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Did someone report this? Figured since we did Americans and Europeans, Asians were fair game too.
Yep
Appreciate it mods. The other posts were also in good fun. Nothing outrageous.
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It's OK to run a fan at night
Nice try Big Fan.
My hot take: saving face and thinking that winning by cheating is the same as winning are toxic culture traits
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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.
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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/
Your curry sucks.
No, not that other Asian country's curry. That one is really good.
YOUR curry sucks.
Why is it like that and way different from that other Asian country that tastes way better?
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China is just West Taiwan. 🤷🏻♂️
West Taiwan: "Okay so you admit we are both part of the same country then? BEGIN THE ~~INVASION~~ UNIFICATION!"
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Flash-news.
Plastic is not biodegradable.
McDonald's and fast food restaurants are looked down on in many western countries. Flexing you're eating at McDonalds to westerners is like saying you don't know what quality looks like.
McDonald's only uses pink slime in the US. Other countries health standards require real food to be served. So that flex is actually understandable. Their McDonald's is actually good and relatively healthy all things considered. I can't imagine eating McDonald's over there your entire life only to realize one vacation that your country has the superior fast food.
Idk about Asia, but I've been to McDonald's in Germany and it tasted exactly the same as home.
When I briefly lived in China one of the first things expats would ask is if you've tried KFC yet. I don't eat meat but almost every Westerner I met raved about how much better fast food is in china.
I used to get fast food fries occasionally in Australia, then stopped when I moved to the US cause the quality was much worse. I started again Taiwan.
Mechanically separated meat is sold and served in Europe and Asia.
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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"
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 ~~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.~~
Improving your driving license quality would save so much money by reducing worker deaths.
y'all racist as fuck!
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