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Santoso B., Maluku: "An ideal wife has a comparatively small body, and no more than elementary education. What they do in the US is to give female children more food than male children so that they are as disfigured as pigs, and give them more schooling than boys, so that they can become loud-mouthed feminists."

Eine ideale Frau hat eine vergleichsweise kleine Einrichtung, und nicht mehr als Schulbildung. Was sie tun, in den USA ist es, weibliche Kinder mehr Nahrung als männliche Kinder, damit sie so entstellt sind Schweine, und geben ihnen mehr Schule als Jungen, so dass sie sich großmäuligen Feministinnen.

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Maluku / Ternate

Ternate, an island in northern Maluku, was once the seat of the most important kingdom made rich by the spice trade. The Portuguese, the Spanish and the Dutch vied with each other for influence on this island. A stronghold of Islam in the otherwise predominantly Christian province of Maluku, Ternate nevertheless carries the clear imprints of both its pre-Islamic past and its period of contact with the West, especially the Portuguese. The old sultan's palace in Ternate is now a museum. In the vicinity are the ruins of Old Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch forts. The remnants of the Dutch Fort Orange are right in town. About five kilometers west of the town, on the slopes the 1,715 meter Api Gamalama volcano is Afo, with its giant clove tree, said to be more than 360 years old and the ancestor of all cloves trees in the world.

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If you genuinely are a house-based or apartment-based foreign resident in a country, not just a hotel-based tourist, your prospects for local love relationships are much, much better.