--- In cybalist@..., tgpedersen@... wrote:
> Since Tuesday I can never be a hippie again. I
> don't think I should say what I feel and fear for the future in
this
> august forum. I will take time out.
>
> Is this the fall of Rome?
>
> Self-moderated, lest I be moderated. If I should be thrown off the
> list for this, so be it.
>
> Torsten
We don't have that situation here in Lithuania yet (but I'm sure it's
a matter of time and much less attractive living standards), but I
have lived in Moscow for some years and must say I can understand
you: the number of new-Muscovites of Muslim origin (mostly from the
Caucasus) is growing rapidly as is their influence in all the social
spheres. It's not good or bad by itself, but what I was constantly
observing here and there is a definite (and sometimes painful)
collision of two ways of life, a collision in which one usually
yields it's position (which one yields and why is a too risky topic
to discuss, yet I'm not a sociologist).
I wouldn't like too much of nonliguistic stuff to be discussed here
on the list, that's true, but, on the other hand, I don't think one
must be excluded from the list just because he sees a problem where
one really exists at least in some aspects.
Sergei