Posted by alexandra_k on February 25, 2022, at 9:43:09
In reply to Chernobyl, posted by alexandra_k on February 25, 2022, at 9:31:10
that's the message to the english-speaking world, i mean to say.
i don't think that the russians (anymore than the chinese) feel... the urge... particularly... to say much of anything at all to the english-speaking world.
not so far as i can see.
i mean... they aren't trying to educate us in their cultural ways or their language or whatever. i suppose the level of outreach is lacking because they aren't really desiring...
we pretend that we want to help people learn english etc (and will take their money to teach them) but more often than not we are needlessly confusing. bullying. and so on...
what was notably absent from the whole 'kennedy school of leadership 2 year masters'... uh... scheme? was any offer of cultural exchange.
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the people from new zealand are not a brain-damaged people... they aren't less intelligent than other peoples of the world etc...
so why aren't they more productive? with the arts and culture etc? what is so very oppressive about new zealand?
with all those students enrolling in masters research degrees...
where are all the theses?
and why do so many that pass sound like they got spat out the post-modernist essay generator?
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