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Barudak posted:Are their roving gangs of Anti-Canadian Japanese people or is there some super dangerous part of Japan I'm blanking on?
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Apr 3, 2013 18:06
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Riso posted:Japan is not very friendly to foreigners in general. I thought it was just foreign immigrants that had a harder time in Japan, but tourists were cool? Like if you want to crash on Japan's couch for a week or so that's cool but if you want to move in they aren't as thrilled?
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Apr 3, 2013 18:07
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Riso posted:Japan is not very friendly to foreigners in general. That doesn't make it more dangerous than most countries though, the area to avoid is probably because of the nuclear incident in Fukushima.
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Apr 3, 2013 18:10
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Apart from that one tourist who got shot, I hadn't heard of any dangers in North Korea? I can't imagine there's many rapes of female tourists there.
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Apr 3, 2013 18:11
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Comstar posted:Apart from that one tourist who got shot, I hadn't heard of any dangers in North Korea? I can't imagine there's many rapes of female tourists there. Here's what the U.S. Department of State has to say on that.
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Apr 3, 2013 18:15
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I thought Mauretania was pretty safe.
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Apr 3, 2013 18:19
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Muscle Tracer posted:Here's what the U.S. Department of State has to say on that. Well, yeah, but if you're not from the US you would be fine, I'd think.
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Apr 3, 2013 18:21
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ekuNNN posted:Well, yeah, but if you're not from the US you would be fine, I'd think. North Korea isn't exactly chill with Canada either, Canada was part of the Korean war and is/was a signatory on the armistice. According to wikipedia, they sent 26,791 troops and 1,588 were lost.
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Apr 3, 2013 18:29
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ekuNNN posted:Well, yeah, but if you're not from the US you would be fine, I'd think. Not particularly. Things like this: State Department posted:Foreign visitors to North Korea may be arrested, detained, or expelled for activities that would not be considered criminal outside North Korea, including involvement in unsanctioned religious and/or political activities (whether those activities took place inside or outside North Korea)... apply equally to everyone.
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Apr 3, 2013 18:36
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That map is goofy. Iranians are notoriously hospitable and generous to visitors and every American traveler who has been to Iran comes back gushing about how average Iranians have nothing against Americans, just our government. I'd probably feel safer traveling in Iran than most of South America.
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Apr 3, 2013 20:07
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How are u posted:That map is goofy. Iranians are notoriously hospitable and generous to visitors and every American traveler who has been to Iran comes back gushing about how average Iranians have nothing against Americans, just our government. I'd probably feel safer traveling in Iran than most of South America. Every so often someone enters Iran and gets arrested on charges of spying, though.
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Apr 3, 2013 20:13
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How are u posted:That map is goofy. Iranians are notoriously hospitable and generous to visitors and every American traveler who has been to Iran comes back gushing about how average Iranians have nothing against Americans, just our government. I'd probably feel safer traveling in Iran than most of South America. On the other hand, it shows Cuba as the safest place to visit in the Caribbean so it's probably not based on "which governments are pro-west".
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Apr 3, 2013 20:19
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The article doesn't seem to account for metro areas. Dallas proper may lean Democratic, but greater Dallas-Fort Worth has a Republican majority. The same is true for other southeastern cities where the city proper leans democratic and the conservative suburbs outweigh it. Houston, Charlotte, Nashville, and Jacksonville are other good examples. If we go by whole metro areas then Republicans have strong representation in many of them. They just refuse to live in the actual urban parts of them.
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Apr 3, 2013 20:23
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How many foreigners has North Korea arrested for no good reason and put in buttfuck detention centres/how many foreigners has the US arrested for no good reason and put in buttfuck detention centres?
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Apr 3, 2013 20:27
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Jerry Cotton posted:How many foreigners has North Korea arrested for no good reason and put in buttfuck detention centres/how many foreigners has the US arrested for no good reason and put in buttfuck detention centres? The difference is that you have to be in NK for them to arrest you 
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Apr 3, 2013 20:29
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Jerry Cotton posted:How many foreigners has North Korea arrested for no good reason and put in buttfuck detention centres/how many foreigners has the US arrested for no good reason and put in buttfuck detention centres? Fight da power!!!!!!!!!
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Apr 3, 2013 20:37
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Cygni posted:North Korea isn't exactly chill with Canada either, Canada was part of the Korean war and is/was a signatory on the armistice. According to wikipedia, they sent 26,791 troops and 1,588 were lost. By the same logic, they presumably aren't too happy with the British, Australians or New Zealanders either.
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Apr 3, 2013 20:43
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I don't even think that they'd care if you're Canadian. If you're white then you're American. This is the perspective of many people throughout the far-east, not just the North Koreans.
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Apr 3, 2013 21:13
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Jerry Cotton posted:How many foreigners has North Korea arrested for no good reason and put in buttfuck detention centres/how many foreigners has the US arrested for no good reason and put in buttfuck detention centres? haha the minute that that map was posted I just knew that someone would bust out with something like this and try to argue that the US is worse than North Korea or Iran or someplace
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Apr 3, 2013 21:17
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General Panic posted:By the same logic, they presumably aren't too happy with the British, Australians or New Zealanders either. They aren't. They refer to them as puppet states, along with South Korea. I think you can still travel to NK with their passports though.
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Apr 3, 2013 21:48
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General Panic posted:By the same logic, they presumably aren't too happy with the British, Australians or New Zealanders either. France also, I guess. France and Estonia are the only European countries who do not have diplomatic relations with NK.  Green: diplomatic relations established Red: Diplomatic relations terminated Sweden actually has an embassy in Pyongyang.
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Apr 3, 2013 22:08
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Kurtofan posted:France also, I guess. Terminated by North Korea, or by the other country?
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Apr 3, 2013 22:21
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prefect posted:Terminated by North Korea, or by the other country? I don't know, Argentina cut ties in 1977 after the Junta took control and Chile in 1973 when Pinochet took over. Iraq in 1980.
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Apr 3, 2013 22:37
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Dr. Tough posted:haha the minute that that map was posted I just knew that someone would bust out with something like this and try to argue that the US is worse than North Korea or Iran or someplace Does that make it a less legitimate question? (Also we were talking about safety.)
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Apr 3, 2013 23:08
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What's so special about Botswana?
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Apr 3, 2013 23:20
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cheerfullydrab posted:I thought Mauretania was pretty safe. You mean the country that still has 10-20% of its population enslaved? Angiepants posted:What's so special about Botswana? I'm not sure, either but everything I've heard about traveling to Botswana is that it's been very safe and a great place to travel. 
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Apr 3, 2013 23:31
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Angiepants posted:What's so special about Botswana? Botswana has a strong democracy, so all their diamond money didn't just go into some warlord's pocket.
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Apr 3, 2013 23:34
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GreenCard78 posted:You mean the country that still has 10-20% of its population enslaved? Hold on what now? Is slavery still so open in some areas? Any other countries like that?
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Apr 3, 2013 23:37
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They made slavery illegal in like 1905? and didn't work, made it illegal again in 1980 but that didn't stop anyone because it was 2007 when they made owning slaves illegal and punishable. I think they've only prosecuted one person or so. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritania http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Mauritania http://www.saiia.org.za/governance-and-aprm-opinion/mauritania-made-slavery-illegal-last-month.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1458_abolition/page4.shtml http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2012/03/world/mauritania.slaverys.last.stronghold/index.html http://www.theafricareport.com/Columns/mauritania-a-love-affair-with-slavery.html You can google more if you like but that's really just the tip of the iceberg. You know there are still many places with people in bondage today, April 3 the year of our lord 2013?
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Apr 3, 2013 23:43
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GreenCard78 posted:You can google more if you like but that's really just the tip of the iceberg. You know there are still many places with people in bondage today, April 3 the year of our lord 2013? I guess there's something more disturbing to me about the idea of it being open and legal rather than under a (thin) veil, although you're right that that's silly.
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Apr 3, 2013 23:53
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Koramei posted:I guess there's something more disturbing to me about the idea of it being open and legal rather than under a (thin) veil, although you're right that that's silly. It's been a few years since I have read much about it, in fact I remember the thread on it back in 07, but it's not even a thin veil. The reason they outlawed it was because of international pressure and in order to get whatever it was they wanted, they needed to adopt it. There was a story about a woman who was around 40 years old but couldn't tell how old she was or even really understand measurements of time because she had never been taught. Her place as a slave was just the way things were and so was everything she had ever done. I think she might have been freed and that's why she was interviewed but she didn't get the concept of being freed. Definitely one of the most  articles I've read on here.Here's an interview with a different person born into slavery
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Apr 3, 2013 23:57
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With open and legal slavery a country can still be safe for tourists to visit, though. Not morally right of course.
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Apr 4, 2013 05:36
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Dr. Tough posted:haha the minute that that map was posted I just knew that someone would bust out with something like this and try to argue that the US is worse than North Korea or Iran or someplace It has nothing to do with "better" or "worse". Do you think they have better pizza in Iran or North Korea? It's irrelevant; the point is that the map is to a certain degree...wait for it...politically-loaded.
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Apr 4, 2013 05:56
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Why doesn't Canada get a colour?
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Apr 4, 2013 07:54
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Vegetable posted:Why doesn't Canada get a colour? I thought it's a Canadian map? I mean you can't visit Canada if you're Canadian.
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Apr 4, 2013 07:56
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Vegetable posted:Why doesn't Canada get a colour? The map was made by the Canadian Department for Foreign Affairs. Don't worry, I had the same thought at first.
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Apr 4, 2013 07:56
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If you have enough money, you can enjoy a nice, safe vacation in any country. I prefer to look at the map as "how screwed are you if something goes wrong".
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Apr 4, 2013 08:22
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cheerfullydrab posted:I thought Mauretania was pretty safe. Besides the slavery, there have been several cases of foreigners getting kidnapped and held for ransom by bandits or islamist groups.
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Are there kidnappings in Mauretania? Active terrorist bombings of civilians in the capital? Endemic crime, both organized and unorganized? Some sort of sputtering rebellion? I don't mean to harp on this, I just don't see why the Canucks rated it so badly. I know all about the awful slavery and how horrible a country it is, I'm still just not seeing the danger to your average fat Canadian with a fanny pack and a straw hat and zinc oxide on their nose. I'm very curious and would like to learn. edit Kassad posted:Besides the slavery, there have been several cases of foreigners getting kidnapped and held for ransom by bandits or islamist groups.
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