BlameThePeacock

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[–] BlameThePeacock 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The hilarious part of this is that Orson Scott Card is extremely Homo phobic to the point of wanting it to be a crime and jailing people.

He's one of the hateful groups that would need to be culled under your proposed action.

[–] BlameThePeacock 8 points 2 weeks ago

May is doing a lot of heavy lifting, it's more about how many at this point.

[–] BlameThePeacock 43 points 2 weeks ago

So many fucking asshole conservative candidates.

[–] BlameThePeacock 20 points 2 weeks ago

Don't count him out, just vote him out instead.

[–] BlameThePeacock 3 points 2 weeks ago

He did make an exception for Russia though...

[–] BlameThePeacock 1 points 2 weeks ago
[–] BlameThePeacock 48 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Not really, the formula they used to generate the percentages for each country means its not really intentional, the 10% is just countries the US import almost nothing from.

[–] BlameThePeacock 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Haha, 99% of artists have spent more on supplies than they have ever made in revenue.

[–] BlameThePeacock 35 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

Publicity, awareness, and political capital which do matter in politics

[–] BlameThePeacock 1 points 2 weeks ago

That's not what I was taught or experienced firsthand while I was there.

[–] BlameThePeacock 1 points 2 weeks ago

It makes perfect sense, he's asking for positive examples.

[–] BlameThePeacock 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

The vast majority of them are just fine, like with most tourists. The problem is there's just massively large number of them in many tourist destinations compared to other countries (at least where I live), which means you more frequently see one acting poorly too.

The Americans are somewhat the same, we also get a lot of them.

That being said, even though most of the issues are because of sheer numbers it doesn't mean there aren't a few key cultural differences which can play a role in western locations being offended by Chinese behaviour.

The big one with China is that culturally there's no expectation that you treat a stranger respectfully, the person you're dealing with needs to earn your respect rather than having it by default. This comes across as quite rude to many other countries when you only have a single interaction with this person.

This isn't a Chinese only issue though, Americans can also be quite rude depending on where they're from and how they were raised, a good chunk of them are entitled assholes who think the world revolves around them when they visit.

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