Semjaza @ Semjaza @lemmynsfw.com

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You're right to quibble.

I'll gesture towards "cementing" and "remained", but your clarifications are important for people to bear in mind.

The collapse of the Ottoman Empire and Sykes-Picot also did a lot with this stuff, and the Suez Crisis is not the start or end of any story.

Everyone else seems to have covered the basics... But what's missing is The Suez Crisis.

France and Britain, the two preeminent colonial powers in Europe thought that they could use Israel to pressure Egypt into returning the Suez Canal to them (which Egypt had nationalised following Britain, France, and the USA reneging on their obligation to help build the Anwar Dam).

France and Britain coordinated with Israel for an Israeli invasion of Egypt, and then France and Britain would step in "as peacekeepers" and control the Seuz as a demilitarised zone. However, the US was having none of it, and went behind France and Britain's back to undermine them and coordinated with Israel and showed to the world it was a British and French plot, humiliating the two nations, cementing the US as Israel's main backer, and destroying what good will remained for France and Britain in the Middle East.

For the formerly top dogs of Europe, it was a rude awakening which showed them that the pre-Second World War order was truly gone and they could no longer make big geopolitical decisions without the US.

More that as independence movements grew, and the economy shifted to valuing high value manufactured goods colonies became more expensive to hold and less profitable.

Combine that with the anti Nazi rhetoric, it made holding colonies militarily much harder to do. Especially as Britain, unlike France, has never really seen itself as a military force.

We much prefer to control the seas and play off local groups against each other and help the preffered side to come out on top and work as a local ruling elite.

For examples, classical and neoclassical economics really run away with "selfish people maximising self interest", to the point try to reframe family decisions as "intra-family bargaining", and Maggie said "there is no such thing as society, only the individual and family" (because as a Tory she couldn't admit to tearing those apart).

Capitalism, positivism, and post-modernism have all eroded those things.

When we have less free time, and everything is commoditised and given a monetary value, interhuman connection - which resists the economic lens - falls by the wayside, as the modern "homo-economous" values only what has a price tag.

When gathering spaces, and natural groupings are either made to focus on money or wither, there is no space for community in a casual sense.

The death of meaning with the rise of post-modernism also means that grand narratives, and the myths of belonging have also lost a lot of their power to a rightful dose of skepticism. (Descriptive rather than prescriptive, but probably did speed things up a bit.)

Capitalism will eat us all.

I'll give it a listen,

I've always been a fan of Devo's cover of it too.

It's that kind of White American with a superiority complex and is certain that they aren't racist, but even if they were it's just as bad in Europe so it doesn't matter and Europe should follow the US's lead on race relations. Because obviously other countries' historical context and events don't matter, nor make race relations in the UK, France, or Romania unique and not analogous.

I can't pick a mere one.

Duk

Blimey

Bloody

Bugger

Cracker-Yank

Chuffed to bits

Hench

Knackered

On the drag

Plooked

Pillock

Tired and emotional

Wanker

Please & cheers.

S'il vois plait & merci (beaucoup)

Terog & multzumesc/multzumeme (singular vs. plural thank you)

Bitter & danke

-- & spaseba

-- & tak

Qîng & xìexìe

-- & diàhdiah

Had more, but forgot them. Have forgotten at the Turkish and a Miao language phrases.

You can only get the best result in the prisoners dilemma by working with others.

Believing that humans make rational economic decisions is pretty irrational economically.

As is centering economics on a theory that ignores the means of production.

Cheers

ProBt

E-svekada

Slauncher

Saclicniz

Campei

Campai

Gänbëi

Forgot my Romance family options... =(

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

Une, deux, trois, quatre, cinq, six, sept, huit, neuf, dix

Uno, dos, tres, quatro, cinqo, seiz, siete, ocho, neuve, diez

Yï, èr, sän, sì, wû, liù, qï, bä, jîu, shí

Yain, tain, eddero, peddero, pots, later, tater, ovvero, covvero, dits

So... 5. Far fewer than I can toast in.

Yeah, I - like you - put a quote from Tolkien and a quote from the Quran on the same level in that situation.

A related quote from either is as on topic.

I went back to look at it, and it wasn't an explicitly linked as I recalled. I've been on a couple of Islam related rabbit holes recently, with Sufiism and Alevis, and there's a strong belief in singing is a praise to Allah/Haq. So I think I just kinda filled some blanks in in my mind.

I very much get being annoyed by seeing your clearly on topic lit post getting eaten, while not apparently linked religious text gets to say.

Silly mods. All the best to you.

Did you read that article, or just post the first news link you found with a headline that agreed with you?

'No Evidence' "Dr. Yi is an early and courageous individual to criticize China's harmful birth control policies," said Feng Wang, sociology professor at the University of California, Irvine.

But Wang disputes Yi's conclusions. "Scholars in China and at the U.N. have analyzed these and other data. Not a single person has 'discovered' such a huge discrepancy."

Everyone agrees to not accept China's figures, but no one can find anywhere near such a big gulf. And you'd think that if they could, more US and Taiwanese sources would be reporting on it, wouldn't they?

Have you ridden on the Pyongyang metro? What was it like?

Where's your favourite place to go in North Korea?

What're some of your favourite books and films?

It's a shame that a relevant quote from literature was removed.
Poor show on the part of the mods.

Where I disagree is that someone having a quote from a religious thing is invalid, when it's not actively pushing to convert. Just kinda existing showing religion is there. But I guess we just have different perceptions of what passes for "down-your-throatism".

Anyhow, all the best and have a good night (or whatever time of day it is when you (or anyone else) read this).

OK, because the way you replied with that off-topic Quran verse to a Quran verse related to the topic of the post made my think that your point was railing on Islam. Not that you were opposed to slavery regardless of secular or religious structures and strictures.

Not that "slavery is bad", which I also didn't think needed to be replied somewhat arcanely to posts.

Do we need to write a "slavery is bad" reply to any time vikings or Christianity come up in the comments?

Edit: or that rape is bad, too.

China, and maybe some other Asian countries have a household registration ( hukou 户口) system.

Only people born into the system get to exist for things like schools, national insurance, etc.

So any unofficially born second children (or hidden first born daughters) didn't get to legally count under this.

Also; children born out of marriage don't exist for state schools or benefits, either.

Where your hukou is limits your options for access to housing, claims on social security and health insurance, and the like. Mostly if you were born into a very rural area your only pathway to legally having a place to live and for your children to go to school in another part of the country is via university graduation.

There are pushes to change this system, and smaller cities are removing their requirements for non-rural hukou. But Beijing, Shanghai, and other cities you have probably heard of are yet to do this.

Alternate reading: stop running about and breaking the hearts of the unmarried freewomen, if you're shagging her, do it properly and above board.

Medieval era was, alas, pretty poor on women's rights and slavery was taken for granted. I don't think you'll find any slavery where rape was in practice forbidden.

Unfortunately, the harsh truth was more often a doctor who was tasked with second pregnancies whose job details made all the other hospital staff realise he was a monster.