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Dec 28, 2016 21:15
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Unfortunately I've seen that website and those of its ilk pop up in facebook posts by relatively normal people. I think they post about Fukushima so much that they show up on the first page of google results pretty frequently.
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Dec 28, 2016 22:00
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so those hapa guys got triggered by this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp73yjLnP2A&feature=youtu.be
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TsarZiedonis posted:Unfortunately I've seen that website and those of its ilk pop up in facebook posts by relatively normal people. I think they post about Fukushima so much that they show up on the first page of google results pretty frequently. I think it was in the AMA thread about Nuclear power that one of the guys who actually works in a plant said that the radiation levels that your average news station talks about are incredibly misleading, and they will sometimes intentionally use the wrong units to make things look much worse. Also you'd pretty much have to go to within a km or less of Fukushima and start kicking up dust and huffing it for a few months to have a chance at a slightly higher incidence of cancer 20 years down the road. The reason the exclusion zone is so massive around the plant is primarily to avoid court cases for anyone who happens to get naturally occurring cancers and blaming it on the incident.
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I'm taking my half-asian children to Fukushima today to spend new years at Grandma's house.
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Dicky mouse posted:so those hapa guys got triggered by this they got triggered by everything is it just a forum for people who don't like race mixing or who are race mixed or both??
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Dec 28, 2016 23:34
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do white and asian count as interracial cause when if you say "I'm in an interracial relationship" it means strongly suggests african american and white to like every american's brain like idk if white people would ever call a black dude and an asian lady interracial, or latino and pacific islander cause they're all browns but maybe this is for a different thread edit: I might be drunk
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Modest Mao posted:do white and asian count as interracial cause when if you say "I'm in an interracial relationship" it means strongly suggests african american and white to like every american's brain  if the first thing that comes to your mind when describing your relationship is "interracial" rather than loving/fulfilling/etc. If someone does that then I'm just going to assume that they are either a fetishist, immature, looking to displease/offend people, or are trying to get tumblr points. I don't know about anyone else, but if that's the defining characteristic of your relationship, then good luck!
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Modest Mao posted:they got triggered by everything yes
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Modest Mao posted:I didn't say I was in one I never said that you were, it was a general statement. Sorry for the confusion. I'm just saying that people who do always give me pause.
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To answer your question MM depends from your frame work. For white people Interacial is black and white. This most tolerated in the porn industry. I spent some time in Asia and most people their viewed interacial as anything being their race plus not their race. the American idea of whiteness is alittle more flexible. Thought in this thread many pages back some mentioned how their is a large Japanese population in brazil and how japan thought they could import these 3rd generation Brazilians/Japanese and they would fit right in, They didn't. I would love to read more about that.
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Modest Mao posted:I didn't say I was in one we know you aren't in one, dude
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I have a lot of friends who grew up on Oahu, where being half asian half white is super common, and I've noticed a few cases where it caused some emotional issues, but they required a specific set of circumstances. Usually the pattern was white military dad who was really racist but married an asian woman anyway due to horniness or loneliness. Sometimes the mom was "local" asian that spoke pigin, sometimes they were more FOB. Then they divorce. The kid bounces between custody of each parent, and the parent talks poo poo about the other to the kid. This is not so uncommon in divorced kids of any race, of course. But here's where race gets into it: Each parent attributes the failure of the marriage to racial reasons and tries to brainwash the kid to hate that race, not realizing that they are basically making GBS threads on 50% of their kid's heritage. They don't care, cause they're blinded by hate. Dad says, "[asian ethnicity] are terrible people. They're weak/greedy/untrustworthy/subhuman/etc." Kid has to listen and agree to gain approval from racist dad. Mom says, "White people are the worst, so awful!" or if they're local, "Fucken haoles are poo poo!" Half-haole kid has to listen and agree to gain racist mother's love. Then they internalize one or both points of view. This is a recipe for a very damaged individual. The exceptions tend to be pigin-speaking psuedo-Hawaiian local boys who discard both racial identities and pretend to be Polynesian instead. Hawaii might be multicultural, but it's full of racist people and I wouldn't want to live there.
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My grandma described my dad's relationship when he was dating my mom as "interracial" because she's central european rather than a full WASP. I've heard people say "interracial" for whites and light skinned south americans, and certainly for asians. What trips people up is like a Japanese dude and a Filipino lady, what that's not interracial how can they be facing any problems they're both "asian" ! Also I see a ton of Asian dudes with white ladies, that always makes me happy because it makes those pathetic dudes super mad or jealous. It's 99% of the time a dude born here though that's good looking by western standards, no one wants to date actual born-in-china men.
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I grew up in southern California and I always thought it weird how nebulous the term "Asian" was. my school had an Asian click which looking back I find funny, after I learned how much bad blood or competition exists between the "peoples of asia"
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Baronjutter posted:Also I see a ton of Asian dudes with white ladies, that always makes me happy because it makes those pathetic dudes super mad or jealous. It's 99% of the time a dude born here though that's good looking by western standards, no one wants to date actual born-in-china men. I also see this a ton and it makes me feel better about raising my son who is Japanese-American. There are a ton of successful people I knew growing up that are Asian males that succeeded in their fields. I'm not even sure I agree about the born-in-China man part. I think people who have been socialized in modern China face a significant disadvantage when it comes to dating in the west, but it's not like anyone actually wants to not date them because they are Chinese. It's like there are super goony anti-social people everywhere. Being an Asian male does not mean you have to be a certain way. Work out, develop yourself, read books, have hobbies, and you can clean up just like any other human who works out and works on improving themselves. It may come as a major shock but a lot of good looking girls in bars don't like dudes who spend 100 hours on Reddit complaining about not hooking up and thinking up strategies for MMORPGs. My old roommate in China was a dude who was a 30 year old virgin and always complained about never getting girls because of a receding hairline and the fact that he one time was diagnosed with acute aspergers. No, that's not the reason you aren't getting past a first date, it's the fact that you never work out, shower every other day, and binge watch anime or binge play video games. Stop using one random defining trait as a crutch for why the world sucks. Are there racist people out there? You bet ya, there always will be. There are people when I was in college that didn't like the fact I had a beard and long hair. Some people will judge you the first time they see you, but it's a small percentage if you're like a normal person who can socialize in a social environment.
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It would be interesting to know what percentages of marriages on the mainland are actually a result of two people dating and getting married of their own accord, and what percentage are a result of parents arranging everything or getting a matchmaking agent to do it. A lot of the guys I knew in China were in the latter camp, while the ones who were still unmarried were either going about it the wrong way (un-showered, doughy goons) or they just assumed their parents would take care of it. I think all of my wife's cousins (but one) had arrangements made where they were introduced to their current spouses by their parents or through an agent (also arranged by their parents).
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Hmm, I wonder what would happen if I shouted Taiwan #1 in China?
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oohhboy posted:Hmm, I wonder what would happen if I shouted Taiwan #1 in China? China is #1, not taiwan. But Taiwan is also China, so Taiwan is also #1. - or - It is a complicated matter, foreigners would not understand and have no business enumerating.
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Modest Mao posted:China is #1, not taiwan. But Taiwan is also China, so Taiwan is also #1. So you would happen, got it.
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oohhboy posted:Hmm, I wonder what would happen if I shouted Taiwan #1 in China? If you shouted it in English: Nobody catches what you said, and instead just stare at you for as long as you are there because you are foreign. If you shouted it in Mandarin: Nobody catches what you said, and instead just stare at you for as long as you are there because you are foreign. If you keep silent: Everybody just stare at you for as long as you are there because you are foreign.
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I'm gonna treat China like I do the Midwest, here in the U.S., skip it when I fly over it for a better destination.
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Glenn Quebec posted:I'm gonna treat China like I do the Midwest, here in the U.S., skip it when I fly over it for a better destination. with that sentence u offended me twice
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Glenn Quebec posted:I'm gonna treat China like I do the Midwest, here in the U.S., skip it when I fly over it for a better destination. Glenn I must kill you now to save face, sorry
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The Great Autismo! posted:I also see this a ton and it makes me feel better about raising my son who is Japanese-American. There are a ton of successful people I knew growing up that are Asian males that succeeded in their fields. I'm not even sure I agree about the born-in-China man part. I think people who have been socialized in modern China face a significant disadvantage when it comes to dating in the west, but it's not like anyone actually wants to not date them because they are Chinese. There's a mathematician named Shinichi Mochizuki who is Japanese American. He grew up in the US and got his PhD at Stanford then went full goon, moved to work at Kyoto University, and wrote a proof for the abc conjecture which is one of the great questions of mathematics, just also happens to be the one with like no applications outside of math. The proof is several hundred pages long though (many high level proofs like that are only 2-3) and only five other mathematicians have claimed to have read it. The man himself says it would take a postgrad ten years of study to understand it. This is his website: http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~motizuki/students-english.html Supposedly he is reluctant to converse in English despite obviously being fluent and prefers you talk to him and that he presents in Japanese. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinichi_Mochizuki raton fucked around with this message at 06:05 on Dec 29, 2016 |
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Blistex posted:Pretty much everything from that website is either an outright lie, some half-truth from a blog, or has been taken out of context. An example of the latter would be, "radiation levels in US and Canadian rivers might double". Wow! Double nothing is still nothing. That's like saying your chances of winning the lottery have doubled. So instead of 1 in a 100 million, they are now 2 in 100 million. Escape Addict posted:Hawaii might be multicultural, but it's full of racist people and I wouldn't want to live there. As a white kid growing up there (and living as an adult), it's like Asia in a way, where a white person will never be considered a "local" resident despite being born and raised there. Oh well. It's too expensive now and everyone in my family has left except for one. I love the place, but will probably never go back in this lifetime. ----------- I haven't posted about any crazy people for a little while because I haven't IRL met anyone new that is crazy. Just normal people. I did match with some girl off Tantan a bit ago that lives two Km away from and me and it was like this: Me: "Hello, how are you today?" Her: *Cat photo* Me: "What?" Her: *More cat photos* Me: "What do you mean? Her: *Photo of her holding a cat* Me: "Okay" When she finally got around to writing, she told me she loves cats. REALLY???? She said she took stray cats from the street and fixed them up and got them adopted by people. That's all good and noble, so I asked her how many cats she had in her shelter. "It's just my house, it is not a business or pet shop. I have eleven right now, and more staying with my friends." Oh, cool. Eleven cats in a tiny Chinese apartment where the resident probably has the windows shut tight because it's "cold" outside right now. My eyes started watering from the cat piss stench seeping out of Wechat. If the conversation hit a lag (because of cats), or I'd message her later, she'd go back to responding with cat photos. Most of the time she communicated using animated cat stickers, cat photos, cat this, cat that. I thought she was cute, so I was trying to put my e-moves on her. She couldn't meet me outside, she had to take care of the cats in her spare time. She didn't feel lonely at night, because cats. She had nothing else going on in her life except cats and sitting at home with cats. She said I could come meet her at her house. I had no intention of that, because I could tell a cat in her presence would negate any attention she would have on me or our supposed conversation. The thought of banging her on a bed full of cat hair with five litter boxes in the next room made me gag. I said she could come to my house, but... cats. I told her I was very allergic to cats (which is actually true). The chats had been total poo poo already, but I thought I'd end it there. As expected, she stopped talking to me once she learned that. I don't know why someone is using a dating app for humans when it's obvious she don't need no (hu)man in her life. Cats will do just fine for her. I sincerely doubt any dude is going to put up with her hobby for long. Toxoplasmosis is a hell of a drug. Here's some proof:  I would post the photo she sent me of her photoshopped to look like a cat, but that would dox her too much.
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So for the past few months I've been working for a lady in Beijing to assist her daughter in getting accepted to a US university. The kid is pretty smart and has done a lot of extracurricular activities, my main job has been to help revise and edit her essays along with some advising on completing the applications. For some reason the family was super worried the kid wouldn't get accepted to any universities so they applied to over 20 (ridiculous, since she's already been accepted to one and has been offered a $27k/year scholarship). Anyways, after months of essays and revisions, I get the news that her high school is refusing to send out more than 7 letters of recommendation and transcripts for the girl. Initially the school said that each student was only allowed a limited number of applications, but they couldn't show that written anywhere. Eventually they admitted that sending out too many applications somehow negatively affects their reputation or some such bullshit. I assume since universities keep records of how many students from a high school apply to them, the high school doesn't want there to be a lot of "applied, not accepted" stats out there. The mother had a meeting with the principal, and told be she basically had to agree to the terms to help the school save face, despite the fact that their first priority should be the student. I'd be pissed about all the wasted effort I put in, but right now I just want to take a baseball bat to face culture. Icing on the cake was the mom telling me "it's ok, you're a foreigner, you just wouldn't understand."
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KillingPablo posted:Icing on the cake was the mom telling me "it's ok, you're a foreigner, you just wouldn't understand." Really though, I'd flip my poo poo. She's using her own bit of face on you to "blame" you for being foreign, so she can save face instead of apologizing that things are out of control (and lose face for admitting things didn't go as planned). 5000 years of being assholes for no reason. ---- Does anyone know if Whatsapp works in China without a VPN? Whatsapp is the numbar one in India and all of my Indian friends use it, but I have been too lazy to try it.
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Supposedly it works but I would like some form of confirmation myself for when I head up in Feb so I don't get Chinr by not going with the wrong people.
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My wife had to make sure that we applied to about 10 primary schools for my older son, because she had a friend who did the same but their kid did not get into any of their chosen primary schools and had to go to a lovely government school. The face thing is hilarious though. Mainlanders found out about our Battle of Hong Kong commemoration, and I think the resulting salt can be a great new natural resource for China. http://m.weibo.cn/status/4057944176...11&type=comment
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http://m.weibo.cn/2348604107/4057744379882221 "Do the foreigners living in Hong Kong not realize it is part of China?" "Why don't they remember the Opium War? "Wait 50 years, it will all be part of Shenzhen" "Hope they remember the British surrendered without firing a shot" (a big gently caress you to this guy)
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Haier posted:LOL, you got FACED!!!! Really the funniest thing about these applications has been the process itself. The mother is the VP of the university I work at, and instead of spending big bucks on having a third-party service do her daughter's applications, she assembled a team from the university including: two of her former PhD students, the director and assistant director of the International Office, and myself. She has also sent her daughter's essays to other professors to look them over, and has grabbed various other IO staff to help as necessary. And we've had several hour long meetings several times a week during working hours to finish the applications and essays. Of course, she's planning to quit her job soon, so I guess it's her last "gently caress you" to the school. The meetings are seriously soul crushing though. Imagine having a meeting where you have a 10-minute discussion on whether or not to check the box that says the applicant is an international student (she's not, she was born in the US). The process also demonstrates the lack of imagination and knowledge of the university system too. For example: the girl wants to study biology, and is interested in Alzheimer's. In one essay I mentioned a few professors at a university doing Alzheimer's research, but they happened to work in the department of chemistry and biochemistry. So what do they decide to do when they see that: why, change her intended major to chemistry, of course! Because changing her intended major is a far simpler solution than finding different professors for the essay, or acknowledging that she will be able to take chemistry classes as a biology student, etc. I've pretty much given up on arguing over anything anymore.
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