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It benefited them, they didn't really integrate though, did it benefit the wider society?

But they haven't integrated have they?

Dilbert_X wrote:

But they haven't integrated have they?

korean-americans haven't integrated? how do you figure that? there are lots of highly successful, 'nativised' korean-americans (and chinese-americans and japanese-americans, too, for that matter).

there were mass migrations of japanese to brazil in the 20th century. they integrated perfectly well into brazil's coastal cities. there are lots of mixed japanese and brazilian babies (i briefly dated one).

you pontificate with your specious racial theorising but there are any number of examples of pretty successful integration. never seamless or without frictions, no, of course not; but integration and people 'getting on', being part of a community, paying their taxes, sending their kids to school alongside other races, etc, al the same.

the irony of one of the least socially integrated human beings i've ever met judging other group's acculturation and socialisation is just so fucking funny. you emigrated to a highly racially diverse, pluralist liberal democracy and you haven't 'adapted' to australia's modern culture in the slightest. you're living there as if it's fucking rhodesia. laughing my ass off.

Dilbert_X wrote:

The Koreans learned from the LA riots.

'Roof Korean' is a very sticky meme in American context. Weirdly purloined as a symbol by largely-white gun enthusiasts, and used by some to gleefully stoke discord between Asians and blacks.

Let's not forget that one of the key components of the LA riots flashpoint (apart from the absolutely savage beating of a Rodney King, though a drunk driver is no angel, by "overenthusiastic" police), was the often forgotten₁ murder of a 15-year-old girl by a Korean-American store owner over the suspected shoplifting of a dollar-bottle of orange juice that investigators determined she was actually going to pay for with money in hand.

There's also something funny about how the mAsTeR rAcE doesn't have Rooftop Europeans as a mascot instead. Like, where were all y'all toe-faced knuckleheads during the LA riots?

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₁Anecdotally, more people remember King than Harlins when this comes up. "Can't we all just get along," is an old-timey meme of dankness.

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2022-12-12 09:26:56)

i humbly stand corrected, sir.

i’ve had so many koreans explain to me that the name ‘daiso’ comes from a clever pun on the korean word that it didn’t occur to me that the actual word might have been imported into the korean language by imperial japan. not a fact many koreans would have laboured to explain.

I just finished video chatting for over an hour with a new Chinese girl I met. Slim, 33, and very Chinese. I mean she came here to do graduate school in 2013. She seems really sweet though. I am going to try hard to not fuck this up.

Oh no. I meant she still has a noticable accent and I have to make sure I don't talk too fast. The Taiwanese lady keeps up just fine since she has been here forever. But the new girl is a friendless shut in who works as a web developer. She doesn't know the geography or culture too well. She seems sweet and actually enjoys watching Western media as long as she has subtitles though. The Taiwanese girl was trying to show me clips from a show in Taiwan that YouTube didn't even have English subtitles for.

Ugh I still need to complete breaking up with the Taiwanese girl. I plan to complete that irrespective of whoever is lined up next. I think the Taiwanese girl is well aware I am mentally checked out and is waiting for the shoe to drop.

What a silly situation. Lady you are 40. What are you doing dating a 32 year old? What was I doing? Why is a 40 year old lady suicidal over a decade younger guy she has known for less than 6 months? I suggested she go to therapy.