Hello My name is David, From Chile (Yes, the long country in South America) I am looking for people around the world to talk, share stories, experiences and learn about different aspects of their culture.
My personal tastes are varied, but within them are: gaming, reading (poetry, narrative, philosophy) drawing and writing.
I can speak / write in Spanish, English and Portuguese. In French I continue to struggle to speak fluently but I understand almost everything. We can chat or email, even snail mail
I don't want to bore you, if you have questions write me!
Hello everything,
due to the Münster mega thread we're starting the Cultural Exchange with /r/chile a bit later than planned. Sorry for that. But here we are.
Welcome Chileans
Use this thread to ask all the questions you want about the German speaking countries. Be it about Germany, Austria, Switzerland, every question is welcome. For /r/de users who want ask questions to people in Chile please use this thread
We're looking forward to a friendly exchange, so don't troll around or be unfriendly!
Your /r/de and /r/chile mods
Welcome to cultural exchange between r/albania and /r/chile ! The purpose of this event is to allow people from two different nations to get and share knowledge about their respective cultures, daily life, history and curiosities. Exchange will run since September 3rd.
Ask your questions to Chileans here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/chile/comments/bn3k6x/welcome_albania_cultural_exchange_thread_series/
General guidelines:
Chileans ask their questions, and Albanians answer them here on /r/albania ;
Albanians ask their questions in parallel thread on /r/chile ;
English language will be used in both threads;
Event will be moderated, following the general rules of Reddiquette. Be nice!
Guests asking in this thread will receive their national flair.
*The moderators of /r/albania and r/chile.
Miresevini ne Cultural exchange ne mes /r/albania dhe /r/chile ! Qellimi i ketij eventi eshte qe t'i lejoj njerezit nga dy shtete te ndryshme te ndajne njohurite per kulturat e tyre, jeten e perditshme, historine dhe kuriozitetin. Exchange do te jete qe nga 10 Maji.
Beni pyetjet tuaja te Kileanet ketu:
https://www.reddit.com/r/chile/comments/bn3k6x/welcome_albania_cultural_exchange_thread_series/
Udhezime te pergjithshme:
*Kileanet do t'i pyesing pytjen, Shqiptaret do te i'u pergjigjen ne /r/albania ;
*Shqiptaret i bejne pyetjet e veta ne thread-in paralel ne /r/chile ;
*Anglishtja do te perdoret ne te dyja threads;
*Eventi do te moderohet, duke percjellur udhezimet e pergjithsme te Reddiquette.
*Mysairet qe bejne pyetje ne ket thread do te marrin flairs kombetar te tyre.
*Moderatoret e /r/albania dhe /r/chile
Te Premten tjeter me 10 Maj mirepresim miqte tane te /r/chile per nje shkembim kulturor
Next Friday on the 10th of May we'll be welcoming our friends from /r/chile for a Cultural Exchange.
Before anyone asks, whataboutism with Stalin, Red Terrors, Mao, Pol Pot or any other socialist dictator are irrelevant, I'm against those guys too. And if I can recognise that not all capitalists defend Pinochet, you can recognise not all socialists defend Stalin.
Pinochet, the dictator of Chile from 1973 to 1990, is a massive meme among a fair bit of the right. They love to talk about "throwing commies from helicopters" and how "communists aren't people". I don't get why some of the other fun things Pinochet did aren't ever memed as much:
- Arresting entire families if a single member had leftist sympathies and forcing family members to have sex with each-other at gunpoint, and often forcing them to watch soldiers rape other members of their family. Oh! and using Using dogs to rape prisoners and inserting rats into prisoners anuses and vaginas. All for wrongthink.
- Forcing prisoners to crawl on the ground and lick the dirt off the floors. If the prisoners complained or even collapsed from exhaustion, they were promptly executed. Forcing prisoners to swim in vats of 'excrement (shit) and eat and drink it. Hanging prisoners upside-down with ropes, and they were dropped into a tank of water, headfirst. The water was contaminated (with poisonous chemicals, shit and piss) and filled with debris. All for wrongthink.
Many victims apparently reported suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, isolation and feelings of worthlessness, shame, anxiety and hopelessness.
Why the hell does anyone defend this shit? Why can't we all agree that dehumanising and murdering innocent people (and yes, it's just as bad when leftists do it) is wrong?
In Turkey, every April 23 is celebrated as Children's Day with the participation of children around the world. 100 years ago today, the Turkish nation opened its parliament to represent its national will, under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Seeing children as the guarantee of the future, Atatürk gave this day to the children of the world.
I hope the future will be bright for the children of all countries.
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Hey comrades. Don't know if you're aware of the situation in Chile, so I wanted to both inform you, and ask that you please, spread this as much as you can. The twitter thread that I linked below explains the whole situation, but basically, in response to the protests because of another rise in the cost of public transport, police responded by beating, teargassing and even SHOOTING at protesters.
Due to the material damages caused to several metro stations during the process, the President has declared a state of emergency, which basically means military forces will be in charge of maintaining order, with much wider faculties than normal police have. Also, there'll be restrictions to the freedom to reunite and to transport from one place to another until certain hours. To many chileans, this reminds us of an extremely dark time in our history. It actually wasn't since Pinochet's dictatorship that a state of emergency was declared because of civil protests. It's heartbreaking for me to see my abuelo, who was exiled, tortured and survived that horror, seeing it all starting to repeat itself.
The press are mostly talking about the material losses the protests left, and the damage to the metro stations. There have been no mentions of the peaceful protesters who are on several videos geatting beaten, teargassed and shot at by the police. We are scared, and we don't want to give up fighting for what's right, but it's become more than clear that police, and even more so the military, won't hesistate to shoot to kill if it means "keeping the peace".
https://twitter.com/_SE0KJ1N_/status/1185335209505492993?s=20
EDIT: A few people have mentioned they can't open the link I posted. It's a twitter thread, pretty much summing up how all of this got started. If you can't see it, I made a screenshot video of the whole thing and posted it here on Reddit. It's not great quality, but hopefully you can take a look at it https://www.reddit.com/r/BreadTube/comments/dk3x0y/what_is_happening_in_chile/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Hey all, the title pretty much sums it up. Hoping for open discussion moreso than finding somebody who shares my exact life story.
I was born and raised in the Midwest (corn country, city of 200,000). It’s just where my dad managed to land his residency when his Indian fellowship didn’t carry weight the US market. Very white city, sort of conservative. Even before I was at a stage when I realized all my friends were white, I just never took to culture - I was terrified of dancing, I hated Indian food, and I couldn’t sit still in the local temple. I became even more distant once I started trying to fit in (but unfortunately I didn’t fully become popular until I hit what could only be described as a dramatic second puberty in college).
In college, I was in a frat. Strangely enough, being in a frat and dating/pursuing/rejecting/getting-rejected-by girls is what made me more self aware and think harder about where I came from. Getting to intimately know people with diverse backgrounds (lacking in my hometown) made me think hard about my own background.
Today, I’m not religious. I eat meat. My fiancée is Vietnamese. I was better at speaking Gujarati when I was 8 than I am today. After I finished my engineering degree and tried my hand at semi-prestigious jobs that made me question what my life is worth, I decided to get a social sciences PhD, so few people in the community relate to my career/life goals. Still hate dancing, but I made an exception for my sibling’s wedding. I do a couple of Indian things very well - I’m a damn good cook and I love to entertain guests in the way an overly imposing Indian host likes to entertain. I love spending time in India, and I love the company of family who I can’t communicate with due to language.
I dunno where I’m going with this - I guess I’m just looking for encouragement and advice for how to develop a better connection to my culture without fundamentally changing who I am (I love my life 4 times out of 5). Also, like I said in the beginning, I’d love to hear stories.
