#East European Countries

[wenellyb]

White French people hate it when they get a taste of their own medicine. 

I was discussing with one of my colleagues and she told me how she was planning to go to Senegal for the holidays because she thought it was a good way for her kids to see more diversity and people who don’t look like them (ie Black People).

So I told her it was a good idea because I was 4 the 1st time I saw a White person (and I cried btw...) And she was so shocked, like she couldn’t understand that some Black kids have never seen White people in their lives but somehow doesn’t think twice about the fact that her kids are in a similar situation.

Another time, I was talking to someone else about how I arrived in France when I was young but had lived in many African countries growing up (RDC, Kenya , Gabon, Center African Republic...).

And then that person proceeded to go on a tirade about how I must have felt so lucky to arrive in France, and how I should have been relieved to arrive in a developed country like France, blablaba. I just told him “not really”, because growing up I was told that France was amazing and so wealthy, but the first time I saw homeless people was when I arrived in Europe, so I didn’t really understand why people always talked about Europe like that. And again, the guy was shocked, just because I didn’t say my life in Africa was miserable and sad, and because I said that Europe was from what I had heard as a child.

If you’re going to bring your assumptions without knowing, I’ll retort with mine ( the view of an 8-9 year old). I don’t understand how someone can feel so entitled and assume something about your situation without asking first. I’m sorry the only thing you know about Africa is that one documentary you watched in middle school but leave me alone.

#random stuff #I just give what I get #And I'm not saying there's no poverty in Africa... But people need to understand that Africa is a continent not a country #and I think that even people who understand it don't really understand understand it #what I mean is that all countries are different and even within the countries you have differences and just like any other countries in the #world you have wealth differences and it's stupid to assume that just because you come from an African country you're grateful to arrive in #an European country or a western country #Also you'll have very different opinions whether your coming from east Africa west africa northern africa etc... #They say stuff but then are surprised when you say the same thing back

[cinnamonsikwate]

"why couldn't shuro have just been honest about what he felt with laios and falin it's not that hard" are you. are you White

#dungeon meshi #shuro #toshiro nakamoto #look you can hate him for other things but this is very clearly a case of cultures (& personalities influenced by these cultures) clashing #shuro is japanese/east asian-coded and laios is european white boy #i am not japanese but i also come from a collectivistic society #pakikisama is a filipino value both prized and abhorred #it relies heavily on being able to read social cues and prior knowledge of societal norms #shuro being from a different country/culture is important to his character #his repressed nature is meant to contrast with laios' open one like that's the point #they both had similar upbringings but different coping mechanisms #shuro explicitly admits that he's jealous of laios being able to live life sincerely #anyway the point is they were operating on different expectations entirely and neither had healthy enough communication skills #to hash things out before they got too bad #re his attraction to falin i personally believe he unfortunately mpdg-ed her #she represented something new & different. a fresh drink of water for his parched repressed self #alas not meant to be #i'll be honest the way ryoko kui handles both fantasy & regular racism in dm is more miss than hit for me #i don't doubt that a lot of the shuro hate is based off of marcille's pov of him #marcille famously racist 😭 #characters' racist views don't often get (too) challenged #practically everyone is casually racist at some point #anyway. again if you're gonna hate shuro at least hate him for being complicit in human trafficking & slavery #he couldn't help falling for the wrong woman goddamn 😭 #calemonsito notes

[fagrackham]

I GOTTA GET OUTTA HERE

#out of school. out of this semester. out of vt. out of mass. out of new england out of the east out of americaaaaa get me outta here!!! #i just. im done brother im tapped. im gonna smoke weed and go to bed because the tragedy of the american condition is that i cant just fuck #off to some small european country because its stupid expensive and compicated to do so and i cant really fuck off anywhere domestic becaus #i cant drive and its even more expensive. and im 19 and hate myself a lil el oh el

[redvelvetwishtree]

People in journalism and medical professions should genuinely be staging a global outrage right now if this is how their professions are being treated. I haven't added posts about the many many journalists and their families that have been murdered by Israel this week.

Why tf are they so desperate to stop coverage? Is their story not believable anymore? Journalists especially should take this personally if they have any integrity and respect for their job. Doctors around the world should have no doubts about who is and isn't the evil side anymore.

Name one logical argument that makes it ok for this to happen and for the western governments to just stay silent? We all know the hundreds of sensational headlines and news bulletins that came out for victims in other countries (yes I will compare, I'm tired and sick of everything in this world and done with everyone's lectures about how we should or shouldn't talk about tragedies).

#how just how is this so easily ignored #if you don't care for the Palestinians at least show some care for your profession and how it is under attack like this #how are journalists doing news bulletins and writing stories everywhere ok with fellow colleagues being killed for reporting the truth? #how are doctors so chill? #but then again i can't say much about some reporters...like that reporter from some European country who #who was laying on the road and acting like Israel was being bombed but there were cyclists and pedestrians walking around her super chill #grade A acting #grade F reporting #it is unbelievable how willingly blind and deaf everyone is pretending to be #gaza #free gaza #gaza strip #free palestine #palestine #israel #middle east

[scribblersobia]

We live in a world where -

1. In USA women don't have abortion rights, that is a clear violation of human rights.

2. Femicide in Latin America.

3. Gender inequality in the world. (European countries).

4. The women being deprived of education throughout the world. Especially, in Iran, afghanistan and other middle eastern countries where school tanks were poisoned so girls parents would stop sending them to school.

5. Child marriage, domestic abuse, early pregnancy, women are expected to carry domestic workloads, violence against women, sexual assault all over the world. Which usually make headlines in Asian countries.

6. Financial dependency which makes them vulnerable.

7. There are single mothers, who are either divorced or their husbands passed away due to some reasons. This world is not kind for a widow or a divorced women. A man can remarry and nobody will question him but a woman remarries who world will come to eat her alive.

8. Even climate change is a woman's enemy. It was in news that girls of the age 9+ age are married off because their families have lost everything when the natural calamity occurred. They marry their daughters because ofcourse girls are burden.

9. Among this we have a section of women who are privileged. Some women from this section practice their powers, knowledge and education wisely and others practice fake feminism.

10. Women are expected to do the households work, raise kids and also the man she married. She is expected to adjust and give up on her career because it is only a woman's duty to keep her marriage alive. (This is the reality of 80% women living in India).

11. If a woman talks about women's issues then she is labelled as a "feminist" or the famous "woman ☕". Because, they think women can only cry and play a victim card. Well done 👏.

12. Carry a pepper spray, knife, send location, do this..do that ... when you are out. We can't even travel safely.

This is not detailed, I wrote whatever came to my mind but all the facts mentioned above are true. I may have missed so many problems that women face on day to day life. No abortion rights in USA, stop doing politics with women bodies, USA .

Women's issues are not women's problems, they are the world's problem. Imagine a world where all this is fixed and women are finally treated as humans. Men sitting in big offices, decide what they should do with a woman's body, they make crap cinema where women are objectified; also shame on such women who participate in such stuff. We can't improve if we don't work on the root cause. A society will never grow without the contribution of a woman. ALSO, I AM NOT LASHING OUT AT MEN. I AM TALKING ABOUT THE PROBLEMS( SO DON'T LECTURE ME ABOUT HOW NOT ALL MEN ARE SAME.. I KNOW THAT! THANK YOU)

Sometimes, I think men would be so happy to live in a world without women. No women, no one to control, no one to dominate, no one to do politics with and they will live happily ever in their own manly world.

Ps: This post was for only women. ALSO READ THE TAGS. THANK YOU.

@scribblersobia

#if this triggers you then ignore this post and wash your shit. DONNOT WRITE ANYTHING RUBBISH HERE! #ps: I love all the men in my life and they told me never to trust a man! #i said what I wanted to #yes world is changing.... but it is changing without any morals and values #yes some places women are at better place...but I am talking about the world stage #also a big shame on the women who put another women down #THIS WORLD IS DOOMED! #and they say ....SAVE THE GIRL CHILD. #lol hypocrisy at its best #I always say...no society can ever exists without hypocrisy...HOW TRUE! #USA abortion rights #European countries #asia #middle East #and women #scribblersobia

[grandwretch]

I love that every video game about being a border worker is low-key like "yeah this is fun bc you're a nerd and love paperwork but uh. you are actively killing ppl and are contributing to the fall of society. btw"

#shut up az #like papers please was very VERY unsubtle but it was framed under the narrative of being an authoritarian east European country #so like if you're not already critical of western politics then you would be like ha ha those crazy communists #and contraband police is also set in a narrative like that however while papers please was like this is unfair on an individual level #or like on a conspiracy level where you're stopping ppl who want to rebel against the unfair regime which while meaningful doesn't mean muc #to the average American who is like violence as a form of protests is bad except when its me against the elites #meanwhile contraband police is just like. this guy has an expired license. if you don't let him through thousands will die tomorrow

[chevaliermalfets]

I LOVE LIBRARIANS THEY'RE SO SEXY

#requested this ancient article less than an hour ago and just got a scan of it!!!!!!! HOT!!!!!!!!!! #rays european hot girl phd #also i love reading articles where the countries the authors are from no long exist #thanks to these conk crete professors from east germany!

[etruski]

The need for a butch4butch cowboy movie grows in me every day

#kinda want to draw something related to that #not even specifically cowboys just country people #like maybe a pair of east european herders…. #ahhhhh i need that #if i were a writer then all my characters would be butches ☺️

[balkanradfem]

What is balken? I saw it in your name and now anons are saying balken men are sucky. Is is a place? A nationality? Forgive my ignorance, I love your blog ❤️

#balkan #it's a cluster of east european countries

[drthrvn]

me accepting the fact that there's nothing bad in Poland being called an Eastern European country vs Poland suddenly being recognized as a part of "the west" and being called a Central European country by people living east from Poland

#this is gonna sound weird for y'all but we've been always quite sensitive about being called easteen #*eastern #cause we're literally in the center of europe and for many many years east was perceived as worse #well not anymore #now the eastern european countries are seen as badass and that's awesome #it's a shame that it happened under this kind of circumstances #eastern europe #central europe #cee #poland

[microfeelings]

I have given up hope in Genshin Impact and Mihoyo bc ultimately what I do enjoy from the game is exploring and opening chests, that being said I wish they had put a third of the effort that went in designing the architecture to designing the characters

#its based in pre columbian civilizations #boi when I found out about candace i was not surprised but a tad dissapointed #that being said maybe is burnout or whatever but i really dont give a shit to pull for any characters so far #maybe cyno but weve known him for a while now so doesnt really count #ive already given hope that varka is going to be interesting #like sumeru is fun to explore #but im still mad they didnt base it in a specific country like the others #and i know theyll do the same to natlam with the whole #but the other regions have specific european or east asian countries theyre based on? comon mihoyo #you can do better. #now personally i dont know about sumeru #but natlam based on peru?? thatd be so cool

[paris-in-flames]

"Wah wah wah, globalization is destroying our traditions 😢" My guy. My dude. My man. You thick-skulled motherfucker, there was a mass exodus of people from the countryside to the city under Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej like fucking 70 years ago! It impacted the make-up of our society so severely an entire portion of the country that used to be considered uninhabitable became the home of tens of thousands of people! A whole fucking chanel was dug from the Danube through that area using the labour of political prisoners who weren't so lucky as to die of pneumonia in the Jilava penitenciary! All art promoting anything but how great and valliant it is to live your life as proverbial cattle in the slaughter factory was pretty much banned! The Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej government actively fought for the erasure of the most prevalent ethnic minorities in our country— the roma and jewish people— under Stalin's directive! After the revolution there was a mass exhodus of people going abroad because Nicolae Ceaușescu left our country 12 feet deep in debt and people were terrified of the Soviet Union being reinstated long after it dissolved— hell, my grandma still keeps her and my grandpa's work records from back then in a drawer "just in case"— and the borders opened for domestic travel for the first time in 40 years!

But, sure, it's the faggots who have fought for years to have their identity decriminalized, the age of consent be equalized, the mere possibility of going through the long-winded process of transitioning be granted, the condemnation of their assault and murder, and the right to just fucking exist that are at fault! It's the immigrants who are tens of thousands of miles from home because those "american badasses" decided their homes are mere assets to be exploited and traded, making their lives hell that are at fault! It's the hungarian people who have done jackshit to us since december 1st 1918, and whose families live in Transylvania that are at fault! This new-fangled feminist thing that says you can't abuse your wife and that you have to treat a lowly creature such as a woman as your equal is at fault! That's simply not what God intended!

I genuinely hope every conservative fucking lives with the weight of their choices if they manage to create any kind of significant change in this piece of shit country

#sorry pursued knowledge and i didn't like what i found #also those are all things that an actual political party in the official romanian government™️ states in their manifesto so you know! #always a great trajectory when your choices are right wing nationalists and left wing nationalists! #now i trust you guys not to clown but i know that if circumstances were different my dumb venting would serve to solidify the idea that #east european countries are not really any better than russia which like. mothefucker russia is the whole reason we're here! the communist #regime was bad for the whole soviet bloc including russia! #sorry i'm angry and stressed because i need to come up with a five year plan that accounts for having at least one of my human rights #violated because i'm trans and queer #it's about as fun as it sounds </3

[crvvys]

finally reading The Pariah Syndrome by Ian Hancock.

and this was in the introduction. I found that interesting. I’m sure I’ll find more excerpts that stick out to me

#500 years of being enslaved in East Europe #surviving genocide in West Europe #European countries wanting to bury both of these massive traumatic events. insane

[16sundayss]

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#people are always like #‘’ummm not everyone lives in the us guys!!!!’’ #whenever usamericans make posts #and yeah sometimes we’re annoying and self centered #but also do you specify the country you live in in every single post you make??? #do you think about every other country in the world first??? #no #a lot of the time ​you just post as if the only people who will see it are other people who live in your country #when you talk to people irl you’re mostly talking to people who live in your country #so why would posting online suddenly change how you think?? #i am more sympathetic to people who don’t live in the us canada or europe #or australia and other white english speaking countries #white westerners tend not to think of people outside our sphere #but i know damn well that white europeans are only thinking of other europeans when they talk about stuff not applying to ‘other countries’ #just hate when (western) europeans insult the us #don't act like most of you really care about anything east of germany #maybe poland on a good day #like we’re a kettle #and you’re a pot #don’t get so cocky #(western europeans just irk me so often) #(especially the english) #me

[fivefeetfangirl]

choosing exchange universities based on where the nearest spn con is

#actually considered hawaii because of this lmaoooo #ouf i lowkey had a breakdown going through all the options there are soooo manyyyyy #if anyone lives in washington dc brisbane sydney indiana cape town port elizabeth (south africa) santiago (chile) san fran #san pedro garca garzia or salvador (both brasil) or adelaide (aus) feel free to dm me i am in desperate need of knowing what its like livin #there 😭😭😭 #there is so much to think about classes country other cities close by experience what looks good on my resume (idc so much about this tho b #my parents do a little so yeah) and also like hows the democratic situation cause ig that can be meaningful too #i did originally want istanbul but also like i could go there anytime so i wanna do something new (which is also why no european cities) #and if all goes well i might travel there for my last exam or like the middle east #anyways i just needed to air some thought #but really feel free to dm me about whats those places are like!!! or like the general uni experience in those countries #whether we're mutuals or not <33

[headspace-hotel]

What i've been learning thru my research is that Lawn Culture and laws against "weeds" in America are deeply connected to anxieties about "undesirable" people.

I read this essay called "Controlling the Weed Nuisance in Turn-of-the-century American Cities" by Zachary J. S. Falck and it discusses how the late 1800's and early 1900's created ideal habitats for weeds with urban expansion, railroads, the colonization of more territory, and the like.

Around this time, laws requiring the destruction of "weeds" were passed in many American cities. These weedy plants were viewed as "filth" and literally disease-causing—in the 1880's in St. Louis, a newspaper reported that weeds infected school children with typhoid, diphtheria, and scarlet fever.

Weeds were also seen as "conducive to immorality" by promoting the presence of "tramps and idlers." People thought wild growing plants would "shelter" threatening criminals. Weeds were heavily associated with poverty and immortality. Panic about them spiked strongly after malaria and typhoid outbreaks.

To make things even wilder, one of the main weeds the legal turmoil and public anxiety centered upon was actually the sunflower. Milkweed was also a major "undesirable" weed and a major target of laws mandating the destruction of weeds.

The major explosion in weed-control law being put forth and enforced happened around 1905-1910. And I formed a hypothesis—I had this abrupt remembrance of something I studied in a history class in college. I thought to myself, I bet this coincides with a major wave of immigration to the USA.

Bingo. 1907 was the peak of European immigration. We must keep in mind that these people were not "white" in the exact way that is recognized today. From what I remember from my history classes, Eastern European people were very much feared as criminals and potential communists. Wikipedia elaborates that the Immigration Act of 1924 was meant to restrict Jewish, Slavic, and Italian people from entering the country, and that the major wave of immigration among them began in the 1890s. Almost perfectly coinciding with the "weed nuisance" panic. (The Immigration Act of 1917 also banned intellectually disabled people, gay people, anarchists, and people from Asia, except for Chinese people...who were only excluded because they were already banned since 1880.)

From this evidence, I would guess that our aesthetics and views about "weeds" emerged from the convergence of two things:

First, we were obliterating native ecosystems by colonizing them and violently displacing their caretakers, then running roughshod over them with poorly informed agricultural and horticultural techniques, as well as constructing lots of cities and railroads, creating the ideal circumstances for weeds.

Second, lots of immigrants were entering the country, and xenophobia and racism lent itself to fears of "criminals" "tramps" and other "undesirable" people, leading to a desire to forcefully impose order and push out the "Other." I am not inventing a connection—undesirable people and undesirable weeds were frequently compared in these times.

And this was at the very beginnings of the eugenics movement, wherein supposedly "inferior" and poor or racialized people were described in a manner much the same as "weeds," particularly supposedly "breeding" much faster than other people.

There is another connection that the essay doesn't bring up, but that is very clear to me. Weeds are in fact plants of the poor and of immigrants, because they are often medicinal and food plants for people on the margins, hanging out around human habitation like semi-domesticated cats around granaries in the ancient Near East.

My Appalachian ancestors ate pokeweed, Phytolacca americana. The plant is toxic, but poor people in the South would gather the plant's young leaves and boil them three times to get the poison out, then eat them as "poke salad." Pokeweed is a weed that grows readily on roadsides and in vacant lots.

In some parts of the world, it is grown as an ornamental plant for its huge, tropical-looking leaves and magenta stems. But my mom hates the stuff. "Cut that down," she says, "it makes us look like rednecks."

#plants #ecology #usa ecology #history #american history #lawn #anti lawn