NationStates Jolt Archive

Every year more and more music programs are losing funding due to lack of money in the school systems. This proposal will Save the Music by doing the following:

All member countries shall establish a cultural development program. The process by which culture is developed shall be in the hands of the government on approval from the UN.

Multi-lateral task force teams shall be established by the UN and sent to each member country to review and audit cultural development programs and make recommendations for improvement, if they are needed.

The first wave of task force teams will begin work with our least economically fortunate members by November 2005. Each month, 10 teams will be dispatched and will review the programs for one week. Review findings and recommendations will be submitted to member governments within 45 days in writing, unless immediate action is required. In that case, the team may elect to extend their stay for an additional two weeks in order to help implement the recommendations accepted by the government in question.

Every year more and more music programs are losing funding due to lack of money in the school systems. This proposal will Save the Music by doing the following:

All member countries shall establish a cultural development program. The process by which culture is developed shall be in the hands of the government on approval from the UN.

Multi-lateral task force teams shall be established by the UN and sent to each member country to review and audit cultural development programs and make recommendations for improvement, if they are needed.

The first wave of task force teams will begin work with our least economically fortunate members by November 2005. Each month, 10 teams will be dispatched and will review the programs for one week. Review findings and recommendations will be submitted to member governments within 45 days in writing, unless immediate action is required. In that case, the team may elect to extend their stay for an additional two weeks in order to help implement the recommendations accepted by the government in question.

Given the plethora of cultures amongst the NSUN, suppose music is not in the culture of a NSUN member?

I fully support this measure - unfortunately, I am not yet a delegate - however I look forward to seeing your future positions when I become the Delegate of Zion.

High Priestess Tatiana
United States of Laiste
Zion Region

Current Resolution Pending: War, Human Rights and Religion

I am not saying that it is part of every culture, but it could be. That is why we vote. And if the resolution is passed, there is nothing saying that all cultures MUST participate in it, but it only has to be available for citizens if they so choose to participate.

The general idea of supporting cultural and particularly musical development (which shall also include to learn more about culture and music from other nations) is a good one. The proposed measures, however, are ridiculous. To send audit teams all over the world to meddle with national culture programs is preposterous.

What other way would you suggest to make sure nations are complying to the proposal? I am open for suggestions.

the "complying to proposal" part of your post already indicates the major problem here: the UN has no part whatsoever in dictating the cultural development of any nation. Culture is - by it's very definition - a national matter. There is, however, no wrong in learning about foreign culture, even about protecting some or other outstanding cultural monument as World heritage (that is where UN should take action!), but you cannot ENFORCE cultural development. There is no sensible way to do that, therefore I had not suggested any alternatives.

What can be done is to outlaw censure, so as to prevent the repression of cultural development. But such a proposal should also make some allowances, e.g. music which is clearly racistic, or anti-whatever-human-right, should be subject to censure. Or should it? This is a wholöe discussion onto itself...