But it’s true that until the library ghost at the beginning of the movie, all the paranormal stuff they had studied were either fake or jumping to conclusions.

Ernie Hudson’s role was stereotypical? Maybe something was lost in the Spanish dub, but the only part i could consider stereotypical of his role was being religious. What do you have in mind?

might be a popular etymology on my part... but i chose to believe it’s true :D

Hopefully we get to our better senses and try to recover it before it’s too late.

There was a bit of pained and alarmed exaggeration in what i said, but the health of our culture definitely isn’t good. If you want to read about our culture, there are some websites i can point you to, to get started. For example this: http://galicia.swred.com/ficha_cultura.… has plenty to chew on. It’s in Galician,…

I was using the Salem trial as a temporal frame. That’s also why i was considering the whole NA Native population rather than only the region nearby New England.

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I don’t follow, why doesn’t it apply? I take you are talking about the population number i gave, right?

We’re talking about the times of the Salem Witch trials (1692-93). While the Native American population was still reeling from the demographic holocaust of the European diseases, they were probably on their way back to 1 million. Meanwhile the British would still be below a quarter million for a few years.

I formally invite J.K. Rowling to appropriate any way she sees fit the magical folklore of my Galician culture. Since all our tales and fantastic and magic beings are on the verge of extinction, it would be extremely good if someone grafted some bits into a perdurable work of international literature.

well, it’s not much sillier than “muggles” = “magic-less”

We might be racist, but at least our cops don’t routinely shoot non-whites on the street.
I.E., we might be racist, but still aren’t America-level racist.

Most of the time the “Ew” is implied. It might not be said out of kindness, but you can hear perfectly inside of your head.

In Spain, it’s part of the law. Of course, companies that want to get away without giving that paid vacation time, often find ways to do it: A popular one nowadays is to hire you for periods of less than 3 months, over and over and over.

People in China have between 2-3 weeks of vacation. Since the Spring Festival official holidays last for 1 week, a popular choice is to take your vacation right after it, and get a month off.

In other parts of the world, 4 weeks of vacation (beside official holidays) is the norm. Psychologists have said that, to truly…

I lived in Beijing for 3 years. Elevators whose inspection warranty had expired were the norm. In my own building, the elevator was late for inspection for 2 years, even after having notified the building janitor.

Non-enforcement of regulations is just the norm. Nobody follows the regulations because nothing happens to…

As far as i can remember, the accusations against Bill Cosby had been popping every-now and then for many years, and nobody paid them any mind. What i remember is that those accusations only became a thing when Bill Cosby began to get relevance for his (tone deaf and privileged) statements about how black poverty was…

I think Americans largely have this weird misconception about humor, that humor is meant to take the edges out of stuff.

Am i surprised that a bully or a collaborator wants guns in schools?

On the other hand, perhaps what we should do is teach boys to be less risk takers. Risk-taking is a behavior meant to benefit a few and harm most.
By the very nature of what risk means (low probability, high reward), we keep enforcing individualism, we keep enforcing social darwinism.