Your impressions of other City-Data Weather Forum members (season, autumn, cold)
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I think most people on here aren't that young. I'm 29, so is Dean and I think B87. FlamingGaah is in his 30s, Rozenn in his late 20s, nei I think is 29 or 30, Joe90 is 53 (?), Cambium in his 40s at a guess, snj90/ilmc90 26 if 90 is their birth year, CG is 44, ben86 is 30, etc.
Maybe we should introduce him to kronan and see what happens.
nei will be 31 this nov, cambium 43 this dec cmiiw
I guess I'd easily spend evenings with Ariete and Ksolina, and some other guys and gals too. The UK people seem depressive, the US people over-confident, and the asian people interesting. I always find it interesting to have so many different nationalities so it shows in what world we live in and how different people view the same things and somehow realize not everyone is the same yet can get along (sometimes).
I mostly post here and in the europe / world forums where I (used to) fight against blatant racism and misconceptions.
I sometimes post in the music forum but my posts get buried after 5 minutes so I never follow things like I do here.
I usually believe most people here are way older than they actually are because I used to follow another weather forum in France where posters are usually retired and it is often seen as an old folk's interest.
Yeah I like Baguettes but there's better in France and for cheese I am way more Italian than French. I am quite ignorant about wine in general, I only started drinking some a few years ago (I'm 36).
I like baguettes too, but that wasn't what I meant. a Baguette is an ethnic "slur" we use for French people, usually in a friendly manner and not mean. It's like 'Frogs' and 'Rosbifs'.
It's not just Finnish that's like that - Chinese, Japanese, Hungarian, Estonian, and several others are also genderless, and speakers of that language are doing just fine.
Japanese doesn't have a grammatical gender, but it has gendered third person pronouns: 彼/kare for 'he' and 彼女/kanojo for 'she'. Also, male and female speech in Japanese is pretty different, and its rules are quite complicated: for example, in regular speech the most common first-person pronoun is 僕/boku for males and 私/watashi for females, but the word 私/watashi is also used by both males and females in polite speech. Read more about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender...poken_Japanese
As for Chinese - it does have a separate characters for 'he' and 'she', but it was introduced relatively recently (in the early 20th century) under European influence and these words have never been different in spoken language. BTW, Chinese doesn't also have tenses, and number category there is optional (same for Japanese, but it does have two tenses).
You can be both Jewish and Slavic, the two are not mutually exclusive
Well, I was speaking about "Slavic" as a meta-ethnicity: i.e., not an ethnicity itself but a collection of ethnic groups who speak Slavic languages. Thus, the distinction between ethnic and linguistic Slavdom is necessary.
Jewish ethnic identity is incompatible with any other. You can speak of, e.g., Russian Jews, or Polish Jews, etc., but these groups (whether they are a single Jewish ethnicity or separate ones) are distinguished from ethnic Russians & Poles, respectively. The only way to conceivably be both is if one is, e.g., descended from one Slavic & one Jewish parent. But Jews have their own methods of determining who is a Jew in that case: Jewish ethnicity is passed down matrilineally.
The way I approach it is if one were to be raised with Jewish traditions and in the Jewish religion, it would follow that their ethnicity is Jewish. But if, for example, one is like Yulia Tymoshenko, who had a mostly Jewish father who abandoned the family at an early age (and a Ukrainian mother who raised her), I would just see her ethnicity as Ukrainian because that's what she's likely to see herself as being.
Anyway, I am not saying one is intrinsically better than the other or anything, just different. Ethnicity I see as what you would put first before anything else and what you genuinely see yourself as being before anything else. It is possible, and desirable, for Jews in various European nation-states to have a harmonious relationship with the national ethnic majority. Jews may even be patriots of the host European country, just as any other ethnic minority can conceivably be, but this simply does not make them the same ethnic group as the majority.
Well, I was speaking about "Slavic" as a meta-ethnicity: i.e., not an ethnicity itself but a collection of ethnic groups who speak Slavic languages. Thus, the distinction between ethnic and linguistic Slavdom is necessary.
Jewish ethnic identity is incompatible with any other. You can speak of, e.g., Russian Jews, or Polish Jews, etc., but these groups (whether they are a single Jewish ethnicity or separate ones) are distinguished from ethnic Russians & Poles, respectively. The only way to conceivably be both is if one is, e.g., descended from one Slavic & one Jewish parent. But Jews have their own methods of determining who is a Jew in that case: Jewish ethnicity is passed down matrilineally.
Regardless of ethnicity, culturally Russian Jewish immigrants are quite a bit different than "American" Jews whose family have been in the country. In the NYC area, Russian Jews share a lot in common in habits and where they settle with Russian non-Jews.
i'm not into most of modern music - don't call me a hipster though
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