Ariz Kader

7/7 One of the main points of conflicts k the Kurdistan Region of Iraq has been recent Arab incomers to the city who haven't learned the language. If that is something that creates issues in the same generation, what effect does a third generation non-speaker produce?

6/7 Communities that move around the Middle East often make great efforts to learn their new host languages and often do really well at integrating. Chaldean and Arab communities in Slemani may as well be Kurds by now considering their integration level.

5/7 I'm honestly really saddened by this as when I was a kid, all me & my family wanted to do was live somewhere at peace & integrate. You might be able to chalk this down to immigrant communities worldwide creating their own lexicons etc,. But why doesn't this happen back home?

4/7 However, I see kids now of the second or even third generation immigrants who were born and raised here and whose main exposures to language have been im Swedish speak it with far more difficulty than we did.

3/7 When I lived in Sweden as a kid, I was a first generation immigrant. As where many of my generation in our school and I have to say, we made great efforts to learn to speak the language properly. Most of us worked hard enough to gain native-level proficiency.

2/7 However, what I do notice is that their outward religiousity and use of religious commentary on their friends' lives is much more overwhelming than during my childhood. In addition to this, the quality of their Swedish skills is considerably worse.

1/7 I'm standing at a bus station in #Kista, #Sweden, near the area I spent much of my childhood. Waiting for the bus,a group of kids show up after school to take the bus home. They all look pretty much like they did when I was a kid in this area (heavily immigrant background)

If outside actors truly want to present the PYD as non-representative, wouldn't it make sense to empower these smaller parties?

The myriad of tiny Kurdish origin parties in Syria may have some support among parts of the Kurdish population, but they enjoy no practical support and have not even been allowed into Afrin after the Turkish occupation to administer Kurdish areas.

Mildly related, but it does strike me as odd how in the KRI, foreign governments can talk about "Kurds" while only referring to the two main parties while in Syria, the PYD which is overwhelmingly in control of Kurdish areas (sans Afrin) is never representative.https://twitter.com/hasavrat/status/1063016005557878784 …

Brexit is not going to make the genuine brexiteer happy until the UK disconnects itself from the global community completely (or, im better circumstances, becomes king of its own community). No form of EU memebership or integration scheme is going to deliver on that.

A hard Brexit, most would reckon, would hurt those areas that are most connected with Europe (London, Scotland) while rural England for example I guess figures it would do just fine (which it probably would).

It seems the logical conclusion is a) either a government that provides a B-grade EU membership or b) a complete disconnect between the UK and the EU. Obviously, die hard brexiteers want the latter (and no one would really be happy with the former).

A situation wherein the UK has its cake and eats it (full benefits of EU common market without obligations) was a downright impossible ask. People knew it wasn't going to happen and any government asking for it was doomed from the get-go.

The thing about #Brexit from an outside perspective is that it simply isn't deliverable. Mostly because "brexiteers" don't seem to just want an annulment of the UK's EU membership, but rather they want a complete overhaul of the UK's relationship with the rest of the world.