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gay_Aleks
from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
For some reason, Minnesota is the dream destination of many Arabs, which could be the reason that Arabic is the second most-spoken language after English there.
Also, lol at Canadians immigrating to North Dakota.
Also, lol at Canadians immigrating to North Dakota.
cybrxkhan
Asian Xwedodah
LamaGT
Emperor
Out of those only Bhutan doesn't make much sense to me.
It's Minnesota.
It's actually Montana
cybrxkhan
Asian Xwedodah
It's actually Montana
Um. Yes. I totally did that on purpose.
my elementary school self would totally kill me for that sort of easy mistake,
NedimNapoleon
Weird Little Human
To be honest thats the only stain on Bhutans almost perfect history.
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Misico dux Vandalorum
Spoiler :
Well, every country has skeletons in its closet.
I mean, for starters Bhutan's history is probably far too bloodstained for a country ruled by Buddhist monks. Not to mention... um... the literal stains on history's pages...
dragonprobably
The Poster Formerly Known as MartinLuther
Stupid Liberals, not knowing Indians come from this country. Don't they know anything about our history. God, welcome to Obama's America.
Spoiler :
I'm not sure if you mean Minnesota or Michigan.
*The genocide and forced relocation of Native Americans
*The lynchings of freed slaves
*Practiced Eugenics in North Carolina
*Jim Crow laws
*Releasing dogs and hosing Black protesters
*Burning down innocent Vietnamese villages
*Iran-Contra Affair
We don't have a closet full of skeletons, we have an entire storage locker.
gay_Aleks
from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
It's that state with the weird borders near the Canadian border in the Great Lakes. So... yeah, it's Michigan I guess.
cybrxkhan
Asian Xwedodah
This was sorta interesting:
Civ'ed
I ain't gotta explain a thing
I'm not even going to wonder how that is inte-
Damnit.
Damnit.
NedimNapoleon
Weird Little Human
Still Bhutan is one of the few countries that at least appears clean on the surface. Its King is a really cool guy, his title is Dragon King, he actually forced democratization moving it from an absolute monarchy to a real constitutional one, archery is the national sport....it just seems perfect.
Isn't Bhutan the tiny country landlocked between India and China, with something like a 1 million population?
To expect that to be doing something wild would be a bit like Andorra being a dictatorship. The risk to be annexed would cancel anything else.
To expect that to be doing something wild would be a bit like Andorra being a dictatorship. The risk to be annexed would cancel anything else.
Civ'ed
I ain't gotta explain a thing
Isn't the King of Bhutan also known as the People's King?
he does seem like a pretty cool guy, we shouldn't judge the current ruler by his predecessors.
That being said, "archery is the national sport" is terrible as an argument because it implies the plantangenets were swell blokes.
NedimNapoleon
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