Hồ Chí Minh (1890-1969) was a Vietnamese Marxist-Leninist revolutionary who led the resistance against French colonialism, and subsequently against the US invasion, until his death from heart failure six years before the liberation of Vietnam.(PW)
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At this point I’m seriously contemplating doing a rain dance or something. My plants need water. Please rinse off the thick layer of pollen from everything. Please.
Seeing the grass along the roads slowly die is rather sad
Earlier for today I was going to talk about the Georgian uprising on Texel, one of Europe’s last WWII battles, but I had a dentist appointment and I spent the little free time that I had goofing around with Sid Meier’s Civilization IV instead of studying for my thread. It’s May 21st in most time zones now so it is too late to make topic for the eightieth anniversary. Oh well.
You know, even with all the crazy xenophobia happening in the US, my mexican middle class circle is still eager to migrate to the US. The american dream propaganda is so deeply internalized that it’s frankly very sad to see.
Reminds me of this one time, when I still used reddit, ran into somebody who was talking about being an immigrant and something about how they’d managed to succeed. I think I had tried to give them some socialist style commentary and it turned out that they were a landlord of a kind, and I was pretty blunt with them about the ridiculousness of their “success” being to become an exploiter.
I guess I think of it because some people who are migrants can technically succeed, if we consider the “American dream” to be “become the oppressor.” But that’s nothing to be proud of and few can do that even if they all had so little of a conscience to try.
The “American dream” propagandists are working overtime in Facebook, Twitter and other social media to sell the “beautiful” life of working in the US with a TN visa. Due to “el aspiracionismo” fallacy, lots of people are still falling to those lies of “success”.
I had a brief fallout three days ago. But one of my headmates, who is also on transfem.social, took care on some of my activity. I’m currently recovering right now.
Bác Hồ, you inspired a lot, even me fighting for trans rights. Việt Nam tôi đó!
The seventh semester of my undergrad is almost half way through and I am already exasperated. My brain is unable to function well lol
I hope everyone else is having a good spring! It rained earlier today.
I hope you have a great spring aswell
You have to send me an animal video now does are the rules
Cool dog
Where this?
I took this when I was travelling on the Reunification Express Train in Vietnam 😎
Let me post a beautiful landscape as well:
Where is this?
Afghanistan
It looks nice I think it’s important to remember nature is beautiful everywhere
For the first time since migrating I sort of miss home. Belgian people are really hard to connect to and they seem to be stuck in a perpetual state of misery for large parts of their lives. And that can be exhausting. I went home to celebrate my football team becoming champions yesterday and I realized I really miss dicking around with the people over there.
I wouldn’t mind doing it all again or even migrating elsewhere again though. It has been an interesting experience. But I increasingly wonder what I’m doing here exactly. I will never be Belgian. I will never really belong here. And I will never be able to get used to whatever mentality prevails here. And I’m a white European too. Can’t imagine how much more difficult it must be for non European migrants.
Anyway, tomorrow there will be a big strike again for the fifth month in a row. I am at a point where I wonder what the next step will be if nothing changes.
What’s different in the mentality between southern Dutch and Belgian people? I thought that southern Dutch and Belgian culture was the same.
Sucks to hear tho. Is there a Dutch immigrant community you can connect to?
Congrats on you team becoming champions btw. I wish it was us.
Well we’re both Catholic and there is some overlap in cultural stuff in that. We both live a more ‘bourgondisch’ compared to Northern Netherlands. But we Brabanders are still Dutch so we still have that directness in us. The main difference is, is that everyone is really closed up here it seems. You very rarely get personal questions anywhere. I’ve worked in several different places and I rarely talk to my coworkers about my weekend for example. It’s difficult to become friends with Flemish people let alone find a friend group to get into.
Most of my friends here are Dutch lol. They experience the same issues so it’s not like I am unlikeable or something. Belgian people have explained it to me as Belgian people getting ‘stuck to their local church tower’ in that all of their friend groups and most of their lives get decided by where they are born and they are hesitant to break free from that, so it’s very hard for people at a later stage to come into existing social groups.
Maybe it’s the same for people coming to The Netherlands as well, idk. It’s not like The Netherlands is perfect or something. But in my experience at least the Belgians are far more reserved than I am used to as a Dutch person.
Also, hierarchy is much more respected here. Where at home I would regularly chat with the ceo’s of the places I worked at, that is not done here. At my first job here I just walked into our CEO’s office to ask him a question and he seemed mortified lol. And I think that results in some rigid social structures as well where a lot of people seem sort of helpless or incapable of finding solutions themselves if an authority figure is not present. Idk you have to experience working here to understand it I guess. Some sort of ‘we’ve done this for ages now and we can’t change it’ mentality, even if things get outdated.
Yeah this just sounds like capitalism’s effect on community not unique to your situation or location. Individualistic tendencies and competition kill community.
Making friends is hard. I’ve lived in a few places and if I have been able to plug into a local community it has always been as somebody’s +1. Even if there is generally openness and welcome to the new community there is always a bit of hostility from several members.
If you don’t move away from your family and childhood friend group, many of them will move away from your hometown. The ones that remain will bring their new connections into your community changing it’s fabric and sometimes causing unbrigable rifts. People will have drama and there is no accountability to resolve those differences for the good of the community. The elders who would traditionally mediate these sort of rifts are just as consumed with individualism and factionalism so the feuds never are resolved.
Also, Belgian men, for the life of them, cannot seems to save themselves if their lives depended on it lol. Very rarely I see a Belgian guy with actual strong, independent opinions, who is able to cook, clean, whatever. There is like this insane passiveness surrounding a lot of them and I often find myself wondering if there is anything going on in their mind.
Now, this all sounds very negative of course and I don’t want to be disrespectful or anything but sometimes you just need to vent lol.
Interesting, thought that Belgians would be more open
We had a huge protest in the Hague yesterday with 100.000 people protesting against the Dutch government’s stance on Israel. I was there as well. It got sort of coopted by liberals though with some political parties that were silent or supported the genocide taking part. But this protest shows that the people support the Palestinian people. But I feel like this protest was kind of wasted. 100.000 people could’ve shut the city down. We could’ve squatted the parliament building, but instead we were walking around the city and the government probably won’t listen to us. Although there is more pressure on them now, which is good.
what kind of rhetoric did the liberals politicians who participated use? im curious how about the tactics, because i imagine we’ll see more of it across europe soon
I think a lot of people who were present don’t think that Palestine needs to be free, but just think that Israel went too far. Some people who shouted from the river to the sea, were literally heckled.
sounds about right
Morocco?
Yes 😌
I hope you all have a nice week :D
You too Oppo! 😎
You have an excellent week, Oppo!
You too comrade
Beautiful 👍🏼
