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[languagexs]

Exploring the Falam Language in Myanmar: How Translating Falam Serves Myanma People

Preserving the Falam Language and Culture in the USA The Falam Chin people have a rich cultural heritage centered around their language. As the Falam Chin diaspora grows in the USA, maintaining connections to their ethnic identity is increasingly important. This article explores the Falam people, language, and culture – and how translation services can help bridge gaps for this community…

[iliothermia]

'Your children will be as abundant as the stars'

Stars, like seeds, are abundant.. But there is also the isolating distance between them as they've spread. It can be lonely but hope you feel safe and loved and there's beauty in the homes we've made all over.

[ghost-37]

[sxnshxnxxnddxxsxxs]

if you wanna give duke a super, cool

give him like steel, not because they’re black, but because black people find community with one another *shocking*.

but also please remember that duke is a super in his own right (i personally think that his light powers include the ability to move at the speed of light or at least should develop that way) and specifically he is cass’s super.

because he and cass are besties.

like lowkey it’s hilarious that wfa put cass and kon’s brief dating history above cass and duke’s very well established close friendship for who cass considers to be her super (especially when it’s becoming apparent that some people didn’t know that cass and kon dating was canon).

[sanska]

Was thinking about my warring states Hatake farmer ocs and realised that Kakashi should never meet these guys because it’d give him such an identity crisis lol

Man’s appears to be the last of his clan (The Hatake, if you will), and depending on how much Sakumo managed to pass on to him and how much Kakashi has even bothered engaging with his heritage after all that, how much does Kakashi even know about his clan customs anyway?

When Konohans living post Sakumo’s death say Hatake they are referring to this one guy, but he’s been raised his whole life to be the model Konohan ninja instead of a Hatake. If he meets a bunch of Hatake with completely different customs (not even ninja! They’re civilian farmers), clan specific cues and behaviour that he had no one teach him to recognise, and they are so wary of outsiders from having grown up in an era of war and bloodline thieves, will they or even Kakashi himself accept him as Hatake?

Fandom likes to paint the Hatake as a super close knit clan so imagine Kakashi he sees these guys together laughing and helping each other and he’s all alone and so damn lonely but he doesn’t know how to get close to them or understand

Basically culturally alienated Hatake Kakashi and you better hope the Hatake clan members he meets are nice and wants to adopt/accept him but there’s inevitably going to be a lot of messy feelings and misunderstandings going on before they get there

[pjharvey]

seeing someone with a pride flag bracelet plug her ears and roll her eyes when the names of murdered palestinian children are read outside a DNC convention By A Palestinian is next level evil i’m not reblogging the video bc it doesn’t feel productive and i don’t like having things on my blog that make me angry but wow i hope an anvil falls on her head

[naxalite1967]

The theory that Hamas uses "human shields" has always been strange. Typically you use a "human shield" because you know that the other party won't dare shoot an innocent person. Israel has made it clear they're perfectly comfortable killing kids, so humans make a very bad shield.

[anghraine]

Speaking of GW1 and GW2 ... I've had plenty of complaints over the years about how GW2 has chosen to handle and retcon human-centric GW1 lore, the framing of the human gods, etc. That said, I've recently been appreciating that GW2 has retained a particular element of GW1's treatment of humanity and their gods that I've always really liked.

Humans in the GW universe are not really generic everymen, as humans so often are in fantasy settings. Nor are they so wildly varying and unpredictable that there's no sense of humanity having its own distinct flavor like the other playable species do. In many ways, they occupy a vaguely "elvish" position in the world—they've been on this world for a very long time and used to be a major power, or rather, made up many major powers with various warring factions that sometimes found common cause.

But in more recent eras, many of the ancient human civilizations have dwindled and/or suffered various atrocities and/or lost their minds. And culturally, humans tend to have a strong affinity for the mystical and even more for the divinely mystical, which their political power in previous eras was directly tied to. The vast majority of humans in this world are faithful worshippers of a human pantheon of six gods (formerly five).

Not all humans are magical or religious, to be sure, but a lot of them are, to the point that this seems their most distinctive cultural quality. Minor NPCs tend to have background dialogue invoking the gods ("By the Six!"), or referencing one of the gods (often but not only the goddess Dwayna, leader of the Six). The main human NPC of the core game, Logan Thackeray, continually references the gods, as do most of his military fellows.

Most interestingly, though, if you choose to play a human, you will automatically be a devout adherent of the faith of the Six regardless of any other choices you make. In addition, human PCs are blessed by one specific god among the Six whom you choose at character creation.

This mostly has minor flavor effects in practice. A priest of the god you chose permanently hangs out in your home district, and sometimes other priests of your god can perceive some mark of their deity's favor when they look at you.

Howeverrrrr, when I say "their deity," I don't mean that they exclusively worship the god they've dedicated their lives to, or that "your god"—the god whose favor you enjoy as a human PC—is your god in any remotely monotheistic way. Humans faithful to the Six are faithful to all the Six until one of the gods falls to evil. And when that god becomes the villain of the second GW2 expansion, various human NPCs are shown going through a crisis of the soul regardless of whether he was their particular patron or not. Having a more specific personal tie to one of the gods, or being particularly blessed by one of them, or being specifically devoted to a life of service to one of them, does not in any way prevent humans from devotion to the rest of the pantheon.

Mechanically, this means that no matter which deity you choose as your particular patron, your human PC starts the game with the ability to pray to Dwayna, goddess of life and air and healing. When you pray to her, a blue image of Dwayna materializes, heals you, and vanishes. As you level up, your human-based skills will extend to prayers to the other gods.

Praying to Lyssa, goddess of illusion/chaos magic and water and beauty, confounds foes by inflicting random conditions on them and random blessings on you. Praying to Kormir, goddess of spirit, order, and truth, will free you from negative effects like immobilization. The final prayer you can use, iirc, and the most powerful, is the prayer to Balthazar, the god of fire and war who ends up going super evil. If you're playing a fragile class like an elementalist or mesmer, praying to him is actually great, because he blesses you with two fierce hounds made of flame who fight alongside you and soak up damage. (Praying to Balthazar does feel a lot weirder in retrospect, I'll admit.)

In any case, the point is that you can pray to ANY human god and receive a brief visitation from that god, because the entire human pantheon are your gods even if you're only special to one of them. A similar dynamic is at work for NPCs as well. A recurring NPC in the core GW2 story, for instance, is Rhie, a priestess of Grenth, god of cold, darkness, judgment, and death (he's not evil, just goth). Even by priest of Grenth standards, Rhie is greatly favored by him, and as a result is able to perform powerful rituals dealing with the boundaries between life and death. But there's no expectation that this means she should abjure the other gods in any way, and she certainly does not (in fact, she provides a Human Religion 101 rundown about the gods in general in her first appearance in the human storyline).

And it's so common in fantasy, I feel, that polytheistic cultures are conceptualized as giving adherents a wider choice of gods to be the one they actually worship for real, often with the implication that worshipping one god in the pantheon naturally translates into hostility or apathy towards other gods in the same pantheon. And so I do enjoy playing a religiously devout character who has a special patron deity blessing her and who is emphatically polytheistic throughout her entire original storyline.

[sanyu-thewitch05]

Black Diaspora, if King Charles dies on Black History Month we need to…

TURN IT UP!!!

[paleozoey]

everyone is posting "hatsune miku if she was from [artist's country]" so this is miku if she was from my homeland of west-central florida

[infiniteglitterfall]

pretty please, my fellow progressives

Could we please all keep in mind that the concept of "The Jews In General, or A Specific Type Of Jew, Controls Education, Government, Media, and/or Banking", is a longstanding antisemitic trope?

And most of all, that it is false??

No, a marginalized group does not also control education, the government, the media, and/or banking?

No, Jews do not secretly control these things and just pretend to be marginalized? No, Jews have not secretly been accumulating power since the Holocaust, granted by too-generous gentiles, out of pity?

No, it isn't better if you just mean a specific subgroup or kind of Jews. It's still specifically Jews.

It's like when people who hate trans/queer people are fine with rich white cis gay men. So they think it's not bigoted to blame "people with blue hair and pronouns" for the downfall of society.

We all know this means, "I only see some of you as human like me. You have to speak and act a certain way to count. Everyone in your group has to pass a test to get into the Good group."

Doesn't work.

Sure, it gives them plausible deniability to the people who matter to them. But everyone else can see exactly how they feel.

We've all known for years that it's bad to think of a marginalized group as having some "good ones." Rein it the heck in, please.

Because YES, all of those examples are ones I've seen implied, or stated outright, over and over, within the progressive community. This month alone.

[intersexfairy]

ykno a century was a long time ago but given that 3-4 generations in a family usually have contact with each other, in the context of family history, it really isn't that long ago. for example, i knew my great-grandmother (born in 1919). i was young when she died, but old enough to remember her death clearly. i remember how much her absence was felt, since she was the matriarch, and i know she encouraged my art. and she knew her grandmother, born in Ireland close after an Gorta Mór.

that's 7 generations, connected within 3 degrees of separation. i can only imagine how much was lost in that time, and how much was passed on. did my 3rd great grandmother love art like me? what did she go through? how did the experiences of her parents and family impact her, and how does that trickle down to me? i may never know but. it's something that makes me feel more connected and significant to humanity to think about.

even if you never have children yourself, you can undoubtedly experience this connection too. just think about all the people who fought for your rights, all the people who had passion for something you love and developed it greatly. all the people in your day to day life who add a spark to your day, the friends who have helped you grown. we may all turn to dust one day, but your presence will hold for centuries whether you - or anyone alive then - knows it or not.

[desswright29]

Same fren..🤦‍♀️

I had to got to sleep I was so stressed. Now, I’m actually in tears. Because people SWEAR black women aren’t as hated as we try to make it seem. We’re consistently imitated. We’re the work horses, The caretakers. The REAL beauty standard. (CAUSE Be for real). And yet and still SEVENTY FUCKING PERCENT OF WHITE WOMEN VOTED FOR THAT FUCKING FASCIST DEGENERATE! You bitches care more about remaining superior than your own reproductive rights! IMMA FUCKING SAY IT! BLACK MEEEENNN!!! I been stopped having much to say to y’all. Chuckling and shit saying that “A KIKIKI I’ll vote for him just cause he funny.” This mutha fucka HAS CONSISTENTLY made a joke out of y’all’s country! A JOOOOOOKKKKKE! I can’t. I just can’t don’t say shit to me today! I’m LIVID!

[ghost-37]

[aiartwerk]

Sexy Afro-Futuristic, Cyber Women Art 3. By AI_ART_WERK