Learn to check sources if you do not wish to be dismissed as a conspiracy theorist. You linked a Wikipedia page. Did you even bother to check the references? The first five include conspiracy nutter Adrian Zenz, the rag that spread the Palestinians raped Israelis and killed children conspiracy, and some group based in Taiwan. That’s two worthless sources, and one sus source, out of five.
I’m sure they originate in economic pressures. But it’s like letting a genie out of a lamp - you can easily whip up religious / racist hatred, but once out, it takes a life of its own and can turn even on its own creators.
This implies the existance of ethical gooners.
I do think your wording is causing some confusion. Of course, the aim of most imperialists is economic exploitation, but there historically there have been other drivers of conquest such as religion and racism.
Sir this is a-lemmy. We all hate Microslop, rich people and cars here.
Well at least she wasn’t wearing blue or green.
Yes. Also humans are chimps, dogs are wolves and wheat and most citrus fruits don’t even exist.
Or we could accept that the whole idea of a purely genetic phylogeny with each clade bifurcating into two and later bifurcations always having to be grouped together with no regard for ecological pressures or mutation rates or hybridisation as the unhinged ravings of a geneticist (derogative) who has never touched grass, and move on.
Also evolution (common genetic pool) and ecology (common niche, environmental pressures and behaviour).
I believe it’s a European thing. I’ve cried after eating Andhra food (more spicy than most Indian styles) but my stomach doesn’t seem to mind. European visitors get indigestion.
In any society, some sections would be having ‘good times’, and wouldn’t want the status quo to change. Other sections wouldn’t be having a great time, and would be asking for change.
Centrists then might be people who want some changes, although people who don’t want any change often also call themselves centrists since (1) different sections would be asking for different directions of change, so staying put might seem the middle ground, and (2) it’s more respectable than admitting the current system benefits them and they don’t want it to change.
Also centralists are different. Centralisation / decentralisation is the debate over how much power national governments should have versus local governments.
China isn’t Israel.
Centrism is okay during good times
Good times for whom?
Cowbee means economic imperialism - using the resources / wealth of another country for yourself. So invading another country would not, by itself, be imperialism.
I think this definition is a bit reductionist, but it’s a good starting point to ask ‘is this war for profit or some other reason?’.
The Aryans are a steppe (modern day south Russia) people who migrated to India four thousand years ago. Depending on who you ask, they mixed with / drove out the native people from India’s north and west.
Modern Indians speak Indo-European languages (often seen as being of Aryan origin) in the north and west, Dravidian languages (supposedly the native languages) in the south and Austroasiatic and other languages (from China and southeast Asia) in the northeast. In the 1950s, after India became independent, the Indo-European majority wanted Hindi, an IE language, to be the national language of India. There was opposition in the south and northeast, and the result is that India today has no national language, with the union (=federal) government using both English and Hindi, and states free to choose their own language(s). In Tamil Nadu, India’s southernmost state, opposition to Hindi was strongest, and it gradually extended to other aspects of ‘Aryan’ culture. So the names Arya / Aryan would be considered a bit ‘culturally insensitive’. They would also be rare in the northeast, but more strange than rude.
So, because the US is regrettably inching toward authoritarianism, the fully authoritarian state was the better one all along?
In which of these countries do the police shoot / choke random people in broad daylight? In which of them is slavery still legal?
China is far from perfect but why would you compare it to like the second worst country in the world?
Just read first-hand accounts from the many people that have escaped the country.
It’s important to note that most North Koreans escape to South Korea, where it is illegal to say anything positive about North Korea, and from where they cannot leave for some number of years. So I would completely trust such accounts.
Also reports about North Korea often contradict other reports about North Korea. It’s a mess of truth, exaggeration, rumours, stuff somebody made up, and in one case a satirical news article from Japan or China that Western media took at face value.
Arya / Aryan is a valid name in many* parts of India. (* It would be rude in Tamil Nadu and rare in the northeast.)
Yes. A group of US companies have bought Tiktok US. Tiktok elsewhere is still owned by the Singaporean / Chinese company.
That was fascinating.
Oh, I’ve been warned about this by a doctor, but I can’t do much apart than keeping my legs raised when I can. (My work involves both sitting and standing in one place. My veins are so dead.)
:-(