Valentines Day stuff! Also, BRAND NEW EXPERIMENTAL HISTORY MEME!

Feb 14, 2011 20:09

 Good evening, everyone! Happy Valentines day, for those of you who celebrate it!

First, a brief link recommendation. If you've never heard of Postsecrets, you should definitely check them out: essentially, people send in anonymous postcards with their secrets on them. Some are sad, some are quirky, some are touching, and all are absolutely awesome ( Read more... )

music in my head, thank you kindly, scribblings, positiveness, craziness, meme, scholarly pursuits, procrastination station

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beboots February 17 2011, 04:19:46 UTC
"1947. I know that's later than other countries, but the thing is, it seems people just hadn't thought that women should vote before. Once the subject came up, it was relatively a short time before women could vote, a couple of years or so." Interesting! I think that our last province to give women the vote was Quebec in 1940, so we weren't far off either. ;) I think that New Zealand was the earliest country to give women the vote, in the late 1800s. Go them!

"Funny, that pretty much summarizes the stiuation in Argentina as well. We just tend to be a bit more drastic in our measures, but lack the funds to implement them properly right away. ^^U" Interesting! Do you mostly follow Spain and other South American countries, or the United States, or...?

I think that the British North American colonies (what everything else besides the United States was, before Canadian confederation) followed a policy of gradual emancipation, in which, like, slaves born after a certain date were born free, and those that were left were freed at X age or something. I think. There were only ever a few in the Canadas in the first place - we had a pretty tiny population compared to the States and our economy didn't depend on slave labour - so it wasn't very difficult.

"Seriously, those were horrible times... is there anywhere they weren't oppressed, enslaved and abused?" It's... pretty tough to point to one, sadly enough.

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