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Comment · 4 years ago
Why does nobody remember the role in slavery of Africans, Arabs, Asians, and other ethnic groups?
Comment · 4 years ago
What if the Paraguayan and Chinese cannot (hypothetically) effectively work together because of cultural differences?
Comment · 4 years ago
Ugh, maybe some of them are. But Kapuścinski and Lem for sure are not.
Comment · 5 years ago
The thing is people consume lots of different things. It's hard to imagine emojis could cover a substantial part of them. So, why choose this and not that? To give an example, frutti di mare are underrepresented although they are very popular in many countries. OTOH there is a pregnant black man emoji, which likely represents something that has not materialized yet.
Comment · 5 years ago
Bigos, borsch and żurek to be sure. But seriously, the list is very limited. Very much agree with Zababa's point of view.
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
I agree with the general conclusion about exploitation, but racist theories and justifications existed in different cultures long before the 16th century.
Comment · 7 years ago
Quite nice. So far I've been using http://paletton.com/ - not identical, but similar functionality.
Comment · 8 years ago
This is a very strange point of reference for a foodie, as McDonald's burgers are not even remotely close to anything tasty.
Comment · 8 years ago
Same in Poland, although it is often not enforced in practice.
Comment · 8 years ago
It is true that Russians helped in ending WWII but as others pointed they were also one of the initial aggressors and allies of the Reich. If not for that the war might as well end faster.
Comment · 8 years ago
Pascal’s wager does not make much sense even for the original case.
Comment · 9 years ago
In these times it is not happening from the far left much but there are still exceptions (eg. Antifa). However, this can be explained by the prevalence of leftist views. It is mostly the right that feels compelled to use violence.

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