ABSTRACT
The United Nations Charter states that one of the purposes of the United Nations is to develop friendly relations based upon respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples. The interpenetrations, the global webs of economic, political, and ideological penetrations and interdeterminations, cause one to realize that a functional "self-determination" is a relative "self-determination". Within the United States, Indian and Jewish peoples might pursue their own social and cultural norms, mores, and so forth while also freely participating in another process of self-determination as citizens and participants in the political, economic, social, and cultural processes intermeshed under the label United States of America. Suzuki's published work addresses one type of self-determination process, territorial separation from an extant body politic. Addressing this particular form, he states: "'Self-determination' is a symbolic manifestation of a group's demand for repudiation of an extant public order system to create a new pattern of value effects which it perceives as desirable".
