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Once you get used to it it’s easy, but many people don’t have a lot of exposure and so they struggle with it. It’s mostly because the Portuguese don’t pronounce weaker vowels. Example: the word “excelente”. In Brazil they pronounce it with four syllables “e-se-len-tchi”, in Portugal it’s one syllable “shlent”.
Looks like art-nouveau
How exacting does a culture have to be, if it can’t survive thousands, perhaps millions of people changing their lifestyle,
People living in premodern conditions typically consider “the lifestyle” and the institutions that surround it to be an integral part of the culture. Leftist types often follow this line because they consider those people’s experiences to be the most legitimate.
Or just build the city over the hill and leave the door unlocked for them idk
Do you think that is possible?
You seem like a guy who knows his stuff. I’m admittedly not very studied on this topic, but I’m just gonna quote a little excerpt from the American Colonization Society’s Wikipedia page that gave me a different impression if you’ll allow me and if you want you can tell me what are the problems with what’s being said.
There were several factors that led to the establishment of the American Colonization Society. The number of free people of color grew steadily following the American Revolutionary War, from 60,000 in 1790 to 300,000 by 1830.[1]:260 Consequently, slaveowners grew increasingly concerned that free blacks might encourage or help their slaves to escape or rebel. In addition, most white Americans saw African Americans as “racially” inferior and felt that “amalgamation,” or integration, of African Americans with white American culture was impossible and undesirable. This reinforced the notion that African Americans should be relocated to somewhere they could live free of prejudice, where they could be citizens.
The African-American community and abolitionist movement overwhelmingly opposed the project. In most cases, African Americans’ families had lived in the United States for generations, and their prevailing sentiment was that they were no more African than white Americans were European. Contrary to stated claims that emigration was voluntary, many African Americans, both free and enslaved, were pressured into emigrating. Indeed, enslavers sometimes manumitted their slaves on condition that the freedmen leave the country immediately.
Look, I will stop playing cute: that is always the wrong approach in my opinion. The right approach to these race issues is to have them stay where they’re from and intermingle with the local population. I’m Brazilian, I’m mixed, I believe this, my parents believed this, and it’s silly to me that Americans are so resistant to this. When Stalin came up with the Jewish Autonomous Oblast solution, he was envisioning the Jews dropping their historically retrograde ethnoreligious sense of identification and developing a new one based on land and the Yiddish language like the people of Europe. This was progressive to him in a Marxist sense, but it is impossible for blacks in America because their culture is exactly the same as that of the whites and the only thing that separates them is skin color. They both speak English, live in America and are Christians, everything that separates them is meaningless aestheticism. That’s just my two cents on this question.
Why not? It’s right there, it’s an enemy. What’s the downside? China’s not gonna sanction them.
How does the different economic system of premodern states factor into this assessment? Because mercantilism existed during feudalism, when, I imagine, issues with liquidity wouldn’t have been much of a thing as production was pretty much frozen in place in a macro sense as a product of master-subject relations. Correct me if I’m wrong here.
What did he do? I didn’t keep up with the other posts.