I just finished the Netflix series Anne with an E which takes place in Eastern Canada. One of the characters, Jerry is a Francophone farm hand who has had some racist(?) encounters with an Anglophone who called him Froggy and beat him. I also felt it was quite strange that the only Francophone character was an uneducated farmhand.

I did some digging around the show's sub to see what would cause the treatment towards Jerry and came across this interesting comment:

Being French, he's probably from a Catholic family, so higher education probably wasn't encouraged. This also probably meant that his family was very large, seeing as a-dozen-kids-or-more familes were common for Catholics at the time. Chances are he's working to support his family, and is working for an Anglophone family because the job opportunities are better than in his own community. His family is probably poor, because, well, 12 kids is a lot of mouths to feed, but also because given the historical context of Canada at the time,it was much harder for Francophones to climb the social ranks, especially with the arrival of industrialization and the creation of the middle class

From my understanding, I never though that French Canadians faced discrimination in Canada given that the second language is Canadian after all. What would've made it difficult for a Francophone to climb social ranks? What was the cause for this discrimination and how long did it last for?

I’ve seen cherubs (flying or floating, usually naked, babies / toddlers) in a variety of religious paintings. Even in paintings where only the head is represented, they tend to be playful sprites or sleepy / cuddly companions. A lot of these paintings were commissioned to be displayed in churches, especially to an illiterate populace. But child mortality used to be quite high, especially for children under 5yo, and Catholicism is pretty specific about what happens to unbaptized babies. So how would an average illiterate person (who had likely buried one or more young children) understand these symbols?

Ahir is usually considered a caste in India. Some say Yadava (Ahirs, according to some) is actually a race rather than a caste. there are different theories. I'd really appreciate a well explained answer. Thankyou.

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I was wondering what about the Red scare, and thought it would be interesting to know how it effected the US's desicion to use nuclear bombs against Japan.

I have been having a hard time finding any reliable reading material about this. I would therefore love it, if i could get a link to do some reading together with any info you give me.

Thanks in advance!

I have heard it said before that Nazism grew out of scientific theories on race of the 19th century, exactly how true is this?

I know that the United States and the Ottoman Empire were on opposite sides during World War I but that is the extent of my knowledge of US-Ottoman relations.

After doing some research about medieval ships, I saw that, in the Viking Age, the scandinavians had naval superiority over their enemies. The Knarr and the Drakkar allowed them to go further into the Atlantic sea, even reaching the Americas. Even after the Viking Age, their ships were among the best in Europe. However, other countries must have had their own ships in this period (11th century). The franks, the saxons, the germans, italians, asturians surely had ships, but while I was doing research about them I couldn't find any good information. Do we know other ships designs used in the 11th century in western Europe? Are they adaptations of the Scandinavians?

I’m especially curious as to how Sicilians were treated back then, especially in WV, as I also see photos of black and white miners working alongside each other.

My brother got into an argument with some anti-Semites at work and asked me for help, sadly this is way out of my area of expertise.

I can only presume that they would have focused on an invasion from North-Africa instead.

(both in group fighting and one on one)

sorry if this has already been asked

Hope this is the right sub, I can remove if not

Short version:

I'm looking for some detailed firsthand records from the German cruiser Prinz Eugen and I was wondering if there are any good resources for that kind of stuff online

Longer version:

I'm trying to translate my late grandfathers journal from his time serving on the Prinz Eugen near the end of the war. I am looking for some other resources to try and give more context to the dates and locations he mentions in it. I want to be able to pin down the dates and places of some of his old stories. This is proving to be especially difficult since he didn't always remember or wasn't always willing to share details when he talked about the war. I know most Naval ships kept precise logbooks of their maneuvers and encounters (which would be ideal), but I don't know if these survived the war or were translated or are available online. The Prinz Eugen also famously sailed alongside the Bismark and Lützow and other ships, so accounts from those could also be helpful and are generally interesting to me. Just hoping this sub might know a few tools to help me out.

I know that baccarat was popular among the British upper class at the time Fleming wrote the novels, but why and what does Bond playing the game tell the audience?

I remember learning Russia had Leninism then Stalinism, but China used Maoism. But in school we never learned what actually made these systems different from each other. And what is Trotskyism?

During WW2 and in particular The Battle of Britain, did gunners for aircraft such as the Boulton Paul Defiant train with the pilots?

Were they also given wings and able to fly themselves or were they trained separately and paired with a pilot?

How much worse than a standard firebombing were the nuclear weapons? Is there validity to the idea that the Japanese government didn't even recognise that Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been hit by a nuclear weapon instead of several incendiary bombs? What would have been the projected death count if major cities like Tokyo and Kyoto were nuked instead of the large but comparatively smaller Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

While steel production (of varying quality) has existed for over two thousand years, mass production only began after the discovery of the Bessemer process in the 1850s. Was this the game-changer that replaced iron barrels with steel ones in Europe's growing armies, or was steel in common use before that?

When looking at the Machu Picchu in Peru or Angkor Wat in Cambodia, I was curious if there are any similar sites in the African Rainforest. If not, why could societies rise up and create them in Asia and South America, but not in Africa?

(Edit) I am aware of other “lost” cities in African continent, but I am not aware of any in the actual rainforests of Africa.