That is your problem: You have not taken the time to understand other cultures.
You believe they are not being honest but they ARE!!
If they can not do the work, they tell you, but in their own language, not directly but in subtle ways.
They are expressing it, and in their mind you understand them, because they are actually saying it. It is just that you are deaf to their language, you are not looking to the nuances, and just ignore those signals they are emitting.
Could you elaborate on this? I do not have extensive experience with or cultural knowledge of India, so I would be very interested to know about the cultural background for your statement. Maybe it can save me from inadvertently being rude to someone in the future.
In my experience the best playgrounds are not playgrounds at all.
As a kid my playground was the mountains, the beach, playing with sand,dirt, climbing trees, making cardboard's or bricks' or wood houses. Hearing and telling stories around the campfire...
I was terrified when I went back to visit a school I was when I was 4-6 years old. Instead of just one big piece of land for kids to play they had divided it with fences in something like 20 small spaces so they could control kids easier.
It was a prison. I believe this has to affect the kids development somehow.
Because kids have imagination, they don't need a ship. If they have boxes they have a ship, or a space center or everything they could imagine.
This is like a father buying a toy for his children and then only he playing it, not letting his children play.
A adult designer takes the best part: imagining, and then doesn't let the kids imagine anything else as you can not move or modify anything in the ship like you can do with boxes or wooden logs.
That is making a tremendous disservice to children.
My kids absolutely LOVE that playground (assuming it’s the one in Hyde Park, London). It’s nowhere near where we live so we’ve gone there maybe 5-10 times tops.
But they love it, and beg to go if we’re nearby.
The main problem I have with it is that unlike the picture it can get insanely crowded, sometimes with a queue waiting to go in, managed by park officials.
Not sure why you think a fun ship discourages creativity. My kids regularly do creative play and role-playing anywhere, at home or out and about.
But it’s also just really cool and tons of fun to climb around on a giant (to them) wooden ship.
In part I agree and disagree with your sentiment. On the other side of the argument, I believe sometimes children too need some inspiration. Perhaps with a set setting they can put more imagination and thought into the scenario that they might want to play
The fact that ionizing radiation causes cancer because it resonates with DNA bonds does not mean that other kinds of radiation could not cause other types of cancer.
Other kind of radiation will resonate with bigger molecules and could do things like denaturalize them.
Have you ever fried an egg. You are denaturalizing a protein that is liquid and becomes solid, and you have done that just with heat alone.
You can actually denaturalize an egg in the microwave oven, and there are certainly lots of health problems when the microwave oven leaks microwaves.
When you denaturalize something in the body, it stops working as it should. This creates a cascade of things that stops working as they should.
Catalonia and Basque country are the most developed places in Spain, from an industrial point of view.
Historically there were the biggest supporters of Spain, specially in the times of the Empire.
For example Cuba was controlled mostly by Catalans.
After losing Cuba and Philippines there were lots of social unrest in Spain, and specially Catalonia. Lots of people moving into cities. It was the time of romanticism, nationalism, communism and anarchism.
Catalonia had lots of anarchist combined with a rich bourgeoisie that had repatriated a fair amount of the wealth from Cuba.
The rich bourgeoisie wanted more autonomy so they could be richer and not share their wealth with less developed parts of Spain,(while preserving the market to continue selling to them) like Andalusia and Extremadura, that were extremely poor at the start of 20th century.
In 1934 they supported a secessionist movement to declare independence of Spain trying to take advantage of the communist movement to declare Spain a dictatorship of the proletariat that only got traction in the north of Spain, in Asturias. Those that took part of the movement went to jail.
In 1936 the left coalition of Frente popular, that included communist and anarchist wins the elections, and make an amnesty freeing all the people from the 1934 coup. They start burning churches, raping nuns, and killing people (more than 700 in over 7000 incidents). The gobertment does nothing, because they are sympathetic to them, or they just want revolution coming(like Largo Caballero).
That leads to the revolt of the army and the start of the Spanish civil war. In Catalonia the supporter of the secessionist movement in 1934, Companys, is in charge.
This led to terror in Catalonia, in which the religious people were exterminated, something that Companys was specially proud of and made the bourgeoisie specially afraid as the anarchists went after them.
This made bourgeoisie later one of the biggest supporters of Franco, the irony.
After Franco won the war there was a very centralized State in Spain.
When Franco died, they decided to give autonomy to all the provinces in order to appease the nationalist(they did not supported Independence openly at the time).
In Catalonia secessionist were a minority at the time. Most people wanted more autonomy(who doesn't). The man who controlled Catalonia, an extremely corrupt person called Pujol was very secessionist and started creating a network of secessionist in all local public institutions.
At the time the Spanish gobertment of Felipe Gonzalez was also very corrupt, and the King of Spain(that pocketed deals commissions of energy deals with Saudi Arabia). They knew each other and made sure that Justice did not act upon them.
Controlling the education, local TV, and most of the economic system in Catalonia make more people become secessionist, specially young people.
Now it has become clear that Pujol was a tremendous corrupt person and Justice went after them, the guys that pocketed from 3% to 10% of all public money in Catalonia for decades.
Catalonia and Andalucia had been extremely corrupt for a long time.
That(most people getting to know the corruption) destroyed the nationalist party in the elections and made them what we call "flee fordward" with independence, even when there are not enough people yet for it to success without a doubt.
If they get independence, with their own justice system, they will be able to continue doing what they have been doing for a long time.
Right now most supporters of it are kids, 14, 16 years old and people under 30 years old.
They had been promised that they will be like Switzerland rich, part of the EU of course, with all the advantages they have today for being part of Spain(like exporting 70% of their products there)without all the disadvantages.
The EU has said that an independent Catalonia will not enter the EU.
As it would take hours to complete the above view with references that support (e.g. Pujol's corruption) and reject (e.g. what motivated Franco's coup d'etat), I would like to notify any readers of the above post that it cannot be taken at face value, as it is a highly selective, and in some points plain wrong, reading of the last 200 years of Spanish history.
Because Spain is currently one of the more decentralized country in the world?
Spain created the "autonomias" in order to appease secessionists.
Not a brilliant idea given them the control of the Education(that teaches them that Spain robs them and creates fiction about their past, all while rejecting Spanish), of the Police(so their friends could close roads without consequences), put levies to shops that used Spanish in their signs and tracks and harass those kids that use Spanish in School's recess.
BTW, the secessionist want to own Catalonia, but it feels too less to them, they also want Valencia and the Balearic Islands. And if you let them a big part of Aragón.
In Spain it is legal to want independence, it is legal to create political parties that go for it, legally, BUT it is not legal to go against the law.
Creating a referendum is not legal because in Spain the sovereignty is in the general Spanish population, not in the local population.
This is not Scotland, Catalonia has never been a sovereign state that decided to join a union preserving its sovereignty. Spain was created as the union(by marriage) of the reigns of Castilla and Aragón, that included Catalonia.
The secesionist organized a referendum and they themselves counted the votes, like Stalin said it is not important who votes but who counted the votes. They added a million to the real number.
The local population holds over 50% of secessionist votes.
BTW the joke of gobertment that Spain has given the Catalan local Government(managed by secessionist!!) the management of prisons there. So they will be released soon after the elections, because the president is there thanks to the support of secessionists.
English is a germanic language. You say "gut" instead of "good", "zu" instead of "to", "wir" instead of "we", "Wetter" instead of "Weather", "nichts zu tun" instead of "nothing to do".
You will not be doing as much effort as someone from a totally different native language. The CIA calculated that it requires over 4 times the effort to learn Chinese for an English speaker than learning French. It also applies back, a Chinese will find it very hard to learn proper English.
Learning English for a german student is as easy as taking the train and spending some days in England.
Now for most Chinese, or even Indian(they have more than 20 languages) people, or Arabic,it is not so easy.
The fact is that they are in a disadvantage,not in a leveled field and they don't like it.
They are the majority of the population in the world, so if they develop their economies they will force everybody else to learn their native language, not the other way around.
By then everybody will speak enough english that it won't matter. The economies of the network effect are quite simple.
And of course I'm at an advantage, the very fact that I'm german would put me at an advantage even if english was as far away as possible from german, because I have the resources, I have free education and I have free medicare, plus 400 years of the subjugation of the third world in my back. So what. Life isn't fair, the worlds top 30 People own as much as the bottom 3 Billion, thats unfair.
Instead of bickering about which language would be fairest to adopt you should help make everyone adopt SOME language so that they can organize and exchange. So that they can understand for themselves what other are saying instead of having to rely on potentially biased news. So that they can talk to each other, for sympathy and empathy and understanding.
You believe they are not being honest but they ARE!!
If they can not do the work, they tell you, but in their own language, not directly but in subtle ways.
They are expressing it, and in their mind you understand them, because they are actually saying it. It is just that you are deaf to their language, you are not looking to the nuances, and just ignore those signals they are emitting.
Then comes the blaming and the pointing fingers.