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Those things your former friend said can be normal ideas depending on the area and company you keep. The area of America i live in he would be met with hostility and be an outlier. It’s a large country and the different areas differ culturally. America has a lot of propaganda that cultivates this violent rejection of others as well as America being better or having manifest destiny. Various forms of media seems to cultivate violent misogynistic white supremacy in youths. This country also has huge wealth gap and a shit social welfare system so you have a lot of scared angry people who don’t want to become a have not and have no real community. It’s toxic here

I’m doing an unpaid internship as a peotestorbut it will give me the competitive edge to become a communist captain with a fully paid salary shortly. I expect to be sponsored by target when my time comes.

Most of European animals are named like that because Europe considered them the default or generic animals then they named all other animals to be variants of that. The scientific naming system we use today is out of latin a language used by the academics of that time and area. Chloris chloris by instance is the European greenfinch