Re:The Melancholy of Subculture Society (2019)
by wolverine876 on Monday November 08, 2021 @02:16PM
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> I'm pretty sure this stuff happens in countries that aren't communist nor dictatorships, too. See the treatment of First Nations people in the US and Canada for examples.
Are we going to bring up slavery too? It's 2021.
> My grandmother didn't learn Arabic because her mother insisted the children not speak anything but English. They had moved from Syria to the US long ago. Realistically, it was so they did not get treated badly. No wonder her children and grandchildren (me) do not speak Arabic.
That is a common story, actually. Again, the immigrants want to erase the ethnic distinctions (to a degree, of course).
Are we going to bring up slavery too? It's 2021.
> My grandmother didn't learn Arabic because her mother insisted the children not speak anything but English. They had moved from Syria to the US long ago. Realistically, it was so they did not get treated badly. No wonder her children and grandchildren (me) do not speak Arabic.
That is a common story, actually. Again, the immigrants want to erase the ethnic distinctions (to a degree, of course).