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Social Sciences - Government / Politics / políticas públicas | | English term or phrase: paper deep | A river will stop becoming a community and become two police posts at either end of a ferry in which the middle of the river is an imaginary dividing line between the one and the other and a mountain range will become two halves, one for each country on either side. However solid this may appear, paying attention to the struggles by many of Latin America’s original peoples and nations over boundary lines soon shows that this is indeed paper deep.
Thanks for your help am stuck with the phrase! |
| | | ...que tiene la profundidad del papel | Explanation:
Es sólo un intento, se me ocurre, dentro del contexto, que se refiere a que por sólido que pueda parecer, si se le pone atención a las luchas de muchas personas originarias de Latinoamérica y sobre las líneas fronterizas, se comprueba que se trata de algo que tiene la profundidad del papel.... o sea, que es algo meramente formal.
Pero como te digo, es un palo de ciego (se está volviendo mi expresión preferido desde hace alún tiempo) |
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11 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +1
1 hr confidence: que sólo las sustenta / legitima un papel
Explanation:
Creo que la expresión hace referencia a los documentos que se firmaron al establecer esas líneas fronterizas, producto de una serie de tratados, al margen de la realidad de los pueblos de la zona.
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