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Post subject: Re: ☯ The Otaku Shrine ☯ Posted: Jul 26th, '15, 10:37 |
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CycloneKira
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As long as it's enough for people to live, I guess.
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It's not over yet.
There's a lot to look forward to.
Keep going.
You can do this :)
Leonard Snart wrote:There are only four rules you have to remember: Make the plan, execute the plan, expect the plan to go off the rails, throw away the plan.
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Post subject: Re: ☯ The Otaku Shrine ☯ Posted: Jul 26th, '15, 11:54 |
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Jessicat
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Well, it's certainly not common for anyone to die of poverty in England, so I guess it generally works :)
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Post subject: Re: ☯ The Otaku Shrine ☯ Posted: Jul 26th, '15, 12:47 |
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CycloneKira
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That's good :) I would like to say the same for India, but... it would probably be false :c
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It's not over yet.
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Leonard Snart wrote:There are only four rules you have to remember: Make the plan, execute the plan, expect the plan to go off the rails, throw away the plan.
1st fairy - June 3rd, 12:06 AM IST
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Post subject: Re: ☯ The Otaku Shrine ☯ Posted: Jul 26th, '15, 13:36 |
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Yeah. People starving to death in Bihar and places are always on the news. 
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Post subject: Re: ☯ The Otaku Shrine ☯ Posted: Jul 26th, '15, 14:16 |
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Jessicat
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It's very sad. But India is a much bigger country... and it has a lot to do with political ideologies amongst other things. I'm sure the British Empire didn't much help in India's case.
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Post subject: Re: ☯ The Otaku Shrine ☯ Posted: Jul 27th, '15, 14:45 |
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CycloneKira
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Political ideologies, ha! They all revolve around making unnecessary stuff like buildings that aren't needed and the like.
And the British Raj... yeah, not much of a help. But sometimes I get the feeling that India might not be very advanced, technologically, if it weren't for the British Raj.
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It's not over yet.
There's a lot to look forward to.
Keep going.
You can do this :)
Leonard Snart wrote:There are only four rules you have to remember: Make the plan, execute the plan, expect the plan to go off the rails, throw away the plan.
1st fairy - June 3rd, 12:06 AM IST
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Post subject: Re: ☯ The Otaku Shrine ☯ Posted: Jul 28th, '15, 17:00 |
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Dearest
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Are you kidding me Kira? They bloody looted us! 
(Oh, I forgot... you never exactly paid attention in Social Studies, did you  )
There are countries like Japan which resisted colonisation but still became technologically advanced. (Plus, we were doing fine without technology. It's only globalisation that forced technology on people.)
But yeah. A big reason we're so poor is actually thanks to British rule (the other reason is corruption).
During the Bengal famine Winston Churchill diverted all the food to the Brits in India and didn't advance a paisa for relief. Lakhs of people were dying and when this was pointed out to him he said 'Well when is Gandhi going to die?' and said natives were frail anyway and Brits more sturdy so the food would be wasted on natives. I could go on and on, you should probably look up our old textbooks 
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Stroctoperry wrote:Because KofK trumps homework, for some reason.
Death Candy wrote:I just realized that "take out" means food, dating, and murder. And if you were a female praying mantis you'd have all three.
Akili Li wrote:People talk about bravery in these super dramatic terms like it only applies to soldiers going to war, but for all that I think true courage is found in the hard every day moments of social interaction and standing up for what you believe in even when it's not life-or-death, when it's instead a matter of approval-or-ostracization among people whose opinions you care about. That's harder, to my mind. That's an ongoing, you have to live with it forever thing, instead of one single moment that's the exception instead of the rule.
AsheSkyler wrote:Bless the modern era's availability of so much art and creativity. [...]our ability to connect and share such wonderful things makes it a good time to be alive.
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Post subject: Re: ☯ The Otaku Shrine ☯ Posted: Jul 28th, '15, 17:18 |
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Jessicat
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That's what I was getting at. It makes me angry when the British treat other countries as if they were less advanced or less able just because they're poorer when often those countries are poor because the British looted them. Though I would contest the idea that Japan resisted colonisation as such. After WW2 under American occupation Japan underwent what's termed the only instance of 'self-colonisation' to have happened... So technological advancement is almost entirely a colonial thing.
I totally agree with you about technology. Whilst I'm not against technology (look at me typing here on my computer), it seems a completely fallacious criteria that advancement can only be measured by industrialisation and technological advancement when these things often come with the drawback of losing something important. Things like a native ability to live in harmony with nature (this is also an example that applies to Japan).
Corruption might not be unrelated either. It tends to be endemic in countries that have been previously colonised, mainly because when the colonial forces withdraw they leave behind a power vacuum, or a bunch of politicians who were already willing to suck up to foreign influence during the colonial period.
Can't change history, but it's pretty important to be clear how messed up the world is thanks to the repercussions of colonisation by Europe...
Look at me essaying....
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Post subject: Re: ☯ The Otaku Shrine ☯ Posted: Jul 28th, '15, 17:27 |
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Vineda
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Don't worry. I totally get it
Luckily the only colony we had was already messed up because we had it secondhand (apprently before that it was property of our king himself and kept seperate from our government) so we're well aware we messed up BIGTIME
but I notice most countries aren't like that. They only see the 'good' they think they did....
I stopped studying English at university cause their course was FAR too chauvinistic... I couldn't stand it... it did make me wonder, if it's already that bad abroad, how bad is it in the country itself?
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~ John Milton ~
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Also looking for the Halloween knuffel! 
Looking for the disco funk lips and sleeping beauty items!!!
temporarily back in lurking mode until I'm used to the new job....
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Post subject: Re: ☯ The Otaku Shrine ☯ Posted: Jul 28th, '15, 18:55 |
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Jessicat
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Well, I do English at university in England... I lecture actually, and I haven't got much to go on other than what you say, but it's not at all bad over here. There's almost a hyper-awareness of feminism and post-colonialism and such.
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