Seems like the chuds won’t leave you guys alone lately, just know you aren’t alone and we have your back.

Just checking in on you guys really

  • summerbl1nd [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    in the asian diaspora communities i hung out in as a kid, being poor was close to being a moral failure, second to being uneducated.

    i can only speak for the chinese communities with regards to chud/based ratios, but they say that tiananmen essentially turned all the students who were in a position to care at the time either into maoist ultras or gigachuds, with very few in between. i figure the people who would willingly emigrate are pretty self-selecting.

    • duderium [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I've known younger second generation Korean Americans who were cool but since moving back every single thirty- or forty-something Korean immigrant we've spoken with has been like a fucking creationist. These people exist in South Korea but they are generally viewed as absurd there. Like I said, my wife is a Berner and that's pretty moderate in South Korea.

      • congressbaseballfan [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        Like all countries, the bourgeoisie diaspora isn’t reflective of the population overall, but I remember being in college (this was a long time ago) and all the Korean students whether they grew up here or in Korea were super religious psychos. This is mostly women in my experience certainly isn’t reflective; but there always seemed to be more diversity of thought with other nationalities. It always just struck me as unique and interesting

        • duderium [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          There is probably much more diversity of thought in South Korea itself. Proportionately it actually has a shitload of atheists as well as a huge number of cultural Buddhists who also participate in pretty frequent Confucian / shamanistic cultural rites. The regular Buddhists are pretty "normal" but I spent a lot of time around the monks and found them to be pretty bizarre. They made excellent conversational partners but their ideas were, uh, let's say, hmmm...I once spent an entire semester arguing about the importance of astronomy with a monk who said that it was unimportant because the Buddha had never really mentioned it. I said it was important if we want to, like, not get wiped out by an asteroid, but she didn't care. Still, we were friends.

          • congressbaseballfan [she/her]
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            3 years ago

            Yeah, of course. I’ve met Koreans outside of the US when I’ve been abroad and found them to be normal and interesting to talk to. It’s my experience inside the US lol.