Pat12 @ Pat12 @lemmy.world

Native language French, fluent in English, practicing Cantonese and German.

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that was a sarcastic comment

I'm not American but i've worked in Western Europe. I don't know why but there seems to be a lot of taxes for everything. You have to get govt permission for everything. People seem to rely on the govt to provide things rather than have some agencies fill niches that aren't filled by the govt (for example I saw signs like don't help homeless people, the govt is helping them).

I'm from an Asian country, we don't have much tax, we don't rely on the govt for anything (we can't), and we have many NGOs. I think it's similar in America.

As an Asian, there are a few things I can note about Europeans.

• Europeans seem to have lost their sense of traditions, to me as an Asian it doesn't make sense since keeping our traditions and values is a huge part of our culture and society.
• Europeans also accept blame for bad things they did in the past (which is a good thing) but I think they can go overboard to compensate for that (to their detriment). I don't think accepting blame for things in the past is a thing that's done in Asia; we rewrite history instead. It would help if we acknowledged what we did and can have better relations with others moving forward.
• Europeans identify more with nationality than ethnicity. For example, someone from Czech Republic moving to France is considered French. In North America I think they would be considered Czech-French. In Asia they would be considered to be a Czech expat living in France. Our ethnicity matters a lot.

Why smoking remains so prevalent. I’m sure it’s not a majority that smokes, but it is massively more common anywhere I’ve been in Europe than here in the US. I live in a fairly large city and I will go many days in a row without seeing a single person smoking.

I just don’t really get it. It’s gross, it smells, it ruins your teeth and your lungs, and it’s expensive. Why do it?

this is the same in asia. sometimes people don't even smoke, they just smoke because their boss does it and they do it to fit in at work. it's really awful.

i actually can't tell if you're serious or joking lol

What people are talking about in this thread are people who follow the movement, and not who Qanon is. Of course your friend isn’t Qanon. That would be absurd.

i didn't mean i thought they were qnon, i meant they are not part of the qanon movement

I don’t know what the connotations of him are in East Asia.

I don't think there are any, I agree the audience for my questions are people who speak English (at a level they would understand what he's saying fluently), i don't think he's super well known or very popular here

he was in the local news a few years ago because he talked about the protest in hongkong but he was referred to as "ufc's joe rogan", not sure if he had the podcast back then

i meant that the person i know is not qanon, i was responding to "I don’t know but if someone told me they listened to Joe Rogan, I would assume...Worst case is Qanon nut job."

thank you!

any chance you could give a time period for this? was this a few months ago? this might have been what they were listening to

i don't think he (the person I know) is a qanon, i don't really know what that is but i don't think we have those kind of people here in asia (our politics are focused on different things)

well, i don't know fully. neither of us speaks english as a first language

could you give a few examples? This person was listening to something about Joe Biden

yes, but do they die from it? i've seen more stories of people dying from pit bulls

You’re far more likely to be killed by a mosquito than a dog.

Do you have a source on this? I've not seen any US cases of a person dying from a mosquito bite.

theres a language learning community you can ask this on

no, that's not the same thing. "our relationship" does not convey the same emotion that is intended in the chinese word.

? It's the best way to translate it, some Chinese words don't have good English translations and vice versa

I once listened to someone who managed a walmart-esque store complain how to get their cashiers who earned slightly above minimum wage to go above and beyond their required duties

when women are obligated to cover up, people just accept those governments telling them what to do; have you seen any protests lately about governments in the middle east and asia telling women to cover up?