Raumism
Sign in to savethumb|The founders of the Esperanto PEN Centre (Giorgio Silfer, Perla Martinelli, István Nemere). Raumism ( ) is an ideology beginning in 1980 with the Rauma Manifesto, which criticized the goals of the traditional Esperanto movement and defined the Esperanto community as "a stateless diaspora linguistic minority" based on freedom of association. Its name comes from the Finnish town of Rauma, where it was launched.
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- Rauma Manifesto
- See also
- References
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- Criticism of Raumism
thumb|The founders of the Esperanto PEN Centre (Giorgio Silfer, Perla Martinelli, István Nemere). Raumism ( ) is an ideology beginning in 1980 with the Rauma Manifesto, which criticized the goals of the traditional Esperanto movement and defined the Esperanto community as "a stateless diaspora linguistic minority" based on freedom of association. Its name comes from the Finnish town of Rauma, where it was launched.
By doing so, Raumism tried to offer a different vision for Esperanto. Rather than focusing on having governments adopt it as an international communication tool, it suggested that the Esperanto was probably going to remain a minority language and that its culture was worth developing nevertheless.