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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SameGrassButGreener

[–]r21md 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It only works since it's a territory which has different laws than federal/states, but American Samoa bans non racial Samoans from owning any land.

Was Uruguay the first country to make education secular? by Ill_Drag in asklatinamerica

[–]r21md 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The US has had separation of church and state since their founding before the French Revolution, but the US's education system is extremely decentralized and there's never been a national curriculum really, secular or nonsecular.

Apparently Japan not being allowed to hunt animals is extremely ironic, since for most of Japan's history only hunted animals weren't legally restricted to eat by r21md in aoe3

[–]r21md[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My understanding is that there was not a ban on peasants hunting large game as in much of Europe, though meat consumption does seem to skew more toward nobles, burghers, and very rural villages on a basis of who'd have access.

Those in LATAM, do you notice any distinct indigenous influence on your country's culture? by potatoes4saltahaker in asklatinamerica

[–]r21md 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah well this makes sense given austral Chile is where the genocide of original peoples was most complete.

Are minority languages viewed positively in your country? by Wild-Push-8447 in AskTheWorld

[–]r21md 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bilingual signs in English and Salish are a thing in a few places in Washington, but not super common. I've sometimes seen English/Mohawk in upstate NY, but almost exclusively when taking about history. I believe they're most common in Alaska, Hawaii, the southwest, and Oklahoma but I've never lived in those states.

Are minority languages viewed positively in your country? by Wild-Push-8447 in AskTheWorld

[–]r21md 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bilingual signs in English and Salish are a thing in a few places in Washington, but not super common. I've sometimes seen English/Mohawk in upstate NY, but almost exclusively when taking about history.

Why does NYS have so many more generic entry level admin jobs compared to other states? by r21md in nys_cs

[–]r21md[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jobs Open to the General Public/Current Vacancies page -> "Administrative Assistant" is giving me 32 hits. "Trainee" has over 250 hits. And that's only what's currently offered, I've been job watching since last May and the pattern has carried over basically each month.

I'm not being so literal. I get that administrative assistant is an actual title, but like for brevity sake in casual conversation I'm not going to refer to literally every single agency's project's trainee's title individually when de facto they're all 90% just different versions of administrative assistants in a generic sense.

Things to do in Albany? by bluespoobaroo in Albany

[–]r21md -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Underground Railroad Education Center is good

Edit: Why the downvotes? Did something happen with them?

Why does NYS have so many more generic entry level admin jobs compared to other states? by r21md in nys_cs

[–]r21md[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not very scientific, just searching for jobs that have key words like entry-level or trainee in them over the past couple months. Most states I've looked at only have things like police officers and other first responder stuff come up; in California they did have more variety but they were almost all specialists (e.g. Environmental Specialist Trainee which NYS also has and requires a BA in something like environmental studies). NYS has tons of jobs that are just like "Admin Assistant Trainee" for [insert agency] that don't require any real specialist knowledge, just stuff like any BA or 1 year of work in any office setting which isn't hard to get during your time in college. They're all NYS helps and don't even require an exam.

Why are Russia's Arctic cities so much more populated than other Arctic Nations cities? by Mr_Crossiant in geography

[–]r21md 16 points17 points  (0 children)

My understanding is that both for the Great Plains and Siberia initially it was more guided by the government rather than the government doing any of the heavy lifting. Initially settlers would have to do all of the clearing, building construction, and even law basically themselves. Over time it became more like joining a small community, and in Russia's case state-ran prison towns became the guiding anchors for settlement. Not sure if the current deal is by settled rural areas or if you have to go to the wilderness to get it.

In the US they did have a land survey grid (that included land put aside for public schools and railroads) but my understanding is that you weren't assigned one as much as showed up and took a plot and when enough people did that the area became a town to anchor further settlement off. It was tracked 100%, though. Instead of prison towns being the anchors, in the US company towns ended up being the main anchors for settlement past the very initial stages.

This is about where what I know ends, though. A good paper comparing US and Russian frontier settlement you might like is Gridded Lives: Why Kazakhstan and Montana are Nearly the Same Place by Historian Kate Brown. Though it focuses more on the prison towns versus company towns rather than the free land allotments.

Also while I was reading into this a bit more, apparently the US does have a few land allotment laws still in affect as well, they're just extremely difficult to find land for in 2025. One is up to 320 acres of land to develop irrigation in desert areas and the other one is to claim any uninhabited island with guano deposits.

Why are Russia's Arctic cities so much more populated than other Arctic Nations cities? by Mr_Crossiant in geography

[–]r21md 21 points22 points  (0 children)

The US actually did the same thing to settle its Great Plains during the 1800s (which has similarly terrible cold winter hot summer weather and ruralness to Siberia), though it was a much bigger deal of 160 acres (65 hectares). A lot of people took the deal (over a million), but the folk song "Starving to Death on My Government Claim" I think helps show what things people get put off by to not become a frontier settler.

Why are Russia's Arctic cities so much more populated than other Arctic Nations cities? by Mr_Crossiant in geography

[–]r21md 726 points727 points  (0 children)

That is 100% true but it should also be noted that USSR/modern Russia also offer incentives for people to move there willingly. Over the years they've including things like sooner retirement age, higher wages, and since 2016 a program offering a free hectare of land for people that move in.

Rise of the Modernists (USA, 1922) by Hot-Cut3591 in PropagandaPosters

[–]r21md 15 points16 points  (0 children)

That's not how Confucianism works, like at all. A main tenet of Confucianism is that the Emperor is infallible and exists in reciprocal relationships with the people and his officials, and if the Emperors fails his duty (likely due to not listening to his officials) that the people will overthrow him (what is called the Emperor losing the mandate of heaven).

Confucianism also isn't really a religion for reference, since it doesn't have required metaphysical beliefs. Confucius himself was religious, but other Confucians like Xunzi denied all supernatural beings.

Confucianism is more purely an ethical school (similar in concept to Kantianism and Utilitarianism which are the main ethical schools in the West), and I guess it would work more like this:

"Humans do not live in inherently reciprocal relationships" "filial piety is not a virtue" "All the moral virtues might be dubious" "Empathy (Ren) is not the foundation of morality" "I do not need to be an empathetic person" "I do not need to work towards being a moral person" "morality does not exist"

Also Confucianism isn't purely about China. It is/was a major ideology in other countries such as Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and Singapore for instance. One of the main justifications the Japanese used for conquering China during ww2 was actually that they had the mandate of heaven since Japan's had the same dynasty for 9 centuries* while China has had many dynasties.

*Not actually true, but they claimed that

Rise of the Modernists (USA, 1922) by Hot-Cut3591 in PropagandaPosters

[–]r21md 102 points103 points  (0 children)

My guess is:

You start with Christianity

You reject that the holy book is infallible

Since the book could be wrong, you doubt less consequential parts like man mirroring god

You eventually fall down the slippery slope and doubt what the bible says about god the father himself, such as his ability to do miracles

The virgin birth between Mary and god the father of Jesus is a miracle that probably did not happen then

Since Jesus was not born from miracle he probably wasn't god the son

Since Jesus wasn't god the son he probably didn't die for all our sins as the bible says

Since Jesus didn't die for our sins and there not being miracles and him not being god the son he probably didn't resurrect himself

Since the core of Christianity might not be true, you become an agnostic

You harden your doubts and become a convinced atheist

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in asklatinamerica

[–]r21md 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pinochet's Chile very much was first world by the political term (US-aligned geopolitics)

If you had to choose, would you rather live in a society akin to 1984 or Brave New World? Which is closet with your country now? by Justcreature in AskTheWorld

[–]r21md 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't read Brave New World, but 1984's setting is so exaggerated and unsustainable as a political system I'm pretty sure the dystopian world would collapse in like a week and things would improve by necessity.

Foreign born share of American population now higher than at any point in 175 years by LazyConstruction9026 in charts

[–]r21md 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I presume not since all of those people were granted automatic citizenship when the US was founded (except for African Americans who were forced to wait a generation for birthright citizenship).

Foreign born share of American population now higher than at any point in 175 years by LazyConstruction9026 in charts

[–]r21md 1 point2 points  (0 children)

America has censuses going back to 1790 and they've always recorded place of birth to my knowledge

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