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![prejudice: now you kno!
In 2002, Kenyan Masai tribespeople
donated 14 cows to to the U.S
to help with the aftermath of 9/11.
nowyoukno.com
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That was super nice of them.
And now Iβm mad that nobody told us we were given cows. Cause thatβs really f*cking nice and nobody mentioned it at all.
American media tends to disregard that anyone donates to the US. And then Amurricans complain about money going abroad because βnobody helped the US in our disasters.β
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Also, do you know how much a cow costs? O.O
It isnβt just a matter of how much a cow costs, its a matter of considering that Masai life is based around their cattle. Its their wealth, their food, and a significant part of their religion. Hereβs a quote from Wikipedia:
βTraditional MaasaiΒ lifestyleΒ centres around theirΒ cattleΒ which constitute their primary source of food. The measure of a manβs wealth is in terms of cattle and children. A herd of 50 cattle is respectable, and the more children the better. A man who has plenty of one but not the other is considered to be poor.[37]Β A MaasaiΒ religious beliefΒ relates that God gave them all the cattle on earth, leading to the belief thatΒ rustlingΒ cattle from other tribes is a matter of taking back what is rightfully theirs, a practice that has become much less common.[38]β
So its not just βthey gave us 14 cowsβ, its that they gave us something that is very important and significant to them, it is more than just a kind gesture that definitely deserves to be known and its a genuine shame that more people donβt know about it.
Wait, you guys DONβT KNOW that we offer help to the US when you have disasters???????
Shit, down here in Brazil we not only offered to send tracking units and doctors to help in 9/11 but we wanted to send a whole lot of donations to help with Katrina (we have experience with floods down here so we knew what kind of medicine to send to prevent outbreaks).Β
We alone had like 2 army airplanes full of medicine and non-perishables like baby formula, diapers, bottled water, mosquito nets and other stuff thatβs needed to fight opportunistic diseases that hit flooded areas, enough to assist a good few thousand people at least, ready to go the day after it hit, but your government refused the donations.Β
The same thing happened to the Canadians and Europeans who offered help, the US embassies around the world told us all to give money to Red Cross.
And so we did, we all gave hundreds of millions of dollars to them, and then this happened:
Red Cross scandals tarnish relief efforts
βBreathtakingβ Waste and Fraud in Hurricane Aid
So please, donβt you go spreading misinformation and prejudice against the rest of the world, WE DID OFFER HELP AND ORGANIZED IT EVEN FASTER THAN BUSH DID, BUT YβALL REFUSED IT.Β
Oh wow I had no idea this happened itβs really not talked about in media at all wow this is something good to know about wow
Iβm so angry.
I didnβt know that other countries tried to help after 9/11 or Katrina. Like, thatβs something we, the people, should hear about and we donβt.
Please donβt blame us for the shitty decisions our government makes. We donβt have as much control over our government as we would like to think and they keep a lot from us.
Spread this shit.Β
After Katrina, Cuba donated several hundred blankets. Think about that. A country that is suffering economically due directly to the US embargo offered to help us when we needed it by sending what they could. And once again, it was refused. We have a government that is so self-righteous that we refuse to accept disaster aid in order to maintain this facade that we are the most generous nation on earth.
Okay, Katrina thing.Only Texans really knows this? and even then itβs not wide spread.Mexico sent their army.They sent their army for relief efforts. Didnβt call ahead, they drove all the way to San Antonio with doctors and food and all sorts of supplies.When people actually got a call from them saying βHey, weβre sending people up.βThe people who answered said βWhat? We canβtβ¦ββToo late, already there.βThis was while the government was turning down help.So yeah, other countries send relief.Forest fires up in Washington last year? Firefighters from Australia came up to assist.Likeβ¦ we donβt hear about this shit. At all.
I can second the above with the fires.Β
Most the time, when people sayΒ βoh FEMA or something sent people right?β re: fires, its actually people from other countries showing up and kinda ignoring the government telling them to fuck off and staying on behalf of local departments because we REALLY need them.Β
If thereβs a huge ass disaster, and the government is sitting there with a thumb up itβs ass, help is offered and most the timeβ shit, it gets there!But then the feds do something really fucking dirty.They insist they were the help, if itβs talked about at all.Β
They insist those people putting out fires were federal people, because to most people a firemanβs a fireman. The people handing out water and food, a relief worker is a relief worker. So on and so forth.Β
We had people come up when the fires were so bad a while agoβ not the Australians, but i think there was like a German group of like 3 guys that flew themselves over? They came out of sheerΒ βthis is horrible and weβre helpingβ and my dad [local fire chief] had them working with our guys and the feds lost no time telling every news outlet that it was THEIR people doing all the fire knockdowns and structure work when these guys were running into buildings and grabbing people, pets, and peopleβs important documents because they knew papers were a pain in the ass to replace.Β
What you gotta understand is that our government is very intent on selling us and the rest of the world [as much as possible] the idea of a powerful and self reliant country. All our reporting on disasters, starts with the scaremongering and then moves toΒ βbut our people can handle it because weβre the best at handling thingsβ and then they move on before the idea itβs out of control comes to mind. The average person outside of the disaster has no idea, if they have never been around such an event or met someone who regularly deals with these things, they will kinda probably nod along with that. Because we have no real scope on the scale and impactβ by design. Our media intake is very controlled to slant everything to theΒ βeh, we can handle it and everyone else out thereβ they need our help because theyβre not so good at handling disasters like we are.βPeople who know better, reading international news, interacting with international social groups, looking outside their sphere of communityβ we know better but that kinda slant is really hard to break from because of that grip American media has on information.So, taking that knowledge, we further have restricted reporting on certain disasters because theyβre considered unimportant.Β Hurricanes are considered important, earthquakes are only considered important if it wrecks something the government cares about or somewhere a couple million people live that theyβll upset the national money flow/they can throw money at someone to make the news care, floods are only important if itβs in a similar manner to earthquakes but since they occur annually theyβre rarely reported on nationally, mudslides that kill people or leave hundreds homeless arenβt important to the government even through they happen constantly, wildfires that consume most of the nation/continent each year generally are unimportant until they consume a town or threaten a government interest/money flow location. Terrorist attacks are always important because people will talk about them.
So, when we do get help for any of the above, itβs possible that most people may have no idea about whatβs happened, let alone that helpβs been sent. Or if people know something happened, the details are vagueβ the news donβt care to give the nitty gritty. Youβll know something happened and people are suffering andΒ βgee, isnβt it good youβre not themβ and then now the weather.
So, yeah, basically no one really knows we get help.
International response to Hurricane Katrina:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_response_to_Hurricane_KatrinaΒ
We got HELLA help, but nobody really talks about it
American Media really fails regularlyΒ
Hurricane Sandy, Quebec sends power line crews down to assist in restoring power. Β California gets rid of water bombers due to budget cuts, Canada sends theirs down to help fight wild fires. Amazing what living on the border and having outside TV News does to your information flow.
After Katrina, Denmark offered to donate water purification units so people wouldnβt get sick from drinking contaminated water, but the offer was declined.
A private Danish company built a mobile satellite phone booth and drove it around the poor neighbourhoods in Mississippi and Louisiana so people could call their families and insurance companies for free (apparently there was a deadline for reporting damages but people couldnβt call in because their mobile phones were dead and landlines were down).
American propaganda is not a thing of the past, nor is it a new thing. It has been around forever, telling stories of exceptionalism and self-reliance while our government tries its hardest to refuse the help of others and offer its own to them, to try and force other nations onto their back foot and remain aggressively benevolent in international matters, so that it can lord that shit over them in negotiations and the media in general.I guarantee you America would have a less jingoistic, less xenophobic populace overall if this sort of information were actually reported to us. If we werenβt always fed the lie of helping the world without any gratitude or help in return. If the media didnβt present us as world police and instead as a part of the community, as other countries try hard to include us as, then maybe Americans would actually act like theyβre part of a fucking community.But global citizens are hard to monger fear and distrust and xenophobia and nationalism with. Theyβre hard to control with propaganda and hate. Theyβre hard to keep ignorant and docile and saying βthis is fineβ while the empire burns.A lot of Americans wonder why our country is seen as a worldwide bully. Shit like that, my friends. Shit like that. Its hubris is seemingly limitless.
C O M M E N T A R Y
FYI: They left out the part where Americaβs rudeness kicked in and turned down the offer of the cows.
The US government is really tryna kill its people. Someone offered water purification units and they were like βnah,β let those tricks get sick.
@hutchj how about the U.S. passed a law recently making CBD, the non-psychoactive derivative of cannabis, illegal as a Schedule A drug, EVEN THOUGH IT HAS BEEN PROVEN TO REDUCE EPILEPTIC SEIZURES IN CHILDREN TO ZERO among a dozen other ailments having been reduced to nominal levels allowing ppl to function normally (ADHD, chronic pain, IBS, menstrual cramps, Alzheimerβs, etc). Doctors around the country (that Big Pharma canβt buy off) are fighting back for their patientsβ well-being. π‘](https://pics.onsizzle.com/now-you-kno-in-2002-kenyan-masai-tribespeople-donated-14-42934059.png)
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It gets even worse when you listen to what sheβs trying to report. Sheβs saying that the policy of collective punishment pursued by the Israeli government is a racist endeavor meant to strangle and suffocate the Palestinian citizens into submission, and the IDF scum are berating her, mocking her, and trying to tell her that sheβs wrong [while the cameraman tries to encourage her to ignore them and keep on reporting]
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![prejudice: HOW TO GET BETTER AT LISTENING
COMPREHENSION
by rhubarbstudies
Listening comprehension: is a huge part of learning (and speaking) any language
1. It's about discrimination; isolating sounds and words while you practice
2. Pronunciation and comprehension go hand-in-hand. As
3. Listen with prejudice: listen for certain words, certain information.
one improves, so does the other
Best practice:
Listen to your target language often: 5 hours/week in class is a good start. Watching shows or
listening to music in your target language is a enough to significantly improve your understanding of
the language
Strategies and tips for improvement
Music: listen to music and read the words at the same time. The goal is to start training your
brain to recognize the letters that go with the sounds. The better you get, the more you'll be able to
understand the words when vou hear them without text.
Read out loud: just like when you learned your first language, reading aloud in your target
language is a basic way to advance your comprehension.
Use your book: its more than likely that your textbook has a section on listening, so use it
Dare to mispronounce: use the words often and out loud. The more familiar y
uth
muscles become with making the sounds, the better you will get at interpreting them.
β Repetition: if you have listening exercises, repeat those over and over again. The more you use
them, the better you'll get.
HOW TO STUDY GRAMMAR
by rhubarbstudies
Grammar: is the nuts and bolts of language
Best practice:
Nightly review: good, organized notes & repetition for mechanical proficiency.
Think of grammar as the moving pieces of lanquage. It's flexible. There is rarely one right way to say
something
Study strategies for grammar (choose as needed)
β Examples, examples, examples: write copious examples in your notes: the more ways you see
things done, the clearer the pattern is.
β Look for patterns: most grammar is very clean, there are rules and the the grammar will follow
them in organized ways. When you notice a pattern, write it down, draw arrows and cartoons and
anything else that helps you remember.
β Become familiar with the parts of speech: (in all languages) and what they do. These are the
building blocks of al language, and there are only seven.
For conjugations: practice new forms immediately. If you get them into memory, you'll never
think about them again, and you'll always have them ready
Montessori shapes: associate different elements of a sentence with shapes and colors. Use
whatever you can to help features stand out.
β Translate this is the old school method. The more connections you forge between you current
language and your target language, the easier the target language is to understand.
Grammar drills: this is boring, but repetition has a huge success rate with grammar.
Meet with your teachers: they most likely understand the topic they're teaching, so meeting
with them is often the easiest thing you can do
HOW TO MEMORIZE VOCABULARY
by rhubarbstudies
Vocabulary:
the meat of the language-acquiring vocabulary is one of the most important parts of
study. The goal is to enter it into long-term memory (saving you work down the road)
Best practice:
Nightly review: no more than 5 minutes. Flashcards are the most efficient method
Other methods for working with vocabulary (choose as needed)
ord groups:
create charts if words grouped together that are similar, the more associations
between words, the easier they are to recall
Pictures:
associate new words with both images and definitions.
Vocabulary fan: write all the vocab down the side of a piece of paper, then fold it over and
write the definitions. Keep doing this until, you have filled the whole page, and the page will be
folded into an accordion shape
Recopying: some people find success with the traditional way of writing out lists and
definitions until you don't need the lists anymore
Vocab journal
this is what the pros do-keep a notebook purely for vocabulary. Any time you
come across a word you've had to look up more than three times, add it to the journal with a
definition.
Kinetic study:
associate movement with words and definitions. Engage your whole body in the
topic. Your body helps jog your memory.
Interactive notebooks: use foldable (like the vocabulary fan) to make flip books or flip boxes
that you paste into a notebook. The more senses you engage, the faster toy can assimilate the new
information.
Drawing
if you have a penchant for art, draw the ideas that come with the words.
sing your vocabulary; set it to music that sticks with you.
SongES
HOW TO GET BETTER AT HOMEWORK
by rhubarbstudies
Homework
is really a necessity in mastering new concepts because it's repetition.
Use your book & other resources:
if you have a textbook/workbook set, the homework you're
doing most likely has corresponding sections.
Look up words
and anything else you don't know. Understanding the directions and questions
is super important to sense of what your practicing
Try anyway
even if you get confused, try anyway. Giving up will only lead to getting behind
and more confusion down the line
identifying what you don't know is hugely helpful
write questions in the margins of your homework/book so that you can remember them
in class for next time or look them up on your own.
Ask for help
your teachers are most likely easy to contact and willing to give you homeworlk
support or a quick meeting to clarify things.
Keep up with your work and engage in class:
if you work out of your workbook/textbook a
lot, your quizzes and tests will most likely reflect your books. Keep them up to date. Correct wrong
answers and use the books together
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[5/27/17]
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