Chinese people and the concept of embarrassment? That's face culture.
Vladimir Putin doesn't like being couped? That's Stalinist mentality.
Kenyans and healthcare? That's the witch-doctor-zeitgeist, baby.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/26/economy/china-youth-unemployment-intl-hnk/index.html
Young Chinese are getting paid to be ‘full-time children’ as jobs become harder to find
Aka an allowance
Also the inverse, one person does a thing and it gets turned into a national trend: "A Chinese woman got a haircut, is China turning its back on having long hair?!"
Culture is real. Things that seem similar across cultures can be very different, things that seem different can conceal similarities. Don't dismiss culture because it's difficult to pin down and often misrepresented by fools.
Source - Ignore the anthropologists at your peril
I’m just saying that writing a column about how some Chinese guy didn’t want to go into work this morning because he had a stain on his pants and thought it was embarrassing and acting like it’s some inscrutable eastern phenomenon is just orientalism.
I didn't go to work when I spilled sauce onto my shirt while quickly cleaning up, too. Am I becoming Chinese?
No that’s if you spill it on your pants. If you spill it on your shirt you’re North Korean and it’s part of the Stainless Worker ideology there.
Culture was real but culture is more flattened that it ever has been before, particularly culture in industrialized capitalist countries. Don't get me wrong, there is a lot of etiquette that can still be different, particularly around family and sexual mores, but every year the flattening grows greater.
[Country]'s Water Culture
In [country], people like to drink water. But people there also don't like being immersed in water to the point of drowning. In short, [country] is a land of contrasts.
Corruption. Especially when applied to colonised peoples or AES nations. Pretty much everyone but the most deluded westoids will complain at length about corruption in their own governments, then promptly turn around gand give this as evidence why
deserve to be glassed from space.In [poor African country], paying bribes is a way of life.
Weird they never talk about the Dutch and British mining companies paying those bribes. It’s not a wealthy white rentier colonialist problem, it’s an African problem.
in [rich western nation], lobbying is a way of life.
hmm. oh well, i guess that's fine then.
China eats pork brain "Wow, inhuman savages who will all die of some strange dietary disease"
Mexicans eat brain, lots of countries eat brain while the US consumes hormones and chemicals like its a sport.
You don't even need to relate it to the US' awful diet of chemicals - there are restaurants in the Ohio River Valley that still serve fried pork brain sandwiches
electric fans work better if you ventilate with outside air, because a closed system of air in a room will just get hotter from the motor = fan death
What? "Fan death" was an urban legend cynically started by a propaganda campaign to get people to use less electricity at night in SK, before their grid was able to handle the load. It's not so much a silly superstition or emergent idea as it is a literal lie that the state told people over and over until they started believing it. It's like the dumbshit carrot nightvision thing in the anglosphere, just a literal lie intentionally spread through official propaganda that became an enduring myth as a result.
CW suicide
I've also heard that's it's not really considered a real thing anymore, but rather is euphemistically used to refer to suicide, though I'm not sure if that's true.
