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TBH, I don't know much about North Korea, and most of what I do know involves missiles and human rights violations. I'm not saying the US is perfect or anything, just that personally, I do think we are usually more humane than NK--not that that is saying much. I don't actually have an opinion on reunification. I simply don't know.

What I know about SK or Korea as a whole is heavily influenced by US citizens of Korean descent, mahnwa, and K-dramas. My high school history class didn't even cover the Korean war except for a few paragraphs about McArthur. My love of Kdrama doesn't exactly qualify me to know what's going on politically or socially in Korea.

Eh just a late comment- I actually thought that the French settlers, after having been forced off their land by American settlers in the New England area, and having to resettle in Quebec, supported the British. But I could be remebering wrong.

Canada wasn't very settled at the time. More of a woodsy hinterland to get lost in. The British only really started getting interested after they lost the US colonies.

Ahaha.

We never "supported the british". We only supported them finally giving us things such as "French as the official language" and "Roman Catholicism as the official religion". The "The Québec Act". Because, you know, they didn't want us to leave for the Americans. The Church sure loved that, and people had been desperate to protect their identity so they went along with it.

But no, we haven't been "forced off our land" and ended up not rebelling all that much. Maybe some (or many, depending on what you consider many) did, and that's what you focus on in history classes. It's probably more interesting lol.

Even to this day, no one gives a damn about Canada's Day. I mean, we appreciate the fireworks, but it's devoid of anything else. We really just go see some fireworks.

That's not how it was taught in my history class. :) I was taught France had established settlements in Canada and Arcadia first and started to connect down with Louisiana in the early 1700's or so. French fur traders and such were active around the great lakes areas and other places, but these lands belonged to people such as the Algonquin, the Chippewa, and other indigenous nations. Technically, it's Spain and Great Brittain that ended New France, though yes, at the time "Great Brittain" was largely represented by the people who later became the US. Still, diseases killed more French settlers in the area west of the British colonies than any British colonial settlers did--not that British colonies were shy about pushing west into Pennsylvania. But at the time, it was done as Great Brittan--the same Great Britain that later took Quebec.

Though I was exaggerating for my sense of humor, the fact is some French Canadians supported the US revolution and others didn't. There was never official support. But it's not as if the French and Indian Wars left warm fuzzy feelings between Quebec and the new English rulers. It's just that they didn't necessarily like the US rebels any better. George Washinton did fight for the Brittish in the earlier battles with the French before the US revolution.

Louisianna, in contrast, had French settlers even when it belonged to Spain. It was given back to France, and France sold it to the US. Yet most of the French descendants in Louisiana don't really have a problem with being part of the US. It didn't play out like Quebec. :)

I'll bet different areas put a slightly different spin on things when they teach history.

At this point, the long-term near starvation diet of the North Koreans is affecting them in various ways. Not only are they now physically smaller and weaker than South Koreans, but they are also less intelligent. Hygiene and diet over a lengthy time, especially a generation or two will also affect the brain's development, resulting in a wide-scale dumbing down of large population.

I know this is just a rough generalization, and certainly wouldn't apply to an elite in the North. But it also might explain why any common North Korean refugee couldn't adapt to the South, and in the end wanted to go home.

This became both long and interesting, I stayed tuned and I'm agree with all the contributions (half and a half), it's really meaningful to find such conversations in this site. ヾ(☆▽☆)

... meanwhile the OP, ever since starting this topic, has gotten engaged, married, divorced and has since seen her four children off to college while silently vowing never to start another topic on the Finder board again... ;)

Hyperbole? It has only been three days, unless the OP has gone back in time to before this manga was even a gleam in the eye of Yamane sensei ... but likely the OP will be in for a bit of a shock

Trust me, it feels like a lifetime... ;)

What's the point of understanding the current langua franca language if you don't exchange information with people coming from around the world in a somehow meaningful way from time to time? ╮(￣▽￣)╭

I do the same with the French part of the Internet, it's a totally other prevalent set of cultures, French, Swedish, Belgians, Canadians, Africans etc. ヾ(☆▽☆)

Swiss* LOL

You know I was just joking about the sheer length of this thread, right?

As for cultures... Agreed. I'm currently on eight foreign languages (and counting), so there you go. :) In my case, it comes with the family (multicultural), the home country (multilingual) and the job description (far too much traveling). ;)

Yeah, I got that you were joking about it. I was playing as well, no worries ;)

But hey, that's quite impressiveヾ(☆▽☆). I only wish I could speak so many aha. I don't travel enough for that however, even though I have a career that has high potential for it if I ever wanted to.

Hey, you can have some of mine (travel)! :D It is interesting, but it can be really demanding and exhausting as well. I'm no longer a spring chicken, so nowadays, I can quite literally feel it in my bones. :)
P.S.: I think we have moved this thread past the 165 mark. ^^ People are now packing lunch before they start scrolling through it!

I haven't finished reading the book you've written here, LOL, but uhhhh, what's all this talk about men and women have to do with yaoi? You know, when we're here, we're not really wanting to talk about the hetero stuff, so what gives?

None. I was just responding to Anoni Girrl.
What gives is that I was not having a conversation with you? (￣∇￣")