😅 I had a spot of fun last night when the tankie in my family shared a political spectrum quiz & I scored higher on his prize category, "out-Communism"-ing him.
I'm actually super radical across this test (shock! gasp!) but that's no surprise. The difference is, big-tent global humanism recognizes many ways of being. It's just hilarious when someone thinks there's only *one* right way to be anything.
Diversity, man! It's the spice of life. 👌
Happy Sunday, CoSo! 💫
@Priestess Hey, it takes all sorts to make a world! 🤗👌 Are you happy with your results? Did any of them surprise you?
I'm okay with the results.
Not really much of a surprise for me. I tend to be a bit more moderate than Elizabeth Warren and AOC but like some of their ideas.
Some of the questions are tricky. For example, GMO's can be beneficial, and patents also can be, but when chemical company Monsanto unethically tried to use a patented GMO to get a monopoly on agricultural products to put family farms out of business I opposed them. I don't trust businesses to always do the right thing.
@Priestess I agree. Many of these questions require putting aside a *lot* of nuance. They're good springboards to deeper conversation, but the results *never* tell the whole story. Glad it was a stimulating exercise, at least!
Well said. I agree completely.
I often got phone calls from people doing polls during the political season. It is so easy to detect bias the way the questions are worded.
That quiz was much better though. It was very interesting.
Oh, by the way, the reason I saw that quiz you took is I saw your post about meeting someone from Spain and Colombia, so I was digging through your posts to see if you mentioned where you were. I don't recognize the pictures and was wondering if you were visting Colombia or somewhere in Latin America. The pictures look like Oregon or Washington but there was a picture of vehicles in an urban area with motor scooters like Indonesia?
@Priestess I live in Colombia. The person I was speaking to was Colombian by birth, but she'd spent 30 years in Spain, and apparently even after being back for two years remained skittish about being out in public because the abject poverty (and number of people out begging) was still a shock to her.
It's funny how so many photos from here in Antioquia look like they could be from elsewhere, no? Motorcycles & similar are exceedingly common here, as a means of bypassing heavy traffic jams.
@Priestess I just looked up some stats, and there seems to be a 3:1 ratio of all motos to cars in the country. Those stats don't neatly break down motorcycles v. scooters, but there are definitely plenty of scooters about.
(This is a huge difference from, say, Panamá, where I saw very few motos because the muggy heat encouraged people to choose air-conditioned vehicles!)
I'm into geography and studying maps and cultures, and am very much into the biker way of life in America. However, my interest goes beyond Harley-Davidsons, which I've had, on down to smaller motorcycles and scooters also. I see them all over the world.
Your Ingles is muy perfecto! Did you live in the USA at some time?
@Priestess 😂 Oh, you're the first person to do that. I'm Canadian by birth and ancestry - settler stock, 13 generations. I moved to Colombia five years ago.
In my profile I have "🇨🇦 in 🇨🇴", but I can see how one might still make the error. And it's a very kind and flattering error!
I hope your passions serve you well, and give you plenty of excuses to travel!
@Priestess Oh, for sure! It happens. It gave me a good chuckle because for five years I've had locals express surprise the first time they meet me, at the quality of my Spanish. This was the first time I'd had the reverse happen. 😅 All good fun.
And I'm so glad you had a positive experience with an ordained humanist, and got to choose the affirmation ceremony that worked best for you and your husband! Sounds like it's been a life of many lovely adventures. (Long may they continue!)
I had 3 years of Spanish classes in high school but there's no way I'd be proficient enough to live in a Spanish-speaking country without relying on a mobile translation software app. It's not just a matter of knowing words. It's also about training the brain to listen in Spanish, if that makes sense.
Was your Spanish good before you began living in Colombia?
@Priestess No, but immersion is a heckuva learning tool. I lived among locals, not Westerners, from the get-go. Very rough at first, but one learns quickly with proper motivation.
"It's also about training the brain to listen in Spanish, if that makes sense."
Yes, in a non-immersion context language-learners often need at least 6 weeks before they'll start reproducing speech. Teaching beginners is also about overcoming the shame of making mistakes. Communication is a deeply emotional process.
@MLClark
Oh, I missed that part of your profile "🇨🇦 in 🇨🇴", because I got sidetracked when I noticed you're a humanist. My mind skipped over to thoughts of my friend and neighbor who is an ordained humanist who performed a handfasting ceremony (marriage) for me and my husband.