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menlove · 5 months

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out of curiosity bc I want to know if it really is Just the US and our poor education system or if it's an issue for other western majority English speaking countries as well so.....

#I feel like canadians are gonna be the ones answering mostly yes bc of french #also only included england and not the uk/britain bc like......#obviously irish and scottish ppl are going to speak irish & Scottish #& given that they are places conquered & occupied By england it does feel a lil unfair to include them #unlike the us canada and australia where they were also conquered but then the indigenous populations were killed & exist in much smaller #populations today than before. it would be a much different result if the indigenous nations of those 3 were allowed to still exist #even under occupation...... anyway. that's a whole rant for another day.#mostly I'm just curious bc I feel like a lot of these conversations center around other countries that are Not majority english speaking #and so many ppl from there learn English & the languages of neighboring countries #but is it That different in these 3 from the US? or pretty similar? idk I'm Curious

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ferrari-desmosedici-wwe-fc · 8 days

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British guys, Tifosi, Deablr and everyone else...

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screechingsandwichhologram · 1 month

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(fascinated by countryhumans, in like a bug under microscope way)

#isn't it interesting??#the nuclear family-ifcation of the complicated history between the us france britain australia and new zealand #dont get me wrong some stuff can be enjoyable and i think it can actually be pretty good for explaining historical events in an engaging wa #but the fact that the us is always a cocky self assured dude and france is often the mom friend is fascinating in many ways #(i like to research symbolism and smash it all into one design for my part) (i find national symbols v interesting)#still cant get over france and britain being shipped together #its even more interesting seeing how they handle timelines. fascinating

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timetravellingtelepath · 5 days

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Hey Anya, let me tell you something about how Londoner's pronounce London.

If you're a Londoner, or in Southern England, you'd say, 'LANdAn'

If you're northern, you'd say 'LUNDUN'

(Yes, there's a real North/South divide, thankfully not as extreme as Westalis and Ostania)

And if you're pronouncing English as it's written (let's be real, you drop sooo many letters, called silent letters) you'd say it as it's spelt, LON-DON. 😂

#spy x family #I HOPE I TAUGHT SOMEONE SOMETHING NEW #Because the British and English #Sigh #Every country has its different regions and way of pronouncing places #But in Britain #The divide is CRAZY #Like just travelling through one city #The variation is immense #For such a small island nation too

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da-riya · 1 year

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Why no opium in Macedonia?

Vic3 sucks since opium is the only medicen yet only India and China get it. I at least want to make some in North Macedonia cuz they have opium! They have opium on their coat of arms!!

#using the commie one cause I'm filthy yugonostalgičar but also the star really adds to it #victoria 3 #paradox games #If it's gonna be so important there should be little pockets to help nations that are hostile to Britain to have it #macedonia #Need me some of that Македонска Zaza #Get that Alexander the Great kush

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steelycunt · 1 year

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losing my mind at eleven pm last night trying to scour the internet to figure out the route a guy living in talgarth wales would take to get to london victoria if he were to travel via national express coach in the year of 1979. the things i do for him

#its important to me he travels by national express coach sorry. they're like brothers to me #i was searching for like half an hour for one throwaway line that makes genuinely zero difference in the grand scheme of things. currently #have him travelling from talgarth to cardiff and then cardiff to london vic which feels like in practice it would be horrendously #inefficient but i found no other route and i am a poor map reader so frankly if i were him its probably what id do. also i was tired :-(#the things writing will force you to research. spent twenty minutes the other day trying to find out popular affordable brands of bar soap #in britain 1970s. its a labour of love #writing tag #'why doesnt he apparate' because my baby girl gets travel sick it will make him ill. that is like a whole plot point just trust me

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tiarnanabhfainni · 10 months

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here you can see the small country that stood up on its own against the german invaders

#disclaimer that obvs it would have been bad had the nazis won during the battle of britain #but the 'small plucky british nation' shtick is wearing a bit thin #while im at it.#the whole 'protection of small nations thing in ww1' referring the belgium #the belgium which did have colonies in africa #“draft clearing”#okay last one

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mariocki · 5 months

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RIP David Leland (20.4.1941 - 24.12.2023)

"As I’d left school with no qualifications at all, I was searching for something that I could do that didn’t involve qualifications. I couldn’t go to art school because you had to have an O or A level in art but I discovered that you didn’t need any dreaded qualifications to go to college to study to become an actor and I thought, yes! There we go! I was born to be an actor!"

"I think the writing started during the time I was training to be an actor. We were taught what was known as the Laban Carpenter psychology of movement, theory of movement. It had a language, a jargon attached to it, and we were encouraged to write scenarios – Al Pacino talks about this - which would give you a sensation of how other people behave. We would write scenarios and then perform them to each other and writing became a kind of secret obsession."

#david leland #rip #death ment tw #film director #character actors #wish you were here #tales out of school #big breadwinner hog #made in britain #birth of a nation #RHINO #flying into the wind #mona lisa #scars of dracula #one brief summer #time bandits #the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy #beloved enemy #psy warriors #it speaks to Leland's powers as a writer that his earlier acting career seems to be almost forgotten now; many actors turned writers are #considered with their writing credits a secondary incidental to their acting‚ but Leland is being celebrated as a writer and director (and #quite rightly) with his acting nearly unmentioned. i bring this up only bc i was first introduced to him as an actor; as a supporting #player in the incendiary Big Breadwinner Hog. it was some years later that i first saw his Tales Out of School and made the connection;#those plays had an incredible impact on me and stand as some of the finest single dramas ever produced in the UK. all concerning schooling #or a lack thereof‚ children and teens falling through the cracks of a society that lacked the resources and the empathy to deal with them.#empathy was not in short supply for Leland‚ whose work consistently throbs with pity (Flying...)‚ with rage (Made in..)‚ with desperation #(RHINO) but which is just as often funny as it is affecting (Birth...). a beautiful writer and a tremendous champion of others (he became #one of the most vocal guardians of Alan Clarke's legacy after the director's death‚ he was instrumental in the very early stage careers of #Jim Broadbent and Victoria Wood‚ he tirelessly worked to enhance the voices of new writers actors and performers of all kinds)#a very good and decent man by every account‚ and a beautiful spirit in a sometimes ugly business. rip

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br-uwu-cewayne · 2 years

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Also i will FIGHT anyone and everyone talking about how "please, Alfred's british. he'd have technical skills but you KNOW that flavor is bland."

The UK is one of the (if not THE) biggest cultural and culinary melting pots in the world. "british food is bland and boring" yeah sure, purely british food with no outside influences can be!!!

But WHHHHYYYYYYY on EAAARRRTTHHH would a clever, intelligent, and well refined intelligence officer young man take one look at all these spectacular foods from all these immigrating cultures and the new and distinct combinations they've come up with sharing ideas amongst themselves and NOT dive headfirst into learning everything about them!!!!

#hell chicken tikka masala was INVENTED in britain #now whether or not you consider it an indian influenced british dish or a british influenced indian one is some debate #something something at what point in the process does it become nationalize. did the son of immigrants born in britain consider himself #british or indian. or much influence in a dish turns it from X inspired Y to Y inspired X. etc. im not getting into right now #but what im SAYING is the idea that Alfred would have no palette just because he's british via DNA despite having access to all this #knowledge of wonderful food... seems sketchy as hell #and it feels like the folks saying it are one step away from sliding right down to the other side of the seesaw and following up with #some bullshit like how all black americans just naturally know how to cook great soul food.

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aerithisms · 1 year

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i read lord of the rings last year because i wanted to understand its place more as foundational to the modern fantasy genre and get to grips with what tolkien was actually saying rather than conflicted accounts of what people on the internet think he was saying but the story is just so much not my jam that i didn't retain much of it long term so what did i gain from all that really

#blahs #one of the big points of discourse is like. tolkien's relationship to race and to english nationalism/idealisation of the pastoral #i came away with an impression that he was very much trying to conjure a nostalgia for an idealised britain (that never existed)#but i saw someone recently saying that actually the scouring of the shire is trying to do the opposite of that #which i feel like i disagree with but i didn't retain enough of the text to have a really good argument lmao

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a-kind-of-merry-war · 9 days

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So there's going to be a general election

There is going to be a general election in the UK on the 4th July.

You can register to vote here. It should take five minutes. ⬇⬇⬇

You will be asked for your national insurance number, but you can still register if you don't have one. Your national insurance number will be on any payslips or tax forms if you're not sure what it is.

If you are voting in person, you will need photo ID. If you do not have photo ID, you can apply for a Voter Authority Certificate FOR FREE. To apply, you'll need a recent digital photo of yourself and proof of your identity.

Apply for a Voter Authority Certificate here ⬇⬇⬇

If you are unable to vote in person, you can apply for a postal vote HERE or apply for a proxy vote (where someone else votes on your behalf) HERE.

#ukpol #uk politics #general election #uk

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fawnuh · 10 months

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Going to England in a few days and I'm being indecisive again

#england #britain #British Museum #national gallery #which one #which is better #questions #polls #beans and toast #London #aaaaaaa #please answer #art #i need answers #please

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thenewgothictwice · 2 months

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March 28. Taleed El-Sabawi, JD, PhD writes: "Jordan should be trending right now. Protests have been blocking traffic; men have flooded the streets in such large numbers that even the repressive military force in Jordan can’t beat them into submission (something they frequently do); Protesters are chanting for Jordan to open its borders so they can march to Al-Aqsa. The political unrest in Jordan has been at a boiling point for years now.

High rates of unemployment particularly among young men; significant inflation; high housing costs; low wages; skyrocketing gas prices, electricity, groceries…hardly any industry. Repressive import taxes.

And a monarchy that pockets millions of US government aid in exchange for US military access. The monarchy is now holding on by a thread.

Expect the Jordanian forces to increase their violence against protestors. Expect the U.S. to send in reinforcements in some shape or form—If the monarchy falls, it will not be a U.S. co-opted government that will organically take its place. It will not be an Israel friendly government. Expect the U.S. to meddle as they always have & to do everything they can to keep the monarchy in place.

Even a UN Ceasefire isn’t enough to make Israel ceasefire or the U.S. to call for Israel to ceasefire. The calculus has changed. The people are reminded yet again how the governments of the world have failed them. Expect more of this around the world.

Every time there are protests in Jordan, I call my family in Amman to get a sense of how serious it is, because my grandparents are in Amman. Since October, every time I call they have brushed it off as young men being young men. Skirmishes with the armed guard as usual. But today was different. They spoke about not being able to drive in the streets, of the chaos, of the sheer number of human bodies, of the determination to do something to help Gaza—something has changed. This time, it feels different.

Additional important context: Jordan was created in 1946. When Britain divided up the Arab World into nation states. Before that there was free movement & a greater degree of one-ness. So when Jordanians say they there is no difference between us and the Palestinian people or that we are the same people , it is because the British creation of nation states was a Western government forcing the Arab people into its Western constructs.

[about further protests in Jordan] There are already plans to start again —at Maghreb tomorrow (sunset)—at the Israeli embassy and doing a sit-in again until dawn, interspersed with prayers. Tomorrow will mark day 5 of protests in Amman."

#palestine #free palestine #jordan #important!!#taleed el sabawi #end the genocide in gaza

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famouslook1987 · 1 year

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ब्रिटेन में हिंदू सबसे सेहतमंद नागरिकों में शामिल, सिखों के पास घर होने की संभावना सबसे ज्यादा

Britain Census Data: ब्रिटेन (Britain) में हिंदू (Hindus) देश के सबसे स्वस्थ और शिक्षित धार्मिक समुदायों में शामिल हैं, जबकि सिखों (Sikhs) के पास खुद का घर होने की संभावना सबसे ज्यादा है. इंग्लैंड और वेल्स में जनगणना के हालिया आंकड़ों से यह बात सामने आई है. ब्रिटेन का राष्ट्रीय सांख्यिकी कार्यालय (Office For National Statistics) मार्च 2021 में की गई ऑनलाइन जनगणना के डेटा का विश्लेषण कर आबादी के…

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zvaigzdelasas · 4 months

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[NewYorkTimes is Private US Media]

Over the past month, we’ve watched an astonishing, high-stakes global drama play out in The Hague. A group of countries from the poorer, less powerful bloc some call the global south, led by South Africa, dragged the government of Israel and, by extension, its rich, powerful allies into the top court of the Western rules-based order and accused Israel of prosecuting a brutal war in Gaza that is “genocidal in character.”

The responses to this presentation from the leading nations of that order were quick and blunt.

“Completely unjustified and wrong,” said a statement from Rishi Sunak, Britain’s prime minister.

“Meritless, counterproductive and completely without any basis in fact whatsoever,” said John Kirby, a spokesman for the United States National Security Council.

“The accusation has no basis in fact,” a German government spokesman said, adding that Germany opposed the “political instrumentalization” of the genocide statute.

But on Friday, that court had its say, issuing a sober and careful provisional ruling that doubled as a rebuke to those dismissals. In granting provisional measures, the court affirmed that some of South Africa’s allegations were plausible and called on Israel to take immediate steps to protect civilians, increase the amount of humanitarian aid and punish officials who engaged in violent and incendiary speech. The court stopped short of calling for a cease-fire, but it granted South Africa’s request for provisional measures to prevent further civilian death. For the most part, the court ruled in favor of the global south.[...]

The court was not asked to rule on whether Israel had in fact committed genocide, a matter that is likely to take years to adjudicate. Whatever the eventual outcome of the case, it sets up an epic battle over the meaning and values of the so-called rules-based order. If these rules don’t apply when powerful countries don’t want them to, are they rules at all?

“As long as those who make rules enforce them against others while believing that they and their allies are above those rules, the international governance system is in trouble,” Thuli Madonsela, one of South Africa’s leading legal minds and an architect of its post-apartheid Constitution, told me. “We say these rules are the rules when Russia invades Ukraine or when the Rohingya are being massacred by Myanmar, but if it’s now Israel butchering Palestinians, depriving them of food, displacing them en masse, then the rules don’t apply and whoever tries to apply the rules is antisemitic? It is really putting those rules in jeopardy.”[...]

The military campaign has “wreaked more destruction than the razing of Syria’s Aleppo between 2012 and 2016, Ukraine’s Mariupol or, proportionally, the Allied bombing of Germany in World War II,” the report quoted researchers as saying. The researchers, hardly some raving left-wing activists, are experts cited in one of the most respected news organizations in the world, The Associated Press.[...]

The International Court of Justice issued a nonbinding opinion in 2004 that the security barriers Israel was erecting in the West Bank violated international law, but that ruling has had no effect. The walls still stand.[...]

Indeed, what is a rules-based system if the rules apply only selectively and if seeking to apply them to certain countries is viewed as self-evidently prejudiced? To put it more simply, is there no venue in the international system to which the stateless people of Palestine and their allies and friends can go to seek redress amid the slaughter in Gaza? And if not, what are they to do?

For the cause of Palestinian statehood, every alternative to violence has been virtually snuffed out, in part because Israel’s allies have helped to discredit them. The most recent example is the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement that has, in many places, been successfully tarred as antisemitic or even banned altogether. Efforts to use the United Nations Security Council have drawn U.S. vetoes for decades. Is seeking redress at the appropriate venue for alleged violations of international law also antisemitic, as Israel’s defense minister said on Friday? Does no law apply to Israel? Are there no limits to what it may do to defend itself?[...]

The Biden administration has made the shoring up of the international rules-based order a centerpiece of its foreign policy but, unsurprisingly, has struggled to live up to that aspiration.[...]

Occasionally straying from your principles because circumstances require it is very different from being seen to have no principles at all, and that is precisely how much of the global south has come to regard the United States.

It seems especially shortsighted in these times that the Biden administration elected to wave away the carefully documented case prepared by South Africa. One of the biggest threats to the rules-based international order is the growing consensus in the poor world that the rich world will apply those rules selectively, at its discretion, when it suits the powerful nations that make up the global north, such as when Russia invaded Ukraine.[...]

As far as the rules-based order is concerned, when it comes to crimes like genocide and ethnic cleansing, it simply does not matter who started it. [...] The best way to shore up the rules-based order is to be seen, in word and deed, as committing to the institutions and moral commitments of that order.

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theivorybilledwoodpecker · 2 years

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I need each and every person who sees this to pay attention to what is going on with the Indian Child Welfare Act.

The same SCOTUS that refered to tribal land as a territory of the state is about to hear a case that might overturn ICWA.

ICWA allows Alaska Natives and Native Americans control over the adoption and foster care placement of Native American and Alaska Children. In practice what this ensures is that if a Native American or Alaska Native child cannot be raised with their parents', the extended family will be given custody. If the extended family cannot care for the child, the child is placed with a family in their tribe or, barring that, with a family who is Native American or Alaska Native.

This act is important for two reasons:

For centuries, Native Americans and Alaska Natives were forcibly assimilated into White culture. From the 1800s to the late 1900s, children were taken from their families and either adopted out to White people or put in boarding schools. If parents refused, they were sometimes incarcerated, and they could lose custody of their other children. There are cases where tribes would hide their children and tell people who came that they had none...so the white people started showing up uannounced. The children sent to these schools were abused. Some were murdered. And survivors still live with the trauma. ICWA was passed to stop this...but not even 50 years after it being passed, it's at risk.

Native Americans and Alaska Natives are constitutionally guaranteed sovereignty. We all know the government picks and chooses when it wants to honor that, but Native Americans and Alaska Natives are supposed to have sovereignty. The idea that one country can step in and tell sovereign tribes and nations that they are not allowed to control the placement of their own children should be absurd. The U.S. doesn't tell Britain what to do with their foster care system...but the SCOTUS knows that Native Americans and Alaska Natives don't have an army or navy like Britain does. Because of this the SCOTUS believes it has the right to violate years of precedent and treaties. It knows that it will be protected no matter what it decides.

So I'm asking people to keep an eye on ICWA. I'm asking them to boost the signal. And I'm asking them to protest if it falls.

#ICWA #indian child welfare act

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