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How is it that people don't even realise that this is a racist post?  Sheeesh...kebab. "As China and the US look set to shrink in population, what can they do to encourage people to procreate?" Seriously now.  If your population is declining, open your doors to people from countries with a high population, or from anywhere.  Wanting to just increase your population from your 'own people' is racist and intellectually, creatively, spiritually, retarding - as any cognitive psychologist will tell you. For instance, they do that in singapore by bemoaning falling chinese birthrates and importing in chinese so that they can keep it a chinese majority state - even though it originally was a malay state. Such willful racism just makes you close your eyes to intellectually-enriching difference and hence makes you stupid enough to deem nothing amiss when the government threathens imprisonment for people whom forget to clear their glass at a coffeeshop if they d...

"They call her Santa Muerte (‘Holy Death’ or ‘Saint Death’), but she’s no saint. Literally. The skeletal female figure has a growing devotion in Mexico, Central America, and some places in the United States, but don’t be fooled by the Mary-like veil or the holy-sounding name. She’s not a recognized saint by the Roman Catholic Church. In fact, in 2013, a Vatican official condemned devotion to her, equating it to “the celebration of devastation and of hell.” “It’s not every day that a folk saint is actually condemned at the highest levels of the Vatican,” Andrew Chesnut, a Santa Muerte expert who has been studying the devotion for more than eight years, told CNA. Chesnut is the Bishop Walter F. Sullivan Chair in Catholic Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University and author of "Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint," the only English academic book to date on the subject. Despite her condemnation from on high, Santa Muerte remains increasingly popular among cr...

The division of India into India and Pakistan simply served to amplify the differences between the Muslims and Hindus. Yes, there were tensions between the two sectors that was accentuated by British colonial policies of 'divide and conquer/rule', but these tensions DO predate British incursion into Bharat ('India'). Much of these tensions, we have to admit, was due to Muslim intolerance of difference in the historical 'Mughal' past. They did, historically speaking, demolish temples, and even line the steps of some mosques with the debris of said demolished temples to claim ascendence over the Hindus. Over time, there was integration, and Muslim assimilation into the Indian multicultural view of things, as laudably illustrated in the Taj Mahal being a national symbol of Bharat. And this multicultural character of India is also further illustrated by the Dharma Chakra on the Flag of India, popularised by Buddhism, but which is also a part of Hinduism and Jain...