We’re going broad with this one given the population and the size.
China: Stop trying to make the mandate of heaven happen. It’s not going to happen.
Japan: If you’re worried about population decline, maybe you should be less shitty to foreigners who want to live there.
Korea: Your music industry is uncomfortably close to slavery. And despite America’s best efforts, you still have the closest thing to a government owned by corporations.
Southeast Asia in general: I am sorry you are stuck being the Middle East of the Far East.
Addition to the above, since someone pointed out that my Korea comment appears to assume a South Korean default:
Best Korea: Your
musicindustry is uncomfortably close to slavery. And despite America’s best efforts, you still havethe closest thing toa governmentowned by corporations.
Flash-news.
Plastic is not biodegradable.
You work too much. Your work quality suffers because of it. Studies have shown the optimum amount of time to do serious mental work in a day is less than half of how much you all work since childhood cram schools.
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2023/10/surprising-benefits-four-day-week/
You folks are just as racist, sexist, and bigoted as Oklahoma.
I wonder how the rates of violent crimes suffered by asians in Americas/Europe compare to violent crimes suffered by white people in China, Korea, or Japan…
remember when covid happened and asians were gettin jumped every week? when’s the last time we heard about a white guy getting beat up in Asia? maybe getting scammed/pick-pocketed in southeast asia or getting caned in Singapore during the Clinton era?
I’m not saying asian people don’t have bigotry or ignorance, but it plays out very differently
You’re not wrong, but that doesn’t mean racism doesn’t exist in Asia. When it comes to racism, two Wongs clearly don’t make a white.
Women are smart, capable, and equal.
Central and West Asians really aren’t ready to hear that.
neither are Yoon’s little fascist youth sadly
and apparently neither are the pissy korean american boys on Reddit too
I live in west Asia and I agree :3
It’s OK to run a fan at night
My hot take: saving face and thinking that winning by cheating is the same as winning are toxic culture traits
Clarify please
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_(sociological_concept)
Keeping up appearances at all costs accumulates moral debt and leads to monumental failures down the line. Everyone knows the senile boss is about to make another mistake, but the nail that sticks out gets hammered down, so everyone shuts up until bankruptcy and suicides.
Lol are you not familiar with Asia / West Taiwan?
One might assume they aren’t, since they asked someone to clarify. How nice of you to laugh at them instead of answering the question.
Lol are you not familiar with Americans / Superiority Complexes?
Tell us about them, tell us how much better we are than you.
Um, I was just doing a copypasta replacement of the grandparent post.
I do not have not finalized my dissertation on The Complexities of the American Ego: An Examination of Ignorance Fueled Bravado.
I do believe that dissertation is just the song “America, FUCK YEAH!” Repeated on enough pages to make a
red-tailed hawkbald eagle screech when you flip the pages fast enough.
BREAD DOESN’T NEED TO BE SWEET. Please. Especially not cheese toast.
Asian here, I came in thinking there was nothing I could read that would hurt. Then, first comment.
I want sweet bread, what is it called 🥺
Cake
woah
It’s just called bread.
Live in Japan and seconded. It can be sweet, but making it all sweet is just missing out on so much.
Some of ya’ll are the most racist people and China is, like, the Texas of Asia. I think of people living in China the same way I think of people living in North Korea: How horrific, I wish them luck.
Also, WTF South Korea. All I hear is how sexist and fucked up you are. I don’t hear anything good about living there, and the fact that some of those cheabols haven’t been assassinated yet is beyond me.
About South Korea and bigotry - is it really worse than Japan?
China is just West Taiwan. 🤷🏻♂️
West Taiwan: “Okay so you admit we are both part of the same country then? BEGIN THE
INVASIONUNIFICATION!”Of the mainland…
Finish the sentence.
A good thing that one of the parts controls all of its mainland’s land body.
In a world where we think of climate change and national debt as Western worries, Asia’s dirtiness is enough of an absolute eco-hazard to warrant its own kind of debt if the rest of us thought the same way.
The same rivers Rama and Krishna bathed in could today kill you, and China has enough air pollution that the smog from Los Angeles blows over from there, more or less the same way sand from the Sahara fertilizes the Amazon.
China has enough air pollution that the smog from Los Angeles blows over from there
I think you meant to say:
“China has enough air pollution that the smog from there blows over to Los Angeles”Yes, sorry. Said that in reverse.
Too much smog in the air to think.
Well. In some way classes exist. People in some of them don’t bother the smog around them, they’ll just walk in masks. They also get paid less. People in other ones do. They want cleaner air, good wages, plenty of affordable goods produced by the former group for its smaller wages with all the pollution.
When I talk things about how computers of 1999 were good enough, I mean that among other things.
Improving your driving license quality would save so much money by reducing worker deaths.
Y’all migrated out of Africa like the rest of us.
Turns out it was more in central Europe according to the latest discovery, but we are all human regardless of where we started.Edit: Never mind, it was only 1.4 million years ago: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/ancient-stone-tools-found-in-ukraine-may-have-been-used-by-early-humans-over-1-million-years-ago
The second part still stands though.
Everything I’m finding on Google is saying Morocco, with scientists suggesting we probably evolved all over Africa.
Africa/Middle east is what I’d heard previously but I think the article I last read was a misunderstanding of this:
What was more in central Europe?
The earliest record of humans, it was pretty recently discovered.
I’m gonna need a link for that cause that makes no sense at all in the context of all other finds.
Nice down vote, you can go find it yourself now (or remain ignorant, I don’t really care if you learn anything new or not).
That’s unfortunate, since many of would find that fascinating reading. I remember reading something similar but more like: there was a wave of migration to central Europe much earlier than expected
Everything I just looked at still puts Affrica as origin
Although I don’t remember reading …. Each wave of migration out of Africa was different hominids. They all coexisted for a long time but eventually the hominids from the last wave succeeded and the others died out
Looks like it might have just been a poorly written headline but the earliest stuff I’ve heard in the past was either Africa or Middle East:
AFAIK, the “out-of-africa” hypothesis isn’t so much based on skeleton findings.
It’s more based on some thoughts. One of them is that africa has a “high genetic variability” which they see as proof that humanity originated there, even though i doubt the soundness of that argument.
The second reason is some kind of racism: “if africans are really inferior beings, that must be because life originated there and emigrated and africans simply stayed behind in both space and development.” (not my thoughts)
Ironically in the 19th centuries Europeans were all clamouring to have definitive proof that Homo Sapiens evolved within their borders to prove that they were the greatest and most fully evolved humans.
Out of Africa had to work pretty hard to become accepted.
And is very much based on skeletal records.
Do you mind providing a source ? I’ve been reading fascinating fiction on the subject of early humans (by Jean M Auel) and I’d love to know more
I might have misread it but I’d previously heard Africa and somewhere in the middle east (Ur, current day Iraq was a big city)
What is this record of humans that you speak of?
I have never met someone raised outside of Asia that has ordered a glass of hot water to drink as-is. I have no idea why this habit is so wide spread among people raised in Asia and it baffles me.
Hold on for some Jared Diamond-ass reasoning.
Before sanitation rules, very broadly: Europe made alcohol to make potable water whereas Asia boiled it and made tea. When there’s no tea available or fitting your tastes, the water still needs to be purified, so drinking hot water was still a common practice which has stayed around as an aspect of culture.
That covers the germs and steel. Where do the guns factor in?
Minor addition:
In Europe, to make drinks like beer you had to boil the mash, which unknown to them sterilized the water, which made beer generally safe to drink.
In east asia, as you mentioned tea was a common drink. But before that there were numerous herbal remedies that had to be boiled and served hot as well. People who drank the herbal remedies got better (mainly because hydration and clean drinking water are important factors for well being). Other than attributing the recovery to just the herbs, they also attributed it to the temperature.
So lacking tea or herbal drinks, the ancient chinese believed drinking hot water was somehow beneficial to the body. Add that to the fact that many who drank cold untreated water fell sick, you can easily see how the myth developed.
Another side note. Hot water is expensive (fuel wise) so drinking hot water was a sign your family was comparatively well to do and something a lot of villagers emulated in an attempt to show that the family was well off.
Can anyone name me a display of wealth, real or attempted, that isn’t just wasting resources?
In this case it inadvertently kept people alive
I think it’s rooted in a belief that consuming something so cold is bad for the body somehow. Meanwhile I’m sure they eat frozen desserts.
I know of two ways it can be. You know how the body fights infection with a fever - well I have some chronic inflammation in the gut that is exacerbated by cold exposure, and the gut becomes more leaky after going out in the winter. Tyramine from aged foods leaks into the bloodstream, causing various symptoms. I drink hot water now.
The other is
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiopathic_cold_hemagglutinin_syndromeYes, body dampness. It’s old Chinese medicine and it’s believed cupping helps draw out body dampness. Among other things.
People in China drinking hot water in summer is equivalently weird to Americans drinking ice water in winter.
Some people who like to drink tea after a meal are fine with just sipping hot water if tea isn’t available.
I haven’t heard of it, but I guess it makes sense. Like, it’s not uncommon in the US to drink hot coffee in the morning when it’s cold out if you’re camping or in an outdoors environment that’s hard to heat up. Delivers a big slug of heat directly to someone. But there’s no real reason that it has to contain caffeine.
I don’t know about Korea or other places, but Japan traditionally didn’t go in for house insulation, aimed to use the kotatsu rather than heating the living space as a whole.
I love that kotatsu idea! That would be such a cozy way to rest in on a cold weekend. This should be a thing everywhere …. But only the electric version. I’m not sticking my feet under a mystery blanket with a charcoal burner somewhere
y’all racist as fuck!
