Comments by "Peter Lund" (@peterfireflylund) on "VICE News" channel.

  1. Adi, they don't all eat insects. The country is huge and the regional cuisines are very different from each other, so you'll be fine. The language itself is a lot easier than I thought it would be -- much easier than French, for example. There are only a few difficult areas: the tones and the characters. Learning them is mostly about determination and persistence.
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  2. musashidanmcgrath The word "liberal" in American English has unfortunately come to mean pretty much the opposite of its true, original meaning. Over there, it does mean something like Socialist/do-gooder/Communist. Truth Teller is not really doing anything wrong here by using the word like that -- in American parlance "liberal" and "commie" are NOT complete opposites, like they would have been to Adam Smith or John Stuart Mill. (Truth Teller is also correct that crime isn't really caused by poverty -- West Virginia is pretty good example that is hard to make go away by pointing and sputtering. There is a large degree of correlation between poverty and crime but I think you've got the arrow of causation wrong.)
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