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lost-carcosa · 7 months

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#UK politics #refugees #United Nations Refugee Convention #multiculturalism #standard tory hypocrisy #suella braverman #sue ellen braverman #cruella braverman #fuck the tories #can someone please set her on fire

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archetypal-archivist · 11 months

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One thing that interests me on the QSMP is the level of multiculturalism (or lack thereof) involved and how that impacts player interaction, enjoyment, and sometimes even the plot.

There are four major languages on the QSMP: English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French. Lore usually happens between the hours of 12 noon and 7 pm PST because that is when the Brazilians and Badboyhalo are on- they are the major driving force of the current "plot." Anyone who streams at other times is often "out of the loop" and thus their streams are focused almost entirely on the egg quests and being goofy/daily life on the server.

Of the French, Baghera is the one who streams the latest and is most caught up on the plot. Etoiles is a major grinder and also streams during that time so he gets caught up in plot too (sometimes a little against his will, lol). Aypierre does not prefer to stream at that time, but he will if there's major lore he's caught in.

Most of the Spanish streamers are in the wrong time zone or are disconnected from the bulk of the current lore, with maaayybe the exception of Maximus and Roier.

How does all of this impact multiculturalism?

The language.

Almost all major lore happens in English, love it or hate it. And not everyone speaks English well, nor does everyone want to stream in a language that their chat is disconnected from. You do get exceptions, such as when it's two players of another culture speaking to one another, or three people speaking their language with a fourth just following along with the subtitles and staying quiet. But the bulk of it? All English.

The reason for this is that, again- love it or hate it, English is a common lingua franca. When you have a collection of people with three different languages between them, you either need to put in the effort to learn all three, you try to make due with subtitles that may be inaccurate and slow, or you all agree to speak one thing. And the dominance of the English language through its past colonial impacts and its current hold on culture through Hollywood/media and industry make it an easy pick as a bridge.

What this means is that rather than have a server where everyone speaks their own language all the time, people will speak English if they want to be involved in major lore or stream with others (a staple of streaming, viewers love interaction) and will only speak their own language in private, with others of their culture, or with their eggs.

Multiculturalism is thusly limited in that regard.

This brings us to the eggs. The egg you are given is guaranteed to speak your language and acts as a person you can stream with for much needed interaction. A common thread for people in the wrong time zone who also don't have an egg- or even people who are disconnected from the current lore and are eggless- is that they don't know what to do with themselves.

As a streamer on the QSMP, your options are either to join in the lore and speak English, a language that may alienate your audience, or work with people who speak your language and do your own thing. Doing your own thing without an egg? Exponentially harder to make content out of.

This is why so many of the Spanish-speaking streamers aren't very active, there's no one for them to talk to.

Time zones also play a role in this. Instead of streaming at times that are reasonable, Baghera and many of the French stream at midnight, 1, 2, even 5 am their time. Not everyone can do this, or would want to, when it wouldn't be profitable. Vegeta and Luzu could theoretically stream within that 12 noon to 7 pm PST time slot for lore, but why would they when it wouldn't be in the language that their audience is guaranteed to know? Their viewership would drop and if it doesn't, it's being padded with people from other countries that speak in chat in languages that the moderators may not know and thus can't police.

In exchange for staying up late and speaking a lot of English, the French players get to be part of the most exciting stuff and aren't lost about what's happening. That's a risk vs reward that each player calculates every day and for each player, the answer Is different. For the French, this risk is lessened because Europe, by default, is a place where you travel three hours in any direction and you can find yourself in a place speaking something entirely different. Lingua Francas and code switching- the act of changing how you speak based on who you are speaking to- is more common. Their audience is also more likely to be used to it, so their numbers won't suffer beyond what streaming at 3 am does to them.

This is why you see the French online more than the Spanish speakers, even though collectively, the Spanish speakers have more eggs alive per parent.

This whole thing creates a feedback loop- multiple players want to be involved in lore so they speak English so no one is excluded from the conversation. However, not everyone wants to speak English for half a stream, so they don't get involved in lore. The time where the most lore is done, it is inconvenient for anyone not from Brazil, Mexico, or the USA, making it not worth it to stream because it's late/very early and their chat won't understand the primarily English lore. People who speak your language aren't on, so even if you have stuff to do outside of lore, it's either alone or with your egg.

And the plot is intent on killing eggs.

However, there are some mitigating forces at work here that increase the multiculturalism levels of the server and help to get people more involved. I'll be leaving that to another post though.

In the meantime, what are your thoughts on the matter? Do you agree or disagree? Why? Let's reblog this and make a discussion of it. :)

#qsmp #mc #language #culture #multiculturalism #not neg #just analysis

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just-late-roman-republic-things · 6 months

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Periodic reminder that the Roman republic and empire were extremely genetically diverse, and had as much blood in common with Greek, Anatolian, and Middle Eastern folks as they did with western Europeans. The first African-born emperor came to power in 193 CE, another was ethnically an Arab, and we've even found evidence of Romans of East Asian descent.

Rome's military system, economy, and geopolitical strategy depended on its ability to integrate non-Romans into the empire, and at any given time at least half of its army was made up of non-Roman auxiliaries (Mary Beard, SPQR, ch. 4-5). By the age of Julius Caesar, most of Rome's citizens had non-Italian ancestry (Erich Gruen, The Last Generation of the Roman Republic, p. 360-361).

Rome had a lot of problems, and it was not progressive by modern standards, but it's impossible to separate the growth of the Roman empire from its immigration (including transport of slaves) and ethnic diversity.

#fun fact: the first non-italian emperor was actually trajan who was born in spain!#by which point even many senators spoke latin as their second language #gonna reblog this periodically just so people know where this blog stands #multiculturalism #jlrrt speaks #roman diversity #jlrrt essays

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ashleyfableblack · 4 months

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"Well, hello little one." the queen sighed dreamily to the little grub approaching her.

She smiled a sleepy smile and chuckled. How long had it been since she wobbled her way into the creche on weary, rubbery legs and flopped to the floor in a most undignified 'sploot'? It felt like it had only been a few minutes but she had closed her eyes. Maybe she had dozed off? No. She could hear in the nearby chamber, Twilight was still drawing the bath for them.

AH. Hearthswarming night. She purred, reviewing the sensations in her hearts. They had spent some rapturously wonderful time lost in each other. They giggled. They nuzzled. They blathered on about anything, everything and nothing at all like teenaged foals, adrift in the vibrant ecstasy of being in love.

Yes! Then, Twilight had suggested a bath. While she had drawn the heated, perfumed water Chrysalis had wobbled her weary way into the children's creche to check on their youngest larvae. Now, here she was, splayed out on the floor on her abdomen with her plot in the air like a squashed spider.

A squashed spider with one of their infant daughters chittering into her snoot like a overjoyed puppy.

Her dual irises shifted and focused to take in the full emotional spectrum as she flickered the air with her tongue, tasting for the tiny grub. She extended her crown of antennae and expanded her consciousness to it's normal place in the hive mind's nexus. Reaching out through the nebulae of stardust and memory she examined the forming consciousness, the shape of thoughts, feelings, experiences, new as they were. In her understanding of the world, this was the true shape of a changeling.

Ah. Now she recognized this one. RGMF19. Reconnaissance Guard, Mobile Forces, Unit one, Operative nine- OR as Twilight would call her "Ragamuffin".

She gave a pleasantly resigned sigh. It was a minor annoyance, this naming convention, yet another instance of pony-kind forcing their concept of normalcy on another species. Ethnocentrism was an unfortunate habit the ponies were still struggling to unlearn. Still, Chrysalis understood that it comforted her beloved wife to assign individual names to their daughters. Twilight lacked her expanded set of senses and connection to the hive mind it was the only way she could easily differentiate between their children which was something of a necessity in motherhood.

The tiny grub stared at her with a brilliantly beaming smile and a tiny, squeaking hiss. She couldn't help but chuckle in return. Even a pony could easily tell that she was one of her new hive of drones, sired solely with Twilight's love. As opposed to all previous changelings, the little one's eyes were large and violet, like their ponymother, sparkling with intelligence and curiosity. The long, inky eyelashes framing her eyes flicked at the base of her ears. Her ears were also unusually long, like those of a rabbit. The segments of her caterpillar-like body were decorated with a trail of lavender spots, cascading along her backside like the petals of a flower.

Her clutch was so different from all which had come before them.

"One thing is for certain. Your life will be a better one."

The mighty queen gave the little grub a nudge with her snoot, rolling her over on her back. She tilted her head slightly to contemplate the wiggling little thing. She was so fragile, so frail, yet so formed by the love of her precious, irreplaceable bride- so strangely, paradoxically powerful in the promise of a new, better tomorrow for her kind.

"You will never have to hide in the shadows as your predecessors. You will never have to fear others simply knowing you exist. Their fear of you being what you are will not threaten to starve you out. You will walk in the light and they will accept you as you are. In this world which we are building, your ponymother and I, this New Equestria, your birthright is one of unimaginable power and possibility. They will love you- as your mothers love you, daughter of The Hive."

Her forked tongue flickered out and gave a playful spree of butterfly kisses to the tiny changeling babe sending it into a fit of wiggling hisses and clicking.

"Happy Hearthswarming, my Ragamuffin."

Chrysalis gently lifted the little grub in her jaws and placed her in a strand of webbing near her sleeping clutchmates. With a small nuzzle goodnight, she quietly turned to stumble away, leaving the nursery chamber to return to her wife's embrace.

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joncronshawauthor · 9 months

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The Genius of Pratchett: A Deep Dive into Discworld's Lasting Impact

If you’ve ever found yourself chuckling at a grumpy, anthropomorphic Death or a suitcase on hundreds of little legs, then you have fallen under the spell of the late, great Terry Pratchett. His legendary Discworld series, a mirthful, satirical romp through an absurd universe teetering on the back of four elephants (all of whom are perched on a giant turtle, naturally), has left a lasting imprint…

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daaft-prick-69 · 4 months

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A muslim immigrant pees on pork products in a supermarket in Netherlands. His friend explains "We don't eat pork".

#islam #muslims #immigrants #multiculturalism #disgusting

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nickysfacts · 6 months

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Rani Abbakka exemplifies not only girl power but also how we are stronger united!

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jloisse · 7 months

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L'enrichissement culturel attaque la police en masse à Bradford, les policiers sont contraints de s'enfuir. La société multiculturelle du Royaume-Uni est un véritable échec !

#united kingdom #royaume uni #multicultural #multiculturalism #immigration #migrants #violence #violences #agressions #agression #police

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not-your-asian-fantasy · 1 year

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Lunar New Year marks the first new moon of the lunisolar calendar. The holiday is known by different names in different countries. For example, in China it is called Chūn Jié, in Vietnam it is Tết, in Korea it is Seollal and in Tibet it is Losar, just to list some of them. Feel free to mention others in the comments.

To call to it Lunar New Year means it’s inclusive to all who celebrate, as opposed to using the blanket term Chinese New Year. To use the latter implies that the holiday is exclusive to China and the Chinese people.

By casually calling this day “Chinese New Year,” we are forgetting the many other East and Southeast Asian cultures that celebrate the beginning of the lunar calendar. The erasure of those other Asian cultures who celebrate this holiday is important to consider.

It’s indicative of the much repeated pattern of a diverse and multicultural society trying to group seemingly similar cultures together. This speaks to the ways in which Asian people and our culture are often treated as a monolith and experience many generalisations and ste reotypes. I think it’s important for us to be recognised for our differences rather than being endlessly grouped together under the umbrella of “Asians” or “Chinese.”

To this end, I personally feel Lunar New Year is the most inclusive phrase to use (unless you’re certain of one’s cultural background and may therefore decide to be more specific). I still have my moments where I have to correct myself and refer to it as Lunar New Year. Language is important. Making this small change and correcting ourselves is a small step in helping to make people feel included, seen and respected.

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#Alyssa ho #lunar new year #chinese new year #Asian cultures #diversity #multiculturalism #whitewashing #language is important #Instagram #long post #Alyssa Ho writings #china #asia #lunisolar calendar #Asian holidays

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arthistoryanimalia · 10 months

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#WorldCamelDay:

Camels with Dutch Handlers Japan, Edo period, c. 1821 Woodblock print; ink & stencil-printed color on paper; horizontal ō-ōban, 12 3/8 x 17 5/16 in. (31.4 x 44 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York "A Dutchman escorts the procession of male & female camels handled by two Arabian attendants in handsomely patterned clothes. At upper left is the Dutch word kameel, and the term is defined in Japanese to the left. At upper right is a detailed account of the physical attributes of the animals, with the heading 'Camels brought over by the Dutch.'"

#Japanese art #East Asian art #Asian art #woodblock print #print #illustration #works on paper #19th century art #multiculturalism #international trade #Dutch #Metropolitan Museum of Art New York #animal holiday #World Camel Day #camel #camels #animals in art

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allthecanadianpolitics · 1 year

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Ethnic newspapers have served Canada's diverse communities for decades, but when the pandemic struck, hundreds across the country stopped printing or moved exclusively online. Now, a federal bill currently before the Senate has the potential to help the situation.

The National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada (NEPMCC) — which currently represents 650 small print publications in more than 100 languages nationwide — says 400 of its members either stopped their print versions or halted operations altogether during the pandemic.

"Two years ago, we had about 1,200 outlets as members," NEPMCC president and CEO Thomas Saras told The Early Edition.

But stakeholders are hoping Senate approval of Bill C-18, known as the Online News Act, will give ethnic press the bargaining power with online platforms like Google to attract much needed advertising dollars.

Online News Act

Bill C-18 is designed to require web giants to compensate journalism publications for reposting their content.

Federal Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez has argued the bill will "enhance fairness" in the digital news marketplace by creating a framework and bargaining process for behemoths such as Google and Meta, which owns social media sites Facebook and Instagram, to pay media outlets.

"It is about protecting the future of a free and independent press. It is about ensuring that Canadians have access to fact-based information. It is about protecting the strength of our democracy," said Rodriguez in December when the bill was before the House of Commons. [...]

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

#cdnpoli #Journalism #Multiculturalism #Press #Freedom of Press

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charliejaneanders · 1 year

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I have real strong thoughts on affirmative action, because I would not have gained the experience that I gained without “multiculturalism”—you can fucking call it whatever you want, but it’s making room for other people to get a shot.... If you’re going to put all your stock and wait for the white dude to give you the opportunity, or to give you the validation, or to say, 'Now you can be who you are, because I say so'—that’s destructive.

This whole interview with Sandra Oh is worth reading

#quotes #affirmative action #multiculturalism #racism #hollywood #sandra oh

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gratingsoflight · 4 months

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my cousins n i

#aesthetics #family #cousins #sepedi attire #xhosa attire #Basotho attire #Chewa attire #multiculturalism #maRadebe #family values #summer fun #me

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ashleyfableblack · 4 months

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Chill, Chancellor. Queen Twilight's gotcha number. Happy Hearthswarming and Big Love to all y'all out there.

#my art #mlp au #mlp g4 #mlp fim #twilight sparkle #Queen Twilight #Neighsay #chancellor neighsay #lgbtq #holidays #happy hearthswarming #multiculturalism #seasons greetings #blessed hexannacht #blessed yule #happy holidays #if you have a problem with happy holidays merry go fuck yourself #eternal courtship #ashleyfableblack

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jobsinfoandnewsupdate · 4 months

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Travel and History of New York City USA

New York City, the enormous wild where dreams are made, stands as a striking, generally. Past its rising above tall plans and clamoring streets, the city holds a rich turning of history that has outlined its character and appeal. Striking Landmarks and Tall plans As you take a gander at the Figure of Freedom standing tall in the harbor and the Space State Building entering the skyline, you’re…

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#9/11 #Broadway #Central Park #free #future #Green Oasis #hub #Landmarks #Life #lifestyle #Multiculturalism #Museums and Art Galleries #New York #Region #Transportation #Travel and History of New York City USA #United State #USA

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pathfinderswiftpen · 5 months

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I heard 6 different languages tonight at my semi-rural Walmart and nearly cried for joy

#english spanish pennsylvania dutch and a european and an african language i didn't recognize #diversity #multiculturalism #real life

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