After freed African-American Slaves were encouraged to move back to Africa to create ‘their own Country for Coloreds’, they created their own Apartheid too - segregating themselves from Native Africans living there. Liberia soon became a Utopia
How Liberia’s Caste System developed and how it somehow led to Civil War
High levels of immigration into many western countries are creating new fusion dialects - one of the most distinct is MTE Multicultural Toronto English, an emerging new urban dialect in Toronto Canada. A short thread with examples 🧵
Vanilla is not even native to Madagascar yet they have an 80% global market share what is going on. A location from a Final Fantasy game pretending to be a country as a front for a criminal ‘Vanilla Industry’
No strong opinion on tariff policy for you except hopefully Madagascar gets what it fucking deserves sorry
Emerging feature of the Public Space in recent years especially after COVID is its increasing ‘Ninja-fication’ or Balaclavaisation. More and more people covering part or all of their face. You can expect this trend to grow now there is no stigma against it in the post-masking era
Many Roadmen actually use the 🥷 Emoji to mean Roadman
Many of Britain’s increasingly Jawa-fied youth are somewhat autistic - or at least callow and badly socialised - (mumbling, struggling to make eye contact, distrustful etc.) so the face coverings also work as a kind of stimming and self-soothing method for managing social anxiety