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…)

Sorry I have lol-syndome

lol

xD

lmao

omfg

rofl

(sorry lol 😅)

Okay I know this is c/greentext and its not a serious comm, still just wanna infodump lol:

So… in 1st grade I was in China…

I remember them doing National Anthem… very similar to the US lol (as in the ritual, not the melody lol)

They use rulers to hit kids lol… 😭

I lucked out because my family emigrated…

Forgot if I ever got hit by a teacher… if I did, I must’ve deleted that memory since it sounds kinda traumatizing…

And they made us RECITE AN ENTIRE STORY! (Children’s story, but still) They made us stay afterschool for that 😭

I STILL REMEMBER the 9x9 times table “poem” thingy from first grade, it’s forever burned into my head (okay this might be 2nd grade tbf, forgot when I learned it exactly)

Article I found: https://yoyochinese.com/blog/Learn-Chinese-Multiplication-Rhyme-Time-Tables)

Oh yes I can sing the Chinese national anthem¹ + the American one too…

they played it too much the melody is forever stored in my hippocampus

(¹Okay I might have looked up the exact lyrics later on as a teen…)

And if I sing both, I get both sides to hate me… xD

I feel like that kindergarden, 1st, 2nd grade… just those few years of school there makes me very distinct from ABCs (American-Born Chinese).

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…

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?

Mom: “I grew up with nothing, your grandparents didn’t give us anything, yet look at how much I’ve built [they have like a few hundred thousand to possibly 1 mill USD in assets], why can’t you do the same?”

And funny thing is she also admitted that luck is part of the equation, but then still shamed us anyways…

Like she often points to my cousin around my age that apprantly is doing some bussiness stuff overseas and made millions in profits…

And like

Oh this is funny:

“Look at NYC! An IMMIGRANT BECAME MAYOR! [she’s talking about Mamdani] You came here at 8 years old, why can’t you be just like him?”

😭

Idk mom, Mamdani’s mom seems nicer than you… maybe that’s why… lmfao

My older brother is 28 and still with us… 🤷‍♂️

My mom said shit like: “[some random friend/relative] is only 21 and already graduated college and gotten married and have a kid (which means presumably they have their own separate house), why are y’all [directed at me and my older brother] such failures?”

(I’m Chinese American btw)

Next up: Boeing Buys Airbus 🤣

Late response, missed this post from the feed.

Yes.

I used to live in Brooklyn, NYC but the rent was going up and houses are too expensive.

So my family moved to Philly. We have a house here. They borrowed from friends and relatives (instead of going to the bank for mortgage), and now the debt has been paid off. (Parents did a lot of overtime work)

School here suck, which is probably why houses at the time was only like 100k-ish

Ayyy Anon used the term “Woman” instead of “feeeeemale”

Anon respects women

So… just a fun day playing Devil’s Advocate, gotcha.

How about: Government shouldn’t be able to intervene in family planning

It’s one thing to encourage or discourage births, its a whole other thing to force IUDs, force sterillizarions, forced abortions.

That’s if they don’t catch you.

My mom told me the first hand account of how women would just get forced abortions.

Like there are lots of women that was pregnant with their 2nd unapproved child, then the government found out and they’d force you go get an abortion.

My mom managed to hide me till like month 8 of the pregnancy, then like someone found out but they turned one eye blind and didn’t report it.

I mean I don’t exactly understand the full story either, its not like mom wrote a diary on it.

Basically it was a combination of many factors that lead to me surviving.

There was an issue of jurisdictions, they mostly left it local governments to enforce, mom was from Taishan and she was working in Guangzhou when she had me, and she was supposed to submit a pregnancy test every 3 months and send results back to their hometown. But mom told me she got another woman to take the pregnancy test for her under her name.

So like, the people working for the Guangzhou government didn’t enforce it as harshly because she wasn’t registered in their Hukou.

Perhaps a god exists and they intervened? idk, not really that religious…

I barely lived, and yes there’s a fine, like somewhere in the ¥20000-¥30000 rmb which was a lot in the 2002s.

So by categorically denying my right to existence even though my mom wanted me, its somehow essential to China’s development?

Last I checked, most western countries doesn’t go around snatching women off the streets and performing abortions against their will.

Aside from all the politic shit. They tried to end my existence via the enforcement of the One Child Policy. I was the 2nd child in my family, they nearly ended me.

Thank god I got lucky and somehow lived.

Not the user you responded to, but I got a vendetta against PRC, it’s personal.

Sorry I don’t have white privilage.

White dudes voted him in, this aint on me. I voted Harris.

What do you want a foreign-born non-white immigrant to do? Political violence? So that it incites even more xenophobia?

Next up, foreign VPNs and shortwave radios are illegal to use.

Then phone calls are restricted.

Then international mail has to be inspected and censored.

All hail Chairman Trump!

USA USA 👊🇺🇸🔥

One Nation, Under KGB Agent Krasnov

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