I’m German and when I was in elementary school in the 90s we learned about the Nazi regime. An old woman visited our class to talk about what is was like for her as a child under Hitler. I remember that she said some people just disappeared and noone really knew why. There were rumours about prisons or labor camps but noone knew for sure what happened to the people who disappeared. She only learned about the concentration camps after the war was over.

I bet in a decade or so we will learn about all the horrors that are really going on right now.

Relationsships with several people have been around in a lot of cultures all over the world. Harems have existed through all time periods. The main problem in the past was ensuring paternity so it was usually one man with several women. The bible has several examples of men taking multiple women, in many islamic societies taking multiple wives is ok, in Nepal one woman could have several men.

Of course relationships have mostly been formed by economic necessities, not considerations of sexual preference. A woman might have several husbands in a place where living conditions are rough and it takes a lot of manpower for one household. A man may have many wives where men often die from wars and the women need to be taken care of. If these rules are kept for hundreds or even thousands of years, can you still call them a phase?

Besides you must not forget that the western view on history has been heavily shaped by christian values. Obvious proof that people were homo-/bisexual in the past was reinterpreted, the same goes for any form of open/poly relationship. “They were roommates” has become a meme for a reason.

Aren’t these the kind of people who’d get mad at immigrants in the US if they don’t speak English? Why don’t they learn proper Russian and integrate?

I find that a bit funny given that in the last 15 years or so Japan has officially done a lot to attract tourists. Wanting to become a tourist destination, branding themselves as a place for holidays. I’ve seen so many “Visit Japan” campaigns, usually sponsored by the Japanese government, in the last decade or so. I get that it sucks for the people living in those cities and good for them that their city council does something to help, it still feels weird after years and years of campaigns to attract more tourists to Japan.

I could name you at least 10 off the top of my head in the city I live in.

You know they don’t want to do that. If they did, people would ask questions like “How come my 40$ homemade Spaghetti with fresh spinach sauce lists soylecithin, yeast extract and xanthan gum as ingredients?”

I’m shocked that it isn’t a law already. It’s been obligatory in the EU for 10 years. Although a lot of restaurants don’t follow it…

I think is is fascinating how much time Japanese teachers spendon extracurriculars

From what I know, a lot of hobby activies happen in school in Japan and are supervised by the school’s teachers: choirs, soccer teams, guitar lessons, baseball, judo etc. These are all things that in most other countries aren’t connected to the school system and are organized either by volunteer groups or professionel instructors (e.g. in seperate music schools or neighbourhood soccer clubs).

They already won several positions and majorities in some cities and broke all promises they made. Still growing in numbers.

See that’s the neat part: since it’s not an organization, you can just call anyone and everyone Antifa and lock them up. How would they prove their innocence?

The name and character are from a children’s book and for that it’s a fine name.

I don’t know Latino Trump voters, but I know immigrant AfD voters here in Germany and I assume their reasoning is similar:

1. They don’t mean us, they mean only the criminal immigrants. I work here and speak German.
2. Well they could never go after all of us, that would be stupid! Entire industries depend on immigration and would collaps. So you see how their rhetoric is exaggerated.
3. All politicians lie, that’s what politicians do. They never do what they say, so the AfD will never act against immigrants.
4. They are against gay people! I don’t care about the rest. I habe a good job and speak fluent German, so I’ll be fine. As long as they go after gay people, I don’t care for any other policy.

And so on. The point is, every single non-native or non-native-looking voter of fascist parties thinks they are the exception.

Some countries make it really hard to give up citizenship. It took my husband 15 years, 3 lawyers and a lot of money. He started the process as soon as he turned 18 because he wanted citizenship of the country he lives in, but his country of birth did everything to slow down the process. Some countries also don’t have a working beaurocracy.

Don’t think that’s the case for Ireland, but I know several stories like that.

This is very helpful. I have two major common food allergies and we have such a law in the EU. Yes, some restaurants just write every allergene on every item and call it a day, but those are usually not the good ones. A lot of good restaurants just write tge actually allergenes and “may contain traces of” on the menu and usually the staff is also informed and trained to answer questions regarding allergies.

It is an EU regulation since 2014 though, so it should be required in Sweden.

Here in Europe there is a list of the 14 most common allergenes and they have to be listed on the menu. Yes, there are people with uncommon allergies, but the majority of people have one of the common ones and they can be on the menu.

Eriwan is the German name for Yerevan, or the old German spelling, I think nowadays it’s Jerewan.

It’s Eriwan in German. I didn’t look up if it had a different English spelling. :D

My father used to tell jokes about the GDR and Soviet Union when I was a kid. I was in kindergarten when the Berlin wall fell. Nowadays you can tell almost the same jokes about the US…

Question for the radio station Eriwan: Could the catastrophe of Chernobyl have been avoided? Answer: Principally yes, if only Sweden hadn’t spilled the beans.

Question for the radio station Eriwan: Is there censorship in the Soviet Union? Answer: Principally no, but unfortunately we are unable to further elaborate.

Question for the radio station Eriwan: How does the soviet government act in a crisis? Answer: We do not provide information regarding the state of our Agriculture sector.

Question for the radio station Eriwan: Is it difficult to go to the moon? Answer: Principally no, but how do we convince our cosmonauts to come back again?

Looking forward to reusing them for the US.

When I was small my parents just didn’t bring me to hotels that weren’t explicitly for families. Those normal boring grown-up hotels just weren’t for us until we were old enough, so we went to the fun hotels with playgrounds. Why can’t we go back to that?

And people wouldn’t be so annoyed by children if the parents didn’t insist that they should be allowed to run around and do whatever they want. It’s not just “let me go everywhere with my kids”, it’s “let me bring my kids and then let them yell and smash things and cry as much as they want because they are kids.” There’s a nice café in my city where I don’t go anymore, because it’s full of mothers with their toddlers from the nearby playground who just continue playing as loudly as ever. Last time I went I ended up with sand in my coffee when some kid waved around his toy car that was full of sand from the playground. The mother refused to buy me a new coffee because “he’s just a kid”. A beach bar by the river actual changed their policy and now refuses entry to children under 12, because it had become too expensive for them to keep replacing food and drinks every time a kid threw the sand around. And of course the parents usually refused to pay for what their kids destroyed.

If parents can’t be trusted to make good decisions like “My 4-year-old who can’t sit still for more than a minute should not be brought to a spa where people come to relax.” or at the very least feel responsible for what they destroy, this is what happens. And if too many parents refuse to pay up when their kid destroys something, owners will prefer to ban kids.

People who say they don’t like children are being hated on, but 99% of the time they just don’t like children who are allowed to do whatever they want whereever they are and parents who take zero responsibility under the guise of it’s just a child.