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  • This house believes that schools should teach predominantly and overwhelmingly national literature instead of world literature.

    Eurasian Schools Debating Championship 2021 · 5 · 2021-01-29

  • This house, as a fiction author of national importance, would write books that cannot be construed as a 'national allegory".

    Infoslide

    A 'national allegory' is a work (or a part of a work, like a character) that functions as a metaphor for the nature, history, or destiny of the nation. A famous example is Saleem Sinai in Salman Rushdie's Midnights Children. Born on the stroke of midnight on the eve of India's independence, Saleem's fate is tied to that of post-independence India.

    Uhuru Worlds · Open Final · 2021-01-10

  • This house believes that settler-states should pursue immigration policies that lead to no cultural or racial group being a majority of the population. (Settler States)

    Infoslide

    Settler-states are post-colonial countries where the population descended from colonists is the largest ethnic group. Eg the United States Canada New Zealand and Australia

    Uhuru Worlds 2021 Loxodonta Division · 7 · 2021-01-09

  • This house prefers a world in which the Indian subcontinent had become a united federal state as opposed to being partitioned into two sovereign states

    Infoslide

    In 1947, at the end of the British Empire in India, the Indian subcontinent was partitioned into two countries: India and Pakistan - comprising of East Pakistan (which later became Bangladesh) and West Pakistan (currently Pakistan).

    Doxbridge Worlds · 5 · 2021-01-02

  • This house regrets the rise of cosmopolitan culture

    Infoslide

    Cosmopolitanism is an ideology that focuses on an individual's identity being connected to the global community.

    Doxbridge Worlds · 6 · 2021-01-02

  • This house believes that universal identity fluidity is a threat to state cohesion

    Infoslide

    Movements to mainstream identity fluidity -such as gender fluidity, age fluidity, racial fluidity et. al.- have met with varying degrees of success across the world.

    Xtension IV · Open Quarters · 2021-01-01

  • This house as Aby Ahmed would abandon attempts at creating the proposed Prosperity Party and reinstate the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF).

    Infoslide

    Ethnic federalism in Ethiopia divides governance along ethnic lines into nine regional states and two multiethnic “chartered administrations”. The Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) was an ethnic federalist political coalition in Ethiopia. The Prosperity Party was established as a national party and successor to the EPRDF by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and it will run for the first time in the 2021 election.

    Bangladesh UADC 2020 · 6 · 2020-12-10

  • This house as Abiy Ahmed would abandon attempts at creating the proposed Prosperity Party and reinstate the Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF)

    Infoslide

    Ethnic federalism in Ethiopia divides governance along ethnic lines into nine regional states and two multiethnic 'chartered administrations.' The Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) was an ethnic federalist political coalition in Ethiopia. The Prosperity Party was established as a national party and successor to the EPRDF by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and it will run for the first time in the 2021 election.

    Bangladesh UADC 2020 · 6 · 2020-12-10

  • This house believes that international law should recognize the right to exist

    Infoslide

    The right to exist is a right that is said to be attributed to nations. According to some philosophers, a state has the right to exist when individuals are willing to sacrifice their own interests for the community it represents. Unlike self-determination, the right to exist is an attribute of states rather than of peoples. this right is currently not recognized by international law but is often asserted to be a right by peoples attempting to establish/justify their own state (Israelites, Kashmiris, Kurds, etc.).

    42nd Mindanao Parliamentary Debate Championship · Open Quarters · 2020-12-05

  • This house believes that it is legitimate for countries to engage in 'Vaccine Nationalism"

    Infoslide

    Vaccine nationalism is when governments sign agreements with pharmaceutical manufacturers within their country to supply their own populations with vaccines ahead of them becoming available for other countries.

    Visayas Debate Open · Open Final · 2020-11-28

  • This house, as India, would accept China's proposal

    Infoslide

    Since 5 May 2020, Chinese and Indian troops have engaged in aggressive melee, face-offs and skirmishes at locations along the Sino-Indian border. Since the beginning of the skirmishes, geopolitical tensions have rapidly escalated, with the Indian government taking a range of punitive actions against Chinese Companies (e.g. banning a range of Chinese applications), and implementing tighter restrictions on Chinese FDI. The Indian Army is currently considering a Chinese proposal to resolve the troop stand-off through a temporary disengagement of soldiers, artillery and firepower from their forward positions in disputed regions, although it could mean India significantly risks losing territory currently under its control.

    TIB-JUDO Pre Eminence · 3 · 2020-11-26