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A nice side effect of this is a pretty significant brain drain, when your people are motivated to leave because they want to avoid 1-3 years of military service for basically no pay (3 if you're selected to serve as an officer, so Doctors, Engineers, and I believe certain other specializations, 1 otherwise).
It's funny (and depressing) to think about how were it not for some luck and some hard work, I'd probably be in my first of 3 years of conscription right this second. Instead I'm on HN :)
* Subject to the feelings and competence of the bureaucrats processing the paperwork, as well as any presidential decrees which might interfere with this policy.
Benefits: Corporate housing with armed security guards.
Who could refuse such an offer?
Maybe that's why math education is being sabotaged.
I think France, Germany and the Netherlands have some degree of prejudice against North Africans (specifically Moroccans and Algerians).
As for why, you'd need to consult at a history book and look at the socioeconomic statuses of the aforementioned North African diasporas in those countries.
Looking at the families I know, the mother (or grandparents if they're local, willing, and able) make child-rearing their top priority. Either that or they live in a country with dirt-cheap childcare due to cheap labor.
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I tend to agree with you (finding the leading No\n grating when it's used as a "well actually" replacement) but ime its sometimes used by people from cultural backgrounds where the standard for communication is more direct than what the English-speaking world is used to, and not intended to come across as smug or know-it-all, and I don't mind it as much in those cases.
Oh wait, wrong conspiracy theory