Oh funny thing is, when I first came to the US

And found out people were DRINKING WATER STRAIGHT FROM THE TAP that was a massive culture shock, in China we had to boil the water.

I mean some water fountains later on added filtering machines, but still, the first water fountain I saw was in a Brooklyn elementary school, don’t think there was a filter… so… yea…

I think I felt kinda disgusted at it at first, I mean, some kids TOUCHED THEIR MOUTH OVER THE THING LIKE EEWWW (that’s kid me’s reaction)

So I avoided drinking from water fountains and I remember always bringing a bottle of water.

I think eventually I got okay with it, but my mom always told me to like turn it on for a few seconds to “flush away the germs” or something so that became a habit. Eventually I just skipped boiling water at home and I drink straight from the tap. (well except now philly had a chemical leak in the water in 2023 so now I don’t wanna drink from the tap anymore)

As I got older I just have more and more germophobia so I really just despise water fountains ever since like middle school, except for when my highschool had the filtering machines. Then I’d fill up a water bottle with it.

As for PARKS, HELL NO. BIRDS FUCKING POOP ALL OVER THE PARK.

Cant even sit on a bench FFS

I remember joking like: “Do these birds taste good?” and dad was like: “You can’t hunt them, that’s illegal in America”

“Sausage, pepperoni, bacon, ham” and I just custom added pineapple

I mean sometimes food doesn’t exactly look the best, but food is for tasting, not for looking lol

what’s weed like?

As an Asian American, I never tried it.

Also I don’t watch star trek either lmao, feel like I’m just too Gen Z and that stuff is too “outdated” for my liking, my favorite Star Wars movie is Revenge of the Sith

Actually I’m gonna stay I like The Expanse as my favorite “space themed” media, star wars franchise feels too much like “fantasy” know what I mean.

The Orville is also good.

Oh speaking of Space

FOR ALL MANKIND (tv show) feels so weird… its soo surreal but its alternate timeline… and every time I see a name from our timeline, I’m like “holy shit”

Hello from Philly, its night time but I slept for like 3 hours then can’t sleep anymore so I’m awake 🫠

xD

Me the first time I saw snow… I just immigrated to the US and it was 2010 in NYC

I just lie in the snow middle of the street because the snow was like 1 feet tall and cars cant drive in there.

I felt cold within like 1 minute and wanted to go back inside lol

Snow is so fun, its so cold and hurts your hands but its fun to squeeze into a ball and throw it.

Also, my cat just rolls over on the floor showing the belly when you walk by after not seeing you for a while (like in the morning or you go downstairs in the middle of the night), and its NOT a trap (but I never touch it for too long just in case)

That username sounds like a bot pretending to be a person that loves knock-off KFC and them being anti-ICE is just the LLM misinterpreting their programmers’s desire of this personality to include liking warm sodas

Stay at home… easy to do since I was like 17.

I don’t even touch the mail, literally just hid in a room xD

Then I got suicidal and got a bit carless about covid since I really feel like dying… so I got covid… and I thought my mom would care about me… but then she blamed me for “infecting the family” 🫠 Average Asian parenting… It’s fine, I got used to it…

Probably the final thing that triggered the start of my depression.

Thanks, CCP.

That shit caused so much Anti Asian hatecrimes…

I basically just browse the internet all day…

The only reason I even got infected is because mom wanted me to work for two months in summer 2021 before school started, this time in person, again, so I got infected at work…

so yea, my entire family had to stay home and quarrantine because of covid

My my mom blames me for getting infected because she wanted me to work a job during covid… how does that make sense?

But I didn’t die, that’s the closest to a “suicide attempt” I’ve tried, don’t have the balls to actually jump from a bridge lol

Isn’t radish = 酸菜?

Sorry idk how to language xD

idk I think that’s a bit too sour for my liking.

I had it with rice and its… meh…

I mean I think I tried some fried tofu cooked with it and it’s fine

not too big if a fan

don’t think it’d taste too good on a pizza

I mean Pineapple by itself isn’t that great either, you need meat to make it “balanced”, the saltiness of meat + sweet/sour of pineapple is so balanced.

Nah, I as an naturalized American citizen I do not want stuff I create to be called “Chinese”, its xenophobic. I mean, you can say “Chinese-American” to refer to me but not “Chinese”. Cuz why is a white US Citizen creating stuff labeled as “American” while stuff I make is not “American”? Double standards.

If I come up with a new food receipe, its American food. If I make a painting, that’s made by an American artist. If I publish a book, that’s written by an American writer. Don’t fucking try to “other” me.

I mean if an immigrant gets US Citizenship, whatever food they make from then on is technically, by definition “American Food”.

I mean like you can’t be calling food made by while people “American food” then if a non-white person makes it is not “American”??? Be consistent lmao.

Average Google Earth Image

They should’ve written the 2nd amendment in French lol

buddhists have entered the chat

wait actually buddhists can’t enter the chat, that’s illegal

I made the genious decision to run away from home… when I was 6 years old…

idk what the fuck I was doing…

probably 6 year old me was like: “Me scared, big brother scary, home is scary, me want my mommy”

So I just went to her workplace… mom was so shocked that I knew which bus routes to take from the few times she took me to work…

I’m still traumatized from that day…

But yea I don’t remember what I was thinking, I could only guess from the circumstances…

it was so spontaneous

I saw the door, and I decided to run…

Can’t believe its now like almost 2 decades gone by

but that’s still deeply engraved in my hippocampus

felt like it happened a month ago, I remember it as if it happened moments ago, I can feel those emotions, the atmosphere…

TIL my mom is a part-time terrorist.

It’s such deep cover, sometimes when you were a kid and just cuddling with her, then 5 minutes later start going bipolar and terrorizing the living room and I have to go hide in my room crying…

I think if there isn’t a victor for every district, they’d just do “Every living victor competes”, the point is to make a show of it to kill Katniss so it seems “legitimate” since they can’t just directly execute the victors, especially not Katniss since she has popularity. They have to keep up the pretenses of these “games” to maintain legitimacy.

But mostly its just storywriting… they want to make it “perfectly balanced” with the “two from each district” theme to make the story fit better.

If China even is sending squads of state sponsored domestic terrorist masked goons to murder their own civilians like the US federal government is, people either aren’t making a lot of noise about it or their media control apparatus has kept a lid on it better than the US has.

So here’s the thing: I’m reading all these anti-ICE news articles from within the US, but I go on baidu and qq news and can’t find a thing criticizing Xi Jinping… hmmm… weird right? Why is that you think?

If China really is better than the United States in every metric, I sure hope more americans will realize it sooner rather than later. I’m still gathering information, though.

As an Naturalized American citizen born in China, I’d say if you are white and have birthright citizenship, you are, on average, in a better position than an average Han Chinese born in China. Maybe this would change in the future, but I’d still say for the time being, US is still better, at least if you are white.

There are edge scenarios where an Han Chinese could potentially have a better life in China, but that’s not the case for my family. I lived in a shitty part of Guangzhou that tourists don’t get to see, just like tourists visiting the US don’t typically go to Flint Michigan, or Kensington, Philadelphia, PA

Also FUCKING HUKOU I was BORN IN GUANGZHOU and they never give me Guangzhou Hukou status… so my family are just treated as second class residents. Me and my brother were not allowed in Guangzhou Public schools. Our Hukou was inherited from parents, and they are from Taishan, its rural. So my parents ended up paying for privately-run schools that are lower quality of education in Guangzhou cuz otherwise we’d be left behind in the village and that would’ve been even more depressing.

And my parents had to be either busy working all day, or be looking for work the entire day. Didn’t see them often, sometimes grandma wasn’t even available to look over us and mom took me to work.

And don’t get me started on the One Child Policy that NEARLY resulted in me being forcibly aborted by the CCP against my mother’s wishes. Fuck them. They sterilized my mother for the policy violation.

China cares about Palestinians as much as the US cares about Ukrainians… not much

Don’t pretend like they’re good guys. Empires don’t care about the lives of people, its just a statistic to them.

The US is a nation of immigrants, so it depends on the host’s culture of origin. So it varies from house to house.