As far as I've been able to tell, the testing system was pretty good at rooting out incompetent civil servants without opening up the jobs to the peasant classes. Basically it did what it was designed to do. Baby steps.
Gay rights, women's rights, and disability rights here, with a side job calling out anti-Semitism. I focused more on international relations, to complement my Russian and Arabic language skills, though.
There I go making assumptions, sorry about assuming you weren't. I know how annoying it is. People assume I'm not American, because I have a strong Dutchy (Pennsylvania Dutch, a dialect of low German) accent. I keep getting told how good my English is.
Oh I bet! My family got very wealthy during the gold rush bilking miners, then my great great grandfather lost it when he discovered a way to manufacture dry ice (no seriously!) and his patent lawyer stole the patent and then sued him for all he was worth. Things like that happened over and over again, and our ping ponging fortunes became a family joke, though we were never nobility. My strange outlook on life however comes from the fact that for some reason, people in my family keep marrying the children of Nazis and raging anti-Semites. For a nice Jewish girl, it's kind of disturbing how many of them I can point out in my family tree.
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Date: 2011-07-23 04:42 am (UTC)Gay rights, women's rights, and disability rights here, with a side job calling out anti-Semitism. I focused more on international relations, to complement my Russian and Arabic language skills, though.
There I go making assumptions, sorry about assuming you weren't. I know how annoying it is. People assume I'm not American, because I have a strong Dutchy (Pennsylvania Dutch, a dialect of low German) accent. I keep getting told how good my English is.
Oh I bet! My family got very wealthy during the gold rush bilking miners, then my great great grandfather lost it when he discovered a way to manufacture dry ice (no seriously!) and his patent lawyer stole the patent and then sued him for all he was worth. Things like that happened over and over again, and our ping ponging fortunes became a family joke, though we were never nobility. My strange outlook on life however comes from the fact that for some reason, people in my family keep marrying the children of Nazis and raging anti-Semites. For a nice Jewish girl, it's kind of disturbing how many of them I can point out in my family tree.