I appreciate your thoughtful and informative post. I actually have close family members that work for Catholic Charities, but I didn’t do any real research before my original post.
I can’t argue any of your points - and I do see both sides. But, having been born into catholicism, and also being disappointed and judged…

That money guy, I feel like the doctor completely missed the mark in helping him. I know he asked about being wealthy and how it affects relationships, but clearly the guy’s main problem is he has no confidence whatsoever. The first half of his letter is just him pointing out everyone one of his own flaws and then he…

Spoken like someone who has never been in that situation

FYI to all, this is a shitty take.

Great article. I have loved the Coates run on Black Panther and will grab this as soon as I see it.

Don’tcha just love how “SJW bullshit” just means “game includes women/POC/LGBT and treat them like humans”?

That’s exactly what it is

Hehe. I am French too, and I assumed you were, because this is typically something French people stumble upon ;) Of course, that’s because it’s so different from our language (and usually not very well explained at school).

Well, make sense since I am indeed French, but its stunning that I had to watch 3 or 4 times the video asking myself “where the hell is the difference ?”, while this is completely natural to others. Native language must shape what kind of cue your brain is looking for, and what it does not care about, at all.

In English, words have an accentuated syllable... a syllable with more emphasis. For comparison, French doesn’t have this concept at all, and Spanish does. In Spanish, though, it’s easy to know where the accentuation is: it’s either on the second to last syllable of the word, or somewhere else, if it’s somewhere else,…

The intonation is very different between the two. The first one treats the name breakdown as “Ta-Ka-Maki”, stressing the first two syllables separately, while the second one reads “Taka-Maki”, spreading the stressed syllables out more evenly. It isn’t really a big deal in the grand scheme of things, especially since…

As a non-native english speaker, I must admit I am not sure what he is pointing out, is it the intonation that is different ? This always gives me a hard time (an english friend had to explain the joke about the way Megamind pronounce “Metrocity”).

Can confirm! Recently had to do the suuuuuper fun duplex hunt in Austin and was very bitter when my boyfriend axed the idea of living in Georgetown where we could have rented a friggin 3 bedroom house with 2.5 baths and a backyard for something absurd like $1100/month so we could stay in S. Austin and get a 2 bedroom…

haha so my friend is an elementary school teacher up in Georgetown. And she is seeing a massive influx of hispanic families who have been pushed out of Austin. Like, her school doubled its number of ESL kids in less than five years.

My favorite party trick is telling people from out of state that Houston has one of, if not THE, best food scenes in the U.S. (which is true). And then having them rush to tell me that Houston is a hellscape full of cars and is dangerous and in Texas (oh my!). Oh well, more yums for me.

My friend’s couch-surfer from Connecticut asked him on the first day, “So where can I get some goooooood southern cookin’?” My friend was nicer about that than I would have been.

It’s funny to me that a state that literally encompasses the area of eight East Coast states is assumed to have a uniform culture. Like, if you were to tell a New Yorker that they must be “the same” as someone from Scranton, they’d tell you to fuck off.

As someone who has been house-hunting with a “meager” $250k budget, I co-sign all of this. Why is a 1,300 square-foot house far from the city with no mass-transit or urban ammenities “worth” over $350K?? It was a sad day that I realized, “O wait, Austin doesn’t want us anymore.”

I don’t understand how people with 0 knowledge of texas besides “red state”, “south” and “some good music in Austin” feel like they can make any generalizations about it’s very rich, very complicated culture and history. It’s a huge fucking state! I feel like they probably knew comparably shallow things about NY and…

There are tons of godless liberals in Texas and Idaho, too. Along with undocumented immigrants, LGBTQ, Muslim Americans, African Americans, Latinos, Arabs, South Asians, etc. I am from the Midwest and there are large diverse communities and I’ve met plenty of atheists, Wiccans, New Agers and Democrats here. Why yall…