How often do your people freely and fairly elect a woman to head of state or head of government? And did she succeed at the job?

Asian countries have different values and while most Asian cultures have this “saving face” culture, which culture does it the most while which culture does it the least?

Both Koreas have low birth rates that are way below replacement rate. North Korea is 1.8 and Korea is 0.73.

How is it that a socialist country can manage to reproduce itself more than a capitalist country?

What policies can be implemented to encourage people to have kids?

I know it's the most generically overhyped and omnipresent news story far beyond U.S. borders, but at this point, we should all know U.S. executive and legislative turnover frequently affects people all across the globe.

Now, if you don't have especially have anything to say on Reddit, then you can say that, too.

I won’t tell ya about Indonesia, China has pretty bad ones, very good ones, YouTube China car crash complication. YouTube China car tricks and driving off-road. Difference

In the Philippines, WW2 collaborators and Mindanao's history are rarely studied except on academic circles. Partly because those involved coverd up their records, or documentation was destroyed or didn't exist.

For example, generally speaking, how well do people in South Korea get along with Korean-Americans who are born and raised in the US? What about Filipinos with Filipino-Americans? Indians with Indian-Americans? Iranians with Iranian-Americans? And so on. Is there a lot of camaraderie, or a lot of culture clash?

Maybe if you've been to there, you'll notice that there are people doing things that might be deemed "excessive" or unnecessary in other countries. For example, i've seen around twice or three times the workers in a supermarket in Korea doing very specific things like marketing a promoted product or help customers with information, while in Germany the employees are often obligated to take upon very different tasks as a cost-cutting measure and aren't really supposed to help customers proactively. There were also side-job street/park cleaners and everything went in a certain order at every time, so it felt like there was much more regularity.

Similarly, in job offices workers often appear to have nothing to do. As per productivity per working hours, both countries rank the lowest among OECD countries due to this. This is noticeable in things like service quality i think, there's always someone to assist you and nothing takes ages to be finished.

It also results in unemployment (and subsequently homelessness) being far lower than in the West.

Afaik the city of Paris alone has around 10 times the amount of homeless people than the whole of Korea, Japan has even fewer homeless.

I would like to know if Buddhists spend a lot of time for merit-making to increase their positive karma. What activities do people typically do for effective merit-making? For example in Bangkok I read there are temples that allow people to donate coffins.

Is so called increasing conflict between sexes overstated ? What is reality on the ground . how does south koreans think about their countries demographic future?

Or are all similarities purely coincidental?

Personally it’s Japanese for me cos of how simple and accessible they are. Nothing too weird but also nothing too bland either

I used to live next to a fast food joint and would often order beef fillings, employees that worked there were all Indian and it was always on the back of mind if the cashier was secretly thinking “damn you’re disgusting dude” every time I made my order.

Cambodia was annexed by the French but they let the Khmer king keep the throne and still rule as sort of puppet. Then Cambodia gets independence, has a civil war, and Sihanouk gets coup'd by the military. But the Khmer Rouge wins the civil war and puts Sihanouk back on the throne. Then Vietnam invades and removes the CPK from party and put their puppet government in Cambodia. Vietnam withdraws, and Cambodia gets a new government and the monarchy is restored.

So how has Cambodian monarchy endured as an institution? Both colonialism and socialism tend to be harmful to monarchies but Cambodia went through both and still has a king.

Additional question, what will happen once the current king Sihamoni passes? He has no children so who will be elected to succeed him?

If you went to a café or restaurant or any public area with lots of people passing through, and you left something on a table and came back 1 hour later, will it still be there or will it be stolen? Could be anything, a jacket, handbag, wallet, phone, laptop, watch etc. Does it depend on the city and area? Do some cities and areas have a higher chance of the item being stolen?

Let me begin. Obviously there is your usual hard liquor like gin, brandy and rum.....and then there's beer. (not much choice outside of pale lager however. although this is changing)

there are also some of our local fermented drinks like: basi, (alcoholic drink derived from fermented sugarcane) lambanog (derived from coconut) rice wine.(fermented too. only served during special occasions though)

I have never been to Central Asia, but what I have read about the history of the Aral Sea and now Aralkum is just disturbing. I wish I did not have to select "History" as the best choice of flair for this post.

r/de tends to be largely Green party voters i think, socially very progressive, but quite anti-leftist when referring to "traditional" left-wing beliefs. Most are unconditionally opposed to the far-right, unless they're part of it.

r/ich_iel is mostly the same as r/de. r/finanzen is probably fiscally liberal, rest whatever.

Mainstream politics in Germany range from social/neoliberalism (specifically known as Ordoliberalism, dubbed "social market economy"), supported by the two major political parties, to right-wing libertarianism as supported by the far-right. "The Left" supports stronger interventionism, but is furthest to the other parties when it comes to the economy and lost most political relevance.

r/dachschaden ist a leftist sub, r/dePi is a far-right/"I'm not far-right, just a esoteric and original thinker" sub.

r/korea is not a Korea sub, and it's political beliefs are largely determined which is the most negative about Korea and its inhabitants. Can range from borderline pseudoscientific racial beliefs about Koreans being naturally xenophobic, to toxic progressive ideas about Koreans being unanimously misogynist.

r/hanguk is perhaps left-leaning mostly isolating themselves from wider Korean forums, it's mostly quite casual and apolitical. Japanese counterpart r/newsokur is the most similar.

r/hangukin is overseas Koreans and is either conservative or more strongly left-leaning (pro-unification, neutral international diplomacy).

r/luna02 are far-right-wing toxic users from DCinside who made it onto reddit. Probably diametrically opposed to Hangukin.

For PC games most male kids at my age either played CoD, Battlefield or GTA, while the other half played football or stupid mobile games like Clash of Clans. I think it was either slightly younger people or slightly older ones (Millenial adjacent), who played Minecraft and older ones who played MMOs.

The other group that didn't play shooters had console games like Pokemon and such, and played Overwatch, League of Legends etc. I'd maybe belong there as well, since i never really played FPS games, both due to lack of interest and parental restrictions.

Most girls i knew didn't play video games except maybe Minecraft.

In Middle school some weebs played Japanese hack n slash/gore games as well as RPGs.

I like eating sardines. I like the taste and it’s a good source of protein, calcium and omega 3. It’s healthier than tuna and it’s low on the mercury scale.

In Canada we import Filipino sardines, a lot of them are in a tomato sauce. There’s a spicy version and non spicy. We have logo, master, 555 and even Spanish style sardines.

In Korea and japan I’m not sure if they eat sardines. They probably eat mackarel more

Post I saw on an archived web page someone linked to on Skype before it was eventually deleted.

Multiple posters have mentioned so many times of how Latinos worship white skin which is why the Hispanista movement is foolish and also a few have mentioned one advantage is that Blanqueamiento was never instituted n the Philippines an very few white Europeans lived in the country and intermarried so while pale skin s still seen as ideal, being dark skinned n the PI isn't seen as despicable as it is across much of Latin America........................... At least the Philippines (because of far fewer Iberian colonial influence), a dark skinned male can not only work across Span's colonial system to at least rise up in wealth classes and eve if he plays his card rights, rise up the social caste system Spain enforced in the country. For males at least, while light skin is preferred, dark skinned males are not denied being considered hot and there were brown celebrities who were sex symbols. In fact some of the earliest male leading actors were dark skinned (or at least not Caucasian levels of whiteness thus appearing dark n some shots).

Yet in a paradox........ For all how much Hispanics worship white skin and the mostly European descended castizos and Criollos who are the ruling class of Latin America and have their movie stars, divas, and beauty queens as white females................. its been a tradition across Latin America for people who use a Mary Statues that reflects their ethnic, regional, racial, and socioeconomic class in physical appearance.......

So in other words in Cuba for example the Blacks who are the bottom of the social ladder often worship Our Lady of Regla who is basically a black Virgin Mary. Dominican Republic has their own local black Marys. Our Lady of Mount Carmel, a pale Virgin Mary, is worshiped very frequently across Chile which has a larger proportion of light skinned Mestizos than many LatAm nations. The Indios create Mary often to resemble Incan and other pre-conquest Indian civilization ideals of beauty.

In fact in some nations with a more balanced outspread of light skin pigmentation you may even see variety of a specific Mary. The Lady of Guadalupe was specifically seen as being very Mestizo. So while most depictions of her are stereotypical Latino brown, its common to see her with lighter shades of skin in statues and paintings across Mexico. One cartoon show depicts her as olive that can appear darker or lighter depending on the scene and who she's standing next to and I seen Guadalupe statues that are milky white. As well as some as dark as your typical black American. As well as "redskin" Guadalupe Its a common thing for Mestizos and other lower classes in Mexico to choose a Guadalupe with skin color similar to themselves or more commonly closer to how their own mother or grandma or some female matriarchal figure appeared. So you'd have pale girls from poor working class families worshiping a crayon brown Guadalupe because their mom is a typical Moreno as well as well swarthy men who work as janitors choosing yellowish Guadalupe because they were born with Southern Italian olive skin and thus identify with tanned but still light skinned variations (even though ma and pa is dark skinned). So their is variety of representation for anyone to choose for Lady of Guadalupe.

In fact many churches in the country feature dark skinned Guadalupe and more popular European tradition like Lady of Lourdes to accommodate everyone in Church. Some Churches even intentionally will try to leave a white Jesus Christ with only a brown Guadalupe statue because the local priest wants to encourage integration and fight against racism. In some cases the Jesus will intentionally be painted iron or be made out of bronze or use some color associated with metals that do not exist in humans sometimes with ambiguous facial features in order to further prove equality of races in the Catholic Church right next to the Guadalupe statue.

So I'd have to ask why in the Philippines the Mary statues are overwhelming the ones used in Europe? In particular the blue eyed Mary in white headcloth and blue cloak? I mean the country is relatively liberal about dark skinned people esp males advancing in the social stratas even during Spanish colonialism and at least its possible for a male to be brown yet still become a sex symbol and even A list celeb despite the entertainment industry's preferences for light skin.

So how come unlike Latin America, Philippines use almost exclusively white Virgin Mary? Even despite the Church openly unveiling dark skinned ones in a few locations? Why isn't the local equivalents of Guadalupe popular for personal household use?

Indeed now that I think of it I do have to ask myself. Why is white artistic representations of Mother Mary so much the norm in the Philippines unlike other nonwhite countries that suffered under colonialism? Why did no equivalent of local Lady of Guadalupe ever come to be the symbol of the Philippines as the quoted text points out? Afterall other countries with Catholics as a tiny minority such as Vietnam and Morocco have Mother Mary artwork used in reverence that looks like the commoner of said countries or at least fit the very much non-white ideals of beauty as seen in the case of Vietnam where La Vang pretty much ideal features not common in Vietnam such as pale skin while still wearing Vietnamese clothes with physical features that are unmistakenbly Vietnamese in overall physical appearance.

So why are the artwork so commonly used in religious worship of Mary in the Philippines of all things a blue-eyed undoubtedly European looking woman? Shouldn't it at least be a Mestiza artwork in the vein of Liza Soberano that dominates since thats Philippines ideal beauty standards while still also having the vibe of the Pilipinas vibe in the appearance? What happened in the PH's history that made the physical representations used by the colonizers the MO in worship unlike in Latin America and the rest of Asia where worship of Marian statues and other artworks resembling the majority populace in the vein of Our Lady of Guadalupe or at least local ideals of beauty a la Our Lady of Arabia is the standard?

Over the past few years since this sub's activeness, which users do you remember greatly? Negative or Positive?

I hope gorgich can be more active in the future. I remember reading his posts in /r/AskaRusssian and /r/AskCentralAsia and learning so much. Seems like he can't escape geopolitical conflict whethere he's in Russia, Armenia or Israel.

Also, that MaxMaxMax guy from Thailand. He would ask really provoctive questions here that would cause stir for a lot of people. It was kind of funny sometimes lol

I'll start.

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