Wouldn't be the first time Americans have fucked Kurds over.
I can't help but wonder what the Kurds have been promised this time, besides the obvious (autonomy, statehood, etc)
Also, I imagine this won't sit well with a lot of the westerners who have expressed pro-Kurdish views in the past
“The Kurds and the Jews are natural allies in the Middle East,” he said, adding that many Kurds view Israel’s establishment as proof that independence is achievable for stateless nations.
“We had no choice but to escalate and start a big fire so everyone would see,” the regime insider said. “When our red lines were crossed in violation of all international laws, we could no longer adhere to the rules of the game.”
As opposed to before when you adhered to the rules of the game? Bruh, c'mon bruh.
“this war is going on gracefully with [Khamenei’s] designing”
Well great then. Apparently everything is peachy.
I do wonder where the balance is, because it has to be one. Basically they want to hit them hard enough to get them to pressure USA/Israel into stopping but not hard enough that they start seeing the short-term cost of this war as being bearable for the long-term benefit of no longer having neighbor ruled under Islamic rule.
Iranians have long carried a grievance that global powers exploited their country’s resources while neglecting their democratic aspirations.
They are correct.
History shows that popular uprisings gain confidence when they sense the world is watching – and supporting
at least as far as our protests were concerned, I remember how good it felt when we got the "Europe sees you" response, really emboldened us. Who knows if we would've succeeded without international attention.
Unfortunately, both in our case and I believe in this case too, Europe is slow to act. It has always been slow. "it's not a bug, its a feature"
Sources in Sri Lanka's navy and defence ministry said the vessel had been attacked by a submarine and at least 101 people were missing in the incident that took place off Sri Lanka's Indian Ocean coast.
that's the best confirmation that I saw, but I guess we'll see more information later on
Ez fix: just take the cage door off before you transport people?
Around 500 to 1,000 out of 50,000 lorries in Singapore have caged decks. Such lorries may still be used to transport goods.
If only so few even exist, I wonder how many of them have been used to transport people
For anyone else wondering what the warship was doing all the way over in Sri Lank, it seems there have been some military exercises that Iran took part in India, hence it was moving through the Indian ocean where.
Ofc, this hasn't been confirmed yet, nor have they confirmed whose submarine attacked the warship (although we can make some fair assumptions)
There are language schools, but I can’t find any details about full education being available in a minority langauge.
I mean... Belgium literally has three different full-fledged education systems in flemish, french and german; all of them with their own curricula, schools, universities, etc.
Due to their similar language they are mostly bilingual and can relatively easily understand each other.
This is just flat out wrong??? Finnish and swedish are not similar languages and they're not mutually understandable. A finnish speaker cannot understand a swedish speaker.
Swedish is a germanic language, Finnish is blood uralic, its not even part of the indo-european family. Perkele, mita vittua?!
Did you just go "oh, they're both in the north, they sound similar to me sooooooooooooooo"
Spanish is the only official language in Spain, only autonomous regions are allowed to have their own official languages per the constitution.
By definition its not the ONLY official language if areas in the country have extra official languages.
The very constitution of the country allows for co-official languages.
And overall it makes sense that these minority-language schools are present only in particular regions. Why would you want to have schools for language X when there's not a consistent minority that speaks language X in that area in the first place? Complete waste of resources.
And naturally you can't have schools for every minority, especially with modern-day migration, but its not economically feasible to have a school where only 3 kids can attend.
If would've just said that not every minority in Europe gets its school, I would've agreed. That much is clear. But that is a very different point from the one initially made.
The dominant model in Europe is certainly not one similar to the one China is pursuing, in fact I'd argue that there's few EU member states that come close to that. And the ones that spring to mind are the Baltics - Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia - which is an entirely different bag of chips and a whole conversation to be had about how right or wrong they are to pursue something like that in their present geopolitical context.
and Finnish have the same status as Swedish in Finland due to language similarities
Please, stop saying that. The two languages are not similar. That's not the reason for their status. Its because Swedish imperialism. They occupied Finland for centuries. To help you better understand, percentage-wise the similarity between Swedish and Finnish is CLOSE TO 0% (ZERO)
There is a strong push to encourage foreign languages as secondary
Strong push? I don't agree with this framing. It makes it seem like its just beginning, like only now we're moving in that direction. When the reality is that its completely normalized across most if not all EU member states.
Teaching at least one foreign language is a long-term standard of the education system of EU states.
In 2023, 89% of pupils in upper secondary education in the EU were learning English as a foreign language: this share was 96% in general programmes and 80% in vocational programmes.
Out of all the feasible outcomes from today's point of view, Pahlavi might be the least bad one, which is why I don't think its going to happen.
More feasible seems to be a situation in which the IRGC&co continue with their occupation of the country and USA/Israel strike some kind of deal with a new ayatollah (which for now seems to be the old one's son, go figure). Either that or the conflict continues for X time and it gradually simmers down, no deal struck.
Very unfortunate reality for Iranians, I'm afraid.
So basically cultural erasure/genocide in the name of removing barriers between people (because learning a second language is an impossible task and no one earth can do it).
Much easier for the state to control people when they eliminate other cultures and languages, that's basically been the aim with most such cultural destructions
Wouldn’t students who were taught in (insert minority language here) be at a disadvantage trying to compete with first-language Mandarin speakers for jobs outside of their narrow region?
No, absolutely not. Learning another language - especially learning a majority language is easy as fuck.
There's countries with 2, 3 or 4 official languages. Nobody bats an eye.
Learning a second language is the default across all of Europe, so much so that it starts being seen as kinda boring/bland?
Even in France, kindergarten-aged children learn English.
In my country, Romania, by far not the most well off country in Europe, English is taught from kindergarten as a second language and then from age 10 you get to learn a third language - french, german, spanish, italian. Some schools have started introducing the third language earlier.
And yes, this does mean that minority children often get to learn 4 languages.
Even in the US, there’s been intense debates over schools offering core instruction in Spanish,
I'm not even going to comment on this because I'm going to be hurtful and bigoted.
That’s already how it works in most (might be all) of Europe.
What Europe are you talking about??????? Because its definitely not in the Europe I'm in.
Minority people are very much entitled and do use their native language in schools and universities.
Belgium has dutch, french and german as its official langauges, each region teachin in the region's langauge. Minority language communities have their own full school systems. Finland's nationa languages are finnish and swedish; swedish-natives have the legal right to FULL education in their native tongue. There's Swedish-langauge schools all over the country. Spain - basque, catalan, galician. Similar shit. Switzerland - german, french, italian and romansh - all national languages. Even the french, who go crazy about their language shit, still have breton and basque language schools. Romania, hungarians being the largest minority, there's lots of hungarian-focused schools. German as well. Ukrainian, serbian, slovak, turkish. Uk - welsh, gaelic, and irish. Sweden - sami, finnish, romani and yiddish. Italy - german, french and slovenian.
I could talk all day. Not only is the opposite the reality about Europe, its definitely how it should be and its one of the things that Europe and the EU do right.
Something tells me they won't.