I won't deny that East Asians tend to do well on IQ tests, but I think their inclination to mask wearing is more a cultural thing. They've done so not just for decades, but in some places centuries i… (View Post)

I haven't seen the actual question from the survey, but I don't think that's a fair assessment. I think it was rather about the developments in Hungary and Poland et al. (View Post)

Whatever it was that worked in their favour, there can be no doubt that, karmically, they deserved to catch a break, after everything they had to suffer from the Chinese, the French, the Japanese, th… (View Post)

The jihad against wokeism has been waged for much longer than the statue-topplers entering the stage. The battlegrounds change sometimes, there is no shortage of finding new ones, every once in a whi… (View Post)

But it still features some commonalities with the English language, as "Schwytzerdütsch" does with High German. That's what I was getting at. I should add, though , that the 'near unintelli… (View Post)