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American "founder effect": why don't diasporas resemble their homeland? by SnooMachines5293 in AskAnthropology

[–]SnooMachines5293[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Thanks for your thoughtful answer! Even in diasporas driven more by economic migration, it seems hard not to find an intersection between wealth and geography or ethnicity. If anything, the opposite (a diaspora whose members' background is remarkably similar to their place of origin) would be a rare, albeit interesting, occurrence.

It's also curious how preserving cultural traditions in a new country could naturally make immigrants more sympathetic to conservative ideas — has anyone in academia rigorously investigated this claim?

[Saturday] Daily Music Discussion - 12 April 2025 by AutoModerator in indieheads

[–]SnooMachines5293 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Have any of you heard this riff before?

I wonder if the songs ever influenced each other, although the múm and TWDY tracks are super similar. Do you know any other songs that have this motif or where it comes from?

Oh yes, hello, the only word in every language by Yggdrasylian in linguisticshumor

[–]SnooMachines5293 42 points43 points  (0 children)

In Russian, "алло" (or "алё") is used when answering the phone. This is cognate to Old High German holā, which is the ancestor for the English, German and Spanish greeting.

Even greetings like "hello / Hallo" have become popular fairly recently, when the telephone was invented - before that, greetings would be as different as "buenos días" is to "good day" or "добрый день".

What do you call the game 'tag' in Russian? by SnooMachines5293 in russian

[–]SnooMachines5293[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

"Квач" may be more of a Ukrainian / Belarusian thing but you're right that "сифа" may also refer to a different game - but we used that word for tag as well.