Comment on Is America Really That Bad?
Hyperreality@kbin.social 2 years agoOff the top of my head:
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Belgium (different languages, laws, educational systems, public broadcasters per language region, taxation, etc.)
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UK (different laws in Scotland, different laws in Northern Ireland, education policy, etc.)
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Spain (autonomous regions with their own languages, seperate civil law in Catalunya, Fueros + tax collection in the Basque country, etc.)
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China (the unofficial city tier system, Xinjiang, Tibet, etc.)
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Russia (autonomous regions in the far east, Kadyrov/Chechnya: strict alcohol prohibition and possibly years in jail, etc.)
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India (IRC autonomous administrative divisions can make their own laws, tribe/caste based laws/tribunals, Jammu and Kashmir which until quite recently had its own seperate consitution and for example Indians from other regions weren't allowed to buy land or property there.)
Pipoca@lemmy.world 2 years ago
According to etymonline, Yankee has been used to refer to different sets of Americans by different people for hundreds of years.
The British calling someone from Texas a Yankee isn’t really any more right or wrong than someone from Texas calling someone from Pennsylvania a Yankee. Words can have contextual meanings.