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Israeli flags fly next to the Union Jack in Northern Ireland, because settlers empathize
with each other's struggles.
This is a story repeated time and again through history. During difficult times, military
families from Soviet Russia retired in relative comfort in little Estonia. Today Esto-
nia—now independent—struggles with a big Russian minority that refuses to integrate.
In the 16th century, the Habsburg monarchy planted Serbs—who were escaping from
the Ottomans farther south—along the Croatian-Bosnian border, to provide a “human
shield” against those same Ottomans. Many centuries later, descendants of those Serb set-
tlers and the indigenous Croats were embroiled in some of the bloodiest fighting of the
war following the breakup of Yugoslavia.
Back when Britain ruled Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka) and used it as a big tea plant-
ation, they couldn't get the local Sinhalese to pick the tea cheaply enough, so they im-
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