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Asian ERA |OT| We don't AGE
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are they worth shit?
the only ones i've seen is the big banner ads which buy here that are like NOT YOUR TYPICAL DATING SITE which in all honesty doesn't inspire confidence.
could smash an avo smoothie right about now tbh
Mandarin anything always sounds so stiff/harsh as a Canto speaker
I've never tried one. I hear East Meet East gets good reviews.
This is me but with Korean. I want to learn it just for fun but my Mandarin is so-so.
I went to Chinese school for like a year when I was in elementary school, but I ended up studying French more seriously because that's what like 75% of my extended family speaks (well, Creole French).
I can't even speak French now. My sister's a lot better with French since my mom basically spoke French to her for her first 4 years.
Maaaaan I wish I knew Mandarain or Cantonese or even Hakka.Maybe even just knowing how to read characters, that would let me play some Chinese-localized games that never made it to the west
I can't even speak French now. My sister's a lot better with French since my mom basically spoke French to her for her first 4 years.
Maaaaan I wish I knew Mandarain or Cantonese or even Hakka.
My mom kept chastising me for not speaking Mandarin, but all she ever did to teach me anything was yell at me to take a shower and turn off the TV in Chinese. I took two years of it to fulfill my college language requirement but it didn't stick well and I couldn't get the pronunciations quite right. I wish I knew it better.
And then you have Arrow, where the characters were all, "He spoke perfect Chinese," while I needed subtitles to understand what the hell he was trying to say.
ME TOO! Like... all of that.
Plus, my parents speak Taiwan accented Mandarin and my college professors were from mainland. So, it was kinda different.
I have trouble talking to my mom sometimes because her English is meh and my Chinese is meh. :(
i've started studying hangul for fun (just to be able to pronounce it) and between that and my fairly decent japanese studies my chinese is sitting here being like 'come on dude just fuckin' you could probably get pretty alright if you tried hard enough'
Right now I'm like fuck youuuu, chinese, I'm learning hangul pronounciation!
But I'll probably not learn any actual korean right now lol. I just wanna learn the alphabet.
Right now I'm like fuck youuuu, chinese, I'm learning hangul pronounciation!
But I'll probably not learn any actual korean right now lol. I just wanna learn the alphabet.
Meanwhile, I switched from a Japanese company to an American one with a partner studio in China. No need to learn Japanese now!
Yeah! I'm also pretty sure my mom used to mix in the language her parents spoke, because later some things I learned didn't quite add up. Or, it was a mainland vs. Taiwan issue.
Anyone speak Teochew?
Tfw u meet other Chinese and they ask if you speak Cantonese or Mandarin.
Tfw u meet other Chinese and they ask if you speak Cantonese or Mandarin.
It resembles Hokkien/Taiwanese so I can understand a bit of it.
Don't even get me started on the Japanese in that show.
For weeks my partner and I were shouting MI-RA-KU-RU in public like a bunch of idiots.
Question to my American Asians:
How much racism do you encounter as an Asian living on America on a daily basis? Not much? Alot?
Also is your friend circle mostly Asian (like me here in Aus) or do you branch out alot?
How much racism do you encounter as an Asian living on America on a daily basis? Not much? Alot?
Also is your friend circle mostly Asian (like me here in Aus) or do you branch out alot?
Almost none. It's mostly just systemic stuff that's subtle and doesn't really play into daily life.
I do find that a lot of my friends are Asian, but I think it's because I grew up in an enclave.
All the goddamn time. A lot of it is little things and sometimes its getting nudged by an old white lady in a shopping cart while I'm holding one of my kids or the one time my white coworker assumed I was Korean(I'm Chinese), which is even more odd because we work in HR. Then comes being treated worse by people in general.
I have all Asian friends because I grew up in an enclave and have no problem keeping it that way. If I did branch out, it would be with other PoC because they feel me on the racism stuff.
Sydney, out southwest somewhere around Cabramatta (probably why it's 99% Asian)
I've noticed some subtle..... Ignorance from time to time when I'm going out for drinks with my family and friends. On a daily basis, none.
My circle of friends is indeed just more Hmong people. I do remember how I had more non-White friends when I was still in school though. School was my only way of interacting with other non-White people but now that I'm not in school anymore (7-8 years now since college), my circle is just my family and their friends who happen to be Hmong.
Rarely anything blatant. I'm half white though, so I can probably pass most of the time unless someone is really looking. Occasionally stuff that makes me wonder.
My friend circle is majority Asian but that's mostly because I grew up in Hawaii, which is the most Asian state in the country. It's pretty diverse given that, though.
I'm hoping my partner doesn't run into any BS, she's flying to Miami (US for the first time) as we speak and she's gunna be on a Irish Punk cruise so...
Fly to the UK I'll treat you. As well as the best Thai food in the West.
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Anyone here with Chinese heritage know about this thing? This girl was telling me about how there was this expression about a boyfriend or girlfriend giving their partner "green hair" -- something to do with cheating.
She sais it's why people don't dye their hair completely green but I think she made it up.
AYCE Korean BBQ isn't very popular in NorCal. There are a few places but they do tend to get crowded by long wait times because there are so few places.
Instead we have a ton of AYCE hot pot places.
Instead we have a ton of AYCE hot pot places.
Daily, it's usually not too bad. Overall? Enough to be sick of a lot of shit. It definitely worse when I was younger. Was bullied growing up with kids pulling their eyes back and doing that ching-chong crap and throwing stereotypes at me. People used to often assume I couldn't understand English because I was quiet and wouldn't respond to aggressive people. I've argued with friends and coworkers angrily over Chinese restaurants stealing dogs and cats jokes. Once, in elementary school, this girl asked me if I bothered to put toilet paper on the seat, and before I could even tell her "yeah, my mom is an obsessive germaphobe and puts down 10 layers," she says "Probably not. My mom says Chinese people are dirty." (For reference I'm half white/half Taiwanese.) The area I live in now is much more diverse and has a big Korean population, so day-to-day I don't really get any shit anymore. Now and then some asshole will still fetishize me but generally people seem to have toned down a lot of the face-to-face bullshit, fortunately.
My friend circle is a lot of different types of people.
I'm tempted to do 23andme, but I just figure I'm going to get a report back that says I'm 100% Chinese lol
I did it for all of the other genetic stuff rather than ancestry. I'm really not tied down to my heritage.
23andme wasn't very useful to me. No Carribean data, 46% unknown if you change the confidence level...
(re)Confirmed I'm half white af though and I got G6PDD so that's a thing.
Tempted to send a kit to my Mum because East Asian (what should be Chinese) barely showed up at all, just 1%.
Good thing is that you can download the data and upload it to other websites like MyHeritage.
(re)Confirmed I'm half white af though and I got G6PDD so that's a thing.
Tempted to send a kit to my Mum because East Asian (what should be Chinese) barely showed up at all, just 1%.
Good thing is that you can download the data and upload it to other websites like MyHeritage.
So, I'm watching Forged in Fire: Knife or Death, which is pretty sweet, but the very first competitor of the series? A white guy with a katana. He was wearing a Iaido gi, too.
btw did anyone watch that outsider movie with leto? was it as bad as it seemed?
also did he speak japanese at all in the movie and was it good or nah
also did he speak japanese at all in the movie and was it good or nah
Green hair?
I've always heard it as "she gave him a green hat" as being a euphemism for she's cheating on him.
Is it hat?
Hmm, I hate to say that I might have misunderstood her. Either way, hearing that there's at least something similar is mindblowing.