Die Kirlawische Kampfes"Der Zweifel am Siege entschuldigt nicht das Aufgeben des Kampfes."Symposium rejects "pseudo-scientific" evidence for Terran language dominance in KirlawaApril 3411
Indrala, Merkan - A group of Kirlawa's most respected historians, anthropologists, linguists, and geographers have congregated in Indrala for the presentation of a large body of research on the descent of the Kirlawan peoples. The research was undertaken independent of the political weight placed on the ethnic and cultural debate recently, but the conclusions of the Indrala Symposium dramatically supported the claims of the Kirlawische Nationale Allianz, leading Chairman Baldur Kolbe to congratulate the scientists on their noble contribution to the rightful Artanian cause, and KNA Secretary, Ansgar Baumann (Master of the Artanian Order - Kirlawan Chapter, though this title is contested following the left wing, Terran-affiliated take over of the Artanian Order) to name the research as "the most important of its kind in Kirlawan history."
The keynote presentation was delivered by Dr. Gottfried F. Kirchner, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Merkan. Dr. Kirchner declared triumphantly that there was no anthropological basis for the separation of the "White North Artanian" and "Dundorfian" ethnicities as has been done on all Kirlawan censuses since 2410, and unofficially since before that time.
"The Dundorfischer," stated the doctor to his rapt audience, "are the oldest ethnicity in Northern Artania, descended from the ancient
Durvin peoples, who spread across Artania long ago and into Kirlawa specifically beginning with raids as early as 320 years before the common era, which is when the first instances of Dundorfischer weaponry are found in the archeological record in Kirlawan soil.
"Significant numbers of these
Dundorfische speaking raiders either remained in Kirlawa or intermingled genetically with the natives to create an anthropological basis for Dundorfischer descent of the Kirlawan people, even if we were to stop here with the historical narrative. But this cultural and ethnic tie to the Dundorfischer peoples remains in Kirlawa to this day. In 1817, indeed, it was
a Kirlawan of Dundorfischer descent, Franz Wagener, who wrote the seminal work in Dundorfischer cultural identity, '
Der Alldundorfischer Bewegung' ('Pan-Dundorfianism') wherein he stated that 'We want to protect the eternal foundation of our life: our national identity and its inherent strengths and values ... Farmers, burghers, and workers must once and for all become one Dundorfian people.'
"In the 2300s this commitment on the part of Dundorf to its Dundorfischer foundations led the government of Dundorf to support the ethnic Dundorfischer of Kirlawa's Merkan province during the Kirlawan Civil War. In northwestern Kirlawa, a similar movement of Artanian solidarity was witnessed in Dorvish-Uwakah, where Artanian brothers from Dorvik supported the Dundorfischer-descended Kirlawans in Uwakah.
"The great tragedy of this war was that 'White North Artanians' were pitted against their Dundorfischer brothers militarily for the first time. The pseudo-ethnicity, speaking Terran for no discernible reason aside from government ignorance (as my previous comments have shown, the proper language would have been Dundorfische), were tricked into bearing arms against their own countrymen. In this way, pseudo-science was utilized to warrant the destruction of great amounts of life and has been since used to warrant the destruction of Kirlawa's rightful Dundorfischer culture."
Dr. Kirchner's remarks were met with unanimous applause from his peers, and several further papers and presentations supported his thesis. Other major papers focused on the mechanics of the unnatural adoption of Terran as the "official" language of Kirlawa (largely attributed to the same pseudo-scientific bases cited by Kirchner), the mistreatment and continued denial of Dundorfischer culture on the part of Kirlawa's government, and selected specific historical pieces detailing daily life as a Dundorfischer in Dorvish-Uwakah or Merkan, two of the most significantly Dundorfischer areas of Kirlawa.
Just a bunch of shit.