BF2S Forums Pandemic thread

SuperJail Warden wrote:

I forgot you watch documentaries and become an expert on stuff. You watched a documentary (I hope it was a documentary and not a drama) and you now know checks notes intercultural Turkish relationships.

A Chinese American wouldn't fit in totally at first living in Beijing. Derp. But they would be accepted in a way eventually that a white person would never be in China. Do you know why? Chinese see white people as their ultimate and final enemy. The boss they must defeat. Cuck liberals are too well cucked to realize that though.

In pretty much every country here there's popular movies about the identity struggles of immigrant children, a recurring theme being non-acceptance in the host country or in the 'home country'. Someone growing up in scandinavia, france, germany or the UK will have a significantly different outlook on life from their peers in their parents' countries. They're rarely truly fluent or without accent in the native tongue either, many don't even learn it.

It's just an example in art because I could say 'I know ppl' but that would be a boring argument. But I remember long ago that I interviewed people on this topic during my undergrad as well.

I don't know what American immigrant identity you have but apparently it's not European -  do you speak the language of whoever was the first in your family to emigrate to the US? Do the people in that country see you as one of them or as an American first?

Do you know what the Muslims do to Coptic women?

SuperJail Warden wrote:

Do you know what the Muslims do to Coptic women?

An armed Muslim mob stripped an elderly Christian woman and paraded her naked on the streets in an attack last week in which seven Christian homes were also looted and torched in a province south of the Egyptian capital.

According to the local Orthodox Coptic church and security officials, the assault in the Minya province village of Karma on Friday began after rumors spread that the elderly woman's son had an affair with a Muslim woman — a taboo in conservative Egypt

That's what the Muslims do to women.

Pochsy wrote:

Mac, I know I'm not allowed to talk about books anymore because Unique does that, but have you read Samuel P Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order? I think you might really like it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clash_of_Civilizations

I have it. I didn't like his broad lumping together of civilizations. If you want a good Huntington book I suggest you read the "The Soldier and the State". I had to read the whole thing during the seminar on Civil-Military relations I took once.

Ah yeah, I read parts of that one. Don't recall all that much about it though. Maybe I should go back and give it a read--I have a copy in the basement.

You were all like "that's a good post" when I talked about the low likelihood of it coming from people eating bats. Then you continued talking about "bat flu." Nobody's really stopping you, but it is silly.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

You were all like "that's a good post" when I talked about the low likelihood of it coming from people eating bats. Then you continued talking about "bat flu." Nobody's really stopping you, but it is silly.

I didn't say anything about a bat just now. But SARS and COVID did both come from China. I don't know what that means. But it is a question why. And I am just asking questions.

Like with the end of history it was a case of an already famous academic publishing cover-to-cover diarrhoea so bad no other academic could ignore the stench. Entire fields proceeded to write counter essays. The ideas have stuck around as some sort of scholarly ptsd, compulsively quoted in almost any essay since for the sole purpose of tearing it apart once more. Also an effective way to hit word counts with little effort.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

I'm so glad there's no more coronavirus so this thread can be repurposed for the war against multiculturalism.

Coronavirus is old news now

It's somewhat hilarious and ironic that of all books about international relations in the last 30 years those are undisputedly the most famous and most read. The jake pauls and rebecca blacks of the field. A trainwreck one can't help but look at, yet they raked in all the views

i mean it's not surprising. academic books are dry and arid. those books stand out because they are so un-academic, meaning also very unscrupulous and loose with detail.

it's become the right-wing's talismanic reading in the same way that michael moore documentaries and noam chomsky polemics 'energise' a certain sort of liberal.