Hey Pandas, What Is Something No One Outside Your Country Knows About Your Country? (Closed)

you don't have to be right, just loud in the US

Nobody has ever seriously doubted that!!! Don't worry. Stupid idiots who are unteachable are global. We have them just as much as you do.

Also, this is why everyone hates us (US) because the educated ones with common sense don't spout nonsense, intolerance/hatred and idiocy which is all the media cares about because hell the news is treated like reality TV shows, whatever gets the ratings.... sex, violence, and stupidity. If you haven't seen the movie Idiocracy it's a great satire for what we've already started to become in the US.

I came here just to write that!

FACTS!!!!!

How can you find the one Canadian in an elevator full of Americans? Step on people's toes until somebody apologizes. ;-l)

So true!

Soorry boot that.(?) Michigander, ❤ you canada!

I wonder if the suicide issue is a seasonal affective disorder or an economic opportunity one. And I hope all the BP readers appreciate that this site is run by Letts. While they occasionally make some idiomatic errors in their English I 'd like to point out that over 78% of them speak at least one foreign language, something I'm sure few of those who complain about it can. (btw- Lithuanian is the oldest Indo-European language still in use, and it has a reputation for being unnecessarily difficult, as it retains many of the original features of it's linguistic ancestors Latin and Sanskrit.)

Thats sad Why Lithuania?

I heard about that...so sad :(

I worked with an amazing carer who was from Lithuania, she taught me so much. Loved her accent too.

That's tragic.

italy is just cool. I want to see Sicily and visit a friend in milian someday

I would love to do a year long culinary tour of Italy, although I don't think a year is enough time!

But all politicians are corrupt, sadly.

what defines a Scandinavian country? honestly asking

And you rake your forests.

And also that we have plenty of those polar bears roaming the streets...

Pretty sure all Canadians under a certain age know this, given the coverage about residential schools and the division of the NWT to give First Nations more autonomy where they are still the majority of the population. Not to mention it has been part of school curriculum to teach it since at least the late 70s when I was in school. So if you don't know this, you are either a senior citizen or willfully ignoring it.

Thanks for the uplifting message

so give your part back and feel better about yourself

This is the history of the world, not just Canada. When you say "not even all Canadians know about this" I'm guessing you actually mean "I just learned about this".

At least you do admit to it

Texas and Arizona already change drastically when you drive around the state.

I'm from California and I remember the first time I traveled past the Rockies. I was blown away by how nice people are. California is going to hell in a hand basket. It's a horrible place to live.

Logically speaking east coast must be more old fashion, because those were the states established by the brits

Do you think the misunderstanding might come from the fact that you all call yourselves the "United States", when in fact you're anything but united in anything?

I doubt that the Magna Carta (which is really about the 1% Vs the king would have done this. There was a church statement in the late C11, but I think that it's more just became accepted as wrong. Besides, serfdom worked just as well for the slave owner: the vast majority of slaves probably airways worked in agricultural and industrial settings, so all the transfer of slaves to serfs did was removed the sort of house slaves who were often somewhat elite anyway. Slave - like a cow you can buy and can move. Serf - like a tree, you buy with the land. But yes, by the early modern period English courts were pretty sure slavery was illegal. In Scotland, though, some miners were serfs into the 18th century.

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Western civilisation has always, and continues to function, through the loopholes of legal slavery

me, who's trying to learn German for an Austria school trip (hopefully) next year O. o

As someone who is dating a Bavarian and learning German, I can confirm. The northern accents are mainly closer to official German, while when my boyfriend speaks dialect with his family, I understand nothing. I also had a friend from the north tell me "Don't worry, I don't understand Bavarians either" :D

Same in Belgium/ Flanders :)

Holding the secret accounts of so many politicians and despots is probably a better deterrent to invasion than assault rifles, especially since they can't keep ammunition for them at home.

One of these is not true... can you guess which?