Did you know dogs and monkeys recognize their own kind better by anrear sniff than looking at their faces. I think this was brought up on a star trek episode.
PeKaatje: How about full grown men marrying girls of just 13? I know that's custom in a lot of muslim countries, but here we call it sick. And it's even forbidden. And don't think all people in rich countries are rich. The big companies and the government are rich, but in the Netherlands a lot of people have problems paying their monthly bills, more and more people have debts and are forced to go to the foodbank. In my village a mother gave her daughter who was unemployed 50 euro's for food every week because she couldn't survive. The government visited her house, inspected the kitchen and saw food that was bought in a more expensive supermarket. Now that woman is forced to pay the local government 7000 Euro's. We have a lot of homeless people too.
PeKaatjeAnkeveen, North Holland Netherlands6,334 posts
galrads: I struggle to find a chuckle” “ in all that
Well, it's quite humorous how people from poor countries think that all the people in the west are rich. Someone here once told me that about 60% of all the people getting help from the foodbank in the USA had a fulltime job. But a lot of people from Africa want to come to the 'rich' countries thinking they will be rich soon to. They risk their lives to come to Europe over sea. If they arrive here they ain't allowed to work, the government helps them with their first needs, like a house, with all they need in it, but the next couple of years they just get enough money to survive. Nothing more. And it still will be the question if they can stay or will be sent back to Africa. They think living in Europe is heaven, well, it ain't.
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