Well, at least we know some of these guys will be the country’s true future innovators.
You know before everything went electronic, there were lots of fake degrees with some really amazing credentials? Doctor of Medicine, Mathematics and Child Care was my favorite.
I almost got one. It was supposed to be:
Fukien University (because Fuckin U)
Phd in Rocket Science and Interstellar Relations
Yes. That’s true. I’m aware of that. We’ve simply made observations of who and what happens in proximity to us.
Yes, we’ve talked about this somewhere recently. Poor people who emigrate are going to be more daring and ambitious than the poor people who stay, so they are self-selected for those traits. It only makes sense that they would thrive given the opportunity to do so.
Apparently, Israel really is in Asia. About half of this list overlaps:
The collection of zip lock bags/plastic bags. (I do this and am a corner-office partner in a giant law firm. I also bring my lunch in a target bag.)
Gambling den once a year (Hanuka; we teach our kids early)
A is average
Admittedly odd religious practices. I’ve swung a bloody chicken over my head, for the record.
Lawyer or doctor (or engineer or hard science or Rabbi)
No elbows on dinner table, eat only after mother and father eat. (We also have a chair for the father (given to my father when he is in my house, otherwise it is mine) and stand when the eldest father enters the room – and general deep respect for elders.)
Numbers are a thing (related to words they make; Hebrew is also a numbering system.)
Tea. All the time.
Herbal soup (although we favor matzo/chicken soup)
Medium rare – I eat this, but we have an issue with blood. (I intellectually know the “red” in meat in intra-cellular fluid, but I still flinch. I eat it, though.)
Family honor
People have stared at my gefilte fish, although they caught on to lox and bagels
Exceedingly high standards and expectations
Studies outside school are harder than school
Deep maternal concern with having eaten.
Pretty much where we part are: (A) pork; (B) tattoos (considered pagan); and (C) our families (in particular our mothers) are very demanding, but exceedingly loving and effluent with praise.
This all used to be called the “Protestant Work Ethic”, btw, before it was uncool to be a white Anglo-saxon protestant.
@dt79
You can see I didn’t solely mention earning ability. And there are other demographics here who don’t reach the same collective economic and academic success. So, I’ll likely continue to have a positive impression.
My mom totally shares this sentiment and has INFINITE respect for Jewish people. She outright told me (in half jest… I think…) to bring back either a Chinese or nice Jewish boy
Tatoos are pretty taboo for the traditional Chinese too. Tatoo= criminal
My mom is that way, but that’s because she spent more time reading parenting guides than on her office job
As a dad to 8, four of whom are fully adult, I would, very rarely, resort to corporal punishment, but would use it for situations where one of my daughters was endangering herself or others. I would also make sure I wasn’t angry at the time, but coldly rational. It also phased out as they got to the point of being able to better understand the reasons behind the rules. Open hand on bottom only; the anticipation was more painful than the spank.
The one exception to this was, during a particular tense phase in Israeli/Palestinian relations, there was an scheme going on where Arabs were actively trying to kidnap Jewish kids and hold them for ransom (or simply torture and kill them). We lived Gush Katif, which was the heart of this activity.
One daughter sneaked off to (probably) go smoke pot with some friends, in particular an Arab boy who was very nice and good kid – but his relatives were very much hardcore known terrorists. And this was the modus operandi – lure a kid off usually with an innocent kid – and kidnap.
Anyway, she went missing, and there was an active police/military search for 12 hours. She was not harmed, but almost certainly being lured into a bad place. (She admitted years later, they were trying to get her to get into a car and lure her to go to another town that was a hair beyond the Green Line.)
Anyway, she was found by the military and received a complete, furious, leather-belt-breaking-the-sound barrier, ass whooping, still talked about to this day. Grounded (and serious grounding, with locks on doors). Phone, everything, gone for the school year. We didn’t talk for days after.
She now says she absolutely deserved it and thanks me for changing her ways, laughing about what a stupid, selfish, b–ch she had been.
I felt guilty after, but there was zero chance I was going to let her get killed.
Anyway, there is a time and (rare) place for corporal punishment.
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Go take a Hebrew class in college.
Convert.
I’m a bit occupied with Russian at the moment
I share your sentiment entirely. Save it for things that threaten life and limb and always parent from a non-emotional position. I won’t even correct the boys until I reset and chill out. I don’t want them seeing me red faced and screaming like a lunatic.
While it’s more thoughtful parenting it may not be as effective, I’m not sure. My best friend in HS turned into a pot head and dabbled in other stuff.
I had every opportunity to try it but I never did. I was convinced that if dad ever had to go to some precinct to get me after an arrest that he’d straight up kill me. Not hurt me bad, just kill me… right there in the precinct witnesses and all. Then high five the police chief.
I’m not Asian, but my brothers wife is.
So from the other side of it: You know you’re Asian when- you make a special spicy dish and the person you served it to’s head explodes.
Did not stop me from eating it though.
In fairness, you were also tricked into drinking Drano.
Is it bad that laughter like this keeps me sane?
Alright, let’s drop the subject.
Have you watched Shaolin Mantis? The ending fight makes my top 10 funniest villian deaths list.
I don’t recall that one. I saw so many when I was a kid. Last month I watched the 36th Chamber of Shaolin.
As I enter my old age status, I have (d)evolved into a curmudgeonous misanthrope.
I can’t blame genetics though. When I was in my 20s thirty odd years ago, my grandfather (who just wanted to see grandkids, period) told me that even a black girl would be ok…as long as she was not too dark. Very, very progressive thinking for the times, and for his age;
everybody listening broke out into guffaws. Dude lived to be 100+. Obviously, with my attitude that will not be in my future…
I’m going to check that one. I’ve been getting back into them. A memorable one was Monkey Kung Fu by the Shaw Brothers. I also was hooked on the ninja movies of the 80s too, which were just as ridiculous.
Was it the one where an old street performer teaches a young guy kungfu or the one where lots of short guys fight lol?
The former, though I think there were actually two of them. I used to very into cinema generally. Things change with kids. Then I vaguely remember Return of the Ninja, Enter the Ninja, American Ninja, ninja this, ninja that.