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by acephal 6y ago
> In speaking to Africans in the West, in general they share a very traditional view of the situation as many other immigrants do. Namely, to remember who you are, where you come from, who your people are, and many other things from home
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by acephal 6y ago
We see this intersection between the American Black community and Africa again today in the growing sentiment amongst certain Black Americans to not only visit Africa, but consider moving there as well. Many youtube videos you can look at o
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by acephal 6y ago
Why am I not surprised this direction was taken in this thread when the article has much more interesting things to discuss?
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by acephal 6y ago
As well as Don and Doña
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by acephal 6y ago
Poland?
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by acephal 6y ago
We wouldn't be living things
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by acephal 6y ago
> Race is just a correlation, the causative factor is the culture associated with the race as practitioners of falun gong (who include the Han people) are also targeted. This also happens in America today
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by acephal 6y ago
> The tectum is a beautiful piece of engineering. To control the head and the eyes efficiently, it constructs something called an internal model, a feature well known to engineers. An internal model is a simulation that keeps track of wh
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by acephal 6y ago
Likwise with Gorillas, these animals live in family groups, not random groupings of unrelated strangers where the greatest psychopath wins
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by acephal 6y ago
This. If you want to know what instantaneous knowledge transfer looks like you just have to look at how ideas commute via Twitter/Facebook memes, which is largely a reification of word-of-mouth. On a certain level, actual learning requ
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by acephal 6y ago
It still blows my mind that people think race in America isn't a caste system. It absolutely is a caste system.
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by acephal 6y ago
Chicago is only getting more expensive
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by acephal 6y ago
Yeah really can't behind this idea software engineers are in any way "working class". Kind of an affront in my book.
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by acephal 6y ago
Only way to outdo China is to outdo China
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by acephal 6y ago
But they do, many working class communities communicate distrust of middle class white collars
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by acephal 6y ago
Paul Castellano agrees
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by acephal 6y ago
I've literally been on a date where I told a woman I was thinking of getting a cat and her exact response, in a public restaurant, was "that's gaaaaaay"; she was a data scientist.
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by acephal 6y ago
This is the problem with much of the spectrum of political rhetoric in America, they're almost all somehow unrealistic in their basic, shared presumption of a world without some over-determining Other (a black box concept that is some
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by acephal 6y ago
> In short design by committee might be bad but rule by committee helps. > So I kind of disagree with the premise - a parliament based market and human rights friendly nation could have been successful at almost any point post 1500. A
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by acephal 6y ago
This entire thread is completely toxic and predictably so, the fact it hasn't been flagged yet is telling
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by acephal 6y ago
I love all the replies implying they can obliviously dictate a completely different culture's values to them
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by acephal 6y ago
Man, organized crime in Italy and Mexico... Cosa Nostra were being extremely polite next to them.
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by acephal 6y ago
Maybe they can ask Sammy Gravano for recommendations
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by acephal 6y ago
The sooner we get to Cowboy Bebop names, the better
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by acephal 6y ago
So in effect this says more about how uncritical modern people are of themselves and others than it does anything about the practice of modern marriage, that many many people blindly march into relationships and commitments they don't
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by acephal 6y ago
And in a number of different domains in life at that
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by acephal 6y ago
Then you have the even worse trend of a certain kind of 'hip/urban' non-Black belittling a conservative Black person or a Black person who doesn't represent themself along the lines of what popular culture communicates i
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by acephal 6y ago
Totalitarianism of an individual is one thing, the future will be far more anonymous, you'll hear the name of a state, law, or corporation than an actual, particular individual
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by acephal 6y ago
Thanks
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by acephal 6y ago
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