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...Thailand, famous worldwide for its golden Buddhist temples, is also home to millions of Muslims, most of whom live in the country's south. A religious-based insurgency there has claimed more than 2,000 lives since 2004, with some rebels calling for a separate Islamic homeland. Since Thailand's military coup last September, the violence has only gotten worse, even though the junta leader, General Sonthi Boonyaratglin, is himself a Muslim. With many of the killings involving Muslims targeting Buddhists (although plenty of Muslims have been murdered as well), it's not surprising that sentiment in usually tolerant Thailand...
...mass departure of French citizens from their Gallic motherland may be noteworthy and alarming, the possibility that this phenomenon is by no means unique to France was not given justice in your article [April 16]. For proof, you only need to look across the English Channel at my homeland. Despite the overwhelming attention given to the recent arrival of many immigrants, a disconcerting number of talented but disillusioned youngsters are leaving Britain. There is very little overt racial discrimination and harassment, and there are still job opportunities, but the perfect, rose-tinted perception of a country ascending on the back...
...were never obliterated, however. Nor were they pushed into "praying towns" or "removed" westward. Boarding schools to force Indian children to assimilate were few in Virginia. Instead, the nearly landless people reluctantly adopted English ways from their neighbors in the 18th century and went right on surviving in their homeland. They are still with us today: two reservations, plus five nonreservation tribes...
MICHAEL CHABON'S NEW NOVEL is a Raymond Chandler-- style pulp mystery set in a bizarro alternate universe where (as supposedly really almost happened) Alaska, not Israel, was designated as the Jewish homeland. Your hero is Meyer Landsman, a drunk and divorced detective working the case of a murdered drug-addicted Hasidic chess prodigy. As premises go, this one is half-baked, hard-boiled and frozen solid all at the same time...
...overpopulation and poverty. Pushing people into other lands could solve both problems and even have a side benefit. As the Rev. Richard Hakluyt, England's premier geographer, put it, "Valiant youths rusting [from] lack of employment" would flourish in America and produce goods and crops that would enrich their homeland. The notion was so prevalent that it inspired a blowhard character in the 1605 play Eastward Ho! to declare that all Virginia colonists had chamber pots of "pure gold...