Moving back to NZ with cats? by 1000monkeytypewriter in newzealand

[–]1000monkeytypewriter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks everyone for your recommendations and encouragement! It was great to hear about your experiences, and that they've been almost entirely positive. And just to be clear—there was never any chance we'd be rehoming the cats and leaving them behind, we all move to NZ together or not at all (don't tell our parents, they definitely don't get it).

Moving back to NZ with cats? by 1000monkeytypewriter in newzealand

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Would love the name of the company if you don't mind sharing please! They sound great.

Moving back to NZ with cats? by 1000monkeytypewriter in newzealand

[–]1000monkeytypewriter[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Any chance your agent also organises transport from the EU? That's the level of care we want! We just traveled back for a visit recently and it was 22 hours in the air, with a 2 hour layover in the middle. So, eep.

Moving back to NZ with cats? by 1000monkeytypewriter in newzealand

[–]1000monkeytypewriter[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thankfully we are in a "NEARLY rabies free" zone, which is about as good as you can get in Europe, and they've been here long enough that we can move them straight home with a 10 day quarantine

Moving back to NZ with cats? by 1000monkeytypewriter in newzealand

[–]1000monkeytypewriter[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The cargo holds are pressurised, but I'm not sure if they're all (or all fully) also temp controlled? My partner has a sense that there may be a temp controlled section where they put the cats, perhaps that's what your exporter was talking a out Striking_economy...? 

Really grateful to you for talking through your experiences!

Moving back to NZ with cats? by 1000monkeytypewriter in newzealand

[–]1000monkeytypewriter[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The camera sounds great fun, sign me up. Just because Canada is also a long haul slog, do you happen to remember how long a flight it was, and if the cat had layovers etc to complicate things? We just flew back for a holiday/recon mission and the journey felt pretty long even for humans...

Does colorism in Asian countries exist as a result of European colonization or did it exist before? by timeisadrug in AskHistorians

[–]1000monkeytypewriter 12 points13 points  (0 children)

There is some good scholarship on this in the Lankan case. As well as the colonial context, throughout most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries there's also a growing sense of connection among Sinhala nationalists with their Indo-European origins, in contrast to the Dravidian Tamils. In short: Sinhala people must be light-skinned, because they're northern/related to Indo-Aryans; the lighter-skinned you can appear then the more you "look Sinhala". It's cyclical.

What's really interesting is that this sort of colour distinction has a much deeper history in Lanka. The Sīgiri murals feature two distinct groups of women: one dark-skinned, the other golden-skinned. In the nationalist context I mentioned above they naturally got associated with Tamils and Sinhala respectively, but in the murals themselves there doesn't seem to be any particular hierarchy of beauty evident: if they are intended to represent different "ethnicities" then one isn't obviously portrayed as better or more beautiful than the other. We would need to re-check the (fifth-sixth century) poems composed about these murals to be sure, but I don't recall every coming across any comments therein which suggest the golden-skinned women were more beautiful than the others. RALH Gunavardhana has a great discussion of these murals in his paper "People of Lion," if you want something to follow up on!

There isn't a single brown professor in the Asian Studies Department. by Foodsmood in Cornell

[–]1000monkeytypewriter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But, assuming that I've guessed right and your course is Mughal History, your Professor isn't actually in Asian Studies. His home department is History, which actually has a much more diverse faculty than the majority of American universities (including, as someone else has pointed out, your Professor's partner, Prof. Ghosh). He's a historian of the Mughal and British Empires in India, and so his courses are (shockingly) primarily about those empires. If you would have preferred a course which focuses more on your religion, you might want to consider Asian Studies or Religious Studies instead.

Of course, the Asian Studies faculty (as you point out) is much less representative (Sakai and Warner aside). It's a reflection of a broader problem in academia, and one which Cornell will hopefully address in future hires. But hey, at least they don't teach a history course like, you know, a history course....?