it's so weird that people try to equate the chinese to whites when all whites can vote and thus have some democratic influence over their country's foreign policy while chinese citizens can't and never had. The chinese government literally oppresses, jails and kills its own people yet these tumblr wokesters are dying to shit on random chinese diasporans on the internet lol? love this new trend of people reaching and pretending that the scale of what china did is anywhere near what the whites had
I’m not completely knowledgeable about the politics in China but I do know that for many Asian countries like China (and we’ve been having a few discussions on Japan too), they’re ruled by a group of “conservative” elites that will murder, torture, or imprison political opposition and/or go after progressive activists. And it’s not just East Asia, some countries in Southeast Asia, South Asia, and West Asia for example are like this. Not all of them obviously (tbh though, countries all over the world are like this).
So when we actually talk about “China,” “Japan,” or whatever Asian country, we’re talking about the government and the ruling elites of that country. We are NOT talking about the masses of Chinese, Japanese, or other Asian citizens that live there. The problem though is that non-Asian folks tend to think by simply saying “China,” “Japan,” or the name of any other Asian country, they assume all Chinese, Japanese, or other Asian folks are the same and/or are responsible for the actions of their governments, ruling elites, militaries, and whatnot.
If we take a look at Uyghurs in China, they are facing ethnic cleansing and genocide right now. Also, look at Rohingyas in Myanmar and many other ethnic minorities being prosecuted in Asia. Even as I myself have shared some of their issues though, it is important to keep in mind that it is NOT the masses of Chinese or Burmese or whoever people that are murdering all these groups. It is also NOT the intention to influence anyone to hate Chinese, Burmese, Japanese, or anyone else. If you hate someone or develop stereotypes based on something you read, that’s on you.
And look at how China is running its loan-debt scams at all kinds of countries throughout Asia and Africa. As much as we want to blame all Chinese people and hold them to take full responsibility, it’s not the fault of the masses. And people don’t even take into account all the Chinese people that are protesting against all these inhumane injustices. They act like all Chinese people are just one monolithic force.
Similar to the US and other “progressive” countries, the masses of people can only do so much and only be so aware of what their government is doing. Whenever the US sends in an air strike to another country obliterating hundreds of innocent civilians, is it the fault of everyone in the US? No, it’s not. There are many of us that are against the inhumane injustices of our own government. In fact, we ourselves want to put some (most) of our politicians on a guillotine.
However, whenever it’s an Asian country (specifically China), why do we blame all Asian people or all Chinese people? That’s racism right there and specifically for Chinese people, it’s called Sinophobia.
OKAY SO I had a coworker who was otherwise a standard clueless Straight White Guy, but this dude loved his wife and he knew her real good. And his wife LOVES shitty grocery store icing. So the first thing she’d always do with any cake is shove her fingers into the corner and scoop off whatever abomination of a flower was on there and eat it off her fingers.
SO THIS DUDE GOES TO THE STORE AND HAS THEM MAKE A WHOLE CAKE OUT OF FROSTING Brings it home to his wife for her birthday She shoves her fingers into it and then they just keep going FROSTING ALL THE WAY DOWN He said the look on her face was the best thing he’d ever seen in his life It gives me hope that even a clueless Straight White Guy knew and loved his wife enough to give her the perfect birthday present cake frosting abomination
And I love to imagine the conversation he had to have with the grocery store bakery.
Set against the backdrop of San Francisco’s Chinatown in the aftermath of the Civil War, Warrior tells the story of a young martial arts prodigy, newly arrived from China, who finds himself caught up in the bloody Chinatown Tong wars.
The cast includes Andrew Koji as Ah Sahm, a martial arts prodigy who travels from China to San Francisco and ends up becoming a hatchet man for the most powerful tong in Chinatown; Olivia Cheng as Ah Toy, Chinatown’s most accomplished courtesan and madame; Jason Tobinas Young Jun, the hard-partying son of a powerful tong boss; Dianne Doan as Mai Ling, a beautiful and ruthless Chinese woman who, through sheer force of will, has achieved a position of power in one of the tongs… (x)
Alien: You’re telling me that in times of great distress humans have been known to suddenly gain the strength necessary to lift objects more than a dozen times their own weight?!
Human: Yeah, it’s called “hysterical strength” and it usually happens in life-or-death situations, like when someone gets stuck under a car or something and someone lifts the car to get them out. We can’t really test it though, ‘cause it only happens spontaneously.
Alien: Humans have the ability to tap into untold strength and power and you don’t even know how you do it?
Human: Pretty much, yeah. We think it has something to do with temporary analgesia, so we just don’t feel the pain we should when we pick up a 3000-pound car.
Alien: YOUR PAIN RESPONSE JUST SHUTS OFF?
Human: Yeah, it’s like an adrenaline thing? Do you not have that?
Alien: Fuck you and your entire species of tiny juggernauts.
Did this post just use a dialogue format to trick me into learning science
Had to check this out on wikipedia at least and boy was that a ride
Just so you guys know. Hysterical strength is basically your body not holding back and going %100 though there is a great danger of you hurting yourself or breaking something since your ignoring pain and going %100. There was a case where a kid deadlifted a car to save a sibling but,cracked 8 of his teeth during it because he was clenching his jaw so hard. So whilst you can lift a car or fight off polar bears. Your probably going to break something. Because most of the time when we are “giving our all” we are only giving a fraction of what we could give and this is because if we truly give our all we can seriously injure ourselves.
This is literally an explanation of Deku and his abilities with One For All.
Humans naturally hold back because our muscles have enough strength to rip themselves apart
STOP GIVING THE ALIENS REASONS NOT TO VISIT.
During an adrenaline rush your muscles can stress themselves to the point where they rip themselves from the bone and you wouldn’t even feel it
