean territory.

    EYD Sinchon KIDA National Championships 2023 · Semifinals · 2023-05-19

  • This house believes that the 'Pan-Islamism' in the foreign policy discourse of Turkey has done more harm than good.

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    Pan-Islamism is an ideology calling for the unity of Muslim peoples worldwide based on their shared Islamic identity. In a modern context, Turkey has been espousing such ideas with the romanticization of the past Ottoman empire, calling for strong cohesion within Islam nations and positioning themselves against the Western worldview.

    HUFS IV 2023 · Grand Final · 2023-05-13

  • This house believes that Malaysia should heavily invest in traditional sports over global sports

    Infoslide

    Traditional sports in Malaysia, such as diabolo spinning, sepak takraw, and silat, hold deep cultural significance amongst their respective communities. These sports have seen a decline in popularity in recent years in favour of more global sports such as badminton, squash, and cycling.

    Sunway Asian Parliamentary 2023 · Round 3 · 2023-05-01

  • As the Filipino people, This house prefers a national identity based on a shared anti-colonial struggle rather than a reconstructed precolonial history

    Philippine Schools Debating Championship 2023 · Grand Final · 2023-04-20

  • Time Set: 1948, This house would reorganize India along linguistic lines

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    After the brunt of the 1947 Partition, the Government of India agreed that the reorganisation of state borders was necessary, but the basis of reorganisation was yet to be determined. One of the proposals was to reorganise the state on the basis of languages of India. This would make administration easier, and would help replace the caste and religion-based identities with less controversial linguistic identities. Language would also serve as a pivotal means of community formation. On 17 June 1948, Rajendra Prasad, the President of the Constituent Assembly, set up the Linguistic Provinces Commission (aka Dar Commission) to recommend whether the states should be reorganised on linguistic basis or not. In its 10 December 1948 report, the Commission recommended that "the formation of provinces on exclusively or even mainly linguistic considerations is not in the larger interests of the Indian nation. "It recommended the reorganisation of the provinces primarily on the basis of geographical contiguity, financial self sufficiency and ease of administration."

    Polemic 2024 · Open Grand Finals · 2023-04-17

  • That we would prefer this new world to a continuation of the status quo

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    Tomorrow morning, everyone in the world will wake up speaking the same language at the same level of proficiency. This is not a language currently spoken. All texts have been automatically translated into this language.

    Monash Open 2023 · Grand Final · 2023-04-01

  • This house prefers a world where significant minority groups (e.g. Maori and Aboriginal populations in New Zealand and Australia; Catalonians in Spain; Nations within Great Britain) form their own sports teams rather than partake in the national teams of their country of residence.

    Colonel Henry Steel Olcott Memorial Debating Championship 2023 · Quarterfinals · 2023-03-24

  • That we should introduce a mandatory 1-year period of national service (eg. military service, participation in the emergency services, important community service, etc.) for all 18-year-olds in Australia.

    Advanced Open 2023 · Round 3 · 2023-03-02