Would you consider population exchange as ethnic cleansing? What if the governments make sure that the new property will be equally valuable as the one the they leave behind?
Could it be used to resolve other conflicts around the world?
>>1225291
>Would you consider population exchange as ethnic cleansing
>Ethnic Cleansing "the mass expulsion or killing of members of an unwanted ethnic or religious group in a society."
Yes, population exchange is ethnic cleansing.
>>1225429
It's no doubt infringing on freedom of movement. But if it was handled correctly would the end justify the means?
Resolving border clusterfucks, easing tensions and paving way for reconciliation?
>>1225291
It is ethnic cleaning. For one, there's no way to realistically guarantee that people moving would have the same quality of property after the exchange. If your government dislikes your people enough to displace them actively, it would not exert the required effort for the sake of good faith, would it?
Also, even if on paper the exchange was without fault, you're still asking thousands of people to give up their livelihoods.
And you're not even taking into account the problems of 'rightful land' at this point.
>>1225291
Turkish """"""""population exchange"""""" is not population exchange.
>>1225454
I started contemplating this as a means to resolve the "muh cradle" and "muh rightful land" issues.
Examples being all the enclaves and exclaves around India, or something like Serbs in south Kosovo and Albanians in south Serbia etc...
>>1225444
When dealing with ethnic conflicts, there are two main ways of easing the tension: managing the differences and eliminating them. Population exchanges are a more peaceful way of doing the latter, and they are reasonably effective when done correctly, yes.
>>1225493
>Population exchanges are a more peaceful way of doing the latter, and they are reasonably effective when done correctly, yes.
Population exchanges are extremely effective when done right. Part of the reason why China grew so big and relatively homogeneous was through large population exchanges. When a population was defeated, its population was scattered across the country and absorbed by the large population through intermarriages. Han culture is probably the biggest melting pot culture.
>>1225291
I'm pretty sure that cleansing an ethnicity by spreading it out and having it bred and assimilated out of existence is, you guessed it, ethnic cleansing.
