Time to bash Americans again
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After columbine my school banned all black clothing. And forbid boys picking up sticks in case we used them to pretend they where weapons.
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I would have said the two words are different by perspective. An "expat" is talking about where you're from. An "immigrant" is talking about where you are. Also, if you start talking about 2nd generation immigrants, then "expat" can't be used at all, which means it is narrower in scope, too.
Hopping onto this matter of perspective. I think it also takes on a state of permanence. My brother and I both moved to an EU country. He plans on returning home at some point, and he calls himself an expat, while I have no plans on returning, so I think of myself as an immigrant. Though I guess it's not the technical definition. It's how I always thought about it
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After columbine my school banned all black clothing. And forbid boys picking up sticks in case we used them to pretend they where weapons.
I remember something about trench coats. Then those got banned.
Guns were never banned though!
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Why would you move to the Netherlands if you are MAGA? Isn't your country so much greater again now? You ellected your king and then you left?
Gotta spread the freedumb
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Beating up the bully requires one to be capable of such when the bully may be larger and physically imposing and part of a group then not getting treated as the guilty party afterward
I was small for my age up until 10th grade. Bullies would look at how small I was and decide I was an easy target, so they would start in on me. One thing you have to realize is that bullies aren't bullies because they are tough and good at fighting, they pick on the smallest, 'weakest' kids they can find- so being a great fighter isn't nearly as important as being willing to fight back in the first place. The point isn't to beat them up, it's to make them think twice about picking on you. If there is a chance they will get hurt, even if they end up winning the fight, they will always just move on to the next victim who wont fight back.
Between 5th grade and 10th grade I got into 1 fight every year. A kid who didn't know me would try to bully me, and I would defend myself. I never lost a fight, not because I was a badass or anything, but the teachers would break up the fights before it progressed too far. I would always get in trouble with the school, but never with my parents who taught me it was ok to defend myself (but not start fights). When word got around that about the fight, I wouldn't get picked on the rest of the school year. When the next year rolled around it was either a new student, or I was the new student. Someone who didn't know me basically who would try to bully me.
You just have to ask yourself- would you rather accept the bullying and allow it to continue, or risk getting beat up by fighting back and getting in trouble- but putting a stop to it.
Now you can get arrested and kicked out of school and have your school career and college options ruined for following the strategy you did
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Perhaps I should have highlighted that it’s not a viable option for everybody.
I would say that your solution is also pretty shitty. As bad as bullies are many of them are doing because either they’re getting bullied / hit at home and so they act out in this way or have other issues.
I don’t think sticking them all together is the solution, we should be trying to understand why someone is doing that and see if we can make positive changes. When I say we I mean the education system.
I'm tired of having empathy for pieces of shit 99.5% of people aren't trash and we would be better on average if we dropped them in the bin.
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I'm tired of having empathy for pieces of shit 99.5% of people aren't trash and we would be better on average if we dropped them in the bin.
It seems like you might not understand how pieces of shit can be made and also how they can change.
I wholly believe that it’s better in the long run to understand these people as surely we would want a world that doesn’t foster these people.
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For those unaware, an expat is an immigrant, but white.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Core memory unlocked: Looking at a store called “Expat store” or something in that vein in Den Haag as a little boy, asking my parent what “expat” is. “That's an American immigrant.” “So, why are they not just an immigrant?” “That way they feel better about themselves.”
I only just realised how based my parents are.
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Not an expat, an immigrant. I hate the term expat.
I feel https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/30883044 applied to “expat” as well.
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We have plenty of fascists here. It's not like the US have a monopoly. We don't quite let them run the show yet, but we're certainly working on it.
*cries in PVV majority*
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Cries in Dutch politics
Willen wij meer of minder MAGAanen in Nederland?!
/satire
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Willen wij meer of minder MAGAanen in Nederland?!
/satire
Ik weet niet, wilt je meer of minder domheid... goede vraag.
