“Warning before reading: This blogpost is not suitable for reading while eating. If you insist on it, be prepared for the consequences. Alright, now that that’s over, let’s begin: A grandma once went to Beijing’s Wangjing District and strolled around, and was drawn by a restaurant named “Budae jjigae”. There was a picture of a hotpot on their sign, with meat and veggies and noodles, like some kind of foreign version of a Dongbei stew. Later on, I learned that the “Budae” in Budae Jjigae refers to the American military, stationed in Korea.
That section about how the teacher teaches different students is very reminiscent of a section in the Passover seder, where it lists four types of children and says how to educate each type about the story of Passover (the four types being the wise child, the wicked (or, in some translation, thoughtless) child, the simple child, and the child who doesn't know how to ask)
> Boxer Indemnities, that any country that spends the compensation will become addicted to drugs.
The United States returned its portion of the Boxer Indemnity in 1907. This is how Tsinghua University (and several other elite universities) were founded. The US also refused to take territory in China despite being offered it by the Eight Nations Alliance. This fact seems totally unknown in China. It seems like it's important to some sense of national pride that the United States humiliated them. Which just didn't happen historically. The US has a colonialist past in the Philippines, Cuba, etc. But not in China.
Sometimes I feel like a lot of this way of thought was developed to oppose Europeans and then sloppily repurposed to talk about Americans. If you want to say the British repeatedly invaded and humiliated China then that is true. But the Americans are not the British. The US was actually on China's side in most of those wars.
That section about how the teacher teaches different students is very reminiscent of a section in the Passover seder, where it lists four types of children and says how to educate each type about the story of Passover (the four types being the wise child, the wicked (or, in some translation, thoughtless) child, the simple child, and the child who doesn't know how to ask)
> Boxer Indemnities, that any country that spends the compensation will become addicted to drugs.
The United States returned its portion of the Boxer Indemnity in 1907. This is how Tsinghua University (and several other elite universities) were founded. The US also refused to take territory in China despite being offered it by the Eight Nations Alliance. This fact seems totally unknown in China. It seems like it's important to some sense of national pride that the United States humiliated them. Which just didn't happen historically. The US has a colonialist past in the Philippines, Cuba, etc. But not in China.
Sometimes I feel like a lot of this way of thought was developed to oppose Europeans and then sloppily repurposed to talk about Americans. If you want to say the British repeatedly invaded and humiliated China then that is true. But the Americans are not the British. The US was actually on China's side in most of those wars.
"虽然没有子宫但有不切实际的繁殖欲" is literally how I would describe every man I know who glibly talks about having kids as if they dropped out of the sky