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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: rayvt ✧☼🐝🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Sea change in US policy
Date: 12/06/25 1:03 PM
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Having just come back from a two-week vacation in Europe, I can assure you that England, France, and The Netherlands still have similar cultures to what they had 20 years ago.

Really?

20 years ago England tossed women in jail after they got assaulted?
“A British woman, who was the victim of a serious assault that left her hospitalised, is now being convicted of a hate crime because she used the F word, a slur, to describe her attacker,”

20 years ago hundreds of young girls in Rotherham were sexually abused by grooming gangs of predominantly Pakistani men"?

Although I guess Paris had no-go zones (arrondissements) even 20 years ago. France should have walked away from Algeria and shut the door.

But, hey, if people can now become experts in a field after 10 minutes of google, then 2 weeks in tourist areas is certainly enough to become a cultural expert.
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