No I've never met a French person who hates Haiti for becoming independent. There might be 1 or 2 die-hard bonapartists like that somewhere, but we just see them as a lunatic minority like the other monarchists.
Most people don't even remember Haiti being part of France. But there are still a lot of nostalgics of French Algeria and other former African colonies.
And boy that's very cringe for our diplomatic relations sometimes!
I'm French so I can tell you we don't learn about Haïti in History class. I was curious some time ago so I did a bit of research about it. It was quite inspiring to see that the young independent nation was actually prosperous in its early years. But being a small island-country is hard, even more so when you have to pay a debt of 150M francs to France ($560M today).
I wouldn't say Haïti's misery is maintained by racism today, but by the ravages of past imperialism.
And in the 1800s, racism was more a justification for colonisation rather than the discrimination/segregation we see since the 20th century.
I'm torn between Battlestar: Galactica and Dark.
The first one is definitely my favourite space opera of all time. But the mind-blowingly intricate plot of Dark makes it the one of the best mysteries ever told I'd say.
This might seem a little naive but I'd say you need the right space to bring different cultures together, and a lot of good will!
For instance, I'm thinking of projects like the Erasmus programme for students in Europe, or even constructed languages like Esperanto that aim to build bridges between peoples.
If we approach things with the right angle, there's always a way to build something with our differences, as resources and not obstacles.
This post might just be taking the piss at those trying to defend landlords. Or its a genuine effort to take their side, I'm not sure.
Anyway, criticism of landlords was bound to bring people to defend them and/or criticise renters in response.
Don't fret too much, many of us also despise the accumulation of weath through acquiring real estate.
Yeah I don't get the whole "replace meat with a vegan steak" idea.
Just prepare a delicious Dahl, the recipe of which has been around for hundreds of years!
Reminds me of an argument I had with a transphobic person about Last of Us 2's trans character Lev.
I tried to tell him even I used to be ignorant of trans people feelings. So I have said hurtful things in the past. Until I realised what harm my words could cause.
Didn't help to make him change his mind though!
The number one problem of modern appliance is indeed longevity I'd say. The so called "planned obsolescence" is probably what mainly drives or consumption of electronics and, accordingly, our production of e-waste.
But Framework might just be saying that for green washing purposes.
I can't help "alternating" what I eat. Like Monday it's jam for breakfast and Tuesday it's Nutella, so on and so forth. Or for lunch it's "healthy yogurt" while for dinner I get a sugary fatty desert.
It started as a way to eat healthily but now it feels a bit like a prison of my own making 😅
Damn that seems really infuriating. Where I live there's a government program to forbid anyone to send you ads or political propaganda (and the best part is that you can report those who slip through the net!)
It isn't fool proof but it did decrease the amount of calls from people trying to sell me shit I don't want.
In its natural gaseous state, oxygen is generally found in pairs, hence O2. I guess when you saw "pure oxygen", this meant gaseous oxygen without any other gas normally found in the atmosphere.
So no nitrogen, or carbon dioxide, just oxygen.
In the form of O2 of course!
No I've never met a French person who hates Haiti for becoming independent. There might be 1 or 2 die-hard bonapartists like that somewhere, but we just see them as a lunatic minority like the other monarchists. Most people don't even remember Haiti being part of France. But there are still a lot of nostalgics of French Algeria and other former African colonies. And boy that's very cringe for our diplomatic relations sometimes!