Callie Roth Welstead, Philosophy in high school sounds like a good idea. As your friend, I'm gobsmacked that our math are so inferior to yours. This is why global conversations are so important --- we have so much to learn from one another. I'm with you also on the importance of knowing our world. Our Republican politicians here, turn pe…
Callie Roth Welstead, Philosophy in high school sounds like a good idea. As your friend, I'm gobsmacked that our math are so inferior to yours. This is why global conversations are so important --- we have so much to learn from one another. I'm with you also on the importance of knowing our world. Our Republican politicians here, turn people inward-looking as they scream about globalists like one of the Dems big donors being an evil globalist. Who knew, it was bad to look or go beyond your shore?
Sorry, your people are being hurt and driven out by unaffordable housing costs too. When I was a child, several families immigrated from Portugal and settled in my small town. They integrated well into our community, the adults worked alongside our parents at local businesses and their children went to school with us. I never saw any discrimination toward them. Although, it probably did happen somewhat. They were and are good people.
Generally, the Portuguese are welcomed - there is a huge community in Quebec and also in Toronto (My family is originally from that part of the world). But I also know that they were not always highly regarded in CT (can anyone actually spell it?) in the US. As to the maths being different - this is the reason I have a waiting list of students in need of tutoring. They come here from the US and simply cannot understand why they have to reason and explain and explore and extend. And their parents are totally confused and upset because their child who previously did just fine, is doing very not fine and they assume that it's the schools' fault. I have enjoyed our conversation. This is a serious, considerate, open-minded group of people.
Callie Roth Welstead, I can understand how the parents are taken aback. The words: reason, explain, explore, and extend don't leap to my mind when it comes to math. Glad they found you. And thank you also for the good conversation.
UGG - I had such a rude awakening yesterday. I know my American friend here is not interested in politics, decided to vote Green (even though I told her Jill Stein has financial interests in Keystone) and hates ‘both’ candidates. But I keep trying to bring up the election because I promised Robert Reich I would (😂😂😂) and we were talking about DJT’s attitude towards immigrants (since she is an immigrant here) and the fact that he married two immigrants and I just happened to say, “oh and the last one got into the US on an Einstein visa”. And she looked at me and asked me what an Einstein visa was. And I was gobsmacked because that story - how Melania was granted a visa normally reserved for individuals who were outstanding in their fields - that story has been bumping around since 2016 and she had not heard it. And it was a real thump on my head. Here is an educated woman who has lived in three countries and who hates fascism who has nonetheless shut herself off instead of engaging to any extent. And she asked me if I thought DJT would die in his next term if he won, I said that yes, definitely he would die in the first year because he was already toast. And she said, “Just like Biden” and I said, “Biden isn’t running”. I like this woman so I try to tread carefully, but….. If someone like this can have these views, no wonder uneducated, mono-cultured people are so easily misled!!!! VERY frustrating and my heart goes out to people in the US who are desperately trying to break through to their friends and neighbours.
Callie Roth Welstead, I saw a photo a couple months ago of Stein seated with Putin at a dinner in Russia. It came from a reputable source. Further, it seems like Russian bots are flooding sites with pro-Stein as an alternative to Harris, if they are upset about the suffering of Palestinians. It is such an absurd, unstrategic action that it furthers my thoughts that this choice is being lifted by Russian and Maga propaganda.
Thanks for trying to point your frienc in the direction of truth. I have a Republican, not Maga, friend whom I love and respect and I try not to be to overbearing in my outrage and negativity at the GOP. She is a really good person. I sometimes ask if I can forward her a political article and she is accepting of this. She is voting for Harris.
My friend is well-educated and a world traveler, but lacks sufficient counter -narratives to expose the lies she has been strongly conditioned with in her cloistered information ecosystem. I don't hold it against her. It could easily have been me conditioned in this way.
Here, the GOP have captured the media info ecosystem: tv, radio, and social media over the past 40 years. Love has barely got out. Even NPR (National Public Radio) has increasingly bowed to oligarchs in their programming and content. But there has been a recognition of this capture in the last almost-decade and the people have created podcasts, news websites, youtube channels, and substacks like Robert Reich's. They keep us sane, deliver info the oligarch captured media won't report, and help us with talking points for conversations with our reachable fellow citizens. I'm so grateful.
The next 80-some days will test us all. May America, the people united, and democracy, prevail.
Callie Roth Welstead, Philosophy in high school sounds like a good idea. As your friend, I'm gobsmacked that our math are so inferior to yours. This is why global conversations are so important --- we have so much to learn from one another. I'm with you also on the importance of knowing our world. Our Republican politicians here, turn people inward-looking as they scream about globalists like one of the Dems big donors being an evil globalist. Who knew, it was bad to look or go beyond your shore?
Sorry, your people are being hurt and driven out by unaffordable housing costs too. When I was a child, several families immigrated from Portugal and settled in my small town. They integrated well into our community, the adults worked alongside our parents at local businesses and their children went to school with us. I never saw any discrimination toward them. Although, it probably did happen somewhat. They were and are good people.
Generally, the Portuguese are welcomed - there is a huge community in Quebec and also in Toronto (My family is originally from that part of the world). But I also know that they were not always highly regarded in CT (can anyone actually spell it?) in the US. As to the maths being different - this is the reason I have a waiting list of students in need of tutoring. They come here from the US and simply cannot understand why they have to reason and explain and explore and extend. And their parents are totally confused and upset because their child who previously did just fine, is doing very not fine and they assume that it's the schools' fault. I have enjoyed our conversation. This is a serious, considerate, open-minded group of people.
Callie Roth Welstead, I can understand how the parents are taken aback. The words: reason, explain, explore, and extend don't leap to my mind when it comes to math. Glad they found you. And thank you also for the good conversation.
UGG - I had such a rude awakening yesterday. I know my American friend here is not interested in politics, decided to vote Green (even though I told her Jill Stein has financial interests in Keystone) and hates ‘both’ candidates. But I keep trying to bring up the election because I promised Robert Reich I would (😂😂😂) and we were talking about DJT’s attitude towards immigrants (since she is an immigrant here) and the fact that he married two immigrants and I just happened to say, “oh and the last one got into the US on an Einstein visa”. And she looked at me and asked me what an Einstein visa was. And I was gobsmacked because that story - how Melania was granted a visa normally reserved for individuals who were outstanding in their fields - that story has been bumping around since 2016 and she had not heard it. And it was a real thump on my head. Here is an educated woman who has lived in three countries and who hates fascism who has nonetheless shut herself off instead of engaging to any extent. And she asked me if I thought DJT would die in his next term if he won, I said that yes, definitely he would die in the first year because he was already toast. And she said, “Just like Biden” and I said, “Biden isn’t running”. I like this woman so I try to tread carefully, but….. If someone like this can have these views, no wonder uneducated, mono-cultured people are so easily misled!!!! VERY frustrating and my heart goes out to people in the US who are desperately trying to break through to their friends and neighbours.
Callie Roth Welstead, I saw a photo a couple months ago of Stein seated with Putin at a dinner in Russia. It came from a reputable source. Further, it seems like Russian bots are flooding sites with pro-Stein as an alternative to Harris, if they are upset about the suffering of Palestinians. It is such an absurd, unstrategic action that it furthers my thoughts that this choice is being lifted by Russian and Maga propaganda.
Thanks for trying to point your frienc in the direction of truth. I have a Republican, not Maga, friend whom I love and respect and I try not to be to overbearing in my outrage and negativity at the GOP. She is a really good person. I sometimes ask if I can forward her a political article and she is accepting of this. She is voting for Harris.
My friend is well-educated and a world traveler, but lacks sufficient counter -narratives to expose the lies she has been strongly conditioned with in her cloistered information ecosystem. I don't hold it against her. It could easily have been me conditioned in this way.
Here, the GOP have captured the media info ecosystem: tv, radio, and social media over the past 40 years. Love has barely got out. Even NPR (National Public Radio) has increasingly bowed to oligarchs in their programming and content. But there has been a recognition of this capture in the last almost-decade and the people have created podcasts, news websites, youtube channels, and substacks like Robert Reich's. They keep us sane, deliver info the oligarch captured media won't report, and help us with talking points for conversations with our reachable fellow citizens. I'm so grateful.
The next 80-some days will test us all. May America, the people united, and democracy, prevail.