Kalistani Major History

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IZQUIERDA Daily
Editorial:  Kalistani Must be restored in Republic
Kaliburg Ananto
February 2, 4758

Dear Editor,

My name is Alice.  I am a 57 year old Kalistani national and I write today, for the first time to any National Newspaper to say I am personally fed up with the Government's perpetuation of this fraud of Enskal.  I know I am not alone in this nation in saying so either.  As near as I can tell, some decades ago, a group of nationalists who, working closely with a group of interested anthropologists, developed this hypothesis that we in this nation are not a melange of nationalities of all nations, but instead, posses unique national and cultural identity, unlike any other nation in Terra.  They called this identity "Enskal" because that was the language on a series of long forgotten documents and scrolls they had discovered a few years prior.

The idea caught on that our national identity was this Enskal, and a Party formed to promote that identity in Kalistan.  That political Party, motivated as they were, gained control of the Government and promoted the use of this dead language, unlike any of the others spoke in the more familiar parts of the world, as a uniquely Kalistani, of in this case, now Enskali language, one just for us, which makes us not like everyone else in the world but in fact, parochially separate.  The Party utilized the mechanisms of Government to promote the cultural identity, and our people went along with it, largely because there was no opposition.

And then, the movement that promoted this identity crested and receded.  And we were left with a country that, officially anyway, looks dramatically different than the entire rest of our nation's history.  Those official changes still exist, even as the Socialist Party re-embarks on its role in government.

So: what will the SP do to rectify our nation?  Certainly, there is a significant group of people who were born into the identity, and have embraced it.  But I would argue that the vast majority of the Republic has continued operating as it always has.  But now is the best chance we've had in a long time to bring the Enskalan identity back into the larger Kalistani culture.

I, and I feel I can speak for my neighbors and even the majority of the country, urge the Socialist Party to take a stand for traditional Kalistani culture, and rebuild our identity, our language and Nation.

Sincerely, Alice from Kaliburg