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• emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The Aryans are a steppe (modern day south Russia) people who migrated to India four thousand years ago. Depending on who you ask, they mixed with / drove out the native people from India’s north and west.

  Modern Indians speak Indo-European languages (often seen as being of Aryan origin) in the north and west, Dravidian languages (supposedly the native languages) in the south and Austroasiatic and other languages (from China and southeast Asia) in the northeast. In the 1950s, after India became independent, the Indo-European majority wanted Hindi, an IE language, to be the national language of India. There was opposition in the south and northeast, and the result is that India today has no national language, with the union (=federal) government using both English and Hindi, and states free to choose their own language(s). In Tamil Nadu, India’s southernmost state, opposition to Hindi was strongest, and it gradually extended to other aspects of ‘Aryan’ culture. So the names Arya / Aryan would be considered a bit ‘culturally insensitive’. They would also be rare in the northeast, but more strange than rude.

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  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Thank you. That’s so interesting.

    I love unexpectedly learning random things. It’s what I miss about young reddit, people like Unidan just popping into threads and dropping knowledge unapologetically.

    Couple of weeks ago I had some swelling in my leg accompanied by pain and standard procedure there is "rule out deep vein thromboses (clot in big leg veins) with a vascular study (sonogram), first and foremost.

    First off…a male nurse escorted me to the sonographer in a transport chair (no chance of me walking all that way with the leg pain I was having). We shared an elevator with the UPS guy, who asked the nurse how he liked his sneakers (well known high-end walking sneaker brand)

    I realized then and there that I’m sitting adjacent to the greatest source of candid reviews on mens walking shoes: elevator small talk between a male nurse and a male UPS driver.

    I may have to buy myself a pair for myself after that conversation. The nurse was raving about them.

    But I digress. The sonographer was the real hero of this story. She was awesome. Despite the pain and my social anxiety, I was exceptionally chatty that day, and asked a few questions, and learned all about the leg-pump effect, and that she could see on her display when I was holding my breath because it would slow down the velocity of the blood in my veins.

    Like, I had never thought about either but they make total sense. Veins don’t have their own propulsion…most of the velocity they get is from “skeletal muscle pumps”…i.e. with the legs, as you walk or shift around while standing, it helps to pump the blood back up through the veins.

    All of a sudden I understood so many things. Why DVT happens. Why “sitting is the new smoking” (we also didn’t have nearly as many office jobs when everyone smoked). How compression socks work. Why sometimes, especially when sick, I get a head rush when I stand up after sitting for a while.

    Almost worth the thousands of dollars it cost to find out no clot, pre-existing varicose veins made it difficult for the initial doctor to differentiate between that and swelling, and that the pain was sudden onset sciatica, which I suspected all along (but never had it before so I was uncertain).

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    • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That was fascinating.

      Why “sitting is the new smoking”

      Oh, I’ve been warned about this by a doctor, but I can’t do much apart than keeping my legs raised when I can. (My work involves both sitting and standing in one place. My veins are so dead.)

      Almost worth the thousands of dollars it cost

      :-(

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