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surface said:
Also, one cannot pin any specific attributes like nice, bad, good, subtle, direct, blunt etc. adjectives to an entire group, especially when it is a 1.2 billion group. There will be some similarities in certain aspects in a specific region because I suspect it would be case of trying to "fit" in where we stay.
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agreed broadly, but there are generalizations that hold. they're always fluid, i agree, and malleable over time, but they change slowly, not quickly. (urbanization is a big part of that fluidity because urbanization is solvent for a lot of strongly-held views.) in this specific case, the insularity of Chinese expat communities has been a thing for many years, and sometimes, as in SE Asia, it's even caused political problems and violence.

caveat: speculation follows.

a lot of this, IMO, has had to do with who formed those expat communities. for a long time it has been small business people, traders, and agriculture guys - farmers, etc. it's not university-educated people who've been exposed to a diverse range of communities and ideas. it's people, for example, who had literally never seen a black person and never thought about them, and they often brought with them the same basic assumptions they had at home. like everywhere, this includes things like "my culture/ethnicity/approach is the best etc." that led to them not wanting, at an emotional level, to integrate wherever they found themselves. exposure to others, wider extension of education, and urbanization tend to make that stuff go away.

i need to point out, here, that i'm describing things, not passing judgement on them. in my experience, most human communities are casually racist and have a superiority bias towards their own group. that's pretty normal.

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Also, your "nice" experience could be a result of "you" belonging to a specific Y group.
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nope. at one point, someone was explaining it to me, that was i better than many but still a notch or two down on the ladder. :)

surface said:
And it doesn't mean they will be nasty to a Z group. Every group has their preferred types and it is complicated as we are humans. :)
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i never said that. i also think things are more complex than people try to make them out to be.

edit: what that means, to bring it around to the original point about "the Chinese" being "blatant" about their increasing investment and presence, is simply that i don't think that's a thought-through policy thing. it's just a consequence of a chain of events that the people doing it took to be normal and never thought locals would notice. i see that a lot. most of history is contingent.


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Nereus77 said:
That's how 5 people died. They were taking selfies.
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1 protester shot by a overreacting cop.
1 cop hit over the head with a fire extinguisher (pretty bad, but not revolution/coup/civil war level of deaths.)

A few died of unrelated medical emergencies? Fsk knows what that was probably the China virus.
 
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Finally, TDS has been eliminated from humanity.

Anyone heard of this new syndrome? Something about being mad that Biden is going to wreck American and thus the world or something. Trying to think of it now, just... for some reason can't seem to come up with the abbreviation... it's at the tip of my tongue... anyone have any idea perhaps? :unsure:
 
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Prawnapple said:
Finally, TDS has been eliminated from humanity.

Anyone heard of this new syndrome? Something about being mad that Biden is going to wreck American and thus the world or something. Trying to think of it now, just... for some reason can't seem to come up with the abbreviation... it's at the tip of my tongue... anyone have any idea perhaps? :unsure:
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BDS?

Edit: No wait, BDS..?
 
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Prawnapple said:
Finally, TDS has been eliminated from humanity.

Anyone heard of this new syndrome? Something about being mad that Biden is going to wreck American and thus the world or something. Trying to think of it now, just... for some reason can't seem to come up with the abbreviation... it's at the tip of my tongue... anyone have any idea perhaps? :unsure:
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Perhaps you'd like to post evidence of this new syndrome, preferrably sourced from posts from this thread... :sneaky:
 
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A federal judge in Texas blocked President Joe Biden’s 100-day deportation moratorium from taking effect on Tuesday, after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed the first major lawsuit against the Biden administration on Friday, marking a major early blow to Biden’s immigration agenda.
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Texas’ lawsuit hinges partly on a set of obscure contracts DHS signed with Texas and other states in the waning days of the Trump administration. In the contract, DHS promised to consult with Texas and give state officials 180 days to comment before making any major changes to federal immigration policy, an agreement Texas says the Biden-era DHS violated.
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www.forbes.com

Judge Blocks Biden’s 100-Day Deportation Moratorium

The state of Texas is suing President Biden’s administration, arguing its plan to hold off on most deportations for 100 days violates contracts the state signed with the federal government.
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DavidFreeman said:
The left are actually dumb enough think calling a virus that originated in China the "China virus" is racist...

"China" isn't even a race. :ROFL:

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Are you a racist David?

Us wogs, coolies, ragheads, japs, chinks, abos,, curry munchers, pakis (the list goes on) tend to work out very quickly when someone is directing a slur when they use a country name as an adjective.

It's a gut thing...based on lived experience... y'know, as in you're on the receiving end in person...

(or maybe I was just brainwashed all those years ago under apartheid)
 
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Prawnapple said:
Finally, TDS has been eliminated from humanity.

Anyone heard of this new syndrome? Something about being mad that Biden is going to wreck American and thus the world or something. Trying to think of it now, just... for some reason can't seem to come up with the abbreviation... it's at the tip of my tongue... anyone have any idea perhaps? :unsure:
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We probably need a whole new set of meme templates that look something like:

Pic 1: When Trump did it you called it <<racism, incompetence, corruption>>
Pic 2: But now Biden's doing <<something that looks superficially similar>> it's called <<heroic, progressive, inclusive>>

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I'm a chad centrist, i'm just sniping from the back. That's me in the middle.
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I love this diagram
 
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DavidFreeman said:
People call viruses by the name of their origin. The world still calls the "Spanish Flu" by that name, even though it never even originated in Spain.

Thinking that is racism is actually racist. People of all races live in China.

The picture from that news article hints at why he did it.
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Nope.

You don't get to own this one David.

Calling it the China Virus is intended to cast a slur at China and play into the racist ideation of his right wing support.

It's racist and you don't get to say it isn't.
 
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