Not exactly an answer but:

No joke, when I was 8 years old, my family left the China for the first time and then I saw some food item in a store in the Korean airport costing something like 15,000 of a currency, I was like holy shit are all foreigners this rich?

Then my dad told me its just a different currency, its actually just equivalent to something like $10 美金 “American Money” (USD)…

Which I also didn’t understand what it meant, before that incident, the Chinese Yuan / Renminbi was the only thing I knew of…

So for a while, its was just the adult’s weird magic numbers to me lol…

I think some people just never left their country before and never learned about stuff, maybe their parents are also ignorant and never taught them anything.

And the English Language Defaultism probably arises from it being widely taught and so many countries use it like Canada, UK, Australia… and lot of the colonized countries still retained it like India… and its the probably most commonly taught languahe in non-anglosphere countries… So, some English-speaking people just made a false assumption about the world…

Technically not a rule lol

actually not legal to interrogate people that long

Japanese Legal System have joined the chat

(Also South Korea and China… 👀)

I mean, let’s say the person said something like: “It wasn’t me, they [framed me / they got the wrong person / etc…]”

I mean people do get wrongfully convicted… but who do you believe? The courts, or this person claiming innocence who might actually be telling the truth (but you can’t really verify it)? That’s the crux of this problem.

For that I’m gonna need to make a WeChat account…

Might need to use a separate phone for opsec purposes 👀 (you know why)

Feels like too much of a hassle… and like its not like I feel safe to just speak freely…

Mom and older brother is going back to visit (like right now), and mom told me to not send her any political stuff or she’ll block me…

Like I’m just so used to how things work in the west, I’m gonna have to run every sentence through my brain like can I actually say this and not get them in trouble

looked up the phone number of someone I used to know before we moved to opposite ends of the country

Your comment reminds of… like… I just realized I haven’t really directly talked to my aunts or cousins in China for…

well the entire time I’ve been in the US… like nearly 2 decades

idk why, I never really felt an attachment… don’t have much memories of them, I was only 8 when my family left…

Now it feels too awkward to suddenly call them…

I ordered from Pizzahut’s website and they just sent it to doordash…

I think I remember once Dominos (not sure if I remember correctly) was busy so instead of sending their regular delivery driver, they just sent it to doordash to complete the delivery… 🤷‍♂️

Everything is doordash now

Chinese restaurants

Ramen places

Literally everything

Edit: Also even BESTBUY uses Doordash now… (do not order electronics delivery through bestbuy, even if you use their website, they will still send it to doordash)

their intents if they worked for the government

“You can’t shoot me, I’m still a child at heart, that’d be a war crime!”

As a Chinese American, I don’t find it offensive. I mean at this point I kinda just embraced my background, I mean I still have a Chinese name as my legal name and I still speak Cantonese and Mandarin (with very basic fluency tho)

Unless you say it like: “Oh, your English is very good! Where are you from?” and the person clearly has a native-accent 🙄 (don’t do it like this)

(hasn’t happened yet, usually people are either much more overt like using racial slurs, or just not display racism at all)

I think you should just ask something like: “What is your ancestral background?” more direct and IMO sounds a lot better. But I think the context is key, you need to feel the vibe in the room is good before you ask that, don’t just walk up to someone and ask that as the first question.

But I was born in China, so I am technically speaking not “from” here, but if you are in the US and ask an Asian person born and grew up in the US that question, they might not like it. You should probably frame it like: “Hey I’m just curious, what is your ancestral background?”

IQ =/= EQ

My mom got robbed in broad daylight and they took nearly $1000 from her… (okay idk why the fuck she was carrying so much cash, but that’s whole another story)

She was literally on the way to the bank…

Then again, we are Asian American and non-Asians in America loves to target us… and obviously cops don’t give a fuck.

We need to bring back the rooftop Koreans to patrol the streets, police is useless

Tbf you’re more likely to get robbed by random people in broad daylight than encountering a cop that will civil asset forfeiture you, so its just bad idea to have lots of cash regardless of country.

Relevent clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiH3tZoNgmE

lmfao

Nah I would use a throwaway if I was actually doing that. I said so much shit on this account that its very easy to deanonymize.

Is this something I’m too “only have seen the internet post-2010” to understand?

Sources please

how would you deal with murderers, rapists, child predators

okay… interesting question…

and jaywalkers

Wat? 🧐

Coin flips are not random…

Its “random” to you because you are not that supercomputer, you are a mortal meatbag

I do

My parents don’t

Yeah you read it right, my mom just TOUCHES THE FUCKING SEAT THING… then touch the flush, and I DON’T HEAR THE FAUCET RUNNING

I called it out once, and she did washed her hands for THAT ONE TIME then proceeded to never wash hands for every subsequent bathroom use… also never used soap…

My Theory on why: My parents grew up in Rural China… their standards of cleanliness is probably much lower…

I mean if they have germophobia like I do, then you can’t even survive in the rural areas… if you know what I mean

Funny that they used to be the ones to teach me to wash my hands but now they don’t anymore… wtf

Thanks pal, new phobia added to my list of ever growing phobias… 😭