Interesting Links for 12-07-2020

[andrewducker]

Here are the changes that will happen between the EU and the UK come the first of January

(tags:UK Europe Doom )

Vast Brexit customs clearance centre to be built in Kent

(tags:trade Europe UK )

Incredible restored video of Tokyo from 1913-1915

(tags:Japan history video )

CNN asked Black artists from Mississippi to design a new state flag

(tags:flags USA design )

Did you even know you needed 3D printed pasta?

(tags:pasta 3dprinting food technology )

How small satellites are radically remaking space exploration

(tags:space technology )

A fascinating, personal, story of transition, detransition, and transition again.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1281537118183895041.html
(tags:gender transgender LGBT )

Scientists develop new antibody test which gives results in seven minutes

(tags:virus GoodNews )

Nearly all married women take their husband's last name - the patriarchy is alive and well

(tags:names patriarchy uk marriage )

A gold ring, a thieving Roman, and...JRR Tolkien?

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1281534833320222721.html
(tags:Tolkien archaeology rome viaDanielDWilliam )

The idea that the working class have limited interests is ahistoric, and just plain wrong

(tags:class culture history )

We have too much efficiency

(tags:efficiency society )

Why are toys such a bad business?

(tags:toys business )

Comments

Patriarchy, the working class

[anna_wing]

I wonder how widespread this name-changing thing is? Cultures that don't use surnames presumably wouldn't have it ( patronymics, matronymics, completely individual names regardless of relationship). In Southeast Asia, ethnic Chinese women quite commonly don't take their husband's name or surname upon marriage. Miss XYZ who marries Mr ABC doesn't have to become Mrs ABC, or Mrs AYZ; she can equally well become Madam XYZ, where the change of title shows the change of status.

In the UK, are there still significant differences in inheritance and other property or access rights between children of married or unmarried parents?

I still remember a very interesting conversation that I had (in 1989, I was a student) with an elderly gentleman who described himself as working class, at 7 am in the queue for cheap day seats at the Royal Opera House. He was first in the queue, I was second. He had been doing this for decades, after hearing some opera on the radio and deciding that he liked it. That was yet another fascinating insight into the intersection of race, class and money in English society. To summarise: well-spoken young foreigners such as myself were perfectly fine as neighbours, Jamaican gangsters were horrible. I could not really disagree with that proposition.

Re: Patriarchy

[andrewducker]

No difference in inheritance since 1969, from my reading of Wikipedia. Looks like it's been a patchwork of changes.

Re: Patriarchy

[naath]

It depends on how the child is registered IIRC.

Re: Patriarchy, the working class

[andrewducker]

I'd also be unhappy living next to gangsters. But I worry that being young, male, and insufficiently White was enough to get you tarred a gangster.

Re: Patriarchy, the working class

[anna_wing]

He was elderly, lived in Brixton, and was much disturbed by violence and drug use in his street, so I was certainly not about to challenge his, as they call it, 'lived experience'.

Plus ca change...the last time that I was in the UK, in early 2019, my taxi-driver from Heathrow regaled me all the way into town with tales of knife crime in London, blamed Theresa May for defunding the police, and complained that London was far more dangerous now than when he came from Pakistan in the 1970s...