Interesting Links for 28-03-2021

[andrewducker]

Did Boris Johnson Once Liken Gun Control Measures to Compulsory Vasectomies?

(tags:BorisJohnson guns OhForFucksSake )

Kenny MacAskill defects to the Alex Salmond Is Awesome Party

(tags:politics scotland )

Seems like twelve year old girls are better at dating than I ever was.

(tags:dating girls )

Tears flow for Brits as they head home to avoid being deported as illegals in Spain

(tags:Spain UK immigration Europe )

What you get from a healthy relationship (and should leave if you don't)

(tags:relationships )

This High Schooler Invented Color-Changing Sutures to Detect Infection

(tags:infection surgery healthcare technology )

Comments

[andrewducker]

I wouldn't want to live completely separate, no. And I take an interest in what's going on around me, which it feels like many people don't. But I understand why people do end up forming enclaves when they move to new countries and it takes a generation or three before they really integrate.

[alithea]

Yeah, there are degrees of enclaves though too. I get several British families end up in this village because there's a shop that imports treats from home and it's handy if you're still learning the language. But that's not the same as only ever mixing with and using services run by other Brits.

[calimac]

That's a thing we get in the US a lot, and it really irritates the nativist xenophobes. They're convinced the immigrants are never going to assimilate or learn English, and then within a generation or so they do. This has been going on regularly since the Irish in the 1840s.

[cmcmck]

When I went to Belgium I was running away and there was no enclave to go to, so I had to try to fit in.

You'd think at least an effort with the language, but no..........

[andrewducker]

Oh yes. I'd hope people would try to make some effort and show a little interest. For politeness sake and because you might learn something.

[cmcmck]

And I learned a hell of a lot.

Belgium's still very much my second home.

[andrewducker]

I'm sorry you didn't get to be a citizen. It must be very frustrating for you, especially now!

[cmcmck]

If I'd known then what I know now..............