SJWs and Cultural Assimilation (or lack thereof)

What can i say, SJWs, of whatever race gender or religion, are a-holes

My teachers refuse to respond to students who greet them “Merry Christmas” because they want to be “more inclusive” or something even though Christmas is a massive celebration here. While refusing to reciprocate a greeting with religious connotations may be considered polite in the west, that is definitely not the case here

I will start with i live in Europe, a part were i’m pretty sure Christmas is a big thing, when i was in school this would’ve never happened, but i can’t help but think quite a few of my old teachers (especially middle/high school) are probably doing this shit now

I had classmates who didn’t celebrate Christmas, and when Christmas break came up, i’d wish them happy holidays and they’d wish me Merry Christmas back or vice versa, there was no worries about “oh, am i being inclusive??”, everyone had their respective cultures and everyone wished everyone their respective holidays

Some foreigners do things that are outright illegal, such as only allowing their maid 1 meal a day. (True story. My parents used to smuggle food to somebody’s maid so she wouldn’t starve.)

I also had classmates who’s parents were domestic workers, them being foreigners working for the locals, i can’t speak for all of them, but there was one classmate who both parents got fired ’cause her mom had fallen sick! And they were live in help, so the whole family was living with their employers, and the whole family got kicked out

Most of what OP said is close to why I despise the massive influx of illegal aliens here in America.

They dont give a shit about American history, value, or our laws. Worse the asshole politicions who are refusing to treat them like the criminals they are use them like slave labor forcing real Americans to fight their under the table – pennies on the dollar- wages with manditory ‘minimum wages’ that cant actually feed a family.

Globalism is a farce.

I think multiculturalism is the problem, not globalism.

Gotta disagree.

He’s what you need to understand about globalism and why it’s so dangerous. In your mind, I believe you are looking at its bare bones literal purpose of opening up world trade so all countries can take advantage of resources and production through fair trade.

But that is not the reality of the Globalism that Bill Clinton started in the 90’s. The true aim of Globalism, a plan of the far left, was not free and fair trade, but in fact the breaking down of the greater world powers. Pull the means of production away from the West and spread it around as cheap labor across the world in order to diminish Western strength. The lie that it was okay to allow the means of production to go away is what has had the U.S. and many other centers of Western civilization so degraded and economically fragile. What does the U.S. make anymore, truly? We make Twitter and Facebook…isn’t that grand? Social Media doesn’t put food on the table and pay the bills for the everyday man. A good job in a factory with protection by the Unions before they were corrupted fully, once upon a time, fed a family, paid the bills, and allowed the blue collar family to have a comfortable life. This was a way of life for decades, and people prospered. That’s just the truth.

Those jobs do not exist anymore because of Globalism, and people are worse off for it. They were sold a rotten bill of goods and told to go to college, because that was how they were going to make a good living now, where thanks to that lie two generations have been completely brainwashed by leftist tenants. Clinton opened the doors and sent away the greater portion of our means of production off to China and the like, and the world has suffered more than prospered, because when products were made in America, they were of quality. All the shit made in China is garbage. Turns my stomach when I get something I need, and see a Made in China sticker…and thanks to the recent political events, that shit ain’t gonna stop, now.

And I’ve been to China. I’ve seen the regular people both farmers and population that live in the cities. Globalism hasn’t helped them. They live in near poverty, and the urban dwellers are willing to spend an entire paycheck to buy a god damned smart phone, which they are then glued to like all the rest of the doped up people of the world, only they are even worse off because the Great Fire Wall keeps them subjugated and ignorant to what’s really going on. Those poor slobs have literally no idea what is going on in the rest of the world.

So no, globalism is not good. It is part of the leftist tool bag in their never ending quest to create a global leviathan ruling network to control everything and strip away individuality of both people and nations, eventually leading to their borderless utopia where we are all under the thumb of a supra-government ruling everything from a distant location totally isolated and protected from actual people, and that helps no one…how’s that E.U. working out? Those fools in Brussels really take care of everyone,  don’t they…

I get your point, but you just described China of the late 90s, early 2000s. Right now, china is very, very different. They try to copy the US at every level. Many millionaires in China right now, many rich people. Sure, 50% are still poor, specially in the small cities, but in the big cities, you see people with too much money, they don’t know where to spend. They’re very materialistic.

I live here, I just saw 3 women going for lunch, each one with a tesla, they love to show off. And trust me, the population loves capitalism, they just aren’t allowed to say it out loud, but they do. Money is everything for them.

About chinese products, same, it’s very different from 20 years ago. Right now they (big brands) use the same materials as western companies. Some huawei phones (not talking about the software lol) are even better than iphones, if you hold one you’ll see.

China is very different now (in terms of the people and lifestyle).

PS: I’m not praising it thou, I’m just stating some facts.

Of course, the political system still the same, but that’s another story. :D

I was last there in 2016, not 20 years ago, and what I saw was utter shit hole after utter shit hole, and one disgusting event after another. Even when I was in Beijing, it was not that great. Now of course you can say that was 4 years ago, but I know what I saw and what I experienced. Perhaps you are living under a better experience with better conditions and travel to different places, but I was in the South (I can’t remember the area’s name anymore), Shanghai, and Beijing, and it was a terrible experience. They literally can’t even make real beds over there! Everything is a fucking stone slab! I spent two hours in a crazy mattress show room one time, and it was all garbage! There is no such thing as a real washing machine, and you are lucky to find an actual dryer that can dry anything more than maybe one or two towels at at time. And yeah, I know Japan doesn’t do the in home washer and dryer thing either, but I do know from being told that they at least have laundrymats. From what I saw that does not exist in China outside of hotels. And then going furniture shopping was abysmal, because it was all terrible both in design and quality!

And yeah, they love capitalism and love everything they can get their hands on from the west, but it doesn’t change anything I said about Globalism. It doesn’t change the reality that whatever is made over there to send here is inferior in quality, where when we have to live with the products and use them, they usually fall apart and degrade because they suck.

Three rich chicks had rich girl stuff, so….I was on a plane once and some crazy nearly toothless farmer literally turned around, reached over the seat, and tried to take a banana from my food tray. My then friend I was with who lived there full time said to me, “Yeah, they are giving the farmers a field trip to keep them docile.”

China is fucked up. The CCP ripped away their once storied and rich culture, leaving them without any true cultural identity, so they latch on to anything that is basically shiny from anywhere else in the world and try to make it into some bastardized version of what it should be.

Plus one of their fucking mutant chest viruses literally almost killed me, and I probably would have died if we hadn’t been told make sure I was taken to a Taiwanese hospital not a Chinese one, because if I went into a Chinese one, I wouldn’t come out.

So fuck Chicom.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by Roas.

The key in topics like intercultural relations and visiting another country with a different culture is to understand the position you are in. When moving to (or even just visiting) a very different culture you have to know that you are on ”unfamiliar territory” and you are the one who needs to adapt to the culture. However, when it comes to locals interacting with you, they should understand that you are new and don’t know everything, so they should have some patience and understanding towards you as long as you show effort to adapt and learn from your mistakes. And this goes for all cultures, whether you’re an African visiting America or an American visiting Asia or whatever. Otherwise you’re gonna end up like Logan Paul in Japan.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by SuperSoynic_Speed.