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I've been denied entry in places in Japan due to being not Japanese, and in China. I know it goes on in Korea as well, even locally in Australia we have Chinese, Japanese and Korean business's that have excluded people outside their races. This poo poo happens.
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There are even Japanese only places in Bangkok. You'd think that would be asking for a fight from rowdy tourists, but apparently everyone just rolls with it.
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Coolguye posted:so i have to go with the cops' reading of it that it's just an alert because the Chinese guy seems to agree that's what it says. he is simply saying that because it's only in chinese, and there isn't a similar posting in Japanese/Korean/Thai as well, it's exclusionary. The sign is in Japanese. It starts with "Dear Chinese people” and goes on to say they source food from Fukushima
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Kevin DuBrow posted:The sign is in Japanese. It starts with "Dear Chinese people” and goes on to say they source food from Fukushima "Try our Fukushima Daichi Cerenkov eel sauce! Glow in the dark goo never tasted so good!"
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Kevin DuBrow posted:The sign is in Japanese. It starts with "Dear Chinese people” and goes on to say they source food from Fukushima ah, gotcha, my bad. i wasn't really paying attention to the backdrop and tried to infer from context.
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Coolguye posted:ah, gotcha, my bad. i wasn't really paying attention to the backdrop and tried to infer from context. I blanked everything out but that guy's hair too
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Goku has the right to run a restaurant if he wants
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https://twitter.com/AmbassadeChine/status/1696862701517984185 noted defenders of regional languages as opposed to hegemony of the capital dialect, the French what is with the Chinese embassy in France
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ronya posted:https://twitter.com/AmbassadeChine/status/1696862701517984185 It turns out that being given free reign to just make poo poo up means you will whenever it suits you.
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I don't think admitting you stole and subjugated a country comparably to what colonial america did is as good a look as they think it is
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:I don't think admitting you stole and subjugated a country comparably to what colonial america did is as good a look as they think it is “We’re better than literal genocidaire Andrew Jackson” is a hell of a low bar to set for yourself, and then to run head-first into rather than clear.
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I posted in the (understandably) dead China travel thread as well, but I'm going to be in Beijing in a couple weeks for the first time since 2019. Is anyone in this thread in China now? Is there any post-covid cultural stuff to be aware of? Did most of the businesses survive the lockdowns?
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ronya posted:noted defenders of regional languages as opposed to hegemony of the capital dialect, the French Sharing an English language meme on the France embassy account is also touché 
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:I don't think admitting you stole and subjugated a country comparably to what colonial america did is as good a look as they think it is They seem to genuinely think "you genocided your native peoples so you can't criticize us for genociding ours" is an airtight argument.
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Coolguye posted:~snip snip~ but it does mean that the video poster is a whiny baby causing trouble first and foremost. I suspect that if China had not been salty binches about fukushima in the first place, etc etc etc, its an orobouros of poo poo eating stupidity. That being said, SEA's rascism is always weirdly nuanced.
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I also kinda wish they didn't use becquerels, because 143 trillion sounds really scary, what a huge number! But a becquerel is a single atom decay so that 143 trillion is like, five grams of tritium. Which you shouldn't drink five grams of tritium but it's not a big deal in, you know, the ocean which has a natural occurrence of about 29 kg of tritium per year, on top of all the other natural radioactive material floating around in it.
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The signs were certainly out in force when I was in Seoul. A lot less actual protestors than I expected, given the media and social media blitz around the issue so I kinda wonder how much is astroturfing by certain monied vocal parties vs. the usual casual potshots at Japan. Even in the Korean language sources that bothered to get into the details it was pretty clear it wasn't going to be particularly dangerous.
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I was worried about the Uyghurs and Tibetans but then I saw that they are allowed to perform their ethnic dances. All is well
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Seafood is massively overrated across the board anyways, real men eat nothing but fried chicken and steaks, don't @ me
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Toxic Mental posted:Seafood is massively overrated across the board anyways, real men eat nothing but fried chicken and steaks, don't @ me I love fried chicken and steaks as much as the next red-blooded American but seafood is drat good and I’ll not hear a word against it
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listen a lot of everything about the prc is legitimately awful, but dont talk smack about the food taste
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How is the yellow river doing in radioactive pollution? I'm just wondering because I like the yellow river, I go hang out at it a lot. It's just a really cool place to be, I found an abandoned boat just beached on it you can hang out in that's great and I like how the beach on a lot of it is that kind of clay that sucks your foot into it so you gotta walk all weird But it's a crazy polluted river, and this whole thing has me wondering what kind of pollution, and if any of it is radioactive. I would think people would be worried more about that because even though the yellow rivers big it's no ocean. bob dobbs is dead posted:listen It's not all great, most things with meat floss are bad especially when you want sushi and thee ruin it with hyper-sweetened meat floss. I don't really get the concept, when you sweeten it so much that that's the only thing you can taste, why even have the meat? What's it even doing? If you want candy just eat candy. But it's a rare miss BrainDance fucked around with this message at 01:50 on Sep 2, 2023 |
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BrainDance posted:How is the yellow river doing in radioactive pollution? I'm sure the regular pollution is a billion times more awful than any radioactive contamination.
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Mons Hubris posted:I posted in the (understandably) dead China travel thread as well, but I'm going to be in Beijing in a couple weeks for the first time since 2019. Is anyone in this thread in China now? Is there any post-covid cultural stuff to be aware of? Did most of the businesses survive the lockdowns? 健康嗎 健康嗎
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My Chinese neighbor (we live in Bangkok) told me I was very lucky to be American because when we're poor the government just takes care of us. I laughed pretty loving hard.
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Atlas Hugged posted:My Chinese neighbor (we live in Bangkok) told me I was very lucky to be American because when we're poor the government just takes care of us. i had something similar said to me when i was in shenzen last (so, like 5-6 years ago at this point) by a local business partner who wasn't sure how an electronics deal was going to work out. when i laughed at him, he actively got mad at me because i "don't understand how much of a death sentence being poor is in China" i mean you're right, i don't, but it's not like it's roses and cream in the USA, man, it's more like a drawn out death sentence where they slowly torture you to death with bureaucratic paper cuts and disdain for your very existence. but i guess it might be worse in china. if you really want it that way.
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Mons Hubris posted:I posted in the (understandably) dead China travel thread as well, but I'm going to be in Beijing in a couple weeks for the first time since 2019. Is anyone in this thread in China now? Is there any post-covid cultural stuff to be aware of? Did most of the businesses survive the lockdowns? Covid is over (haven't you heard?). You might see people on the subway wearing a mask, about 5% of the people in my large international school will be wearing one at any given time. There is no tracking or mask enforcement, it's up to you to choose to isolate if you test positive, etc. etc. Some businesses closed, but things seem to be bouncing back, more or less.
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An interesting development: https://twitter.com/business/status/1697740882307330306 (compare, a decade ago:) https://twitter.com/business/status/299714483729870848 There was some rumbling about this news for a while, but until recently it seemed like the golf course would wriggle through. For those not familiar: to be clear, there's no nationalization as such going on in either city; the golf courses all sit on short lease land so the question of renewal eventually comes up. The case is more a test of the sway that old money and conservationists have on policy formation. ronya fucked around with this message at 14:36 on Sep 2, 2023 |
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its also a factor of golf dying out as a hobby
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I have an inkling that Shanghai will keep its suburban links for a while yet, still.
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It’s hard to feel bad about there being less golf in the world but it’s not like they’re planting any trees back.
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Tunicate posted:
Would be a pretty lame period in Chinese history if the Mao Dynasty didn't even make it to 100 years 
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The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus it has ever been.
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And lame dynasties that are part of the Official Dynasty lineage, like the Sui.
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ronya posted:An interesting development: It’s not just golf course land though, there’s also some dilapidated seniors center which will get torn down. But the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club (yes royal because the crest is still inside the buildings but hidden) pays a symbolic $1 HKD per year. Golf is the easy target because it’s a former colonial institution and the government doesn’t want to go after sketchy brownfield sites occupied by villager squatters. But there’s another 9 hole golf course in the south HK island so the sport can still be around
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So glad someone is sticking it to the Old Elite, the new one is so much better. One Elite, One System you might say.
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