QUESTION TEXT: Speakers of the Caronian language constitute a…
QUESTION TYPE: Necessary Assumption
CONCLUSION: We can’t give Caronians their own country where they form a majority.
REASONING: We can’t give Caronians a connected country where they form a majority.
ANALYSIS: We tend to assume that all countries must be connected within a single border. Everyone seems to forget about Alaska, which is separated from the continental USA by Canada.
We might be able to satisfy the recommendation by giving the Caronians a disconnected country.
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- We don’t care about the past. We want to know what we can do for the Caronians in the future.
- This would help, but it’s also possible to have a nation made up of several different communities.
- CORRECT. If this were false, then we could give the Caronians a disconnected country where they form the majority, and satisfy the recommendation.
- This would strengthen the argument if true. This assumption would make it impossible to create a “pure” Caronian nation without ethnic cleansing. But this isn’t necessary to the argument. We might not be able to satisfy the recommendation even if the new nation could have non-Caronians.
- Would the argument be hurt if different languages were only spoken in 49% of nations (not most)?
Also, we’re not told if Caronia must be monolingual.
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