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I'm a huge map collector, and love the more obscure and revanchist ones. Venezuelan maps claiming half of Guyana:   "A dagger pointed at the heart of Antarctica":  Middle East:  (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Ecuadorean revanchist map:
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Feb 1, 2013 15:57
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Dalmatia is Italian! Greek: 
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Feb 1, 2013 16:11
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gradenko_2000 posted:The Mercator Projection's Eurocentrism and Americentrism That map looks pretty Afro-centric to me.
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Feb 1, 2013 16:26
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Fister Roboto posted:Always my favorite map/political cartoon: Brilliant! Kurtofan posted:Val de Loire sounds so much better. Creuse is an apt one.
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Feb 1, 2013 19:50
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computer parts posted:
That reminds me of the Korean view of the world. In Korean, the Yellow Sea is the West Sea, the Tsushima Strait the South Sea, and the Sea of Japan (they hate that it's called this in English) the East Sea. 
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Feb 1, 2013 19:57
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ronya posted:The educated Dutch-educated post-colonial elite in Java succeeding in defining an Indonesian identity for the rest of modern Indonesia, in the same way that the elite Malays of the new Malaysian redefined Malay to include the new ethnicities. All things considered, this was probably one of the more successful "draw a line in the sand/jungle and call it a day" post-colonial border drawing. I've always understood that the 'glue' for modern Indonesia is Bahasa Indonesia.
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Feb 2, 2013 01:21
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I don't know how anyone could consider the theoretical "Sunni Iraq" to be a viable state.
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Feb 5, 2013 16:58
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Reveilled posted:If I recall correctly, the premise of the map was "if we had the benefit of hindsight when redrawing the map of the middle east post-WWI and through the era of decolonisation, what would have been the best way to do it?" Minnesota does not like its placement.
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Feb 6, 2013 01:32
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Minnesota would likely be happy with Canada. We already sound Canadian anyway.
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Feb 6, 2013 02:08
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Paris heavily subsidizes its DOM and TOM. There's little support for independence in most of them.
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Feb 22, 2013 16:31
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CellBlock posted:There was an episode of Three Sheets on Gibraltar, and yes, the airport runway does, in fact, cross the main street. (At least, it did. Wikipedia says they put in a tunnel.) The main access road from Spain crosses the runway in Gib. They have a sliding fence and close it up when planes land - I walked across from La Linea when I visited. Spain closed the land border for many years, so they needed to reclaim land for a runway and still had to disrupt traffic with it.
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Feb 22, 2013 22:14
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BIG HORNY COW posted:The proposed Bering Sea Tunnel will go through the Diomedes. Russia has approved the money, but they themselves still need a thousand miles of rail on their side to connect the strait to Yakutsk. I've read about this proposed project, but had no idea it was anything more than a pipe dream. Is there really a need for a rail link between Alaska and northeastern Siberia?
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Feb 23, 2013 01:16
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I'm thinking of the maintenance challenges of a few thousand km of railway on permafrost, in the most remote part of Russia.
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Feb 23, 2013 01:33
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McDowell posted:Pan American Infrastructure could be much more practical. Panama doesn't want a road link across the Darien - they are happy with an effective barrier between them and Colombian craziness (although that may change with the improving situation in Colombia). It's fantastic jungle out there - I went from Medellin to Panama City by surface travel along the Caribbean route a few years ago. It took me a week to cover what is a few hundred km as the crow flies.
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Feb 23, 2013 01:49
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Agustin Cienfuegos posted:Does anyone with more knowledge of French culture, politics, etc. explain why along the Garonne there are more far-right wingers? Sort of acts as a boundary or insular area between two that voted more along Socialist lines. Actually, the Front National has traditionally enjoyed its strongest support in PACA and Languedoc-Rousillon, both in the south of the country. This is where most of the European colonists settled after independence of North African colonies, especially Algeria in 1962. These same regions also have the highest rates of Muslim immigration from those former colonies. The pieds-noirs have always had a strong right-wing tendency, and heavy immigration has also resulted in a right-wing populist reaction. You see similar FN support among white voters in the banlieues of Paris and Lyon, and I assume it's the same sort of thing around Bordeaux.
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Mar 22, 2013 01:38
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Lycus posted:French is a Latin language. No one considers Montreal a Latin American city though.
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Apr 6, 2013 16:01
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Julio Lopez posted:If you value your life, don't visit America if you are non-white. There are people with machine guns standing at every corner looking to gun down Blacks and Muslims. Heh. I'd much rather be black or Muslim or other minority in the US than anywhere in Western Europe.
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Apr 6, 2013 23:40
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Lycus posted:Except for Afghanistan. That one's clear. So is Cambodia. eta: someone beat me to it. TheImmigrant fucked around with this message at 13:16 on Apr 8, 2013 |
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Apr 8, 2013 13:13
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Soviet Commubot posted:I know you're just shitposting here because you're mad about moonspeak or whatever, but there are about 200,000 people who speak Breton and I speak Breton more often than I speak either French or English. Seriously though, how identifiable is an American accent in Breton? How often do Breton speakers hear any accent other than a French one? Is an American accent in Breton distinguishable from a British or Australian one? I learned Occitan/Catalan years ago, and no one could identify my accent as American either. It's because most people in Perpinya or Girona had never met an American who spoke their language before. TheImmigrant fucked around with this message at 20:25 on Apr 21, 2013 |
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Apr 21, 2013 20:23
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twoday posted:Here is a map of Europe based on "Grapes, grains, and potatoes" used in alcohol production. Interesting how there's a general correlation with linguistic boundaries here.
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Apr 23, 2013 15:36
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MrChips posted:The Swiss franc and the CFA franc have nothing to do with the old French franc - basically this is a map of "countries using currency called the franc". The CFA franc was pegged to the value of the French franc.
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May 27, 2013 10:14
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Can we please not turn this into yet another Islamo-Marxist DD thread where the Righteous line up to fire salvos at AmeriKKKa?
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Jun 29, 2013 01:04
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Vegetable posted:Why haven't the Asian and African former colonies done the same jus soli thing though? I don't think the map shows all that much except Americans are ballers for birthright citizenship. Colonization in Africa and Asia didn't result in mass immigration or genocide, like it did in the New World. (Algeria is one notable exception, but the vast majority of the pieds-noirs left in 1962, with independence.) (Edit: okay, genocide, yes, but not to the extent it did in North America especially.) The Westphalian model of nation-states prevalent in Europe is based on ethnicity. This model made no sense in the New World. TheImmigrant fucked around with this message at 03:29 on Jul 9, 2013 |
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Jul 9, 2013 03:24
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Double post.
TheImmigrant fucked around with this message at 03:29 on Jul 9, 2013 |
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Jul 9, 2013 03:26
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platedlizard posted:The question is, then, why didn't Australia and New Zealand adopt similar immigration policies? Australia was a primarily Anglo enterprise from the start. The Whites-Only immigration they maintained until recently ("Welcome to Australia, where the local time is 1950.") reflected this, and no small amount of racism. In the US, there was a similar strong current of nativism ("No black or Irish need apply") in the 19th century, although massive immigration at the end of that century and beginning of the 20th overwhelmed that movement. The anti-immigrant (which is often in reality anti-Latino) sentiment you see today mirrors the rhetoric used against Irish/Italian/Jewish immigration a hundred years ago.
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Jul 9, 2013 04:07
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Phlegmish posted:That map does seem totally exaggerated. Every source I've seen indicates that Christianity is only a minor religion in China. If you want an East Asian country where Christianity is influential, try South Korea. Philippines even more so.
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Mar 27, 2014 16:05
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Skeleton Jelly posted:Not an East Asian country though. Um, just about every guidebook and news reference I've ever seen to Philippines has it in (South)East Asia. What, I suppose Japan is not East Asia either?
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Mar 27, 2014 16:24
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Even though I don't buy that map I've often wondered about how many christians there were in China. I went out with a girl from Guangzhou for a bit when I was at uni and I remember being really surprised to find out that her and a lot of her friends were christians. Mainland Chinese with aspirations (but not the money for an EB-5) in the US often try for asylum based on persecution of Christian home churches. There was a big scandal involving fraudulent Chinese asylum applications in New York recently. Many of the applicants had little to no knowledge of Christianity.
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Mar 27, 2014 16:43
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Koramei posted:It's a bit nebulous but usually East Asia is China, Japan and the Koreas, and sometimes Vietnam and Mongolia too. I think the Philippines are pretty much always seperated? They were never in the Sinosphere in the same way at least. NEA and SEA are the groupings I usually see, with Indonesia and Philippines in SEA. At any rate, it's a meaningless distinction to insist on when talking of religious affiliation in the region.
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Mar 27, 2014 16:46
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:Even at the high end of 54 Million, that's actually not that much larger than China's Muslim population, which probably doesn't make the people who want to hype Chinese Christianity that excited. Just over 3%.
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Mar 27, 2014 16:47
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Koramei posted:Parts under the Sinosphere were much less subject to colonialism though ( The Sinosphere (e.g., Vietnam) has by definition been subject to colonialism - Chinese colonialism. Colonialism is not exclusively European and Christian.
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Mar 27, 2014 16:58
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), whereas the Philippines have been under direct European, and Christian, rule for half a millennium.
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Torrannor posted:
The Turks and Israelis and people of the Caucasus will be surprised to know they are from Arabia.
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Mar 27, 2014 19:34
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Phlegmish posted:Arabia in the geographical sense usually refers to the Arabian peninsula. It is almost never used in the sense that you're suggesting. Yeah, (Greater) Syria has always been considered distinct from the Arabian peninsula. It makes as much sense to classify Morocco as Arabia as to lump Syria in with it.
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Mar 27, 2014 19:48
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Count Roland posted:Interesting migrations map. Look at how many Indians go to the UAE! Who do you think built Dubai?
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Mar 28, 2014 16:39
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Konstantin posted:Still, a million migrant laborers is a LOT in a country as small as the UAE. It's unsustainable for them to be there for a protracted period, unless some permanent infrastructure is built for them and there is some effort to integrate them into the society. They have huge numbers of young men who have absolutely no prospects for marriage or advancement, in a society that treats them like dirt, and they easily outnumber the police and military combined. It doesn't take a genius to predict what's going to happen, and there really isn't anything the natives can do about it other than start shooting, which will cause way more problems than it solves. I'd be very surprised of many Indian and Pakistani laborers went to the UAE thinking they would become permanent immigrants there. The Emiratis know what they are doing, which is importing an underclass of temporary workers (often more like indentured servants), and deporting any who cause trouble. This is truly one of those situations where the locals won't do the work, since few of them need to. Emirati citizens comprise only about 20% of the population of their country.
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Mar 28, 2014 23:51
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MODS CURE JOKES posted:I'm going to be more than $50,000 in debt once I graduate, and that's on the extreme low end of what Americans deal with I left law school owing $88,000, and that's at the low end of my peers. An old roommate left law school owing $225,000 over three years ago, and has been working temp jobs ever since.
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Apr 4, 2014 01:07
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Are law degrees useful outside the country you earned them? Because I can't see how the gently caress you're supposed to deal with 150k+ in loans working temp jobs in the US without wanting to flee the country and never paying back another dime. Not really. There are procedures for US-licensed lawyer to become licensed in England & Wales, or Australia, without having to get another degree, but it's not like waiving into DC. I've practiced immigration abroad, but I'm a solo (although probably joining a big Canadian company next month). Unless you do immigration or bankruptcy, you're bound to whatever jurisdiction that licensed you. Business immigration (my practice) is the only way to market oneself abroad. Incoming law students like to fantasize about international law, but that doesn't really exist as a practice area in reality. TheImmigrant fucked around with this message at 20:16 on Apr 4, 2014 |
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Apr 4, 2014 20:01
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Konstantin posted:There are also quite a few firms in cities like Hong Kong and Singapore that hire US trained lawyers, since a lot of international contracts use US law. However, student loan debt is something that never, ever goes away, so unless you plan on immigrating permanently you have to keep paying. Those are BigLaw jobs, and not realistically in reach for 90% of newly-admitted lawyers (i.e. the ones worried about debt). BigLaw starts at $160,000/year plus bonus in the major markets, but is only available to HYS (Harvard-Yale-Stanford) grads, or the top 5-10% of lesser schools. If your first job as a lawyer isn't in BigLaw, you're never going to work in BigLaw.
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It's appalling that British people don't know more about the ethnic breakdown and politics of Nigeria, which was one of their colonies.
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Apr 8, 2014 22:24
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