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re: Positivity: compliment a race/culture not your own

Posted on 6/1/20 at 9:15 am to
Posted by TigerFanInSouthland
Louisiana
Member since Aug 2012
28065 posts
Posted on 6/1/20 at 9:15 am to
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And they are also humble. Unlike Americans culture who love to tell everybody how great they are, that’s a no no in Japanese culture.


When you get the shite kicked out of you in a world war, you ought to be humble.

Furthermore, I’d rather be a brash and gregarious American with a can do attitude (why? Because I’m an American goddamnit) than any other nationality or culture. frick bowing at the waist.
Posted by PeteRose
Hall of Fame
Member since Aug 2014
16864 posts
Posted on 6/1/20 at 9:16 am to
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I bet a lot of their bad behavior comes from the fact that in the Mao years


Probably results from them carrying the scarcity mindset. Awful tourists as a group. I have horrible endless stories with them.
Posted by OBReb6
Memphissippi
Member since Jul 2010
37736 posts
Posted on 6/1/20 at 9:16 am to
Don’t be dense, man. I wasn’t even trying to diss them it is just ingrained in the culture

I’ve worked with Japanese people on a few projects. You’re absolutely right they are humble and polite to the extreme. I had to be coached before interacting with them in business on how important things we take for granted like business cards are to them. I’m so used to just putting a card in my wallet after receiving it, but with them you need to look at it for a while and then set it somewhere respectfully.

Having said that they are so meticulous it is infuriating, and being able to effectively correspond with them after getting my midnight emails required my response emails to be small novels.
Posted by tigerinthebueche
Member since Oct 2010
36791 posts
Posted on 6/1/20 at 9:18 am to
Asian folks are wicked fahst with dominoes.
Posted by eScott
Member since Oct 2008
11376 posts
Posted on 6/1/20 at 9:18 am to
I also like whiskey, and hate litter on the highway.

Posted by yatesdog38
in your head rent free
Member since Sep 2013
12737 posts
Posted on 6/1/20 at 9:19 am to
Bostonians never lose their car keys which is amazing btw, but Strangely they quite often can't find their kahakis
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
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Posted on 6/1/20 at 9:20 am to
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I have horrible endless stories with them
So you tell them terrible stories that seem to go on forever?

I can believe it
Posted by chryso
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2008
11862 posts
Posted on 6/1/20 at 9:31 am to
The French bake good bread.
Posted by PeteRose
Hall of Fame
Member since Aug 2014
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Posted on 6/1/20 at 9:32 am to
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but with them you need to look at it for a while and then set it somewhere respectfully.


And hold it with both hands.

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they are so meticulous it is infuriating


You can’t have squeaky clean streets with a carefree attitude.
Posted by OBReb6
Memphissippi
Member since Jul 2010
37736 posts
Posted on 6/1/20 at 9:54 am to
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And hold it with both hands


Yes

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You can’t have squeaky clean streets with a carefree attitude


K

But when you’re talking about hitting deadlines on a multi month project with the end user breathing down your neck you gotta get practical and put a certain level of trust that we know what we’re doing rather than ask endless questions you got from your textbook of questions to ask. I’m talking engineers with no field experience that are just slaves to specifications.
Posted by Bigbee Hills
Member since Feb 2019
1531 posts
Posted on 6/1/20 at 11:24 am to
When black people get a flat tire on the side of the road the whole kit and kaboodle comes out to help: momma, grandpa, aunties, uncles, church elders, former classmates- you name it.

I live smack dab in the middle of a majority rural black community, albeit a very tight-knit rural community with a fairly, uncommonly, centralized community "center." Latest stats show something like 70 some odd percent black. No matter your race, when you live side by side with others who are not like your race you understand that there are major cultural differences AND that there are major cultural similarities, and most importantly you know that at the end of the day we are all processing the world around us like homo sapiens...because we all are homo sapiens. What an obvious fact that is and one that is lost in the fray of all of this.

Normal every day people have never asked nor expected that others with different cultures not recognize that difference; that's foolishness and that's one boring arse pipedream: that variety is what makes life like a box of chocolates. Black people especially have never asked that Antifa Dan kick his white cultural tendencies to the curb- far from it: Black people think the whites who hate their own culture are chickenshit and spineless, because they are. Black people, like most southern people of all races, have a reverence for their culture; we certainly won't hate ourselves for it. I personally don't claim the white knighters of my race; they are a different breed, and thankfully because of their cuckold mentalities and self-hate they are dying out.

Only people who live in segregated utopias, whether it be black, white, Asian, etc. actually believe that nonsense- that, muh, aLl CuLtUrEs & pEoPlE aRe ExAcTlY aLiKe.

I love my black brethren who are my community members, friends, acquaintances and employees, and I will go to war with them and they me, but I don't like going to church from 9 am until 3:30 on Sundays.

And that's okay.

But not to Antifa Dan. That's racist to Antifa Dan.

But frick Antifa Dan and his lilly white, cowardly, fricked up as a box-o-bream hooks worldview. Black culture is far different from white culture, but not nearly as much so in the south, not in my south. In my south we are all out here on the same grind, eating the same food, searching for the same excuses to celebrate and party after nightfall when the heat finally breaks, praying to the same God, attempting to pursue the same life, liberties, and pursuits of happiness as the ones beside us. There is and will never be a perfect, seamless society, but dammit, my part of the world comes pretty close. No amount of faux rioters nor the race baiting industry and politicians who shipped them in will change that cohesion. We had slavery and a civil war over the shite, and quite frankly, ain't nobody got time for that nonsense.

Besides, it's too damn hot.

Posted by AbuTheMonkey
Chicago, IL
Member since May 2014
8003 posts
Posted on 6/1/20 at 11:27 am to
For as fricked up as many aspects of traditional Islamic Arab culture can be (especially the misogyny and repressed homophobia), they have to be among the most hospitable people on the planet as long as you’re not an A-hole. They’d give you the shirt off their back even if they only have one shirt. They are also better at handling loss, pain, and hardship than any other culture I’ve ever encountered.
Posted by GusMcRae
Deep in the heart...
Member since Oct 2008
3236 posts
Posted on 6/1/20 at 11:29 am to
I got the yella fever something fierce.
Posted by LegendInMyMind
Member since Apr 2019
53962 posts
Posted on 6/1/20 at 11:35 am to
I do this every day by acting the way I was raised and treating those around me with respect and kindness.
Just so you know, that wasn't an option in the household I was raised in. You acted decently, said yes sir and no ma'am and kept your mouth shut when grown folks were talking. Respect others, behave like you were taught, and do what you can for your neighbor because you will need the same one day.

If my Pops were alive and saw me rioting on TV, he'd kick my door in and whip my arse. That, I am confident of.
Posted by Cold Drink
Member since Mar 2016
3482 posts
Posted on 6/1/20 at 11:46 am to
Middle Easterners are by far the most hospitable culture you’ll ever come across. I wouldn’t advise it, but even if you went right now smack in the middle of Syria or Afghanistan, odds are you wouldn’t come across any of the ISIS types and instead would be invited into homes and treated better than you’ve ever been treated anywhere.

Mexicans might be my favorite culture in the world. They also might have the most “American”-style mentality of any country not named America, and I think many don’t realize that due to the language difference. At any rate you’ll be hard-pressed to find a group of people as hardworking, hard drinking, party loving, and just fricking friendly/generous/helpful as Mexicans.

Black people are awesome. They value friendship/family bonds so much. I wish I had as many friends and family as your average black dude. Also, a sexy, intense black corporate woman makes me go from 6 to midnight in a hurry.

Vietnamese people stick together and don’t frick around. Little known fact: China invaded Vietnam shortly after we left and they made China’s arse quit too.

Asians in general DGAF and it’s amazing. They came to America and experienced(and still do) a lot of racism/discrimination and their response is to just to work twice as hard for half as much. The Chinese are the only group to ever be disallowed from becoming Americans (the Chinese Exclusion Act). The average Asian household in America makes more money than the average white one.

Russian girls are the hottest on the planet and they’re smarter than they are hot.

French people get too much flak. While the rest of the world runs the rat race, they checked out long ago and got to work perfecting how to drink wine all day and the ménage à trois.
Posted by The Sea Otter
Member since Mar 2019
582 posts
Posted on 6/1/20 at 11:48 am to
Black people, they wear really long shorts
Black people, they're better than us at sports

-Diego the puppet
Posted by hawkster
Member since Aug 2010
6229 posts
Posted on 6/1/20 at 11:49 am to
Mayans used to build some nice pyramids.
Posted by PEABODY32
Everywhere
Member since Feb 2011
1184 posts
Posted on 6/1/20 at 12:37 pm to
White people season and clean poultry perfect
Posted by Saint Alfonzo
Member since Jan 2019
22163 posts
Posted on 6/1/20 at 12:49 pm to
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Positivity: compliment a race/culture not your own


I'll never understand why people are so fixated on race. Superficial nonsense. I'll play along, though. Black women are the finest women on the planet.
Posted by SuwMwf
Member since Jul 2012
947 posts
Posted on 6/1/20 at 12:50 pm to
My Vietnamese nail people are the best. Especially the men. I tried a posh looking place that advertised organic polishes or some shite. Only white and black women in there and they were so unpleasant to be around.
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