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Some countries consider limitless ancestral pathways, but you must have factual evidence (birth records, marriage certificate etc.) that are unquestionable. Several countries also consider the paternal side only, meaning you must be able to trace your lineage through your father's male family line only.

I haven't heard of anyone being able to trace their line back to the discovery of America, but who knows. Certainly heard of some Brazilian successfully claiming German citizenship dating back to refugees from WW1, which is already 110 years ago and 3-4 generations later.

Associates degrees are non-existent and not recognized in the EU, and most if not all countries require you to be a graduate to be eligible for hire, which would make a student visa the easiest route.

Luckily many countries offer tuition completely for free; though bachelor degrees are often taught in the native language. If your Spanish is solid, you could of course go to Spain, else with English you'd be somewhat restricted to Ireland and Malta (English is the second official language, but the primary for tuition).

Other than that, some universities have English taught bachelor degrees, so you'd have to research them individually. Finland is very English- and Tech-friendly, for starters.

Stop whining.

One more reason never to use the official adobe software. SumatraPDF is awesome. Barebones and blazing fast.

Email:

• mailbox.org
• tuta
• hushmail

VPN:

• astrill (expensive but awesome)
• mullvad

Cloud storage:

Rent a small server / vps and set up your own nextcloud instance. Even some packages meant for webhosting work, as long as you can install custom php applications. I'm using all-inkl.com (private plus package) and got 500GB allocated to my nextcloud instance.

There's plenty of mail & vpn services out there, so why bother sticking with the one you don't agree with ideologically?

I'm not being fed sinophobic propaganda, I lived in China for 7 years, speak Chinese, and an married to a Chinese.

Quality of life is by and large alright, but there's a huge disparity between the so called middle class and the actual working class that's in violation of everything Marxist you'll ever read about.

You've obviously never been there, then. Give it a try and get back to me.

China has jailed billionaires for going against the communist party's doctrine and gaining power, not for any actual crimes.

Party officials made their fortune first and were then forced to join the party, the party doesn't make their fortune. They don't care about people, unless they get either rich or influential, and then uses their red book to reel them in.

China is the most capitalist country on the planet. The only thing they openly worship is money.

Please spend some time there and we talk afterwards, if you stick to your opinion.

Possible, yep. We are using two phones anyway, one for all the Chinese crapware and one for the serious stuff, so it doesn't affect daily life. Still a major nuisance though having to revert to those steps.

Agree. I lived in China until last August and left after about 7 years, my wife is Chinese, I speak Chinese. Yet I was alienated on a near constant basis (comes with not looking Chinese, I guess).

Luckily I avoided most of the bag searches by driving my own car (and admittedly, at least where I was at the searches on subway stations were half assed at best), but it sure is a nuisance to be under constant surveillance.