It wasn’t just Japanese Americans, Germans and Italians were impacted by WWII Executive Order 9066, too - "While FBI agents were rounding up some Japanese-American men in the hours after the Pearl Harbor attack, they also launched a sweep of German-born men. Her father would be one of about 11,000 people of German ancestry, joined by a few thousand Italian nationals, who eventually were interned... The story of Executive Order 9066 – signed 75 years ago on Sunday, Feb. 19 – and the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans is well-known, but few remember the order also applied to some German and Italian families... More than 6,600 Japanese, Germans and Italians from Latin America also were deported and interned in the United States on the basis of “hemispheric security,” according to the National Archives and Records Administration website. By the end of the war, more than 31,000 suspected enemy aliens and their families had been interned at detention stations and military facilities across the country.“Not a single person was ever charged with a crime,” Fox said, adding that their only “crime” was their nationality... Like the Japanese, Toye and other German Americans faced raw discrimination. Kids at school called Toye a Nazi. People spat on her mom when they were in public."
No one cares about white people. I only heard about this recently.
Secrecy and Injustice: Exposing WWII Italian Internment Camps - "Not only was it forgotten but kept secret from the public—for years!... The Proclamation ordered 600,000 Italian Americans, one of the largest ethnic groups in the United States, to register and carry cards identifying themselves as “enemy aliens.” It further forbade them from traveling more than five miles from their homes without written authority and forced the surrender of such “contraband” as firearms, radios, cameras, and flashlights that might be used as signaling devices. A mandatory daily curfew was imposed from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m., thus restricting their freedom of movement, and means of employment. Italians were evacuated from “prohibited” zones, forced from their homes, and others were imprisoned.For the Italians on the West Coast who made their living as fishermen, they, unfortunately, were restricted from going near the waters and had their boats confiscated. Joe DiMaggio’s father, Giuseppe, was also subjected to this discriminatory indignity against Italian Americans. The thought of FBI agents forcing themselves into Italian homes to arrest fathers, and sons, must have been a frightening, traumatic ordeal... These events forced Italian families to make significant social changes. Fearing retribution and rejection, families stopped speaking their mother language (at least outside of the home). Some “Americanized” their names, and children were urged to “assimilate” the American way, to avoid suspicion and harassment from community and school friends. It is indeed ironic, while this was happening, Italian sons were serving in the U.S. Armed Forces!... the Italians who suffered loss of property, lives, and means of employment, received neither compensation, acknowledgment of wrong, nor public support.If not for the efforts of Lawrence DiStasi, a Professor at the University of California, this story, may never have been revealed"
Why America Targeted Italian-Americans During World War II - "After being seen speaking Italian with a customer, she was fired from her job as a salesperson at Saks Fifth Avenue... In 1936, J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI’s director, began to secretly surveil individuals and organizations he deemed likely to side with the enemy during the war to come.It was a massive operation, and an effective one. By 1939, the FBI had assembled a massive list of information on “suspicious individuals.” Known as the “ABC List,” it divided people into categories based on their likelihood of danger to the nation. For many people on the list, which included tens of thousands of American citizens, the only basis for suspicion was their ethnicity... Despite the persecution they endured, a large number of Italian Americans served in the U.S. military during World War II... All in all, 600,000 Italians were affected by the policies, which were only lifted in 1942, once Roosevelt realized he’d need the support of the Italian American community if the U.S. was to invade Italy. On October 12, 1942, U.S. Attorney General Francis Biddle declared that Italians were no longer enemies of the state... Though Italian American groups rejoiced at the proclamation, it wasn’t the end of their internment. The majority of interned Italians did not gain freedom for another year. And even beyond, Italian Americans were subject to bias and stereotypes that had been reinforced during the years they were assumed to be traitors."
During World War II, the U.S. Saw Italian-Americans as a Threat to Homeland Security - "DiCara, now 90, remembers vividly the stigma of those days. “We took a lot of slur from people,” he says; Italian-Americans were called “guineas,” “dagos” and “wops.”... Italian-Americans had faced prejudice for decades by the time the order was drafted, says Guglielmo. Italians were the biggest group of immigrants to the United States who passed through Ellis Island for much of the late 19th and early 20th century; between 1876 and 1930, 5 million Italians moved to the U.S. Not without backlash: By the 1920s, pseudo-scientists and polemicists in the 1920s popularized the notion that Italians were a separate race from Anglo-Americans."
Strange. We are told that the US has a caste system and white people are all in the same caste and only people of colour have been racially discriminated againt
Daily, weekly, seasonal and menstrual cycles in women’s mood, behaviour and vital signs - "Dimensions of human mood, behaviour and vital signs cycle over multiple timescales. However, it remains unclear which dimensions are most cyclical, and how daily, weekly, seasonal and menstrual cycles compare in magnitude. The menstrual cycle remains particularly understudied because, not being synchronized across the population, it will be averaged out unless menstrual cycles can be aligned before analysis. Here, we analyse 241 million observations from 3.3 million women across 109 countries, tracking 15 dimensions of mood, behaviour and vital signs using a women’s health mobile app. Out of the daily, weekly, seasonal and menstrual cycles, the menstrual cycle had the greatest magnitude for most of the measured dimensions of mood, behaviour and vital signs. Mood, vital signs and sexual behaviour vary most substantially over the course of the menstrual cycle, while sleep and exercise behaviour remain more constant. Menstrual cycle effects are directionally consistent across countries... Contrary to previous concerns that premenstrual effects are culturally specific, we find that they are directionally consistent across countries. For example, the pre-menstrual decrease in happiness occurs across all 87 countries we examine (Fig. 3). The other large premenstrual effects in mood, sexual behaviour and vital signs also remain directionally consis-tent across countries... We confirmed that our estimates of country-specific premenstrual effects remained consistent (Methods and Supplementary Fig. 8) when we controlled for demographic covariates, behaviour covari-ates and app usage covariates... The premenstrual negative mood effect increases with age: from 3.6% (95% CI 3.5–3.7%) in 15–20-year-olds to 5.4% in 30–35-year-olds (95% CI 5.1–5.7%), a relative increase of 51% (95% CI 41–61%, P< 0.001). This is consistent with prior reports that premenstrual dysphoria can increase during the late reproductive years"
This suggests that PMS isn't socially constructed after all
BRITISH LEGAL DEBATE: PREMENSTRUAL TENSION AND CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR - The New York Times - "two women walked free from British criminal courts after having killed or threatened to kill. They were released after pleading that premenstrual tension had made them act out of character... some feminists welcome the verdicts"
Exposure to American culture is associated with Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder among ethnic minority women - "Ethnic minorities in America will achieve majority by 2042, and due to their younger age distribution, will represent the largest proportion of women at risk for premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD). Research has not addressed ethnic minority women's vulnerabilities to PMDD. The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between acculturation and PMDD. An analysis of acculturation and PMDD among 3856 English-speaking, pre-menopausal Asian, Latina, and Black women from the National Latino and Asian American Survey and the National Survey of American Life was performed. The lifetime prevalence of PMDD was 3.3%. Nativity status, duration of residence, and age at immigration were significantly associated with PMDD. Foreign-born women (OR=0.38; 95% confidence interval (CI)=0.21-0.68) and immigrants arriving to the US after age six (OR=0.33, 95% CI=0.18, 0.62) were less likely to have PMDD, compared to US-born women, and US-born women/immigrants who arrived before age six, respectively. The likelihood of PMDD increased as the duration of residence in the US lengthened. The diagnosis of PMDD was provisional due to retrospective symptom reporting. Statements of causality could not be made because the study was cross-sectional. A substantial percentage of ethnic minority women suffer from PMDD in their lifetimes. Exposure to American culture appeared to elevate ethnic minority women's likelihood for PMDD. The stressors that are associated with ethnic minority life in America-discrimination, poverty, pressures to assimilate, etc.-may contribute to ethnic minority women's vulnerability to PMDD, and clinicians should be sensitive to the special risks in this population."
Since living in the US changes gut bacteria, this doesn't rule out a non-cultural explanation
Not-guilty verdict for man in women’s restroom, he had to go so bad it clouded his judgement - "The presiding judge Ayako Sasabe agreed that the different rooms were clearly marked. However, given the man’s need to powerfully defecate, which was proven by the testimony of eyewitnesses who saw him walking around the hall quickly and looking for a toilet, and given the potentially misleading sign, there is reasonable doubt about his criminal intent. Among readers of the news, no one argued with the ruling, but everyone wondered how what tends to be little more than a really awkward mistake boiled into a full-blown criminal trial."
Bahrain church project cements Gulf region’s reputation for religious tolerance - "It all started when the monarch of Bahrain donated a plot of land to the kingdom’s Catholic community seven years ago. Officially taking matters a step further, in 2014 King Hamad Al-Khalifa met with Pope Francis at the Vatican, reassuring him of Bahrain’s commitment to coexistence and presenting him with a detailed three-foot-long model of a proposed cathedral and its surroundings.Next year, Bahrain will inaugurate the largest Catholic cathedral in the Gulf region, the latest testament to its longstanding tradition of openness and tolerance... The cathedral’s presence reaffirms the reputation of Bahrain — home to 1.5 million citizens — as a land of openness and tolerance of other religions, including Judaism and Hinduism.Because Bahrain was an accessible entrepot for traders and foreigners who brought along their ideas and established schools, aviation, oil and banking companies, the first Catholic Church erected in the Arabian Peninsula was in modern-day, pre-independence Manama in 1939.The well-known Sacred Heart Church — built on land donated by the Emir of Bahrain — still stands today, opening its doors to thousands of Catholics. Father Thomas explained that a key factor that led the country to live in its culture of acceptance is the support coming from the monarchy. “I think it mostly depends upon the ruling family. From the very beginning onwards, the King and the royal family were very kind to the expatriates,” he said. Bahrain’s constitution protects non-Muslims’ right to pursue their freedom of worship and display symbols of their faith. Along with their Muslim counterparts, they have held high positions in a variety of fields — from legislation to commerce. Another crucial date in the history of Christianity in Bahrain is 1892, when the American Reverend Samuel Zwemer and his missionaries landed in this Arab territory and set up the first Protestant church in the region. Today, 19 registered churches exist in different parts of Bahrain, such as Sar and Budaiya, and about 9 percent of the population is Christian... When the Christmas season arrived every year in Bahrain, “similar to the UAE, you go to hotels and they’re all made up with Christmas trees to celebrate the period,” Glykys said, adding that the island’s Muslims “warmed to” such festive displays. “There was a lot of interest in trying to understand outside of their religion and potentially their culture as well to see how other people celebrate and what their beliefs are,” he said... One Bahraini Muslim national, who wished to remain anonymous, said although a wave of extremist ideologies overshadowed the Gulf in the late 1970s — following Iran’s Islamic Revolution and the Siege of Mecca in 1979 — Bahrainis eventually returned to “rationality and reason.”... “The coexistence of religions is possible,” Father Saji said, pointing out that a mosque stands just two kilometers away from the cathedral."
Strange. Singaporeans claim that different religions having their houses of worship beside each other is Uniquely Singapore
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Scientists Discover a Major Lasting Benefit of Growing Up Outside the City - "Using data from 3,585 people collected across four cities in Europe, scientists from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (also called IS Global) report a strong relationship between growing up away from the natural world and mental health in adulthood"
IIT Graduate Gets Arrested For Creating Faster Rail Ticket Booking App - "Tirupur native S Yuvarajaa who created the 'Super Tatkal' and 'Super Tatkal Pro' railway ticket booking apps has been arrested for the same.He's accused of bypassing the IRCTC's ticket booking system by creating an online platform for customers to book tickets in exchange for payments through a 'coin' based system...
'A classmate of mine in college has been arrested by police for creating an app that auto-filled ticket booking webpages of @RailMinIndia. It didn't even auto-fill captchas and obviously payment happened to railways directly and yet he is being accused of creating 'fake app' and swindling money per police statements to media (who have written stories based on it as if it is the gospel truth). :-( Even mild innovation is a crime in India. This is the reality of @_DigitalIndia Indian govt keeps talking about.'"
