Comments by "Siana Gearz" (@SianaGearz) on "How the Rich Ate Moldova" video.

  1. Well there's also Dutch and Flemish languages which are... identical save for pronunciation. Nobody should really care whether you should consider them languages or dalects of each other. Technically a dialect is a way of speech that isn't formalised and evolves wildly, while a language is one that has an official governing body. So indeed British English and American English should be considered languages, not dialects. In turn Bavarian (Boarisch) is not understood by most Germans, but is a dialect, since there isn't somebody formalising it and teaching it at schools in that form. Declaring that something is a dialect can have a bit of imperialistic stink to it especially if the carriers of that way of speech happen to disagree.
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  2. Do keep in mind that this vid exceeds the target word count in spite of already being very dense and to the point.
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  3. I won't tell you where i'm from but i don't answer where i'm from either. Because it never ends well, people end up trying to westsplain me that i'm from a different nation than i really am. I might volunteer this bit of information on my own, but if somoene is asking, they probably don't have my best interests at heart. If it's their first or only question, they are definitely up to no good.
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  4. Well Russians shouldn't have a say in which political/economic (or indeed defence etc) alliances nearby nations join. Not to speak of the fact that Finland and Baltics are EU and adjoining Russia and Poland is adjoining Kaliningrad, while Moldova does not share a border with Russia. So like that ship has long sailed; and if you want an alliance, you can't just do it by force, you have to offer something better than another alliance in return. If Russia doesn't have much to offer besides blackmail and passing stinky gas well it only has itself to blame for lack of economic political cultural and scientific development.
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