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#aph china #last post now #see you guys later!#if there's anyone who wants me #though I doubt it #lol #but personal blog is yaozhiyo

historical-nonfiction

Bamboos are the fastest-growing plants on earth. Trees such as oak or apple can take up to 120 years to reach maturity. Most bamboo trees take 5 to 7 years to reach maturity. Yet apple trees bloom every year. Bamboo blooms once every 60 to 130 years!

And, even more mysteriously, all the bamboo of that species bloom at the same time. All over the world, from Japan to France to the USA. And records from China dating to 919 CE tell us this has been happening for a long, long time. It is as if the plants carry an an internal clock ticking away until the preset alarm goes off simultaneously. This mass flowering phenomenon is called “gregarious flowering.” And botanists are still stumped as to why, exactly, bamboo does this –although of course there are plenty of hypotheses!

#gotta bamboo

ziashetalia

へたりあろぐ Pixiv ID: 60239814 Member: 742213 - ((^-^)_

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yosb

send me nichu memes

yosb

in the conbini au china is cheap immigrant labor working at a shinjuku famima. they meet cause japan fucks up the printer trying to last-minute get his budget doujinshi ready for comiket on chinas shift

#:)#I don't ship but whatever #:D

lindaaleon

[1950~1990] you are young forever in my memory,in my illusion, in my mind , in my whole life .

shitaphchina-does

Unfinished portrait?? Ahahah

#oh geez #is this the unfinished portrait #rochu #i'm alright yep #long hiatus #gomen

redland00

…oh

#This blog ended because I stressed and broke down tbh #couldn't think of anything anymore #it's been more than a year and I'm fine now #just a message from the future

ask-asdfengland

#Hey I'm not lying here lol #it's been almost 1.5 years of this blog

hetalia-imagines-scenarios-asks

Headcanon: Yao’s nickname from his S/O is ‘rice daddy’

shinshikesesese

What about Japan

#dont question jt #I'm only alive on weekends

chokolla

Походу Никогда Не Закончу(((

ask-risorgimento-italy

//19th century Feli does not know this, but actually his memory is very much unreliable: A nations view of the past is heavily screwed by the public consciousness of their time. Just like humans a nation does not remember their past in an objective manner. It is distorted and heavily altered to the point of unrecognizability at times, especially their early years which are sometimes just wiped from their memory altogether. There are two kinds of memories for a nation tan: Public and private memories. The private memory is their very own personal experience, pretty close to a human memory. One important difference: Information stays there for a very, very long time. Nondeclarative and procedural memories are primarily “saved” in this part of their mind, so a nation does not forget important basics like talking, walking, riding a horse, fighting, you name it. They stay there for centuries, unaltered. It would need a very huge brain trauma for the private memory to be affected. It’s very durable, but also limited to the nation tan’s personal experiences. Public memory is basically the nation’s collective memory. Feli may be in Venice for the week, but he knows what the weather is has been like in Verona yesterday without anyone telling him. He just knows that. Nations can access a massive database of experiences. In many cases, the public memory overshadows the private one, making it hard for nations to form an identity. This is why many prefer to keep track of their personal life with diaries, so they can distinguish wether what they remember is a personal or public memory. The public memory is less durable and easily altered by generational shifts, public opinions, propaganda and bad public education.

The nations are not aware of this in the 1800s, nor are the people. Nation tans are seen as objective, unbiased Experts On Their Field, leading to many misconceptions. It is quite a blow to them that their memories are untrue and biased, especially after believing their mind to be reliable for such a long time.

#headcanon #here have it #its good