You can vote overseas…

Its actually ironic that people in Puerto Rico don’t even get representation but if you last lived in the 50 states and then go abroad, you can mail your vote.

Every time I hear the word “import” when referring to Human Beings, its always some far right xenophobic white dude complaining about “oMg tHeSe dIrTy iNdIaNs aRe tAkInG oVeR!”

it’s trading one capitalist place for another.

Funny enough, my family also did this, but reversed.

I was born in China and we moved to the US when I was 8 years old… my parents found more success here… I mean, not at the very beginning, but eventually… now they have more income and more time off vs back in China…

I can’t speak for everyone, but in my specific case, my mom had to work long hours and did not have the 1.5 overtime bonus she has now and have less breaks vs now, and then dad… well… he didn’t really have a stable job, spend a lot of the time looking for jobs…

social programs, healthcare, and such.

Not according to my parents. My parents were kinda shocked how much welfare American Citizens have, and at one point, my parents claimed that “Americans are lazy and just wanna not go to work and live on welfare”.

And in terms of housing, okay when we were in Brooklyn, NYC, that place was so expensive it was impossible buy a house, so they bount a house in Philly moved our family here… where we’ve been living ever since…

Okay it was like approximately $100k around 2014 but this place has very shitty schools :/

But both the Brooklyn place we rented and this house in this ghetto place called Philly, both looked nicer than the neighborhood where used to live in Guangzhou, a CITY btw… (okay to be fair there are a bunch of problems in this current Philly house but like that’s just parents being frugal lol)

As for the healthcare part… eh… my mom really don’t trust doctors in China (well she also doesn’t really trust healthcare people overall, but especially those in China). Mom told me about a lot of situations that she felt like she got scammed, I can’t remember all the anecdotes she told me, but at one point, she told me how she thought the doctors are trying to get her to do a C-Section just to make more money (cuz surgery = more expensive bill), she thought it was unnecessary and wanted to give a natural birth, but she doesn’t wanna risk it being that, in fact, the doctors told the truth and then us dying, so she just gave in and went along with the C-Section. And she told me they want to overprescribe medicine so they get a kickback from the pharma companies. Bascially, my parents say US quality of healthcare is better for those who can afford it. But even then, because of their experiences living in China for so long, they just became so skeptical of the medical industry which is why mom really don’t want me seeking help for depression, cuz: “yOu dOn’t hAvE dEpReSsIoN, tHe dOctOrs aRe jUsT lYinG tO yOu!” cuz she thinks they are just trying to get paid fot overdiagnosing people… so because of their experience in China, they now kinda grew skeptical of medical professionals overall…

Cuz there’s just so much sketchy stuff and scams in China, and on top of their own experiences, warnings about scams are always circulating throughout their WeChat.

So it can look cheaper… but you risk running into corrupt doctors because corruption is a very big thing there, I mean they could easily bribe their way into having a medical license when they shouldn’t be qualified…

“To to teach English”

Which is only possible because he happened to be born into the language

And English is only in demand because of British + American dominance in the world throught the past few hundred years

Most Chinese Citizens cannot enjoy the same lifestyle as him, WHICH IS WHY they want to learn English in the first place… so that they can find more opportunities in life

Like… this is not really “China good”, this is more like “English-Speaking white dude, who was lucky enough to grow up with the language, benefiting from Anglosphere dominance throught history”

LMFAO

My mom blamed us (me and my older brother) for “sitting too close to the TV”

She kept us mostly locked indoors in an apartment (besides going to school) from the beginning of my memory up till 8 years old.

Then we moved to the US and from 8 to 12 I was in school from morning (like 7 AM maybe? forgot the exact time) till like 6PM cuz she signed me up afterschool programs cuz she wanted to use it as free babysitting essentially so she can work longer…

And we cant go outside alone without adults.

In China it was “a lot of kidnappers on the street thay will traffic you and sell your organs”

In the US it was “if you go outside without an adult, CPS will take you away and you can’t see mama again” (idk why mom spoke in 3rd person sometimes lol)

Yay! so… from birth to 12 I was indoors, either in school or at home, most of the time…

outdoor time was rare and only when parents have a day off or like the 15 minutes of recess in school…

that’s basically our outside time…

In China we had maternal grandma that sometimes took us outside…

In the US, it was just mom, dad, older brother, and me (cuz grandma can’t come yet, no visa yet)… So we had even less outside time… like parenrs had to work all the time…

But of course its always “too much screens!” to be blamed lmao

From 8 to 12 was when my nearsightedness really developed a lot.

I didn’t understand why I had nearsigntedness at the time, but now looking back and analyzing my life, now it’s so obvious why lol…

My older brother has like -9.00 or -10.00 in the nearsightedness thing. Its funny my parents called it like 900 or 1000 “degrees”… like it sounds so much scarier when they drop the decimal point and literally say: “you’re about to have ONE THOUSAND DEGREES IN NEARSIGHTEDNESS! You’re gonna GO BLIND!”

If this was asked in China, I bet nobody would seriously say “I wanna live in the past”

(at least not in the context of traveling back to the 1950s or something like that…)

Every comment section is xenophobic

Every problem is the fault of “immigrants, democrats, black people”

Japan very civilized because… “it’s homogenous society, unlike the US”… 🧐

CCP Shills

Far-right falsely accusing all Chinese diaspora of being CCP Spies… 🙄

And mean like… you got both Tankies and Sinophobes on one platform… oh boy… 👀

I wonder what happens when you mix the two… oh, behold

The Sinophobic Tankie? (There are white male foreigners that shills for CCP while simultaneously has horrible Chinese language skills and looks down on the actual average Chinese people, especially that they look down on those that don’t speak English, and also has Asian fetish and are mysogynistic towards Chinese women… aka: the “sexpats”)

More like a c/NoStupidQuestions post than a YSK

Also: OP Username is literally a romanization of 李洪志 founder of Falun Gong (but with Lee instead of Li)

🤣

You know you can be against CCP without joining a weird “religious movement”

Booo, fr🤮nch. I rather have it be Mandarin-Chinese so I don’t have to learn more stuff xD

Because I’m trying to shred light on fucked up families…

Because I’m Chinese American and came to the US at a young age and this resonates with me,

Because I have seen how stressful my parents got…

Stuggling to make money…

Rent payments every 30 days…

And I have memories of mom yelling at me a lot as a sort of emotional outlet…

Because I, although I don’t know the history of this family, I can imagine what the immigrant experience is…

I could totally see a timeline where my mom would’ve lost control and murdered me when I was “misbehaving”

Is shocking how the difference between a struggling family that perservered and survived, and a crime scene that tore a family apart, is just that one moment of rage and losing control under a system that is so rough and causes so much stress and frustration.

My mom did not murder me in this timeline.

But here we have someone’s mom who did.

It’s just very… idk how to say this… intriguing(?) to learn the difference between my family and others… we all came from the same place… similar struggles…

Yet… such vast outcomes…

And I also sometimes envision a timeline where we have a “more perfect” family-dynamics.

It’s an SCP. The containment procedure is to livestream his location at all times and make it legal for everyone to beat him up.

I hope this means less Sinophonia and not copying the government’s authoritarianism lol

I wanna highlight this:

“Appreciation does not erase the racism that many Chinese people grew up with,” said Elise Zeng, 28, from Brooklyn, New York. A video she posted critiquing the social media phenomenon was liked by more than 36,000 people.

She recalls how during the COVID-19 pandemic she was afraid for her parents stepping out of the house because they heard about people getting attacked just walking down the street. At the time, many Asians reported being assaulted or verbally abused by people who blamed East Asians for the spread of the virus.

“Those experiences don’t just disappear because Chinese culture is suddenly cool and trendy,” she said.

I really hope my future children can go through school in the west without ever being called “ching chong” or kids do the racist “pull their eyes back” bullshit…

But like… the reality is: Obama being president for 8 years didn’t prevent George Floyd from getting murdered by a white cop.

He has to register as a sex offender when he eventually gets deported to the US… lmfao

ERROR: YOUR PACEMAKER HAS CRASHED, PLEASE PRESENT YOUR ID TO VERIFY THAT YOU…

checks notes

… actually need a pacemaker and not just some kid… why need ID? cuz… something something counterterrorism and protect children…

Of course white dudes wanna enjoy their white privilage that even Local Chinese Citizens don’t have

Exhibit A: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_monkey (this is not exactly “tourist” but the point remains)

The phenomenon is based on the perception that association with foreigners, specifically white foreigners, can signify prestige, legitimacy, and international status.

Edit: Lmao r/fragilewhiteredditors leaking into Lemmy 🤣

Does this apply to Mestashtics?

Meshtashtic-net, anyone?

I wonder what the “Lib-Right” would say about this lmao

Is “Pro-Constitution” and “Anti-Tyranny” gonna be on a list of banned words?

Nuclear Weapons stops WW3 yet again!

Thanks a lot to Mr. Oppenheimer

Freud has joined the chat

Does sanction in this case mean allowed or forbidden?

Cuz this stupid word has two contradicting meanings lol