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I'm bored right now, so I'll create my own thread of Chinese tidbits, which I might add to now and then. Please feel free to add your Canadian comparisons.

http://nswas.com/esperanto/index.htm It would seem to me that the Jews and Muslims in this Israeli community are living in harmony: http://nswas.com/esperanto/index.htm

It would seem to me that the French language in Quebec being threatened by the English language is partially the fault of the Quebec government itself! Right now in the province of Quebec, everyone is required to learn English either as a language of instruction or as a second language, thus...

So where do you get all your news from? I used to watch CCTV9 but it's really boring, and all the other channels are in Chinese. My Chinese is OK, but not that good. I tend to like to get my news from the horse's mouth, as well as from sources which tend to present news which might be more...

http://www.grahamsteele.ca/esperanto.html

I'm not a big fan of conspiracy theories and all, and usually find it hard to believe such stuff, but somehow my gut tells me this is true: http://www.religioustolerance.org/reconstr.htm What do you think of this?

In the last few years it seems that fundamentalism has grown in North America, and not only in the US, but canada too, from what I keep reading all the time. More anti-Muslim propaganda, the politicization of religion in the US, the increasingly politicized evolution debate, etc. So what's the...

Hmmm... Well, what can I say, other than, I LOVE CHINA! I think that sums it up nicely on my part, no bias of course. And what do you think?

http://www.vigile.net/ds-langue/docs/02-3-27-verrier.html Que serrait mieux selon vous?

I'm a Franco-Ontarian living in China, and wondering how would bilingual Canadians, be they Franco-Ontarians, English Quebecers or others in other provinces, especially those whose families live in both Quebec and the ROC, fare in the event of a yes vote? Would Franco-Ontarians have reason to...

I'm wondering, if your five-year-old daughter asked you one day about the words fusion ad fision, alog with atom, How would you explain it to her considering er limited vocabulary? You might fist consider comparing the atom to a star system, but that's too complex for afive-year-old. So ten...

Slime-mould bugs named after US statesmen US President George W Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld can now also be called bushi, cheneyi and rumsfeldi, or simply slime-mould beetles. Two former Cornell University entomologists named three species in the...

I've been in China for awhile, so I;m not even aware if Canadians are aware of this. Some tension is building between the Japanese government and those of neighbouring countries which had been victims of Japanese aggression during WWII. The issue involves a history textbook which many...

I'm not a Christian myself, and likewise have no interest in poligamy (I even oppose poligamy on the ethical front), though I have no particular political opinion about it. In the New Testament, though, there is no explicit prohibition against poligamy. I seem to vaguely remember reading a...

http://dailykos.com/story/2005/1/31/2335/87390

..calling on the world's governments to pass a resolution against the US government, perhaps even requiring the current government to step down, in protest against the lik below from another thread in this forum? And if the resolution is violated, then military sanctions will be applied to the...

I'd like to know your thoughts on conscientious objection? First off, would you ever voluntarily join a military force? Secondly, if you did become a soldier, either voluntarily or by conscription, how would you react? Please be honest here. This is not a moral or ethical question, nor do I...

I'd like to know your ideas on the following. It would seem to me that if Canada refused to go to war in Iraq on principle, the principle being respect for international law, then would it not stand to reason that Canada ought to maintain the same principle in relation to US soldiers fleeing to...

Al-Salam'u'Alaikum brothers and siters. I came up with this theory while thinking about the Hizbullah that perhaps US intelligence gets notified of any internet correspondence containing words such as al-Qaida, jihad, Qur'an, hadith, ahadith, Mullah, 'Ullamah and other words which could...

En ce moment je comprend qu'a Quebec on doit apprendre l'anglais a l'ecole secondaire. Cependant, il me semble un peut ridicule d'obliger les eleves d'apprendre l'anglais a l'ecole et ensuite avoir la Loi 101 pour leur decourager d'utiliser ce qu'ils ont appris. Pourrais-je suggerer que le...