On nationalism and the right to self determination

I believe all peoples fundamentally have the right to self determination. This raises the question, what is a people, and what is self determination?

The latter question is much easier to address. Generally speaking, self determination is nationhood. Some people may feel that an autonomous region within a larger country (ie Quebec) is an acceptable level of nationhood (ie Quebecois federalists) while others (ie Quebecois seperatists) feel that anything short of nationhood is unacceptable. I am leaving the question of autonomy within a larger nation as a grey area. I think the big question is, is the larger nation respecting the autonomous region's right to self determination? In Quebec's case I believe Canada mostly does respect this (you can argue that mass immigration goes against Quebec's right to self determination, but Quebec has more control over its own immigration than English Canada does, and the PQ has never announced any motive to stop mass immigration). We allow Quebec to have language laws and even religious symbols laws that the rest of Canada does not have. However, when you look at an example like Kurdistan or Tibet, clearly these people do not have self determination in any way whatsoever.

So, in theory, a people can have an autonomous nation within a larger national entity, but in practice, a seperate country is often needed.

I believe most squabbling over things like Scottish or Catalan seperatism ignore the much bigger issue. Europe as a whole has no self determination. They are held hostage to the whim of the elites in the EU who wish to make Europe a multicultural state full of blended brown and black humanity. Ultimately the arguing and bickering over Scotland and Catalonia is just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic, and Europe is the sinking ship.

The elites of the EU will not allow the European people self determination. Studies show the majority of Europeans in every major country except Sweden are against mass immigration, and Sweden is so brainwashed that their opinions cannot be taken as those of independent-minded human beings but rather as an ideologically-occupied state that needs to be liberated from the clutches of their elite-controlled media and educational system.

The fact is, there is a myriad of proof that race is linked to genetic factors like IQ. But ultimately that isn't the point. The point is, every nation deserves self determination.

That includes Native Americans too, and yes I do favor carving out sovereign states for them. I would willingly give them over half of Canada even.

Now this goes back to the original question, how large and distinct must a group of people be to deserve self determination? There is no easy answer to this, but I would say typically 5 million is the population threshold I would use, and I would say there must be a distinct linguistic, cultural and/or racial identity.

This definition is of course open to plenty of debate but I would say that'd be a reasonable point to start out from. Certain extremely distinct groups like Australian aborigines could still constitute a nation with under 5 million people. I am still in favor of the continued existence of nations under 5 million; this is simply a general rule of thumb.