I’m not saying she was right, but I will say, if I was flying from the United States to Mexico, I would be very confused if the flight crew only spoke Chinese.
Yes, but, that’s not what happened here. It was an international flight, and there were employees who spoke Chinese, and did so to try to calm her down. She was mad at one employee for not speaking Chinese.
The ‘everyone should adapt to my needs’ shit needs to end for all countries
Si, me tienen las pelotas re contra llenas
Lo siento. Toma esta pelota.
Havent seem the video, but in dpanair they do speak spainidh and i do not accept they cant.
People being surprised that bad people can come from other countries is a weird take on US exceptionalism that I didn’t expect.
Lots of countries have their own exceptionalism going on. Especially in the demographics that can afford to travel.
Really? I see it every time. Bad thing happens in US: “Of course it did. Where else could it?” Bad thing happens outside of US: “Wow. [Other Place] really acting like the US here.” Apparently racism, violence, and most other human sins only exist in the US to some people. It’s weird.
This, but especially since Trump was elected again it’s been notched up to 11,000. It’s quite annoying actually
Didn’t expect a Chinese Karen on my timeline this morning.
This makes me wonder: what is the Mandarin-language equivalent of the American “Karen?”
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Unless you experienced Asian racism you didn’t experience racism fully. They don’t like anyone, even their own people. I’ve witness people being racist because someone is from another village let alone a city or country. I wonder if they also hate themselves as well.
I mean, people in a town I lived in were upset because kids from the next town over were using the public swimming pool. This was in northern Virginia, so not liking people from another village anywhere in the world hardly seems strange.
I play EVE Online which has a decently sized Chinese playerbase and my god those racist fucks would give racists in the west a run for their money. See it daily of “small brained whites” or “The whites are here” or “white pig” or “sleepy whites”.
But as soon as you joke and say “man it looks like the Tianamen Square Massacre of 1989 in here” in local chat they all collectively freak out on you.
Well man, they just are being mean and you suddenly drop a -100k social credit account bomb with area of effect.
Wouldn’t hating someone from another village just be like generic Xenophobia? I can’t imagine two villagers from the same Asian country but two different villages are genetically distinct enough to count as different “races”. Or are we just using “racist” to mean “bigoted”
Race is a social construct, not genetic.
I agree, but that construct has a specific meaning, we don’t consider a random person from nearby village to be a different race.
“We” isn’t as universal as you are suggesting here.
Tuk me a while but you are right. Didn’t think about it enough.
Depends. Many Asian countries consists of many different ethnic groups. So they do see each other as different races.
The word “rasist” is nowadays often used more widely. You’re right about the strict definition. I also think it’s reasonable to use it in a wider sense if the underlying feelings are the same, which seems to be the case here.
But, I mean, English already has a word for that (bigoted).
Having, and properly using, different words for even slightly different concepts is important for efficient and effective communication. If everyone just starts lazily using one word to mean multiple similar concepts, when other words already exist for those concepts, then that just leads to misunderstandings and confusion.
I understand that non-native speakers may not yet have the vocabulary necessary to use the correct words, but that’s an opportunity for them to learn the correct words, not an excuse to dumb down the language.
Very good point, that doesn’t seem like racism to me either
I’ve witness people being racist because someone is from another village
We have this in Germany too. Traditionally, the area where I live hates the area where I was born. These two places are maybe an hour apart and in the same state. All because they were governed by different nobles ages ago who had different ideas about Christianity. Tbh though it was much more of a thing in my parents’ generation.
In Germany, hating others based on where they were born becomes more socially accepted the closer the “other” gets.
Hating people from other countries is bad, hating people from East Germany is problematic, hating people from the neighboring German state is OK and hating people from the neighboring village is funny.Damn, that’s surprisingly apt.
I mean? If it leads to a mostly harmless rivalry, that’s quite fun.
Somehow, I get the feeling it’s not that.
Yes I have experienced the exact same. I was questioned by “locals” when I moved villages. They wanted to know if I was doing enough for the community and keeping up with local events. My man I was born less than 10kms away.
I guess they just prefer inbreeding and keeping the village to themselves. Not realizing without all the new construction and new people the village would have died out 20 years ago.
That’s not racism, that’s just being an asshole.
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Ah yes, all the Swedes I had to ban from my discord for calling my black friends the N word were just being overly enthusiastic.
Fuck you, every country has racists. Racism rises from a lack of empathy, exposure, and education. There’s always cruel, sheltered, idiots running around.
I found the comment funny for anyone who knows asia and in particular india. It is kinda where you come from but just like the earth there is a skin color difference in north south things.
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Yeah thats a load of horseshit. Especially coming from a swede. Racism began in Europe and the Swedes have a pretty large amount of active nazis. The “weight” is exactly the same and I pity anyone dumb/naive enough to think different…
Who spends time making excuses for racists saying the N word?
Weird.
Other racists
You haven’t been to asia it seems, we definitely did racism by skin colour as well.
Was in Thailand years ago helping out with an English-language program in a rural area. Noticed in the department stores when we went into town that Jergens sells a lot of lotions with “skin lightening” in the marketing…
This typically comes from class hierarchies not genetic myths. Poor people work in the sun.
I realize that. One of the guys who helped out as a grounds-keeper would wear a fleece-lined coat when outside. In Northeast Thailand. In June. He claimed that when a breeze came through the sleeves it cooled you down. Sure.
I also went to college with a Japanese girl who took up surfing. Her family would criticize her for how dark her skin had gotten. It was amusing to me, as an American, how we came to prize darker skin (but not too dark, yeah?) and the same companies that sold us “bronzers” and stuff sold creams that did the opposite in other parts of the world.
But if you are all Asian it’s bigotry or xenophobia or a few other terms that don’t involve the huge groups that are “races”. Colour prejudice looks like racism but doesn’t use the same hierarchy.
Sure, we don’t have the “dark skin as slave fair skin as master” history, but we definitely practice it like we have it. It’s the same mindset.
In Malaysia, whiteworshipping is very real. The darker you are, the worst you’re being treated, so indian are worst off because they have the darkest skin of all the ethnic in malaysia, they will have lower chance of getting jobs, house rental, and be treated as if they have higher chance of committing crime by the police. We even have derogatory name for them.
A Kuala Lumpur-bound AirAsia flight
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirAsia
AirAsia X Berhad (MYX: 5238), operating as AirAsia, is a Malaysian multinational low-cost airline headquartered near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
I mean, you’re on a budget Malaysian airline flying to Malaysia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia
National language (official): Malay[a][b][c]
Recognised languages: English[c]Don’t get me wrong, this woman is a Karen and actually quite typical of the mainland China entitlement and behavior. BUT there’s a massive amount of mandarin speaking people in Malaysia to the point where it’s a destination for mainland Chinese. Not excusing her ridiculous behavior but providing context here.
I wonder what the Chinese equivalent of a Karen is…
Interesting read but not the same as a Karen in my mind.
Teng Wei, a professor at South China Normal University wrote, “When we use dama as an insult, what we’re really doing is suggesting that there’s something inherently wrong with being a middle-aged woman. It’s ageist, classist — and it’s time to stop.”
Let’s be honest - that exact same subtle misogyny follows “Karen” as well.
Of course it’s not the same. It’s a completely different culture and history.
But Teng Wei’s criticism applies to the “Karen” insult as well.
It’s delightful to see this phenomenon happening in another country.
British thing as well. Fuck you if you’re from Derby.
Why Derby in particular?
Because its derby
Found the guy from Derby!
I’ve lived all over t’north, but never Derby. Spent some quality time in the bus station there in the 90s, and that’s about it.
You’ve already experienced the highlight, so domt waste your time going back.
Is this Henry Paker’s account?
Rise of the Mandarin-elite?
Rise of the Mandarolians
New world order on its way. I wonder how long it will take Western countries to start offering Mandarin in school.
Edit to add: To clarify: I don’t mean offered as an optional language but as mandatory, the way English is right now in, for example, Switzerland.
I knew of a lot of racist types in my youth (so, 25+ years ago) who would encourage kids to learn Mandarin because “in a few years we’ll all be working for them.”
I don’t think that will ever happen, China is not imperialist enough for that.
Won’t require that as much as a demand from local business to produce a workforce that can do business with China.
Learning Mandarin in public west europe school has been possible for literal decades.
Possible but not required. I meant as a replacement for how English is currently a mandatory foreign language in many European countries.
…Pretty sure it was offered 20 years ago in Scotland, a friend’s son was doing it.
