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Commented on Lou Jing, half black Chinese girl, sparks race debate in China
What did they say about Halle Berry?...
Commented on China: real-life fashion police crack down on public pajama-wearers
What civil rights? Oh do you mean articles 33 to 56 of the constitution? http://english.people.com.cn/constitution/constitution.html You know you weren't meant to take those seriously right?...
Commented on Samoan motorists switch to driving on the left
MRFOO http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Countries_driving_on_the_left_or_right.svg I haven't been to any of those land borders....
Commented on Chinese provincial government orders local officials to smoke more
Samu, Mandarin has a word for thousand and a word for ten thousand. Then nothing for a few orders of magnitude. So this often leads to confusion when translating big numbers....
Commented on Terry Pratchett gets a knighthood
"I don't think the Queen really has all that much to do with the honours list. I doubt she's heard of the majority of people who get honours." Apart from the order of the garter they're all decided after taking...
Commented on Latex leggings how-to
MOAR plz...
Commented on Idiotic British tourists acting like jerks in Tokyo's Tsukiji Fish Market
That looked like punkd or candid camera or something. I think it was staged...
Commented on Boing Boing on GOOD: A Mayan Village Reacts to Obama
I think your idea about a "first peoples" president here captures the zeitgeist there. Have you heard of Evo Morales? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales...
Commented on IT Crowd third season starts on Friday!
Huzzah. I didn't know they were making anymore and was prepared to live the rest of my life with only 2 seasons worth. Double huzzah But I assume they're going to try and keep it within the kingdom like they...
Commented on Intentional action and Asperger Syndrome
OK so say I thought both actions were unintentional. Where do I go from here to explore whether I have Asperger's , or some similar condition, or not?...
Commented on Palin Brutally Punk'd by Fake French President Sarkozy
"Or that there is no Prime Minister of Quebec, or any Canadian province they're all called Premiers." Actually that was more a case of Franglais than a line to make her look foolish. In French both the Prime Minister and...
Commented on Jimmy Wales meets with China's 'net censors about Wikipedia-blocking
Tor works very well for getting around the firewall, close to 100%....
Commented on Pandora, SOMA FM, other net radio broadcasters ask supporters to call Congress ASAP.
I'm a Canadian so I don't have a rep in worshington. But I do miss Pandora. Working for 2 years at I.B.M. with an American public gateway only made the separation harder to take...
Commented on Wade Davis: an Inuit elder and his shit knife
I couldn't listen to him. He sounds like a minister or something preaching. Except he's not in a church...
Commented on Photos from Picklefest 2008
How much time does this alternative lifestyle of yours eat up? And by the way kim chi doesn't keep for very long...
Commented on Reason's guide to legal immigration
Don't come to Canada. We don't recognize any of your filthy foreign credentials. I say that as the son of an Australian geologist. He works in IT now :@...
Commented on Man jumps on eggs without breaking them
I see your python reference and raise you this lot http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCSgYTKfnzQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0gzQS4w1sc...
Commented on Total solar eclipse tomorrow
Vancouver Canada is a shitty place to watch eclipses...
Commented on Zimbabwe currency on eBay
the expiry date is just scary...
Commented on Zimbabwe currency on eBay
Andigopow a part of recovery from hyperinflation is always to issue a new currency worth tens or hundreds of times what the old currency was worth. So your note with lots of zeroes would stay worthless...
Commented on Food that turns from liquid to solid?
that liquid that oozes out of thawed meat...
Commented on Radley Balko: A Few Questions for Barack Obama
Please excuse a foreigner's ignorance but what is the significance of the council on foreign relations, what kind of positions do they support? Their wikipedia page seems more interested in their inner workings than the result...
Commented on All about "Eve": Virgin Galactic mothership unveiled.
so does it reach orbit?...
Commented on Radley Balko: A Few Questions for Barack Obama
CFR means what? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFR...
Commented on Sneak preview of the Martin Jetpack
Was anyone else pissed off at the mythbusters when they said that their homemade jetpack didn't work. But they didn't acknowledge that their design mods might have been the reason?...
Commented on Truman Show Disorder
"How is this any different from your garden variety psychotic disorder with paranoid ideations? Is a new diagnosis that necessary?" it is if you want to get published...
Commented on Elderly woman prohibited from photographing empty swimming pool "to prevent paedophilia"
Sadly that article was pretty short on details. When they say council worker I picture the stereotypical scene of 3 supervisors with one bloke digging. And they've given THEM coercive powers?...
Commented on Turning 30 in Guantanamo -- Unsubscribe from the War on Terror
" Probably should mention this: "According to the complaint, Binyam Mohamed was planning terror attacks against high-rise apartment buildings in the United States and was arrested at an airport in Pakistan, attempting to go to London while using a forged...
Commented on Ravers blinded by laser
Shoop da woop I think I spend too much time on imagechan...
Commented on Happy Bastille Day!
#5 what does guy fawkes day have to do with liberty and democracy?...

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Jaotsu commented on Lou Jing, half black Chinese girl, sparks race debate in China
As an American we often feel that we are the racist, but the fact is that other countries in the world are even more racist. The Chinese feel that there is no other race better than theirs and on equal basis with whites. This to me means that they even feel themselves inferior to other races....
Jaotsu commented on Lou Jing, half black Chinese girl, sparks race debate in China
In many Asian countries, having dark skin means that you are not educated or privileged. This idea comes from the nobility and upper social classes. Lower socio-economic classes and less educated people had to work in the fields or outside, thus their skin was darker. So having lighter skin, meant you worked indoors because you were educated or privileged. Over the centuries, that is why lighter skin became more desirable. It was to try and show people that you had more class. In America, having a tan became desirable because it meant that you were an outdoor type - sporty,...
The5thElephant commented on Lou Jing, half black Chinese girl, sparks race debate in China
I really wonder what the extremely racist people in Asia (of course not everyone, but it is quite rampant there) think of places like New York City. Do they think that we white New Yorkers have the same attitude as them to the huge number of darker people around? What would they say if someone they respected challenged their racism? If they were directly introduced to a black man? What if that black man was going to be their boss? Or a black CEO who has business in China? I'm really curious what they do when their racism is made...
dainel commented on Lou Jing, half black Chinese girl, sparks race debate in China
I'm in Asia, Malaysia to be exact. The racial divide here is not black vs white. In fact, aside from tourists and foreign students in the big cities, there are very few "whites" and "blacks" to be seen. But there is a racial divide. And there are racists people around. Plenty of them. What do you do if you are racist and your boss is not of your own race? You bad-mouth him/her to your peers, of your own race. Sometimes, they don't hold the same racist views as yourself and stays away from you. There are many levels of...
Tom4 commented on Lou Jing, half black Chinese girl, sparks race debate in China
From reading about her background, it appears a large part of this isn't as much about race, as it is that Lou Jing is the product of a married Chinese woman who had an affair with a guy who then fled the country. The mother hid the truth through pregnancy, until it was blatantly obvious to the husband that it wasn't his. If it really were about race, then why did Lou Jing admit in interviews that she never experienced feeling different or ostracized by peers/society through her first 20 years of life? The spin and comments off of mainstream...

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