Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "laowhy86"
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@raptornomad1221 Benjamin, can you tell me the meaning of the phrase in English, please? Here's how Google Translate rendered it: "In addition to gold and jade, defeat in it." lol It seems to mean "Money doesn't equal success."
The rest of your comment seems very astute. When people look to one book, one party, one philosophy, one religion, one culture, one leader, or one system for all the answers, they are making a mistake. Thanks.
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@CRVNBrewer The number of people within the legal boundaries of Hamburg is unimportant, except maybe to its Burgermeister. What makes a city a certain size in the relevant urban geography sense is the number of people in the whole continuous bulit-up area which ends either at farmland or where the next truly separate city starts.
In other words you must include the suburbs and any other town which the learned geographers have decided exists firmly and distinctly within the central city's orbit.
Thus New York is properly thought of as having 18m inhabitants, not 8m. Boston is a metropolis of around 4.5m despite the mayor of Boston overseeing the part home to only about 600,000.
When a city's borders expand, as they sometimes do, it's still the same place to urban geographers in terms of greater area population; it's merely that various municipal governments have shuffled people.
In 1998, Toronto expanded its boundaries somewhat, going from 700,000 to 2.5m, but it was still the same place.
Even that wasn't the whole story. Huge suburbs farther out still weren't absorbed politically, and the real total was 5.5m (today 6.3m).
In most cases a city's true extent can be more quickly and easily guessed from the air than from a map showing mere municipal boundaries.
Bremen might be too far away and too unconnected with Hamburg, but there are definitely around 3 million other non-Hamburgers who are part of Metropolitan Hamburg in a fully correct geographical sense.
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@fronker7581 Then there's another commenter who details her dislike of her stepson's wife who is from Croatia and is lax on teaching her son to be polite. And this is supposed to have something to do with racism in Canada.
Unfortunately there is a cult-like Salem-esque frenzy of racism accusations in North America right now. A large minority of people are excitedly trying to explain every facet of life with racism.
For instance, if you're a young white person who's never dated an Asian person, someone can call you racist, even if many of your friends are of differing races. If you have friends from many races and countries, but none from some certain race or country, you're under suspicion as a racist by some people. If you're an immigrant having trouble establishing yourself in a tight job market after ten years, it's common to announce that it's because of racism, never mind the fact that white and non-white Canadians alike are having a hard time. Basically, if any person of colour is not happy in life, now is the time to blame it on white Canadians, who are presumed to be racist until it's proved otherwise.
Some will say there's nearly zero racial discrimination. Some will say it's everywhere and all the time without exception. The truth is in between: there is some, but less than the vast majority of places in the world. I am a mixed race person myself.
And the fact is that a lot of racial discrimination has been imported into Canada in the last few decades. I won't name names but people from Asia, Europe, and Africa are frequently very vocal about their dislike and contempt for other races and nationalities, whereas native born Canadians consider such talk abhorrent.
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