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Imperialist Dog posted:Haha check out this cringe 1999 educational video for English. This reminds me of something I think I might have brought up before. English textbooks for Chinese students tend to feature a lot of, "Hello foreigner! This is China! In China we do it this way, oh and this is Chinese food, also the Great Wall, you know?" I thinks it's a pretty sharp contrast to language textbooks I had growing up which usually featured an English speaker going to the country where that language is spoken and learning about THEIR country, history, culture, food, etc. Haier posted:Kinda on topic: My favorite part is when I tell a white person, "you should probably just say Asian-" then they huff and puff about political correctness. And then I tell them it's not about being politically correct, it just avoids calling a non-Chinese person Chinese and they can't seem to wrap their minds around it. mrbotus fucked around with this message at 12:26 on Dec 28, 2016 |
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Haier posted:Kinda on topic: not all white people are americans obsessed with their ancestors!!!
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nickmeister posted:This reminds me of something I think I might have brought up before. English textbooks for Chinese students tend to feature a lot of, "Hello foreigner! This is China! In China we do it this way, oh and this is Chinese food, also the Great Wall, you know?" I thinks it's a pretty sharp contrast to language textbooks I had growing up which usually featured an English speaker going to the country where that language is spoken and learning about THEIR country, history, culture, food, etc. Interesting, I don't teach English here so I haven't seen any Chinese English textbooks. It was like that in Korea though. Every lesson in a Korean English textbook is this: A) The Korean characters bring the Foreign character(s) to something Korean. Event, food, whatever. B) The Foreign characters are bumbling idiots and corrected by the Koreans. C) The Foreign characters exclaim how wonderful the Korean thing is and how great Korea is. Every drat time. And yes, when I learned languages in the US the books were always about the target language's country and had zero to do with the US.
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Dec 28, 2016 12:47
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Haier posted:Kinda on topic: Now, tell me if you feel a strange tingling in your pants, or if this enrages you and the word SAUPREIßN! comes to your mind when you listen to this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3i17f9IhPg
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Dec 28, 2016 13:23
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Haier posted:Kinda on topic: I mean, sure, not all Asians are Chinese but if you had to choose, it seems like the safest guess...
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Murray Mantoinette posted:I mean, sure, not all Asians are Chinese but if you had to choose, it seems like the safest guess... Or you could just ask them
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Dec 28, 2016 13:48
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So Khan, are ya Chinese or Japanese?
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Even my textbooks here are always about something nice about Taiwan, but in polite little "thanks for noticing us!" ways. Chapter One: Welcome to Taiwan. Chapter Two: Taiwanese fruit is very delicious. Chapter Three: Taiwan has many beautiful mountains. Also, because of all the Latin American students, one of the main male characters is Honduran.
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Grand Fromage posted:And yes, when I learned languages in the US the books were always about the target language's country and had zero to do with the US. It didn't have all the "wow your country sure is so great" stuff much iirc but when I learned Chinese in school in the US the textbooks were set in exotic Australia with an Australian kid showing a Chinese immigrant around in Australian suburbia and school. It was kinda weird come to think of it.
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Murray Mantoinette posted:I mean, sure, not all Asians are Chinese but if you had to choose, it seems like the safest guess... My wife and I were in Hartford and we saw an Asian man snow blowing his driveway and my wife asked if we could go and watch him, because she had never seen a snowblower. So we did, and he came over and talk to us for a few minutes, and was super nice. Then we left, and while we were leaving my wife asked me "where is he from?" And I responded I have no idea, and my wife asked me if we could go back and ask him, and I said no, and she said why not? And I tried to explain to her how offensive this could be in the United States, and she was like who cares? And I was like yeah I know it's kind of dumb I am p sure he was Chinese
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The Great Autismo! posted:My wife and I were in Hartford and we saw an Asian man snow blowing his driveway and my wife asked if we could go and watch him, because she had never seen a snowblower. So we did, and he came over and talk to us for a few minutes, and was super nice. Then we left, and while we were leaving my wife asked me "where is he from?" And I responded I have no idea, and my wife asked me if we could go back and ask him, and I said no, and she said why not? And I tried to explain to her how offensive this could be in the United States, and she was like who cares? And I was like yeah I know it's kind of dumb i'm pretty sure he was japanese as he didn't just pour hot water over the snow, as is tradition in china and korea
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Jeoh posted:i'm pretty sure he was japanese as he didn't just pour hot water over the snow, as is tradition in china and korea People clearing snow with hoses and then being flummoxed why there's ice everywhere is still my favorite thing in Korea.
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Koramei posted:It didn't have all the "wow your country sure is so great" stuff much iirc but when I learned Chinese in school in the US the textbooks were set in exotic Australia with an Australian kid showing a Chinese immigrant around in Australian suburbia and school. It was kinda weird come to think of it. What was strange? That the Australian tried to speak a foreign language instead of calling him a slur? The Great Autismo! posted:My wife and I were in Hartford and we saw an Asian man snow blowing his driveway and my wife asked if we could go and watch him, because she had never seen a snowblower. So we did, and he came over and talk to us for a few minutes, and was super nice. Then we left, and while we were leaving my wife asked me "where is he from?" And I responded I have no idea, and my wife asked me if we could go back and ask him, and I said no, and she said why not? And I tried to explain to her how offensive this could be in the United States, and she was like who cares? And I was like yeah I know it's kind of dumb It would seem dumb to people who don't have to put up with being from a country but being assumed to be a foreigner all the time. How did he speak? Did he have an accent? Sometimes it's easier to ask someone what their ethnicity is rather than where they're from, since that's what most people want to know anyway.
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his English was excellent but he definitely had an accent and I think was not a native English speaker, like I don't think having a conversation with someone and being like "where ya from?" is that rude and I have pretty much asked if my entire life but over the past five or so years I've kinda stopped asking people because you never know when someone is going to be like "what are you implying because of my race I'm not an American? Are you a racist?" and I just don't care enough to know where someone is from to go through all that
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I guess it depends. I don't think a simple, "where are you from?" should warrant accusations of racism, but it really depends on the follow up. If that guy told you he was from Chicago, would you follow up with a, "no, where are you REALLY from?  " or do you just leave it? Because what annoys me is:"Where are you from?" "Boston." "Um... you were born there?" "Yeah." "Uh... where are your parents from?" "Boston." "Oh, uh... really?" "My father was born in Boston, my mother was born in Massachusetts, she moved around New England a lot when she was young, though." "Er... do you speak any other languages?" "No..." Person sighs like a frustrated police detective who can't get a criminal to open up about their crimes.
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Yeah don't be goony about asking people where they are from, I agree
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It's not goony, it's really common.
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There was this dude I knew in China who always hated how people would ask where he's from, and then one night we were out and we met two girls from Spain, and when he learned they were from Spain he said "Hola, me encanta enchiladas! Haha!" And they walked away and he couldn't figure out why they didn't find it funny. I was like dude r u kidding me
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nickmeister posted:It's not goony, it's really common. Yeah I dunno, I've never really asked people like that before, if someone tells me they are from Boston I'd probably be like "cool me too are the celtics gonna hit the over 54 wins this year so you think?" And just continue talking to the person about Boston
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The Great Autismo! posted:Yeah I dunno, I've never really asked people like that before, if someone tells me they are from Boston I'd probably be like "cool me too are the celtics gonna hit the over 54 wins this year so you think?" And just continue talking to the person about Boston You went to China and married a foreigner. Maybe you're more open minded than some?
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nickmeister posted:You went to China and married a foreigner. Maybe you're more open minded than some? no I'm a racist and autistic 
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The Great Autismo! posted:no I'm a racist and autistic lol
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Conversation my azn waifu has had more than once... "So where are you from?" 🙂"New York" "Yeah, but where do you come from originally?" 😢"...New Jersey" "But like, where does your family come from?" Like seriously, if you want to know someone's ethnicity just ask. If you think it would be rude for whatever reason to ask directly, asking indirectly probably isn't much better.
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There's not really an "expats" thread in GBS but y'all need to read thisLunchmeat Larry posted:I [31 M] cheated on my GF [24F] of 3 years and she cheated back, now I'm devastated
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What a piece of poo poo. Goddamn.
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P-Mack posted:Conversation my azn waifu has had more than once... I live in the DC area and because almost no (white) people are actually from here the two most common questions you ask and get asked when meeting someone for the first time are "What do you do?" (for a living) and "Where are you from?" (implication being what state)
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Mameluke posted:There's not really an "expats" thread in GBS but y'all need to read this Edit: Wait, that's a goon? I thought this was a reddit post. Goondolences. I had a date today. It was pretty good and she was nice and we had a pleasant conversation, but it will never go anywhere because she lives 35km away from me and needs to take a bus two hours each way because there's no Metro. I got free food (half the reason I went, TBH). She took some of the most unflattering photos of me I have had up to this point in my life. It's like looking at myself through someone else's eyes and it's gross. All confidence LOST! YUUUUGE blow to my brain. Just WRONG. Also 
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Haier posted:LMAO at this stupid gently caress. That's wonderful. They're both idiots for staying together. She's dumb as hell for not leaving him from the first time, or the first time 100 times, but she's Thai and they seem to love miserable situations and bad relationships in their culture. He's dumb for his double standards and bitch-made baby reaction. MY DREAM GIRL! Nooooo. LMAO. Is is from reddit. Just from the SA reddit thread. Also I hope that's you with the loving awesome hair
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Phlegmish posted:Congratulations. Thanks! We've yet to tell anyone since she's only ~1 month pregnant. Waiting for the ultrasound (another 3 weeks) before we break the news. nomad2020 posted:Have you seen this wonderful section of Reddit? 
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That Nazi stuff from Taiwan seems to make a few waves http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/27/world/asia/taiwan-nazi-hitler-parade.html?ribbon-ad-idx=6&rref=world/asia quote:The next year, a restaurant with a concentration camp theme opened, closing weeks after it became a source of outrage. How does that even work? We'll let your starve at the table and make you work until you die. We'll take care of your wife, kids and elders. Here's the way to the showers. There's an electric fence around our restaurant. You may hurl yourself into it, once you lose all hope of being served. Guests are randomly shot by the guards or beaten to death by capos.
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Make sure your potential son doesn't join some hosed up community like that, they all fantasize about killing their white fathers and then themselves to erase their unending shame of polluting the gene pool, hopefully during some sort of mass killing taking out as many white worshiping asian ladies as possible I have seen a lot of really hosed up communities but those guys really take the cake. Like I read some thread there once saying this was their dream goal : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Isla_Vista_killings mass murder perpetrated by self hating half white half asian kid the really hosed up thing is whenever a white girl dating an asian guy stumbles in there, they all trip over themselves drooling over her telling her how great she is Invisible Handjob fucked around with this message at 17:00 on Dec 28, 2016 |
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P-Mack posted:Conversation my azn waifu has had more than once... IF YOU HAD A RACIAL PASSPORT WHAT WOULD IT SAY
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nickmeister posted:It's not goony, it's really common. Still irritating as gently caress, imagine it's much the same in any place that's a bit homogeneous.  edit: also reading this makes me thinka you chinathread: http://us.tomonews.com/asian-student-free-after-smashing-face-of-man-who-shouted-racist-taunts-3231896 Deceitful Penguin fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Dec 28, 2016 |
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Some Tantan lately: This triggered me!  WAT?  Fivehead so glorious, it can't fit into one photo.  This mole is ready for India. 
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Haier posted:Some Tantan lately: They were just so huge! I couldn't believe it
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She needs to meditate and develop that third eye a little more.
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Her third eye is preparing for kan re nao
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Mameluke posted:There's not really an "expats" thread in GBS but y'all need to read this Thats an achingly beautiful meltdown. Haunting.
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Haier posted:
this is what happens when you hold in a sneeze
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