User talk:Miranfree

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Mirandese as ethnic group or nationality

 * Miranfree, I see you have registered. Good. It means, I suppose, that you are serious in your purposes, and not a mere vandal. Now... regarding your opinion that the inhabitants of Miranda do Douro are a different nationality or ethnic group from the rest of the Portuguese, I have two types of comment:
 * Methodological, regarding what an encyclopedia should be. Methodologicaly, yours is not a correct approach to writing in an encyclopedia. You see, when there is no consensus, and respecting the NPOV rule of wikipedia (see: Neutral point of view), "The policy requires that, where there are or have been conflicting views, these should be presented fairly. None of the views should be given undue weight or asserted as being the truth, and all significant published points of view are to be presented, not just the most popular one" and this must be done "representing fairly and without bias all significant views that have been published by a reliable source". You have not done so. Furthermore, and I do know the literature and reality about national identity in Portugal (namely sociological, antropological and historical), I have no knowledge of any source presenting the Mirandese as a different ethnic group or nationality. So... you look like an isolated individual defending something nobody else says, namely the Mirandese. You just blumtly state that the Mirandese are a different nationality because they speak a different language (and what does "speak" mean? check these statistics) - this, as I shall elaborat in the next paragraph, is invalid, but, even more important given the fact that you are the only source for such a statement, is not sufficient for an encyclopedia! Imagine I decided to write in the article about God, that God exists because I believe in it (or maybe evem some more people...). Then someone would decide to blank me and write that God does not exist because he or she does not believe in it! That is why the article must present all reliably sourced points of view, stating that these people think this and those people think that. Do you understand? I reppeat, an encyclopedia is not about what the world is but about what people say (and discuss) the world is!
 * Substantive, regarding the de facto statements you present about the Mirandese. Substantively, your statements, besides unsourced, are basic (therefore rapidly refutable) and just plain wrong. Do understand me. I have nothing against the Mirandese and, personally, I don't give a dam if their are to be a different national or ethnic group or not! If that's what they whant to be - fine by me! But the fact is that I have never read that statement anywhere, there are no political movements or organizations deffending that position and I strongly believe that if you ask the Mirandese if they are Portuguese or not, they'll say they are Portuguese - they are Portuguese from Miranda, with particular cultural traits, traditions and linguistic heritage. Even the official site of the Câmara Municipal is in Portuguese, not Mirandese, the whole history section clearly states the integration of Miranda in Portuguese history, society and culture, and there is only a very small reference to the Mirandese language. Even a site as the one about Mirandese language by the Linguistics Center of the Classical Univerty of Lisbon (Sítio de I Mirandés), that clearly means to deffend the language and the cultural traditions of Miranda, never presents the Mirandese as a different ethnic or national group. Of course the Mirandese have"a language and a culture of its own", as FilipeS said, so do many other inhabitants of other regions of Portugal (if I say "Ú grade azoigou e foi átupir na manta das tanerifas" do you understand me? Well it's a phrase in the variety of the Portuguese language spoken in Madeira, albeit very archaic; in fact only in the Madeira and the Azores have ever had separatist movements, and their reasoning, mind you, was never one of cultural differentiation, but of geographical differentiation and political antipaty to the left-wing predominace in continental Portugal during the revolucionary process - do you, by any chance, know the literature about this?). That does not make them an ethnic group or a nationality (as you can see in the respective articles, these are not simple problematics...) - there are many nations that have internal ethnic and linguistic differentation, on the other hand there are different nations that share ethnic, cultural and linguitic heritage. And you even mention Race! By Endovelicus! Do you even know what you are talking about? Even if I could accept, and I can not, the implicits in your statement about Whites and Blacks (even in Talk:Mirandese language), that is to say, the simplist way in which you speak about such complex concepts, let me tell you that there are also nations that have internal racial differentiation and different nations that have the same racial make up!
 * Concluding... my friend, and I shall assume that you are not ill intended, the Mirandese are not a different ethnicity or nationality. And by the way, I'm not a "salazarianism", as you accused me in my talk page (what you wrote is close to bashing - see No personal attacks - and propaganda - your name, Miranfree, is already a political demand: "We speak a different language, we have our costumes, we are a different nationality. Stop to the portugueses salazarianism. Respect to the mirandese nationality."). Please stop your unfounded statements and edits. Thank you. The Ogre 03:01, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

That´s the idea. The state of the Republic of Pertual is not a homogenic countrie. There are two cultures, two comunities, two nationalities: the portuguese and the mirandese with two diferent languague. This article show recognise this diversity. This is the democratic idea, respect the minorities and is to much traditional betwen the portuguese don´t respect the mirandese minority.Miranfree 13:44, 12 January 2007 (UTC)


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I see how is the bad manner of the much of the portuguese about the mirandese minoritie. Miranfree 11:54, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Nacionalidad de Miranda. Ayuda
No domino el tema. He editado su petición en la tertulia de la Wikipedia en catalan. Deseo que reciba la ayuda que precisa. Jordi Coll Costa —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.39.185.229 (talk) 17:59, 12 January 2007 (UTC).

Pushing your lunatic PoV again!
Miranfree, I see you have returned to pushing your solitary lunatic PoV. You must stop! This amount to vandalism! Even your name may be a breach of Wikipedias policies (Inappropriate usernames: "Usernames that promote a controversial or potentially inflammatory point of view", "Usernames that refer or include allusions to racism, sexism, hate speech, et cetera"). Stop! The Ogre 18:41, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Miranda
Olá Mir, estava à procura do movimento independentista de Miranda pelo google e encontrei esta pagina. Queria falar contigo sobre a independência de Miranda do Douro.

Para já quero dizer que me identifico completamente com a causa independentista de Miranda. Primeiro esta a preservação da identidade de cada povo (etnica, linguistica, cultural, etc).

Por isso gostaria de entrar em contacto contigo para mais detalhes, ajudar-te e informar-te de outros movimentos no Noroeste Peninsular (Galiza, Asturias, Leom, Calécia). Será que me pode mandar um mail para fernator5@hotmail.com

Fico a aguardar —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.240.90.241 (talk) 01:35, 5 October 2007 (UTC)