re: #114 Obdicut

Those differences were used, stoked, exploited, nurtured, and encouraged by the British during colonization, though. You can’t just ignore this.

You’re basically saying the people, as a whole, made the choice of partition. That is absolutely ridiculous. Agitators on both sides whipped up partisan frenzy, and the final choice of division— both in how it was to happen, and the territory it was to encompass— was by the British.

Please, please read something on the subject. It is an incredibly complex topic.

Saying it was a religious or cultural choice at a broader level is either an obvious observation— the division was along religious lines— or meaningless. It was certainly not a free choice.

I understand that one can micro analyse any political issue and bring it down to acts by this or that individual or external group. I was simply saying that the driving force behind all of it was the cultural/religious differences that did not allow peaceful coexistence. People born into that cannot be individually responsible any more than we are individually responsible for electing Obama, for example.

However if we cannot say that we have no control over our culture, politics or religion, then who the hell does?