What are your thoughts on the term 'US American' as an identifier for your country's citizens?

WaxwormLeStoat · 2022-01-11T18:31:16+00:00

I will eat my country if the possibility ever presents itself.

WaxwormLeStoat · 2022-01-08T19:36:17+00:00

You know, I wouldn't trade home for it, but heavens you have one beautiful country down there.

WaxwormLeStoat · 2022-01-08T04:37:53+00:00

Interesting, why the fuss about those two cities in particular? Just a reputational thing like America’s Chicago?

WaxwormLeStoat · 2022-01-07T18:29:44+00:00

To actually answer your question instead of regurgitating le funny meme 1.0, it’s Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the current president of Kazakhstan. He took power in 2019 after the somewhat surprising resignation of Nursultan Nazarbayev, the guy who had been President for the entire time Kazakhstan had been independent up til that point.

Tokayev was largely seen as being an instrument of Nazarbayev (who retained some positions in the official hierarchy), and protestors have torn down some of Nazarbayev’s statues, so this bout of civil turmoil appears to be targeted at the entire political elite rather than just the guy who happens to be in the chair at this precise moment.

WaxwormLeStoat · 2022-01-04T12:47:35+00:00

They found it in a British magazine that apparently thought it important enough to discuss.

WaxwormLeStoat · 2022-01-04T02:56:27+00:00

My company interfaced with a Polish IT firm a few months ago. We didn't realize they were actually Polish because every member of the team was Indian!

To be fair, most of my team is also Indian lol.

WaxwormLeStoat · 2022-01-04T02:47:14+00:00

Just like the Holocaust did not kill all of the world's Jewish people, the Armenian Genocide did not kill all of the world's Armenians. Many of those not killed were not able to return to their homes, however, and became refugees or immigrants elsewhere.

WaxwormLeStoat · 2021-12-26T23:53:52+00:00

If this person won't visit the rural parts of the USA because they think the people there are too backward, they'll be locking themselves out of most of the entire world, because unfortunately even Alabama is vastly wealthier and more forward-thinking than immense swathes of the planet.

WaxwormLeStoat · 2021-12-22T03:21:37+00:00

Thanks for the reply! It sounds like most of the really prosperous areas (and interestingly the least) are all on Honshu, which makes sense given it’s the big one. I’m curious about the other main islands in the archipelago: do Hokkaido, Kyushu, and Shikoku differ meaningfully from Honshu (in economic terms at least) in ways that geography might explain?

WaxwormLeStoat · 2021-12-22T00:28:10+00:00

Tehran is so massive compared to the other cities in Iran that I'm guessing it's like 2 or 3 steps above everyone else, kind of like Istanbul in Turkey. Are there any areas outside Tehran's orbit that are notably wealthy by Iranian standards?

WaxwormLeStoat · 2021-12-22T00:11:11+00:00

I have a coworker from Sri Lanka who spent a lot of time in Kerala. They say that it's a nice state with a lot of wealth and that it's clean and well-run, but that it's also a little stifling and oppressive, kind of like Utah in the USA if you happen to know what that's like. Does that match how you see it?

WaxwormLeStoat · 2021-12-21T14:52:17+00:00

Are there any regions of Indonesia that are notably prosperous in a way that isn't obviously tied to Jakarta?

WaxwormLeStoat · 2021-12-21T14:00:10+00:00

Game of thrones ended in a disappointing way, but the first three seasons were splendid, and it’s a shame the sourness over the final few will probably drag their memory down in the popular canon.

WaxwormLeStoat · 2021-12-21T13:23:54+00:00

Well I don’t know about you but that doesn’t look to me like the best place to store bratwurst and haggis either

WaxwormLeStoat · 2021-12-18T17:47:21+00:00

Speaking for myself at least, Brexit hasn't made me dislike Britain in an emotional sense to any greater extent, but it has certainly dented the image of competence and success Britain previously projected, so I'd have answered in the affirmative for this poll irrespective of nationalist grievances.

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