#different countries

It is our human tendency to make comparisons. Having seen two different worlds in two different countries, sometimes I see differences and maybe my brain does comparisons too.

Here, in the UK, I saw bus drivers getting down from their seats, going towards the other side door of the bus through which passengers embark, unfolding the platform and support that is meant for people with wheelchairs, and helping them get on the bus. ‘It is their duty’ some may say. But then shouldn’t it be the duty of bus drivers all over the world? In my country I have seen buses and even the system with such a platform, but it is never used. People probably don’t even know that buses should have them or if they exist at all. Life is difficult for disabled people in many parts of the world.

I was also surprised to see that they can adjust and heighten or lower the chassis of the bus to adjust with the adjoining curb or footpath.

Not only such systems on buses, but so many buildings here, and almost all new buildings are designed to be accessible to disabled people, such as those who have to use wheelchairs.

Imagine, so many buildings having this provision. Bus driver doesn’t question why waste time for one such passenger. It is not questioned about how few would use such an accessibility route, but it has to be there. It is a necessity.

This kind of inclusion and consideration is very much necessary in the world.

Wrongly, first buildings and structures are built, and then they think about how to adjust other things.

Catchphrases of Girls from Different Countries

(Note: This is purely a humorous sketch based on internet tropes, without any ill intent or stereotyping towards any country.)

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and i just remembered that a lot of other people do not use the word capsicum. so i have provided, with the help of my good friend google, a translation.

Hi, my name is Sara, I'm 19 and I'm from Italy.

I'm writing this because I was thinking of how beautiful are every kind of distance relationships and I realized that I only have one Italian long distance friend.

I was also realizing the fact that I would love to learn and know anything possible about other cultures and stuff.

I'll leave here a little description of myself, then feel free to text me and tell me stuff about yourself to figure it out if we could match. Have a good day everybody!

If it’s someones perspective seeing the story as definitly gay, that’s fine. I can live with it. At last, if you take the Artbook it’s even canonical (but then the Artbook would make AshxBlanka canoncial, which seems a bit odd Oo). I don’t even fully reject peoples thoughts that Ash is gay (why should I? It’s fine. Je just isn’t gay in my opinion. Bi, but not gay). What I reject is the point, that people who don’t like gay couples in general shouldn’t read/ watch the story, because of WHY THE HECK? Or that they find it funny that some poeple don’t see that gay aspect in it (or at least not in one of the MCs). And I’m rejecting the though of Banana Fish being a romance, because it just isn’t. It’s a drama. Maybe a love drama (this depends on how heavy you link that aspect to the main story line), but still a drama. A romance ist, by definition, more light-harderd with a happy ending. At least where I live (we don’t call “Romeo and Juliet” a romance, we call it a love-drama, too). Or maybe I draw an example from anime: I would never ever call “Orange” a romance, despite clearly obvious romantic couples/ tropes here. Just because of the way the story is told, the topics it handles and all such. LIke Banana Fish all that romance/soulmate-stuff is just there to trapsot the main topic (which is most likely the same in both shows, two: Abuse). And sorry for putting you in one drawer with those trolls out there, but blocking as soon as one winds up with another opinion just sems a little like trolling to me. I was born in the 80s and grew up in the 90s, so sorry I wasn’t lesbian back then (plus Japanese gay politics are a little diffrent from the west, maybe in Japan it would have been possible even back then. If the genre would have been established, which it wasn’*t, because it drew it’s source from a series of the same time. A shounen one.) I don’t project todays gay politics in tha manga (why should I? And tbh even today she could not tell this very important story of friendship, love and abuse if she goes for BL. Why? Because the Genre is limited.) Plus I love it how the characters can be deciphered in different ways by differend audiences, that’s what makes this story so great for me. I even decipher them diffrent today then way back in the early 00s.

What about Eiji? Sure, he’s showing off his love for Ash very clearly sometimes. I mean, you even got that “marriage thing”, which is perfectly clear to me. I’m aware of that. But he hasn’t come out in the story, so you can watch even him as beinig asexual on that point (he is naive in his sexuality one must admit). Whenever I’m arguing against that gay aspect my arguments are purely drawn from what the story really TELLS you, not from what you have to decipher there.

So again, if anybody can contact her (?), tell her, it was maybe a great misunderstanding and I’m deeply sorry for that.