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Subject: Re: Susan starts posting


Author:
khms
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Date Posted: 02:37:46 11/16/12 Fri
In reply to: Wes 's message, "Susan starts posting" on 20:56:27 10/21/12 Sun

And another chapter.

only interested in kinder, kirke, und küche.

At the very least, that'd be "Kinder, Küche, Kirche" (Kaiser Wilhelm II); however, these days, it's commonly called "die drei K" ("the three K's"), and usually from people opposed to the concept.
See http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder,_K%C3%BCche,_Kirche
or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder,_K%C3%BCche,_Kirche
- it's seen much like "barefoot and pregnant".

After all, the current conservative-libertarian Bundesregierung (German federal cabinet) has 6 women to 10 men (not exactly following the three K's), including a female chancellor and conservative party leader. (And the lib party leader and minister of economics and technology and vice chancellor was born in South Vietnam, and the lib foreign minister and former party leader and vice chancellor is openly gay. Sure sounds like our right side is left of the US left side. But then, the current pope is also German, and he seems pretty close to the US right.) For that matter, we also have two conservative female governors (and one female social democrat, and on male green) among sixteen states.

Not that that keeps conservatives from trying to subtly push women back to the three K's, but they tend to get a lot of push-back. But I think this has gotten log enough, so I'll stop before this turns into a PhD discussion.

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Drommy
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Date Posted: 04:40:39 11/23/12 Fri

Wes,

Another little thing from today's Chapter 15: "yonsei" actually means 4th generation (the root word "yon" means four) away from the home country. So the explanation in the tooltip is actually incorrect. In this case it would be Mizuki that is the 5th generation descendant or "gosei".

Now digging into my schoolbook Japanese.... :-)

Drommy


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