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Of course, for upper middle class jobs you need need certain allocations to ensure you are viable, such as being a lawyer, doctor, engineer, pharmacist, IT worker. Furthermore, bullshit jobs like twitchers, content influencers like Brooke Monk, Kayla Mae Smith, Andrew Tate, Rosie McClelland, etc you need to be discouraged as they are just simply a waste of time.

Otherwise, telling someone to be realistic is stupid and actually backfires them from their desired goals. This is owing to the fact that it forces labelling and self-fulfilling prophecy, in which someone may be predicted to fail and ultimately fail owing to that in-grained, internalized third-party factor. For example, Sajid Javid was blocked from doing O-Level (now GCSE) Maths and had to only do one A-Level because he needed to stay in his lane, career advisor said that he can only be a TV repairman. Further, my lovely fellow A-Level Sociology teacher was discouraged by her A-level English Lit teacher from applying to university in 2009 (when she was in Y13/12th grade) because she was presumed to fail. These advice are useless and stupid.

One of my desired careers is to be a social worker or a chartered accountant, and I was told by someone to be "realistic" because these have tech stuff in it, or that because of my ethnicity, there was an assumption that I have an immigrant or a mixed accent when I have a nearly received prounounced Southern one, therefore me being a social worker for youth and child protection is seen as not viable. What on Earth? I study Politics A-Level along with Business and Sociology so the knowledge and analysis as well as passion is there, so I should be viable.

Unless if they are based on jobs like science stuff, people who tell you to be "realistic" are nonsensical, dorky people with no motivations themselves and are jealous of your ambitions because you have the skills that they do not bother having.

Stay away from anyone who says this

Al-Maleki was born in 1989 to a working class rural family (3 older brothers, 1 baby brother and one younger sister) who initially and temporarily lived in Basra before they immigrated to the United States in the early 90s (likely to escape the Saddam Hussein regime and the Gulf War) when she was 4 years old.

Noor was fluent in both Arabic and English. Growing up, she was expected to "perfectly" complete domestic servitude tasks including cooking all dishes and cleaning the house, otherwise, according to her friends, she would get beaten up if her tasks were not perfect enough. Her parents never loved let alone cared for her.

Noor wanted to be a teacher and had adopted Western lifestyles and dress (this used to be socially accepted in Iraq for women like Noor in the 70s and early 80s before she was born). Much like with other teenagers (atleast back then), she enjoyed shopping in groups, go to parties, watch cinemas and do birthdays; she also had an Iraqi boyfriend, however, her parents were very cross with her lifestyle.

Further disputes climbed with her parents physically and verbally abusing her which resulted in becoming independant and filing a restraining order against her parents while living with her Iraqi boyfriend. However, the order was never signed and she had to return to the family home in 2009.

Repeatedly until 2008 (during the Iraq War), her father, Faleh Hassan Al-Maleki flew her to Iraq for an arranged marriage, but it was unknown if the marriage actually took place.

As punishment, her father ran her and her boyfriend's mother, Kamal, in late October 2009. Both suffered from serious injuries, but Kamal survived and recovered, unfortunately in the start of November that year, brain injury worsened for Noor and lost her life. During her time in hospital, institutional forces guarded Noor just in case her mother would finish her off.

In the trial in 2011, phone call audio showed her mother, Sahem Al-Maleki, enabling the attack: she bragged on the audio stating how she is happy and said "that's what she needs", while the dispatch responded and called her a "sick individual".

Faleh cried in court stating that he deserved to die and not her after being jailed in April. In November 2024, her father died and his body was cremated.

She follows a list of prominent Iraqi victims of Honour Killing, other victims include Banaz Mahmood and Tiba Al-Ali.

They remove videos I saved on my playlist and hide those saved videos from the dedicated YouTube channel for no reason.

Not to mention irrelevant search results.

This is ridiculous.

I believe such commuter services can be less costly with rail as opposed to intercity services.

If the Elizabeth Line can expand beyond Reading, calling at all 5 stations between Reading and Swindon (via Tilehurst, Pangbourne, Goring, and Cholsey)

Or if any other TFL brand can serve us.

What do you think?

From what I can see, I see people of my age looking more visibly religious than my parents' generations. More Muslim women and girls wearing hijabs and niqabs, christian women and girls as well as men and boys with cross necklaces, Muslim men and boys having longer beards.

Progressive tabloids suggest that this is due to social media radicalization, extremism and internalized authoritarianism; ultimately tolerating less of other religions. Others say it is to cope with an increasingly anomie society.

What do you think?

Jordan is like that one person at school eating popcorn while seeing a bitter-sour love triangle fight. Jordan is the most peaceful nation in the Levant along with Cyprus. The last time Israel bombed Jordan was back in the 1970s I think or the 60s. A peace treaty was made in 1994 and since then, ties remained stable between the two nations.

There had been attempts in doing so between Palestine and Israel in the 90s with the Oslo. But other than that, just disputes, same with Syria and Lebanon with their battles against ISIS and Hezbollah islamists.

It is a shame this could not be viable for now. Why couldn't it be the case?

I saw videos like the one by Pushpek Sidhu who mocked Israel's appearance by intentionally buying two Palestinian shawarmas. He said "no hummus" when the sauce literally originated in Syria despite it being the national Israeli dish.

Before 1948, other Mizrahi Jews lived in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt etc so surely they already eat food similar to what Arabs eat like Shawarma, those rice dishes.

Much like with the rest of the Levant, Israeli dish is not so unique.

So what is this claim?

Far rights currently view Netanyahu's Israel as a role model to reinforce their ideologies of a white supremacist, ethno and religious nationalist society (exclusively white and christian, meaning that any other religion, including orthodox christians as well as Jews would be annihilated) along side tackling Islamism.

But what if 9/11 never happened? How would they see the conflict? Would they be more likely to view Palestine instead as their model for nationalism? Considering that before 9/11, Jews were the far right's main meal like the burgers while Muslims were like the chips.

The average number of children of the Jewish community that isn't Haredi is around 3, it climbed to 4, even among the secular families. Of course, Haredis have nearly 10 children per family. But the Arabs on the other hand, the rate stalled, both Muslims, Christians and Druze to now two children, despite intersectional barriers and how they are more patriarchal. Maybe the Arab tribes even have lower amounts of children than the Haredis.

Why is that?

They are only smart when helping others in the STEM field though they attack OP in question first for not knowing sooner. As well as LGBT rights. Other than that, they are some of the most stupidest people out there. Say any factual information you just get downvoted into oblivion.

I mentioned how the Middle East is not a monolith and there are progressive people there like urban Lebanese Arabs as well as urban Israeli Jews and Ramallah Palestinian Arabs. Not to mention how peaceful Cyprus is. Nevertheless, they think I said rubbish and view all of the Middle East as Islamist Arabian tribes or cavemen. They even think Middle Easterners all eat sand and camel wee.

Couple of years ago, I mentioned why I think alcohol should be banned for good and I mentioned literal health facts from the NHS if drank too much and I was attacked for being "too conservative" or being a religious fanatic.

What do I expect. Reddit is mainly full of American liberals, who are like a different breed as opposed to other liberals; they are just as stupid as MAGAs.

I found out that some of them have a dome resembling so much like a mosque. Some churches too but they are distinguishable because of the size of the dome, but some synagogue domes are at a similar size. I see some have the Star of David on top, similar to the crescent on mosques. Mainly found in the American Jewish community.

Palestine both the West Bank and Gaza I believe have their rates of honour killings climbing due to the war. Partly due to anger and aggression which creates more patriarchy, but also due to war molestation. War molestation has women and girls raped in the conflict. In honour killings, family members see victims of rape as a nasty, sinful creature instead of an innocent victim. I wonder if such war molestation happened that triggered this.

I thought this place is for a general discussion. Well it should have been. Unfortunately it's just a battlefield for personal attacks against one another. Jews vs Muslims. Not to mention whataboutism and other forms of bullying. They view a specific community as a monolith. This is absolutely disgusting.

Avoid that subreddit for the sake of your mental health.

As we can see in recent years, the far right had been weaponizing antisemitism and Jewish people either to "tackle" Islamism or to monolithically view all Muslims as nasty creatures who rupture someone's soul, especially after 9/11. Ultimately, they use Israel as a model for their ideological interpretations to tackle Islamists.

Even if they view Muslims as their favourite victim post 9/11 and even further after the 7/7 bombings of 2005 here in the UK, far rights nevertheless still view Jews as non-white, even ashkenazi ones, not to mention holocaust denials as well. I believe the far rights may support Palestine as their model should 9/11 never happened.

There are some Jewish figures however who support far rights such as Pamela Geller, not only she is Jewish but also she is socially liberal, which is very skeptical and ironic.

But I wonder if they realize that the far rights are just exploiting them especially due to the conflict between the two countries or if they nevertheless support them simply to tackle antisemitism by Islamists and some Free Palestine activists.

For example chicken shawarma, I wonder how different both communities are when they make the dish.

Do they taste the same or are there also variations?

Shawarma is my favourite Levantine as well as general Middle Eastern dish alongside Kibbeh and Kofta.

I would like to know how they style it. I know there is kosher so I wonder how they assembly the sauces. I also wonder if pork shawarma is popularly eaten amongst the secular Jews because I know Arab Christians eat it as well.

I found out that the birthrate in Bangladesh is starting to climb again. Only children not popular again anymore. Considering the rise from 2025 according to UNICEF, I believe cousin marriage is becoming more common again. Sadly of course, not even women would reject because of high power distance within the culture. But I feel like the rate may climb to under 1/5. While lower than Pakistan and the Middle East (except the Jewish and Cypriot communities) still an alarm.

Both of my desired careers are to do with social and current affairs, social work is one of them. Children and youth support would be great. I tried to find out online, but little to no information is shown accept for that volunteering website and that venue that said it is closed apparently. I need to tackle the competition within this work market.

There is the convention in which diasporic Western South Asian parents wanting their children to do these careers, either because of poverty or because of simple tradition and reputational face.

But I wonder in recent years if it is still the case. Some second Gens like Ranj Singh (Get Well Soon presenter) and Shabana Mahmood chose to study Medicine and Law because they are passionate about

I am starting cook biryani recipes for myself to prepare for potential independance so I like to cook foods my mother used to cook. Whenever my mother is at work in health and social care she just leaves the leftover for me to reheat on the microwave while I study or work part time. But I want to actually cook it.

What kind of biryani is it if it is red meat like beef and what kind of it is it if it is a chicken one? I need to also know the list of recipes and the step by step process for both so I can screenshot it to remember.

The Bangladeshi biryani is absolutely fire hands down, not slimy like the Hyderabadi one. Though it is not good to eat when ill because it gives me a very nasty parosmia.

Hi. I wanted to know if son preference goes as far as feticide.

Sex selective abortion is an issue in many highly patriarchal nations in South Asia like India. I have Bangladeshi ancestry and Bangladesh too has a very serious case of sex selective abortions. Others include of course China, Egypt, Turkey, Armenia, Georgia, Albania, Romania, etc.

Of course abortion itself is illegal in the nation, but in some diasporas like here in the UK, there are anecdotes of sex selective abortions against baby girls in many Afghan families

So how serious is it?