Quote Originally Posted by Montmorency View Post
Well, assuming the 30-odd detained suspects were representative of the mob, then we get mostly non-Syrians (primarily North Africans, Afghans, etc.), most of whom have been in Europe for at least a year. That's an important demographic distinction to acknowledge, if correctly-construed.
Apparently they have only detained 19 now. Nine are thought to be illegals, and irrc four or six of the remainder arrived since September last year.

Apparently this particular cultural behaviour has a name and was used in Egypt during the revolution. The fact that no Syrians were involved does not mean they do not pose a problem - just that they may not pose this problem.

To be clear - if you currently transplant a million Englishmen into Germany you'll have a problem too. We know this, in fact, because British Servicemen caused constant problems when they were garrisoned in Germany during the cold war, and the "Ex-Pats" cause constant problems for the Spanish.

No, it's iffy. Nowadays "Miss" is reserved for primary-school age girls or younger. It is not at all unusual to see an adolescent referred to as "Ms".
It's not iffy, an unmarried woman should be referred to a s "Miss", that's very clearly still the rule in the UK. Admittedly the practice of calling an unmarried man "Master" has mostly fallen out of favour but you still see it used. In the context of juveniles there's no reason to use "Ms" because you know they can't be married. Ms was invented for diverced women, so that people didn't have to tip-toe around asking if a woman in her forties was still married.

I would say use of "Ms" is pretty clear cut, in the UK at least, it denotes either a divorced woman or a woman who is married but has not changed her name. I have never seen an unmarried woman under the age of 30 use the title "Ms".