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🇨🇳🇺🇸 → 🌏 Chinese American who returned to Asia. Thoughts on China. Daily life and inner life. 中文, 日本語.

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@Baetylus_ You’re right that Chinese people don’t think it’s a problem. And that’s why Chinese bathrooms will never get better

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In China, you may think you are dining in an authentic Japanese restaurant, but your illusion will be shattered when you open the door to the bathroom

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@ShokunShocurry Wow, that is like an entire steaks worth of whale meat. Must go one day

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I dislike tofu when it’s used as a meat substitute, but I love it when it’s used as a rice substitute. For example in noodle stir fry, tofu takes the place of chicken, but in dofunao it’s a blank canvas for other flavors

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@tppwastaken Very interesting

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The writing system looks like Vietnamese to me. Also, do they really need to have so many hyphens everywhere? Interesting how “Tai oan lang” remains comprehensible

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Peh-oe-ji (a common system of romanisation for Hokkien, widely spoken in Taiwan and even known as 'Taiwanese" there) has been adopted as an actual writing standard of a small part of the Taiwanese Nationalist Internet, which is fascinating to me.

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@dp270 Taiwan is great

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Do you love Japanese consumerism but don’t want to live in Japan? Consider Hong Kong. You can get onigiri, canned coffee, and strong zero every day, buy goods at matsukiyo or Muji, and end the day with ramen or sushi.

But we don’t have famichiki. Or salad.

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@dp270 It’s a joke; the spirit of Chinese American discourse is very Cantonese oriented

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Chinese Americans really should move to Hong Kong because of:

(1) English support

(2) clean and convenient city

(3) 50% of ABCs already speak Cantonese anyway

(4) they love Japan

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Do you love Japanese consumerism but don’t want to live in Japan? Consider Hong Kong. You can get onigiri, canned coffee, and strong zero every day, buy goods at matsukiyo or Muji, and end the day with ramen or sushi.

But we don’t have famichiki. Or salad.

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@mrEban123 World peace 🤝

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Anglo Americans: Yeah I’m gonna yolo move to Japan, a foreign country. No I don’t have a plan and no i don’t know what the future holds.

Chinese Americans: No I would never live in China!! I need to have three job offers and five spreadsheets confirmed before making the move!!

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For many it’s a “foot in the door” and easy visa to come to Japan, the dream land of strong zero, famichiki, and anime.

For a young single person, it’s also not bad pay (equivalent to some entry level paying jobs Japanese people work) but the problem is that it’s also an easy job that one can get stuck doing for years with stagnant pay.

We all know the stereotype: the burned out and broke and divorced ALT in his 50s crying in his beer at the HUB.

Don’t be that guy (or least if you are that guy, don’t be broke)

My advice for anyone coming to Japan to teach English: have a clear plan. Pay off your debt and student loans before coming to Japan. Make friends and have a good attitude. Learn some skills on the side, network, start a side hustle, invest your money in stocks, marry a rich cult leader’s chubby daughter/ son, etc. Just don’t get stuck and become “that guy”

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@mrEban123 Don’t worry buddy, we aren’t criticizing your people here. A little yolo here and there is good for the soul

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@seanluomdphd No, you can’t actually get fast, on-the-go Japanese consumerism in New York. Occasional sit-down restaurants is very different from the sheer density of it in Hong Kong

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@Gugabed Yes Taipei is goated for Japanese consumerism

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@habits Great show , highly recommended

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Whenever you see some crazy dissident who has schizo negative opinions about China you just know he is Chinese. The more you hate on China, the more you reveal your own Chinese-ness. In fact there is nothing more innate to modern Chinese people than hating on China.

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Many First Gen diaspora are full of negativity towards Chinese Americans, unfortunately. A lot of the haters have terrible English and poor understanding of western customs, so they have to pearl clutch onto Chinese as it’s the only thing they have going for them

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a subset of the anti-AI red guards are non-tech chinese or self hating diaspora who are dressing up their feelings as cultural gatekeeping. the self hatred runs deep - the original hater is a diaspora deep learning phd. what's up with that?

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@qualiaspace First Gen diaspora are full of negativity towards Chinese Americans, unfortunately. A lot of them are haters because their English sucks so they have to pearl clutch onto Chinese as it’s the only thing they have

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The Asian American food religion: where talking about smelly kimchi and mom’s home-made egg rolls is valid, but authentic conversations on Confucianism and Eastern culture is completely prohibited. Crying in Costco