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boy: *is literally 1 year younger than me* boy: *hits on me* me: thanks…… but…. no thanks…. i’m old enough to be your mother……..
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It’s like when people try and say “Where as the Palestinian state before 1948, then??” [a question which, by their own standards, should then delegitimize Israel, as there was no Israeli state prior to 1948 either?]
When that is a hugely colonial way to look at it
Palestine existed
The Palestinian people existed
Palestinian culture flourished and the land of Palestine thrived for those who inhabited it
The region of Palestine was part of a greater empire, that of the Ottoman Empire. There were no “states” or internal borders within the Ottoman Empire. There were loosely named regions, such as Palestine and Syria, but there weren’t solid lines signaling borders or territorial control. It was all under the control of the Ottomans, which each general region simply ruling over itself with free roam/entry into other Ottoman regions
During this time, the Arabs of the Ottoman empire simply identified as Arab, because the identities were mostly to distinguish by race, and not by nationality/ethnicity
Despite this, especially near the end of the Ottoman empire as it began to crumble and fall apart, various regions/groups of people [with British whisperings in their ears] began to vie for independence.
After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Britain and France divvied up the Middle East as they saw fit, arbitrarily drawing up lines and establishing new “states” to foment further nationalist ambitions within each region, further instigated by these Western forces propping up affluent or friendly families to lead these newly established states.
The downside is that these borders were drawn with very little care, and cut up a region that had historically lived under the rule of an empire in which they were all essentially equals, all Arabs, with no real differences between them
All of a sudden, these people had new national identities thrust upon them, had new leadership forced upon them, and were cut off from other members of their tribes/families due to these borders, or would be forced into a nationality that they simply wouldn’t have identified with otherwise.
As a result, these different nationalities were born, and more “specific” identifications began to flourish. Cut to Palestine, where the British maintained their occupation while openly discussing plans to cut up the land and establish a new state on top of the people already inhabiting the land, and the Palestinian identity was clung to as a means of survival, both of the Palestinian people, and of the Palestinian culture and history.
Much of the “turmoil” in the Middle East can still be attributed to these same arbitrary borders that were drawn those hundred years ago, because you simply cannot force these identities upon people who had lived under a radically different way and system of life for centuries and centuries prior and hope it all goes well. We’re literally barely into the second and third generations of people removed from this previous way of life, with much of the conflict and bloodshed being remnants of shitty and failed post-WWI actions
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Hey do you mind telling me the advantages and disadvantages of going to ulip? There's not much on it on the Internet. Thanks xx
Hiyaa sorry i have no clue when you sent this but !! I’ll try
ADVANTAGES:
- you’re in fuckin Paris and uni is in a nice area- apply through UCAS, v easy for UK students- grade requirements aren’t that high considering you’ll be in Paris- opportunities for language exchange things- everyone’s in the same boat coming to Paris and not having a clue how it’ll be (living away from home etc)- living in France while studying French, being taught in French without it being too high a level
THINGS SOME PPL DON’T LIKE / have struggled with:
- no student accomodation, so u have to be independent straight away in finding somewhere to live- varied course: we study language, politics, history, lit/art/theatre/film in first year and can choose modules later on… some people don’t dig the course contents- v small uni (basically just a french course)- pretty much all anglophone students = we don’t really speak french together in our free time- living in another country can be scary and unsettling for people
There are other pluses and minuses I could go into so like feel free to ask if you wanna know about specifics or have any worries about it!! :*
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