Some background that Politico won't tell you: New Caledonia is a French colony integral part of France in the South Pacific. The French never gave it up because it has the world's largest nickel mine it's an integral part of France. There has long been a policy of encouraging white people to move there to dilute the native population allow them to enjoy the climate as well. Recently France revised the island's colonial diktat constitution in a naked power grab attempt to be raceblind, allowing recent immigrants to vote in local elections. The native population is naturally outraged too barbaric to understand.

How in the heck does Azerbaijan fit into this? France has always been a supporter of Armenia. This must be because of righteous outrage about the Armenian genocide, right? Not really. Remember how the Sykes-Picot Agreement promised what is now Syria and Lebanon to the French after WW1? It also promised a huge chunk of southeastern Anatolia to them. The plan was that they would set up a puppet state here. In typical imperialist divide and rule fashion, the Armenians were supposed to be their enforcers.

They ran into a couple of problems though. First was the whole genocide thing. I wish it wasn't a winning strategy but sometimes it is. There weren't enough Armenians left to carry out the plan. Second, the French had the best army in the world in 1918 but it didn't mean they had a lot of guys who wanted to keep fighting for some distant colony. The few guys they did send out were defeated by the resurgent Turkish nationalists under Mustafa Kemal. It's hard to win against a guy who's such a chad that he said to a subordinate at Gallipolli "I didn't order you to fight. I ordered you to die."

As a legacy of this there's a large and influential Armenian diaspora community in France. They're still kind of mad about the whole genocide thing. Mad at Turkey but also Azerbaijan because, if you'll allow me to grossly oversimplify things, Azerbaijan is basically half Turkish/half Iranian and they (and the Kurds) are accused of participating in the genocide. Did they? I dunno, researching genocides is pretty depressing so I usually avoid it.

So that's how the native indigenous Kanaks of New Caledonia have common cause with people living on inland mountains on the other side of the world.

let's tear down this wall and bring it in for a big rdrama family hug

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Favorite part from 0:59-1:27

Idk someone might appreciate it!

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Title

In the language learning world there are two types of people.

1. The people who learn for some practical purpose, their bf speaks the language, or they need it for work etc
2. The people who want to impress others by being a person who can speak X

Naturally most redditors fall into the second category. They're an underrated drama-positive group imo because they treat number of languages spoken in the same way that chuds view IQ points, like as in an objective measurement of your social ability. And so threads are often incredibly competitive, humblebragging, dragging each other down nonsense.

So like people who assume that if you can speak another language that you can also read and write in that language, and vise-versa. What annoying assumptions have people made that annoyed you?

Let's see what insults these redditors have had to put up with from the plebs today.

That you somehow have much more free time than them, because they "would love to learn a language, but can't find the time". If you're serious about it, you'll find the time.

It's insane that people can be so insulting when trying to justify why they don't have a skill that you have. They also say you're "lucky" to have such a "talent" for learning languages, as if you didn't put years of practice into that.

I HATE the talent word usage. I have picked up a lot of skills over the years, I wrote a book, I have calligraphic handwriting, I write nice notes, and I'm B1 in Russian. This did not happen in a day, I wasn't born writing fancy notes, I spent hundreds of hours honing those abilities to the point that it's effortless now, yet all I get is "Omg you're so smart and talented". Ugh.

Naturally they're are also extremely neurodivergent and don't know when someone's just being nice and that they don't actually want to learn Icelandic or whatever with you

They find some word, or a meme in that language and it's a word you don't know or regional slang you're not familiar with. So you can't tell them what it means.

"I thought you spoke ___(whatever language)"

As if they know every word in English.

>hey how do you say 'chair' in this language you're studying all the time?

>...

People ask -How do you say some word or phrase in another language. When you don't know... "So, you're not fluent?"

lol they keep getting found out as phonies

As I am an independent learner, they assume I just play with Duolingo and don't really know anything. Duo has really damaged the reputation of the independent learners :-(

Now everyone thinks I'm as low class as those, ugh, phone app people

I'm studying Japanese and i feel like i'm often judged and that people think i'm just someone who knows how to say "kawaii", "manga" and "sushi" and will lose interest in the language in three days despite having studied it seriously for years.

Japanese anime enjoyers probably have enough autism power to take it more seriously than most tbh

I actually didn't tell anyone that I'm learning Japanese. I'm a little scared that people would assume I'm this weird guy who loves hentai or something.

based autists being so uncool they can ruin someone's reputation just by association

It annoys me that they think I've given up or stopped studying the language because I don't mention it every second of every day.

implying they don't know exactly what you're doing and are taking bets on how soon you give up

He will make short work out of anyone of you who dare make a post in this hole.

!metashit

Oh sorry, looks like I misspelled turkey

JUST IN: 29-year-old Dutch woman who is perfectly healthy has been granted to k*ll herself by assisted su*cide.

Insane.

Zoraya ter Beek will soon be dead after officials in the Netherlands granted her request to take her own life.

Ter Beek has been wanting to take her own life… pic.twitter.com/gLLwVFMDOM

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 17, 2024

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