See a therapist. This is not normal and will cause you problems in your life—if it hasn’t already.

I mean fearing death is human instinct and not really something based in logic.

There was an article out there about how protests this year have been consistently twice as many as in 2017. Show him that and then ask him if he’s seen it covered in the news.

More than that Japanese people have a completely different sense of humor from the stuff you usually see in the West. Even a fluent but non-native speaker will have a lot of their jokes fall flat simply because the Japanese and Western conceptions of a joke are very different. In what way? I have no idea, still trying to figure it out. I don’t know if that gap is that big in other cultures, but definitely best to just not.

Okay where do you even see Japanese posts?

Now that I think about it the spark joy one was such a missed opportunity. Oh well.

I see. That makes sense.

The Drake variant is generally not preferred.

Educate me for I know not the way.

How much of that is due to deindustrialization?

In my native language I always say “[it] is logical” because we don’t have a word or phrase that means “makes sense” and I’m pretty sure literally nobody other than me does this.

Obligatory life expectancy was only low due to child mortality, so people who survived childhood could reasonably expect to make it to 70.

“Free candy”

Should be the same for Christians and Jews, but for Muslims the answer is absolutely not.

I was wondering why this thread was so unapologetically anti-American until I realized this is dbzer0. Good stuff.

To echo everyone else: You don’t. Multilingual countries just have many official languages.

Either way the post didn’t explicitly or implicitly encourage violence and should’ve stayed up.

Why do you think that the person who made the meme used Luigi Mangione instead of Bernie Sanders?

Because Luigi everything has been getting censored by establishment media?

Indians don’t look Middle Eastern, though; they look Indian. They’re a very different kind of brown. And either way do racist Germans really care enough to make that distinction? For all they know Muslims are brown people from the Middle East no?

Are you sure? Because to my knowledge most Muslims in Germany are Middle Eastern and therefore quite easy to distinguish from the white Germans around them.

FoodBDSM.

But my question was particularly referring to that divide based on pure ethnicity because who you call “black people” are exactly as American as who you call “white people” with the only difference being having a different darkness of skin that doesn’t even have a determined line at which point someone is considered “white” and at what point someone is considered “black”.

So the short of it is that the wealthy classes in colonial North America created this divide to make white people feel better about keeping slaves from Africa even though they converted to Christianity. That’s it, it’s all a ruse by the ultra rich. However, the ruse has continued for so long that even after racism “ended” (it absolutely hasn’t) the system is very much racist, and that aside it’s just baked into the North American consciousness now. Being black or white or Hispanic is part of one’s identity and in many cases community.

It’s not quite the same as being a migrant group that brought a different culture from a different country.

Many minority groups in America do have different cultures than the white majority, though it’s not quite as big as the difference between Germans and Muslims. For example there are many Hispanic people whose main language is Spanish rather than English, and some blakc people have their own dialect.

Finally I want to add that despite all these details the crux of the issue is xenophobia. That’s why the things Americans say about minorities in general are very similar to the things Germans say about Muslims. Fundamentally it’s the same thing, and Germans and other Europeas will have to deal with many of the same issues America is dealing with now (to a lesser extent though, because of the lack of slavery)