Holy Jesus! I knew they were lax in some places but I didn't know it could be THAT lax! I grew up near Seattle. I had a friend for a while who went to a Catholic school and the education she got seemed to be closer to on par with "Europe's" - as in, a foreign language starting in seventh grade among other things. My dad said he would have sent me to a school like that if they hadn't had religious education in it... But why aren't there any schools like that that don't, then?
Yeah, living abroad as I have been, it happens over and over that people think I'm really stupid. They have no clue what we learn and don't learn in school, or what society is like. They can't fathom a parent who believes that foreign languages like Japanese are useless, or a world where "cooking" means warming up pre-made mashed potatoes or putting two pre-made mixes you bought at the store together. They don't understand that I didn't learn anything about English grammar in school (and neither does anyone else, that's why no one knows what an adverb is - though learning Esperanto fixed all that for me). So if I don't know something that every elementary schooler knows, they chalk it up to my individual stupidity and not due to culture etc. It's actually even cost me friendships before because my "friends" got sick of how little I knew : l
They only see the America that they see on TV (which is mainly action movies and shows like How I Met Your Mother), and even when they see something that shows the truth (crazy obese cocaine-addict cat lady, super-religious nut) they think "that's just this one person" or "of course at least part of that is fake for TV". They don't realize "that's the entire country". Though they immediately notice some other things, ex. certain things about certain presidents. To my wife, "America is movie-land. To us no one really lives like that, those things like school busses don't really exist, they're just props and plot points. It's difficult to understand because it's so different from here."
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I assume you don't know Swedish, but here's a video link anyway in case you have a friend: (I can make subtitles for it if you're interested enough but it will take a while)
http://www.veoh.com/watch/v84868605CyxHcgk2
This video shows that throughout all kinds of research and observations from 100+ years ago to today, everything proves without a doubt that processed, edited food causes the vast majority of cancer, cavities, Alzheimer's, stomach problems, diabetes and many more problems that America (and other countries, especially ones that think American research is good) likes to claim are hereditary or random. It also may not directly cause, but greatly increases, problems when you have, say, depression or joint pain. The "research data" varies from normal modern research to simply just doctor's logs from doctors who worked in different countries 100 years ago (ex. "I moved to India and during my 20 years of work here never saw a single case of cancer, indigestion....").
The point is that when you take something like wheat or rice and remove the shell in order to get white flour/rice, or when you boil something down to get an extreme concentrate, or when you extract vitamins and minerals and eat them by themselves or add them to something else, or when you ultra-pasteurize and homogenize your milk, you're then eating it very unnaturally, which your body can't handle properly. This actually becomes a poison to your body, but because we've grown up with eating it for all our lives and because human bodies are so sturdy in general, we don't realize the effects because we think it's normal.
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Date: 2015-09-13 02:01 pm (UTC)Yeah, living abroad as I have been, it happens over and over that people think I'm really stupid. They have no clue what we learn and don't learn in school, or what society is like. They can't fathom a parent who believes that foreign languages like Japanese are useless, or a world where "cooking" means warming up pre-made mashed potatoes or putting two pre-made mixes you bought at the store together. They don't understand that I didn't learn anything about English grammar in school (and neither does anyone else, that's why no one knows what an adverb is - though learning Esperanto fixed all that for me). So if I don't know something that every elementary schooler knows, they chalk it up to my individual stupidity and not due to culture etc. It's actually even cost me friendships before because my "friends" got sick of how little I knew : l
They only see the America that they see on TV (which is mainly action movies and shows like How I Met Your Mother), and even when they see something that shows the truth (crazy obese cocaine-addict cat lady, super-religious nut) they think "that's just this one person" or "of course at least part of that is fake for TV". They don't realize "that's the entire country". Though they immediately notice some other things, ex. certain things about certain presidents. To my wife, "America is movie-land. To us no one really lives like that, those things like school busses don't really exist, they're just props and plot points. It's difficult to understand because it's so different from here."
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I assume you don't know Swedish, but here's a video link anyway in case you have a friend: (I can make subtitles for it if you're interested enough but it will take a while)
http://www.veoh.com/watch/v84868605CyxHcgk2
This video shows that throughout all kinds of research and observations from 100+ years ago to today, everything proves without a doubt that processed, edited food causes the vast majority of cancer, cavities, Alzheimer's, stomach problems, diabetes and many more problems that America (and other countries, especially ones that think American research is good) likes to claim are hereditary or random. It also may not directly cause, but greatly increases, problems when you have, say, depression or joint pain. The "research data" varies from normal modern research to simply just doctor's logs from doctors who worked in different countries 100 years ago (ex. "I moved to India and during my 20 years of work here never saw a single case of cancer, indigestion....").
The point is that when you take something like wheat or rice and remove the shell in order to get white flour/rice, or when you boil something down to get an extreme concentrate, or when you extract vitamins and minerals and eat them by themselves or add them to something else, or when you ultra-pasteurize and homogenize your milk, you're then eating it very unnaturally, which your body can't handle properly. This actually becomes a poison to your body, but because we've grown up with eating it for all our lives and because human bodies are so sturdy in general, we don't realize the effects because we think it's normal.