User Comments - lachkatze

Posted on: Dog Meat and Animal Rights

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated”. Mahatma Gandhi

... nothing to add to that...

Posted on: Dog Meat and Animal Rights

@paulinurus, you can find the vocabulary needed for your shopping endeavors in any of the bland school books or tourist books. What you cannot find there is specialized vacabulary

Posted on: Dog Meat and Animal Rights

I like CPod better each day for the great lessons you come up with. And you have a lot of guts bringing up themes that people don´t like to hear about and definately do not want to see pictures of (because it reminds them of the fact that they are responsible for what is happening).

@alexyzye, you are right in the point that Westerners who eat pork themselves have no right to critisize the eating of dogs. Then again, you cannot justify one wrong thing with another. 

@jackie234, I don´t agree with you on your interpretation of "culture". Here is a definition provided by Wikipedia:

"However, the word "culture" is most commonly used in three basic senses:

• excellence of taste in the fine arts and humanities
• an integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for symbolic thought and social learning
• the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution, organization or group".

I don´t see how the barbaric treatment of fellow beings can be considered "excellent taste in humanity and values". I´d rather consider it a bad habit that people got used to and don´t want to give up because it is "convenient". However, if we never question our doings but excuse them by "tradition", society will not make any progress...

After all, cannibalism and human sacrifices used to be "tradition" in some societies and finally have been given up due to the progress of society

Posted on: Zombies!

That´s what I love about CPod! You always come up with such useful lessons and vocabulary that can´t really be found in other study material :-)

Posted on: Hungry Traveler: Inner Mongolia

The fermented milk is called Airag, as far as I remember, and it is also known as the "Coke" of Mongolia