dutchieinfrance

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   by dutchieinfrance 9y ago

   The Japanese had all the Dutch imprisoned in Indonesia, not just soldiers. A number of male prisoners had been shipped off to Japan to work in labor camps.
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   by dutchieinfrance 9y ago

   So... much... power.
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   by dutchieinfrance 9y ago

   When I was a European teenager in the 1980s, I met many peers who were great programmers - given their age (around 15, 16). They all spoke English very badly. They just weren't interested in English, only in programming languages. Thes
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   by dutchieinfrance 9y ago

   Even earlier were the Byzantine monks who smuggled silk worm eggs out of China. Arguably not espionage, unless you consider the eggs to be DNA packages.
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   by dutchieinfrance 10y ago

   Really, in the USA? I wouldn't have guessed from the literature or movies. I'm a European, I've never actually visited the USA, so this is genuine question about whether these kind of jokes would be considered "politica
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   by dutchieinfrance 10y ago

   Actually, if you come across as a "stereotypical American" then, yes, I can imagine you ran into this. Cf. the movie "A Good Year", where Russell Crowe instructs Americans in a French restaurant to go to McDonald's
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   by dutchieinfrance 10y ago

   Sorry to go off on a tangent, but where in France did you experience this? I'm a non-native speaker of French and I have never experienced this, not even when I was in my teens still learning French.