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Originally Posted by sarah_webinc
it swings in round abouts.
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You are truly living in the UK!
It is clear when you speak to people the slang and terminology they use, based upon places they have lived.
The problem that I deal with, when I go to various places in the world (and sometimes on this board) is people assume just hearing about a place or seeing it on TV is all they need to make a concrete decision.
I have learned many things but the most important one is... no matter what borders people live within, no matter what language they speak, etc they are all want the same thing for the most part.
I can not tell you know many times I have been in a room of people that do not speak the same language and eveyone understands each other. I was in Czech with a group of people, and we all knew we were basically the same people in mindset and values, but some people only spoke Czech, English, Hungarian, etc etc
The world becomes a very small place when you have been to these places and have friends there. It is difficult to support bad political policy when one of your friends will be affected.
I think the governments of the world (pick one) try to demonize other countries to build the nationalistic pride... If these people just went to another place and truly, with an open mind, integrated they would see it is all bullshit and everyone basically wants the same thing.