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What should I do if I develop anxiety and feel very unsafe around someone?
If the behavior of your mom’s boyfriend is causing this strong a reaction in you, I am guessing your mother is aware of his harmful behavior. If his behavior is focused on you as a target and she has no idea why you would feel this way, you may need to explain to her what is going on that is makingRead more
If the behavior of your mom’s boyfriend is causing this strong a reaction in you, I am guessing your mother is aware of his harmful behavior. If his behavior is focused on you as a target and she has no idea why you would feel this way, you may need to explain to her what is going on that is making you feel this way. Depending on what your gut tells you she is going to react to hearing this, you may want to have a safety plan set up for yourself if there is a threat that he will retaliate if he finds out you talked to her, or if you think your mom will be hostile toward you. Your safety plan can include things like: where and when you can talk to her without the boyfriend around. An immediate exit strategy from wherever you talk to her if needed. A plan for who to talk to next if your mother does not take your concerns seriously, you could inform the police if he’s doing something criminal, make a child protection report to your county office if your mom does not keep you safe from him, tell a trusted adult about the situation. You deserve to feel safe in your own home. Your guardian has an obligation to make you feel safe in your own home as well. It may help to talk this out with a school counselor as well if you are still in school. Good luck, you can do this. Or, if the situation is too dangerous, get help from a trusted adult who can maybe help you have the conversation with your mom along side you.
See lessIs it possible for China to beat the US by becoming the most powerful country in terms of technology and finance?
That is probably never going to happen. Power doesn’t exist in a vacuum, it arises from historical circumstances. China’s circumstances now aren’t too different from what they were historically. Historically China has large amounts of land to farm a staple carbohydrate m that could feed a huge populRead more
That is probably never going to happen.
See lessPower doesn’t exist in a vacuum, it arises from historical circumstances. China’s circumstances now aren’t too different from what they were historically. Historically China has large amounts of land to farm a staple carbohydrate m that could feed a huge population. This resulted in semi-modern attitudes and behavior at a much earlier phase of cultural and technological development than most human societies have experienced.
One result of the Chinese agricultural boom is that illiterate warlords with maces were no longer adequate to see to the technically and politically complex tasks associated with meeting output quotas and seeing to it that the sorts of crops that were needed to feed livestock in one part of the empire made it from the opposite side of the empire. So their aristocracy (aristocracies being rooted in war and battle) became more like the British aristocracy in the early 20th century, a sort of pastoral artifact from an earlier era, just a thousand or so years earlier than in the rest of the world. In their place, you had a group of scholar-civil servants that could ostensibly come from any social class (but over time evolved into a sort of pseudo-aristocracy in their own right, with sons generally receiving the same or similar appointments as their fathers). The 5% to 10% of people who were wealthy and cultured enough to be ‘gentry’ and could afford to pay for their sons to receive civil service education up to Confucian standards shared power over Chinese society. Meanwhile the aristocracy, the peasants, and even the emperor became peripheral political influences. Occasionally a non-scholar/civil service faction could reassert itself (most often an emperor), but eventually the balance of power would shift back to the scholar/civil servants.
Essentially, China was like a corporation run by management rather than by executives. The executives existed, and had influence, but mainly as accessories to the goals and capabilities of management. The pace of Chinese society was decided mainly by scholar/civil servants.