Youtube comments of K ` (@user-jt3dw6vv4x).

  1. Nobody should be shocked by this. A civilisation never lasts forever. American decline was always going to happen, we just happen to be the ones that are watching the beginning of the fall.
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  2. Why do they say "LGBTQ"? "LGB" refers to sexuality, what Trump has spoken about is not about sexuality but about gender. It's separate.
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  3. In Asia, South Korea and India are two sides of the same coin. They both deal with extreme male aggression towards females. If you want to see an advanced nation where anti-female behaviour is normalised, look at South Korea. If you want to see a poverty-stricken nation where anti-female behaviour is normalised, look at India. Both countries have traditionally had the same mentality of male babies being better than female babies and as a result traditionally both suffered from skewed gender ratios where there are more males than females.
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  4.  @dennisthemenace4288  Indonesia is a Muslim-majority nation but despite that, the Hindu-Buddhist heritage is still a big part of Indonesian culture. At the end of the day, Hindu-Buddhist heritage is an innate part of Indonesian culture regardless of what religion most people follow as it was one of the elements that form the foundations of Western Indonesian cultures. So it'll always be there.
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  5. Buddhism, Hinduism and other Eastern religions are deeply intertwined. The prevalence of Hindu-derived deity worship in various parts of Buddhist Asia is because of the Hindu influence. Phra Phrom (Thai depiction of Brahma) as featured in the video at 10:52 cannot be tied to Buddhism but more broadly to the general Dharmic/Indic culture that exists in Thailand. Thai people also popularly worship Ganesha, a deity that does not exist in Buddhist cosmology and Thai people also visit Hindu temples in Thailand. Some of the largest Ganesha statues outside of India are located in Thailand. Phra Phrom in Thai-style is also worshipped by ethnic Chinese across Southeast Asia and southern China. In Hong Kong, there is a famous Phra Phrom statue that is frequented by Chinese people. In Japan, there are Japanese versions of Ganesha, Shiva and Skanda and in Sri Lanka, you will find Buddhist people worshipping local folk gods as well as Hindu gods inside some Buddhist temples like Seema Malaka. The same thing applies to other Buddhist groups in Asia. So correlating it to Buddhism is incorrect because some of these devas don't even exist in Buddhism. The reason people worship them in Asia is because of the pre-existing Hindu influence and the general overlap that Eastern religions share with one another. Thailand was previously a Hindu nation, these Hindu practices were simply carried over after Theravada Buddhism was brought to the country from Sri Lanka. There is no restriction to how people must practice Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Shintoism etc. so people mix them together.
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  6. Nelson Mandela once said, "One of the mistakes which some political analysts make is to think that their enemies should be our enemies". If the Global South wants to remain neutral, let them. They obviously have their own reasons for non-alignment.
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  7. Yeah that's where it gets grey in Western or rather American contexts. Some Westerners say Indians are "culturally Asian" but not "racially Asian". Anyway, it's wrong either way as Asian is just geography.
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  8. I'm so sorry to hear that this has happened to you and your family. I know it means nothing but if you were in my country and I met you and your family, I would treat you with the utmost of respect. You deserve it. My heart goes out to the Dalit community. I hope one day the Dalit community will be free.
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  9. It's not underrated. Everybody in Asia knows about Indian cultural influence. It's people outside of Asia who don't know much about how India (and China) are the mothers of Eastern civilisation in the way Greece and Rome are the mothers of Western civilisation.
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  10. North Korea's fertility rate is also below replacement level and Kim Jong-un said it is a North Korean woman's patriotic duty to have a child.
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  11.  @caerleon87  Do you know what sexuality is? Sexuality refers to heterosexuality, homosexuality and bisexuality. Trump is speaking about gender/sex, NONE of that has any relationship to sexuality. So yes, they are separate.
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  12. I love how everybody in the comments is just pointing out the lunacy of what we saw in Michigan 😭
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  13. That lady in the blue top who gave Peter the cold bottle of water seems like such a lovely person, the man too. So hospitable, so kind, I'm mesmerised at how welcoming these people are. They just let him into the property like he's an old friend, no fear, nothing. Wonderful people and a place I would genuinely like to visit one day when I visit the US.
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  14. Just some extra information for anybody interested: Sri Lankan Malays are one of the main ethnic groups of Sri Lanka and they've contributed significantly to the development of Sri Lankan culture. So much in Sri Lankan culture derives from Indonesian influences like the sarong, the rebana, the outrigger canoe, batik, redde hatte dress and most prominently, cuisine (sambal, Malay pickle, yellow rice/nasi kuning, satay, babath, nasi goreng, seenakku/cheena kueh, wattalapan, dodol, fried noodles and so on). Indonesian cultural influences are one of the main sources of cultural influence on Sri Lankan culture. Sri Lankan culture would not be Sri Lankan culture without the Indonesian cultural influences. In regards to the people, the Sri Lankan Malays trace their ancestry mostly to Indonesia where they descend from the Javanese, Ambonese, Peranakan Baba-Nyonya Chinese, Balinese, Malays and Bandanese. They have all mixed together to create the Sri Lankan Malay identity. They are known as "Malays" because they spoke a dialect of Malay that developed into Bahasa Sri Lanka Melayu and the British called them "Malays" once they colonised Sri Lanka. In the ancient times, there was a wave of Javanese and Malay migrants to Sri Lanka during the era of King Chandrabhanu. So there are other Sri Lankans who have some Malay ancestry. Sinhalese people with Malay-like features are believed to have some distant Malay ancestry. I myself did a DNA test and part of it came back as "Indonesian".
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  15. We continuously hear about India but male extremism towards women is a problem in other parts of Asia like South Korea and Japan. We don't hear about it because of people's obsession with South Korea and Japan, the fetishisation of Koreans and Japanese and idolisation of Korean and Japanese pop culture. While some white girl in the US fetishises Korean men, Korean women in South Korea are suffering.
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  16. The news does speak about this, if you care to learn about the world, you'll find plenty of news sources that provide news on these conflicts in depth.
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  17. I hope you can get a correspondent in Singapore to interview Singaporeans about the fertility crisis there too. Singapore has a fertility rate of 0.97, the second lowest in the world and the fertility rates among Singapore's three main ethnic groups are all below replacement level too - Chinese: 0.94, Indian: 0.97 and Malay: 1.83.
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  18. They should take inspiration from the Phuket Muslims and Satun Muslims who identify as Thai and not with Malay separatist identities.
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  19. I really don't know what it is but these types of abuse cases are so common in maid-accepting countries and regions in Asia. Why are people so hateful towards maids? These are the people that keep households running across large parts of Asia. Despite that, there is so much hate and abuse towards them in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Lebanon, Qatar, UAE and so on.
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  20. He also looks Asian, he could pass in a lot of areas of South or Southeast Asia.
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  21. Neither Indian nor Pakistani nor Bangladeshi but I will say this, I have noticed many Pakistanis (almost always men) care more about what goes on outside of their country than what goes on within their country. This is the country, after all, that was hiding Osama Bin Laden and lying to the world. No hate but this might explain why Pakistan is still so far behind in comparison to most other Asian countries. The focus needs to be inwards, not outwards.
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  22. It's insane to think that 1/3 of India's population growth will come from only 2 states and that Bihar's fertility rate will only dip below replacement level by 2039 while Kerala's fertility rate dipped below replacement level in 1987. I don't understand how a country can be so severely lop sided in development. This is like comparing two different nations and their development. I mean India's states really are like countries. This isn't a good thing for India. There will be serious issues when entire states (which have their own ethnic groups) begin to disappear while other states (with different ethnic groups) continue to grow in size. South China Morning Post and BBC recently published articles about this and from what I understand, India seems more and more like a country made up of smaller countries. As the lady said however, maybe this might help India become more united and integrated because the different groups will be mixing together unlike before.
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  23.  @privilegedindiansrworsthum8408  What part of my comment is "BS"? Be specific.
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  24. Well yeah they are in the wrong because why are they adapting attitudes of hate? We're supposed to be progressing, not regressing.
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  25. This is such high quality journalism. This is the second WION video I've seen and I'm impressed at how balanced this is. Stating the facts for what they are. India is in a unique position because it's neutral, it can see both sides - the amount of things you can see when you sit on the fence.
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  26. His character and the character of Ali provided a good way to showcase the treatment of South and Southeast Asian migrant workers in the whole of Asia and not just Korea. I've already seen discourse emerge on the internet about the treatment of South and Southeast Asian migrant workers in Singapore, Malaysia and the Maldives (three countries that house a lot of SA and SEA migrant workers who are exploited quite severely). The important thing is that actual Singaporeans, Malaysians and Maldivians were the ones starting these discussions. I also remember coming across comments on Korean forums (using Google translate) where Koreans were talking about the hypocrisy of calling out anti-Asian violence in the US but failing to recognise that South and Southeast Asian migrant workers were being mistreated in Korea. I think this drama has reinforced these emerging discussions and it's made people more aware of reality regarding this issue.
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  27. Yeah that's why in some languages the local version of "oriental" still describes Middle Easterners (Lebanese, Turks, Syrians, Persians) and not anybody east of Iran because they're the "first Asians".
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  28. Yeah you'd think people will show compassion during a humanitarian crisis like war but even war won't stop them from exhibiting racist behaviour.
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  29. I think you're missing the part, some women will prefer a woman because a woman has a deeper understanding of women's issues and considering gender issues (e.g. anti-abortion) are so big in the US it makes more sense why they would think that way.
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  30. All that hostility, including the blatant prejudicial remarks made against Indians by Europeans, Americans and Canadians, didn't go unnoticed. I hope China and India continue to reach normalcy.
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  31. I've noticed that in ex-colonies where they want to get rid of the colonial heritage by renaming cities, regions and other geographical markers, there is always friction and a constant "living in the past" with resentment and consequently, no progress is made. In the areas where they have accepted their history and embraced it, the people are more happy and peaceful.
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  32. It's time to resolve this border dispute once and for all. I'm tired of the inflated egos, two-timing and empty gestures. For peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region, China and India need to work very hard to solve this. The Ukraine War has only shown the rest of the world that you can't rely on those you think will support you. There is a lot of hypocrisy, double standards and bullying that has come out of this war for the rest of the world to realise that two large neighbours can't be at each other's throats all the time. I truly hope that this is a turning point. Negotiating and comprising need to be on the table for this to work. Give peace a chance.
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  33.  @gingerbread_GB  They don't own it though. They claim it but it's under the jurisdiction of the Bhutanese government. So yes what the OP said is correct because it is legally Bhutanese land.
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  34. It's clear to see in countries like Australia where Sri Lankans, Thai and Vietnamese all live. All three groups and others (mostly the Theravada groups) have opened Buddhist temples together for example dating back to the 1970s and common festivals like the South and Southeast Asian New Year in April are celebrated in pan-Asian style. For example, the pageant "game" that is celebrated for the New Year is done with Sri Lankan, Thai, Cambodian and Burmese women dressing up in their traditional clothing.
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  35. Terrible to see and I feel sorry for them because the Rohingyas once had Burmese citizenship and Rohingya politicians had been voted into parliament (such as Rohingya activist Wai Wai Nu's father). That all changed with the ascension of the Tatmadaw to power. What must be noted is that all Asian countries, doesn't matter if rich or poor, are reluctant in accepting refugees and many have not signed the 1951 Refugee Convention. Bangladesh was kind to provide them housing for 5 years and India, Thailand and others in the region also accepted refugees but for the case of India (and others), government policies do not support the permanent resettlement of refugees. Asia has helped its own in times of need, the Indochina refugee crisis, the Rohingya genocide, persecution of minorities in various Asian countries but permanent resettlement is not often on the cards and if there are any opportunities of permanent resettlement (e.g. Japan's decision to accept Indochina refugees or give asylum to select numbers of Rohingyas), there is a meticulous procedure and most do not, unfortunately, get asylum.
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  36.  @listentologic  Yes but not exactly like that. Native Americans are descendants of Ancient North Eurasians and a Basal East Asian lineage that is related to North Asians (Siberians) as well as to East Asians and Southeast Asians and more broadly to other East Eurasian lineages of Oceania and Asia. That's why he can pass as Asian. He's not biologically "Asian" though. He's biologically mostly of East Eurasian descent hence his appearance.
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  37.  eldarmario presario  Describing a woman as a trophy? Racism against Indians? Says it all. Can't expect much from somebody of your calibre.
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  38.  @Alternatives_Universum  It has a negative connotation primarily in the US.
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  39. Agreed. There seems to be this idea that Buddhism as practiced in Asian countries is completely ritual-based and that anti-ritualism is Western which is very strange considering that Buddhism in all its forms was formed in Asia.
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  40. The case of Sri Lanka is quite peculiar because this is a country that had everything going for it. This country could have harnessed what it had in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s but decided to go down the route of ethnic disharmony and violence. The leaders of yesteryear were more interested in fuelling their egos and righting the wrongs of the past instead of moving on. Despite the end of the war in 2009 and the hallmarks of a new economic miracle, the situation did not improve because the country was fractured along ethnic lines and there was no effort to create some sort of peace and acknowledgement of the past. With high economic growth rates of 9% in the early 2010s, Sri Lanka eventually peaked as an upper middle income nation in 2019. Sri Lankans, at one point, enjoyed a per capita national income that was higher than all other South Asian countries except for the Maldives, along with a longer life expectancy as a result of strong social services such as healthcare and education. Sri Lankans began living longer and longer to the point that the country has now become one of the fastest aging societies in the world and began to recruit migrant workers from India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Myanmar to combat its shrinking workforce (problems that high income nations face, not developing ones but it's a testament to Sri Lanka's successful efforts in boosting the quality of life for its people). Sri Lanka's last beacon of success was in 2020 when the country was successfully able to control COVID-19 by pursuing a Zero COVID policy using contact tracing and harnessing its good healthcare system bringing cases down to 0. It performed so well that it was ranked #10 in the world among countries that were most successful in controlling the spread of COVID-19 by the Lowy Institute. What we see now is the beginning of civilisational collapse. All civilisations peak and decline. What a shame to see everything they achieved and what they could have achieved go down the drain. You will never get far if you continue to divide and conquer people. Sri Lanka now pays the price for everything wrong that its leaders, past and present, did to the country and its people.
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  41.  @rizkyadiyanto7922  So by that I assume all the other indigenous elements are disappearing too like Kejawen. That's not something to be proud about. I suppose Bali is the only place where indigenous culture still exists then.
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  42. ​ @esparda07  Fertility rates are below replacement across Southeast Asia and India. Singapore has the second lowest fertility rate in the world and Thailand's fertility rate is rapidly declining. Fertility rates across most of the rest of Southeast Asia are either at replacement level, close to it or below it. India's fertility rate is below replacement level, most of its states have below replacement level fertility and its urban fertility rate stands at 1.6. Yesterday, Bloomberg published an article about South India's rapidly declining fertility crisis. Stop pretending to be Indian or Southeast Asian cause if you were, you would know all of this.
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  43. @Kenji Hansolo Interesting you say this because remember at the time, some Maldivians said they saw a plane with the Malaysia Airlines logo flying very low above their nation. There is a conspiracy theory that the plane landed in the British Indian Ocean Territory, a colonised territory located to the south of the Maldives of which the native inhabitants were expelled by the UK and US in order to create a US military base. If that theory is indeed true, then it would make sense why nobody knows anything about the whereabouts of MH370 today because nobody is allowed to enter the islands except military personnel and contracted personnel with the US defence forces. Nobody actually knows what's going inside that territory because media and cameras are not allowed there either. So I really wouldn't be surprised if the US had a hand in this.
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  44.  @vanlin9107  In East Africa, they think of Indians as "Asians". In Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi etc. Asian means Indian for them.
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  45.  @earlysda  No, no, absolutely not. Christianity has never been a traditional aspect of Chinese culture unlike Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism (which together are known as the Three Teachings in Chinese culture). Unlike the Three Teachings, Christianity has never had any sort of major impact on Chinese culture. It is completely foreign and not connected to traditional Chinese culture. The Three Teachings have influenced Chinese culture in both a religious and secular sense. Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism are also all part of Eastern philosophy and share many similarities which is why they have been syncretised with each other. Christianity is from a totally different tradition and is incompatible with the most basic of teachings of Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism and thus incompatible with traditional Chinese society.
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  46.  @rizkyadiyanto7922  Hinduism came from India but it spread to other parts of Asia and mixed with local culture. That's what happened in Bali and Java. It's Balinese Hinduism. The other groups are erasing their heritage.
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  47. Yeah the Hindu worship is because of the Hindu influence across Buddhist Asia. I think people don't realise that in Buddhist Asian cultures, people mix Buddhism with other similar religions like Hinduism, Taoism, Shintoism and folk religions.
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  48.  @nilnil12345  No it's not. There are many Muslims living in Myanmar without any issue like Kaman and Bamar Muslims. The issue is hat the Tatmadaw wants everybody to be Burmanised, which is why so many ethnic groups have been targeted, including ones who practice Buddhism like the Shan.
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  49.  @sportsunplugged009  It's SOUTH ASIA. The term "Indian subcontinent" is a term coined by British to describe the British Raj (British-colonised India). Indians use "Indian subcontinent" because they want to claim the whole of SOUTH ASIA (Maldives all the way up to Bhutan) belongs to India. I will keep saying this, nationalist India may become a threat to the stability in the Asian region. They cry when China encroaches into their territory but then claim the whole of SOUTH ASIA is India. The RSS already believes the whole of SOUTH ASIA + Tibet + Myanmar + Afghanistan belong to India.
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  50. It's disturbing how many Westerners (especially Americans) have no idea that South Korea was a dictatorship until the late 1980s. They criticise China and BRICS and claim they need to adopt economic and government models similar to the US but have no idea that Asia's most developed states all began as military dictatorships or under authoritarian-leaning figures. South Korea thrived economically under two dictatorships. As bad as they were, South Korea is now a high income developed nation because of the economic policies of dictators, Park Chung-hee and Chun Doo-hwan.
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  51. Curry originated in ancient India but curry is truly a pan-Asian dish. Many Asian countries have their own versions of it, developed using their own indigenous ingredients and spices. You could really do a curry tour of Asia and try different curries from around the continent, I wonder if anybody has done that before. There are also curry dishes outside of Asia developed through the migration of Indians and other groups such as those in the UK and the Caribbean.
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  52. Notice the type of people who are offended by this video? Laughable.
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  53.  @alainmarceux6817  That English is horrific
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  54. @LeWonder This is why Bollywood really ought to start representing India's diversity at a greater level than selecting people from the north west only. It would make Bollywood more interesting in my opinion and more relatable too.
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  55.  @Player-re9mo  Yeah I can agree with that but you do lose at least some aspects of your heritage when you convert. As you said, they remove the aspects which go against Christianity and since the most basic aspects of Eastern religions and philosophies go against Christian teachings, you're basically losing your heritage. I'm speaking more specifically in the case of Eastern cultures as opposed to other cultures. Since Eastern religion and philosophy are so syncretised with local culture, by converting to Christianity you're losing your culture. That is why there is backlash in Asian countries like Nepal towards Christian missionaries because Christian converts disrupt the local values creating a cultural clash that authorities find very hard to deal with.
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  56.  @deku3i  There are women in South Korea who have vowed to not deal with men entirely. They refuse to get married, date, bear children or have intimacy with men.
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  57. Yeah but that's the thing, the rulers didn't convert because the rulers were supportive of Eastern religions and philosophies. Eastern spirituality is tied within the local Eastern cultures which would mean that converting to another religion would be like giving up your own culture/identity. It's also why many of the Muslims in S/SE Asia still retain cultural practices associated with their indigenous culture as well as Hindu-Buddhist heritage. For example, Indonesian Muslims are one example who retain their pre-Islamic heritage. The Bangladeshi Muslims are another, who still celebrate the Indic-influenced Solar New Year along with other Asian countries like India, Thailand and Cambodia.
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  58.  @thewaywardcyclist3992  That's why Singapore brings in Malaysians (especially Chinese and Indians) to make up for the very low fertility rates of the Chinese-Singaporeans (0.94) and Indian-Singaporeans (0.97).
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  59.  @Jsarmy87124  None of my Indian friends from India were offended and the people the video weren't either. People in Asia aren't easily triggered by things. Ronny Chieng is also Malaysian too and there are many Malaysians of ethnic Indian descent.
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  60.  @santhoshv3028  Sri Lanka shares cultural ties to both southern India and Southeast Asia.
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  61. Focus on your own nation. Always latching onto the coattails of successful ethnic Indians in other nations. Aren't y'all embarrassed? Y'all are always claiming Indian Americans, Singaporean, Malaysians cause your own people are not successful
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  62. Hahaha I noticed that too
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  63.  @renarouge5558  The Korean Wave created a positive image for South Korea that have masked many issues.
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  64.  @renarouge5558  Discrimination towards other Asians, anti-female aggression, religious cults (e.g. 2016 South Korean political scandal, Soldiers of Christ incident), destruction of Buddhist temples by Christian fundamentalists and so on have been issues in Korea that the world doesn't know much about.
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  65. They supress this but let Cardi B and Normani stand around naked. It makes zero sense
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  66. This was very interesting. I think it would be great if you could conduct the same interview in Singapore and Thailand too.
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  67.  @ni3070  To answer your question, nobody in Asia uses terms like "brown" or "yellow". In fact, the usage of "brown" is an American colloquialism. It's not a very common term used outside of the US. Concepts like "brown" mean nothing in an Asian context because it only describes skin tone and not genetics or culture. For example, there are many light skinned Newar people in Nepal and there are also many dark skinned Newar people in Nepal. Nobody in Asia would ever consider dark skinned Newar people as "brown" and light skinned Newar people as "yellow" - they're just Newar people. Labels like "brown" were created by White people to describe non-White people.
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  68. It's already a useless organisation. The UN has failed so many times and you can blame the UNSC for that. China and Russia as permanent members of the UNSC will never allow for any sort of action.
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  69.  @UniversalMokenTroll  TikTok has also became a major tool in bringing awareness to issues occurring around the world, many of which will not end up on mainstream media.
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  70. I agree. By saying Indians and their culture are not Asian, it's basically saying 50% of cultural aspects of other Asian cultures aren't "Asian". China and India are the mothers of Asian civilisation.
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  71.  @Bunnyhop21  Imagine not being able to respect other people and who they are. Imagine thinking your beliefs should dictate how the rest of the world should live. What a miserable world it would be if those people were in charge.
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  72. Yeah it's really quite ridiculous. Xi Jinping saying "Asians should take care of the interests of Asia" was seen as a threat to the US.
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  73.  L  They're not from India. I saw some of their other comments and it proves that they're from another country and they support the CCP too.
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  74.  @reach2prasanna  India is most definitely multiethnic. Just because they're all native to India doesn't erase the fact that they are all from different ethnic groups. You can easily break India up into 20 countries and it would make sense. You can't do that in a country like South Korea or Japan.
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  75.  @SalemBlack-u2w  Of course an American is defending racism against Indians. Of course an American is blaming the victim in all of this and defending the perpetrator. I'm not even Indian but maybe the Indians should've listened to China 11 years ago because what Chinese netizens predicted would happen is now happening and look at how the Americans are so dismissive of anti-Indian racism. Time for Asians to unite.
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  76. Singapore may have reversed a downward population trend but that's not about its fertility rates of its local population. The Singaporean-Chinese and Singaporean-Indians already have fertility rates of 0.94 and 0.97 respectively (and will probably never go beyond 1.00 ever again), the Singaporean-Malays have slightly higher at 1.83 but still below replacement level. The truth is that Singapore's local population is continuing to decline
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  77. From a population genomics stand point, I will always find it amusing when I see anything that involves Asians espousing supremacy over other Asians because East Asians (they're my focus because the perpetrator was an "East Asian supremacist") descends from the Basal East Asians and the Basal East Asians are genetically related to the ancestors of modern South Asians and Southeast Asians and all three ancient groups look similar to one another with flat nose and brown skin (look at the facial reconstruction of Tianyuan - the ancestor of East Asians that lived in ancient China - the man has features more similar to Southeast Asians or South Asians but he is in fact 100% East Asian). Modern East Asians developed different features and a lighter skin tone because the Basal East Asians gave rise to what is known as Neo-East Asians. I think if people learn more about their heritage, they will realise that "racial" supremacy makes no sense.
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  78.  @rd116s  It's very clear to see that you're an Indian man. Where in my comment did I blame SK and India? I didn't. I merely stated the reality of the situation.
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  79.  @prisonfishgaming8195  Actually, 7News in Australia had a report on NATO expansion. The issue is with American and European media (aka media outlets from NATO countries) who aren't reporting the facts, that is the problem here.
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  80.  @rizkyadiyanto7922  Yeah Malaysia, Brunei and Aceh have always been like that but the rest of western Indonesia was always different. That's sad. I've already noticed the international reputation of Indonesia has taken a nose dive, I suppose it's the result of these changes and I assume it'll exacerbate as this continues. There was always something unique about the practice of Islam in western Indonesia, now it'll be like the Arab world. I don't want it to change but it's up to the people if they want to change or not. If they believe it's right for them then it is, I have no right to tell them that they're wrong because it's their culture and they have the freedom to practice how they want.
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  81.  @justchilling704  A tiny fraction? Absolutely not, thousands and thousands of Christian missionaries make it their mission to travel to Asia and convert everybody from Nepal to Cambodia. If they could, they'd be in North Korea too. The purpose for them is spread their teachings but most people in Asia do not care about that. That's why missionaries focus on impoverished people because it's easier to convince a poor person that there is a higher being that can save them.
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  82.  @yogisingh4279  I've come to the realisation that India is no different to the expansionist tendencies of China. In the end, both countries want to maintain spheres of influence in the Indo-Pacific. The idea that India is the benevolent opposite to China is wrong. We can see the beliefs of the RSS and their millions of supporters, it echoes the beliefs of 20th century Chinese leaders who spoke of "the lost territories of China". I honestly believe that when India achieves a level of development comparable to China, it will begin being more assertive. Unfortunately, there are certain countries in the Asian region adamant in creating cliques that disrupt peace in the region.
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  83. ...and there's nothing wrong with that. Most of the time South Asian countries always select fair skinned women for big beauty pageants but now they're selecting dark skinned women which is a good thing to showcase that light and dark skinned Asian women are beautiful.
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  84.  @jayantkamble6082  Decline in South Asia??? Why do you always forget Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal, Chittagong Hill Tracts and Himalayan India? All of those areas still practice Buddhism and they're all in South Asia.
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  85.  @Hey_puppets  What a thing to ask but since you asked such a question, I'm going to give you a fitting response to such a question. When I look at India, most of the areas that are the most socially developed are the "Dravidian" areas whereas the North Indian areas which are non-Dravidian are the least developed and the ones that deal with a lot of social problems that are a burden to society. So let's see, do I want more Dravidians? Yeah I think I do since they're the ones in India that seem to actually be able to evolve and develop (them and the Sikkimese).
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  86.  @nogrammer  You mean Theravada Buddhism. The language associated with Theravada Buddhism is Pali.
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  87. Agreed with everything except the last part. The richest family in India can spend their money however they want, that's their money.
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  88.  @ivan5595  He did forget his roots. Supporting white supremacy as an East Asian makes no sense.
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  89.  @asianprince8718  Not like the US or UK at all. Singaporeean society is a mix of Chinese, Malay, Indian and Eurasian people and influences. They've all influenced one another and Singaporean society basically revolves around CMIO (Chinese-Malay-Indian-Other). It is the most successful multiethnic nation in Asia, so much so that a survey revealed most Singaporeans believe class division is what most will experience discrimination for, not race. Nobody in Asia comes close to Singapore.
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  90. I hope with Trump's return, Asian nations will emphasise the importance of working with one another. Trump is focused on the US so it is important that China and India relations continue to thaw and the developing Asian nations in the region continue to march towards a multipolar future. The US wants to divide the Asian people up and keep the region subjugated. It is now more important than ever that the region's nations heed China's rhetoric of "Asia for Asians" that it has been espousing for the past decade. Time to be pro-Asian like never before.
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  91.  @badbad-cat  This is why Asians must work with other Asians. Asia for Asians. It's the only way.
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  92.  @EthanSoFar  Yeah Malaysian (of Indian descent). Indians from India are a different group.
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  93. @Kumar Aniket There is no clash between Buddhists and Hindus in Myanmar.
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  94.  @martinhorvath4117  Have you seen how Levantine Arabs look like? Sometimes you can't even tell the difference between Europeans and Arabs because they look the same. Plus, there are Christians in the Middle East too.
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  95. Your generation is better than my generation. You didn't have exposure to all types of hate unlike my generation who have 24/7 access to the internet.
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  96. Asian countries are far more accepting of ethnic diversity and new immigrants than European nations. That is a FACT. There were so many ethnic Chinese and Indians that settled across Southeast Asia in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries and they're accepted as locals without question. So many Russian and Ukrainian refugees living in resort towns in South and Southeast Asia, not one local has protested in the street demanding them to leave. Bring up the Caribbean and Asians that settled in the UK in the 20th century and you'll learn their descendants are still treated like foreigners. The only place in the world where this behaviour is normal is Western Europe. Before anybody comes for me, I'm NOT from the UK or anywhere in Europe. So telling me to go home makes no sense because I already live in my home nation.
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  97.  @xhybagyan619  Extreme respect for Lee Kuan Yew, for he is the man that led Singapore to becoming one of the most advanced nations in the world. Singapore is also meritocracy, meaning people end up in these positions based on their merit.
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  98.  @SurajSingh-xo4gi  Okay and? Bangladesh is now an independent nation, it's not part of India. How is someone from India going to start saying these things whilst also getting upset when China encroaches into their territory? The irony of it all. Make it make sense.
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  99.  @KangMinseok  It has been a third world country since independence. There has never been a time in the history of Ukraine where it has been classified as a high income developed nation. These are the facts, like it or not.
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  100.  @OptīŽə  As Xi Jinping says, "Asia for Asians".
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  101.  @adarshvnair  Why India? You should read ancient Sri Lankan texts, it's about Sri Lanka after all.
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  102. As an Australian with Asian heritage, it's really nice to see an Asian news channel speak about this. There is a lot of racism in Australia today and as a teenager in the 2010s, I used to deny it all the time when people said, "Australia is racist" just because I had never faced racism but you only realise how untrue that is when you grow up. All over social media within Australian spaces, you will see the vehement racism that exists in this country, hear stories about racist incidents happening in real life and learn of the horrible experiences your friends experience in real life. You could be born here or born to a surrogate and raised by Australian parents and have the most Aussie accent and raised in the outback and still face racism in the city just because you don't look white (which is literally what has happened to my friend). It really makes you angry when this keeps happening but it's never going to end because it's part of this country's heritage. I've accepted that now.
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  103. The Economist ran two articles about this last year, it was about how a lot of countries in Asia will become old before they get rich. The two articles spoke about Asia in general but the main focus was on Thailand, Sri Lanka and Vietnam - the three main developing Asian countries that will face population peak in the next 15 years, peak in workforce population and subsequent population decline due to low fertility and rapid aging.
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  104.  @rogerfaint499  In Singapore, the Singaporean Indians earn more than any other ethnic group in the country. You know there are variations to this, right? It's not the same everywhere. Idk why you're having to compare the two groups anyway? Always Chinese vs Indian. Imagine how tired we are. Can't you all just get along??
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  105. Asian countries prefer being neutral. A NATO-style Asian alliance will NEVER work when its countries prefer to respect China's sovereignty when dealing with its own issues. Remember when Hong Kong was burning? Japan, India South Korea and the whole of Southeast Asia kept silent or said that it's an "internal issue" while the West was very vocal in their support of Hong Kong and supported all condemnations at the UN. Asian countries may despise each other but they don't judge each other. The West needs to understand the Asian mentality before engaging with it. This is something Singapore's leaders and diplomats have been saying for decades like Lee Kuan Yew and Kishore Mahbubani but it's 2024 and the West still hasn't learned and I don't think it will until another "RCEP moment" happens.
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  106.  @Kay_R  Yes he's very big, he's popular all over the world
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  107. Lee Kuan Yew always believed Sri Lanka had the right ingredients to be the next Asian economic miracle and it did but its leaders starting with the Bandaranaikes took that country deep into the ground and for years he expressed disappointment at what Sri Lanka (or Ceylon as it was known) had become. Dividing a multiracial society based on race will always bring problems and all of Sri Lanka's problems trace back to its reluctance to accept its multiracial heritage. Singapore learned from its past and created a meritocratic society where its Chinese, Malay, Indian/Tamil and Eurasian populations were all equal. Sri Lanka should have done the same, creating a society where its Sinhalese, Tamil, Moor, Malay and Burgher/Eurasian populations were all equal. What a waste.
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  108.  Joe Xavier  India and China don't agree with each other but, India, like China, is not saying anything about the coup for the same reason. All those Asian countries like India, China, Japan, Singapore etc. are not saying anything because they have business to do with the military. By criticising the military, they jeopardise their relationship with the military. They all have their own interests in the country and it all comes down to money and their policy of non-interference, which has basically been set in stone since the end of WWII.
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  109. ASEAN is not a military alliance and the idea of a military alliance in Southeast Asia is not something Southeast Asian nations will agree to.
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  110. East Asian Americans are notorious for peddling this trope. Not all but it's always them that claim East Asians are only Asians. It's such an American issue.
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  111.  @Spanish_Patriot  Idk if you know the full story but the US supported the Bangladeshi genocide and encouraged the transfer of arms from the Middle East into Pakistan so they can genocide the Bangladeshis in 1971. The genocide preceded the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War which resulted in clear cut support from the Soviets for India and support from the US for Pakistan. President Nixon viewed the Bangladeshis with contempt and made racist remarks about them and relied on Americans not paying attention to events in Asia due to the genocide.
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  112. I remember at the time, they were saying Malaysia was not providing enough details in the days after MH370 disappeared and relations between China and Malaysia deteriorated considerably. All these countries in Asia-Pacific (Australia, China, India, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, South Korea) as well as the UK and US spent time searching the Indian Ocean but nothing substantial was ever found. There is a conspiracy the plane was flown to the British Indian Ocean Territory, a secretive US military base located just south of the Maldives (where locals had claimed to see the plane fly very low over their nation).
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  113. The reality is that the US did not care about what was going on in Asia until Pearl Harbour was attacked. The West is fearful of losing its dominance with the rise of Asian nations. The idea of an Asian Century is not something they want, especially not one where Asian countries see eye to eye (and we got a glimpse of that during COVID-19 with distribution of vaccines and more recently with the undying neutrality most of Asia felt in regards to the Ukraine War). This is why there is a desire to create camps in Asia that are pro-West rather than pro-Chinese. It's much harder though because the impact China has on other parts of Asia is much greater these days. The most recent example being the Maldives, China happens to be the dominant power in the region and so most countries see China in their line of vision than anybody else. China to eastern and southern Asia is what Russia is to Eastern Europe.
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  114.  @Arun-sp8vl  Indian man detected
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  115.  @ni3070  Nepal is culturally closer to India but genetically speaking Nepalis are genetically closer to both South Asians and East Asians (Tibetans to be specific). Some groups are closer to South Asians, some closer to East Asians and some are related to both South Asians and East Asians like the Newar people.
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  116.  @suyashmittal2912  It's still classified as "inconclusive" apart from the fact that they've found a few things like a flaperon, there is no definitive explanation for what happened. Not a single body was found, they spent years searching the Indian Ocean for the aircraft but nothing substantial was ever found after those debris washed up on Reunion.
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  117.  @sovietwizard1620  Actually among all SEA countries (except Malaysia and Singapore), I would say Myanmar is culturally the closest to India.
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  118. The Tatmadaw has wrecked havoc in Myanmar by persecuting minority groups, including Rohingyas, Shan, Kachin, Karen and Rakhine among many others. It also staged a coup in 2021 which became a wake up call for many Bamar people who suddenly understood and now sympathise with minority groups like the Rohingyas. The Rohingya genocide led to the largest movement of people in the Asia-Pacific in 2017 since the Vietnam War when more than 1 million Rohingyas migrated to Bangladesh, India, Thailand and other parts of South and Southeast Asia. While Myanmar and its diaspora continues to suffer, there are certain countries in the Asian region (China, India, Japan, Singapore) that refuse to criticise and cut ties with the Tatmadaw. There is only one Asian nation that has been the most vocal against not only the genocide but also the 2021 coup, that is Indonesia.
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  119. She's an AMERICAN, an INDIAN AMERICAN not an Indian. Indian media is obsessed with claiming this person and that person as "Indian origin". There is a reason why people like Indian Americans but not Indians from India. Indian Americans are hardworking people, they are overrepresented in the STEM fields, pioneers in new inventions in the US, dominate the academic sector (alongside other Asian Americans) and contribute so much to the US economy. While I am not quick to use IQ to define groups, a study of 10 year old American kids found those with Indian heritage collectively had one of the highest IQs in the study. These are elite people, no wonder Trump is so fond of them. Indian Americans are not the same as Indians from India. Indians from India are instead trying to enter the US illegally via the Mexico border en masse, they are the face of all of the anti-Indian hate that exists on social media, they are associated with scam calls - "WHY DID YOU REDEEM" (iterally the biggest anti-Indian meme on TikTok in 2024 and their male immigrants are wrecking havoc in the USA's northern neighbour of Canada (Brampton ring a bell?). When people say, "Indians are hardworking, great people", they're talking about the Indian Americans. Don't think for one second, that people think Indian Americans are the same as Indians from India.
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  120.  @bruch-TB  Yuezhi? Dayue?? Are you serious right now? The absolute obsession with trying to establish a link is peak delulu behaviour.
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  121.  @sarah_12725  Yeah I believe you're right and I also think there is prejudice too because maids come from poorer countries to work for better off families that live in more affluent countries.
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  122.  @bouche8503  Wrong. English had everything to do with Singapore's success because the government made sure everybody learned English as a way to create an equal playing field among Singapore's ethnic groups (Chinese, Malays, Indians, Eurasians). English, along with Singlish, are the unifying languages of the people. The Asian languages (Chinese, Malay and Tamil) are taught as second languages in Singapore's education system per the mother tongue program.
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  123.  @nuggetmanman5459  No, it's non-aligned. It maintains good relations with everybody.
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  124. The French didn't support miscegenation with others the way Spanish or other European colonial groups did like the Portuguese, Dutch and British. Look at France's ex-colonies, there are no sizeable mixed race populations in any of them. Take Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos - all three nations should have sizeable, distinct and influential Eurasian groups the same way Indonesia, Hong Kong, Macau, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and India have but they don't have any.
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  125. Before the era of colonisation, India and China were "in". There are two sacred Hindu holy sites that are located in China and one of China's greatest classical novels, "Journey To The West" is about travelling to India to obtain Buddhist sutras.
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  126.  @shikharsrivastava3558  Anti-Indian hate is very normalised in North America and Europe. Stop AAPI Hate published a report about the rise in anti-Indian hate online in the US and Indians now face the most amount of hate online out of all Asian American groups. Need I say more?
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  127.  @Fals3Agent  Actually most countries in Asia are muticutural. The difference is that most diverse Asian countries are made up of different ethnic groups native to these countries unlike Singapore where most people have migrated from other parts of Asia during the 17-19th centuries.
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  128. @ India (and China) peaked, then collapsed. They're both rising again with China centuries ahead. The idea that Indian civilisation still exists is a fallacy. Just cause humanity still exists does not mean it's thriving. If India was thriving people would not be leaving it. Like the US today, India declined too. All civilisations do.
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  129. Their mother tongue is Sri Lankan Malay
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  130.  @sendakan666  In my opinion, none of this would have been needed if the Sri Lankan government treated all ethnic groups equally. If Sri Lanka never descended into ethnic disharmony, Sri Lanka could have eventually adopted a similar system to Singapore's CMIO model. Sri Lanka only has a small population living on a small island where ethnic groups aren't exactly separated by provinces because everybody lives everywhere. Sri Lanka could have easily recognised the idea that Sri Lanka has 5 main ethnic groups (Sinhalese, Tamils, Moors, Malays and Burghers/Eurasians), an idea that already exists among the general Sri Lankan public, and modelled it after Singapore's CMIO (Chinese, Malay, Indian, Other) model at a national level. Sri Lanka began cracking when the government enforced the Sinhala Only Act. Many people speak of the Tamils but the situation of the Burghers/Eurasians is worthy to note because they also felt disenfranchised. It's no surprise that many Burghers/Eurasians ended up migrating to Australia where they and their descendants now form a sizeable portion of the Australian-Sri Lankan community.
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  131. I don't know why you're gloating about that. Most Gulf Arabs don't even work. They have to rely on foreigners to do everything. Ever wonder why all of the pilots and flight attendants of Middle Eastern airlines like Emirates are made up of foreign men and women? That's because the locals don't work. Gulf Arab nations are only thriving because they have foreigners from other parts of the world doing all of work for them, whether that's working in corporate to constructing a building or cleaning a toilet. It's also why they own slaves and why we always hear of stories of Filipino, Sri Lankan and Indonesian maids getting beaten and raped by Arab men. I have never come across a single person (except for Gulf Arabs) who have ever said a good thing about Gulf Arab countries.
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  132. @Candy_labra1111 Europe is always there. Australia is an Asia-Pacific nation, remember that.
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  133. I feel so bad for Indian women and the stuff they have to put with because of the men in that country.
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  134. There's nothing based about that
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  135. He's also from Malayia which is "Malaysia Truly Asia" due to the mix of Malay, Chinese, Indian and Orang Asli groups.
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  136.  @sonoranrain2330  Singapore is not a theocratic nation. Religion plays no role in Singapore's government. FGM is an issue within the Malay Muslim community, it's not practiced in the Chinese or Indian/Tamil Singaporean communities.
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  137.  @mewmimo8465  There is no caste system in Buddhism but Indian cultural influence across South Asia has meant caste (not strict like India's caste system) also exist in other areas of South Asia even if they aren't Hindu.
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  138. Can you be serious for a second please? There are no extremists among the Sri Lankan Malays, I say this as a Sinhalese person. The extremists that do exist are from the Sri Lankan Moor community but even then, they are not common (they are rare) and have been radicalised by Arab people. Sri Lankan Moors practice Sufi-based Islam which is very different to Middle Eastern Islam. All this talk of extremists is only a recent thing because Sri Lankan Moors have gone to the Middle East to work and have been exposed to a very different radical form of Islam. Islam as practiced in Sri Lanka by both the Malays and Moors is peaceful.
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  139.  @Hey_puppets  The people suffering in India and South Korea are local women, why are you making this about foreign women? I feel bad for the Indian and Korean women.
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  140.  @ab-xo4yc  You need to find people that you can talk about these issues with. We live in a world where men are allowed to feel vulnerable and you see men being vulnerable everywhere in movies, in films, in real life. This isn't the 1960s where men are not allowed to show emotion. Things have changed a lot and you need to find it. You need to put yourself out there.
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  141.  @johnmcafee9663  See this is all subjective. There was nothing civilised in the US arming Pakistan to carry out the Bangladeshi genocide which resulted in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War that involved India. India received support from the USSR and Pakistan continued to receive support from the US. Fast forward to the 21st century and you still have the US supporting Pakistan despite the fact that they hid Bin Laden and carried out terror attacks in India (e.g. 2008 Mumbai terror attacks). You can't blame the Indians for wanting to remain neutral and not say anything that would jeopardise their relationship with Russia. India and the US have never been allies. India is nothing but a mere tool for the US to use in order to contain China within Asia. This is what the US-supporting Indians and the India-supporting Americans need to understand. It's all self interest.
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  142.  @shikharsrivastava3558  The US published a report that led to one of your largest conglomerates to lose millions of dollars.
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  143.  @deku3i  They're called the 4B Movement.
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  144.  @Chepicoro  They've been doing that for decades. Many developing countries in Asia and Africa send blue collar workers to the Gulf nations of the Middle East (even South Korea used to do this before they became developed). Sri Lanka exports maids to the Middle East. For many decades, many blue collar workers have also gone to Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Malaysia as part of special agreements organised with the governments of these countries. There have already been people who have travelled to the Middle East to work in order to send money back. The country doesn't have a large working population as explained in the video and not everybody is a blue collar worker. The educated people will not want to perform blue collar work, especially because Sri Lanka was also began importing foreign workers from India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Myanmar to perform jobs that local Sri Lankans did not want to do during the 2010s. Maybe people won't be able to be choosy anymore since they don't have the money to pick and choose anymore.
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  145. They didn't just "call out" South Korea. The show was created by Koreans and aimed at a Korean audience. Every character in that show represents a group of people in modern Korean society who have been affected by the country's inequality crisis. It applies to the whole world but the creators of the show created the show as an allegory of modern Korean society.
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  146.  @ReasonAboveEverything  You have got to be living in a different timeline if you think Romani people are "South Indian" or anything like that. Firstly, haplogroups only constitute a very small aspect of human DNA and is nowhere near as significant as something like autosomal DNA. Secondly, Romani people intermixed in the areas that travelled across including the Middle East and Europe. Finally, Europeans are not "Aryan" in any shape or form. The term "Aryan" is a non-racial term used by the ancient Indo-Iranian speaking tribes that settled in North India and Iran. The term "Aryan" was never ever used by Europeans. Hitler co-opted the term.
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  147. Maldivians are NOT Indians. It's a very discriminatory thing to say that Maldivians have roots in "South India" as if their own identities do not exist. This is the problem people in other South Asian countries believe India will one day invade them and claim their nations because India believes South Asia + Tibet + Myanmar belong to "Akhand Bharat". Your comments do NOT help.
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  148. He has been too exposed to the hate present in Western nations because nobody in Singapore should be harbouring such a mentality
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  149. I know you mean well but that is absolutely not the reason and why would India want to add a country to their already highly populated country? Joining a bigger country is not the option to solve this crisis. Also, this claim of cultural connections to the entirety of India is very exaggerated. Sri Lanka's closest connections to India is through the Malayalis and Tamils but they aren't the ones who hold the power it's the Hindi-speaking people who live far away in northern India who are culturally, linguistically and physically different to Sri Lankans. Also, can't help but notice the red flags because I only ever see Indians say, "[insert country] should be part of India".
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  150. Are you aware that the victim in this was a Hindu? Think before commenting.
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  151.  @waltersimmons9512  because Singapore was once part of Malaysia but it was expelled from the country due to race riots. There was fear that Singapore would fail because it has no natural resources and was very poor at the time, with an ethnically diverse population that was marred by ethnic violence and a high fertility rate. Singapore transformed from a developing to a developed nation in one generation and is now one of the most advanced nations on earth. Compare that to Malaysia, still a developing country rife with corruption, still practicing ethnocentric race-based politics and suffering from a tremendous brain drain that is so severe that the World Bank said that Malaysia won't become a high income nation until it plugs its brain drain. The prediction that Malaysia will become high income keeps being pushed back. In the late 2010s, they said that by 2021 Malaysia would be a high income nation but now it's 2024 and Malaysia is still a developing middle income nation. The Malaysian government has also expressed regret at the fact that they are losing their brightest to countries like Australia.
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  152.  @deku3i  In a way it's part of the reason, but not a big part for the population crisis in South Korea.
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  153. Something needs to be pointed. Literally nobody who is a Buddhist has an issue with Hinduism. Hinduism and Buddhism are both Dharmic religions and Hindu culture has influenced all of the Buddhist practicing communities across Asia. How can you suggest there is an issue with Hinduism when you can find Hindu gods like Ganesha and Vishnu in Sri Lankan Buddhist temples, not to mention the Buddhist temples across Southeast Asia and Japan?
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  154.  @Hey_puppets  I'm not from India but the comment is indicative of what I said in my previous comment: the states act more like countries. Why even ask such a question? Indians are Indians, shouldn't the idea be that all should be viewed as one to help the country develop?
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  155. Malaysia is always complaining about something, it's never their fault, always somebody else's, isn't it? Malaysia needs to worry about the fact that the educated members of its Chinese and Indian communities are leaving in such large droves to Singapore and Australia that the country is struggling to reach high income status because of extreme brain drain. This is why Malaysian politicians are praising Australia's Malaysian-born ethnic Chinese foreign minister lamenting at the fact that Malaysia is losing its brainy people and the World Bank even issued a warning to Malaysia.
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  156. @ All do. Indian civilisation is NOTHING like what it once was like. In the past, India's cultural soft power was so great influencing the rest of Asia and giving rise to extraordinary developments in culture like philosophy and various innovations. During the Islamic Mughal era, India thrived and Bengal Subah was one of the most developed regions in the world. Is modern India like that? No. That's because it declined. All civilisations decline.
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  157. Colorism in South Asian communities is not completely the result of British colonisation. Fair skin was uplifted and considered attractive long before South Asia was invaded by other groups. It's just that with the colonisation by the British, fair skin became racialised as well. To say it's purely due to British colonisation is to ignore the deep roots this issue has in South Asian communities. Neither Nepal or Bhutan were colonised by the British but fair skin is considered a beauty ideal in both countries. Historically, India culturally influenced other parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia and fair skin ideals ranging from Nepal to Cambodia trace back to the cultural impact of Indian literature which prized fair skin and sharp noses among other ideals.
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  158.  @royjacobs1204  You know it's funny as a person who isn't from India, China or the US to be able to se the full picture. Believe it or not, the US has never actually sided with India on any of its own issues. In fact, the Americans supported India's enemy Pakistan when India and Pakistan were at war during the Cold War. The impact Western media is incredible because so many people are confused as to why India is behaving like this because they're all under the impression that the US and India are allies when in reality, that is not the case and never has been. According to the media, India and the US are "allies" because the US wants India to help them contain China's rise within Asia. The two countries serve no other purpose for each other.
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  159. What an amazing video, I'm so glad this popped up on my recommended. I'm from Australia, so this video was so interesting to me. The people are so lovely and welcoming and the Appalachian culture is very beautiful. I learned a lot, thank you for making this video.
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  160.  @Loreless  What? The Burmese military committed the genocide against the Rohingyas. Why are you talking about Democrats? This has nothing to do with the US.
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  161. That mentality among Asians must change. Why look at Europe with awe when Asia is rising? The extraordinary development of China, alone, should be viewed by Asians as a symbol of Eastern success the way Asians admired Japan in the 1980s and the Asian Tigers in the 1990s. There is no need to look elsewhere when Asia as a whole is rising. It's time Asians, especially Asians who descend from East Eurasian lineages (ESEA, AASI, AA), recognise this.
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  162.  @Nasrudith  No they're actually right. Half of Pakistan is Iranic in culture and ethnicity. Western Pakistan is inhabited by Pashtuns and Baluchis, who are Iranian-related ethnic groups. Their culture is Iranic, they celebrate Iranian festivals like Nowruz and their traditional clothing is related to the traditional clothes of Iran. Their cultural root is Iranic. Eastern Pakistan, which is the seat of the Pakistani government and home to the dominant ethnic group of the country, on the other hand is ethnically related to people in western and northern India and their cultural root is Indic. I don't think Greece and Ireland share a common cultural root in the closest of extents, unless you are talking about the broad Greco-Roman heritage that binds Western culture in general which then is comparable to the broad Indic and Sinic heritage that binds most of Asia.
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  163.  @buceoApulmon  Thai people are not Chinese. This is like saying we're all Africans. That Tai-speaking population migrated south from Yunnan in what is now China to Thailand and other parts of Southeast Asia and Northeast India and they intermixed with the local groups that already lived there. The Tai that went to Thailand mixed with the Khmer, Mon, Maniq, Hoabinhian, Malay and South Indians. That's why northern Thai look more similar and are more genetically related to the Dai (Chinese Tai) people of Yunnan, whereas southern Thai have more Malay and Indian genetic admixture, while eastern Thai have more Khmer admixture and so on. All of these groups are Thai though, speak Thai, practice Thai culture and have Tai-speaking ancestors.
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  164.  @kaneidareyue7715  Asian is a term to describe people from Asia, it's nothing more. Indians are not Arabic/Middle Eastern or Torres Strait Islanders. What? Indians are culturally Indic and related to other South and Southeast Asians. Genetically, Indians are a mix of West Eurasian (Euro/Mid-East-related) ancestry and East Eurasian (AASI) ancestry which is genetically closer to Basal East Asians and Australasians.
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  165.  @rogerfaint499  Yes they do. All you have to do is look at the government census data from the Singaporean government. Indians had the highest household median income among all ethnic groups in Singapore in 2020. Now can all of you just get along instead of fighting over Chinese and Indians from the same country?? The rest of the Asian community is tired of y'all constantly fighting.
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  166. Banning the app won't make the issue go away.
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  167.  @listentologic  No he's not biologically Asian. Asian means somebody from Asia. There is no "biological Asian" race.
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  168. @don't ping I rarely check Caucasian is an outdated racial term from the 19th century. Nepalis/South Asians aren't Caucasian. Caucasian described skull shape, nobody in the scientific community uses that term. You can't determine ethnicity by skull shape, only a genetic test can reveal that. South Asians are mostly a mix of Ancestral North Indian (ANI) and Ancestral South Indian (ASI) components. That's why even in the 19th century, Indians/South Asians were sometimes classified as "mixed" or "unclassified" by anthropologists like Carleton S. Coon because South Asians are so diverse and modern science has shown us why South Asians were so hard to classify back in the 19th century. Nepalis/South Asians are basically mixed. Some groups are closer to other South Asians and some are closer to East Asians and some are close to both.
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  169.  Broskisnowski  I mean if we go back to the era of Indianisation like the time of Tambralinga in the 10th century, then all of those areas were Buddhist (and Hindu).
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  170. ​ @ValAllOver  This is Singapore, Malay Muslims are the indigenous people of Singapore and they don't cause any problems. Singapore is a much more stable and accepting society unlike Austria.
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  171.  @PissMenn  It's about money, capital. The reality is that China is now the most powerful nation in Asia and so its influence has risen across the region. China has money it can offer to other countries, which is why its influence has risen in South Asia and other parts of Asia. Also, it's worth pointing out that Chinese influence in other parts of Asia outside of East Asia is not a new thing. Many parts of South Asia (Nepal, Sri Lanka, Assam, Bengal etc.), Southeast Asia and Central Asia (Tajikistan, Afghanistan etc.) were tributary states of different Chinese imperial dynasties (e.g. Ming, Qing etc.) during the ancient days. So modern Chinese influence shouldn't be viewed as abnormal, China has always been a major player in the region like India was in the ancient days.
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  172. 0.97 fertility rate, the second lowest fertility rate in Asia. They offset it through skewed migration from Malaysia with lesser numbers from China, Indonesia and India to keep in line with the country's ethnic demographics. Having said that, people can be ethnically the same but culturally there are differences and there have been times of cultural clash between Singaporeans and new Asian immigrants.
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  173. Yunnan province of China is viewed as the "Gateway to Southeast Asia and South Asia" and it is now officially promoted as such. There are many Burmese people living and working in Yunnan who speak Mandarin and those border areas are a blend of Burmese and Chinese culture, you see it with the usage of both Chinese and Burmese scripts. You can find many Burmese Muslim men selling jade to Chinese customers and Burmese are the largest foreign group in China as of 2020. In northern Myanmar, in the city of Mandalay, there are also many Yunnanese from China living and working in the city to the point that Mandalay has become increasingly "Chinese" in atmosphere.
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  174.  @chucky2316  I find it hilarious how people can't even be racist properly. They see India's issues and think the whole of South Asia is the same. Sri Lanka is comparatively clean nation. If you're going to be racist then at least learn how to do it properly.
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  175. @andrewboyd6517 Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis are three different groups. They're nationalities. Indian is not an ethnic group.
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  176.  @vlrsvvn791  Russia is definitely Eurasian and politically they are leaning towards creating stronger ties with Asian countries like China and India and beefing up ties with Central Asia.
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  177.  L  No, I'm pretty sure they're a CCP supporter from China.
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  178. @Kumar Aniket In regards to Burmese Hindus, there isn't a problem based on religion. Most Hindus have Burmese citizenship and are mostly ethnically Indian or adjacent to ethnic Indian. Burmese Hindus are also well integrated into Burmese society. You can't really tell the difference between Burmese Hindus and Buddhists because they're virtually culturally the same using Burmese names, wearing Burmese clothing, speaking the same language and so on. The only difference is religion but there are Hindu influences in Burmese Buddhism and Buddhist influences in Burmese Hinduism. One of my Burmese friends' father is half Burmese Indian.
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  179. They're neutral but India ought to ditch the US for their own good imo
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  180.  @alexoolau  These young Chinese people are merely connecting with an aspect of traditional Chinese culture. Don't correlate this with organised religion. Traditional religions of China (Taoism and Buddhism) are not organised religions.
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  181.  @stephongrowingup6073  Stop believing the mainstream media. You probably think "Rohingya=Muslim" but that's not correct. There are many other Burmese Muslim groups living in peace in Myanmar such as the Kaman, Bamar Muslims, Panthay (Chinese Muslims) and Burmese Indian Muslims. The Rohingya issue is due to ethnicity/history and the military is responsible for the genocide.
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  182.  @superbrotherreallife1441  ...because you don't like the truth. If you can't see how Russia and NATO are both at fault here then you're biased.
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  183.  @jf1341  A Black woman went to Pakistan and caused a commotion and she was treated with nothing but respect. Your point?
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  184.  @shasha0076  Greater/united India?? The delusional behaviour. Nepal and Sri Lanka were NEVER a part of India and modern India was formed by the British. I can't believe this. Y'all get mad at China saying Arunachal Pradesh was part of China but in the same breath you're claiming entire countries were part of India.
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  185.  @death_parade  It's not as simple as that. Sinhalese formed from an East Indian-related lineage that intermixed with the pre-existing groups that lived in Sri Lanka. The concept of India didn't even exist back then for starters. All of the people of southern and eastern Asia descended from the Ancient East Eurasians.
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  186. They voted for Modi and realised that he did nothing and now have to illegally migrate to the US. You can't expect Modi supporters to do the right thing. Criminality defines them.
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  187.  @Jambudvipa-ug6yg  They're Asians, burstchaos
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  188. Instead of making the lives better for their own people, they're devoting their attention to immigrants and at the same time, thousands of Indians migrate to Australia, Canada, US and Europe.
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  189.  @ni3070  It's only used racially outside of Asia. In Asia "Asian" isn't considered race. For example, in Singapore, all Singaporeans of Indian, Chinese and Malay descent are considered "Asian". There are different terms used to denote race within Asia. It's used as a demonym/geographicaly/cultural term in Asia. However, outside of Asia it's also used racially as you said. In the US and some other Western countries it means "East Asian" and in the UK and some East African countries like Kenya it means "South Asian".
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  190. Whenever it's a mixed person, it's almost exclusively someone who is half white. This is the same across other parts of Asia too like Singapore, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and Sri Lanka - all of which have a history of selecting Eurasian candidates to represent themselves at major pageants.
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  191.  @SlimJim3082  Rohingyas are not Bengalis
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  192.  @alastair9446  The utter ignorance. Education is very cheap in Ukraine. Reminder, Ukraine is the poorest country in Europe and a developing nation. People go to Ukraine because of the cheap education and many of these students are medical students. Put some respect to their names.
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  193.  @suthandbst  The Rajapakses are Sinhalese, they most likely have mixed Malay ancestry because they're from southern Sri Lanka but this popular belief that people love to peddle that the Rajapakses are full Malay is wrong. If they are full Malays why do they harbour Sinhalese nationalist views? They're Sinhalese and like many other Sinhalese from the coastal regions, they most likely have part Malay ancestry but that doesn't change the fact that they are Sinhalese, practice Sinhalese culture, speak Sinhalese and identify as full blown Sinhalese nationalists who look down on Tamils. I say this as a Sinhalese person.
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  194. People would not need to leave India if the government provided them jobs. All this racism and yet they continue to run to countries where they are not wanted. When is it going to end? Indian tech workers should be powering India's tech industry not America's.
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  195. For India, what they should focus on is dismantling their caste system and spreading the wealth they have generated to all areas of the country so that all people in India can benefit from India's rise as opposed to the top 1% who own 40.5% of India's wealth. If that doesn't happen, trust India will become a true dystopian cyberpunk society where the country will be defined by hi tech (represented by the Adanis, Ambanis and other rich families who own big conglomerates and corporations and are responsible for India's ventures in space and tech fields) and low life (represented by abject poverty, rubbish everywhere, people living in slums and large undeveloped areas) living.
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  196. Firstly, they're all temporary migrants. Nobody is going to be allowed to stay forever. They work for a number of years and then leave, replaced with new temporary migrants. Secondly, all of these foreigners are from select Asian countries only like Vietnam, Philippines, Nepal, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar etc., basically countries that are culturally compatible with Japan. Most of these countries are predominantly Buddhist and/or influenced by Eastern cultural heritage. "Race/DNA" has no role in selection but for those Westerners who focus so much on genetics, most of these countries are predominantly descendants of ESEA lineages (just like the Japanese) or for some countries are partially descended from another Ancient East Eurasian ancestral lineage (which is distantly shared with the Jomon and modern Japanese). So you can stop the pearl clutching. Finally, the Japanese government has for decades signed special visa agreements with these countries since the 1980s. It's not anything new. Japan follows the same pattern that other Asian countries like Singapore, South Korea and Malaysia follow.
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  197.  @Vermont2023  I don't think the Tamil-speaking Muslims felt anything because they were ethnically cleansed from their homes in eastern Sri Lanka by the LTTE. Language differences started the whole problem but it was ethnicity that resulted in the culmination of a civil war on the back of race riots.
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  198.  @mahinegi3064  No
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  199. Oh the delusion. They want other Asians from Philippines, Vietnam, Nepal, Myanmar and so on. Westerners?? Lmfaoooo no, not at all.
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  200. ​ @mdiqbalhossen8891  The Burmese government-in-exile which recognises Aung San Suu Kyi as the official leader of Myanmar announced last year that they want to reintegrate Rohingyas into Myanmar society and recognise them as one of the official indigenous ethnic groups of the country. The Burmese military are the only people who have vehemently discriminated against minorities, including Rohingyas.
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  201.  @hitthedeck4115  As a country becomes more educated the fertility rate will decline. This isn't just a developed nation issue anymore when we look at how developing Asia is facing a fertility crisis too. Thailand has the second lowest fertility rate in SEA and it is a developing nation. Bangladesh, one of the poorest nations in Asia, has a fertility rate of 1.95 which is below replacement level. The only reason they brought their fertility rate down is due to educating their people which allowed the government to teach their people about family planning, including contraception. So fertility decline isn't something can be avoided, it's going to happen. The goal should be to maintain a low fertility rate instead of letting it drop which is what's happening everywhere. If a nation can maintain a fertility rate of 1.9, still below replacement level, that would be good as opposed to letting it drop to below 1 which is what's happening in Singapore and South Korea.
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  202. Asian countries are far more accepting of ethnic diversity and new immigrants than European nations. That is a FACT. Millions of ethnic Chinese and ethnic Indians settled across Southeast Asia in the 18th, 18h and 20th centuries and in most countries they are accepted as locals. There is none of this "perpetual foreigner" stuff that continues to happen in countries like the UK and France, even if your ancestors have been living in the country for generations. There are so many Russian and Ukrainian refugees living in the resort towns of multiple Southeast Asian and South Asian nations since 2022 and nobody says they need to leave. There are so many new ethnic Chinese migrants that have settled across Southeast Asia and parts of South Asia and nobody is protesting in the street demanding them to leave. The only place in the world where you see this type of behaviour is EUROPE. That is the only continent on earth that struggles with accepting people and this isn't even about new immigrants, I'm talking about the people who settled in the UK during the post-colonial people whose second and third generation descendants are still treated like foreigners.
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  203. Not a single Rohingya went to the US in the direct aftermath of the 2017 genocide. Idk why Americans think everything is about them. All of the 1 million+ Rohingya refugees that fled in 2017 ended up in other Asian countries. This video is about Rohingyas refugees in other Asian countries...
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  204. China's claims are a lot greater than what most of the world is familiar with and what they publicly admit to. In the past, China used to suggest China was a lot bigger and included countries/territories all across Asia like Korea, Ryukyu Islands and former tributary states like Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Java and Thailand. These are claims propagated by people like Mao Zedong and published in maps known as "Maps of National Shame" (国耻地图). Maybe an attempt at healing a wounded national identity at the time but some things remain the same.
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  205.  @adena774  Wrong
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  206. I find it very interesting how, that despite being so heavily persecuted and facing genocide, they still identify as "Burmese". It's different to other marginalised communities how like many Sri Lankan Tamils outside of Sri Lanka identify as "Tamil" instead of "Sri Lankan" or the Malaysian Chinese who choose to identify as "Chinese" instead of "Malaysian". In this video, they are learning Burmese and singing the national anthem of Myanmar despite being terrorised by the Tatmadaw and stripped off their citizenship and status as a native Myanmar ethnic group in the 1970s. There is an Australian suburb with an Asian-majority suburb that is home to ethnic Chinese and Southeast Asians (including a large Rohingya population (and other Burmese Muslims)). The Rohingyas all identify as "Burmese" and own Burmese restaurants, bubble tea shops and businesses that are identified as "Burmese". The Vietnamese clothing vendors that cater towards the main Asian groups in the suburb (Vietnamese, Chinese, Cambodian and Burmese/Rohingya) include a section dedicated to the Rohingyas selling Burmese-style hijabs.
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  207.  @samcalven12  They aren't giving the information though. What American media is doing is broadcasting racially biased news reports on the Ukraine crisis and making unjust comparisons to non-European refugees and wars in the Middle East. Don't say otherwise. Foreign media from Asia and the Middle East are now reporting on the biased Western media coverage and "Western hypocrisy" has become the latest buzz word on social media. Russia and NATO are both to blame.
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  208. I expected to see the comments full of hate because it's so common online these days but I'm surprised at what I'm seeing in the comments.
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  209. For what? It'll be a failed state.
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  210.  @listentologic  Oh my gosh, you really need to do some research on population genomics. Did you seriously just say that West Eurasians and East Eurasians are a mixture of "white, asian and black"?
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  211.  @listentologic  Stop being racist to Native Americans and undermining their indigenous heritage by calling them "Asian".
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  212.  @mrkacang7277  Authoritarianism lays down the foundation for success in Asian cultures. Discipline comes with authority. India being a democratic nation is against its nature as it a large, diverse and traditionally Eastern society. Chinese state media has consistently spoken about this.
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  213. It's crazy how a full blown humanitarian crisis is going on in Myanmar with the potential for war to affect the rest of the region, refugees pouring out into India and Thailand, even some have entered China and yet the so-called powers of Asia haven't said or done anything considered worthy in trying to help solve this issue. The whole of Islamic Southeast Asia is more pre-occupied with a war happening all the way in Gaza than what's actually happening in their own region. 🙄
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  214.  @dhruvthechamp7085  Please... can y'all just keep it positive for once? 😭
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  215. Lee Kuan Yew was a highly intelligent man with a way of thinking well beyond his peers. He refused to create a nation dominated one group politically, economically and culturally. That is why he had a close political team, who were also his close friends, that was naturally multiethnic owing to Singapore's diversity. It was through working with his close team that he was able to create a nation that treated all ethnic groups equally. He learned the lessons of the Chinese-Malay riots which resulted in the expulsion of Singapore from Malaysia and vowed to create a nation that would survive without ethnic disharmony. That is why Singapore is now one of the most successful multiethnic nations in the world (along with New Zealand in my opinion).
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  216. The amount of hate on X is insane too, both from the right and left.
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  217. @ it was not going to free them from extreme control. Islam is a very restrictive religion. Islam would've kept them in that rigid system where their life is controlled. Also, Islam is a foreign religion to the lands east of Arabia. It makes more sense to find strength in an Eastern system. They built their movement on the existing engaged Buddhism movement that already existed elsewhere in Asia.
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  218. What I don't understand is why hasn't India fortified its border with Myanmar?? India has such a fortified border with China and Pakistan and yet in civil war-riddled Myanmar, India hasn't done anything. How is it that China has continuously kept its border with Myanmar in check and India hasn't? All of the troubles you see happening in Northeast India is because of lack of initiative from the Indian government and because of the tribal groups who have ethnocentric feelings due to their ethnic group also being present across the border in western Myanmar.
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  219. For India, what they should focus on is dismantling their caste system and spreading the wealth they have generated to all areas of the country so that all people in India can benefit from India's rise as opposed to the top 1% who own 40.5% of India's wealth. If that doesn't happen, trust India will become a true dystopian cyberpunk society where the country will be defined by hi tech (represented by the Adanis, Ambanis and other rich families who own big conglomerates and corporations and are responsible for India's ventures in space and tech fields) and low life (represented by abject poverty, rubbish everywhere, people living in slums and large undeveloped areas) living.
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  220.  @bouche8503  Wrong. English had everything to do with Singapore's success because the founding fathers explicitly stated that by making English, a non native language, the official lingua franca of the nation, it would create an equal playing field for all Singaporeans. Singaporeans are ethnically diverse and the country had to find ways to unite its ethnically diverse population after being banished from Malaysia in 1965 due to race riots.
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  221.  @peterparker9954  Ukraine is a developing (third world) country. Countries that are always viewed as "third world" like Vietnam, Malaysia and Bangladesh are wealthier than Ukraine and are stable with very high economic growth rates and thriving tech and textile manufacturing industries. There are areas in these countries that are on par with the developed world, especially Malaysia (which is predicted to become a developed country in a few years).
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  222. I have a copy of that book and don't ever remember reading that. What page is it on? I'd like to mark it for reference in the future. Edit: It's made up. I searched for it in my pdf copy and couldn't find it and of course it's made up. For those that know history and Lee's life, they'll realise why.
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  223.  @utenatenjou2139  What???? They have a point. Avalokiteshvara is depicted as either male or female and you can find the male and female versions in the same temple in some Asian countries like Gangaramaya temple in Sri Lanka. What do you mean "wokism"? Huh??
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  224. Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere (Peaceful Version)
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  225. Oh they're definitely different but there is no denying that there is overlap between the two spheres though. Imperial Japan wanted to unite the East Asian Cultural Sphere (East Asia + Vietnam) and Indian Cultural Sphere (South Asia + Southeast Asia) and form what they termed "Greater East Asia". We see that overlap quite visibly in places like Singapore and Malaysia which are home to large ethnic Chinese and ethnic Indian communities. As another user said, Asia is actually a gradient, a group of cultures that bleed into each other at the peripherals of each subregion.
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  226. is what you are
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  227. Ceylon tea is real tea. Many of the internationally famous tea drinks from Asia like Thai milk tea from Thailand, teh tarik from Malaysia, Hong Kong milk tea from Hong Kong and traditional bubble tea from Taiwan are made with Ceylon tea.
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  228.  @rodrozil6544  Have you seen how Middle Eastern people look like? Goodness gracious you are so wrong it's not even funny. A lot of people in Northeast India look like her (Southeast Asian look). Middle Eastern people generally have olive skin and many look quite European.
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  229.  @chill-pill923  cause Thai Buddhists are respectable and caring people
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  230. @gottisttott6350 Yeah you should practice all of them. The school differences don't mean much imo.
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  231. 2019 was a serious turning point for Hong Kong. Since then, the SAR has been in a state of distress. I recently read an article about how Hong Kong's local Nepalese population (descendants of Gurkhas who settled in the city during the colonial days) are also leaving and moving to the UK, seems like everybody wants to leave (even the ethnic minorities). Hong Kong is in serious decline... sad.
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  232.  @shikharsrivastava3558  The white worship is insane.
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  233.  @RobbieStacks90  Her ethnicity is Telugu, a minority group in India. Sati was practiced by people that lived in northern India who belong to a completely different ethnic group and culture. Way to go with the stereotypes.
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  234.  @onyiiilo378  Where's the correlation??? His ancestors were taken from India many centuries ago to South Africa. What has he got to do with the Republic of India? He has no known relatives in India and you're here claiming he's foreign.
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  235.  @listentologic  Wrong. There is East Eurasian, West Eurasian and West/East African and Khoisan. He is biologically a mix of East Eurasian with some West Eurasian.
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  236. I'm not from India but it's amusing to me the way everybody goes after Indians and negates the hate they face today.
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  237.  @dominicj7977  They aren't Bangladeshis. Just goes to show you fell for the Tatmadaw propaganda as you obviously haven't read the Rakhine Buddhist sources about the Rohingyas. Sad,
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  238.  @yogisingh4279  It's their country, their own rules. If they want that ship to dock in their country, then so be it. Bigger countries should not be demanding smaller countries abide by their rules.
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  239.  @diw9046  They're saying that they are inherently a Sinhalese Buddhist (that is their background, that is their heritage) but they don't identify with that and simply identify as "Sri Lankan" (identifying with the minority groups in Sri Lanka and viewing themselves as equal to other Sri Lankans). Something similar has happened in Myanmar too. Due to the situation that people in Sri Lanka and Myanmar are facing today, the majority ethnic groups in both countries have begun recognising their privilege.
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  240. Sri Lanka needs an all party government to steer the country out of the crisis. They need to involve protestors in this process to address the grievances of the majority and party politics should not rear its head at all. I also think India, China and Japan (Sri Lanka's three historic allies) should act as observers. All three countries wield economic, political and social influence in the country and India, China and Japan working together will also be a good way to help aid in the cooling of tensions in the Asian region.
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  241.  @user-k4d-e59mo28oc  What has any of this got to do with Korea and Japan? Gandhara was in ancient India (modern western Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan).
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  242.  @OzzyTheGiant  That's why China needs to be slammed and stripped off its position at the UN Security Council. The Rohingya issue can be solved if the Burmese military is removed from power but because China is backing the military, ethnic minorities in Myanmar (such as the Rohingyas and Karen) are continously being targeted by the military and many are fleeing across the border into neighbouring Bangladesh, Thailand, India and south to Malaysia and Indonesia. Interesingly enough, none of these refugees have crossed over into China (a neighbouring country of Myanmar). China is destabilising the Asian region and Facebook has been complicit with what's been happening by not removing fake news from the average civilian's newsfeed.
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  243.  @bouche8503  Sorry you're taking this way too literally. English isn't the reason for Singapore's success, the point is that a unifying language is what made Singapore so successful. That unifying language is English. What made Singapore successful is its mentality. Singaporeans have a very strong work ethic and desire to succeed. There is a fear of failure and shame (kiasu mentality) that drives Singaporeans (who are ethnically diverse - Chinese, Malay and Indian) to succeed no matter what.
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  244.  @funfacts2879  Just ignore him. He went on a rant earlier saying the same thing by posting 4 or 5 comments in a row. He's just bitter that India and other Asian countries are not on his side lmao.
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  245. This situation has arisen primarily in the US where there is a need to categorise people based on appearance as a result of the country's history fraught with poor race relations. In the US, "Asian" means East Asian and so other Asians who don't fit that image are excuded. This definition also exists in many other Western countries such as Australia and Canada. However, there is much greater awareness that despite looking physically different, Indians and other South Asians are still "Asian" just not the type of "Asian" people immediately think of. In the UK, it's the complete opposite where South Asians are seen as the default Asian. For South Asians, however, we are aware of the sheer diversity of our community. I am of ethnic Sri Lankan descent and anybody aware of Sri Lanka's diversity will know there are a variety of ethnic groups (Sinhalese, Tamil, Moor, Malay, Eurasian, Vedda, Chinese etc.) on the island. For other people of Sri Lankan descent, they know I am Sri Lankan but for many non-Sri Lankans or non-Asians there is a struggle in understanding certain characteristics of my appearance. I have epicanthic folds (or as understood in a Sri Lankan context, "Malay eyes" or what some may call "almond eyes"). As a result, I have had people assume I belong to other groups are mixed with Southeast Asian groups. People think that almond eyes or East Asian features only exist in East Asia or Southeast Asia but that's not the case. On "South Asian TikTok", I see South Asians who look stereotypically "South Asian", East Asian, Southeast Asian and West Asian. Our features are so diverse. The idea one is "Asian" based on how they look like doesn't make sense to me and it doesn't make sense to my Southeast Asian friends either. I have Southeast Asian friends who are diverse. One of my SEA friends could be mistaken for "Indian" and I knew a Timorese girl who had dark brown skin and round eyes. A Thai girl on Quora went viral on the platform for encapsulating SEA diversity in one sentence, "There is no other place in the world where you will find Chinese-looking people using their right hand to eat rice or Indian-looking people eating noodles with chopsticks". Asia is a diverse place. The concept of "Asian" is simply about geography and that is how it is understood in Asia. The reason why "Asian" becomes a term to describe appearance outside of Asia is because Asian ethnic groups are minorities. It's a trivial issue to focus on.
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  246.  @rosidahariff2365  Malay literature actually exists among the Sri Lankan Malays. The first Malay newspaper that was published in the world was the Alamat Lankapuri, which was published in Sri Lanka in Jawi script. Use of the language has decreased because younger generations are now more used to communicating in Sinhalese and English. Sri Lankan Malay is still used in households in Sri Lanka and most particularly in the Hambantota district where it is used by both Sri Lankan Malays and Sinhalese fishermen as a lingua franca. It is also the medium of instruction in school in Kirinda, which is also located in the Hambantota district. From my knowledge, Kirinda remains the only area in Sri Lanka where Sri Lankan Malay is the dominant and official language of the area.
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  247. Japan and Korea were never close to Indonesia and Malaysia. What makes you think they were?
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  248.  @莫念x酱  With that comment of yours, I don't think you're even Singaporean or know about Singapore.😁 The Malays are native to Singapore and the four founding political fathers (aka Lee Kuan Yew's political team and close friend group) had a Tamil politician.
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  249.  @ShadowPhoenixMaximus  No but it did occupy an entire country and expel the native inhabitants and doesn't allow a single civilian or media crew into the nation that has now been turned into a US military base. It's called Diego Garcia, located in the middle of the Indian Ocean south of the Maldives. Look it up. Highly concerning that nobody ever talks about this even though the UN ruled it "illegal".
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  250.  @maxonmendel5757  There are people on this earth who will sulk and drown in a hole and there are people who will get up and try to find solutions to the problems they have in this world. Okay so they don't have a dad, well surely they have other father figures in their life, right? An uncle, a family friend, an older brother. We don't live in the 1960s where men are supposed to not show emotion, times have changed so much so there shouldn't be any of this sulking that we see.
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  251. It's not a niche market, it's mainstream enough for people who don't listen to Kpop to know what it is. Those Kpop groups have enough fans in the West to get their songs to chart in the top 50 in Western countries. Not to mention the success of Squid Game in the Western world in late 2021. It may be largely forgotten now but that drama had such a bizarre impact on English-speaking Western countries at the time. It really is quite surreal thinking about some of the bizarre stuff that happened in the months after that drama came out, all because almost everybody had watched it.
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  252. Satun isn't associated with this conflict. Most people there are Muslims but they don't identify as "Malay", they identify as Thai.
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  253.  @ashutoshbajpai6584  of course it's an Indian man who said this.
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  254.  @souloftheoldblood4122  It's 2025 and they're still partaking in this npc stuff, embarrassing
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  255. You were never subscribed to them in the first place
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  256. @Redeemer89 Same Your relatives have their own views and you can't seriously declare those views as "objective". What was reported in this video is the truth, like it or not. NATO and Russia are both to blame.
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  257.  @manavalanp2123  Yes it's similar to Tamil Nadu and Kerala too
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  258.  @andynct  It's a subcontinent because of its ethnic diversity. The British coined it after colonising it and recognising that each of its subregions had their own culture, language and ethnic group.
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  259.  @blackwintergaming4609  They're aren't trying to make South Korea look bad though. Talking about the social isues in the country is not "making the country look bad". It's harmful to think that speaking about these issues means it's making the country look bad because these issues will never be addressed then.
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  260. Fallen where? It has risen even further
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  261.  @listentologic  No Native Americans are Native Americans. Asian means somebody from Asia. Don't they teach anything in American schools?
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  262.  @zinjanthropus322  There is a huge difference when men are taking cues from men that are very hateful in their ideology. This isn't just about men's issues being ignored, it's about how there are men and boys that become radicalised and adopt attitudes of hate.
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  263. There are now newer Chinese immigrants living in Sri Lanka (many of whom now live in Colombo, especially in Kollupitiya). In fact, there are more new Chinese immigrants in Sri Lanka than the original Sri Lankan Chinese and the new Chinese influence in Colombo is more visible than the original Chinese influence. There is a Sri Lankan Chinese association and the main difference between both groups is that the Sri Lankan Chinese mixed with the Sinhalese, practice Theravada Buddhism and speak Sinhalese while the new Chinese immigrants speak Mandarin but some who have lived in Sri Lanka longer now speak Sinhalese, eventually they’ll become part of the original Sri Lankan Chinese community as their children are being sent to Sri Lankan schools, as I heard from my friend. Colombo is a very multiethnic place. There was a recent article about them in a Singaporean newspaper.
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  264.  @chendaforest  South Koreans still celebrate festivals like Daeboreum and Chopail, festivals of Buddhist origin, because they are part of Korean culture. This is why North Korea, which is officially atheist, is lenient towards Buddhism compared to other religions because Buddhism is a traditional part of Korean culture. To erase Korean Buddhism is to erase an aspect of traditional Korean culture. The same thing applies to Japan. A lot of traditions like the New Year tradition are rooted in Buddhist practices and Buddhist festivals like Bon are celebrated in Japan. The influence of Buddhism is still widespread in Korea and Japan. Buddhist iconography like Daruma doll or concepts like karma and reincarnation are engrained in these cultures so you will see these things appear in society or in pop culture like anime. Doesn't matter if you are Buddhist or not but you will be aware of these things because they are part of the local culture. They're just aspects of Korean and Japanese culture with Buddhist origins.
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  265. Some Western men have such a peculiar obsession with Japan. It honestly needs to be studied because you see left wing, right wing and apolitical Western white men who have an unwavering passionate interest in Japan.
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  266. The native people of the entirety of India, South Asia and Southeast Asia are East Eurasian people such as the AASI, Hoabinhian, Austroasiatic, Negrito and Austronesian. West Eurasian like Indo-Aryan-speakers are not native to anywhere in southern or eastern Asia. The whole of Asia west of and including Central Asia is East Eurasian land. This is why Asian people with East Eurasian ancestry have common traits like the dry earwax allele while people with West Eurasian ancestry, like the ancient Indo-Aryan-speakers, have wet earwax that results in lots of BO. The most developed parts of Asia are areas inhabited with people that carry significant levels of East Eurasian ancestry.
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  267.  @sandeevbandara4401  Yeah but that doesn't mean the country has to follow what India has to say. These small Asian countries should be able to decide what they want on their own not follow what China, India or the US says. Yes India provided that but that does not mean Sri Lanka must kowtow to India and do everything it says. How are you going to survive if you're constantly following what others say, actions that benefit them not you?
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  268.  @jashanbirsingh  It happens all the time in INDIA, always the Singhs saying this type of stuff. Gosh, y'all make me mad!
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  269. This is such a big thing to point out. In Australia, there are now more educated migrants coming from India than the UK and China. So with so many educated Indians leaving India, how will India be able to develop? The educated people will leave and prevent India from developing and with their job crisis, I don't see why any reason why anybody would stay. The government and nationalists don't see this though but in due time, India will be suffering from a brain drain and it will join Malaysia (a country currently suffering from a severe brain drain and consequently struggling to reach high income status).
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  270. @ Going from caste to another rigid form of religion where your life is controlled intently by a "god" is not what these people want. They just want to be free. Islam wasn't going to give them that.
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  271. Bare with me because a lot of this is going to be "mystical". Buddhism can be practiced in a secular way or it can be practiced in a more mystical way. So what I'm about to say is more on the mystical side. The monk at the monastery said the family used to help out at the monastery, it's mostly devout people who will volunteer at a monastery on a regular basis to attain merit. So someone who is very devout will try to refrain from thinking bad thoughts to only attract good karma. Bad thoughts will only lead to more suffering (dukkha). In Buddhism, the whole goal is to escape from suffering (dukkha) and bad thoughts, ill feelings and wishing for revenge is a form of suffering (dukkha). The Buddha said, "Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most". What I understand is that the father realises that only good thoughts will accumulate merit for him and his family... the perpetrator is already suffering (dukkha) and karmic law will take control.
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  272. Also the man and woman yelling with pain and anger was really palpable.
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  273. Being hateful and abusing a stranger on the street is not akin to merely having an opinion.
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  274. The internet is a force for positivity and for negativity. There is nothing in Singapore for that 18 year old thing to be radicalised, he was radicalised because of internet access and being exposed to Western far right ideology.
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  275. @andrewboyd6517 Indian is not a race. 💀
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  276.  @rodrozil6544  Have you seen how Middle Eastern people look like??? Moment of silence for you
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  277. Why are people disagreeing with you? Have they forgotten about Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya or Mizoram. Many people in these states look like her.
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  278. Most people know Kdramas for their romance plots and thus there are many people who may not be fond of them because they have only seen a facet of Kdramas. Kdramas first became popular in other parts of Asia in the 2000s and the ones that gained popularity back then were all romance dramas. Dramas with dark themes were never popular back then. Kdramas, at the time, were considered family-oriented and a culturally suitable and family-friendly alternative to American films/shows and were the reason why they gained popularity outside of Korea in other parts of East, South and Southeast Asia. So when Kdramas were introduced internationally, the romance ones were the ones which received attention because producers already knew that romance sells (as seen in Asia).
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  279. Nobody thinks of Nepal having territorial disputes with China but China has encroached into Nepal in the past few years and has built things within Nepalese territory much to the embarrassment of the Nepalese government which does not want to offend China by lodging a diplomatic protest. So you can see how some things never change.
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  280.  @ahmedzakikhan7639  They're known as Asians as well. The three main Asian groups in the UK are Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis. In a broader sense, the Chinese are also another major Asian group in the UK.
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  281. This is proof as to why Asian nations working together is a good thing. Look at the way an economic corridor connecting Sri Lanka to Myanmar to Yunnan, China is taking place. The region is supposed to be connected, not divided due to ideological or geopolitical reasons. Peace can only be achieved when there is stability.
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  282.  @shikharsrivastava3558  Clearly my other comments did not post but I did speak about the hate that is spread online against Indians by Americans too.
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  283.  @shikharsrivastava3558  I'm really sorry but everything I said is the truth. It is in India's best interest that it aligns with China and Russia which share its values.
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  284. Crazy how Kpop men are doing this sort of thing, shows just how pervasive this issue is in South Korea. I only support female Kpop idols.
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  285.  @claesvanoldenphatt9972  Nestorian Christianity did not influence Theravada Buddhism. Buddhism is a lot older than Christianity. How can Christian sect influence Buddhism or other Asian religions when they've existed for a much, much longer time than Christianity?
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  286. It's happening all over South and Southeast Asia. Many Russians and Ukrainians have now settled in resort towns in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Kerala and Goa in India, Bali and Vietnam. There are two resort towns in Sri Lanka that have now been nicknamed "Little Moscow" and "Little Russia" and all the signs are in Russian. I also read that the hospitality workers in southern Sri Lanka and coastal Vietnam now converse in Russian to White customers as the default language as the number of Russians now outweighs the number of Western English speakers.
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  287. I think it's so sad that girls and women are suffering in India and yet somehow you made this about yourself.
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  288.  @channelkaap  He's a South African of Indian descent.
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  289.  @charwest9449  Smaller than a suburb? I'm going to need you to look at a map
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  290. Myanmar needs to ban these organisations too. Right wing extremists in both Sri Lanka and Myanmar are very close to one another, always have been. They fuel each other. I still remember Miss Universe Myanmar 2017 using social media to ask Sri Lankans to support Burmese people against Rohingya "terrorists" in Rakhine State before she was stripped off her title for what she said. The good thing is that the young generation in Myanmar recognises the importance of equality and acceptance.
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  291.  @user-wr4yl7tx3w  Why are you so desperate to claim Khmer Hindu-Buddhist heritage? Cambodians/Khmer are Buddhists and still practice their culture and you're here demanding they let go of their statues and artwork that pertain to their culture just because you want Europeans who aren't even Buddhists or Asians to claim their heritage? No wonder people call them "culture vultures", I can' see why after reading this comment.
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  292.  @rizkyadiyanto7922  If another Christian or non-Muslim candidate were to emerge the same issue would arise I fear.
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  293.  @Ajmolali82  Exactly, people have no idea what is going on in Asia. They just speak without knowing. All of the 1 million+ Rohingyas went to other Asian countries, including Muslim-majority Bangladesh and some to Malaysia and Indonesia too (two other Muslim-majority nations). They must think "Muslim countries" = Arabic-speaking nations only or something because idk why they would say such a thing if they've been following the news.
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  294.  @sublimefermion2205  The Sinhalese are NOT Indians. Just because they share genetic similarities to people in eastern India does not mean they are Indians. Are you going to call the Koreans Chinese? They share genetic similarities to people in eastern China. Stop claiming other South Asian people as Indians.
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  295.  @sportsunplugged009  No, I'm born and raised in Australia. You just hate the fact that people who are not Pakistani are criticising India. You are here claiming the whole of South Asia + Tibet + Myanmar belongs to India, which is wrong. So keep saying that but it's not true. I know you hate this fact but many people in Australia care about the instability and threats from India. Why? We are part of the Asia-Pacific. Hugh White wrote a whole book about how we should acknowledge that India could be a future threat to us (and I agree with him) and Modern Diplomacy published articles on India's desire to swallow up large parts of Asia. Internationally people respect China more than India, despite the threats coming out of China. I see so many people say negative things about India on a regular basis across YouTube, TikTok and Twitter ranging from predatory men to scammers to colorism and racism. It has such a bad reputation. I just know when India's population exceeds China's by April, there is going to be a lot of xenophobia and racism across social media. Be ready for it. ...and you don't need to worry about Pakistan. People don't care because of how problematic it is. That country is responsible for terrorism, harbouring Osama Bin Laden while pretending to support the West in fighting terrorism, creating the Taliban, lynching people who don't believe in their religion, grooming gangs in the UK and a multitude of other negative things. I still don't know why the US is so close to that country after all the things they have done.
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  296. That's not surprising at all. Apart from the spread of Hinduism to Southeast Asia, which influenced local culture, Buddhism also transported elements of Hindu origin to East Asia. It's part of the local culture. The use of the Avatar and these other elements in the West is more interesting because Eastern religions are not native to the West and they're not part of the local culture.
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  297.  @asianbreed3990  They co-existed long enough without any trouble until the Tatmadaw took power in the 1960s. The NUG is working on reintegrating everybody into Burmese society. There is a Rohingya minister in Aung San Suu Kyi's political party.
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  298. I wonder what the South Indians feel seeing how their country is always represented by the North Indian states which are growing in population indefinitely, while they belong to the most developed and progressive states of India where they have low fertility rates and aging populations. India is a country but at the same it's not. Each state has its own ethnic group, language and culture. Their states are more like countries than actual states.
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  299. Stop yelling. Islam can free them from the caste system but it's not going to free them from control, that's the point. Why would they drop one religion for another controlling religion? I never said Buddhism is a foreign religion in India. Maybe calm down and read my comment. I literally said that them adopting an Eastern faith makes more sense to them as opposed to adopting a foreign religion like Islam.
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  300.  @darth.severuss  Of course you're an Indian man
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  301. Ceylon tea is of higher quality. In Australia, Dilmah was responsible for introducing Ceylon tea to Australia decades ago with iconic TV ads featuring the Australian-Malaysian singer Kamahl, a beautiful Ceylonese (now Sri Lankan) lady in a sari and the iconic saying, "do try it". I have never ever seen an ad for Assam tea though (no hate to Assam tea though, I love it).
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  302. There's no need to be upset just because Sikkim doesn't let Nigerians into their state. I'm not from India but I'm sure other states in India let Nigerians visit.
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  303.  @sigmaputin6888  Nobody is asking you to help. Asia is taking care of it.
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  304. They settled in India a very long time ago, when the rest of Asia was still very poor.
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  305.  @KangMinseok  To her, Europe is all developed but a country like Malaysia or Vietnam or Maldives or Thailand or Bangladesh is developing (third world) despite the fact that they have thriving tech manufacturing industries or good healthcare or high human development (HDI) status. These are countries that are more developed more than Ukraine. Some of these countries were also able to control the first few waves of COVID-19 with their good healthcare, Ukraine struggled right from the beginning.
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  306. A lot of comments in this comment section are making me LAUGH OUT LOUD 😂
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  307.  @malinwa4ever315  Russia is in the wrong here but what that other user said about racism against Asians and Africans is true and can't be ignored. Seeing Ukrainians, Polish and other Europeans justify the violence those international students were facing at the beginning of the week is disturbing. If Russia is supposedly trying to help those students leave, you can't blame those in Asia who are questioning reality.
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  308.  @danielyu6399  What they're talking about is the lopsided ratio of women to men. There aren't enough women for every man in China. So you can't create families or anything like that. This has created a demographic and social issue in the country. So that has led to the establishment of the Asian migrant bride business in China (which also exists in other parts of East Asia), where women from neighbouring countries like Nepal, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos and Christian women from Pakistan are sent to rural parts of China through marriage bureaus to make up for the shortage of Chinese women in rural China. Chinese marriage bureaus specialise in foreign Asian women because they are the closest cultural proxy to a traditional Chinese woman so they'll still maintain those traditional family values that exist in Asia pre-globalisation. This phenomenon first emerged in Japan in the 1980s and eventually emerged in South Korea, Taiwan and now exists in China too.
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  309.  NatCo-Supremacist  What does this even mean? All cultures are mixed. They developed from many influences. How do you think Japanese culture developed if it weren't for the Chinese and Buddhist influences that intermixed with the indigenous culture?
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  310. and then when you think about how the Indian government doesn't care about its own citizens it sounds even worse and even more sad.
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  311.  @Duquedecastro  Americans
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  312.  @UncleElias  Buddhism spread across Asia through cultural contact. India's cultural influence was already widespread across Southeast Asia, the region had already been practicing Hinduism before the adoption of Buddhism by the various kings that ruled various areas of SEA that are now part of modern Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Laos and Indonesia. Sri Lanka became Buddhist because Ashoka's children took a Bodhi tree sapling and the Buddhist teachings to Sri Lanka at the request of the King of Sri Lanka. Buddhism really took hold in China during the Tang Dynasty due to patronage from the Chinese emperors, prior to that it wasn't nearly as a popular religion in China despite having a presence in the country since the Han dynasty, and from there it spread with Chinese cultural influence to Japan, Korea and Vietnam. You need to do some research on Asian history.
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  313. Help them? The Jews are from Israel. Palestinians didn't accept Jewish refugees. That is their land. Don't even compare the two. Average Indonesian Muslim always making everything about Islam.
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  314. You must be an Indian to be saying this. Pitiful? How is the Maldives pitiful? It's the richest nation in South Asia with a relatively good living standard. Why are you so judgemental and hateful? Sri Lanka, despite going through an economic crisis, still has a much better living standard than India and Bhutan has plans to become a high income nation in 10 years. The small South Asian nations are fine. The problem are the huge overpopulated nations of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. It's a disgrace that Maldives, Sri Lanka and Bhutan have to be grouped with those big huge Desi nations.
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  315.  @boy_ngiwi  Jpop was popular only in East Asia and some parts of Southeast Asia. Taiwanese pop culture also only became popular in East Asia and parts of Southeast Asia. There is truly only one form of Asian entertainment that has actually managed to become popular across the entire continent of Asia and I mean all the way to Central Asian countries like Uzbekistan and remote locations like Bhutan or Nepal too and that's Korean pop culture. There has been no other Asian country that has managed to dominate pop culture in Asia in the way South Korea has. South Korea truly reigns supreme in Asia in terms of pop culture and influence.
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  316. It's called South Asia. Cry.
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  317.  @cobidbeksin5200  I know this is a joke but it's kind of true, I'll try to explain in simple words. 1. The first humans in Asia gave rise to the ancient group collectively known as East Eurasians during the Pleistocene 2. There were two main sub-branches of East Eurasians, the lighter skinned East Asian-looking farmers and the darker skinned Veddoid hunter gatherers (represented by groups like the Andamanese, Orang Asli and Paniya). All of these groups are distantly related to one another. 3. Southeast Asia was first settled by the Hoabinhians (dark skinned Veddoid-type group) in addition to other groups like the Negritos, later East Asian farmers moved south from China into Southeast Asia intermixing with the locals to create modern-day Southeast Asians. 4. In South Asia, the Veddoid groups mostly mixed with the West Eurasian-related people who brought IE languages to create modern-day South Asians. Some also mixed with the Austro-Asiatic people and so on. 5. The ancestors of the Jomon emerged from the same clade that gave rise to the Andamanese, Orang Asli, AASI, Hoabinhian etc. and settled in Japan who later intermixed with the East Asian-looking Yayoi to create modern Yamato Japanese.
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  318.  @jayantkamble6082  Bhutan, Nepal, Himalayan India (Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Darjeeling, Kalimpong etc.) and Chittagong Hill Tracts are all part of mainland South Asia, are they not?
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  319.  Mr Wonder  No, that's not right. The Hindus absorbed the Buddha into their religion and believe he is an incarnation of Vishnu. The Islamic conquests were responsible for completely wiping out Buddhism in India. For example, Nalanda University was a major Buddhist university in India that was sacked by Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khalji of the Delhi Sultanate and that weakened Buddhism in eastern India, where it originated. Part of the reason why Islamophobia exists among the indigenous religious groups in India is because of how Islam was spread but if you look at the Hindus and Buddhists of Indonesia, they have no problems with Islam because Islam was spread peacefully to Indonesia through traders and not conquest.
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  320.  @elangbam3115  Maybe cool it with the bitterness. They didn't cast him for views from India. They cast him because they needed someone to play a Pakistani migrant worker. You need to understand that South and Southeast Asian migrant workers have been living in Korea since the early 1990s and since the early 2000s, most of them now learn how to speak Korean. So this has nothing to do with Indians (who are a much smaller minority compared to other South Asians in Korea) or who is more familiar or integrated. This is not about how many Southeast Asians or Indians or whoever is in Korea, it's about the role. It's also not about representation. Just because there are more Southeast Asians in Korea than Indians doesn't mean they need to cast Southeast Asians. The show needed an actor to play a Pakistani migrant worker and so they cast him because he fit the role. Please understand the situation of South and Southeast Asian migrant workers in Korea. FYI, a Filipino actor auditioned for the role of Ali but he ended up playing the role of a Southeast Asian migrant worker that Ali befriends in episode 4. Also, they don't cast people solely because of ethnicity. You need to be talented and know how to act. Anupam knows how to act and speak Korean so he was cast as Ali because he was the most fitting person to play the role. You should go listen to what the director of Squid Game said about why he was cast. When there are successful Southeast Asian actors, they will be cast too. Stop pitting two groups against each other when Ali represents the experience that all South Asian and Southeast Asian migrant workers face in Korea.
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  321. 100% agree, anybody that has studied population genomics will know how meaningless "race" is. There are four broad ancestral groups: East Eurasian, West Eurasian, West/East African and Khoisan. Everybody in the world today descends from one or more of these populations (which can be broke down into several different genetic lineages). So the idea that people can be divided into "races" makes no sense because people like Tamils and Native Americans for example carry both West Eurasian and East Eurasian genetic markers whilst Malagasy carry East Eurasian and West/East African genetic markers and Arabs carry West Eurasian genetic makers and Aboriginal Australians carry East Eurasian genetic markers. It just shows how widespread these four ancestral lineages are in the world that "race" makes no sense. Ethnicity which is defined by DNA, culture and language makes way more sense. In Asia, it seems people will identify by both nationality and ethnicity but in the West, especially in the US, people like to define themselves through "race" (which makes no sense).
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  322. Singapore has other political parties. People vote in elections. It's not a one-party state. The difference is that Singaporeans have so much trust in the PAP (the party that transformed Singapore into a developed nation) that they continue to vote for it. They know the PAP is the party that can maintain prosperity in Singapore.
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  323.  @containedhurricane  China is NOT democracy, Singapore is a democracy with elections.
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  324.  @yerri5567  How is that even comparable? Stop being ridiculous.
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  325.  @l-_-ls  it was Japanese believing they are better than other Asians and believed the whole of Asia had to be controlled by Japan as a result of it.
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  326.  @deepfocus9360  It was an upper middle income nation, with good living standards for a developing nation in 2019. They controlled the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and were on such a good path in the late 2010s that there was a dossier of a 10 year plan to turn Sri Lanka into a high income nation that was released in 2019. When it comes to South Asian nations, Sri Lanka and the Maldives stand out.
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  327. Why are some Indians so intent with claiming other South Asian countries or I should say Indosphere countries as their own? They're NOT part of India so no "India" is not more populous than China because Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and most definitely Fiji were never a part of India (not like they have big populations anyway, the average Indian city has more people than any of these countries). Y'all get upset at China but then also want to claim everything from Tibet to the islands of Indonesia. Hypocrisy much?
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  328.  @zinjanthropus322  These messages resonate with young boys who are very impressionable and lack experience. There is nothing normal in adopting a hateful ideology and thinking women are lesser which is quite literally what people like Tate and Sneako are pushing.
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  329. @don't ping I rarely check No, the scientific term is not "Caucasoid". The terms now used today are "West Eurasian", "East Eurasian", "South Eurasian" etc. You also need to do more research into the genetic make-up of South Asians. They were formed by West Eurasian-related populations from Central Asia who intermixed with the South Asian hunter-gatherers who were of East Eurasian origin. Also, you clearly haven't seen enough South Asians if you think they all look the same because they don't. They're phenotypically very diverse and it's due to their "mixed" origins.
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  330.  @brettcantrell8650  Girls, women, female babies, anybody that is female in India deserves support. They have continuously faced repression for being female. This isn't about doctors only, it's about females in general. The female babies, girls and women of India deserve so so so much better.
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  331. He spoke about India and Australia at the end.
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  332. Racism is a not a non-issue and Americans with Indian heritage exist in large numbers in the US and yet they still face hate. Ae you really Japanese or just an American with Japanese heritage?
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  333. this isn't even an Indian channel
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  334. There are also people who believe there is a gigantic man living in the sky and send missionaries to remote international locations to convert marginalised people so...
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  335. Not all of them are Muslims, there are Christian Rohingyas living in the camps too.
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  336.  @Nom_AnorVSJedi  What??? Malaysia and India are two different nations. The BJP and whatever you're talking about has nothing to do with Malaysia.
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  337.  @gatorcroco4904  The only Burmese people saying that are people who despise them. I haven't seen a single Bangladeshi online say they're from Bangladesh. Bangladesh wasn't even a country until 1971. It's not after a couple of generations. The Rohingyas sided with the British during the Japanese invasion of Myanmar in WW2 under the belief that they would be given their own nation by the British. The Bamar and Rakhine were appalled and saw the Rohingyas as traitors. Min Aung Hlaing, the general of the Tatmadaw infamously said that the genocide or what he termed the "clearance operation" was "finishing what was started in WW2". Long before that, the Tatmadaw had stripped the Rohingyas off their citizenship in the 1970s and got rid of all Rohingya politicians in the Burmese government. The Tatmadaw peddled misinformation that the Rohingyas were from Bangladesh as a result of their history in WW2 and that the only indigenous Muslim group in Rakhine State are the Kaman. Myanmar until 2011 was the North Korea of Southeast Asia. Nobody knew what was actually going on and even after 2011, the Tatmadaw still had tight control on the country's media and internet. This is why the Rohingya survivors sued Facebook in the 2010s for all of the misinformation that was spread on the platform during h genocide after the platform entered Myanmar without a Burmese language department. Bangladesh provided refuge for the Rohingyas because Bangladesh is the closest nation to Rakhine State in Myanmar.
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  338.  @justchilling704  A sizeable portion conduct missionary work and they have journals and atlases to document "unreached people" and ways to convert them to the Gospel. A lot of ordinary Christian people also try to convert people. Missionaries educate people and provide medical assistance or food, that is true but there are layers to this. A lot of missionaries travel to rural locations in Asian countries like Nepal or Cambodia in the hopes of converting impoverished people. They hand out bibles and pamphlets in addition to their humanitarian work. It's easier to save a soul that is hurting than one that is well off, this is why a lot of Western and Korean missionaries travel across developing Asia.
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  339. Someone above your comment just said that they faced hate for being a Dalit because their Dalit parents bought a house. Just because there are new laws or something doesn't mean hate will disappear. Do better and STOP discriminating the Dalit community, degrading them and minimising the hate and abuse they face on a daily basis. You come from a place of privilege and will never experience a sliver of what Dalit people face.
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  340.  @alastair9446  Firstly, nobody is saying these students are poor. You automatically think that all international students are rich but that's not the case. Many are not and actually have parents that work really hard for them to study. Secondly, education in Ukraine is cheap. It's not expensive like you're making it out to be. They're studying in the poorest country in Europe, a developing nation at that. Some of these students come from very competitive countries like India and China where it is really hard to pass the entrance exams to get into medical school so many end up going overseas to study and Ukraine happens to be one of these countries.
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  341.  @NewmaticKe  Yes that was before Sri Lanka changed its name from Ceylon to Sri Lanka and the Sri Lankan government enforced the Sinhala Only Act. Lee visited Sri Lanka when it had potential, when it had everything going for it. It's no wonder he lamented about the "unravelling of Ceylon" because he saw a country go to waste due to ethnic turmoil, something that could have easily been avoided. While Singapore crawled out of ethnic disharmony in the 1960s, Sri Lanka fell into it in the 1970s.
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  342. In my opinion, India's best option is to align itself with China by fixing that border dispute. The reality of the situation is that both are neighbours and you know very well the US will not be interested in your country growing. They didn't contain China and now they're upset, they aren't going to repeat the same mistake with India. I thought y'all woke up after that disaster involving Adani last year.
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  343. Nobody is going to give sympathy to a terrorist group (LTTE), let's be real. Only innocent Tamil civilians deserve sympathy.
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  344.  @internalworld7277  Firstly, China hasn't occupied Taiwan at this current moment. Secondly, why are you making comparisons between Sri Lanka and Taiwan? Sri Lanka is an independent nation that has never been a part of India. Taiwan is a nation whose existence is disputed by China.
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  345. Also, after travelling to Sri Lanka, I ended up learning and reading that in the past Sri Lankan historians went through a phase where they wanted to focus on Sri Lanka's cultural interactions with Southeast Asia instead because they believed Sri Lankan history was too Indocentric. While no longer Buddhist, the impact of the Malays and Indonesians (Javanese, Ambonese and Balinese) is evident to see in Sri Lankan culture and history such as the Malay invasions of the 13th century as well as the migration of Malays and Indonesians to Sri Lanka during the Dutch colonial era who ended up leaving such a huge mark on Sri Lankan culture, especially its cuisine. I can't imagine Sri Lankan rice and curry without sambal for example, which came with the Javanese settlement. Genetically they left an impact too through the emergence of a Sri Lankan Malay community who speak a local dialect of Malay and the traces of Malay/Indonesian ancestry among the Sinhalese and Moor populations, as discussed by Sri Lankan Malay historians.
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  346.  @noname-vp6vf  The person you replied to isn't even Sri Lankan and fyi, Ceylon tea is prized in East Asia. It's used to make Hong Kong milk tea, it is the traditional tea used first to make bubble tea before other black teas like Assam tea rose in popularity and Ceylon tea is used to make ready to drink tea drinks in the supermarkets in East Asian locations like Hong Kong and also used to make bubble tea ice cream that is sold in Taiwan.
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  347.  @Disgruntled_Fork  Yeah it's unfortunate and Americans determine how "Asian" you are based on your appearance and culture. To Americans, more physical and cultural proximity to China makes you Asian, anything further away makes you less Asian or not Asian at all. What's also funny is that many Americans ignorantly believe that most of Southeast Asia is culturally closer to China when in reality it's culturally closer to India. It's no wonder Southeast Asian Americans have to create movements like Brown Asians Exist to talk about the lack of Southeast Asian and South Asian representation.
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  348. @ They created "engaged Buddhism" by using Buddhist principles to free their minds, a philosophical tradition that allowed them to see themselves as equal with the world. They call it Ambedkarite Buddhism. It's not really a religion for them, it's a social movement that allows them to be free from what was keeping them down.
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  349. @ Most people don't see the appeal in Islam, this may be upsetting but it's reality.
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  350. and Europe
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  351. India is quite interesting, it's called a subcontinent because each of their states are divided along ethnic lines so it's like a continent made up of smaller countries. Each state has its own ethnic group, language and culture. They really are quite diverse. It's a shame they don't use that to boost their soft power.
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  352. Yah if it became Christianised, its pre-colonial heritage may have been wiped out to such an extreme extent like we see in the Philippines today, where a lot of Filipino people are unaware of how much cultural similarities they shared with the rest of Southeast Asia and South Asia.
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  353.  @solidus_reaver4381  Again, nobody is asking you for help.
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  354.  @KangMinseok  I know income is not the only metric but the other metrics for Ukraine place it into the developing world category. It's a middle income nation meaning it is developing or what people used to say before the 21st Century began, "third world". It's blatant ignorance for that British reporter to say that. She clearly didn't do her research or clearly holds biases in how she views the world. To her, Europe is all developed but a country like Malaysia or Vietnam or Maldives or Thailand or Bangladesh is developing (third world) despite the fact that they have thriving tech manufacturing industries or good healthcare or high human development (HDI) status. These are countries that are more developed more than Ukraine. Some of these countries were also able to control the first few waves of COVID-19 with their good healthcare, Ukraine struggled right from the beginning.
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  355.  @Z_X_M87  How do you know yours is the truth?
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  356. How is that something to celebrate? There's nothing to congratulate.
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  357. Australia and Japan should leave too. Asia-Pacific nations need to work together.
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  358.  @Connetification  It doesn't even affect you and you're mad. Embarrassing
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  359. Understandable since Singapore's fertility rate is below replacement level, like China. That's why the Singaporean government has allowed strict, regulated and limited immigration which favours migrants from Malaysia, China (inc. Hong Kong) and India due to ethnic similarities but there has been rising resentment from Singaporeans towards immigrants. Hard to please everybody especially since the fertility rates for the local Singaporean Chinese and Indian communities are below 0.
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  360. Singapore is most definitely not anti-Chinese. It's a bona fide neutral nation because of how small it is.
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  361.  @deepblue3682  You do know that the Burmese military (Tatmadaw) is killing Shan Buddhists, Rakhine Buddhists and Bamar Buddhists (who don't support the Tatmadaw) right? You do know that the Tamil Tiger terrorists bombed Sri Lankan Buddhists, Muslims, Christians and Hindus right? This has nothing to do with religion.
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  362.  @JakeRed378  Insane how they can believe in things like Vikramaditya empire whilst getting upset that China claims Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin as Chinese territory. The irony.
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  363.  L  Yeah I'm not from India but I like Indian culture and history. It's a very interesting country. Tbh, the CCP is really problematic and their behaviour in the Asia-Pacific towards India, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam, Philippines, Japan and Australia is very concerning. What they did last year is very concerning, it shows that they aren't going to stop. They're so antagonistic and I don't like that all. The CCP supporters on the internet are also very loud, problematic and extremely irritating. I can't even speak to my friend, who lives in mainland China, because the CCP became even more controlling last year with internet access.
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  364. @ Wrong. Stop defending a racist. He married an Indian woman, he ought to respect everything about her!
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  365. This is no other country's issue, only Myanmar's issue. Why isn't enough being done to pressure the Tatmadaw and the Arakan Army to stop this discrimination and genocide and let the Rohingya return to their native lands in Rakhine? Stop expecting other nations to accept these refugees when Myanmar has to be held responsible. Tatmadaw/Arakan Army are such a headache to Asia. If they aren't going to stop this discrimination, then China, India, Japan and Singapore ought to occupy Myanmar to make sure the government behaves. It's ridiculous now. This has been going on for decades and yet NOBODY calls out the Myanmar government and ethnic militia groups for causing this problem. The Rohingyas are NOT to blame, it's the Tatmadaw, Arakan Army and Bamar nationalists. Someone get these people to behave.
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  366. Nobody said that this is supposed to be representative of India. This neighbourhood is representative of Singaporean Indian, most of whom are Tamils. It has nothing to do with the Republic of India.
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  367.  @AegonTargaryen300  That is unless they solve their border disputes. It seemed impossible until Russia invaded Ukraine earlier this year. For the first time, mainstream Chinese and Indian media and people were espousing the same views and Chinese state media for the first time took a softer approach on India, supporting and defending the position of India in the war. If this war continues to polarise the Global North and Global South, then I wouldn't be surprised if a partnership of some sort emerged between the two. Many proponents in China and India acknowledge the historical co-existence and deep cultural exchange between the two nations until the colonisation of Asia and always highlight the fact that the division between the two is the result of borders drawn up by British rulers. What many don't realise is that China and India will always look after the interests of the Global South regardless of their political positions. This is why China and India were strong proponents of waiving vaccine IP in 2021 so they could both produce vaccines that could be sent to the developing world free of charge, whereas the Global North refused. If the war continues and China continues to find apertures in India's relationship with the West, then it shouldn't be a surprise to see the Chinese government bolster its pro-Asian rhetoric (which is heavy on the idea that the US is a threat to stability in Asia) when communicating with India which it has been doing in the rest of Asia since the 2010s.
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  368. 💀
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  369. Most of Sri Lanka's debt is owed to institutions like the Asian Development Bank, not China.
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  370. @ India would be a lot better place had Buddhism remained dominant there. They could have still had their Hindu influences without caste and syncretised it with Buddhism like in Thailand.
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  371. Korean dramas were always more popular than Kpop until recently. It's only when the Korean Wave began to truly become popular in the West that Kpop surpassed Korean dramas in popularity. Before that, it was always Korean dramas over Kpop (especially in Asian countries like China, Japan, Cambodia and Nepal).
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  372.  @tiarakd  They didn't come from Bangladesh. You're saying the same stuff the Tatmadaw says.
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  373.  @shakiMiki  To be honest, I want them to do a video on what they think of Modi's plan on making India a developed country in 25 years and if they think it'll happen. Asian Boss sometimes misses with their interview topics.
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  374. Canadian, American and European*
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  375.  @deusmachinima1189  Yeah I definitely agree.
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  376. It's not though. Indians only make up 11% of their tourist base or something and they were never the most significant nationality to visit the Maldives until after 2020. The Chinese have traditionally ranked higher in terms of tourist numbers. Considering the Maldives is once again pro-China, there will be even more Chinese tourists that will visit the country, which already began to increase in late 2023. They will be fine.
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  377.  @Rollinstrikepackagebravo  Why would you say that? If it is limited that would mean the intelligent Indians remain in India and help India develop.
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  378.  @bigk2367  It's literally called South Asia. Only Indians call it "Indian subcontinent" because they think they own the whole of South Asia.
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  379. The light structure reminds me of the light structures featured in Night City in the video game, Cyberpunk 2077. So exciting!
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  380.  @MegaLeoben  Sinhalese did not originate in India. The Sinhalese formed in Sri Lanka from a lineage that came from what is now eastern India that mixed with the indigenous people of Sri Lanka. No, Sinhalese are NOT Indians.
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  381. Exactly, the "West" in ancient Chinese culture referred to India and Central Asia. Everything else beyond those two regions has no significance to ancient Chinese society. Journey To The West is a 100% Chinese and 100% Asian story.
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  382.  @nunyabiznes33  Yes that's right but I heard that English proficiency in the country dwindled after the government made Sinhalese the main medium of communication. English proficiency is not as high unlike in the Philippines or India. Just another mistake the government made many decades ago.
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  383. @alengarrixer Fix that country first before offering citizenship to others
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  384.  @official-hb4mr  This is about local Indians, not Chinese and Indian immigrants from mainland China and India respectively. It is very hard to get PR in Singapore and they are not included in the statistics. Millionaires from India and China are also not immigrating to Singapore en masse. One day, both of you will get along and maybe then the Asian Century can happen.
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  385. No it absolutely is not! Learn about Burmese history first before you start making this about "South Asia" this and "Southeast Asia" that.
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  386.  @Lowlife-ix6oj  Well then clearly you don't know enough. A culture can be its own thing whilst having similarities with other cultures.
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  387.  @elangbam3115  Also, most Southeast Asians in Korea are migrant workers. Since when were migrant workers actors and actresses?
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  388. There are many other areas of Eurasia that had their own tectonic plates too like the Amur plate that covers the Koreas and eastern Russia.
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  389. A lot of countries say they could've been like that but they didn't. That's because they never had the right forward thinking leaders that believed in things like meritocracy.
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  390.  @containedhurricane  because people vote for the PAP all the time. I already explained it in my previous comment. No, it's not similar to China at all.
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  391. Are these Singaporeans interfering in US politics? No. They were asked a question and their views have no effect on the US.
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  392. I don't agree with joining another country because they will only be inundated by migrants from India. India is divided by states divided on ethnic lines. There is a long history of racism and resentment towards people from other parts of India settling in other states in which they are not indigenous to (e.g. 2008 violent attacks against Uttar Pradeshi and Bihari migrants in Maharashtra). India is basically a country made up of smaller countries. Each Indian state has its own ethnic group, language and culture. A Keralite from Kerala is not the same as a Bihari from Bihar in terms of culture, language, ethnicity and even physical features for example.
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  393. Congratulations to Indonesia for taking part in the global realignment of the Global South. So happy Indonesia is on the right side of history.
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  394.  @chriscampbell9191  That's not what's exactly happening and I say this as a male. There are men that are questioning it and then there are men (and boys) that merely listen to polarising figures and adopt the hate speech they espouse online. It's the latter that constitutes radicalisation and it's particularly affecting kids and teenagers who are impressionable unlike young men who can critically think and analyse things. There is nothing normal about a little boy at a meet and greet with their favourite Twitch streamer that spreads hate online that says, "** the women" (I have to censor it to avoid being penalised) and other bigoted statements.
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  395.  @mondaysinsanity8193  That is absolutely NOT true. Nobody conquered other regions in order to spread these religions. They spread through contact and trade. The reason why Buddhism and Hinduism spread so widely in other parts of Asia is because it was already compatible with the indigenous cultures that it spread to. This is why Buddhism and Hinduism are syncretised with local beliefs in all of the countries they are practiced in. That is NOT the case with Abrahamic religions. In traditional Chinese culture, Buddhism is viewed as one of the "Three Teachings" alongside Confucianism and Taoism and the three beliefs are syncretised together, the Five Precepts in Buddhism are the exact same in Taoism. This mixture of beliefs was spread to Vietnam and South Korea. In Japan, Buddhism introduced elements in areas that Shintoism did not focus on like death, so Buddhism and Shintoism were syncretised together. Across the entirety of Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia, Buddhism and Hinduism were syncretised together with local folk beliefs like Nat worship in Myanmar and Satsana Phi in Thailand, the same applies to India and Nepal and in Bhutan and Tibet, Buddhism was syncretised with Bon.
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  396. *Chinese Singaporeans at that
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  397. I agree
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  398.  @rodrozil6544  Rohingyas themselves are a mix of Indo-Aryan and Tibeto-Burman ancestry which is why some Rohingyas look similar to majority Bamar like Wai Wai Nu who is Rohingya and Bengalis have mixed Tibeto-Burman and Austroasiatic ancestry. That entire region of Asia is a mix of Indo-Aryan, Tibeto-Burman and Austroasiatic ancestral components. I seriously cannot believe what you tried to do. Make this about an American-influenced idea of what "Asian" means and talk about Japan and South Korea as if they have anything to do with this. Japan was one of the first Asian countries to accept Rohingya refugees back in the 2000s as permanent settlers.
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  399. Most are though
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  400. of course you're defending him
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  401. No we are not Indians
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  402.  @dekuwar4436  Yeah I agree with you. I have so much respect for him and you're right, people like him are rare. Lee Kuan Yew just happened to be incredibly intelligent that allowed him to cultivate a mindset that allowed him to put his people first.
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  403.  @ElonMuskIsPsycho  Why do Indian men constantly deny what is going on?? China doesn't have this issue, only India does. I can finally see why nobody likes that country, not even its own people.
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  404.  @aerobeats9462  No natural resources? They have plenty of natural resources and if you read about their history, you'll know they were once a relatively stable country in comparison to most other developing nations (especially those other South Asian countries which are a lot poorer). This is why Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew lamented at the failure of Sri Lanka because they had everything going for them (all of the right ingredients) but lost it all due to discrimination against minority groups. In multiethnic and successful Singapore, they teach students about Sri Lanka as an example of what happens to a country when you discriminate against your minorities.
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  405.  @yogisingh4279  Yes India donated money to Sri Lanka but why can't it be left as a donation? Why must you believe that Sri Lanka owes you something in return?
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  406.  @sportsunplugged009  English language Western media has recently begun reporting on India's belief that they own a very large part of Asia much like how China believes they own a much larger part of Asia. So those of us who don't live in SOUTH ASIA are learning more about this.
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  407.  @explorer-a-z  South Asia is a geographical term to describe the southern part of Asia. Why would India have objections? Those countries are independent and have nothing to do with India. They don't need to get blessings from India to legitimise their sovereignty? Don't bring up China and claim oh I wish you had China as a neighbour to understand what it feels like because I can see India is doing exactly the same things China is doing. It's encroaching into Nepalese territory, its organisation known as RSS and many other Indian nationalists believe in Akhand Bharat. They believe a very large part of Asia belongs to India and want India to takeover those countries and make them part of India - sounds like what the CCP wants to do. Take a look at the "Akhand Bharat" maps the RSS publishes , I can see that the whole of South Asia + Tibet + Myanmar + Afghanistan + Qinghai and parts of Gansu, Yunnan and Sichuan belong to India. Google "RSS Akhand Bharat map" and you will find all of these maps for your viewing pleasure. Everything I stated is the truth, I think you are just deeply offended at the unnerving facts I have stated.
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  408. I agree and in an Australia, where I'm from, the cultural connections with Southeast Asians is evident as a result of Buddhism. For example, the big pan-Asian Buddhist temples in Australia attract Sri Lankan, Thai, Malaysian, Vietnamese and other Southeast Asian communities which result in significant overlap like the prevalence of Buddhist monks of different backgrounds living together as well as the celebration of common festivals like the South and Southeast Asian Solar New Year in April. Many Indian and other South Asian groups celebrate this festival too but because most of them are not Buddhists, there is never a chance to celebrate the festival with them and Diwali happens to be more important for them which Sinhalese people do not celebrate. There is definitely cultural interactions with Indians too such as through the South Asian grocery stores but Buddhism is definitely a big difference that separates the Sinhalese and Indian cultures.
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  409. He has been radicalised by American far right ideology, that's why
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  410. Yes but Asian isn't a race. Asian is more of a term to describe geography and culture. For example, Imperial Japan used pan-Asianism as an ideology in hope that they could unite the various parts of Asia that are culturally Sinic (Chinese) and Indic (Indian) during WWII. So their hope was to create a union centered on Asian culture and practices and led by Japan. As you can see the use of the word "Asian" in this context is in reference to culture. It's really outside of Asia in the West and Africa where "Asian" is used in a racial sense. Priyanka is biracial because she's half Japanese and half Indian. At a basic level, Japanese and Indians are genetically different from one another. One is East Asian, the other is South Asian. Hope this helps.
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  411. Chingay as practiced in Singapore/Malaysia is literally a Singaporean/Malaysian thing. Where else in the world are you going to find ethnic Chinese, Malays and ethnic Indians coming together to celebrate the Chinese New Year in a parade? Chingay is clearly indicative of Singapore's and Malaysia's ethnically diverse identity.
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  412.  @RisingSun-123  How one can be so wrong, I don't know. The varna system exists in India, it does not exist in Sri Lanka or any other Buddhist-majority nation. Why would you think it exists in Sri Lanka and among other Buddhist groups? That doesn't make any sense to me. You appear to be a Muslim who is upset at what I said. Not everybody finds the appeal of Islam, you just have to accept that.
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  413.  @RisingSun-123  The only Buddhist society where caste is practiced is among the Newar people of Nepal (who have been greatly influenced by Hinduism). However, their caste system is not the Varna caste system. There is also no untouchability among their people. There are cultural differences among the castes of the Newar Buddhists, for example the Uray patronise Tibetan, Theravadin and Japanese clerics and are merchants. You really need to do more research. Don't be so haphazard with your responses.
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  414. @ What varna system exists in Buddhism? Nothing. Varna system is a Hindu concept. Buddhism emerged because the Buddha rejected the caste lifestyle and wanted to understand the world. So how can you say what you want to say? You need to learn more about Buddhist Asia.
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  415. Its name is Nick Lee
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  416. It makes sense to you because you're smart and can view the world from an objective perspective.
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  417.  @MethukAMP It’s because of Hambantota district was settled by Malays and Javanese over a very long period of time since the ancient times when both groups were still Buddhists and they intermixed with the Sinhalese. The name Hambantota itself is derived from the word Hamban which is the Sinhalese word for sampan, a boat that was used across pre-modern Sri Lanka that was originally brought by Malays to the island.
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  418. Thai soft power is rising because of Thai BL dramas and Netflix's "The Girl From Nowhere" as well as the big presence of Thai idols in Kpop such as Lisa. Also, many people associate "🙏" with India/Namaste first and only other Asian countries would be thought about later but someone I know described it simply as the "Thai greeting" in a non-Asian-related context so you can see how Thai culture is affecting everyday life overseas.
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  419.  @creampuffisme  Actually it depends on context. In the US, the first wave of Asian immigrants were from East Asia and in the UK, the first wave of Asian immigrants were from South Asia. In the Netherlands, the first wave of Asian immigrants were Indonesians. So in US English, "Asian" refers to East Asian and in British English, "Asian" refers to South Asians. In the Netherlands, "Asian" conjures up images of Indonesian people and culture. Officially on government documents, East Asians, South Asians and Southeast Asians are classified as "Asians" regardless of how the term is used in colloquial language in these countries.
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  420. I'm still waiting for India to improve its infrastructure, especially in the north, so I can finally visit it but I fear that I will have to wait a very long time before I finally get to experience India.
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  421.  @solidus_reaver4381  Please learn how to mind one's own business
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  422.  @solidus_reaver4381  Also, please learn how to stop making everything about oneself.
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  423.  @Dli230  Some people love to obsess over anything Japan-related so the general public thought it was Japan that was suffering from the lowest fertility rate in the world but it's actually countries like South Korea and Singapore that are dealing with that, they also have smaller populations compared to Japan.
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  424.  @danl.hollowellsr.1768  Yes you're right, it's because in the West "Asian" is used in terms of appearance that's why this issues exists, particularly in the US. The truth is Asian is just geography. People native to Asia are Asians. All of the people in those countries are Asian as is everybody else on the continent. Also, India culturally influenced Southeast Asia (Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia etc.) too. Most of South and Southeast Asia is part of the Indian Cultural Sphere. They all have the same cultural root. There is a lot of cultural overlap across Asia. Many outside of Asia are unaware of that.
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  425. Also, for the record, the ancestors of Maldivians came from Sri Lanka but they also have strains of ancestry from other parts of Asia. They have their own identity and culture that is not the same as the cultures of India. The only area of India they are ethnically and culturally related to are the ethnic Maldivians on Minicoy, which was colonised by the British and made a part of India. Also, before you say, the people of Sri Lanka are NOT Indians either. If you're going to go down this route, may as well say we're all East Africans.
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  426. Do you even care about Indian women? You keep posting this on every video and you're from Thailand. Last I checked, India and Thailand have no beef. So what's up?
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  427.  @KangMinseok  I know income is not the only metric but the other metrics for Ukraine place it into the developing world category. It's a middle income nation meaning it is developing or what people used to say before the 21st Century began, "third world". It's blatant ignorance for that British reporter to say that. She clearly didn't do her research or clearly holds biases in how she views the world.
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  428.  @KangMinseok  There have been conflicts and wars raging on in Europe since the 1990s.
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  429.  @KangMinseok  The Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s
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  430.  @mbn9672  I'm talking about the two people who were speaking about Brahman, that is part of Hinduism.
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  431.  @dextercochran4916  The Hambantota Port has already been dealt with, it's under a 99 year lease to China. This deal was struck in the late 2010s. The thing is, this crisis is not related to China. Sri Lanka only owes 10% of its debt to China, the same amount it owes to Japan. It owes a lot more to other institutions. Contrary to what people might believe, it's Sri Lanka's fellow Asian nations (India, China, Bangladesh, Japan) that have offered lifelines to the country amid its crisis. It's easy to think this is part of the CCP's antagonistic behaviour but in reality it's not.
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  432. Oh India, I knew one day you will begin coming to your senses. Now I hope you continue to wake up and realise your future is working with the rest of Asia. Look at how the US, Canada and Europe are treating you.
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  433. Y'all are always complaining about something. Give us a break.
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  434. That's cause y'all aren't followers of Mahayana Buddhism and the impact of Mahayana Buddhism is no longer present in most areas of your country.
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  435.  @omi4470  Of course you don't, so typical of you 💀
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  436.  @mysterioanonymous3206  Education actually decreases fertility. Bhutan isn't an industrialised nation but it has a well below replacement level fertility. Some say it stands at 1.4 while other say it's slightly higher at 1.8. The country is now trying to get people to have more children.
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  437. Are you seriously upset?
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  438. China only cares when it fits its interests. China did not care one bit in the past when Myanmar's ethnic minorities were suffering. Now that it's affecting China's interests in the Bay of Bengal, China is supporting some of the anti-junta groups but before that, China was supporting the junta. No country cares about Myanmar at the most basic level and China will be the last to show actual interest.
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  439.  @MachohoChoho  You're correct. I also don't hear this stuff happening in the Maldives or Nepal or some of the other smaller South Asian nations either. It really seems to be an issue in the areas of Asia where men are taught they will control everything.
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  440.  @buceoApulmon  They are not "black". "Black" is a Western construct to describe people from Africa, not Asians. The native people of Thailand (e.g. Maniq) are East Eurasian and thus genetically related to the Tai-speaking people that settled in Thailand thousands of years ago. Maniq, Mon, Khmer and Tai-speaking people are live in the area that is now Thailand. All of these groups are 100% East Eurasian and thus genetically related to other Southeast Asians, East Asians, indigenous South Asians (AASI), Native Americans and Oceanians.
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  441.  @WastedBananas  They do have similarities and those similarities are why Xi Jinping and Chinese state media keeps talking about "Asia for Asians" or how they declared India's Mars mission was the "pride of Asia". The CCP is using a tested method to rile up pan-Asian feelings across Asia, including in India. They're clever by doing this because most of Asia is developing. China is juxtaposing Asian geography, mentality and cultural similarities against Western mentality and culture in order to convince Asia that they should choose China and not the US.
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  442.  @WastedBananas  Omg, I can't believe this was even said. So naïve, my gosh. We are talking about geopolitics here not the arbitrary definition of "Asian American" or something.
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  443.  @ILLUMINATI838  Majority of Burmese people now sympathise with Rohingyas and there is a prominent pro-democracy activist in Myanmar who is of Rohingya descent. Her name is Wai Wai Nu and people respect her. The NUG said that they want to reintegrate Rohingyas back into Burmese society. Only Tatmadaw and their supporters don't like Rohingyas.
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  444. Most are, I'm sorry but that's the truth. They just pretend not to but behind closed doors everything comes out.
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  445.  @tovisaikia.8520  Everybody should take note of how he speaks. He is upset that Sri Lanka, an independent nation that has never been part of India, decided to allow a Chinese ship dock in their country. So he says India should send warships to Taiwan, a nation whose existence is disputed by China. Why bring Taiwan up? That's because he believes Sri Lanka belongs to India and so is likening the situation here with the China-Taiwan dispute. When I say, "India is a potential threat to the Asia-Pacific", I mean it wholeheartedly.
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  446.  @gabor-zsoltbenedek9420  Switch? Where have you been? 😭 The US has always supported Pakistan and that is the reason why India, today, still has a close relationship with Russia. The US has traditionally always been anti-India, even going so far as to have Pres. Nixon make derogatory remarks about Indians because he was pro-Pakistan. The US trying to court India is a very new thing due to China's rise. The US wants to get as many Asian nations on its side to "contain" China as part of its US forward defence ring that encircles Asia, which is why they're even trying to build ties with Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka, the latter of which was courted in 2019 by the Americans to establish a military base on its territory. People think that for countries to cooperate, they must see eye to eye on all things but they don't. They just focus on their own interests. It honestly makes sense for India from a geographical, cultural and economic perspective to engage with China rather than the US. The US has never actually cared about India and they still don't. If China hadn't risen, India would mean nothing to the US.
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  447. How is the latter weird??? t's actually become more common in Singapore since 2011. There's a very famous Singaporean couple who is composed of a Chinese guy and an Indian girl.
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  448. Exactly, their caste system is holding them back. India's rise only benefits the richest 1% who, I quote, own 40.5% of the country's wealth.
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  449.  @Rollinstrikepackagebravo  Your comment is literally proof why India is the way that it is. Gosh, that country disappoints me all the time.
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  450. Please stop trying to convert Asian people to your religion. Asian people have their own indigenous Eastern religions. Respect our beliefs please.
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  451.  @aryanhassan4659  Southeast Asia (excluding Vietnam) is part of the Indosphere.
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  452.  @seanbrummfield448  Do you know what the purpose of the UN is?
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  453. Thailand is one of the richest nations in Southeast Asia
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  454.  @lolsiahsahf  Malaysia is on track to becoming a developed high income nation.
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  455.  @87lenn  There are so many Burmese refugees in Mizoram, a state in India. I'm not even Indian and yet I know this. 💀
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  456. The Rohingya genocide wasn't done in the name of Buddhism. It's the result of Bamar nationalism, which is also why other minority groups in Myanmar like Shan (who are Buddhist too) are facing persecution and their villages burned with thousands having fled to Thailand over the years. You must do a little more research on Myanmar's crises.
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  457. True, many South Asian Americans with East Asian or even Southeast Asian features have faced COVID-19 related racism (especially Nepali Americans). It would be interesting to hear their views regarding Stop Asian Hate.
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  458. Isn't it concerning for you that you and much of the rest of your nation is concerned about not getting visas to enter the US? Shouldn't that be a good thing since that would mean educated Indians remain in India and can help India develop?
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  459.  @IK_MK  The person is a Western-born Asian. They don't have any understanding of actual Asian issues. Rohingyas are from Myanmar, a Southeast Asian country, and yet the person talks about "South Asia". He doesn't know anything about Asia.
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  460.  @paolamaria1992  Europeans went to Asia because it was richer. Use Google and learn. Swallow that Christian pride and learn.
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  461.  @florianlion8215  Declining fertility is a huge issue for many regions of the world, especially in the West, Latin America and Asia. However there are other factors that influence decline. China has below replacement level fertility but the quality of life continues to increase and there is backwards migration that is slowly beginning to take hold with overseas educated Chinese returning to China. China is rising again after having experience decline after WW2. India has a long way to go but it too is on an upward trajectory, albeit a slow one. These are countries that have room for growth. Industrialised nations like those in Western Europe, the US and Japan don't have as much room for growth and if they don't keep up, they decline. They describe AI as the new frontier for human development, the new revolution, it's worth noting that China is succeeding at a great rate in the AI revolution (placing at #2) but as are many Western nations with the US at #1. India too is among the top 10 according to the Global AI Index. It's up for nations to keep up with human development to make sure that they don't decline. We talk about American decline but there are countries that are even in worse shape like the UK and Japan.
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  462. No, it's a golden opportunity if you can actually provide jobs for your young people. Since that's not happening, all of your skilled young people are moving to Australia, Singapore, UK and the US.
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  463.  @This_tub  Catch that flight back to Vietnam, you're not an American. Still communicating in Vietnamese, posting Vietnamese content, bringing your foreign wars to the US and claiming Americans contributing to the US are not Americans?
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  464.  @scoopupcatpoop4529  Asia is a continent, the countries located in Asia are known as "Asian countries", OP said something about something that occurs in Asian countries and of course there was one person who had to be pedantic and say something like ""Asia" is not a unit in any practical sense". Who asked? No, it actually makes sense. The Asian region as a geopolitical concept exists.
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  465. Nobody in Sri Lanka came from "India" except for the Hill Country Tamils as well as the other groups like the Bohras, Malayalis, Memons and so on. To say the Sinhalese and Tamils are from ancient India is like saying we're all Africans.
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  466.  @BizQAC  Her parents are part of the old generation of immigrants from India that settled in the US and were hardworking people. She is of Indian descent but don't think for one second that Indian Americans are the same as Indians from India!
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  467.  @bubba94290  They identify as Central Asians, not South Asians. Afghanistan is culturally more similar to Central Asia anyway.
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  468.  @Yoyo-vt4hc  Also, India's development is very lop-sided. The southern states are much more developed than the northern states because each of India's states is like a country with its own culture and mentality. So some states are more advanced than others.
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  469.  @rizkyadiyanto7922  The Myanmar conflict has no connection to Buddhism. There are ethnic minorities like Shan and Karen that face persecution and they're Buddhists too. Not sure why you're even saying this. Just a few weeks ago we saw how Indonesian Muslims were saying hateful things about Rohingyas Muslims, violently storming their shelter in Aceh and saying some of the most hateful things I've ever heard, not even Burmese Tatmadaw had said such things and now suddenly you want to talk about Myanmar and its problems? Stop pretending like you care.
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  470.  @rizkyadiyanto7922  They're Bamar and their religion has NOTHING to do with what's happening. Do you even understand what's going on in MYanmar? If it's due to religion, why would Tatmadaw be genociding Shan people who are also Buddhist? It's all due to ethnicity. These groups are ethnically different to Bamar and Tatmadaw believes in Burmanisation. This is why Muslim groups like Kaman and Bamar Muslims are treated with respect because they are culturally very similar to Bamar and the language they speak is Burmese or Arakanese (in the case of Kaman which is related to Burmese). Please do some research on your own neighbourhood. So much support for Palestine and yet so much hate for Rohingyas but pretending to care about what's going on in Myanmar.
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  471. @bibinbabu3317 They're right, those are the facts regardless if you want to believe them or not. Best to focus on India instead of Singapore. Shanmugaratnam is Singaporean, not Indian. He has nothing to do with India.
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  472.  @ElonMuskIsPsycho  No it's only in India where it's such a notorious issue, not China. This is what I'm talking about!!!!!!! This is the type of thing that INDIAN MEN say, they always try to deny it I'm not talking about the Indian men protesting in the street, I'm talking about people like TheIndianTechie007 who continuously deny the graping issue in India.
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  473. Also the British created the "Sri Lankan Malay" community by merging the Javanese, Ambonese, Balinese and Malays of Sri Lanka together because they all spoke Batavian Malay which later became Sri Lankan Malay. The British couldn't tell the difference between each of the groups. As a result, most people have no idea there are Sri Lankan "Malays" who are actually Christian because they are Ambonese and not Malay Muslim.
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  474. Singaporeans as a whole are more open to interracial marriage compared to other Asians. Singaporean-Chinese, Singaporean-Indians and Singaporean-Malays are more open, especially the former two who don't have religious restrictions. This is different to the US where you are from which is home to East and South Asian immigrants that have come directly from places like China and India.
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  475.  @internalworld7277  You cannot compare the China-Taiwan issue with this issue involving Sri Lanka.
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  476.  @explorer-a-z  The term "Indian subcontinent" was coined by the British to describe the peninsula in southern Asia that was ruled by the British. Google is right there, you can use it to verify this information. All of those countries were NOT part of India until 1947. 💀 You really telling me that Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Nepal were part of India. Your own Ramayana describes Sri Lanka as a separate nation and the Sri Lankans own Mahavamsa describes their nation as a separate nation. India as a nation did not even exist until the British arrived, it was a bunch of kingdoms and Nepal had their own kingdoms like the Gorkha Kingdom. So yeah, they were NOT part of India.
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  477.  @explorer-a-z  Won what? I only stated facts all of which can be verified by RSS sources pulled straight from Google
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  478.  @JUSTFORFUN-cd5dd  No, I'm Australian. Stop thinking everybody who is critical of things in India are from Pakistan. Most of the world is critical of governance and nationalism in India.
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  479.  @christopheichmann1308  The UAE is also composed mostly of foreigners. The vast majority of people in the UAE are foreign workers or expats from other parts of Asia, Africa and the West. Most of the local UAE citizens don't work, they rely on foreigners to do most of the work and power their economy for them. So they really have no choice but to accept other religions because without these people from other parts of the world, they wouldn't survive.
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  480. I just watched a video about Sri Lanka's aging population and how 25% of the Sri Lankan population will be "old" in 10 years and that the Sri Lankan workforce is decreasing and that there is an increased need for elderly care services but they don't have enough people anymore to support the elderly. Now I see a video where Singapore is recruiting auxiliary police officers from Sri Lanka because Singapore is also running out of people. So a country like Sri Lanka is facing its own demographic challenges of decreasing labour and rapid aging but at the same time, its also sending its people to other nations to make money cause the pay is better overseas. These countries like Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam etc. are actually doomed. They got old before they got rich.
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  481. Why on earth would you make a racially charged remark like that? ☠ Not all Singaporean-Indians are like that. Idk why people are so racist to Indians these days, first it was hate towards India and now hate towards other Indian groups too like Singaporean-Indians.
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  482.  @RisingSun-123  How did I lose my nerve? I'm not the mad one here. The varna system does not exist in Buddhist societies in India, Nepal or Sri Lanka. Where in Sri Lanka are Buddhist people practicing untouchability or any type of rigid caste? Nowhere. Try learning about Buddhist Asia.
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  483. @ It doesn't exist in Sri Lanka or any other Buddhist society. I already explained this to you. It only exists in the Newar Buddhist society but their caste system isn't the same as the Hindu one. Don't be upset that Islam isn't the answer for everything.
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  484. What exactly is Indian about him? Lmfao he's a Singaporean of Ceylonese descent. Is there ever a day when the Indian media doesn't focus on their "Indian-origin person" narrative and actually focus on what's going on in their country? They're constantly looking outwards, never inwards.
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  485. I'm so happy that you recovered and entered remission. Wishing you a healthy and happy life. I like your pfp and your display name btw.
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  486.  @chiefpotleaf2338  India is completely different. Modern Indians were formed from three broad genetic components. The first: AASI which is closely related to the modern Irula, Paniya and Soliga people and distantly related to the Andamanese, East Asians and Australian Aboriginals. The AASI (Ancient Ancestral South Indians) are native to South Asia. The second: West Eurasian-related Neolithic Iranian farmers who mixed with the AASI and formed the Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC) and eventually formed the Ancestral South Indians (ASI) and the West Eurasian Steppe people who mixed with the ASI. The third: East Eurasian Austro-Asiatic and Tibeto-Burman speakers from Southeast Asia and Tibet, found at the highest frequency in parts of north, east and northeast India and found at lower frequencies across the rest of South Asia. All three of these components mixed together to create Indians.
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  487.  @k.k.c8670  Indo-Aryans are a subset and culture that emerged in India that developed from the West Eurasian Indo-Iranian-speaking Steppe people that settled in North India and Iran from Central Asia. "Indo-Aryan" is not a term to describe all Indo-European speakers and is a modern term used in South Asia to describe people who speak Indo-Aryan languages of the Indo-European language family. That term has nothing to do with Europeans. Europeans are the descendants of three broad lineages: West European hunter-gatherers, Early European Farmers and Ancient North Eurasians. The Ancient North Eurasians are associated with the Bell Beaker culture and the expansion of Indo-European languages (Corded Ware culture), which occurred during the Bronze Age.
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  488. It's making me laugh uncontrollably. All that hostility, both at international level and online, didn't go unnoticed. Karma is working hard
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  489. This is no other country's issue, only Myanmar's issue. Why isn't enough being done to pressure the Tatmadaw and the Arakan Army to stop this discrimination and genocide and let the Rohingya return to their native lands in Rakhine? Stop expecting other nations to accept these refugees when Myanmar has to be held responsible. Tatmadaw/Arakan Army are such a headache to Asia. If they aren't going to stop this discrimination, then China, India, Japan and Singapore ought to occupy Myanmar to make sure the government behaves. It's ridiculous now. This has been going on for decades and yet NOBODY calls out the Myanmar government and ethnic militia groups for causing this problem. The Rohingyas are NOT to blame, it's the Tatmadaw, Arakan Army and Bamar nationalists. Someone get these people to behave.
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  490. This is why democracy doesn't work in India. Too much democracy and this is the result you see: certain groups constantly protesting and demanding things change for them. This is why India is developing at such a slow pace.
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  491. People often speak about Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Myanmar or maybe Malaysia when it comes to China's influence in modern Asia but there is no country in Asia that has been so greatly influenced by China in the modern era than Laos. Laos is representative of modern Chinese influence in Asia. Boten is one place where the Laotian kip and Chinese yuan are both accepted but even more interesting is the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone (GTSEZ), while not tied specifically to the Chinese government, it's being run by a Chinese kingpin. Chinese cultural influence is widespread in the zone as Chinese people, including traders and investors have contributed to the development of the zone. The GTSEZ is inhabited by Laotians, Chinese, Thais, Burmese, Indians and Vietnamese who are engaged in business in the area. Like it or not, China is the dominant power in Asia today.
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  492. So in other words you don't care if people in Nepal die. This is a sick mentality and shows you have no compassion whatsoever. Had India's government been careful in controlling the virus, that country would still be producing vaccines for export to be sent to Nepal and other developoing countries but without India, the developing world has turned to China and Russia. Notice how one set of countries (US/Canada/Western Europe) who aren't doing anything and in fact are sitting on top of excess vaccines and refusing to allow countries like India or China to produce vaccines other than the Aztra-Zeneca, Sinovac, Covaxin and Sputnik by refusing to waive IP? The world will remember where Western Europe, Canada and the US stood when the pandemic is over. Disgusting.
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  493.  @KangMinseok  The Basque Conflict which only ended in 2011.
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  494.  @MyGratian  This is very interesting, where in Colombo are the Christian Malays? I am aware of the migration of Christians from Indonesia during the colonial rule but wanted to know if they still existed because books have told me many of them intermarried with the Sinhalese or Tamils or married into other Indonesian groups, possibly converting their religion to Islam.
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  495.  @mbn9672  He's talking about an event that happened during the Buddha's time in ancient India. Buddhism did not exist as a thing at the time. The Buddha never tried to create a religion. In ancient India, the norm at the time was belief in what we call Hinduism. So yes, they were talking about Brahman. Buddhism is not about uniting one's sole with Brahman, that is the goal of Hinduism.
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  496.  @luman8850  They identify as Thai as they live in Thailand. Are you from Malaysia? Is this why you can't imagine Thai Malays identifying as "Thai Muslims" only? Outside of Malaysia, the ethnic minorities in other SEA countries have actually integrated into the dominating culture.
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  497. We continuously hear about India but male extremism towards women is a problem in other parts of Asia like South Korea and Japan. We don't hear about it because of people's obsession with South Korea and Japan, the fetishisation of Koreans and Japanese and idolisation of Korean and Japanese pop culture. While some white girl in the US fetishises Korean men, Korean women in South Korea are suffering.
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  498. @@Robey-si8ed I don't know why anybody would want to illegally migrate to Delhi or anywhere in North India for that matter. Clearly they are desperate and deserve respect.
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  499. Also South Asian Buddhist and Southeast Asian Buddhist too
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  500. Y'all are so obsessed with celebrities and who they vote for. It's embarrassing
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  501.  @is17a985  Imagine getting triggered over something that doesn't even affect you LOLOLOL
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  502.  @Minchya  A survey revealed most Australians don't want to join the US in a war. So yeah he speaks for most of us.
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  503. Triggered by something that doesn't even affect you
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  504. You do know that Korean pop culture was popular in Asian countries long before the West even knew about it right? The Korean Wave started in Asia. The soft power of Korea is not because of the West (which you ought to be specific and just say the US), it's because of other Asian countries.
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  505.  @rodrozil6544  As the others said, Northeast India is a diverse region (most look like Southeast Asian or Chinese, there are others who look stereotypically Indian). She could pass as Assamese or Khasi. Also, as the other user said, Thailand is also diverse. There are Chinese looking Thai, stereotypical looking Southeast Asian Thai, Thai Malay, some look almost like Indians - especially in the south). You're just generalising a whole region which has a long history of human settlement.
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  506.  @martinprice6215  Japan attacked Australia, never tried to invade it.
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  507. I hope they never pick a side because they, like China, are seen as a representative of the developing world. India refusing to pick a side is also helping other developing countries stand by their belief in neutrality.
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  508.  @irs4486  East Asians having fair skin doesn't mean they are the same as Europeans and this isn't about Turkics to begin with, so why bring them up? So none of that makes sense as to why this thing started supporting White supremacy. They aren't related in any shape or form
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  509. She fits the American beauty standards, that is the truth.
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  510.  @Tounguepunchfartbox  Yeah but that's the thing. The US is not a local player and that's what makes everybody in the Asian and Pacific region wary of the US. The Trump presidency really sped up China's expansion in the region during the late 2010s. While Trump refused to attend any of the major Asia-Pacific summits, China was able to convince countries in the region that the US is no longer reliable and that they can be relied upon. Additionally, China has promoted the idea that "Asia must be controlled by Asians" and recent evidence has shown that this mentality has begun to creep into the minds of average citizens in other Asian countries like Singapore. Then in 2021, the US left Afghanistan under Biden and it further convinced people here that the US can't be relied upon. Vietnam and Afghanistan are consistently brought up about how the US is a failure when it comes to Asian affairs. Then this year, Russia invaded Ukraine and while the US has its own reasons to not get directly involved, it further convinced people that the US can't be relied on. Taiwan is quite fearful because they fear that the US and its allies won't be there if China invades the island. In the end, Asia has everything to lose. Asia-Pacific will be the first to suffer. The US will not lose anything because they aren't part of the region. This is why a lot of countries in the region want to balance China and the US, they despise having to pick sides and would prefer if Asia-Pacific can become multipolar instead of unipolar. Nobody wants to become a pawn between China and the US.
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  511. Exactly, Sri Lanka had everything going for them but they ruined it. No wonder Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore continued to express disappointment at what Sri Lanka had become.
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  512. They were an upper middle income nation that was demoted to lower middle income nation after the crisis as the GDP shrank.
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  513.  @SanjulaJayakody24  So then you should know that most of the debt is owed to Western institutions, not China
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  514.  @Indiscreetmess  It's a lot worse in India. I don't hear this stuff happening in the Maldives or Nepal for example.
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  515. I stopped the video at 57 seconds, Idk what he was saying when he said that America is not in decline lmao. Must be living in one of those alternate history timelines he likes to create.
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  516.  @WastedBananas  FYI, the phrase "Asian for Asians" originates in Imperial Japan and was a rallying cry to colonised nations in South and Southeast Asia, including India, to accept Japan's rise and stand with them in getting their freedom from Europeans. That led to WW2 and the creation of multiple Japanese puppet states that accepted this ideology, including one in India called Azad Hind. "Asia for Asians" has always been about pan-Asianism juxtaposed against Western hegemony. Bffr
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  517.  @WastedBananas  Nobody in a single Asian country uses "Asian" as a marker for physical appearance or race. It is simply about geography, don't bring these American colloquialisms into a thing like geopolitics. Can't believe I even have to say this under a video like this. So cringe.
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  518.  @WastedBananas  No they absolutely do not mean that LMAOOOO. Nobody in Asia is race/physical appearance obsessed, let alone even cares for such words. If that were the case, China wouldn't be trying to drive a wedge between India and the West or use its cultural influence to sway opinions in South and Southeast Asia using "Buddhist diplomacy". Their rhetoric has also been accepted by Russia, who sees itself as "Eurasian".
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  519.  @_hunter_hunter1048  Rohingyas are not from Bangladesh! Myanmar is a diverse country. There is no single "race" or "culture" in Myanmar. Myanmar is like Indonesia. Are you going to say Papuans are the same as Acehnese? No! Just like Kaman are not the same as Shan but they are both Burmese.
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  520. Nowhere near as big as the Korean Wave, which is now popular all over the world. Popularity of BL dramas is largely centred on Southeast Asia and China and to some extent India, Japan and South Korea. The average non-Asian has heard of Kpop but not Thai BL.
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  521. So all Rohingyas behave like this? Is that what you're saying?
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  522. I must say I am critical of Modi, his fervent supporters, the nationalists (including the RSS - who I am always criticising) and the mistreatment of certain minorities but I think India needs someone who is tough and willing to stand up for itself. I fully support India's decision to remain neutral in the Ukraine War, to not cave to Western demands to pick a side in a war that is not theirs to fight. This applies to the rest of the Global South. Remain neutral because this is not your war. I think India's decision to be more hard line after the Ukraine War began has made people gain a little more respect for the country because it's not a "yes man". They're obviously front and centre about the fact that they care about their interests only (most of the time) and I think that made the West realise you're going to have to treat them as an equal if you want to conduct business with them.
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  523. +HexBin Oban Sri Lanka has a high human development, it has the lowest poverty rate in South Asia, it has a low mortality rate, high literacy rate and was able to successfully control the first wave of COVID-19. The thing that is stopping that country from moving forward is that it's being racist towards minorities. If it followed Singapore and treated everybody equally it could have achieved prosperity and become a first world nation, the path it was originally on before the civil war. India isn't that bad either and Bangladesh is also doing remarkably well - lifed many out of poverty and is now considered the new Asian Tiger economy. You should do your research next time.
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  524. You are the most rational person from India in this comment section. If more people were like you, India would be in a better place
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  525.  @Abhinav-m4o  Nobody has ever truly taken Turkey seriously. They joined NATO and are considered the black sheep of the group, they have for years tried to join the EU but for a plethora of reasons, nobody supports them (especially Greece) and they have tried to host the Summer Olympics but nobody votes for them at the IOC
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  526.  Saiha Homura  What has the Sri Lankan community got to do with this??? Most Sri Lankans in New Zealand are Buddhists, that man was a Muslim. Since when are Buddhists and Muslims the same?? Muslims only make up 4% of the total Sri Lankan New Zealand community. He was radicalised by his Iraqi and Syrian neighbours. Think before you reply.
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  527.  Dragon Force  ...because we're not all racists and are interested in learning about different cultures and ethnic groups. Maybe if your heart wasn't cold, you wouldn't be so bitter and hateful. I've seen so many of your comments all over this video. Something must have happened for you to be this upset. I hope you get better soon.
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  528.  @Arun-sp8vl  Yes I have a huge problem with that. I only support Indian women.
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  529.  @Arun-sp8vl  I am aware of diverse India is and that's why I also think India needs to be separated into several different nations. Places like Kerala and Sikkim deserve to be their own nations. Insane that Sikkim had to become a part of India when it was its own country.
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  530.  @ishanbajpai6940  It's called South Asia. Indians stop trying to claim South Asia + Tibet + Myanmar challenge impossible.
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  531. Tamils? Who here is Tamil and this has nothing to do with the British. Move on.
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  532. Just want to say he clearly said that Asia overall has low crime rates but then said he's focusing on East Asia for those talking about the video title. Also, Singapore has the lowest crime rate in Asia and it is a multiethnic nation composed of East Asians, Southeast Asians and South Asians. Singaporean people and culture is mostly a mix of Chinese, Malays and Indians. Singapore too had a violent past with the race riots between Chinese and Malays in the 1960s and this led to a complete change in mentality to create a harmonious society after it became an independent nation against its will in 1965.
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  533.  @nunyabiznes33  To be fair, there really is no difference between skilled labourer and maid in this context. Those skilled labourers are construction workers who toil away in the sun working as slaves. The difference between that and the maids that Sri Lanka (Philippines and Indonesia) send is that the maids work indoors and are all women whereas the construction workers are all men. Other than that, they are all mistreated and get paid low wages. Most of the Sri Lankans who work in the Middle East are women.
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  534.  @JD-fx9ly  Nobody in Myanmar is committing violence in the name of Buddhism. I think people in the West are preoccupied with identity politics so that's why people want to view this through the lens of religion without taking time to actually understand why Myanmar is suffering. By making this about religion, you're unknowingly negating all of the other atrocities occurring in the country because they don't fit your narrative. Please don't do that. Myanmar already barely gets any attention or support and it has faced the brunt of misinformation since 2017 and Rohingyas sued Facebook as a result of blatant misinformation that resulted in their genocide, so please do not add more to it.
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  535.  @SS-vs2nz  Honour killings aren't performed in Sri Lankan culture.
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  536. I wonder what they think of some of the darker Montagnard tribes of Vietnam who look quite "Indian" in comparison to the majority Kinh Vietnamese.
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  537. If you're going to troll, go do it on some other video. This is a Singaporean video, it has nothing to do with the BS geopolitics between China and India. Singaporean-Indians and Singaporean-Chinese are Singaporeans, not Indian or Chinese citizens.
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  538. Singapore mostly brings in Malaysians who are ethnically (Chinese, Malay, Indian) and culturally virtually the same as Singaporeans. Chinese, Indonesians and Indians are the second, third and fourth largest groups to be accepted into Singapore and they aim to bring in the good ones. However, it is hard to get PR in Singapore. So don't you think for a second that the Khalistanis, Hindu nationalists, Mohammads and Muslim Indians are going to be brought into Singapore. Keep dreaming, Ali.
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  539.  @randomly_random_0  I started laughing, I just know that the first one talking about Pakistan is a man from North India and the other one talking about India, is a man from Pakistan. They're trolls and always fighting, clogging up the comment section with their troll comments.
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  540. The last three you mentioned are basically what you call frozen conflicts.
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  541.  @robezy0  I really appreciate you explaining your reasoning but I respectfully disagree. It actually has nothing to do with the Buddha's teachings but identity. They identify as Buddhists and the culture that surrounds this identity, they think that their identity/culture is under threat and so are using their identity as a way to promote their Islamophobic views. The thing that they fail to understand is that there are many across Asia, and even the rest of the world, who follow the Buddha's teachings but don't identify as Buddhists or take part in the culture that surrounds Buddhism as a "culture", "identity" and "religion".
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  542.  @shruthysharma3181  You are an Indian.
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  543.  @official-hb4mr  Foreign students in Singapore don't get PR easily. There are certain people who are more likely to get it and it's not an easy process, it's nothing like the pathway to PR in Western countries. Also, what has PR got do with this? I told you that I am talking about Singaporean-born people? Idk why you're so upset about what I am talking about. So upset that you're talking about Chinese and Indian people from China and India while I am talking about Singaporean-Chinese and Singaporean-Indians. Yeah I know Indian students are more inclined to stay, they decide to settle in my country while many of the Chinese students go back but can you all just stop fighting and comparing yourselves to one another??? We in the Asia-Pacific will know peace when China and India learn to get along until then we are going to be trapped between these two power hungry and irredentist countries.
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  544.  @rabeat4213  What are your favourite Himalayan states in India? I really like Himachal Pradesh and Sikkim.
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  545.  @SerCrispinCole  The Hindu caste system is rigid and strict and people are forced to identify with those castes and marry within those castes. Indian immigrants take the strict Hindu caste system to the new countries they settle in. They continue to practice endogamy by marrying within their caste.
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  546. @Ambra Bianca He didn't say Caucasian women. I'm pretty sure he meant light skinned African American women. The light skin issue, from my understanding, is about light skinned and dark skinned African American women and how lighter skinned African American women are put on a pedestal. Also, how most of the African American actresses and models in American pop culture are light skinned which is something Percy spoke about in the video.
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  547.  @tsuki_moon.1  Most Indonesians are Muslims. What's not clicking??? Y'all love to scream "free Palestine" and "I love Hamas' but when it comes to persecuted Southeast Asian Muslims in Myanmar, it's no actions just xenophobia and racism.
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  548.  @iimmortalldreams  They're not really Asians. Asian Americans love to identify as "Asian" but know nothing about Asia. Their idea of being "Asian" is based around Kpop, bubble tea, proximity to mainstream Han Chinese culture or for non-East Asians just what they know about their own culture from their parents as well as "Asian representation in Hollywood" but that's it. Real Asians are those in Asia and I'll keep saying that.
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  549.  @L425-g1f  All Asia-Pacific countries have close economic ties with China, even if they don't like the CCP. Japan's largest trade partner is China, India's largest trade partner is China, the largest trade partner for Southeast Asian countries is China. China being Australia's largest trading partner is no surprise either. Despite geopolitical differences, the region is deeply connected economically.
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  550. Taiwan claims everything that PR China claims (that includes all the territorial disputes with India, Bhutan etc.), it even claims Mongolia and various parts of Russia, Myanmar and Tajikistan. The difference is that the current party in power now views Taiwan as a merely being an island and Taiwan recognises the Mongolian passport. Officially speaking, Taiwan claims all of PRC and surrounding land and waters belonging to other Asian countries and it is known as the Republic of China (ROC) because it claims to be the legitimate "China" while the PRC recognises itself as the legitimate "China". However, this is only still practiced because if Taiwan (ROC) were to ever officially recede claims to all of those areas it would give the message to the PRC that Taiwan is relinquishing its claims to the title of the "legitimate China" and so it would officially be seen as a sign that Taiwan (the island) is a "breakaway state" within the PRC (because the PRC claims the island of Taiwan and that because Taiwan has its own government). That would give the PRC the right to invade Taiwan in order to maintain territorial integrity and no other country in the world will be able to say anything because Taiwan is a part of China as the ROC would no longer exist.
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  551.  @leakahoshi5049  Being a city is a disadvantage to Singapore because it has no natural resources and being located on a shipping lane means nothing if you don't have the right leaders with the right visions. There are other Asian countries along that same shipping route that could have been like Singapore but they didn't and that's because of their inability to manage their ethnic diversity. Lee Kuan Yew, with the help of his close friend and political ally, created a framework that would fix Singapore's ethnic problem by uniting the country's ethnically diverse inhabitants. So by uniting the people, he was able to make the country's population its natural resource. This is why Singapore stresses the importance of ethnic harmony and that's why the country is by far the most successful multi-ethnic nation in Asia and among the best in the world.
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  552.  @ozzymandias7346  I never said it was a European religion but Christianity is not an Eastern religion. The people beyond West Asia traditionally practiced Eastern religions. It being of Asian origin means nothing here because it has nothing to do with Eastern religions which is what I am talking about.
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  553.  @mondaysinsanity8193  Well I guess the answer is that most Asian cultures have a stronger belief in their cultural heritage than other cultures. I suppose that's true because when we look at colonised Asian territories like Myanmar, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Cambodia, they firmly protected their heritage during the times of missionary work. The Allies' occupation of Japan after WW2 didn't alter Japanese culture, even India despite being conquered by West and Central Asian Muslim rulers is still Hindu-majority today. That part of the world is really the only place in the world where the dominant religions are non-Abrahamic. So yeah, now that I think of it, I think this is the answer.
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  554.  @mondaysinsanity8193  It took over a century for Buddhism to be fully assimilated into Chinese society and one of the key reasons for why it became popular in China was because of Taoism. Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism spread through cultural diffusion. That is why Buddhism, Hinduism and Taoism are only practiced within the Indosphere and Sinosphere. There is no other place on earth where Eastern religions were adopted by non-Asian (Indosphere/Sinosphere) people.
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  555.  @robertjamesonmusic  I'm not an American so I'm genuinely interested to know what your thoughts are about American expansionism since you voted for Trump. Do you agree with the idea that Greenland, the Panama Canal, Canada and now Gaza should come under American jurisdiction?
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  556. Misinformation is not news
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  557. It's the other way around, the South Indians are the ones facing that not the North Indians
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  558. No they're Burmese, GUnawAN. Rohingyas and Burmese lived in peace in the Arakan Kingdom before the British colonisation.
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  559.  @SengpoSatbang  You're literally an Indian, so this applies to you too
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  560.  @fentonstrauss7304  New Zealand is far away and Australia is further south, our summer is over.
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  561.  @dominicj7977  This goes to show how little you know about Burmese society. Burmese people are physically diverse. There are indigenous groups in Myanmar like the Kaman and Maramagyi that look don't look so-called "Mongoloid". There are Burmese Bamar military generals in the Tatmadaw that look more similar to Rohingyas than they do to most other Burmese Bamar people like Major General Soe Naing Oo. Rohingyas themselves carry partial Tibeto-Burman ancestry, that's why some of them look more "Mongoloid" like Wai Wai Nu, pro-democracy activist in Myanmar who is Rohingya. There are Bengalis that look more like "Mongoloid". That entire region is mixed. You're obsessed with appearance. Are you an Indian?
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  562.  @rodrozil6544  Convince who?? 💀South Korea and Japan??? So you're saying Rohingyas and Bengalis are not Asians? Lmfaoooo what???? Rohingyas and Bengalis are native to Asia, so they're Asian. I actually cannot believe this. There are ethnic groups and people from majority Bamar people in Myanmar that look more similar to Bengali/Rohingya but with lighter skin like Burmese military general, Soe Naing Oo and actor Hugo Naing, both of whom are from majority Bamar community. Kaman people are indigenous to Myanmar but look more similar to Rohingyas and speak Arakanese. There are Maramagyi Buddhist people, native to Myanmar but look more similar to Rohingyas but with lighter skin.
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  563.  @himanshukhichar4185  No Sri Lanka wasn't settled by Indians. Sinhalese, Sri Lankan Tamils and the first people, Veddas are not Indians.
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  564. I'm not even Indian but this is such an overused drag. Anybody that knows how to use Google can easily go to the World Bank Open Data website and look at open defecation per country, it's very clear that India has made considerable improvement by bringing the rate of open defecation in their country from 73% in 2000 to 11% in 2022.
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  565. Most of Asia has declining fertility rates now, even the poor developing nations.
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  566.  @MiguelDLewis  South Korea is super trendy too but you never see this type of weird obsession with everything related to South Korea. However when it comes to Japan, they're all become so obsessed with the country, everything to do with it, the women, their societal issues. There are even neo-Nazis who are obsessed with Japan.
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  567.  @blackumbrella6199  India has helped them greatly and in the months before, Bangladesh, China and Japan helped too. Australia also recently provided a donation too.
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  568.  @lvjinbin28  That's because they see China as a threat and can't see that the US is one too. We need cooperation in the region and that means India and China working together, otherwise the Asia-Pacific is going to go under because of competition and warmongering. In the end, the whole region will suffer not the US. It's hight time, the region realises this.
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  569.  @yvysflores5876  Sorry I'm talking about GDP (nominal) per capita income as in the gross national income of a nation that indicates quality of life of a nation. You are talking about GDP (nominal) as in the market value of all final goods and services from a nation in a given year. US, China, Japan, Germany and India are the top 5 countries for GDP (nominal) that you are talking about but I'm not talking about that. In 2022, Sri Lanka's national income is $3,699 and the Philippines is $3,687 - that places both countries in the lower middle income bracket. However, in 2019 - which is what the OP is talking about - Sri Lanka's national income was $4,068 (placing it into the upper middle income bracket) while the Philippines' national income was $3,104 - a lower middle income nation. For comparison, Singapore in 2022 has a national income of $79,576 while the US has a national income of $76,027 - this places both countries in the high income developed bracket. China has a national income of $14,096 and the Maldives has a national income of $14,078 - this places both countries in the upper middle income bracket but they're very close to becoming high income developed nations - might even be this year when the new data is released in mid-2022. This is all data gathered from the IMF.
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  570.  @hunterblake5911  Sri Lanka was an upper middle income nation in 2019. Their national income (GDP nominal) in 2019 was $4,068 while the Philippines in 2019 had a national income of $3,104. So clearly the quality of life in Sri Lanka was better than that of the Philippines in 2019 so I don't know how you can say the average Filipino has more disposable income when that's not what the data shows. Even in 2022, Sri Lanka places one spot above the Philippines in terms of national income. If we look at human development, then Sri Lanka's HDI is 0.782 while the Philippines is at 0.718 - which is both considered high so in simple words, the quality of life in both countries today seem to be around the same level. Going back to GDP, GDP nominal as in the gross national income of a nation is considered the prime measure to calculate quality of life of a nation. At the end of each fiscal year, the IMF and World Bank release data they have gathered and calculated. The reason why we have terms like "developed" and "developing" is because of national income. We wouldn't be calling countries "developed" or "developing" if we didn't know what the national income of a nation was.
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  571.  @goeast12  Singapore is diverse, the only reason why you think it's not diverse is because you think Chinese and Malays are the same and that Indians being Asians too means that "Singapore is not diverse". I've heard this argument made by many Westerners who try undermine Singapore's success, they say "everybody is Asian". Chinese, Malays and Indians are all different to one another, just because they're all from the same continent doesn't mean they're all the same. The Chinese and Malays suffered from extreme racial riots which led to Singapore becoming a country. Singapore managed to unite the Chinese, Malays and Indians and used common ground (which came to be known as "Asian values" in the 1990s) to create the most stable and successful multi-ethnic nation in Asia. Look at Singapore's neighbours (near and far), Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka they all suffer from racial division. Singapore is diverse and it knows how to manage its diversity without alienating anybody at a national level.
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  572. Firstly, the people who are coming to Indonesia are other Southeast Asians. Rohingyas are from Myanmar, a Southeast Asian country.💀 Secondly, Indonesia has nothing to do culturally with East Asian countries. It has more in common culturally with South Asian countries than East Asian in reality. Culturally speaking, Indonesia was influenced by Indian culture and is part of the Indosphere. You said you are not Indonesian and you're probably not Asian either, you should have stopped when you said that.
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  573. My gosh, I can't believe you just called us Indians. This is like saying we're all Africans then. You can talk about how Sri Lankans support Indians without posting BS
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  574.  @CosmosChill7649  "Buddhist terrorist" is an oxymoron. The first Precept of the Five Precepts of Buddhism and the most fundamental teaching of Buddhism is ahimsa (non-violence). It clearly says "I undertake the training-precept to abstain from onslaught on breathing beings". Killing someone is breaking the first precept, clearly proving you don't understand the Buddha's teachings. Who you are you talking about are ethnic Sinhalese supremacists, they are on the same level as the ethnic Bamar supremacists of Myanmar and are in fact closely connected because they support each other's supremacist views and share the same views in regards to certain topics.
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  575.  Wise Brain  Nobody is asking European nations to help Rohingyas. Asian countries have been helping Rohingyas on their own ever since the 2017 genocide and even before. Idk why you think this is about you because this is about Rohingya refugees, all of whom live in Asian countries.
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  576.  @mimiad397  That's just in the USA. You may be surprised to know that in the UK, "Asian" means South Asians in colloquial contexts but they still know that East Asians, West Asians etc. are Asians too. So it's really just an American thing.
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  577.  @realtalk6195  Firstly, why did you like your comment minutes after you posted the comment? Secondly, not a single Buddhist monk has actively waged violence against the Rohingyas. If you commit violence as a Buddhist monk, you're de-robed. The very first precept that monks must follow is not to harm any living creatures. Don't conflate pro-Bamar Buddhist nationalist speeches with violence, which is what the Tatmadaw are doing.
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  578.  @jonsantos6056  No there are indigenous Tamils in northern Sri Lanka and again, Shanmugaratnam is Singaporean, even if his ancestors were Indian Tamils what has that got to do with anything? He is Singaporean and has nothing to do with India.
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  579.  @jooleebilly  The Rohingya genocide and other forms of violence towards ethnic minorities in Myanmar is the result of Bamar nationalism that supports the idea that Myanmar belongs to the Bamar and everybody else must be Burmanised. It's ethnonationalism and isn't related to religion because the Tatmadaw/Bamar nationalists also persecute ethnic minorities who practice Buddhism like Shan, Rakhine and Karen. Almost every ethnic minority group in Myanmar has faced some sort of persecution, big or small, as a result of Bamar nationalism and Bamar privilege.
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  580. She migrated there legally, what's the issue?
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  581.  @gabbar51ngh  Kung fu is not one martial art, it's an umbrella term to describe plenty of Chinese martial arts. Many martial arts in Chinese culture are purely of Chinese origin. Idk why anybody would think Kung fu was created by Indians. People are not understanding that Bodhidharma is claimed to be the influencer of one form of Chinese martial arts, not the entire lot. India is the other major centre of martial arts in Asian society. All martial arts in Asia derive from influence from China and/or India.
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  582. I think your comment brings up an interesting point. You gave a description of your experiences with all of the men you have dated and the one thing that stood out to me was culture. Now culture can mean a lot of things but there is a difference between culture of your own ethnic group to culture of your nation. I'm assuming you're a born and raised American and and I would say that you're going to fit in better within an American context rather than a non-American context. Why? It's because you're from the US. While there will always be nuances as you described with the White guy, Chinese guy and Black guy, the one thing you have in common is that you're culturally American despite coming from different ethnic and ancestral cultural backgrounds. As soon as you said you said that the Indian guy was an international student, it was clear. The cultural similarities Indians and Southeast Asians share is one thing that you said you both connected to but you also said your cultures were very different and I think it's safe to say that he would have come from a more traditional Indian background (as represented in India) and that your cultural background of being an American of Southeast Asian heritage was what made it also feel so different. "Race", ethnicity, genetics is one thing but I believe culture is what is going to play the biggest role. There are cases of cross cultural mixing in multiracial nations like Singapore and Malaysia where people of ethnic Indian descent have been raised in Chinese culture and thus are culturally Chinese and vice versa Chinese people raised in Indian culture who are culturally Indian. If we take it a step further there are cases of Indians from India in Singapore who are seen as so culturally different to the local Singaporean Indians despite both groups being ethnically Indian. So I think culture plays a big role, aka the environment you grew up in.
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  583.  @saksham2525  I'm not from Bangladesh and they're doing well for themselves, so no I don't see them as a joke
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  584.  @saksham2525  Why do you always engage in whataboutism? Is that the topic of discussion? No. Anyway, you speak as if India is not doing the exact same things. 💀Have you never heard of the saying, "people in glass houses should not throw stones"?
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  585.  @achuthmohan8252  It's really just US, Canada and Europe that are responsible. The West also includes Australia and New Zealand and both countries are not involved.
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  586.  @harsh_adukia  Why do North Indians hate Rohingyas so much? So many North Indians seem to discriminate everybody, whether it's non-Indians (Rohingyas, Nepalese, even Westerners) or their own citizens (South Indians, Northeast Indians, Bengalis etc.).
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  587. 1. "Asian" means "East Asian" in colloquial US English but that's definitely not how it's used elsewhere in the world. 2. India had a huge impact culturally on the rest of Asia. Hu Shih famously spoke about the cultural influence on China and most of South and Southeast Asia is part of the Indian Cultural Sphere. So I don't know why you think India is culturally detached from the rest of Asia when it's one of the main ancient cultural powers in the region alongside China. The root of the dominant East, South and Southeast Asian cultures traces back to India and China. 3. South Asian women (specifically Tamil and Ceylonese/Sri Lankan women) have been stereotyped as submissive throughout history. Saint Jack (1970s film) focused on the ethnic stereotypes that existed for Singaporean (Chinese, Malay and Tamil) women as well as other Asian women (specifically Ceylonese) during the era of R&R in Singapore at the time of the Vietnam War. There is a prominent scene in the film where the main character describes the different tastes Western men (German, British, American, Australian) have for Asian women and he said that the Germans came to Singapore for the Tamils and the Australians for the Chinese. Also, there was an old era Indian actress that used to be described as a dragon lady. Focus has often been placed on the stereotypes of East Asian women but these stereotypes also exist for other Asian women too. The thing is most South Asians outside of Asia are of North Indian origin and thus are not within this discussion due to their culture of not marrying non-Indians. So people mistakenly think that this has nothing to do with South Asians because they aren't aware of the stereotypes that have been placed on the women that originate from the southern parts of South Asia (who are culturally, ethnically and physically different to those from the north).
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  588.  @curiositycloset2359  Those immigrants are high quality people, ppl always having to say something racist. We can never speak about the issues of women without a MAN bringing up the issue of race or something.
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  589.  @Joseph6798-t6p  They're talking about Tamil-Korean similarities. Tamil people are a minority group in India. Also, some of these Indian cultural influences are broadly shared across Asia such as Buddhism and various Eastern philosophical concepts, so it's pan-Asian. I think that is what they are talking about.
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  590.  @Laura-Yu  Firstly, I'm not Indian. Secondly, I'm merely stating facts. It's not my problem Laura that you're uninformed about the rest of Asia and think other Asian countries are a world apart from countries in East Asia. If you actually were aware of the rest of Asia you wouldn't be saying "I'm reaching". I swear you will do anything to stick within a bubble and remain ignorant. It's NOT like saying they have rice dishes so they're similar. This just goes to show how ignorant you are. Instead of living in Kdrama/Kpop land step out of that bubble and educate yourself. I'm talking about specifically pan-Asian things like the Hungry Ghost Festival which is celebrated as Baekjung in Korea and Pitru Paksha in India and Pchum Ben in Cambodia. This is what I'm talking about!
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  591.  @Laura-Yu  You Kdrama/Kpop obsessed people living in the US and not knowing anything about Asia, be quiet and stay in your lane. It's not my problem you know nothing about different Asian cultures because you're a Korean AMERICAN. 💀
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  592.  @omega-nf5ku  Someone called James Hetfield explaining who is an "Asian" and who is a "fake Asian" whilst not knowing anything about Asia. Let me laugh.
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  593.  @Laura-Yu  This is why Americans (including East Asian Americans) are ridiculed in Asia because none of you actually know anything about Asia and instead will scream about "Asian representation" depicting films in Asian countries like Singapore with not a single actual Singaporean in the film (just East Asian Americans). No wonder Crazy Rich Asians flopped so hard everywhere in Asia and severely criticised in Singapore, Malaysia and rest of SEA. It tanked in the largest film market too (China). Im sure you're screaming about EAST Asian representation because Squid Game is popular when Squid Game is an allegory of modern Korean society and also representative of situations with other Asian countries and has nothing to do with your trivial privileged representation woes. Look how you randomly described "India is part of Asia too" as BS. If you actually knew Asia then you wouldn't be calling it BS when India and China are the two parents of Eastern civilisation, all high culture in different Asian cultures traces back to these two countries. You're a Korean AMERICAN, you're so far removed from reality. You visit Asia, you will be treated like an American. Stop getting upset over something that doesn't even concern you and step out of that nauseating Kpop/Kdrama/anime/manga fetish East Asian American bubble. 🤢
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  594.  @ej4458  Are you from Sri Lanka?
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  595. Putin once said that in the future that the Russian Far East may end up speaking Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
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  596.  @jianyang6281  Do you not know anything about the Burmese military's relationship with China? China is the closest ally of the Burmese military. Concern from the Burmese people is valid considering the long history between the CCP and the Burmese military.
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  597. In what universe are Indians more Middle Eastern??? India culturally influenced other parts of South and Southeast Asia. Try learning about Asia. Also, most of the Middle East is in Asia.
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  598. The 54 countries that Bhutan has diplomatic relations with.
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  599.  @millag2183  Humans are humans, just because one is a Buddhist does not mean they'll encompass its teachings. Also, people are saying the perpetrator may have been a Christian and may have even been from a different ethnic group to the victims (based on the name of the perpetrator, which is not of Sinhalese origin). The reality is that humans will be humans and they feel hate, pain and have the ability to destroy. This was simply another senseless crime.
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  600. Another troll detected. Imagine how tired we are.
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  601.  @chiefpotleaf2338  Sources: 1. The Formation of Human Populations in South and Central Asia - 2019 2. Ancestry-Specific Analyses Reveal Differential Demographic Histories and Opposite Selective Pressures in Modern South Asian Populations - 2019 3. A genetic history of migration, diversification, and admixture in Asia Melinda A. Yang - 2022 4. The Role of Recent Admixture in Forming the Contemporary West Eurasian Genomic Landscape - 2015 5. Genomic structure in Europeans dating back at least 36,200 years - 2014 6. Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans - 2018
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  602.  @k.k.c8670  Sources: 1. The evolutionary history of human populations in Europe, Iosif Lazaridis - 2018 2. The Role of Recent Admixture in Forming the Contemporary West Eurasian Genomic Landscape - 2015 3. Genomic structure in Europeans dating back at least 36,200 years - 2014 4. Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans - 2018
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  603.  @chiefpotleaf2338  Sources: 1. The evolutionary history of human populations in Europe, Iosif Lazaridis - 2018 2. The Role of Recent Admixture in Forming the Contemporary West Eurasian Genomic Landscape - 2015 3. Genomic structure in Europeans dating back at least 36,200 years - 2014 4. Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans - 2018
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  604.  @Incognito-co  Only an Indian man will say such things.
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  605. Singapore can attract immigrants but its cultural identity will change over time.
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  606.  @carrad123456  Growth means nothing if Uttar Pradesh still looks like it's stuck in the 1940s. Why is there so much rubbish around India's iconic landmark, the Taj Mahal? It's actually putting people off from travelling there and that's not a good thing.
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  607.  @Monblusm-qz4wm  What are you talking about? The Tatmadaw attacked them and stripped them off citizenship in the 1970s. This has NOTHING to do with religion.
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  608.  @Si_nengatcha  "Muslim solidarity" until it actually comes to doing something about it. This is why all of these Southeast Asian Muslim countries (Indonesia) and Bangladesh should've been Hindu-Buddhist-animist, then this would not be an issue at all. Always that one religion causing all of the problems.
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  609.  @TheDarkLord715RS  At the end of the day, the religion is what caused this problem and you can't deny that
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  610.  @solidus_reaver4381  The world would be a better place if they learned to keep their noses to themselves.
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  611. Well it's not far fetched to see people say that when one understands the region this occurred in and its geopolitics, I mean most of the passengers were Chinese nationals and the early 2010s were the start of what would become a fierce competition between the US and China. In the early days of the plane's disappearance, Malaysia was criticised for not providing enough information to the world. I remember at the time, some Maldivians said they saw a plane with the Malaysia Airlines logo flying low above their nation. What came of that? There is a conspiracy theory that the plane landed in the British Indian Ocean Territory, a colonised territory located to the south of the Maldives of which the native inhabitants were expelled by the UK and US in order to create a US military base decades ago. If that theory is indeed true, then it would make sense why nobody knows the whereabouts of MH370 because nobody is actually allowed to enter the islands except certain military personnel and contracted personnel with the US defence forces. The UN court in Hague declared the UK's control over the territory to be illegal but nothing has changed. Nobody actually knows what's going inside that territory because media and cameras are not allowed there either. It's a very secretive military base, a territory shrouded in mystery. So I'm not surprised people say "government cover up".
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  612. Satun?? Since when?? Satun has never had an issue with the government of Thailand
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  613.  @davidbeach5563  Why is an American pointing fingers as if the US hasn't done a bad thing before?
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  614. It's because China shares close economic ties to Myanmar and also because it's a neighbour. Generally, neighbouring nations will express some type of solidarity to a nation in strife and offer some type of support. However, Myanmar's neighbours like China, India, Thailand and the rest of Southeast Asia have been silent and haven't actually offered much, if any, support. This is because Asian countries have a policy of non-interference dating back to the end of WWII in which they proclaimed to be non-aligned nations.
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  615.  @sasukespride8922  The reason why China and India have such big populations is because people didn't leave en masse in the way Europeans did during the era of colonisation. The lands of China and India were fertile and were able to maintain a human civilisation that did not face collapse, so their populations grew. European countries were also able to maintain this and their populations grew but when European nations began exploring and colonising other parts of the world it provided more land for Europeans to settle on. This allowed for the dispersal of European people who continued to have children and create new generations in the new lands they lived on (especially the lands of North and South America, Australia and New Zealand).
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  616. Maybe this time around, India will actually start developing properly as Modi will hopefully learn that alienating minorities and claiming the Hindi-speaking North Indian BIMARU population are victims is not what most people in India want. India, you might finally be able to show the world you are on the right path through visual evidence instead of stats. Good luck!
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  617.  @sunnysky11-e4q  I'm not from India but every single tourist that ends up in India always ends up in overcrowded places with dusty streets and poor infrastructure. It hasn't changed one bit because 1% of India's population controls 80% of the country's wealth.
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  618.  @thebeastincarnate5736  There is a 2022 genetic study in Thailand about Indian genetic influence in Southeast Asia and it revealed that Indianised Southeast Asian groups (e.g. Mon, Khmer, Kuy, Nyahkur, Burmese, Thai, Cham, Ede, Giarai and Malay) all have substantial degrees of South Asian genetic admixture. Only the isolated groups like the Hmong have none as they did not fall under Indianisation. Indian genetic heritage in Southeast Asian populations - Piya Changmai et al. 2022
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  619.  @ho-leesheet5923  They lifted the ban after farmers protested
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  620. This literally has nothing to do with looks. You must be a Westerner and not Asian to be saying this. There are Rohingyas that look more like Southeast Asians, have a look at democracy activist Wai Wai Nu, she is Rohingya but looks more like typical Bamar.
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  621. Yet genetically speaking, Indians are "mixed race". The first inhabitants of India were an East Eurasian people who are genetically closer to East Asians known as the AASI. Adivasi people in India are comparatively closer to East Asians than most other Indians as they carry the most amount of indigenous South Asian (East Eurasian) ancestry. Most other Indians, on the other hand, carry higher levels of West Eurasian ancestry. So in conclusion, Indians are a separate race. They can't be placed into "Caucasoid", "Mongoloid" etc.
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  622. They don't look Chinese, they look similar to Burmese people but are very racist towards Burmese people. They have Indian names. They are INdians.
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  623. @ Definitely a Westerner
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  624.  @conradchong2155  "India" wasn't even a thing until the British arrived, they were separate kingdoms and then they became three separate nations in 1947.
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  625. It would have worked if the government didn't ban artificial fertilisers overnight. The government did it in one go and didn't import any of the necessary ingredients to produce organic fertilisers in the country so that's why it broke down.
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  626. True but Boddhisatvas are also popular in the Theravada countries which all practiced Mahayana before. Popularity of Avalokitesvara, in both male and female forms, happens to transcend all schools of Buddhism as their depiction is seen across Asia.
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  627.  @docken11  There are actually no reasons. I live in Australia. It's important that we work with the nations in our region than get angry with them because a nation on the other side of the world can't stand one country rising.
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  628. What you put out into the universe, you get in return. I feel sorry for whoever is part of your life.
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  629.  @MhN-d5j  Her parents did cause they could see that India could not offer them the life that a highly intelligent couple requires to produce a straight A student that Usha Vance was during school.
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  630. There will be more cultural friction which has reared its head in recent times. There is aversion towards other Asians in nationalist sections of the nation. Singaporeans are ethnically diverse (Chinese, Malay, Indian, Eurasian etc.) but that common cultural identity has resulted in us vs them mentality.
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  631.  @Ryan-hk8bx  Her country is somewhere in Europe and so is yours.
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  632.  @Ryan-hk8bx  They looked like Inuits
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  633.  L  I'm talking about Su has.
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  634.  L  I'm from Australia :)
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  635.  @johnnysack3673  It really hasn't. The US has always supported Pakistan over India. When India faced its deadliest terror attack in Mumbai in 2008 and the terrorists were revealed to be from Pakistan, the US continued to maintain its close relationship with Pakistan. Then in 2011, when it was revealed that Pakistan had been hiding Bin Laden, the US continued to maintain its close relationship with Pakistan. The US seems to always be on the wrong side in South Asia. The most shocking of their actions is that they encouraged and supported Pakistan's genocide of Bangladeshis in 1971 and President Nixon infamously made some pretty racist remarks about Bangladeshis and wanted Americans to refrain from paying attention to events in Asia, due to the ongoing genocide.
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  636. Uh did you hear what they said? They said it was good for Sri Lanka to host matches because it helps the people because people spend money on things and they can escape from reality for a while.
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  637.  @death_parade  People hear about it all the time because it happens there all the time and there is never any justice for women. It's the culture there that allows this to happen. Female infants, girls and women have all faced that. Look at what happened to that 3 month old baby in Uttar Pradesh. Based on your comment, I am 100% sure you're an Indian male.
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  638. Hi Megan, I like how you report on heinous crimes with no bias, just providing facts to inform your viewers. Thank you for creating "Dark Asia with Megan" and sharing these stories from around Asia with us. 🙏
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  639.  @mefisto05s.20  Brazil is a newly industralised country, they always had the opportunities to progress to high income status but they didn't. Their social indicators are still good and better than India.
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  640. This literally has nothing to do with religion and there are other countries with Hindus that don't suffer from poverty. Most people in Sri Lanka are Buddhists. The ignorance...
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  641.  @robertconklin3850  Where are those companies going to go? Those American companies will never go to the US cause nobody in the US is going to want to work for peanuts.
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  642. No, absolutely not. Nepal and Sri Lanka have their own cultures.
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  643. That was almost 7 years ago. It's over. Move on.
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  644.  @ThePhiphler  You speak as if no country owes debt. Take a look at the US and see how much debt they owe.
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  645. Indian women deserve their own nation.
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  646.  @Peizxcv  To be fair, Assamese is an Indo-Aryan language that is natively spoken in Assam. Indo-Aryan shouldn't be correlated to culture or anything, it's just a language family. However, the entirety of Northeast India which was known as Assam was its own separate entity.
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  647.  @robertconklin3850  That was a threat, nobody is going to accept threats. This will happen sooner rather than later now
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  648.  @tourvanvan2145  Lockdowns did work and that's why Asia-Pacific countries ranging from Sri Lanka to Australia to China were successful in controlling the spread of COVID-19 during 2020 and 2021. Most of Asia-Pacific was able to control COVID-19 through lockdowns. Countries began to falter when more virulent strains began to emerge such as Alpha, Delta and Omicron. China's current lockdown is not working because of the nature of Omicron and because people have grown tired of continuous lockdowns. At a point in time, lockdowns did work.
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  649.  @dekuwar4436  No, you should see what's happening over there. There is a remarkable amount of unity among the different ethnic groups and religions. Last week, Buddhist monks and Christian nuns sat down with Muslims to have iftar. A similar thing has happened in Myanmar too since the coup. There is growing unity. In times of crisis, people often come together.
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  650. There is nothing to justify the emergence of the Tamil Tigers. There are minority groups that faced destruction like Rohingyas of Myanmar as well as Lhotshampa of Bhutan and the ethnic Chinese of Southeast Asia and yet none of these groups turned to violent extremism.
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  651.  @mysteryuntold9531  They targeted Sinhalese civilians with their suicide attacks. Horrible people and then have the nerve to claim victimhood.
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  652.  @rob-6940  The Tatmadaw is to blame, racist.
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  653.  @comparatio9148  Compare that to Indonesians who force everybody to believe in a "god" and the Acehnese, in particular, who practice Sharia law and are extremely strict and discriminatory against those that don't subscribe to their beliefs. The whole world knows what happened in Bali in 2002. That religion is the problem!
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  654.  @anthonychan3336  How can they go back when the Tatmadaw has a bounty on their head? They were stripped off their citizenship and have no official rights in the country. Chin and Karen are still recognised as ethnic groups of Myanmar and have rights even though they face persecution. Make sure you actually know what's going on before speaking.
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  655.  thezoldics7648  Rohingyas are native to Myanmar. ohingyas sided with the British during the Japanese invasion of Myanmar and other Burmese people saw them as traitors. This is why the Tatmadaw stripped Rohingyas off their citizenship in the 1970s. Before that, there were Rohingya politicians in the Burmese government. General Min Aung Hlaing literally said that the genocide in 2017 was "unfinished business from World War 2".
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  656.  @Izeliii  Trump supporters till don't see what the issue is
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  657. Yes they are Asians. India is in Asia. Hello?? You coming here to an actual channel from an Asian country aimed at Asian viewers and inserting your American idea of "Asian" onto the people of Asia simply because you have been influenced by American society's obsession with classifying people based on race/physical appearance. Such a silly thing to do.
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  658.  @srikandisuryavarman222  Okay and how does that change anything?? They still identify as Thai and view themselves as Thai.
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  659. Lonely men who spend their time spreading vitriol on the internet, writing manifestos about their woes and conjuring up violent attacks? Yes, they most definitely are.
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  660. Actually that isn't likely to happen. A survey in Southeast Asia released this month revealed that most Southeast Asians prefer to keep trading with China even if it invades Taiwan. I'm sure this will be the case for the rest of Asia. Asian countries refuse to pick sides and focus on themselves. This is why in 2019 during the Hong Kong protests when China issued the Hong Kong National Security Law at the UN, most Asian countries supported China or they abstained (including India). Most countries that opposed the law were Western countries. Only 1 Asian country opposed it and that was Japan (a country that has a long history of wanting to be associated with the West). Back in 2017, when a bill to condemn the Rohingya genocide was issued at the UN, most Asian countries abstained with mostly Western and Muslim-majority nations supporting the bill. The mentality of neutrality, not judging and keeping your head down is very strong in the Asian region and it's not easy to change.
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  661.  @TingTong2568  Someone doesn't just block someone for such a petty reason. There is clearly more to this story and you both were not friends either. The term "atheistic" is incorrect and I think people are simply conflating the fact that Buddhists don't worship deities to gain things with the idea of atheism, that includes people with Asian origins who don't know enough about Buddhism. The Buddha said that worshipping gods will not help achieve liberation and is only a symptom of dukka (suffering). Gods are not a central idea to basic Buddhism. I think this is what confuses people to conflate this with atheism.
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  662.  @AyanAli-py7ci  Okay and??
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  663.  @Judah_889  India comprises 14.7% of all of Maldives' imports while China constitutes 14%. The difference between them is 0.7%. You speak as if India controls the Maldives. It doesn't. They'll be fine if India boycotts them entirely. Maybe India will understand that every country has their own right to decide what they want. The idea that any country owes India anything is wrong.
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  664.  @syarifairlangga4608  Did you watch the video, Syarif?? South Asia is not overpopulated. India has below replacement level fertility and most of its states have well below replacement level fertility. Bangladesh has a fertility rate of 1.95, Sri Lanka has a fertility rate of 1.97 (+ rapidly aging population and will peak in population in 12 years), Bhutan has a fertility rate of 1.4, Maldives has a fertility rate of 1.6 and Nepal has a fertility rate of 2.01. Only Pakistan has an above replacement fertility rate. Keep up it's 2025.
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  665. Stop. Southeast Asia is a peaceful area that mixed Indian and Chinese influences. As a Thai girl on Quora put it, "what are other part of the world are you going to see Indian-looking people eating noodles with chopsticks and Chinese-looking people eating rice with right hand?" Nowhere but Southeast Asia.
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  666.  @RextheRebel  The term "subcontinent" was coined by the British to describe the the ethnic diversity of British India after they united the area. Americans try learning about Asia challenge impossible. Persistent lie???? Lol learn to read a map.
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  667. @Ga Rav Exactly, Sri Lanka can change if it wanted to but its government is too busy being racist and bigoted towards minorities.
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  668. Baluchis need to accept that they are part of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan instead of fighting to create a new nation that will become another failed state. Give the world a break please.
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  669.  @swarnavabanerjee4112  Always blaming the Bangladeshis but never the actual INDIAN men that are responsible.
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  670.  @haameisanaei6481  No, it's their prerogative. Nobody is telling you to feel the same way though. Calm down. 💀
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  671.  @shikharsrivastava3558  55%, 52% and 51% and you're celebrating??? Half of the people in these countries don't even view it positively ijbol
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  672.  @KaitoverMoon  North Korea's fertility rate is declining too. Kim Jong Un said it's a woman's patriotic duty to have children as a way to get North Korean women to have kids.
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  673.  @jayseaandfriends  Who is asking for an apology from the NZ government??? Stop putting words into people's mouths. 💀 If you're talking about the OP, they literally asked why the NZ government didn't describe the attacker as an Islamic terrorist, which is what he was. How is that not clear to you??? Some people on the internet are so...
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  674.  @SKB394  It wasn't related to Hinduism, it was due to culture. There are Lhotshampa Buddhists too.
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  675.  @andikafernandoputra128  Very different. Muslims love to speak about Muslim solidarity but when it actually comes to doing something, they don't do anything.
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  676.  @top10greatestspeeches94  Firstly, he's an American. Secondly, he's of Bangladeshi descent. What has any of this got to do with India???
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  677.  @tech4edu951  He's not Indian, not even ethnic Indian!
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  678.  @MegaLeoben  Typical of an Indian person to claim that Sri Lanka is the same as India and that Sri Lanka must only obey India. They say China is a threat to Asia, they need to look at India.
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  679. ​ @santhoshv3028  Indian is a nationality, not an ethnicity. Sri Lankans aren't Indians. Sri Lanka is also not an Indian civilisation. These Indian men are coping hard lol.
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  680.  @Jambudvipa-ug6yg  Some West Eurasian-derived Indian is not going to be telling REAL native South Asians (who carry East Eurasian ancestry) whether they're Asians or not lmao
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  681.  @kookoo9235  It's literally right wing populism though. The Rohingya genocide and other forms of violence towards ethnic minorities in Myanmar is the result of Bamar nationalism that supports the traditional idea of Bamar hegemony over Myanmar and this idea that Bamar identity must be protected. Bamar nationalism shares ties with other right wing nationalist movements in Asia like in Sri Lanka and Thailand. They also believe Asian Buddhists face an existential crisis because the fertility rates of Buddhist women across Asia are very low (particularly in Japan, South Korea, China, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Vietnam) and data shows that Buddhists will be the only major religious group to not grow in absolute numbers over the next couple of decades. Their anger is directed towards Islam because Muslim women have a much higher fertility rate and historically speaking, large parts of South and Southeast Asia that were once followers of Buddhism are now Muslim-majority, coupled with the way Islam was introduced into South Asia, it's generated anger among right wing nationalists in different parts of the region. Their ethnic and cultural identity is tied with Buddhism. Buddhism is a part of their cultural heritage, they may not even understand the basic teachings of the Buddha but still identify as "Buddhist". So when they see their low fertility rates, they fear that they will go extinct. Their anger and violence comes from a place of ethnonationalism and the desire to maintain control. It all stems from right wing beliefs that contrast with the Bamar Buddhists who want to make Myanmar a country for all Burmese people, not just Bamar.
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  682.  @techsa2675  Don't care + caste is a terrible thing. High caste people keep it in place which is why Dalits suffer and can't move up in society.
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  683. A failed state is now trying to wreck havoc in its neighbour like it hasn't caused enough damage. We stand with Guyana.
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  684. She pronounced it correctly according to her accent.
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  685.  @hohoho6338  I'm so happy to hear that. I hope 99% of them are rejected.
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  686. Why do Western people care so much about this? Japan isn't even your country. Asia knows how to manage things, so stop worrying.
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  687.  @paolamaria1992  Most Asians in the world live in Asia, it has a population of 4 billion. What on earth are you talking about??? Most Asians don't live in Asia?? What on earth are you saying?? Get educated! What is your obsession with Pakistan and Sri Lanka and since when do they equal the whole of Asia???? Understand the fact that Christianity has NOTHING to do with development.
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  688.  @paolamaria1992  Civilisations rise and fall. It happens to every civilisation, understand this. Asia's civilisations were once at their peak but declined but now they're once again rising which is why we call it the Asian Century. Why would a German, Dutch or Italian need to go to Pakistan or Sri Lanka?
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  689. You feel more connection to Central Asians? Is this culture or appearance? You mention the Silk Road but I don't see how that's comparable to Indian influence. Hinduism is popular in Bali in Indonesia and actually Hindu mythology has had a big impact outside of South Asia in Southeast Asia, where it exists as cultural influence. Most of South and Southeast Asia is part of the Indian Cultural Sphere. You mention Nepal, do you feel anything for Nepalis or is it the same as your feelings for India? I think it's fair to point out that Ronnie's comments were jokes. Ronnie is a Malaysian and in Malaysia there are four main groups: Malays, Chinese, Indians and Orang Asli and thus is known as "Malaysia Truly Asia" and "mini Asia". Most people in Malaysia don't look like Ronnie and all of Malaysia's prime ministers have been Malay (none of whom look Chinese, like Ronnie - a Malaysian Chinese). He's making a mockery of the Western idea that "Asian" is a race (meaning East Asian in the US and South Asian in the UK).
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  690.  @mootssss  I've never met someone from the Maldives in real life but I've noticed they are absolutely beautiful people online. Very reserved and nice mannered people like many Filipinos and some other nationalities. One day, I will visit your country, including Malé. I hope your country continues to get richer and that more ways of dealing with rising sea levels will be found to protect your country.
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  691. 1. Sri Lanka is a Buddhist majority country 2. Burqa is not part of Sri Lankan Muslim culture. Muslim women used to wear saris and men wore sarongs. Burqa is Arab Muslim, not South Asian Muslim culture.
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  692. Lmao I thought you were me for a second and I was like I didn't post that comment 😂
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  693.  @MarcSebastian-pi5he  Singapore was dirt poor. It was not rich. It built itself up on its own.
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  694. Indians are Asians. The "Chinese guy" on The Daily Show was mocking people like you lmfaoo. He's Malaysian Chinese, of course he knows that Indians are Asians, Malaysian Indians are one of the main ethnic groups of Malaysia. He was mocking Americans who think Asians are only people who are East Asian by contrasting it to how British think Asians are only South Asians (e.g. Indians). He literally inferred this at the beginning of the skit. The fact that you didn't understand his skit shows just how American you are. 😂
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  695. Vesak is actually a really old holiday, it was celebrated in China as early as 300 CE and in various other Asian countries but with different names. It's just the various celebrations that occurred across Asia during the fourth lunar month (East Asia) and second lunar month (South and Southeast Asia) were sort of unified in this recognisable pan-Buddhist holiday as a result of what happened in colonial Sri Lanka.
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  696.  @abundanceut1127  The ancestors of Sri Lankan Malays came mostly from Indonesia and were mostly of Javanese, Ambonese, Peranakan, Malay, Bandanese and Balinese descent. Ambonese were among the largest groups of Indonesians to settle in Sri Lanka. They all became known as Malays during British rule because they developed their own language called Sri Lankan Malay. The British described them all as "Malays" and a common identity among the Nusantara groups in Sri Lanka was formed.
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  697.  @propogandalf  In what universe are Native Americans "biologically Asian"?
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  698.  @daltonhauersperger3379  Yes it is "West Eurasian". Those are the terms used in the scientific community. If you understand human genetics then you'll know why geneticists use "West Eurasian" and "East Eurasian" when they refer to the basal genetic make-up of the native populations of Europe and Asia (Eurasia).
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  699.  @Dand40  No South Asians don't. India had a big impact on the rest of Asia. Indian influence permeates South and Southeast Asia and also had an impact on East Asia via the spread of Buddhism. Most of South and Southeast Asia fall within the Indian cultural sphere with Indic culture being the root of Thai, Nepali, Sri Lankan, Cambodian, Burmese, Indonesian and Lao culture among others. Certain Japanese and Chinese dieties are of Hindu origin. For example, Chinese diety Wei Tuo and Japanese diety Benzaiten are of Hindu origin. Wei Tuo is known as Murugan by Tamils in India, Sri Lanka, Singapore and Malaysia. Benzaiten is known as Saraswati in India and Nepal. There are multiple other elements of Indian influence in other South, Southeast and East Asian cultures but there is too much to list. Thing is people think that just because most South Asians look different from East Asians or Southeast Asians it means they are culturally very different, they're not.
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  700.  @ni3070  No Sri Lankan likes to be called "Indian". Sri Lankan culture and Indian culture are very different. Ethnically speaking, the dominant ethnic groups in both countries are completely different. Most Sri Lankans are also Buddhists and most Indians are Hindus.
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  701. @Nox Yes they are hurt that's why they are responding in such ways. If they weren't hurt they wouldn't even be responding or disliking the video. If they weren't hurt, they wouldn't even be here using the language that they use. Yes they are hurt, very hurt and upset.
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  702. The Burmese military who staged the coup are the people who committed the genocide against the Rohingyas, not Aung San Suu Kyi.
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  703.  @mondaysinsanity8193  The reality is that all of these beliefs are Eastern religions and the very concept of Eastern philosophy is the result of all of these religious and philosophical traditions mixing together as a result of their compatibility. None of these religions would be so widely practiced if they were not compatible with the local culture to begin with, Eastern religions are seen as "ways of life". There is no strict dogma to follow, you aren't going to hell if you worship Vishnu in the morning, bow down in front of the Buddha in the afternoon and light some incense in front of a portrait of a Tai folk god or Shinto kami in the evening. This is just the way the East is.
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  704.  @mondaysinsanity8193  I'm literally Asian, I'm speaking from an Eastern perspective. I think I know my own heritage, thank you very much. It was already compatible. It's time for you to do some reading on Asian history and religions.
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  705.  @karithema9ician657  No it's weird because there was no need to add "woman" into the sentence. It's the type of language people would use to talk down on a woman elsewhere in the world. That's why it's weird.
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  706. Let them do as they please but history will remember where countries like India and China stood when Myanmar was in crisis and the stability of Asia was threatened.
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  707. ​ @skipper2594  That's HDI but in terms of national income, the Maldives is on track to become a high income nation. It's already achieved one of the IMF requirements to graduate to high income status which is the per capita PPP threshold. Unfortunately, Sri Lanka keeps being set back because there are people who keep voting for people like the Rajapaksas + the brain drain.
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  708.  @peteck007  Everybody's ancestors came from Africa. This type of hair is not specific to African people and just because he has that hair type, it does not mean he has recent African ancestry. The only African-descended people in India are the Siddis.
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  709.  @porkysharma8423  There were Chinese and Indians that voluntarily migrated to what is now Malaysia very early on, those people created the distinct communities known as Straits Chinese, Jawi Peranakans and Chitty. Your solution is not sustainable though in my opinion. You're asking everybody to go back to where they came from but how far are we going to go back? Also, then you'll have to ask why should they go back to countries and lands that are completely alien to them? The Malaysian Chinese and Malaysian Indian communities have developed cultures that are separate to the cultures found in China and India respectively, even the languages they speak have been altered due to the fact they have been living in different lands for generations. The solution is to not to try and undo the past because that gets you nowhere (see Sri Lanka and Malaysia) but to acknowledge the past and move on. If you continue living in the past, you're not going to get anywhere.
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  710. Imagine hating an entire group of people for the actions of some. I know plenty of Indians who are clean, I would never say I hate all of them even though I believe they need to teach civic pride to their people.
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  711. Yeah people in Asia think of being "Asian" as a secondary thing, it's not an everyday thought unlike in the West where East and South Asian people are minorities.
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  712.  @emilkaLT5  Well NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, many would object for NATO getting involved in an Asian issue. China, India and Japan are the foreign keys to solving Myanmar's crisis but they don't care.
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  713. Me when I'm delulu and think people simply choose their sexuality. Tell me when did you decide to become straight?
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  714. Tamil people did not come from Myanmar lmao. You must be talking about the ancient AASI hunter-gatherers who inhabited India who share genetic affinity to the ancient Southeast Asian hunter-gatherers of mainland Southeast Asia. AASI hunter-gatherers contributed to the formation of Tamils but they did not come from Myanmar.
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  715.  @fortpark-wd9sx  Arakanese people are different to Arakanese Muslims. Arakanese people are Buddhists and they are ethnically very similar to the majority Bamar people of Myanmar. Rohingyas are Arakanese Muslims. Arakanese Buddhists (Rakhine) are absolutely not Rohingyas and nobody would ever confuse the two. As I said in my second comment, Burmese people are diverse. Rohingyas look very similar to most Bangladeshi and in a way it can be hard to tell the difference but the same can be said of other Burmese groups like Kaman and Maramagyi Buddhists, both of whom are native to Myanmar and yet look more similar to most Bangladeshis than most Burmese. I'm confused as to what you mean by "Bangladeshi features". If you think I'm confused, what do you think Rohingyas look like? Do you think they look drastically different to Bangladeshis that nobody should be able to confuse the two? Sorry, I'm trying to understand why you think this way. As I explained before, there are people in the majority Bamar community who, to foreigners, would look more similar to typical Bangladeshis than to most other Burmese like Major General Soe Naing Oo or Burmese actor, Hugo Naing. There are Rohingyas who look more similar to most other Burmese like Wai Wai Nu and there are some Bangladeshis that look closer to most Burmese. That entire region of Asia is a mix of Indo-Aryan, AASI, Tibeto-Burman and Austroasiatic groups.
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  716.  @rodrozil6544  They DON'T speak Bengali! They speak Rohingya! Use Google!
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  717. Why are you larping as an Arab? Arab people are not invested in Asia-Pacific issues because it has nothing to do with them.
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  718. Bahahahaha they never have their priorities straight. No wonder the educated Malaysian Chinese, Indians and even Malays leave Malaysia for greener pasture in Singapore and Australia.
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  719.  @silentkiller421  Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew expressed regret at what happened to Sri Lanka for decades. He spoke about how the Sinhalese nationalism disenfranchised the most educated ethnic group in the country who are the Sri Lankan Tamils and expressed anger at what Mahinda Rajapaksa had done to ruin the country's trajectory. You're trying to find a reason as to why Sri Lanka failed and link it to other South Asian countries but what's happening in mainland South Asia has nothing to do with what happened in Sri Lanka. For Sri Lanka, they were colonised and the Sinhalese felt they were disenfranchised by the colonial policies that favoured the Tamils. So they wanted to right the wrongs of the past and in that process they destroyed their country by favouring the Sinhalese over everybody else. Lee Kuan Yew was very fond of the Singaporean Sri Lankan (Ceylonese) Tamil community. One of the founding political fathers of Singapore and close friends of Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore was a Sri Lankan Tamil. Lee was very vocal about the fact that Sri Lanka's disenfranchisement of the Sri Lankan Tamils was part of the reason why the country failed. The reality is that the Sri Lankan Tamils were more educated and stereotypically speaking, in Sri Lanka, people view the Sri Lankan Tamils as more intelligent. When you look at Singapore, there has long been a history of Sri Lankan Tamils in Singaporean politics and other sectors. Lee famously spoke about how despite being a small minority in Singapore their contribution to the development of Singapore has been paramount. What Lee believed was that had Sri Lankan Tamils still had influence in the nation, the country would've been in a better place and it's true. Tamils make up almost 1/4 of the population, you can't get anywhere by alienating 21% of your nation's people.
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  720.  @kengleetan63  I can't believe this man just said Singapore is a terrible outcome. In what universe did it turn out terrible?? If any country needs to accept immigrants, the Singapore model is the most successful model. Most immigrants to Singapore come from ethnically and culturally similar countries with the vast majority coming from Malaysia.
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  721.  @rebeccamorris5668  One thing Mahathir Mohamad of Malaysia got right is that he said, "Australia will become more Asian" and there's nothing you can do about that. Understand the fact that Australia is nowhere near Europe, it's south of Asia and it's no surprise that the indigenous Australians share genetic affinity for East Asians, South Asians, Southeast Asians and Papuans/Melanesians. Most Australians care about qualities like if you're a good person and will have no issue with the ethnicity of someone but for those of you like yourself Rebecca, I find it elating that this dream of yours will never materialise.
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  722. Not even comparable. China (CCP) actually is one of the main suppliers of the Burmese military, they invest in the country and thus they have projects in the country that are of important interest to them. Also, China is a neighbour of Myanmar. Coming up with a hypothetical scenario involving Germany and Bolivia makes no sense because Bolivia isn't tied to Germany in the way Myanmar is tied to China and Germany is not a neighbour of Bolivia, it's on a whole different continent.
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  723. As real as you not being Bangladeshi or Indian 🤭
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  724. Asia as a whole is experiencing fertility decline (and aging) at an unprecedented level unlike other regions. I say this because low fertility (+ aging) are issues that usually developed nations face but in Asia, the developing nations are facing it too. There are going to be countries in Asia that will officially become "old" before they get rich. The Economist in 2023 said that Thailand, Sri Lanka and Vietnam are the top developing Asian countries that will become old before they get rich and also said that Indonesia and certain other nations in SEA face the same threat. So many gains have been made in developing Asia to improve living standards but that hasn't correlated with a rise in income. China, India and Indonesia are still developing countries and while India and Indonesia still have young populations, China doesn't. Rise in education, implementation of family planning and women's liberation have helped Asia rise but it's unfortunate to think that all of this good has happened but national income is well below developed status. In the end, the elderly and the few young people will suffer.
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  725.  @RustedRevolt  Why would they want to go there? Gulf Arab countries look down on Southeast Asians (except for Singaporeans). Also, this literally has nothing to do with Islam because at the end of the day, the form of Islam practice by Rohingyas is different to what is practiced by Arabs. I'm also pretty sure Rohingyas practice a Sufi-influenced form of Islam, which is literally "blasphemous" to Arab Muslims.
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  726. Indonesian: We have cultural differences with India Proceeds to list so many cultural traditions, words and concepts that came from India So embarrassing BAHAHAHAHAHA 😂
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  727.  @screamingseal4805  If they were part of India, they'd probably be like Lakshadweep misinterpreted because of negative stereotypes applied to the mainland and nowhere near as rich as the Maldives actually is. The Maldives is a lot, lot richer than any other South Asian country, including India, and they have an upper middle income economy with a good standard of living. Not sure why Indians believe every country joining them would solve their issues. India has bigger issues. The Maldives is fine. Let them be.
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  728.  @Judah_889  Mumbai has a nominal GDP per capita of around US$10,600 while the Maldives has a nominal GDP per capita of $16,439. The Maldives is also clean and has a good standard of living, it's an upper middle income nation. Mumbai is not clean and has poor infrastructure despite being richer in comparison to most of India. Idk why you think you're better than them. I could never be this delusional.
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  729.  @Judah_889  GDP PPP is completely DIFFERENT to GDP nominal. The Maldives' GDP PPP is US$34,000, it's still higher than Mumbai's. Do you think infrastructure equals high rise buildings? Actually, it's you that is embarrassing yourself because you're so blinded by nationalism that you can't even look at things objectively.💀 The Maldives is an UPPER MIDDLE INCOME country. I literally said that. You're mad triggered that you're literally crying tears while reading my replies which is making it hard for you to understand what I'm saying. Calm down.
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  730.  @Judah_889  I'm not from the Maldives, so how am I insecure? It's funny how you're trying to so hard to tell me that Mumbai is some sort of world class city with good infrastructure when the entirety of TikTok 24/7 is saturated with videos showing broken roads, poor infrastructure and slums. Be serious for a second. The Maldives clears the whole of India. Just accept it.
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  731.  @hunterblake5911  They're talking about GDP per capita. Sri Lanka is just one place above the Philippines as of 2022. In 2019, it was a lot higher than the Philippines when it was an upper middle income nation. That's why Sri Lanka was able to control COVID-19 and bring cases down to 0 in 2020 because at that time it still had the means to but today, with its current crisis, it is economically declining.
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  732. Caste is important in India but it has very little significance in the rest of South Asia. You are right about the part about the Tamils though. Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore recognised how gifted the Tamils were and through his government were able to nurture them. It's not surprise that Singaporean Tamils are well represented in diplomacy, law, education and politics in Singaporean society. Lee also made a similar point that you made about how the Tamils of Sri Lanka and how they should have been recognised for their abilities because they are more capable but the Sinhalese-dominated government was more interested in "righting" the wrongs of the colonial past than recognising the potential Sri Lanka had in the 1950s and 1960s.
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  733.  @kentershackle1329  Singapore will definitely not be happy. The country relies on the Strait of Malacca for its shipping trade and is a country with no natural resources. It would be disastrous for the nation.
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  734. You are a European, you really should simply focus on European issues than to speak on Asian issues and use your ancestor's divide and conquer strategy to divide Asians up yet again. Indonesia will deal with this problem in their own way.
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  735. Stop yelling
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  736.  @Praisethesunson  It is. Kim Jong Un literally told North Korean women, it's a patriotic duty to have children due to the low fertility rate.
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  737.  @BabspzhzpKLal  Not true. Fertility rates across much of developing Asia and Latin America is below replacement level, so all of these nations will face population decline by the middle of this century. Some of them will face population decline in the next 10-15 years like Thailand and Sri Lanka. Thailand's fertility rate, in particular, has dropped the fastest in Southeast Asia and is now only second to Singapore in terms of how low it is. The Economist ran two articles about the demographic crises in Thailand, Sri Lanka and Vietnam last year, declaring that these three countries are going to get old before they get rich because fertility rates continue to drop while living standards continue to rise that people are living longer and thus the elderly populations are rapidly growing.
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  738.  @CosmosChill7649  This is about identity politics. Part of the reason why Islamophobia exists among the Hindus in India is because of how Islam was spread (through conquest) but if you look at the Hindus and Buddhists of Indonesia, they have no problems with Islam because Islam was spread peacefully to Indonesia through traders and not conquest.
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  739. They're migrant workers, meaning TEMPORARY, not immigrants
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  740.  @krishnanunnimadathil8142  No he's Ceylonese Tamil and has nothing to do with India. Singaporean Indians are completely different to Indians from India too.
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  741.  @sheevpalps3846  Right? How is this surprising? 😭
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  742.  @hejiranyc  There is no such thing called "Asian race". Idk what type of "Asian" you are speaking about when you say "Asian race" but I'm assuming you are talking about East Asians since this is an American video. Well the fact that is Asian is just a demonym, if you want to be specific about the type of people in the region you can say "East Asian" for example because not everybody in Asia is the same "race". Also, people must stop bringing up Russians as a point. White Slavic Russians are not Asians, they are not native to anywhere in Asia. The native people of Siberia (Asian Russia) are ethnically and culturally related to East and Central Asians. White Slavic Russians colonised Siberia.
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  743.  @sendakan666  Well I still find it hard to understand how a federal system could work in Sri Lanka if we're focusing purely on ethnicity. Sri Lanka's provinces aren't divided along ethnic lines unlike in India because the country is completely mixed. Sri Lanka's ethnic demography resembles a place like peninsula Malaysia than a country like India. There are Tamils found across Sri Lanka. If it's about equal representation for all Tamils then how would the Tamils of the south, in the Sinhalese-majority areas, be represented? I am aware that the Tamils of the north and east are the ones who have grievances they want addressed and the Tamils of the south have lived a better life in comparison but if everybody is to be treated equally, I would assume all Sri Lankan Tamils (whether in north or south) be represented at a federal level in unity. I'm interested to know your views.
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  744. I've watched vlogs and TikTok videos of people in 7-Eleven stores in South Korea, India, Philippines and Thailand and they always have chairs and tables to sit and eat food that you buy and even cook/heat up the food for you like if you order rice or pizza.
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  745.  @SurajSingh-xo4gi  What does that have to do with what I said? 😐
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  746.  @SurajSingh-xo4gi  No, only some are and that includes your one. Our military may not be as strong as India or China or US but at least we are a highly developed and advanced nation with some of the highest living standards in the world, more than the living standards in India, China and the US. So we don't feel the need to take over other countries to boost our ego unlike some people in some countries.
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  747.  @sportsunplugged009  Bangladesh is SOUTH ASIA... period
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  748.  @sportsunplugged009  Is that way of saying you don't know what to say?
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  749. The map in your profile picture is why these things are happening.
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  750. Nah, what India needs to do is enhance its connections with its South Asian and Southeast Asian neighbours whilst also working with China in these countries.
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  751.  @rahulr1973  Wishing India all the best. I hope India continues to work with China and that it will rectify the issues that affect the nation so that it can become another high income nation in Asia.
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  752.  @Laura-Yu  1. India being part of Asia is not BS 💀 2. That user wasn't even talking about India, they were talking about other East Asians like Japanese 3. Just stay in your lane and stop talking about things to do with Asia. You live in the US, so stay in your lane.
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  753. Going from caste to another rigid form of religion where your life is controlled intently by a "god" is not what these people want. They just want to be free. Islam wasn't going to give them that.
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  754.  @RisingSun-123  Yapping? You sound triggered
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  755. @ OP said that neither Hinduism nor Islam improved their lives, you asked why and I gave you an answer. What you should have done was move on but instead you continued to question me instead of just accepting the fact that even though Islam doesn't have a caste system, Islam is just as controlling.
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  756. @ Me pointing out that neither Hinduism nor Islam freed them from control doesn't mean I dislike it and yeah you are one because you keep hounding me. If you weren't, you wouldn't care so much.
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  757.  @SalmanWong  Animism, Hinduism and Buddhism. Rajahnate of Butuan, for example, was a Hindu-majority kingdom in Mindanao, southern Philippines.
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  758.  光宗耀祖啊  Sorry but you are talking about South and Southeast Asian cultures by googling and looking at images without actually understanding the history of the two regions. Anybody who is aware of Southeast Asian history will know that the Indians culturally influenced Southeast Asia (except for Vietnam) and that muay thai, lethwei, muay chaiya, pradal serey and so on are related to musti-yuddha which is from India. It feels weird having to explain this because literally everybody knows this. I've done more research since and there are claims that silat was influenced by both Indian and Chinese martial arts traditions.
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  759.  @Judah_889  Firstly, the Indian government not being able to control its own people shows that it doesn't have control over the entire country because it gives priority to the local people (who likely don't even identify as Indian) instead of overriding those people's opinions and fortifying the border to protect its nation. At this rate those tribal people are basically running their own de facto nation if they have complete control over the border. Secondly, what has Meghalaya got to do with this? Meghalaya doesn't even border Myanmar and the majority of people in Meghalaya are Austroasiatic-speaking people (mostly Khasi). Kuki-Chin people are completely different and are not related to people in Meghalaya whether Khasi, Garo or Jaintia. Just because Meghalaya is in Northeast India does not mean it's affected by what's happening in Myanmar. Northeast India is not all the same. It's giving racist ngl.
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  760. It was never part of India so it never achieved independence from India.
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  761.  @AdanSolas  Nobody is missing your point. You literally said that Cambodia and Thailand are more similar to South Korea than to India. How about stop inserting yourself into Asian's peoples business and leave us alone. Haven't you people done enough damage to our part of the world? This behaviour, this constant attempt at saying Asia is different and needs to be divided up is why China continues to speak up and launch pan-Asian security dialogues and repeat words like "Asia for Asians". Just a few months ago another Chinese politician encouraged Asian nations against non-Asian hegemony. Keep doing what you're doing, there are already reports out of pan-Asian Singapore (where people are Chinese, Malay and Indian) that there are people who have been radicalised by China's pro-Asian and anti-Western rhetoric.
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  762.  @AdanSolas  Cambodia and Thailand were culturally influenced by India. They are NOT similar to South Korea. The customs, the beliefs, the religion, the etiquette, the architecture, music, literature, mythology and so on are all similar to India, not East Asia. There are native people in Thailand and Cambodia that look more like Indians too like Miss Universe Thailand contestant Alisa Arunahiran. You're talking so much about Asia and yet you literally said Cambodia, Thailand are more similar to South Korea. I'm going to call it racism atp because only a racist will group East and Southeast Asians together and say they're all the same.
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  763.  @StrawberryMilkkTeaa  It's always Americans saying these sorts of things. How silly, lol. South Asians call themselves Asians because they are in Asia and it also so happens to be that South Asia is culturally very closely related to Southeast Asia, which is also located in Asia. Do you think when the Japanese invaded India to make it part of their Greater East Asia empire, they were thinking of some future thing called "Kpop"? Don't be asinine. East Asiaboos and East Asian Americans need to be educated ASAP.
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  764.  @StrawberryMilkkTeaa  Thinking South Asians calling themselves "Asians" means they want to be associated with East Asians is crazy. This just proves you associate "Asian" with "East Asian" and lack the ability to understand the term in different contexts.
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  765.  ༼ཆ༽  Singapore's ethnic demographics are 75.9% Chinese, 15% Malays, 7.5% Indians (mostly Tamils) and 1.6% others (mainly Eurasians). The percentage demographics won't change. Singapore uses the CMIO (Chinese-Malay-Indian-Other) model and this is in order to maintain Singapore's ethnic harmony. Extremely low fertility rates among the Chinese (0.94), Malays (1.83) and Indians (0.97) means the Singaporean government brings in migrants from certain other Asian countries to maintain the percentage demographics.
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  766.  @NoobGamer-ki9pz  Well yes being neutral is maintaining relations with all parties instead of picking sides and putting all of your eggs in one basket. Instead you put your eggs in all baskets.
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  767. Stop comparing! People died. Have some respect and stop with this Muslim vs Hindu BS
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  768.  @chiefpotleaf2338  Y-DNA and mtDNA only form a small portion of human DNA. Political purposes? No. This has nothing to do with politics. Y-DNA is absolutely not the most important aspect here. Y-DNA is only found in males and you're telling me it's the most important? A female can't take a Y-DNA test. Europeans are NOT Aryan. Aryan is a term that means "noble" and was never used by Europeans so Europeans should not be claiming something that has literally nothing to do with them. Indo-European is a language family. No, Indo-European speakers did not invade India. Gosh, even after the landmark and largest genetic study conducted on South Asia has been published you still have people thinking it was an invasion. South Asia was settled by so many different groups that mixed together. Dravidians aren't even a race, it's a language family. You need to learn about West Eurasian and East Eurasian DNA.
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  769.  @chiefpotleaf2338  Europeans and Middle Easterners are of the same genetic stock, they are both basal West Eurasian populations. This obsession with wanting to associate with India has got to end when the genetic cousins of Europeans are the Middle Easterners both genetically and culturally. This is why Europeans all carry trace ancestry from the Middle East. They are both basal West Eurasian populations.
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  770.  @chiefpotleaf2338  Europeans are the descendants of three broad lineages: West European hunter-gatherers, Early European Farmers and Ancient North Eurasians. The Ancient North Eurasians are associated with the Bell Beaker culture and the expansion of Indo-European languages (Corded Ware culture), which occurred during the Bronze Age.
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  771. ​ @africanqueen6554  What they said is true though. If we look at many Sub-Saharan African countries, the fertility rates are high. The top 25 countries in the world with the highest fertility rates are all in Sub-Saharan Africa. Only the North African nations as well as island nations like Mauritius and Seychelles have low fertility rates.
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  772. Only Japan, South Korea and Singapore have been the most vocal about being against Russia's invasion. The rest of Asia (that includes SEA) are on the fence, not saying a word. So no, it's not just India, it's most of Asia. You can't expect them to voice their views when they have their own things to consider. They have their own relationships that they need to maintain. Not everybody is close to the West and you can't expect them to side with the West on everything. Has the West done much to help with Asian affairs? No. Vietnam War and most recently the Afghanistan War are reminders of what happens with American intervention and support. Also, let's not forget the violent racism Asian students were facing at the Ukraine-Poland border, of which one was actually killed.
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  773.  @Zohirul-Jewel  That's not helping India at all. A Japanese company invested in India's project of creating a high speed rail system, it was supposed to open last year, delayed to this year, now it's been said it will open in 2026. China, on the other hand, backed Indonesia's high speed rail project and it opened this year without any issues. I'm sorry but Japan is not what it used to be.
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  774.  @ishanbajpai6940  It's Indocentric because the term "Indian subcontinent" was coined by the British to describe India, Pakistan and Bangladesh (British India). Now you're using it to describe the whole of South Asia. It infers that all of these countries revolve around India, that they don't have their own cultures but that's not the case. It's Indocentric.
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  775.  @motherlandbot6837  Their caste system too. Istg India is on the way to becoming a true dystopian cyberpunk society where the conglomerates and corporations owned by people like the Ambanis, Adanis, Tata etc. own most of the wealth while the majority live in poverty in slums and undeveloped neighbourhoods littered with rubbish.
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  776. This common all over South and Southeast Asia. There are many Russian immigrants in Sri Lanka, Bali and Vietnam too. There are two resort towns in Sri Lanka that have now been nicknamed "Little Moscow" and "Little Russia" and all the signs are in Russian. The hospitality workers in the southern towns of Sri Lanka and coastal Vietnam now converse in Russian to White customers as the default language as the number of Russians now outweighs the number of Western English speakers. I don't think it's right to generalise all Russians though. Some people don't respect the locals and their culture but most are respectful.
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  777. What trouble?
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  778.  @haysnairte4  No they're refugees.
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  779.  @saisamsuri  Not all, only some have done that. Just like how there are some Japanese and Korean men that have married Thais, Vietnamese, Filipinos and Nepalese among other Asians.
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  780.  @Peter-be5lo  India is an artificial nation. All of you talk about how India is one and share the same culture but when you want to claim other countries, you always repeat the same tune: India is diverse so [insert South Asian country] is no different. India would be better off to diverge into multiple nations if it's so fragmented like you say it is.
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  781.  @Peter-be5lo  No that is NOT what OP said. You are NOT OP so stop trying to speak for them. OP said he has South Indian roots by claiming Maldivians are of South Indian origin. Has Indian-like features? Why on earth would anybody think in such a way? Your logic makes zero sense, so are you telling me that we should call Koreans, Japanese and Vietnamese people "Chinese people" since they resemble each other? Should we diminish their cultural and ethnic identities because they share similarities with China?
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  782.  @Peter-be5lo  It's in moments like this where I switch to the other side because why do you love to claim other South Asians as your own but at the same time get upset when China claims Arunachal Pradesh as Chinese territory? What is this obsession with wanting South Asian countries to only work with India, this obsession with claiming they are "Indian-like", diminishing their cultural identities and this fetish for creating hypothetical scenarios where they are part of India? Is it that hard for you to respect their own identities, nations and cultures?
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  783.  @user-pd9ju5dk5s  Literally haha
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  784.  @sohinichakraborty1697  Thank you for providing us this information, Sohini. I am in full support of Indian girls and women and empathise with all of you. I truly hope to see an India where women are respected and can work and live in peace without fear of facing such atrocities in my lifetime. As someone from the US once said on Twitter, "The strongest people God made was Indian women". It's no surprise that his tweet went viral and received thousands of likes, despite everything you all go through, you all show up and protest and make your voices heard even though the system is against you. Believe me, the whole world stands with you. Indian girls and women deserve so much better.
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  785.  @Thundeclap  Exactly, Myanmar is causing this problem. Rohingyas would not need to flee to Malaysia via Indonesia if Myanmar just treated them like humans and educated them. We need to put pressure on Myanmar which is a ticking time bomb in the Asian region. Love Burmese culture but the politics and ethnic issues are just horrific.
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  786. The economic decline of Japan goes against the projected Asian Century but the reality is that Japan rose a long time ago. I guess the real Asian Century is that of China and the other developing Asian economies like the ASEAN economies and India that will rise later this decade. Maybe the emerging AI revolution will provide an opening for Japan to revive its economy.
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  787.  @Blitzkers99  Maybe calm down, as a non-Indian who has done enough research on India I recently learned that the state of Meghalaya has the second highest fertility rate in India (the state that houses the cleanest village in Asia). So what were you saying again? Only the southern states of India should be worthy of any attention because their fertility rates are well below replacement level and have been so for a long time and they also happen to be the most advanced areas in India. There is a reason why Mr Lee Kuan Yew who transformed Singapore into a first world developed nation always held positive views on the Tamils over anybody else from India. They seem to be the most socially developed of the lot. Y'all constantly bickering and fighting with each other is why your country is so far behind. You ought to read the chapters Mr Lee wrote about India and humble yourself.
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  788. Malay Muslims and Indonesian Muslims will care more about a conflict happening on the other side of the world than care about a conflict happening in their own neighbourhood that could have ripple effect repercussions for the rest of Southeast Asia. You can see where their priorities and loyalties lie. Religion is the opiate of the masses.
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  789.  @perthpete7906  You're literally claiming India, Pakistan and Vietnam are weak. My goodness, you don't understand Asian geopolitics. That or you're biased and I think it's the latter.
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  790. Wait till you find out that most of the world is neutral on the Ukraine War and does not want to take part in it. The Global South wants nothing to do with it.
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  791.  @manofsan  Worst kind of traitor? How is Kishore a traitor? Kishore is a Singaporean, so he's not picking sides at all. He just so happens to be speaking the truth that you don't want to hear.
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  792. 🙏🙏🙏🙏
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  793. When a developing Asian nation employs democracy, they prevent development. Why? It's because whatever new policies and development that occur under one government can easily be overturned and stopped if a new government comes to power and we've seen this happen before.
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  794.  @yeagerist4463  Who said the Buddha invented meditation? 💀
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  795.  @yeagerist4463  Nobody said the Buddha invented meditation... 💀
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  796.  @chathuramahesh Well most are Javanese but I’m guessing many have no idea what their origins are because everybody is now mixed. Those with Peranakan heritage will know their heritage though because they can be identified by the surname “Lye” (only Sri Lankan Malays with Peranakan heritage have that surname). You should read the books and watch the interviews of Tuan M. Zameer Careem, he is a Sri Lankan historian of half Malay descent (specifically Javanese and Peranakan origin) and has conducted extensive research on the history and identity of Sri Lankan Malays.
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  797. Well as of now, it seems pretty good still.
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  798.  @tylerdurden4006  cause they're not involved in this crisis. They're not one of the largest exporters of rice. This is about exporters, not producers.
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  799.  @Indian_Rajput  Bangladesh. Why do North Indian people belittle other nations? Have some humility. I'm not from Bangladesh btw.
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  800.  @leethal59  The unique Hong Kong architectural culture of old vs new, the British cultural influences, the cultural influences of Hong Kong's ethnic minorities like the Indians and Nepalese (Temple Street and the adjacent area would feel weird without the Cantonese street food stalls and Nepalese restaurants and ornament stores) and the Hong Kong English accent.
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  801.  @josephgideon4784  Says who? The largest survey done in Singapore revealed that most Singaporeans believe class difference is the biggest form of discrimination in Singapore, not race or religion. Singaporean culture at the most basic level is a mix of Chinese, Malay and Indian (primarily Tamil) influences. Without those three groups, Singapore as a cultural concept does not exist. So idk why anybody can say otherwise.
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  802.  @Ononorium  Singapore mixes elements from all cultures. If they didn't, nobody would be celebrating their cultural festivals or speaking Singlish.
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  803.  @Brokenlove-z2e  Why are Indian men so upset at what other South Asian nations do?
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  804.  @themosqtosaitamacouldntkil5603  Yes because clearly there are people in India that don't agree with his worldview and the way things are progressing. Aren't you upset that India is still the same as it was 10 years ago? If I was from India, I'd be mad.
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  805.  @profile1565  The East Asian fetishiser has been spotted
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  806. Well Taiwan is an island that was colonised by the Chinese nationalists that China claims is part of China. Sri Lanka has no connection to India's politics whatsoever.
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  807. ​ @markpetters9064  Calm down haha, he can pass in north-eastern South Asia (especially Austro-Asiatic Indians). South Asians don't all look the same.
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  808. My first thought was did they forget that Ukraine is a developing third world country? They think the whole of Europe is developed. So much for being a journalist reporting the truth.
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  809. @ It's not a race. Sikhs are sometimes considered separate from other Indians (Tamils and Malayalis) in Singapore and Malaysia.
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  810. The entire video is proof that India must continue to pick China. The US can play with Canada.
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  811.  @sageo7618  India is in Asia so they're Asian. Forced? Lol what?
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  812. Thus is about genetics, not politics. Native Americans descend from East Eurasian ancestors with some West Eurasian ancestry too. They share genetic ties to other East Eurasian populations that currently live or used to live across Asia from India to Japan before the arrival of West Eurasian people during the Paleolithic.
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  813. Pretty sure nobody is going to the US but even if they do, there's nothing you can do about it. Maybe worry about the fact that the Sri Lankan American community is more educated than the average American. This applies to many other Asian American communities too.
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  814.  @anonymous-d4n1v  No it's SOUTH ASIANS! It's not just Indian Hindus who celebrate it, Nepalese and Sri Lankan, Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Bhutanese Hindus celebrate it too. So saying "South Asians celebrate it" is NOT wrong and incomparable to Indian Christians celebrating Christmas.
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  815. China and Indonesia have sensible leaders but India doesn't. If India had another Manmohan Singh, things would've been better for them but instead they have Modi and the nationalists. It's not going to work out for them if things don't change. In 2024, Indians should've been more willing to stay in their nation but now most of these young people want to leave. India seems very divided and artificial more than ever. I read on South China Morning Post and BBC that South Indian states want more babies because they have a very low fertility rate and an aging population whilst the Hindi North Indian states want their people to stop having kids cause the population keeps growing. To offset that issue, they could send North Indians to the south but the South Indians wouldn't like that because they are ethnically different to them. It's like making Vietnam and Indonesia one country and expecting Vietnamese to be happy that Indonesians (who speak a different language, ethnically different and culturally different) are moving to their nation. India is more divided than ever before, when will they realise that?
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  816. No, Vesak has always existed. The festival was always celebrated since the ancient days. People in China were celebrating the Buddha's birthday since at least 300 CE during the fourth lunar month and there are Japanese woodblock paintings of women celebrating Vesak in Japan by bathing the Buddha statue. The festival as practiced across Asia was simply rebranded and unified in a way during the colonial era. You can still see despite the unification that the cultural differences between each celebration across Asia can differ. East Asians (exclude Tibetans and Mongols) still only celebrate the Buddha's birthday, whereas South and Southeast Asians + Tibetans and Mongols celebrate the birth, enlightenment and death of the Buddha.
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  817.  @thesteelecrusader7778  Yes that's indeed correct but they could be viewed as exceptions and not the norm unlike other Europeans.
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  818. The Thai authorities released photos taken from the CCTV footage in the aftermath of the attack and they explicitly said, based on the appearances of the man, they are either European or Middle Eastern and not a local. You can clearly tell from the photo that the man was not Southeast Asian.
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  819.  @adamuk8199  She had NO choice. There is literally a Rohingya minister that has been elected to her party that works for democratic revival in Myanmar and you're still believing the fact that she doesn't support Rohingyas?
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  820.  @adamuk8199  Do you think she could freely support the Rohingya and then go back to Myanmar and everybody would cheer for her??
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  821.  @mahinegi3064  The Buddha couldn't agree with Brahmanism and decided to become an ascetic. So how is Buddhism a "literal copy of Hinduism"?
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  822.  @pasharellafamily5258  Indonesia should've been a Hindu-Buddhist-animist country then this issue would not exist.
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  823. Fertility rates are declining rapidly across most of Asia, only a 2 or 3 countries in west and central Asia will still be growing by the year 2100.
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  824.  @levirhodes6450  This video has made me want to visit Appalachia when I get the chance to visit the US. The people seem so lovely and welcoming and the entire environment looks mesmerising as well as the cultural aspects like the diners and the buildings. America has so much cultural diversity throughout each of its states and regions, I like how you can go from California, to Texas to Louisiana to Appalachia and up to New York and then New England and experience so much different cultures from the cuisines, to the accents and etiquette.
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  825.  @Ryan-hk8bx  Canadians only have dry earwax, not wet earwax that creates lots of BO.
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  826.  @ivand0007  and here's the comments for all the Indians to see. This is why I keep saying that the China-India thaw is so important. The Americans will never treat India equally.
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  827. Yes they are
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  828. Lmao what on earth did I hear at the start?? 💀 57 seconds in and I can already tell this is a very US-centric video and not exactly what I would call "objective". The US still at the top without any wavering of sort? You're joking, right? The impact of COVID-19 alone has damaged the US. The country's life expectancy in fact declined. Come on, please be serious. I thought this was going to be a good video.
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  829. Nobody likes Vivek though
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  830.  @adventurehunt6080  Are you trying to tell me that most Nepalese are not Asians??? 💀💀If you really want to go down that route, true "Asian" natives of Nepal are the small tribal groups of Nepal (specifically the Kusunda, Uraon, Munda and Santhal). Why do I say that because they're some of the first people to be living in Himalayas/South Asia, everybody else came later.
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  831.  @afrakanaswahilitv5520  The proof is in "Ugandan Asians dominate economy after exile" - a BBC article from 2016
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  832. Indians are Asians. The Indian subcontinent literally culturally influenced most of Asia. Most of Southeast Asia is part of the Indosphere, along with the Indian subcontinent (South Asia). You're basically saying 50% of all Asian cultures isn't "Asian". No logic.
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  833.  @mefisto05s.20  Nothing vague and incorrect about what I said.
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  834.  @mefisto05s.20  Notice how you didn't provide a response that supposedly corrects these facts you claim are "incorrect"?
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  835.  @Tounguepunchfartbox  You publishing that comment only shows me you don't know how to respond to me because I spilled the truth. I live in the Asia-Pacific region, I am fully aware of what goes on here and what the average people in countries like Indonesia, Australia and Singapore feel. Nothing "dumb" about anything I said. Nobody here wants to be pushed around by the US or China.
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  836. @ Majority is Chinese, followed by Malays and then Indians with Eurasians being the 4th largest group
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  837. Jack Teerawat Do you just generalise everybody? Why do you care so much? You don't even live in Sri Lanka or Myanmar for that matter yet I see you come and post so many comments spouting hatred against Sri Lankan and Burmese Buddhists. Get a life you idiot.
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  838.  @Zoza15  I'm Australian and my ancestors came from Sri Lanka many decades ago. Do not speak on my country. There has been a presence of Sri Lankan people in Australia since the colonial days when Sri Lankan pearl divers and traders settled in northern Australia along with other Asian immigrants. It's so rude and ignorant of you to come here and talk about welfare and non-integration when Sri Lankan immigrants integrate well into their new nations. I'm so tired of people talking about things they don't actually understand. You probably can't even locate Sri Lanka on a map and it's clear you know nothing about Australia's non-indigenous non-white immigrants and their descendants.
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  839. Natives need to find a way to get y'all on flights to Europe
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  840.  @varun2250  because somehow she thinks her opinion as an Indian makes her opinion more valid, it doesn't
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  841. So it was just a clickbait video. Thanks for posting the comment.
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  842.  @決明子-l2t  You must be new here, clickbait video thumbnails are all the rage here
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  843. Nobody teaches this in Australian schools, you only learn this by reading but Thursday Island and other areas of northern Australia like Broome were home to many Asians of Chinese, Malay, Filipino, Japanese and Sri Lankan (Ceylonese) descent. They were pearl divers, gem traders and other workers that were brought by the Australian government to power the economy in the north. Many Australians in the north descend from these Asian groups. You can still see the Asian influence in various parts of northern Australia like Broome. The Chinatowns of that time in this part of Australia were actually "Asiatowns" as they were the place of residence and business of not just the Chinese but the Japanese, Malays, Filipinos and Sri Lankans. These communities are a very big part of Asian Australian history and identity, including the Chinese, Malays, Indians and Cocos Malays of Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands - the only two territories in Australia where Asian Australians form the majority.
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  844. The fact is that reality favours Guyana.
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  845.  @MagiaAzul-Teehee  No they aren't, they're from Arakan which is now a part of Myanmar. Don't play this game. They're Burmese an the Bamar nationalists need to be held responsible.
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  846. Exactly, you need to phase things out and not change things overnight without any plan.
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  847. Sri Lankan Malays have either “south Asian-like” or typical Malay-like features. Those with south Asian-like features have partial Moor ancestry but identify fully as Malays. I’ve seen Malays in SG and Malaysia with South Asian-like features too
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  848. Sri Lankan Malays are close to the Sri Lankan moor community because they are both Muslims, so there is influence from the Moors on the Sri Lankan Malays (evident in some of the traditional clothing they wear)
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  849. Singaporeans (Chinese, Malays, Indians) are racially diverse but they share the same cultural heritage, having lived together for hundreds of years. The Malaysians, Filipinos and other Asians who live in Singapore are foreigners. Only the Malaysians are culturally and ethnically the same as the Singaporeans (both groups being descendants of Chinese, Malays and Indians). That's why the Singaporean government favours Malaysian immigrants over other foreigners.
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  850. There is nothing wrong with painting the face with thanaka or wearing a sarong.
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  851. So correlating it to Buddhism is incorrect because some of these devas don't even exist in Buddhism. The reason people worship them in Asia is because of the pre-existing Hindu influence and the general overlap that Eastern religions share with one another. Thailand was previously a Hindu nation, these Hindu practices were simply carried over after Theravada Buddhism was brought to the country from Sri Lanka. There is no restriction to how people must practice Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Shintoism etc. so people mix them together.
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  852. He's not Indian, he's of Ceylonese Tamil descent and first and foremost he is a Singaporean. He has nothing to do with India. Singaporean Tamils are Singaporeans, they have nothing to do with India.
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  853.  @John_Doe448  That's not what they're talking about. They're talking about how the CCP kept quiet and did not tell anybody about what was happening because they only cared about their reputation. Then when they did inform the WHO, they lied and said things like "it doesn't spread between humans" knowing very well it did. When word began to spread in other parts of Asia that a new virus had emerged in China, precautions were implemented straight away knowing well China has a reputation being quiet because it's exactly what they did almost 20 years prior to that in the early 2000s when SARS emerged. That's why international students in China went back to their countries in late 2019 after authorities informed families of an uncertain development in Wuhan and why you could see people began wearing masks across Asia from Thailand to Sri Lanka to Japan as soon as 2020 began, long before the virus started spreading rapidly internationally from March 2020 onwards.
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  854.  @northbynortheast5172  Eastern religions are different to Abrahamic religions. Eastern religions are not organised religions unlike Abrahamic religions. Many Japanese people identify as "non-religious" but still take part in traditions that are rooted in Shintoism and Buddhism. This is because Shintoism and Buddhism are integral parts of Japanese culture and are considered "ways of life".
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  855. Talks about humble approach and yet Buddhism came from a South Asian country and Buddhism happens to still be practiced in the region but somehow aggressive Indonesian Muslims are "moderate and humble". Give me a break. Th only moderate and humble in Indonesia are the Hindu Balinese and Christian eastern Indonesians from Flores, Sulawesi, Timor etc. etc.
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  856.  @davout5775  They were and China never agreed to them.
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  857.  @gilyanajune7081  In the US, "Asian" means "Mongoloid". It's not the case everywhere and certainly not in Asia. Asian is not a race. Only Westerners, Latin Americans and Africans think "Asian" is a race. That's why Americans think "Asian" means East and Southeast Asians and British think "Asian" means South Asians. It's not a race. People need to stop using "Asian" as a race, it has never been the case and especially not in Asia because we have our own words in our ancestral languages that indicate race and are not conflated with "Asian" which is purely geographical/cultural.
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  858.  @gilyanajune7081  Terms like Caucasoid and Mongoloid are outdated. The concept of "race" is flawed. South Asians are not "Caucasoid" they are in fact "mixed race" because they are the descendants of three genetically distinct ancestral populations, one which is native to South Asia and related to East Asians and Aboriginal Australians (known as AASI), one which is related to Europeans and Middle Easterners (known as West Eurasian) and one which is directly of East/Southeast Asian origin (known as ESEA). East and Southeast Asians as well as North Asians are predominantly of the ESEA lineage and are very closely related to one another. They form what is known as the East Asian-related genetic cluster or simply ESEA.
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  859.  @gilyanajune7081  Middle Easterners are very closely related to Europeans and belong to the West Eurasian lineage. Middle Easterners to Europeans is what Southeast Asians are to East Asians, they are of the same genetic lineage and form their own genetic cluster. Central Asians are mixed they descend from four lineages (1 West Eurasian and 3 East Eurasian). The West Eurasian lineage is related to Europeans and Middle Easterners, the first and largest East Eurasian lineage of Central Asians is the East Asian lineage, the second largest East Eurasian lineage is the Siberian lineage (Siberian and East Asian lineages are closely related) and the third East Eurasian lineage is an AASI-related lineage.
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  860.  @gilyanajune7081  Here are the sources for all of the information I published in my comments, if you are interested to know more about Asian and Pacific Islander genetics and want to verify what I published. "A genetic history of migration, diversification, and admixture in Asia" - Melinda A. Yang, 2022 "Genetic History of Xinjiang’s Uyghurs Suggests Bronze Age Multiple-Way Contacts in Eurasia" - Qidi Feng, Yan Lu, Shuhua Xu, 2017 "Genetics and material culture support repeated expansions into Paleolithic Eurasia from a population hub out of Africa" - Vallini et al. 2022 "The Role of Recent Admixture in Forming the Contemporary West Eurasian Genomic Landscape" - George B.J. Busby, 2015
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  861.  @dekuwar4436  The majority do not have hatred though. I can tell that you're one of those people that focuses on and emphasises the negatives without looking at all the positives around you. Look at the way you're trying to undermine the unity that has emerged by saying, "oh they're just united because of a crisis". So what? It's a good thing that they've realised they need all work together. People, like yourself, are also wrong because you simply can't accept the fact that people are changing. You want to believe nothing good ever happens. We're done here. Have a good day.
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  862.  @mysteryuntold9531  Suicide attacks??? Trust a Tamil Tiger to claim that they're a victim.
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  863.  @livefastdieyoung8703  Suicide attacks are not self defence, it's terrorism. No wonder people have an unpopular opinion of "🐅" people in Canada.
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  864.  @Jambudvipa-ug6yg  Yes they are
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  865. North Korea faces a low fertility rate too. Kim Jong Un is getting so scared now that he even said it's a North Korean woman's patriotic duty to have a baby.
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  866.  @சுரேஸ்தமிழ்  The only people that are actually native to Sri Lanka are the Veddas, NOT Sri Lankan Tamils.
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  867.  @captainalex157  If one truly believes that India can rise with the US at the top, then they really don't have any understanding of the concept of American exceptionalism. The US preferably wants a weak India that allies completely with the US and becomes an all-weather partner on the global stage. Basically a 2023 Japan but without the advanced part. If India can remain a lower middle income developing nation then that's ideal. The Americans let China develop rapidly during the 1990s and 2000s, under a belief China was going to join the world after the 2008 Beijing Olympics only for that to change with the rise of Xi Jinping. There is no way the US is going to make the same mistake with India. India will remain an undeveloped nation crippled with poverty for the foreseeable future if things work out right for the Americans.
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  868.  @WastedBananas  You seem to be coming from some Western or rather American perspective about the cultural or physical differences between Chinese and Indian people outside the realm of geopolitics because you don't want to be associated with them. This is not what anybody here is talking about and that's certainly not what actual people in Asia think in this context. China and India have more in common with each other than they do with Western countries, that is the point being made. Of course they do, a look at their history of cultural exchange it is clear to see. Your personal identity of being Muslim or "Bharati" or whatever has nothing to do with this. We're talking about geopolitics and China and India are culturally connected whether you like it or not.
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  869.  @captainalex157  The difference between Europe and India is that India is not Western and never will be Western. There is nothing culturally, mentally or physically similar that White Americans share with Indians. White Americans are descendants of Europeans, they are family. There has only ever been one non-White nation in the world that has become accepted by the West and that is Japan but it wasn't an easy road. The Meiji era, fear of Western colonisation, desire to become Western and WW2 created a path for Japan to become accepted by the West. Then the 1980s saw Japan become America's first economic rival. Thankfully for the Americans, Japan's economy tanked in the 1990s and it has been downhill since. The idea that India will be accepted and treated as an equal is far fetched and preposterous in my opinion. Biden mulled sanctioning India in 2022 because of is neutral stance in the Ukraine War and a recent book published by an American diplomat suggests India could become a future competitor of the US. India and the US have never been allies, in fact it was not until 9/11 that India and the US started building closer ties to combat terrorism but still not allies. Before that, the US government hated India, particularly under Nixon. India sees itself as a part of the Global South and clearly said it is going to use its platform as the G20 presidency this year to further Global South agendas, the US doesn't like that and never will. India's development path is one that is muddy and uncertain.
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  870.  @comparatio9148  Had Indonesia, Bangladesh and Rohingyas all practiced Hindu/Buddhist/animist beliefs like the rest of South and Southeast Asia, none of this would be an issue. That religion always causing problems.
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  871.  @UrMomGreen.  You should be glad considering all of the educated Malaysian Chinese and Malaysian Indians (who power the Malaysian economy) are leaving to succeed in Singapore and Australia.
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  872.  @Dalvik.N  The West? The West does NOT care about the Rohingyas. The entirety of the West cares about the Palestinian genocide. I've seen so many people in the West protesting in support of Palestinians, Has there been a single protesting support of Rohingyas or Myanmar in general? Myanmar is literally suffering from a civil war, but nothing. Also, Indonesians care more about what's going on in the Middle East than in Southeast Asia.
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  873.  @KangMinseok  Ukraine is a third world country.
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  874.  @aniruddhrajendran7570  It's not just about numbers, it's about actual infrastructure. 2 decades have gone by and India looks the same as it was in 2004. The rest of Asia is developing and changing and India's still stuck in its old ways.
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  875.  @Blitzo2876  Chinese culture absorbed Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism into one form. Some people just describe themselves as "Buddhists" because it's easier for outsiders to understand but Chinese culture since Buddhism was adopted in China became one of the "Three Religions" of traditional Chinese culture.
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  876.  @maelgwni  Yeah I differentiate, it's so much easier. My friends do the same and nobody ever gets confused.
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  877.  @CrimsonAlchemist  The Japanese literally believed they were the master race of the Asian people. They saw all other Asian groups as lower than them. Apart from committing some of the worst forms of crimes against humans in history, they also believed in Japanese culture being superior to all other Asian cultures (even though they adopted a lot of influences from mainland Asia, especially China). They instructed people in colonised lands to learn Japanese and adopt Japanese culture. There are propaganda posters from Japanese-ruled Malaya instructing the local Malays, Chinese and Indians to "Learn Japanese!" with a drawing of a Malay boy speaking Japanese instead of Malay. They treated the Chinese with utter contempt everywhere they went. What exactly would have happened? A lot of Asian cultures would have been lost and diluted and replaced with Japanese culture.
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  878.  @AllisonYYZ  Then why do these types of videos exist? Your men literally want Indian women. They're so obsessed with Indian women, that they're even in Malaysia dating Malaysian-Indian women. Cry about it Allison
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  879.  @morwickchesterham3875  Despite all of that, it cannot be denied that Sri Lanka's culture at the most basic level is a potpourri of different ethnic groups: Sinhalese, Sri Lankan Tamil, Moor, Malay, Burgher, Indian Tamil and Chinese among others. Remove one of those groups and Sri Lankan culture/society would be very different. The same applies to Malaysia. Recognising that ethnic diversity is the only way to move forward. Singapore did that and they moved forward from their violent ethnic conflict past.
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  880.  @Funnyeboi  She's speaking from a South Asian perspective. Idk why you're inserting yourself into this when you're not even South Asian or other Asian to be able to understand the issue.
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  881. She, not he, and she's of Bangladeshi descent. She was in Bangladesh earlier this year wearing very short denim shorts and a blouse in the middle of Dhaka. Under her Bangladesh video there were people from the Buddhist-majority South Asian nations of Sri Lanka and Bhutan asking her to visit their countries and learn their languages. Try being more respectful and realise you're wrong.
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  882.  @ZeeJuque  There are literally so many ethnic groups in Myanmar that have dark brown skin too, are you going to say they are foreigners too even though they quite literally are native to Myanmar. There are generals in the Burmese military with skin as dark as Rohingyas. LEARN ABOUT MYANMAR.
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  883.  Soham.69  This the problem, an Indian man will only find a way to undermine the fact that graping is a huge issue in India.
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  884.  @ubik5453  Absorbing nations into BRICS is not imperialism. You clearly don't know what the word means. So tell me what exactly makes you think it will become imperialistic?
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  885.  @wakanda6547  Coming here and replying to my comments when I was already here. This man is harassing me.
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  886. Exactly, Malaysia and Singapore are very different to Hong Kong and idk why people always compare Hong Kong to Malaysia and Singapore. Multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore is natural and the Chinese, Malays and Indians have been mixing with each other for centuries so that's why people speak each other's languages and the different cuisines have mixed together and peoplemcleebrate each ither's festivals through open houses and family/friends gathering among other things. Hong Kong is nothing like Malaysia or Singapore because even though there are multicultural minorities in Hong Kong like the Indians, Pakistanis and Nepalese who have lived there since colonial times, nobody thinks of Hong Kong as multicultural because at the most basic level, Hong Kong culture is synonymous with Han Chinese culture. Neighbouring Macau is in essence more multicultural than Hong Kong despite having a smaller population and that's because Macau's culture always recognised and developed from its multicultural history. Hong Kong always propagated Han Chinese culture from everything ranging from cuisine to language to politics. I'm sure nobody even knows that the native people of Hong Kong are a small nomadic group of people known as the Tanka, who are not Han Chinese.
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  887.  @bronzremix  There would have been Muslims that settled in Myanmar when the country was part of British India but Rakhine has its own Muslim community historically known as Arakanese Muslims. The Rohingyas are the Arakanese Muslims and during the time of the Arakan Kingdom, there was no issue between Rakhine Buddhists and Arakanese Muslims. Things began to break down when the Bamar invaded Arakan and absorbed it into their nation. Before that, Arakan was isolated from the rest of Myanmar by the Arakan Mountains and thus maintained close ties to Bengal and the rest of India. The British eventually created the framework for the Rohingya genocide during WW2 when the Rohingya sided with the British whereas the rest of the Burmese population sided with the Japanese who had invaded Myanmar. General Min Aung Hlaing, leader of the Burmese military, infamously said that his reason for targeting the Rohingyas in 2017 was to complete "unfinished business from WW2" (the unfinished business being the Rohingyas who he considers to be traitors).
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  888. Modern India is exactly that. Each of its states are separated along the lines of ethnicity, language and culture. For example, the Tamils predominantly live in Tamil Nadu, the Marathis in Maharashtra, the Biharis in Bihar, the Harayanvis in Harayana, Rajasthanis in Rajasthan, Assamese in Assam, Meitei in Manipur, Nagas in Nagaland, Kashmiris in Kashmir, Ladakhis in Ladakh, Odias in Odisha, Punjabis in Punjab and so on.
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  889.  svarge  What don't you understand about the OP's comment?? They're asking why Arden never publicly said that the terrorist was an Islamic terrorist and they have a point.
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  890. Yes it actually is, don't cry.
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  891.  NikhilPodlejski-s8w  Typical North Indian male called Nikhil.
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  892. Public housing in Singapore is not like public housing in your country. There is a HUGE difference.
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  893. Bollywood is not part of Sri Lankan culture, so yeah it's totally foreign to Sri Lanka. The South Indian film industries are much more culturally closer to Sri Lanka than North India's Bollywood.
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  894. It's because they have an Asian mentality. People in the Eastern world are generally reserved and docile and emphasise community over individual. The late prime minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, called it "Asian values". People know their actions don't just reflect on or affect them but on the community as a whole.
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  895.  @andikafernandoputra128  Not for the Muslims. They're all about Muslim solidarity and supporting other Muslims. They all see Israel as an enemy even when it doesn't even affect them. Indonesian Muslims look so far away to the Middle East and concern themselves with Middle Eastern affairs but when it comes to persecuted Muslims in Southeast Asia, it's xenophobia and racism and I'm not just talking abut what's going on in Aceh, this is something I have noticed for a very long time. Same thing with the Malay Muslims of Malaysia. So I don't need any explanations. The entire non-Muslim world can see what's actually going on. There is no naivety in that.
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  896.  @souravmondal09  India needs to be separated into several different nation because nothing will ever change
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  897.  @njones420  No, the UK simply lost the ability to maintain control over much of their empire after WW2. In Asia, Japan's conquest and attempted conquest of various European colonies in Southeast Asia and South Asia proved that the British wouldn't be able to maintain control forever.
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  898. The way Sinhalese words are written in English results in people mispronouncing them. The "n" in Sinhalese words tends to make an "ng" sound. So Sinhalese or Sinhala is pronounced "Singalese" or "Singaler". The same thing with "Sri Lanka", people say "Sri Langka", not "Sri Lan-ka". The Sri Lankan dish, "wattalapan" is pronounced "wattalapang", "kankun" is pronounced "kangkung" and so on.
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  899.  @60secondphysics4  Really??? How??? His parents are from Bangladesh.
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  900. The only people who speak of historic, genetic, cultural and linguistic relations are Indians who believe the rest of South Asia belongs to India. Sri Lanka is its own thing. Sri Lankans are mostly Sinhalese, Tamil, Moor, Malay and Burgher - those are the five main groups. Sri Lanka has had a close historical relationship with China, not as close as India but still significant. Sri Lanka was once a tributary state of Ming China, it was visited by the Chinese monk Faxian and was settled by ethnic Chinese immigrants who created Sri Lankan-style Chinese cuisine, which is very popular on the island, and introduced noodles and stir frying to the island's inhabitants. Every restaurant in Sri Lanka features noodle dishes and every Sri Lankan mother knows how to cook the highly popular Sri Lankan egg noodles. Go overseas and every Sri Lankan restaurant will feature some type of noodle dish whether it's fried noodles or a Sri Lankan-Chinese noodle dish. For office lunch packets that are served to office workers, if it's not a rice and curry packet, then it's a rice with soy sauce packet. On top of that, at least 100,000 Chinese people have settled in Sri Lanka since 2000 and you can see their cultural influence in Colombo, especially in Kollupititya.
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  901.  @santhoshv3028  I'm actually not from Sri Lanka, I only have Sri Lankan ancestry and yeah they can do whatever they want. Sri Lanka deciding to work with China is NOT a game. They can do whatever they want. India can keep crying that it can't control other countries.
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  902.  @lolsiahsahf  It's the way I'm not even Malaysian but I can accept facts but you can't because you're from a neighbouring country that doesn't like malaysia.
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  903.  @lolsiahsahf  Please cry somewhere else.
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  904. ​ @nunyabiznes33  Your point about sailors could work but Sri Lanka doesn't have a big population unlike other countries in the region so there's only so much they can do I fear. It also has a rapidly growing aging population, which worsens its situation. I don't think many elderly people are going to want to work in such industries and will merely accept their fate (many know what it was like to be poor at one point) The young people of the middle class will try to find ways to study overseas because they haven't known a life where you have to skip meals and use firewood to cook food and because they don't want their futures to go to waste. The middle aged population (who make up the majority of the country's population) will face the brunt and be the ones who have to deal with the crisis. So yeah, as you said, I guess they're going to have diversify when it comes to export of foreign labour - not just relying on maids but encouraging blue collar workers of all types to go overseas.
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  905. Stop saying South Asia! Nobody in the Maldives or Bhutan is behaving like this. My gosh, stop thinking India equals South Asia only.
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  906.  @chaosXP3RT  ...that's because the intention of the US is not to "export democracy". There are other motives behind why the US has a history of either invading or inserting themselves into foreign conflicts. There is nothing for the US to gain in Myanmar so they will never get involved. The US also has no leverage in Myanmar to be able to sway things in the country.
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  907.  1 YankeeSays  Not everything is related to the US. Stop talking about the US when the US has absolutely no influence whatsoever in Myanmar. The only countries with influence over Myanmar are Asian countries like China, Japan, India and certain Southeast Asian nations. This has nothing to do with the US.
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  908.  @itsblitz4437  I doubt that imo, Myanmar has been at conflict with itself since 1948. The ongoing civil war is just another symptom of Myanmar's violent and tumultuous nature post-independence. Also, China is not inclined to invade or take part in other countries' conflicts. Common belief across the whole of Asia is to remain non-aligned, play both sides and let the affected country deal with it on its own.
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  909. @alengarrixer Always this talk about persecution, what about he communities within India facing persecution or do they not matter? This country disappoints me every single day.
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  910.  @doit2810  Agreed, I've seen Chinese people who are more empathetic. I'd also say that some Asian groups in Asia are more empathetic than people outside of Asia because I see a lot of hate peddled by people from outside of Asia on social media towards Indians. One of the reasons I say this is because there are ethnic Indians/pop culture who are popular or have gone viral in other Asian countries besides India that generates a positive image in some areas compared to outside of Asia.
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  911. It's so sad that all that anti-India hate has people thinking the whole of India is like that.
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  912. Doesn't even affect you in the slightest Sarah
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  913. @ We wuz Kangs (European edition)
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  914.  @bg53rockylayek4  Sinhalese formed in Sri Lanka from the intermixing of indigenous groups with an Odia-related group and subsequent other groups like Malays.
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  915.  @robezy0  They also promote the idea of indigeneity by talking about how Buddhism is indigenous to South Asia and Islam is not because Islam is from Arabia. They focus on things like birth rates by talking about how Buddhists have the lowest fertility among all religious groups and that the number of Buddhists will decrease this century due to rapidly declining fertility rates in Buddhist-majority countries in comparison to other religious groups, particularly Muslims ,and so claim that they face an existential threat in the countries that they traditionally belong to. It's all about identity to them and the concept of a "Buddhist".
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  916.  @official-hb4mr  I'm talking about all of you and I've already told the others to stop comparing days ago, you came here and started saying the same thing so I'm telling you to stop comparing too.
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  917.  @RobbieStacks90  This is incorrect
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  918.  @Beintentionallyweird  Not easy??? So it's not easy for you because you don't get to discriminate and judge people? I can't believe this comment section.
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  919. You need to learn to stop categorising everything into "left" and "right" and thinking only one side is coming after Asians. Late last year, a conservative professor said that the US would be "better off with fewer Asians" and expressed fear of an "Asian elite" dominating US society due to the high number of Indian/South Asians working in the medical field. This is why a growing number of Gen Z Asian Americans are saying that neither Democrats or Republicans of today represent their needs.
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  920. East Asia how? The migrant workers and other expats mostly come from Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia, Nepal and Myanmar - all of which are in South and Southeast Asia.
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  921.  @Sedna063  It's temporary, not permanent. To temporary waive IP. This is a global pandemic but rich people and people, like yourself, who bow down to the rich are more interested in making money instead of ending the pandemic. It is in the interest of the whole world to end the pandemic.
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  922.  @watch1981  People calling Singapore a dictatorship, don't know what a dictatorship is. If Singapore is a dictatorship, I would like to know what people think North Korea, Turkmenistan and Eritrea are?
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  923.  @NewmaticKe  Lee Hsien Loong is not a dictator. There was literally an election in Singapore in 202 in which Lee Hsien Loong won, he's just stepping down from the role now. EDUCATE YOURSELF!
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  924.  @Ucandoit_  Jesus wasn't even born when Hinduism emerged as a belief system in Asia
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  925.  @paolamaria1992  Stop being obtuse and understand the fact that Christianity has NOTHING to do with development, in fact Christianity is what causes a country to not develop. There are plenty of White people that have retired and live in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Bali and Cambodia because cost of living is cheaper but also because these countries/regions are tropical and safe.
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  926.  @xxxcool2565  Yeah the situation in Malaysia is worrisome too but I feel like Malaysia still has a window of opportunity to correct course so it doesn't fall into decline. Malaysia is also so close to becoming a developed country, it would be a real shame to break down whilst being so close to passing the World Bank's threshold of "high income nation".
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  927.  @andrewdunbar828  Malaysia is on track to becoming a high income developed nation later this decade but the World Bank has said the country suffers from a few issues that is preventing the country from reaching this status. Corruption is one and the other is the country's brain drain which is powered by the country's decision to legally discriminate against non-indigenous and non-Muslim minorities (Bumiputera law). Large numbers of the educated Malaysian Chinese and Malaysian Indians continue to leave Malaysia for Singapore and Australia in droves. As a result, the country is continuing to lose large numbers of its educated population. There is a reason why most Australians with Malaysian heritage are ethnically Chinese and to some extent ethnically Indian.
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  928.  @kjellvb1979  Yes I know that but what I'm saying is that this show was created specifically as an allegory of Korean society. That is why every character in that show is representative of people who exist in modern Korean society who have been affected by various things like the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, the exploitation of South and Southeast Asian migrant workers, the life of North Korean defectors and the debt crisis. This show was created and aimed at Korean audiences. It was promoted in South Korea with some promotion in other parts of Asia. The success of the show elsewhere was unexpected and is part of the reason why South Koreans are confused as to why it became so popular in the West because it's based on Korean societal issues. Yes it's a critique on capitalism but the show itself is supposed to highlight the issues in modern Korean society, some of these issues just so happen to be global issues too.
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  929.  @yerri5567  Mad triggered over something that doesn't even affect you. Embarrassing. Where are you from???
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  930. They were doing that before the synthetic fertiliser ban. When the government banned synthetic fertiliser in order to use organic fertiliser but didn't import the ingredients necessary to manufacture organic fertiliser, the country's self sufficiency in regards to staple crops like rice fell apart.
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  931.  @Stevewilldoit96  How do you know he's from India? He could very well be from Singapore. This is after all a Singaporean video
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  932.  @user-ky7pn7oz4g  Indian countries???????? WRONG. There is only one country called India. Get educated
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  933.  @memeniamemes8191  This is footage from 2020. 1990s cameras didn't have this type of quality.
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  934.  @rishavkumar1250  I know a lot so I will talk about things I am knowledgeable about. Stop thinking caste is some flexible thing and it has no effect on people, it does and it is prominent when it comes to marriage.
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  935.  @playgame-gh1is  There are other Muslim groups in Myanmar. Problem is that you think all Muslims in Myanmar are Rohingyas and you think the issue involves religion, here's the short answer: it doesn't. You don't understand anything about Myanmar. You blindly follow the mainstream media. You probably can't even locate Myanmar on a map. In fact, you probably didn't even know Myanmar was a country until 2017. Please just stop talking save yourself from embarrassment.
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  936.  @This_tub  Those are Americans, they're not Indian citizens, boat refugee.
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  937.  @This_tub  I'm not an Indian and you didn't make a single point. You're a refugee complaining about American kids succeeding in the US.
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  938.  @renatomatos90  No they aren't, they're native to Rakhine which is a region inside of modern-day Myanmar.
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  939.  @prettypuff1  I was just about to say the same thing.
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  940. You visited Singapore, you don't live there. So you can't just base your short experience on what actually goes on in Singapore.
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  941.  @David_Camerwrongun  You have to try. They tried. You don't just sit around and wait for things to happen. You get up and you try even if that results in failure, then you learn from that failure. How are you supposed to know what will happen if you don't try? I can tell there are people amongst us who will be more willing to sit down and suffer if we suffered something like Sri Lanka instead of trying to get up and try and change things for the better based on some of the comments I have seen.
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  942.  @ni3070  Yeah Asian is a geographical term, not racial.
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  943. @don't ping I rarely check Yes that's right most of the time but in regards to South Asians it's more complex due to the "mixed" origins of South Asian people. Elaborating on what I said before, the West Eurasian component in South Asia is highest in the western part of the region and the East Eurasian component is highest in the east. What you said about the Indo-European language is true, they shared a common ancestor before they split. This is actually what I inferred when I mentioned the West Eurasian-related migrants from Central Asia. However, due to South Asia's complexity, there are groups that speak a language from a certain language group but are genetically closer to another group. For example, the Brahui of Pakistan speak a Dravidian language but they are genetically related to the Balochi and other Western Pakistani groups who are Iranic in origin. The Chakma of Bangladesh speak an Indo-European language but are genetically related to both Southeast Asians and to mainland Indians.
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  944.  @summerhoang  Since when were all South Asians Indians? You keep using "South Asian" when this whole thing started with Indian men from India. Not all South Asians are Indians. Most people don't even know any of the other countries of South Asia and assume the whole region is India or that everybody is like Indians.
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  945.  @raibhansjadhavrsj6352  Indians getting called terrorists mainly involve Sikhs and that's because they wear turbans. Additionally, this whole thing about Indians/Sikhs being called terrorists only happens in the US because people are very informed about the world around them. Additionally, Indian stereotypes (e.g. model minority, tech worker etc.) are never applied to Arabs anywhere in the West. Also, let's not forget the fact that Pakistanis are stereotyped as terrorists and people in the US can't tell the difference between North Indians and Pakistanis. Arabs and Indians are very different. Arab culture and Indian culture are on the whole very different. Indians have more in common with other South Asians than they do with Arabs. Additionally, India is part of the Indian Cultural Sphere alongside South and Southeast Asia. Middle East is part of a totally different cultural region. In fact, Arabs have more in common with Europeans through their shared history (Mediterranean civilisation, Helenic world, Abrahmic religions). India is totally different and is part of the Dharmic/Indic world (which also had a big impact on East Asia). Chinese philosopher, Hu Shi famously said, "“India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border”. Just google "effeminate Bengali man" and read about this whole situation instead ofdeflecting. There are many books written by Indians about this topic. Facts over feelings. BTW, not having facial hair doesn't make anybody less of a man. 💀
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  946.  @williamecrowe  Asian doesn't just mean Chinese, Japanese and Korean! If you're Chinese, Japanese or Korean say "East Asian", if you're Indian, Nepalese, Bangladeshi say "South Asian". Americans stop using "Asian" to refer to one part of the continent only. Indians are Asians!
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  947.  @okasur1  ...and she was detained. I think it's clear to see that she had to play by their rulebook. She was nothing more than a puppet. There is a reason why she was described as the "de facto leader of Myanmar" because she never was the de jure leader of the country. She had to follow their rules.
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  948. Finally a comment section that is free from those Pakistani and Muslim bots that dominate every CNA video comment section.
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  949.  @AA-ok5jz  Well imo I don't think there's anything "Western" about Priyanka Yoshikawa - she looks Southeast Asian, Northeast Indian or like some Nepalis or Bhutanese, but that's just my opinion. Her dad is Bengali if it means anything.
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  950. it's very ghastly
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  951.  @thesparrowtalks5019  Send your daughter overseas but you need to stay back and fix India and change it so when she comes back, she is safe. Don't run away.
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  952. No, she's right. Yes, the show is relatable to audiences the world over but the show was created by Koreans to target Korean viewers. That's why each of the main characters in the show represent a specific type of group of person in modern Korean society. The global success of Squid Game was never expected.
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  953.  @averagegigachad795  Firstly, I'm not from India. Secondly, I know enough about that country to know it's not all the same. Not all of us can be educated but some of us who don't know enough feel the need to speak about things we don't understand. I guess that's the difference between Asians and non-Asians
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  954. Crazy idea but Sri Lanka should be occupied by 3 or more nations in a vaguely similar essence to the occupation of Japan and Germany after WW2. In this case, not as a punishment, but as observers to guide the reconstruction of the country. India, China and Japan are Sri Lanka's three main historic allies, it may be good if all three countries could work together as observers in Sri Lanka. It will also help diffuse tension that India/Japan have with China.
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  955.  @anomalianomali5080  No. Sinosphere cultures and in general all Asian cultures do understand the concept of solidarity. A very big part of Eastern values is community. People look out for the community over the individual. In Asian cultures, community is stressed whereas in the West, individualism is stressed. This is why saving face is such a big part of Asian cultures. This stark cultural difference was evident during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. An August 2020 survey from the World Economic Forum revealed most people in China, Japan, Vietnam and India said they would still wear a face mask, whereas people in the UK, US and Germany who said they'd wear a face mask was significantly less. Demands for personal freedom in the forms of protests emerged across Europe and North America while such attitudes, on such a large scale, did not emerge in Asia in 2020. People across Asia (including in areas where face masks are not regularly used) started wearing face masks very early on in 2020, due to this idea that you have to protect yourself and the wider community.
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  956.  @user-pr2xj1bm4u  How has China threatened us? Can you even answer that?
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  957. The Rohingyas have lived in Arakan for centuries long before the Arakan Kingdom was incorporated into Myanmar. How dare you condone genocide.
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  958. Well they're both Dharmic religions
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  959.  @mahinegi3064  No it's not. There are similarities but if you think the Buddha's teachings are the exact same as Hinduism, then I have news for you.
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  960.  @aleenaprasannan2146  Well to be fair, her skin tone isn't considered ideal in South Asian communities which explains why she's speaking about this. It's fair white skin that's considered the ultimate ideal in South Asian cultures, the type of skin tone that Indian actress Shivangi Joshi or Nepalese actress Aditi Budhathoki has.
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  961.  @aleenaprasannan2146  I can tell that your whole world revolves around Bollywood and despite the fact that this video says "South Asian" your whole worldview is centred around North Indian skewing Bollywood stars not realising that there are other stars in South Asia that are popular across the region. Priyanka and Deepika are exceptions. Google "Miss Universe India 2019 contestants", that's the ideal type of beauty for people across the WHOLE of South Asia. Hamel Patel does not fit that and she has every right to speak up. Idk why you're trying to shut this girl down. At this rate, you shouldn't be speaking either because you have the same skin tone as hers right?
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  962.  @SlimJim3082  No they don't
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  963.  @Hayesaxib  I think you responded to the wrong person because Rohingyas are not newly arrived migrants, as I said in my other comment. That person who is saying they are is Burmese and they are one of those Burmese people that believes they are recent migrants, they echo the same beliefs of the Tatmadaw that is currently ruling Myanmar who believe Rohingyas are immigrants and that the only native Muslims in Rakhine, Myanmar are Kaman (Kamein) people.
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  964. I don't think Hasina's departure complicates anything for the US, in fact it might actually be a blessing in disguise for them. I say this because Hasina claimed that a "white man" tried to provide her safe passage to re-election in exchange for the establishment of a US military base in Bangladesh earlier this year. Now that she's gone, the US may try to influence what type of interim government will be established. Instead of a pro-Chinese one, they might try to create a pro-American one. The US is said to be interested in establishing a permanent military presence on Prince Edward Island in Bangladesh so this might be their chance to make their dreams come true. If it does happen, then the US will have a permanent military presence in the Bay of Bengal and in close proximity to Chinese-linked projects in neighbouring Myanmar and a permanent presence along an alternate sea route China may use in time of crisis if the Strait of Malacca were to be blockaded. The US would also have China surrounded on three fronts in time of war - South Korea and Japan in the north-east, Philippines and Singapore (which houses US military personnel) in the south-east and Diego Garcia and Bangladesh in the south-west.
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  965.  @ProfessorMeeks  This is why Asian and African countries need to work together. China, India, BRICS nations these are the countries that will shape the future. The non-Western, especially non-white, world is tired of all of the subjugation.
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  966.  @Sasha.Z.  Your narrow worldview is showing. It's really wrong of you to claim the Russia-Ukraine Crisis is more important than the Myanmar crisis. So I guess the people of Myanmar and by extension the rest of the Asian region don't matter in your eyes. All of Asia's regional powers (China, India, Japan) are involved in Myanmar and any seismic crisis in Myanmar can have effects on these countries and the rest of the region and eventually the rest of the world. Let me reiterate that CHINA is involved and if you aren't aware, China is the emerging power of the world and is already outperforming the US in several sectors. Asia is also the region with the highest economic growth rate in the world. What happens in Asia, affects the world. Why do you think the US is so obsessed with Asia and the Pacific these days?
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  967.  @Sasha.Z.  You must only follow what's happening in Eastern Europe and the US or something because a year ago, the Myanmar coup was one of the top international news stories and discussed at the UN.
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  968. That's because this has NOTHING to do with ethnicity. Rohingyas are Rohingyas, not Indians or Bangladeshi. Your entire cultural heritage comes from INDIA. All the names you used are literally of Indian origin. "Aji Saka/Ajiwaka/Ajivaka", that's literally all Sanskrit, a language from India. Bumi Mandala?? That's literally another Sanskrit word and a concept that derives from Hinduism and Buddhism. "Saka-Yavana-Daha-Kediri", all of that is Sanskrit. "Malaya-Kamboja-Champa", Sanskrit again. NO AMOUNT OF COPING IS GOING TO CHANGE THE FAC THAT YOUR CULTURE COMES FROM INDIA and all of y'all have some Indian ancestry too. Cry.
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  969. No they are not
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  970.  @svanimation8969  GDP PPP is completely different to GDP nominal and nobody uses GDP PPP to measure how wealthy a country truly is. 💀 Also, if we were to use GDP PPP, the Maldives would naturally have a much larger GDP PPP which stands at US$ $34,000.
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  971.  @yvysflores5876  They're talking about the fact that Sri Lanka was once richer than the Philippines. In 2019 it was an upper middle income nation while the Philippines was a lower income middle income nation. Now, Sri Lanka has become a lower middle income nation.
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  972.  @hunterblake5911  I'm sorry but you need to calm down and look at things from a neutral perspective. You telling me that the average Filipino lives a better life than the average Sri Lankan isn't going to make it true when we look at the raw data. In 2016, 4.1% of the Sri Lankan population lived below the poverty line whilst 24.5% of Filipinos lived below the poverty line and you're telling me they live a better life than the Sri Lankans? You obviously have a very narrow minded view of Sri Lanka if you think this is a country overflowing with poverty and problems. They've done very well for themselves. They've controlled their fertility rate, their living standards are very good for a developing country and now more and more people are getting older. A country's quality of life can be judged at how many older people continue to live and Sri Lanka now has one of the fastest growing elderly populations in Asia and with less babies being born, they now have to rely on migrant workers from India, Bangladesh and Myanmar to fill vacant positions in their job market.
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  973.  @hunterblake5911  While the Philippines has also done very well for themselves, they're not in that position and far from it in terms of demographic trends. Teenage pregnancies are still a huge problem in the Philippines. You should read the books written by the late Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore, he has a chapter on South Asian countries and he marvelled at how successful Sri Lanka was for a developing nation, he spoke about how clean Colombo was and expressed regret at the way they demonised minorities and failed to become developed when they had the chance because of ethnic nationalism and racism. You need to understand what you're talking about. I know a lot about Sri Lanka and the Philippines so I can easily speak about both countries without letting biases get in the way.
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  974.  @hunterblake5911  No it always has not. You're being biased because the Philippines is your country. The facts don't lie. Up until 2022, the average Sri Lankan was living a much better life than the average Filipino. You have some sort of biased attitude towards Sri Lankans and think they're poor and continue to focus on some students that live in the Philippines, you seriously need to calm down because it's facts over feelings. One can easily point out the fact that there are Filipino workers working in Sri Lanka as migrant workers, so what now? Sri Lanka is only second to the Maldives in South Asia in terms of quality of life and the Maldives today is on track to becoming a high income developed nation. Are you aware that there are thousands of Filipino migrant workers working in the Maldives sending remittances back home? As I said before, Sri Lanka peaked as an upper middle income nation in 2019 - it was once part of the same category that included the Maldives. Let's also not forget the fact that the Philippines couldn't even control COVID-19 because of their poor healthcare system while Sri Lanka was able to bring cases down to 0 because of their good healthcare system in 2020. The Philippines struggled right from the beginning to control COVID-19 but Sri Lanka was quick and efficient and was able to control COVID-19 throughout much of 2020. The average Sri Lankan was living a much better life in 2020 than the average Filipino, even after the damaging effects of COVID-19 on the Philippines right from the beginning of 2020, you think they lived a better quality of life? I'm sorry but you repeating that same fact over and over is not going to change reality. Your emotions and feelings don't dictate facts. The average Sri Lankan was living a much better life than the average Filipino prior to 2022, the stats don't lie.
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  975. I think there are so many issues in that part of the world. I read that China has a history of refusing Indian pilgrims travel to the Hindu holy sites in Tibet but let's Nepalese and other non-Indians visit those sites. It's like tit for tat, Sikkim in India doesn't let Chinese visit Sikkim in return. I think the issue of geopolitics and the threat of a diplomatic crisis at any moment is why there are so many restrictions. The Himalays: for such a tranquil part of the world, it seems sad the idea of a diplomatic crisis breaking out at any moment.
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  976.  @King_Neptune  They did. That's what started all of this. Just imagine if they treated minorities right where the country would be today. Most ethnically diverse countries don't know how to manage ethnic diversity, only a few know how to do it like Singapore, Mauritius and New Zealand.
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  977.  @vikramaditya6812  The East is less developed? Some of the most advanced nations in the world are in the East: Singapore, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Macau etc. Also, in the ancient era China and India were among some of the most developed regions in the world.
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  978.  @ayasuhaida  Rohingyas literally have Tibeto-Burman genetic admixture. They are native to Southeast Asia.
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  979.  @vennsim71  Rohingyas are not from South Asia. They are native to Southeast Asia. They carry a South Asian-related lineage (which is also present in many other Southeast Asian populations, including other Burmese) and also carry a Tibeto-Burman lineage.
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  980.  @cambodianpleasuresquad1753  Dravidian is not a group of people, it's a language family. India was settled by the AASI hunter-gatherers (who are the indigenous people) and later on by the Austroasiatic farmers.
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  981. This is what happens when non-Asians speak about Asian countries. Indonesia was culturally influenced by India. Everything from the traditional clothing, to culinary influences, traditional music, literature, architecture, mythology and cultural etiquette comes from ancient India and yet here you are saying they have nothing in common with SA. Are you not aware that Indonesia has a Hindu-Buddhist cultural heritage?
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  982. You talk about being a "fellow Muslim country" and yet what exactly has that got to do with SA when most of them are not even Muslims? You really should've sat there and ate your European food instead of saying such incorrect statements.
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  983. These people are from Myanmar, not South Asia! Learn about Southeast Asia first before you start speaking about Southeast Asia!
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  984. Asian is not a race, it's a continent. Nobody understood Ronnie's joke it seems tsk tsk💀
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  985.  @justanerd414  The genocide against Rohingyas and other forms of violence towards ethnic minorities in Myanmar is the result of Bamar nationalism that supports the idea that Myanmar belongs to the Bamar and everybody else must undergo Burmanisation. It's ethnonationalism and isn't related to religion because the Tatmadaw/Bamar nationalists also persecute ethnic minorities who practice Buddhism like Shan, Rakhine and Karen. They want everybody to practice Bamar culture and be culturally adjacent to the Bamar. Many ethnic minorities in Myanmar have faced Burmanisation for decades like the Mon and Karen. Some groups in Myanmar that are already culturally and linguistically related to the Bamar like the Rakhine and Kaman (who are officially classified as part of the Rakhine race but are Muslims, they also look similar to Rohingyas but with lighter skin) have still faced persecution (particularly the Rakhine) and this is because they want to protect their own identities, which is still unique.
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  986.  @bryanhiebert1941  They're Chinese by nationality. Stop making this about Western thinking. Nobody in Asia is hooked on race like Americans are.
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  987.  Dragon Force  Multiculturalism is not just a Western thing. In fact, most of Asia is multicultural. It's only certain places in East Asia that are homogenous.
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  988. Exactly. It shocks me that this is the same country that gave the world Buddhism, meditation, yoga and other beautiful Eastern spiritual practices. Now I differentiate between ancient India and modern India. Ancient India had different people that's why it was successful, modern India on the other hand is... let's just say... low tier.
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  989. Southeast Asian actually absorbed influences from Tamils and Kalinga, not Indo-Gangetic belt just saying.
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  990. It's due to cultural mentality.
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  991.  @vaisakhvij9601  I'm literally so tired of people constantly using the race card as if they're making a point. This has NOTHING to do with a Western mentality. Stop trying to undermine my view and say it's a product of Western mentality, I am stating the truth. Everybody knows that the whole of South Asia does not belong to India. It is NOT Akhand Bharat. Y'all are constantly fighting, focusing on trivial things and claiming each other's territories. This is why South Asia is so undeveloped and the rest of Asia continues to progress forward. Bangladesh is the only exception to this though, at least they understand it's important to develop and are using the superior East Asian economic model.
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  992.  @JUSTFORFUN-cd5dd  You keep replying to me which says to me you're very upset with me BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
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  993. Firstly, future in this context means the literal future. Africa will have the largest megacities in the future. Listen to what they say instead of interpreting things in ways that make no sense. Secondly, India having huge cities means nothing in terms of their development. Development comes through upward social mobility, whether urbanised or not. They will be able to achieve greater things they day they decide to stop working with the US and accept China's role in the Asian region. Once the US has been kicked out of Asia, India will be able to rise.
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  994.  @jashanbirsingh  No it's not, Indian man!
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  995. Oh the name of the account is "SomeoneFromBeijing", of course they said this. 💀
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  996.  @royjacobs1204  It's still an accepted policy today. If you follow global geopolitics, you'll know that the non-aligned policy is still valid. There is an entire league of nations part of the the Non-Aligned Movement that continues to function today. Serious consequences? That sounds like you believe that the US and EU will punish or threaten nations that remain neutral and tbh, I wouldn't be surprised if they did that. Lithuania already did that to Bangladesh and the US does not have a good track record at all. I guess the war made the Global South wake up and realise that there is no good guy here. The US and Russia are both bad in their own ways.
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  997.  @prashantlakhera6156  Which person thinks Apsaras are "dancing virgins" who exist as rewards to humans? It's a clear example of trolling.
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  998. They say Sri Lanka's situation is most similar to Indonesia's situation in 1997. Indonesia recovered so Sri Lanka will eventually recover too now that they have the culprit gone from office.
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  999.  @권도형-v3r  The basic of Buddhism, no matter which school of Buddhism, is the same. Additionally, common Eastern philosophical concepts like karma have spread beyond Buddhism and Hinduism into other Eastern religions. The Five Precepts of Taoism are the same as Buddhism. Also, the Hungry Ghost festival celebrated in East Asia is based on the Indian Pitru Paksha festival. (I did not know this until I read an article from an English article from Hong Kong about how the Hungry Ghost Festival is celebrated in other parts of Asia). I could go on.
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  1000.  @권도형-v3r  Also, do you know why the Japanese invaded other parts of Asia (including their failed invasion of India)? It's because they believed in pan-Asian unity led by the Japanese. The manifestos that emerged out of Japan during this time period always spoke about the cultural impact of China and India on the rest of East, South and Southeast Asia and stressed the importance of pan-Asianism.
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  1001.  @권도형-v3r  I'm aware that most of Asia can be broken down into the Sinosphere and Indosphere but there is interaction between both of these spheres (e.g. Buddhism spread to East Asia and Chinese cultural influences into Southeast Asia via Chinese immigrants). Yes East Asian Buddhism is intertwined with East Asian religions but it's still a part of Buddhism. Zen Buddhism arose from Chan Buddhism which arose from Dhyana, which came from India. This is what I'm talking about when I speak of cultural similarities.
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  1002.  @omega-nf5ku  Claims to be Korean yet has a Western name. Let me laugh. Indians are not closer to Arabs than East Asians. I literally state facts about what they share with East Asians and you say it's a lie. I give you quotes and you say it's lie. You know nothing about Asia. When India and China both contributed to the development of Eastern civilisation and you say that Indians are closer to Arabs. The utter ignorance. I'm not Indian and nobody is wanting to associated with East Asians. Stay in your lane you bitter American boy and stop speaking about things you don't understand. Nobody is saying Indians are part of the Sinosphere but to say they have nothing in common just proves you have NO understanding of Asian cultures. Also, stop fetishising East Asians. Stay in your lane in the US and don't cross the Pacific Ocean.
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  1003. and you know that how?
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  1004.  @SalmanWong  Indonesian Muslims are one of the biggest representatives of Indosphere culture in Southeast Asia. They still retain and respect their pre-Islamic heritage and their form of Islam has always been moderate and incomparable to what is found in the Middle East, except for the conservative types like Acehnese. Your point only stands for Malays in Malaysia.
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  1005.  @SalmanWong  However Malays still retain Malay cultural elements like the traditional dress. Can the same be said for the Philippines? There is now a trend to revive pre-Hispanic cultural elements in the Philippines. Many young Filipino people are interested in the pre-Hispanic heritage of the Philippines.
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  1006. The issue is when South Asians compliment fair skinned South Asians by shaming darker skinned South Asians. This is the issue.
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  1007.  光宗耀祖啊  The Indian martial arts influenced the formation of martial arts in the Indosphere (South and Southeast Asia), not China. For example, silat (which is native to Singapore and other Malay areas of Southeast Asia) is related to a Tamil martial art. The association of Bodhidharma with Shaolin is not fully verified so I don't know why they're talking about China. Also, this video is about Singapore so I don't know why they're talking about China.
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  1008.  @chillipanda1638  There is a native martial art in Singapore and it is not Chinese. It is called silat and is a traditional martial art of the indigenous Malay community of Singapore.
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  1009. It is correct
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  1010.  @Sarhus2816  Of course you're defending the Gulf and saying what the West has done is worse. Stop comparing
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  1011.  @Lulu11oc  Yeah they mistreat foreign workers like crazy
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  1012.  @Lulu11oc  Yeah nobody believes that. The Gulf has something called the Kafala system, no other nation has such a thing. Horrible
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  1013.  @deezeed2817  The Burmese military is not pro-American. What? The US doesn't even arm them. China, Russia, India, Israel, Philippines, Ukraine and North Korea are the suppliers of the Burmese military.
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  1014.  @davidford3115  No, it reeks of hegemony. So if Sri Lanka is India's backyard, India's front yard must be China and the USA's front yard must be Canada. The terminology doesn't make sense and there is a reason this language is only used by Indian and American media.
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  1015.  @davidford3115  While other countries use terminology like "India's neighbourhood", there are proponents in other parts of the world who use "India's backyard", indicating some type of ownership.
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  1016.  @davidford3115  Now you're talking about perspective but I don't see it because a backyard belongs to someone, which is why the terminology is a red flag and why the Asian region is wary of both Chinese and American aggression.
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  1017.  @harmonyshorts  You don't say "India's backyard". You say "in proximity to India and the Maldives". People always forget the Maldives even though that country is close to Sri Lanka too and let's face it, it's linguistically and ethnically very close to Sri Lanka. Mind you, I highly doubt any of these people know where India is either...
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  1018.  @davidford3115  A whole lot of words were used just to say nothing...
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  1019.  @davidford3115  It most definitely reeks of hegemony but you refuse to see it and of course it can apply to anyone. I'm just talking about India in this case but because I mentioned the US you suddenly said "anti-West". I live in a Western country, I was born in a Western country. You want to call me "anti-West" for calling out the power struggle that China and the US are playing out here in the Asia-Pacific?
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  1020.  @davidford3115  You support the idea of describing an independent nation like Sri Lanka "India's backyard", indicating a sign of ownership but will become hysterical if somebody were to refer to "Mexico's backyard" as the US.
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  1021.  @davidford3115  You know you using a whole of words just to say nothing doesn't help your point, right? You haven't actually given anything of substance to explain your reasoning and haven't refuted anything I have said. All I see is a man using all this jargon to present himself as smarter, more sophisticated and intelligent when the truth is there is actually nothing upstairs but a dictionary and thesaurus spewing out random words to inflate his broken ego.
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  1022.  @raybison5547  Said who? It is not part of Chinese culture and Asiatic Eastern religions are a lot older than Islam is.
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  1023. You surely have or maybe they don’t live in the area you’re from
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  1024.  @alexandercain8904  Idk what the other user said about the Chinese lucky number of 8, that's not related to Myanmar but what the other user said about it being named after August 8, 1988 (8/8/88) is correct.
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  1025.  @AdanSolas  Racist people always say India and the Middle East are not Asians but never ask why East Asians are considered Asians? Aren't they the odd ones out?
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  1026.  @AdanSolas  Japan invaded all of East, Southeast and South Asia (India) in WW2 because it believed all of these areas are culturally similar as they all are rooted in Indic, Sinic and Dharmic cultures. It's time non-Asians stop dividing and conquering Asians.
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  1027.  @AdanSolas  Cambodia and Thailand were culturally influenced by India. They are NOT similar to South Korea. There are native people in Thailand and Cambodia that look more like Indians too like Miss Universe Thailand contestant Alisa Arunahiran.
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  1028.  @leocorn5559  The hatred for South Asians is insane and it's always the SEA who want to be associated with East Asians that peddle this narrative. South Asia isn't all the same and Bollywood isn't the only thing popular in South Asia ffs. Korean pop culture has long been popular in the region. There are other countries in South Asia like Sri Lanka where people watch Chinese dramas and Thai dramas. Earlier this year, an Indian girl competed on Chuang Asia Thailand, a India-Indonesia_South Korea Kpop project idol group was formed this year and we all know Squid Game featured an Indian actor.
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  1029. +Starlord ...and this comment of yours proves why you are ignorant and don't know anything about this topic. It's always the ignorant ones that are the loudest.
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  1030. The way India (and China) have emerged as countries engaging in vaccine diplomacy really shows just how much Asia has risen since the end of WWII. If we were in the 1980s, vaccine diplomacy would have been facilitated by the US and the USSR not India or China. It's hard not to notice the talk of the Asian Century and the way many Asian countries were successfully able to control first (even second, third) waves of COVID-19, the low mortality rate across the region (even in places where the virus spread more widely like India, Indonesia and the Philippines) and now the emergence of India and China as the main global vaccine distributors.
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  1031.  @natashka1982  You look at multiple news sources. You don't limit yourself to three sources which is what you do. You want to inform yourself then look at multiple different sources stop limitimng yourself to right wing ultra conservative news sources and think you're informed about what's happening, you're not.
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  1032. India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan and Bangladesh are NOT Arabia. They have nothing to do with Arabia.💀💀
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  1033. Why do you want every country to listen to India and do as it says? Why does it upset you if a country decides to strengthen ties with other countries? I thought India was supposed to be a caring democratic nation.
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  1034.  @Ononorium  You need to get your facts straight because you don't know what you're talking about. India has a Chinese population that still lives in Kolkata. They're the creators of the Indian-Chinese cuisine that's now popular all over India. Sri Lanka has a Chinese community too and they're well integrated into the Sinhalese Buddhist community. Their ancestors settled in Sri Lanka hundreds of years ago. You really have no idea what you're talking about.
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  1035. I've never understood why people think that Hong Kong Chinese and now Hong Kong Indians are interchangeable with Singaporean/Malaysian Chinese and Singaporean/Malaysian Indians. Most Singaporean Indians are Tamils whereas most Hong Kong Indians are North Indians, they're ethnically and culturally different. In fact, the difference is so stark that Singaporean/Malaysian Sikhs have traditionally been described separately from Singaporean/Malaysian Tamils in Singaporean/Malaysian society. Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong are three different societies, they share some similarities but they're different. Malaysian migrating to Singapore is understandable, they can fit in without any trouble but someone from Hong Kong migrating to Malaysia or Singapore will find it harder.
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  1036. Yeah they really need to bring in some dark skinned South Asians and Southeast Asians.
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  1037.  @malithaw  You can make the same argument for the rest of the subregions of Asia. You can also make the same argument for the East Asian Cultural Sphere (East Asia + Vietnam) and Indian Cultural Sphere (South Asia + Southeast Asia). You can make the same argument for many other subregions within other continents.
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  1038.  @kdamprae4236  East Asian-related ancestry in Southeast Asians should not be confused as "Chinese" though. The base ancestry of all Southeast Asians is East Asian-related (ESEA) and for people like Khmer, the predominant ancestral component is related to Han and Dai. East and Southeast Asians are closely related to one another. The non-ESEA ancestry in most Southeast Asians is "Indian" or "South Asian" but even that can be interpreted in different ways. We know Indians are a mix of different components and their indigenous component is of deeply diverged East Eurasian origin (genetically close to both modern and ancient East and Southeast Asians) while the majority of their ancestry is of external origin and related to Europeans and Middle Easterners. The Thai study the OP is talking about also references another Thai study from 2021 which goes into more detail about the "South Asian" ancestry and in that study they revealed that there are two ancestries associated with Indians (one related to the East and Southeast Asians of deeply diverged East Eurasian origin) and one unrelated to East and Southeast Asians (which forms the bulk of the ancestry for most Indians and formed from mixture with Iranian Neolithic Farmers and Steppe pastoralists). It is this component that contributed 12% of DNA to the southern Thai sample in the study.
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  1039. The Maldives will become the first developed nation in South Asia. It already reached the threshold for some high income developed status categories.
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  1040.  @ishanbajpai6940  Indians use that term, not other South Asians because it's Indocentric.
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  1041.  @carrad123456  I really hope by 2030 there will be drastic changes to the quality of life in India and things will get better. I think 2024 to 2030 is a good time frame to create significant changes that will help India finally achieve high income status by the 2050s. Your comment gives me hope, it tells me that there are people in India who recognise there are issues and that things need to be fixed.
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  1042. Are you an Indian? Cause you really seem to be clueless about what's going on in Myanmar and to be making it about religion?
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  1043.  @MichElle-zc9tu  Can y'all just let people have opinions?
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  1044. Sect differences don't mean much in Buddhism. Bodhisattvas are also widely revered in Theravada Buddhist cultures due to the Mahayana influence.
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  1045.  @mhdthr0893  They're refugees.
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  1046.  @amaduck2132  Blud thinks making a society more equal means one has to worship Lenin HAHAHAHAHA. Blud needs to learn about other countries like China
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  1047.  @mgsindica1840  Firstly, I'm not Maldivian. Secondly, a lot of people who live in Lakshadweep are people from mainland India. Like I said, the only people Maldivians are related to are the Mahl people of Minicoy who are ethnically Maldivian. Politically divided? Sri Lanka and the Maldives were NEVER a part of India or British India. You're claiming Maldivians are South Indians, no they absolutely are NOT. They are their own people. Respect their identity, respect their ethnicity, respect their history and respect their sovereignty and agency as an ethnic group. I'm sorry to say but they are NOT Indians.
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  1048.  @mgsindica1840  Okay but they are not Indians, that's my point. You say he has "South Indian roots", that's like saying we all have East African roots. It makes no sense to say that.
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  1049.  @Peter-be5lo  Maldivians are NOT Indians. What part of that do you not understand? Why are you trying so hard to claim the Maldives (and Sri Lanka) are Indian? Well Maldivians do have a separate culture. Are you going to tell me Koreans don't have a separate culture from Chinese culture? I never said there were no similarities but all of you are saying that Maldivians are Indians and that they don't have their own cultural identity. That is NOT true.
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  1050. ​ @Neil-Aspinall  Yikes, I guess you have no understanding of global geopolitics then and the ramifications of a military coup in Myanmar and its affect on the rest of Asia and ultimately the world.
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  1051.  @Neil-Aspinall  ...and just so you know, Myanmar is a country located in Southeast Asia between India, China, Bangladesh, Thailand and Laos.
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  1052. We really don't care. Cry
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  1053. Yes declining fertility refers to the fertility rate
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  1054. No, they're from Myanmar.
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  1055.  @close_all_tabs  Singapore is neutral. Anyway, the point of Asian countries uniting is to recognise that China is the country that can provide security for Asia. Consistently believing the US, Canada and Europe have a right to be in Asia is not putting Asian interests first. It's time that countries like China, India, Russia as well as the organisation, ASEAN put Asian interests first.
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  1056. FREE INDIAN WOMEN FROM INDIAN MEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  1057. I googled it and I couldn't find anything but I learned that there is a history of Nigerians committing crime in Sikkim, dating back to at least 2011. The other countries on the list make sense cause there are diplomatic and territorial issues with those countries but Nigeria seems so out of place because it's not even in Asia. So it's probably because of the criminal activity.
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  1058. You do know these people are native to southern Thailand right?
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  1059. Multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore came naturally because none of the Chinese, Malays or Indians tried to impose their culture on others. That's why their cultures are so mixed. That's why they speak each other's languages, have their own unique languages like Manglish and Singlish, combine Chinese, Malay and Indian cooking techniques to create unique dishes relresentative or those influences, celebrate each other's festivals and even intermix with each other. The Chinese Perankan, Jawi Perankan and Indian Peranakan communities emerged due to the natural multicultural societies that have existed in Malaysia and Singapore for centuries. Hong Kong has never recognised multiculturalism even though it has minority communities, like the Indians, who have lived there since colonial times.
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  1060.  @akhanddbangladesh8274  He's actually right. The country used to be on the same development path as Singapore and other Asian Tiger economies in the 1960s but after the enactment of the Sinhala Only Act, foreign investors fled the country amid rising ethnic tensions and the country lost its footing. Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore always lamented on the failure of Sri Lanka because the country was once on the right path but failed due to ethnic discrimination. He was never a fan of the Rajapaksas and blamed the Sri Lankan government for disenfranchising educated minority groups and creating a culture of division in the country. In Singapore today, they teach students about Sri Lanka as an example of what happens to a stable country when you discriminate against your minorities.
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  1061.  @akhanddbangladesh8274  I will never understand other South Asians speaking down on Sri Lanka when Sri Lanka (along with the Maldives) are the only two countries in the region that have ever been successful in boosting their standards of living. Sri Lanka was only one of two countries in the region that was able to control COVID-19, while the rest of the region suffered greatly. You are from Bangladesh. If I were you, I'd get off the high horse.
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  1062.  @Merle1987  I'm sorry, I didn't mean you were the one pearl clutching, I should've been more clearer with my words. I was talking about how some people in general react whenever Japan's immigration policy is mentioned. I was speaking generally and wasn't directing it to you or anybody else in this comment section.
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  1063.  @Titan_Ruler622  ...and displacing them from their own home is alright? The excuses that people come up to undermine the work of terrorists.
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  1064.  @only_fair23  Singaporean society at the most basic level is ethnically diverse. I don't know why people focus so much on percentages and not what they see around them. Singaporean culture is a mix of Chinese, Malay, Indian and Western influences. Its main ethnic groups are Chinese, Malays and Indians and these three groups have culturally influenced one another to a great extent ranging from the colloquial language they speak (Singlish) to the unique cuisine that fuses Chinese, Malay and Indian influences that is found on the island nation. The long history of settlement on the island yielded mixed race and multicultural groups that went on to contribute to broader Singaporean culture like the Peranakans (mixed Chinese and Malay), Chitty (Indian Tamils who adopted Chinese and Malay culture) and Jawi Peranakans (mixed Indian and Malay). This pan-Asian mix of cultures was the basis for the government's Asian values ideology that it promoted in schools and broader society in the 1990s and which went on to become popular in neighbouring Malaysia, China and other parts of Asia. Singaporean culture, identity and society is multi-ethnic and without it, it would not be Singapore.
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  1065. The country lost its brightest minds. Malaysia is supposed to be on track to becoming a developed nation this decade but the estimate of when it will finally pass the high income threshold keeps being pushed back by the World Bank. The biggest reason of all is because of its brain drain, the educated continue to leave the country in droves. The World Bank even warned Malaysia that it risks not becoming a developed nation if it doesn't stop the rapid brain drain that is taking place in the country. Malaysia may end up middle income trapped if it doesn't stop the brain drain.
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  1066. This has nothing to do with generations lmfao. It's about how your country is so politically polarised.
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  1067. This is such a Western-centric perspective. One of the world's most successful multi-ethnic nation is located in Asia: Singapore. Myanmar could have thrived if it treated its minorities correctly.
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  1068. ​ @xedaslopes3975  No they absolutely are not related lmfao. Shan Buddhists are more similar to Thai people linguistically speaking. All of the northern groups like the Kachin, Karen and Nagas are all different, unique in their own identities or related to their ethnic cousins across the border in India (e.g. Burmese Nagas are related to Indian Nagas). The only group that can be described as similar to the Bamar Buddhist majority are the Bamar Muslims (whose only difference is their religion). There are two other groups that are more related to the Bamar as well, the Rakhine (who are Buddhists and speak a language related to Burmese) and the Kaman (who are Muslims but culturally closely related to the Rakhine and distantly to the Bamar). and what do you mean by "racial groups"? Physical appearance, genetics? That is such a flawed concept in many Asian societies, especially in places like Myanmar. Ethnicity is the demarcating factor here.
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  1069.  @timspiker  What part of "Asian" is not an ethnicity do you not understand? Asian is a term to describe people from Asian countries. It's not an ethnicity. Burmese is a nationality. Bamar is an ethnic group found in Myanmar, so is Chin, Kaman, Rakhine, Shan, Rohingya, Karen, Mon, Marma etc. etc. Those are ethnic groups, not Asian or Burmese.
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  1070.  @paragonaaa817  It actually doesn't. 💀💀💀💀💀💀
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  1071.  @paragonaaa817  Sri Lanka is NOT India, they have the highest standard of living among all of the South Asian countries and here you are thinking India's issues are also present in Sri Lanka BAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Indian migrant workers go to Sri Lanka to work in construction sites. 💀
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  1072. That's cause they benefit from Tatmadaw control of Myanmar. The fact is that India, China, Japan and Singapore will turn a blind eye to anything in Asia as long as it benefits them. They still make money, so why bother? That's their attitude. China has changed its tune because it needs access to the Bay of Bengal and instability in Myanmar will mean it can't pursue its plans. So now China is backing some of the rebel groups in the north fighting the military.
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  1073.  @jpasiu9999  I'm Australian with Sri Lankan (Sinhalese) heritage. My ancestors came to Australia before Sri Lanka started demonising Tamils. So I'm not biased in my thoughts. I recognise the damage of the LTTE and their supporters but I also recognise the damage of the Sinhalese government and Sri Lankan military. If the Sinhalese government treated minorities with respect, the country wouldn't have lost so many people like the Burghers and there would have been no war. The Sinhala Only Act caused all of Sri Lanka's modern-day issues. The Sri Lankan-Australian population is really diverse, just like in Sri Lanka. There are Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims, Malays, Burghers and Chinese. The religions are diverse, people practicing Buddhism, Catholicism, Hinduism and Islam. The languages range from mostly English with large numbers of Sinhalese speakers with smaller numbers of Tamil and even Chinese speakers. Some of the Sri Lankans in this country like many of the Burghers that settled in Australia in the 1960s and 1970s as well as the Sri Lankan Chinese would've remained in Sri Lanka had the Sinhalese government controlled the nation properly.
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  1074. It's not a lie though. She literally quoted a report from Japan. Did you even watch the video? 💀
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  1075. She's of Bangladeshi descent
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  1076.  @Indian_Rajput  She's of Bangladeshi descent, Rajput
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  1077. India does not have a valid concern though. Sri Lanka is an independent nation and can do whatever they want. Taiwan is a nation whose existence is disputed by the Chinese government. Very, very different unless you think Sri Lanka belongs to India.
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  1078. ...because the incels found it and are upset
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  1079.  @gdi1093  1. "Asian" in this context is referring to Asia-Pacific or Indo-Pacific which generally means East, South, Southeast Asia and Oceania. 2. Do you not understand that the Indian subcontinent is part of Asia? It makes it sound like you don't. 3. Do you understand Asian geopolitics? Iran's geopolitical landscape is connected to the Middle East and to some extent Central Asia. It is not part of the same geopolitical landscape that covers East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia and Oceania. So why on earth would Iran join an Asia-Pacific organisation that is focused on issues in the waters surrounding India, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia, East Asia, Australia and the South Pacific and the land the region covers? 4. You sound so bitter, it's laughable.
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  1080.  @gdi1093  Where on earth do you live? If you live in the Asia-Pacific and follow Asian geopolitics, you'll know that sometimes experts use "Asian" to describe the Asia-Pacific (including Australia and New Zealand) for easier communication. It's not something to get worked up about. Asia is so huge, just because Iran, Pakistan, China etc. are all on the same continent doesn't mean they're affected by the same issues, they're not. Same thing applies to Australia, it's geographically close to Southeast Asia and northeast Indian Ocean and a lot of its trade comes down the South China Sea. Iran has literally nothing to do with this. Stop crying.
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  1081. It's because India's shine has now disappeared. It's not just China, it's very much the whole of Asia and really the whole world that thinks the same way. The reality is that the glory days of India when Indic culture was spread across Asia is now long gone. What people see is a shell of what India once was and it's just shocking to see how India which gave the world Buddhism, meditation, yoga and all these other aspects is in the state that it is in today, where people do not respect it. There are so many issues present in India today like the mistreatment of women and girls, open defecation, undeveloped infrastructure, unhygienic practices used in preparing street food, high infant mortality rate and so on. So many videos have gone viral on international social media like TikTok and Twitter showcasing very shocking aspects of Indian society that has sadly ruined the reputation of India and its people over the course of 2023. These practices were once common in other Asian countries as far recent as the 1970s but now not anymore. The reality is that India is still very far behind. I used to think India was following China's trajectory and I thought modern India was currently somewhere where China was back in the 1990s/early 2000s so it was developing very well but after seeing all those videos last year, my perspective changed and so did millions of others. It seems like there are areas of India, especially in the north, that are like they're still stuck in the 1940s. I don't know why Modi doesn't use the money India generates to improve these regions. I don't know, I think it's going to take India a very, very long time to change people's perspectives of the country. It's sad, really.
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  1082.  @Seevawonderloaf  The reason why India is taking a very long time to develop is because its people continue to talk about colonisation. It's been 75 years and they're still talking about it. It's time to move on. Kerala is a state in India that is in a far better position than many other locations in India. So I know India can develop but for some reason, most other locations in the country are still very behind. Due to the negative reputation that people have of India today, they have far worse and prejudicial things to say as to why India is still like this. However, I think the reason why India is like this is because 1. it has a brain drain where its educated leave for other locations like the US and become successful. Many Indian tech experts leave India and go on to become CEOs of American tech companies instead of creating their own, for example. Number 2. is because India still has a victim mentality. This is something China once had and termed the "Century of Humiliation" but now they have gotten over that. I still want to believe India will become a high income nation by the middle of this century but I really don't know anymore.
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  1083.  @naervern2107  Nepal is mixed. There are so many ethnic groups in Nepal that have contributed to the development of Nepalese culture. Bhutan may be less mixed but there's no denying the decades long cultural influence from India in terms of pop culture, Korean dramas have also had an impact in Bhutan too. Most Bhutanese movies are inspired by Bollywood films. North Korea is unmixed is the basic sense but at a cultural root basis, North Korean culture has Chinese and Buddhist influences - even though these influences came to Korea long before NK became a thing.
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  1084.  @blueshirt26  The cope is insane lmfao. I'm not Malaysian, so no I'm not Chinese or Indian.
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  1085. Yeah temporary migrants who will work but then eventually return home and help their own countries who will be replaced by new temporary migrants. It sounds like a good idea.
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  1086.  @jondoe9548  You're focusing on appearance which is incorrect. The Rohingyas have always lived in Rakhine and if you look at Arakanese history, Rohingyas lived peacefully with Rakhine Buddhists until colonisation. The Rohingyas faced genocide due to being bribed by the British when the Japanese invaded Myanmar. General Min Aung Hlaing said they faced genocide as payback for what they did in WWII, they were seen as traitors for fighting with the British rather than the Burmese. It has nothing to do with appearance of anything.
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  1087.  @jondoe9548  Idk why you're so hung up on appearance. Are you aware that the majority of people in Assam (where India is cracking down on "illegal immigration" look South Asian or like a mix of South Asian and Southeast Asian?). You have this idea that everybody in Nepal or Northeast India looks Chinese or Chinese-adjacent but nobody cares about that at all in South Asian communities where South Asian and Southeast Asian and East Asian features predominate. Then you describe the native people of Nepal as "South Asian Indians" because you're focusing so much appearance. You need to understand that South Asia is a mixed region. I have mixed South Asian and Southeast Asian features, so where do I fit? Please learn the fact that the first people in South Asia are the East Eurasian dark skinned AASI people who are distantly related to Andamanese, East Asians and Aboriginals and are the dominant genetic base for most South Asian groups. After them, came the Austro-Asiatic people. Tibeto-Burman people only came afterwards.
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  1088.  @jondoe9548  You talk about Bangladeshis but are you aware that the Bangladeshis have on average 11-20% East Asian-related DNA? The same thing applies to Rohingyas, there are East Asian passing Rohingya Muslims. In the USA, two Rohingya men were racially abused due to their Southeast Asian origins under the wave of COVID-19 racism. Please learn more about South Asia and Myanmar and how diverse they are. I find it so funny how you're hung up on appearance when you literally have native South Asian passing Burmese Buddhist people in the Burmese military committing genocide against Rohingyas and South Asian looking Assamese fighting against India to gain independence and are being backed by the Chinese. You must live in the USA because this obsession with appearance and skin colour only exists over there.
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  1089.  @jondoe9548  I should have known lmao. 😂You, Rotten Robbi, Mama June and a few others are those people that go around posting the same thing over and over about Myanmar and other countries and have people come and like your comments even though none of it makes sense. You only have conversations between yourselves but never reply to anybody that calls you out
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  1090.  @mushroom11g55  That's why they have military bases all over the world (including expelling the natives of an entire island nation to turn it into a military base) and punish countries that don't decide to sign a SOFA. You should look up the anti-US military sentiment in places like Okinawa, Japan. The common lay person does not like it.
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  1091. Indians are Asians because India is in Asia. India was NEVER it own continent, it was part of Gondwanaland. Humans did not exist back then either. Americans try staying in school challenge impossible.
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  1092. Y'all complain about China encroaching into India's territory but then claim the whole of South Asia as part of India. The hypocrisy.
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  1093. They have a valid question though. All this finger pointing towards India isn't going to help in the long run. The Global South is already on edge with the way they were treated in regards to vaccine IP so the way India is being chastised is only going to heighten their concerns and prove that China was right all along.
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  1094.  @ashutosht10  Rohingyas want to move to Malaysia, Thailand or Indonesia (They'd be going to Singapore too but the country doesn't allow refugees). Rohingya refugees have always been a thing ever since they began facing discrimination under the military government in the 1970s and when they leave as refugees, they've always moved to other Southeast Asian countries. There is a big Burmese refugee population in Thailand, so Thailand is attractive to them. Same thing with Malaysia. Rohingyas moving to India is out of sheer desperation, that's not where they want to be. Rohingyas never moved to India until the 2017 genocide but the genocide was unprecedented. Rohingyas began fleeing as refugees to into every neighbouring country possible, they even made their way to Nepal by crossing into India and then into Nepal. Rohingyas prefer to be back in their country of Myanmar but due to the military government, they can't go back. So Rohingyas moving into India (especially North India) is not because they want to go to India, it's because they have no choice but to go there.
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  1095.  @moodisucksdick5154  The Burmese military, the people who staged the coup, are the people who committed acts of violence/genocide against the Rohingyas. They've been doing this to the Rohingyas since at least the late 1970s and they've been doing it to certain other minority ethnic groups too. The Burmese military is to blame for all these tragic events that have occurred in Myanmar. Just think about this. The people that have destroyed the lives of people in Myanmar and from Myanmar are still in power and just staged a coup that gave them more power.
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  1096.  @moodisucksdick5154  It's because the Burmese military orchestrated and executed the burning of Rohingya villages and the raping and murdering of Rohingya civilians. The Burmese military did all of that. They've been attacking Rohingyas since the late 1970s. They've been attacking other minroity groups too like the Shan. A lot of people who aren't aware of Burmese politics think that the Rohingya crisis only started in 2017, when Aung San Suu Kyi was the de facto leader. The thing is, it's been going on for decades and the international community did not care. Mainstream Western media picked up on the genocide in late 2017 and manipulated the story. That's why so many people ignorantly believe that the Rohingya issue is a religious issue, it's not, it's an ethnic issue due to historical grievances dating back to colonial Burma when the Japanese invaded the country. People also think that Aung San Suu Kyi is responsible for it because the media placed so much attention on her without understanding that the Burmese military did all of this. Min Aung Hlaing is the person that needs to be held responsible. To this day, that man and the rest of his military (Tatmadaw) have gotten away with the genocide. Yet somehow people are more focused on Aung San Suu Kyi who was nothing but a puppet of the Burmese military regime.
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  1097.  @SM-qn7sr  Yeah some Southeast Asians can pass as East Asian. Also, many Southeast Asians in the US are actually of Chinese origin. For example, most Burmese Americans are of Chinese origin. The thing is Southeast Asians, like South Asians, are diverse in phenotypes and culture. For example the experience of an East Asian looking Southeast Asian is going to be different to a darker skinned Southeast Asian. For example, an East Asian looking Filipino woman was racially abused in the UK due to the coronavirus and in Australia, a darker skinned Filipino woman was racially abused and called a "currymuncher" because the racist people that attacked her thought she was Indian. Just goes to show how different people's experiences are. It's best if they did separate videos on this topic, one for East Asians, one for Southeast Asians and one for South Asians. Then in each of these videos they could have included three people from three different ethnic groups within each of these categories.
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  1098.  @jesseberg3271  Why are you making stuff up??? Shintoism was the state religion of Imperial Japan, not Buddhism and reincarnation is a common belief across many Asian cultures, it's not a solely Buddhist belief.
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  1099. The dislikes say everything smh
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  1100.  @ryananderson5202  You must be new here. It's a troll account, so don't take it seriously. CNA and SCMP comment sections are full of troll accounts from around Asia. One group of troll accounts pretend to support Indians and talk down on Chinese (ArabicReja973, the person you replied to is one of them) and then there is another group of troll accounts that pretend to support China and talk down on Indians. They're just trying to make the other one look bad and the ironic thing is that none of these accounts are based in India or China, they're based in other Asian nations like Bangladesh. Us Asians are so used to seeing these types of comments and accounts, that we just ignore them. So don't take them seriously. They post rage bait to start arguments.
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  1101. These people will believe their freedom is being lost, that this is fascism, yet have no idea what a fascist regime is like. It's a disgrace to those that have suffered and are currently suffering. 1. Have any of these people studied at a university and couldn't graduate and/or get a job after graduating because their government began murdering their citizens and targeting those with a university education, so you fled and lost everything you worked hard for and now work hard just so you can provide a better life for your children, the life that you couldn't have? No. 2. Have any of these people selflessly given up their child just so that their child could live a safe life in another country while you remain in a country where your life is threatened? No. 3. Have any of these people lost a child, parent, relative or friend because the military started firing at random people in the street? No. 4. Have any of these people lost access to the internet, have no access to TV and been basically cut off from the rest of the world because the fascist government wants to prevent protests from happening and engage in mass killings and who knows what else after dark? No. These people are a disgrace and looking at them you can tell what type of people they are. They obviously don't have anything upstairs.
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  1102. People will be cruel, regardless of ethnic origin. These same cases happen in other countries where there is no local Indian community like Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
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  1103. Americans don't see Indians as Asians because of their broken education system. Don't go telling actual Asian people in Asia that Indians are not Asians. India is in Asia, so they're Asians. Wth imagine forcing your foreign perspective onto Asian people. Asians are tired of this nonsense from Western countries. Leave Asia alone.
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  1104. What needs to be done is that India should be isolated from the international community until it starts treating girls and women properly, otherwise this will never end. The men know there is no consequences for their actions, just a protest that leads to nothing.
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  1105. So focused on appearance and yet I could point out 10 Acehnese in the video that look more like typical Indians than typical Javanese. What now? ☠
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  1106.  @Aurelianightshade  India is not a continent
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  1107.  @kerryvanskonsol792  You didn't get the joke 😭
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  1108.  @Itriedtobe-wq9lj  The modern Indian army is not a direct product of British rule. They built that army on their own accord. Those railway lines that the Indians ride on were laid out by poor Indian labourers under the commandment of the British. Europeans love to claim the positives of colonisation but will NEVER accept the negatives European colonisation brought. They will get upset when people speak about Chinese influence in the Global South and call it "neocolonialism". The sheer irony. Just accept it, China is the leader of the Global South and they're contributing more without the need to colonise and rule an entire nation for their own benefit. BTW, the British wanted those railway networks so they could transport their soldiers and other people around the nation, they did not gaf about the Indians.
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  1109. The UK and US are far away from Asia and will never experience the type of carnage and destruction that this region will endure if China and the US go to war.
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  1110.  @hankjones3527  Young Australians don't want them here.
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  1111. @whoareyou3185 Imagine being triggered by something that doesn't affect you
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  1112. @whoareyou3185 You really just said that?? LOL so embarrassing. Cringe
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  1113. Such an interesting documentary. I learned a lot.
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  1114. It surprises me that Pakistan, which has existed for longer and larger in size, has been surpassed by Bangladesh (which was once part of Pakistan and described as a "basket case" in the 1970s). Bangladesh is now described as an "Asian Tiger" and has a plan to become fully developed by 2041. There are multiple factors involved but I think the constant looking outward frame of mind instead of focusing on yourself as well as the heavy reliance on religion and continued rise in religious conservatism is why Pakistan is so far behind. The 21st Century is described as the Asian Century as so many Asian nations lift themselves up and remain relatively stable but then there's Pakistan which is described as being on the "brink of collapse".
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  1115.  @starrynight43451  There had to be incentives to equalise the playing field but expulsion was just embarrassing for the native Ugandans because the economy collapsed overnight. It was so bad that the new Ugandan president had to ask the Indian Ugandan refugees to come back from the UK to save the economy.
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  1116.  @loelds4817  Indonesians: "FREE PALESTINE, MUSLIM SOLIDARITY" Also Indonesians:
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  1117. People like Oliver Stian Hugaas won't understand why Singapore took action right away because they don't live in a nation as successful as Singapore. Singapore is a successful multiethnic nation that doesn't have the type of ethnic or cultural issues present in the West. So of course these types of beliefs are concerning because the founding fathers of Singapore created a successful peaceful multiethnic nation that cannot be found in the West.
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  1118.  @krishnanunnimadathil8142  and how many Tamil, Assamese, Manipuri, Muslim, Malayali, Andamanese, Kashmiri, Dalit, Shudra prime ministers has India had? Zero. People in glass houses should not throw stones.
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  1119. Thailand and Myanmar don't like each other.
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  1120. @SuryaKumar01-j3k Imagine creating a fake account larping as an Indian. Jobless behaviour
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  1121.  @ffpredator5214  Stop embarrassing yourself. Look at that account, they're from Pakistan not China.
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  1122. The fact that people are celebrating this is why India is going to be left behind...
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  1123. Don't cry pro-American
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  1124.  @BillyGold007  Australian/Indian? They are in Asia, they're closer to Maldives and India.
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  1125. Aung San Suu Kyi had no real power at that time. If it helps you, there is now a Rohingya politician that has been elected to Aung San Suu Kyi's political party (NUG).
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  1126. It's Indian men to be specific because I have never seen a single Indian woman say such a thing.
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  1127.  @nicktubby9710  Australia is far away from China. There is no expansionism going on here.
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  1128.  @proximacentauri3627  I also can't believe you compared WW2 to China's rise in Asia. Has China invaded another country as of 2024? Has China genocided an entire ethnic group in another country the way Japanese orchestrated Sook Ching in Singapore? Has China imported comfort women from around Asia the way the Japanese pulled women from around Asia?
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  1129.  @VinayakP  Why would they talk about that? They're very clearly talking about a nuclear submarine base.
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  1130.  @georgebrantley776  India isn't going to get involved in anything. India is like other other South and Southeast Asian countries, they will always choose to remain neutral unless their safety is jeopardised.
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  1131. Giving $50 million while the Rajapaksas were still in power was the worst thing that could have been done. You really think that money could have gone anywhere else? Giving money to the food bank like what Penny Wong also did was a better choice.
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  1132. When some educated young people of a country intend to leave to make their future better, there is total opposition but for Ukraine, it's okay.
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  1133.  @AB_NYC  Actually we do because India is not even on par with other developing Asian nations. When will y'all actually make your country "great"?
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  1134. The Indian Ocean doesn't belong to India though.
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  1135.  @MyGratian  That's very true but it was the Balinese and Ambonese who mostly married Sinhalese women while many of the Indonesian Muslim men married Sri Lankan Moor women because they were Muslims too.
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  1136.  @martinprice6215  Wait until you find out that Philippines claims Vietnam's claimed territory in the South China Sea and that Taiwan claims the entire region as theirs.
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  1137. Sri Lanka was once on the right path but because of their government's obsession with race and correcting the "wrongs" of the past, they never made it. They should have recognised the fact that the country is ethnically diverse and made use of that instead of trying to homogenise it.
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  1138.  @shivambakhshi4859  I agree that India is a stable nation but the answer is not absorbing other countries. Sinhalese is an Indo-Aryan language but has a lot of Tamil influence. It is closest to Maldivian and the Vedda language (which Old Sinhala borrowed heavily from and merged into its Indo-Aryan substrate). Sinhalese and Maldivian sound similar and they diverged from North Indian languages around 5th century BCE. Anyway, speaking a language part of the same genetic family doesn't mean much in my opinion. The Santhal people of India speak an Austroasiatic language just like the Vietnamese but those two groups are quite different from each other culturally and physically.
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  1139. How is this Western?
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  1140.  @asmirann3636  The culture in India allows this to happen. Protests happen all the time because it happens ALL THE TIME IN INDIA.
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  1141. 1. They're neutral 2. They provided humanitarian aid to Ukraine (so did China) Why do you want Asian countries to get involved in a European war? So much effort to convince India to pick a side but this same energy was never given to Myanmar. Where were the US politicians flying to India demanding the Indians stop doing business with the Myanmar military who staged a coup and committed a genocide?
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  1142. Chinese are also found across Asia just like the Jews across Europe. Chinese people settled all over Asia between the 18th and 20th centuries (North Korea, South Korea, Japan, across the whole of Southeast Asia, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Chinese Muslims in Central Asia). They all established Chinatowns and their businesses and all created their own localised versions of Chinese cuisine. In a way, the Chinese diaspora in Asia and the love of the localised Chinese cuisines across the continent by other Asians are some of the factors that bind the region together.
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  1143.  @irs4486  The ironic thing about all of this is that East Asians descends from the Basal East Asians and the Basal East Asians are genetically related to the ancestors of modern South Asians and Southeast Asians and all three ancient groups looked similar to one another with flat nose and brown skin. Modern East Asians developed a lighter skin tone because the Basal East Asians gave rise to what is known as Neo-East Asians. However the ancestors of modern East Asians once had brown skin and features more closer to tribals in South and Southeast Asia today. Look up the facial reconstruction of Tianyuan (Basal East Asian). From a population genomics standpoint, the whole thing is amusing to me because his ancestors are East Eurasians just like other Asians. He has no connection to Europeans.
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  1144.  @rickgolder6818  Absurd claims made by an Indian nationalist. There is NOT a single Indian ruler that ruled the entirety of South Asia (not Indian subcontinent, it's called South Asia). Where are these delusional beliefs coming from? This is the point, y'all love to say the whole of South Asia was once part of India and degrade these other countries of their sovereignty by calling it "Akhand Bharat" but in the same breath get mad triggered at China claiming Aksai Chin and Arunachal Pradesh.
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  1145. Why were you in jail? What crime did you commit?
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  1146.  @ChicMag  That's from an Indian perspective. Internationally, the territory is recognised as disputed and depicted as such. Indians always get upset at the international map but just imagine what would happen if they showed it all as part of Indian territory, the Pakistanis would be upset too. The territory is disputed and Indian-controlled Kashmir and Pakistan-controlled Kashmir are displayed the way they actually are, split between India and Pakistan.
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  1147. Migrant workers are not Korean citizens, they are not included in the statistics.
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  1148.  @adventurehunt6080  What is "indigenous"? If you want to talk about indigeneity, I already told you before that there are four groups in Nepal that are the real "indigenous" people. So what is this "indigenous" people you speak of? Don't say "indigenous" and think you're making a point.
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  1149.  @adventurehunt6080  You don't even know who I am. 15% of "Indo-European" Nepalese?? What on earth are you talking about??? Indo-European is a language family. What is "indigenous Nepalese"? Answer that instead of rambling.
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  1150.  @adventurehunt6080  You say 85% of Nepalese are "indigenous", who are they? Who is "Asian"? Everybody who is native to Asia is Asian. Are you going to tell me Kashmiri or something is not Asian? Are they "European" to you?
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  1151.  @adventurehunt6080  That's false! The first people in Asia were the deep ancestral Basal Asian populations who were all dark skinned people. Kusunda, Munda, Santhal, AASI, Hoabinhian, Andamanese etc. are all dark brown skinned people not light skinned Mongol people. The light skinned East Asian looking people that emerged later developed from these dark skinned Basal Asian populations and are part of the ESEA lineage. Go read Melinda A. Yang's genetic papers on the genetic history of Asia and learn something. 1. A genetic history of migration, diversification, and admixture in Asia - Melinda A. Yang, 2022
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  1152.  @adventurehunt6080  Leave the study and documentation of genetic history of Asian people to the advanced nations of East Asia and Singapore (even India and Thailand), not Nepal. Focus first on developing your country instead of believing in these fake ideologies, stop hanging off the coat tails of more successful Asian nations because you can't be proud of your own heritage. BTW, Indo-European languages emerged in Central Asia. Last time I checked Central Asia is in Asia.
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  1153.  @adventurehunt6080  Final comment part 1, the first inhabitants of all of Asia from India, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Cambodia, Vietnam and NEPAL were all dark skinned people like Kusunda, AASI, Andamanese, Hoabinhian etc. They are the predecessors to the modern people that now live across Asia.
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  1154.  @adventurehunt6080  The Indo-European-speaking people and Tibeto-Burman people that settled in Nepal came later and intermixed with the native brown skinned people of the land. Indo-European is from Central ASIA. Can't you see "Indo" in the name? It is Eurasian. Source: Genetic Connections and Convergent Evolution of Tropical Indigenous Peoples in Asia - Lian Deng, Yuwen Pan et al. 2021
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  1155.  L  Yeah I know, that's why I'm teling you that you shouldn't believe them because they're some CCP supporter and we all know how those CCP supporters behave.
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  1156.  @Leiska86  That entire region was known by different names by the people living in the region now known as India such as "Bharat" by the natives, "Hindustan" by the Persians, "Tenjiku" by the Japanese and "Tianzhu" by the Chinese. It may not correlate directly to modern India but the region was united at various times by different empires like the Mauryan Empire.
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  1157.  @NVGEAR  People can't sneak into Australia by boat. You're sent back if you come by boat. I don't know why you would think that's the case. Australia has a hard border for all sorts of things, including tourists and importation of plants and animals.
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  1158.  @Aadarsh__purush  Always blaming others. It's 2024, the rest of Asia is charging ahead and yet India still remains almost the same as it did in the 1990s. Be serious.
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  1159.  @SimonT-xo7qf  Europe is always there waiting
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  1160. Thy still believe in caste though
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  1161.  @Tounguepunchfartbox  Yeah but the thing is Indonesia and most other parts of Asia prefer to not pick sides. They want to be free but China and the US keep competing for influence in the region without just co-existing and it's making people very frustrated. Most countries in Asia do no want to pick a side so they keep hedging between China and the US hoping that a are between the two will not occur.
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  1162.  @dylangeorge2441  Sri Lanka's fertility rate is low. Their population is only 22 million. Their population is set to peak and decline from 2037 onwards and you're saying they're having 5 kids? Their low population growth and rising life expectancy has resulted in a rapidly growing aging population, one of the highest in Asia. They also began to rely on foreign labour from other parts of Asia to full up vacant positions in their job market because of the growing lack of young people in the country. So what's with the stereotypical views of developing nations? You have access to Google, use it if you don't know what you're talking about!
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  1163.  @dylangeorge2441  You'd be saying the same about Europe if they didn't colonise the world resulting in ~900 million Europeans living outside of Europe. Most Asians stayed in Asia (Asian diaspora stands around 50-60 million with the Indians, Chinese and Indonesians having the largest diasporas - 17, 10 and 8 million respectively ) so that's why India, China and Indonesia have large populations. Sri Lanka with its 22 million is not a large population. Their woes are due to corruption. Do your research Dylan, stop being obtuse and ignorant to reality. With direct access to the internet, people will still say things that are categorically incorrect. Imagine how tired we are.🤦‍♂
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  1164. It's better that people like Peter produce this stuff and release it to the public for free. Also, it's a bit more raw mixed in with scenic moments and that's so much better for something like this.
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  1165. So people not being able to eat rice (which is the staple food in Sri Lanka) is funny to you? You really prove that the Chinese are actually right.
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  1166.  @markostanic9442  Zero compassion
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  1167.  @markostanic9442  I'll make sure to laugh when despair comes knocking at your door
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  1168. ​ @Zoza15  Do you think low skilled people have the money to leave the country? It's the educated people who have the means to leave. You just tried to find a reason to broadcast your racist views about a group of people you have absolutely no understanding about. You are just the typical "I'm going to generalise all immigrants" person.
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  1169. What the hell are you talking about? The islands are part of India so they're part of Asia. Did you just infer that India is not part of Asia? Talk about ignorance.
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  1170.  @varun2250  What I'm saying is her mentioning her Indian heritage doesn't do anything cause she's talking about two Americans
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  1171.  @Waddle_Dee_With_Internet  No, not US
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  1172. Anti-Australian??? So talking about the racism in this country is anti-Australian. I'm so sick of this. Face up to reality
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  1173. It amuses me to see people who are in denial. Anybody who understand population genomics will know this and it's easy to learn. Start with reading Melinda A. Yang's "A genetic history of migration, diversification, and admixture in Asia" research paper. I know it's hard for you to swallow but it's the truth.
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  1174. Well you aren't going to see it if you're a normal tourist, are you? It's going to be happening behind closed doors at clubs, bars and that sort of thing.
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  1175. She's so funny. Can't take her seriously
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  1176.  @Paconennation  It's no different. Lmfao at this man trying to tell me Kenya is better LOLOLOLOL.
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  1177. Exactly, there was a recent viral tweet about a white man lying half naked on the road in Japan while Japanese people were walking around him to cross the road and that video of the streets full of rubbish because of French and American tourists in the geisha district. Funny how they didn't bring that up, especially when the Twitter accounts they featured in their video posted ran this story too.
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  1178. You created this account today, use a racist caricature of a Chinese man and use a East Asian racial slur and claim you're from Asia. People have way too much time on their hands.
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  1179. They've done well so far
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  1180. It's about Singaporeans, why would Malaysians be interviewed?
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  1181. Buddhism, Hinduism and other Eastern religions are deeply intertwined. The prevalence of Hindu-derived deity worship in various parts of Buddhist Asia is because of the Hindu influence. Phra Phrom (Thai depiction of Brahma) as featured in the video cannot be tied to Buddhism but more broadly to the general Dharmic/Indic culture that exists in Thailand. Thai people also popularly worship Ganesha, a deity that does not exist in Buddhist cosmology and Thai people also visit Hindu temples in Thailand. Some of the largest Ganesha statues outside of India are located in Thailand. Phra Phrom in Thai-style is also worshipped by ethnic Chinese across Southeast Asia and southern China. In Hong Kong, there is a famous Phra Phrom statue that is frequented by Chinese people. In Japan, there are Japanese versions of Ganesha, Shiva and Skanda and in Sri Lanka, you will find Buddhist people worshipping local folk gods as well as Hindu gods inside some Buddhist temples like Seema Malaka. The same thing applies to other Buddhist groups in Asia.
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  1182.  @mensrea1251  It's not when men's rights movements and s*men extremism are a thing in Korea
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  1183. The man has features that resemble many Nepalese/Himalayan people. That's expected because one of the ancestral populations of the Jomon is related to the Kusunda who are tribal group in Nepal that is a mix of Ancient Ancestral Southern Indian (AASI) and Northern East Asian (NEA).
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  1184. Don't scream "Islamophobia" when y'all are doing this.
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  1185.  @PEMILIK_SANGKAKALA  No it's not "Indian DNA". Indian is a nationality, there is no such thing as "Indian DNA".
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  1186. The fertility rates of Singapore's three main ethnic groups look like this: Chinese - 0.94, Indian - 0.97 and Malay - 1.83. The Chinese and Indians have the lowest in Singapore and the Chinese and Indians have been living in Singapore for many generations before the modern nations of China and India were even formed. Chinese, Indians and Malays they all share Singaporean culture. Thus, they are far removed from the cultural psyche of China and India respectively and cannot be compared to places like Canada. It would be like comparing French-Quebec Canadians with French in France. The report you quoted is from 2010 and there are several factors as to why that is now outdated, one of which is that the fertility rate for South Asian women would've declined for natural reasons, it would've been low to begin with considering the people in question would've been of a higher status and thus having probably 2 kids while Chinese immigrants came from a One-Child Policy era China and were used to being an only sibling and thus would've only had 1 kid. Additionally, when we look at the fertility rates in India which now stands at 2 and everywhere else in South Asia, except for Pakistan, it's below replacement level so the idea that the fertility rate of South Asian women in Canada, even with new immigrants, wouldn't have decreased doesn't make sense. It would've decreased and regardless, the difference would've likely been 1 between the two groups anyway. We're talking about higher quality immigrants and then their first generation offspring, who are adapted to the local culture.
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  1187.  @downtomars6268  Well in Singapore, you can clearly see that the Chinese and Indians have the lowest rates, the Malays have below replacement level fertility too but it's higher simply because they are Muslims. The case of Singapore however cannot be compared to Canada where people are composed of recent immigrants and ethnic groups with different cultures. Singaporeans may be ethnically diverse but they all share the same Singaporean values that Lee Kuan Yew called "Asian values". The fertility rates among Singapore's three main groups are all below replacement level and they are all from the same Singaporean cultural background and so this talk of ethnic differences or culture makes no sense here.
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  1188. Way to generalise two regions that have nothing to do with this. Rohingyas are from Myanmar, a SOUTHEAST ASIAN country. They aren't from South Asia. Your hatred for Middle East and South Asia is so insane because I don't see people from Nepal, India, Bhutan, Maldives behaving like this and neither from the Middle Eastern countries like Iran, Jordan, Türkiye or Oman.
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  1189.  @comparatio9148  It's overly long? That's your excuse to excuse your prejudicial views? You said "South Asia" as if half of the cultural heritage of Southeast Asia did not originate in South Asia (Hindu-Buddhist) and claimed that Southeast Asia is moderate and humble while the cultures of South Asia (and the Middle East, which I have no idea why you brought up) is "aggressive". The only aggressive people I see here are Indonesian Achenese Muslims who are internationally well known for public floggings and harsh conservative Islamic practices. Stop generalising entire regions or people because you hate people from South Asia (or the Middle East). I'm going to feel a lot more safe and calm in a place like the Maldives or Bhutan or Sri Lanka than in Aceh in Indonesia.
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  1190.  @hillbillyintheasia6122  Yeah I can definitely see the parallels between China's increasing pro-Asian rhetoric and Japan's WW2-era "Asia for the Asians" rhetoric.
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  1191.  @snippledipple9515  They're from the Maldives, they probably didn't compelled to watch it because they already know about it.
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  1192. False
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  1193. @Dnpe There are plenty of examples of how lockdowns did work. The reason why Asia-Pacific had tremendously low fatality rates and death tolls compared to the US, Canada and Europe in 2020 and 2021 is due to the lockdowns. Cultural mentality played a huge role in Asia's success in using lockdowns. Eastern cultures focus on community so it's the community's wellbeing over the individual's. This is different in Western cultures where individualism is prized. This is why the US and Europe were rocked very early on with calls of "freedom" and denouncing lockdowns and use of masks. Sri Lanka is experiencing mass protests because their government stole all of their money, it has nothing to do with COVID-19 lockdowns.
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  1194.  @gilyanajune7081  I say the concept of "race" is flawed because genetics is much more than just appearance. The dark skinned Papuan people are genetically related to East Asians because they both descend from East Eurasian lineages. The Andamanese tribes of India look very similar to Sub-Saharan Africans but more than half of their DNA is of East Asian origin and are genetically closer to East Asians more so than they are to other South Asians. Terms like "Caucasoid" and "Mongoloid" focus purely on appearance and not about skin deep genetics.
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  1195.  @dekuwar4436  You are focusing on a few people without seeing the goodness that's happening all around you. I am well aware of how the Rajapaksas came to power. I am well aware of ultranationalist monks and other people but I don't understand how you can't be happy that progress is being made, even if it's a little. It's a pleasant surprise to me to see Buddhists and Catholic nuns eating food with Muslims for Iftar for example. You ought to be glad that there are people waking up and realising the wrong things that have happened in their country. Progress has to start somewhere, it's not that hard to understand.
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  1196.  @mysteryuntold9531  Are you admitting that the Tamil Tigers did the same to the Muslims and other groups? Both were wrong. Cry about it.
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  1197.  @kihihil1196  If one can't see that both the LTTE and the SL government are evil, then there is no point talking. However, congratulations on supporting the k wording of innocent people all because a certain group of people couldn't fight for their community without creating a suicide bomb. FYI, there are Tamils and Tamil groups in Sri Lanka that never supported the LTTE. It may do you well to do some reading on them.
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  1198.  @Jancan20  That's like saying we're all Africans.
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  1199.  @captainalex157  India doesn't need the US or Europe to develop quickly, they've had plenty of time to develop quickly with American and European FDI and look what they have to show for it in 2023. They're a country that plays all sides and considering the fact that the US doesn't want India to develop into a competitive nation and it has become clearer by the day ever since Russia invaded Ukraine, the Indians have already lost. The thing is India doesn't want to become a world power, many think rising nations want to become world powers but that's not what many emerging nations actually want. India simply wants to maintain their sphere of influence in Asia without being bothered. India has pursued neutrality ever since the culmination of WW2, that won't change anytime soon and the Ukraine War has only reinforced the fact that they will remain neutral and conduct business in the way that it suits them.
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  1200.  @riderchallenge4250  and US military presence everywhere is why there is growing backlash. Don't be surprised if those three countries and a selection of other Global South nations find ways to detach from the US-oriented world order. The Ukraine War changed a lot of non-Western people's perceptions for the worse (from an American perspective that is).
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  1201.  @xcutioner5411  Th Korean Wave began in China in the 1990s and ultimately spread to the rest of Asia by the 2000s. We are now in 2023 and the Korean Wave in Asia is bigger than it ever was and is now popular all over the world. I really don't see it ending anytime soon. It's been popular for decades. What country are you from by the way?
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  1202.  @dhdhdyd926  Rohingyas are not from India or Bangladesh, racist
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  1203.  user-jm4mt9mg4e  Myanmar is NOT the victim. Ordinary Burmese are the victims of the Tatmadaw, that includes Tatmadaw. Tatmadaw is discriminating all minority groups in Myanmar and Bamar people who don't support the Tatmadaw. This is why all Burmese people are fighting against the Tatmadaw and trying to restore democracy. One of the prominent pro-democracy activists in Myanmar is a Rohingya woman called Wai Wai Nu. Get your facts straight!
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  1204. Not all Sri Lankan migrants behave like this. So many Sri Lankan people have come to Australia, since the colonial days (Burghers and Buddhists) but now they're bringing in everybody, like this Christian migrant. The Australian government should stop letting people into this country!
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  1205. She did say "Asian Americans", they are Americans.
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  1206. Me when I'm delulu
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  1207.  @InhabitantOfOddworld  I don't think anybody who understands Buddhism would try to pursue a "pure" form of Buddhism, that would be impossible because of its connections with other Dharmic religions like Hinduism as you say.
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  1208. They'll go to Vietnam, Bangladesh and Taiwan - these were the three countries that benefited during Trump's first term.
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  1209.  @Kwippy  Y'all always make it about yourselves, don't you? I hope that all of those countries you mentioned continue to keep quiet because that war has nothing to do with them. While you blame them look back at history and see who was there for them (excluding Pakistan). Oh that's right it was the Soviet Union, while the US was against them.
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  1210.  @fiasco-08  They're not Muslim, so nothing to worry about.
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  1211.  @iamgreat1234  No. The majority of Singaporeans speak English. 48.3% of Singaporeans speak English frequently at home compared to 29.9% of Singaporeans who speak Mandarin frequently at home. English is the lingua franca of the country, almost everybody in the country knows how to speak it.
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  1212. Are you native? No you aren't. You're a European living in Canada. Indians deserve to be in Canada just as much as you LOL
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  1213.  @Mr.Septon  Sorry but the thing is nobody wants an Asian NATO here. That's what I'm saying. The establishment of something like that is going to lead to an arms race, militarisation and the forcing of nations to pick sides (something many nations in the region have spoken about not wanting to do). Finland joining NATO isn't comparable to the situation in Asia because there is no NATO-like organisation like that in Asia. You believe a military alliance is the answer and as I said before, the creation of such a military alliance will lead to an arms race and the militarisation of Asia. The situation in Europe is not like the situation in Asia. Asian and Pacific nations want to maintain healthy ties with China. This is why Australia's new government has done a 180 and begun mending ties with China. People in the region also don't want outsiders to get involved, past "foreign" wars like Vietnam War and the more recent Afghanistan War have left a very bad taste in people's mouths. I'm from Australia, you may be surprised to hear that many people prefer to maintain good ties with China even though we don't agree on a lot of things.
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  1214. As much as I respect and support India, no TikTok should never return to that country or it will become another Instagram Reels. A lot of young people in India, especially the males, need to learn how to be respectful before using social media.
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  1215. ​ @possiblyzero3582  China and India's border dispute is the result of European colonisation and this is constantly brought up by Asianists. The Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau were never a source of contention in the ancient times and there are areas in the Himalayan region of India and the Tibetan region in China that are sacred to followers of Dharmic faiths. One of the most important sites in Hinduism is located in modern China. So the border dispute isn't something of their doing, the Indians simply inherited it from the British Raj.
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  1216. Hinduism didn't spread to Iran because India's contact was with other parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia. It was people from eastern and southern India, who are further away from Iran, that took Indian cultural concepts to Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia.
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  1217. Asian Boss has done more for the ASIAN community than any of the so-called Asian American YouTube channels and social media accounts that are based in the Western world that continuously speak about their limited and warped ideas on what "Asian" identity is have ever done. Thank goodness for Asians in Asia actually helping Asians in Asia. This is real ASIAN SOLIDARITY, not the stuff those people peddle under the YouTube videos on so-called "Asian culture". Thank you Asian Boss, you truly are the best Asian channel on YouTube.
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  1218. Then the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks happened and close relations between Pakistan and the US endured, even though the terrorists came from Pakistan. This happened during the era of Bush. In 2011, Bin Laden was found hiding in Pakistan but the US continued to maintain close relations with Pakistan. The first president in 21st century US history to really take things to another level was Donald Trump. Regardless of what people feel for him, his attitude towards India and Indian people was different to other presidents. I don't know which type of Indians were receptive to things he said but I do remember the articles about how he focused on India, which was different to previous presidents that had maintained focus on Pakistan. I'm not a fan of Trump but in regards to US relations with India, he was willing to bend the rules and deviate from traditional US foreign policy.
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  1219. The UN doesn't just interfere unless asked. India can't do anything unless Bhutan tells India to do something. If India were to just interfere in Bhutan's affairs, that would be a breach of their agreement and Bhutan's sovereignty in general. Bhutan is an independent country, it can do what it wants.
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  1220. Japan's situation is really dire though because ever since the 1990s, the country's economy continues to weaken. They described the 90s as "The Lost Decade", then when the 2000s came and went, they described it as "The Lost 20 years", by the end of the 2010s they started saying "The Lost 30 years" and by the end of the 2020s, if nothing changes, it's going to be "The Lost 40 years". Collectively it's now known as the Lost Decades.
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  1221.  @blueshirt26  They are Thai Muslims with Malay blood!
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  1222.  @blueshirt26  That's history. Satun Muslims identify as Thai Muslims and don't identify with Malay supremacists.
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  1223.  @blueshirt26  That's history. Satun Muslims identify as Thai Muslims and don't identify with Malay separatists.
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  1224. Nobody in Sri Lanka will want that
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  1225. Thingyan is not a Buddhist New Year festival, I don't know why people outside of Asia think it's a Buddhist festival. It's a cultural festival. Thingyan/New Year is also celebrated in other parts of Asia like Thailand, India, Laos, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Laos and parts of China. They all follow the same lunisolar calendar.
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  1226. How exactly is China in trouble?
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  1227. @ME Russia is at fault because they invaded Ukraine, causing destruction and jeopardising the world's stability. So yes Russia is to blame as is NATO.
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  1228.  @VINLAND_777  1. Who continues to partake in the destablisation of the world by continuing to antagonise Russia by expanding NATO? 2. Who is violently beating international students? 3. Who is being called a "nation of (expletive) liars" for not doing enough to help Ukraine? 4. Who continues to proclaim they are he hero hen they have a violent history of bringing permanent destruction to other countries?
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  1229.  @thaitraveller9756  I look at all different sources, I don't just rely on one news source like some people.
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  1230. Buddhism emerged as a result of the Buddha's disagreement with the Vedic practices of the high caste populations.
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  1231.  @CarinneGbeke  I know of plenty in Asia.
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  1232.  @MISTERPERFECT3806  That's why there's tonnes of Black men dating in Asia Indian women right?
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  1233. Indo-Pacific is just another name for Asia-Pacific, it means the same thing.
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  1234. It's correct
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  1235.  @alternateunreleasedshellac505  cause not everybody is Christian
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  1236.  @grabble7605  It's not that serious. Not everybody hates their colonial heritage. There are many classical elements of colonial heritage that have influenced Sri Lankan society and "Ceylon" is one example of that. The country was known as Ceylon for a long time until the nationalists decided to change the name, the reality is that it should have still been called Ceylon in my opinion.
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  1237.  @RextheRebel  India is located in Asia.
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  1238.  @sriharshacv7760  Okay but size is not the question, Sri Lanka is culturally, ethnically and historically distinct as explained in the video. Sri Lankan society is a mix of Sinhalese, Tamil, Moor, Malay and Burgher cultural elements. It's evident in the cuisine, the languages (Sinhalese, Tamil, Sri Lankan Malay) and the culture. Sri Lanka and Sri Lankan people are "Sri Lankan" because of the cultural interaction between the Sinhalese, Tamil, Moor, Malays and Burghers.
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  1239. What have Burmese got to do with this? Are you aware that their country was colonised by the Japanese? Also, why generalise all Japanese and Burmese? This like brandishing all Anglo-Celtic Australians with the same brush for what they've done to the Aboriginal Australians.
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  1240. Also, this is literally about Singapore. Your stereotypes about Indian men or whatnot don't apply in Singapore where everybody speaks English.
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  1241.  @starrynight43451  No it's not.
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  1242.  @Gustav_fringe  The point is that it was never a part of India.
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  1243.  @EleanorL_20  Notice how this White Australian woman asked me what I feel about Asian countries and their issues? Notice how this woman views me as a foreigners despite being born and raised in Australia? She is associating me with Asia despite not even being from there. FYI, my ancestors came from a small Asian country. I'm not Chinese, Indian, Indonesian, Vietnamese or Korean or any of those big groups.
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  1244.  @shikharsrivastava3558  Indians are moving to the US/EU cause they want jobs. Them moving to the US/EU doesn't change the fact that locals in those countries don't view them positively. So many Indians are moving to Canada, you think Canadians are jumping with joy? It's the literal opposite.
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  1245.  @Rhonda996  They need to seal your country off from the rest of the world atp to figure out what's going on cause how do you still not understand this??? Save Indian women.
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  1246.  @Rollinstrikepackagebravo  Well it needs to be limited more. 20K is absolutely insane.
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  1247.  @jacoblee5546  What on earth has the OP got to do with September 11 and racist? What part of their comment indicates racism?
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  1248.  svarge  Well his point doesn't make sense if he's talking only about New Zealand and most of the West but if he's talking about certain Western countries (e.g. the US), he has a point (not that anybody all the way in the US is going to care because it doesn't affect them). The reason why I say this is because people who aren't from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, UK and much of the EU know nothing about Sri Lanka. For example, Americans know nothing about Sri Lanka and it was evident in 2019 when the top Google search was "Where is Sri Lanka?" after the Easter Sunday attacks. White and Maori New Zealanders are well informed about the world around them so people knew straight away that this was an Islamic extremist from a minority ethnic group in Sri Lanka because most New Zealanders, know that Sri Lanka is a Buddhist majority country. Not to mention that Sri Lanka is a popular tourist destination in the Asia-Pacific and that Dilmah (a Sri Lankan tea brand) has regularly been voted the most trusted tea brand in New Zealand.
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  1249.  Saiha Homura  I'm focusing on your initial comment. Sri Lankan Buddhists, Christians or Hindus don't know who he is and to blame them is incorrect. That's like blaming the White American community in the US for the actions of a White man who shot up a school. Also, I said that he was radicalised by his Iraqi and Syrian neighbours, something that can't be ignored.
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  1250.  Saiha Homura  I'm guessing you aren't aware of who Sri Lankan people are. You saw that the terrorist was a Sri Lankan national and assumed everybody who is Sri Lankan is a Muslim when in reality the majority are actually Buddhists and the second largest group are Hindus and that Muslims are only a minority who speak a different language to the majority and practice a different culture.
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  1251.  @jayseaandfriends  Why are you liking your own comments? It literally says 1 minute ago and there's a like, I wasn't born yesterday. Did you read the entirety of the OP's comment? Arden's comments mean nothing because it was done by an individual representing a religion. The OP clearly asks at the end of his comment why Arden didn't mention the religion that the man belonged to, when the attack was done in the name of religion. No, you're just making stuff up at this point. Pointing out the inccurate statement made by Arden is not demanding an apology. Where is this coming from? Are you aware of the fact that most Sri Lankans are Buddhists? Look at the people attacking the OPor liking comments in agreement, I'm guessing none of them know anything about Sri Lanka and assume once again it's "Muslims playing the victim" when it's not.
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  1252.  @arifrafique1439  The Taliban is from Pakistan... Let's not forget the fact that Pakistanis are currently celebrating on the street and on social media that the Taliban have taken over Afghanistan.
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  1253.  @Kat-k6e  I posted a comment about how I feel bad for Indian females and my comment disappeared.
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  1254. You deliberately left the rest of what he said out. He said that because he believes that India is not a real country because each of its states has its own ethnic group, language and culture and that it only became a country because the British colonised it. Next time make sure you quote properly wumao.
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  1255.  @physicsonline8853  He said it because each of India's states has its own ethnic group, language and culture, that is not the case in China. In India, there is no binding common native language among the states of India unlike in China where Mandarin was made the uniting language of the ethnic groups of China. English, a foreign language, is the uniting language of India which is only the case because it was colonised. Had it not been colonised, there would be no binding language. One has to think beyond the realm of national identity and think why is it that India's non-Hindi-speaking ethnic groups refuse to accept Hindi and view the issue as imposition. Why do they prefer to use English instead of an Indian language like Hindi as the lingua franca? When Lee said those things he made them in relation to China. While the Chinese population was accepting of Mandarin, the Indian population is not accepting of Hindi. So one has to ask, is the latter truly a country?
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  1256.  @physicsonline8853  Nobody speaks Hindi in South India. That is what I'm saying. Nobody goes around and communicates in Hindi. If they're going to speak to another Indian, it's in English.
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  1257.  @matgranger5061  Why do Indian men always deny things?
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  1258. Most of the world (most of Asia, most of Oceania and the entirety of Africa and Latin America) is actually neutral. So what world are you talking about?
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  1259. So then why does India still look the way that it does?
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  1260.  @santhoshv3028  Indian is a nationality. Indian is not an ethnic group. How many times do I need to say this? That means Sri Lankans are NOT Indians by blood. Sinhalese are NOT from east India. They emerged in Sri Lanka from an East Indian-related lineage that mixed with indigenous groups. Sri Lankan Tamils also mixed with indigenous groups. Sinhalese and Sri Lankan Tamils are closer to one another than they are to groups outside of Sri Lanka. Try to respect the fact that Sri Lankans are their own people and are NOT Indians.
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  1261.  @santhoshv3028  Sri Lankans are NOT Indians by blood. Indian is a NATIONALITY. Aren't the schools good in India? South Asian DNA components does NOT mean "Indian blood". 💀The major components found in Sri Lankans are AASI, Neolithic Farmer and Southeast Asian. Each of these components are found at differing levels in other parts of South Asia. Stop coping so hard.
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  1262.  @santhoshv3028  No, South Asian wasn't called India in the past. Sri Lanka has always been separate from India. Read the Mahavamsa please. Mainland South Asia was a collection of kingdoms at that and only ever united under the British lmfao. Sri Lanka was known as Taprobane, Serendib, Silan never India. Yes Southeast Asian. Sri Lanka shares close cultural ties to Southeast Asia. This is why Indians need to learn about South Asia. Sri Lanka was settled by Sri Lankan Malays in the 13th century and then again during the Dutch era. A lot of Sri Lankans are of full or partial Malay ancestry. I have some Malay ancestry for example. LEARN ABOUT SRI LANKA!
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  1263.  @arjunraj823  Sri Lankans are not Indians, Arjun. The Republic of India is a modern entity. That would be like saying we're all Africans or Koreans are Chinese.
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  1264.  @tulip811  It's still part of Chinese culture. North Korea is lenient towards Buddhism and East Asian beliefs because it's part of traditional Korean culture.
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  1265.  @jaymahakaal5354  The core teachings are the same.
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  1266.  @Unfollowthem  Chakma people still live in their native lands in the Chittagong Hill Tracts along with the Bengali-speaking Barua and Marma people. All of these groups have close ties to the people of Rakhine in Myanmar.
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  1267. Well this is the case in East Asia/Vietnam too. Chinese influence spread peacefully across East Asia and Vietnam and interacted with the Indosphere (Indian-influenced Asia) and more peaceful interaction occurred.
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  1268. @ If the elderly in the US are falling for a scam call then they deserve to be scammed
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  1269. Sikkimese people are ethnically diverse. All people living in Sikkim migrated from somewhere. All of the people that lived in Sikkim are also found in Nepal and Bhutan, none in Tibet. These borders are only modern, they've all been living there for centuries.
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  1270. The Indian nationalists will be cheering and clapping because you depicted Nepal and Sri Lanka as territories of India even though they were controlled by independent kingdoms during the ancient era. 💀
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  1271.  @madhusoodanprasad2248 Yep because they realised the truth.
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  1272.  @itsblitz4437  India and Japan have large stakes in Myanmar and a Chinese invasion of any sort is not going to down well. It's actually quite the opposite, China, India and Japan are at odds with each other over disputed territory but they all agree on not interfering in Myanmar's affairs simply because of their economic and political interests in the country.
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  1273.  @jacku8304  The entire country was made up of different kingdoms that were united under the British but the reality is that bulk of Northeast India is culturally like the rest of India in that they were influenced by Hinduism and that same cultural civilisation.
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  1274.  @doit2810  For example, an Indian Kpop idol went viral in China, South Korea and Southeast Asia for the way she looks and for being Indian last year and she gained so many fans as a result. Additionally, there is a Malaysian singer of Indian descent that sings in Mandarin that is popular in China and won one of the Chinese TV singing competitions. An Indian movie, I can't remember the name, became really popular on Netflix in other Asian countries besides India, including Thailand and South Korea and sparked a makeup trend. It was a Malay woman that started the San Sanana trend that went viral on TikTok this year. For people outside of Asia, there is very little Indian representation in pop culture so their hate is way worse compared to other Asians hating on Indians.
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  1275. Is it Australia's problem? No, it's Myanmar. Hold Myanmar responsible
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  1276. It's correct
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  1277.  @onengkusumah2905  Just worry about your country which is Indonesia, you are not Australian.
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  1278.  @AdvaiticOneness1  Buddhism is a Dharmic religion related to Hinduism
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  1279. They decided to end long term visas but they haven't been asked to leave. They'll have to pay $50 for another 30-day tourist visa if they want to remain in the country. If they don't want to pay then they'll have to leave but $50 is nothing and I don't imagine them leaving when they've settled in the country and run their own businesses. There is still a free visa scheme that is given to Russians as well as to several Asian nationalities (Chinese, Indian, Thai, Japanese, Malaysian and Indonesian).
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  1280.  @aesop1451  Europeans and East Asians are not related at all. This is kanging at the greatest extent. East Asians are also not descendants of Ancient North Eurasians. East Asians are 100% East Eurasian and are completely unrelated to Europeans, they descend from a Tianyuan-related ancestor that gave rise to Northern East Asian and Southern East Asian.
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  1281.  Gj  That's due to ethnicity. It literally has nothing to do with religion. There are Sinhalese Christians.
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  1282.  @wakilahmedb20344  India, Pakistan and Bangladesh have gigantic populations incomparable to Sri Lanka which only has 22 million people. Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis are the ones who migrate in large numbers, they're all found in Sri Lanka too either as workers or as refuges at the UNHCR centre hoping to be sent to a developed nation. Sri Lankans don't leave the way Indians and Pakistanis do and for one clear reason: most of the population is middle aged or elderly. It has the highest proportion of elderly people in South Asia. The only people who will leave Sri Lanka are young people, who are soon to be a shrinking demographic in the nation because the fertility rate was already low for decades.
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  1283.  @Ankitamishra27999  No but they're right. There is a culture in India that allows this type of thing to happen in India. Where have all the good men gone? Why are the police just as bad? Why can't Indian women be free? They deserve respect.
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  1284.  @official-hb4mr  Did you read any of my comments or are you just trying to start an argument? Can you not see how I called all of them out for constantly comparing?
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  1285.  @official-hb4mr  It really is not my problem if you haven't read through my comments and understood what I have said. Do not start an argument with me because you haven't read my comments properly.
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  1286.  @alive9386  Are you aware that Asian cultures were culturally influenced by India and China? What makes you think they're very different? We all have similarities. China and India are the mother civilisations of Asia just like Greece and Rome of Europe. Also, what makes you think all East and Southeast Asians look the same? Sultan of Brunei looks more like an Indian despite being full Malay (Southeast Asian) and NE Indians aren't the only people that look East Asian or Southeast Asian in India. Can't believe someone just posed this comment and was serious about it lmaoo
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  1287.  @kakashihatake1113  Firstly, most of Sri Lanka's debt is owed to Western institutions. Secondly, this is why India will forever remain a poor country with only 10% ultra-rich people controlling most of the country's wealth and why all of the educated people will leave India in droves. So many educated Indian students move to my country to study and then they remain here and become PR of my country. Chinese students, on the other hand, come here and study and then move back.
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  1288. There is a Rohingya minister in the Burmese government-in-exile, Burmese are united and you're here claiming they are from South Asia. Sick!
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  1289. @WontArgueWithOneOnwards If it means anything, I do. 🫶
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  1290.  @andrewg7610  There are no victims. Nobody's life was destroyed because he was caught when he arrived in Singapore. Drugs don't go floating around society in Singapore. So no, there are no victims.
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  1291. That's why I say "East Asian" and "Southeast Asian" and "South Asian". Some people also use ESEA to describe East and Southeast Asians in some appropriate contexts.
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  1292.  @dylanpt2220  Yeah it is a democracy, maybe look up what democracy means
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  1293.  @paolamaria1992  What part of Christianity had nothing to do with industrialisation do you not understand???? That's a fact, it's not ignorance.
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  1294.  @paolamaria1992  A country that combines religion, especially Abrahamic religions, with government never succeeds. Secular nations thrive, not religious theocracies
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  1295.  @paolamaria1992  because of the Christian doctrine itself??? Idk what planet you're living on but that has NOTHING to do with Christianity because Japan and Singapore and many other Buddhist-majority nations have embraced secularism too. How do you explain that???
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  1296.  @paolamaria1992  Not all African countries have Muslim communities and why blame Muslims? Christians care in control all of some of these countries that I am talking about. You can't argue any further because you've been proven wrong. Christianity drastically affects the way a society behaves. We can see how Christianity persecutes non-Christians, as was the case in South Vietnam and we can see how its has strong influence on the way people must live their lives. It changes society completely and has nothing to do with development. There is a reason why the so-called Bible Belt in the US is among the poorest regions in America. Accept these facts.
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  1297.  @calidawg111  It is, we're witnessing it in real time.
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  1298. @ So many people fail to understand what civilisation collapse means and so they keep talking about humanity surviving, this is now what this is about. It's about a civilisation being at the top and then declining, humanity surviving does not mean a civilisation has not collapsed. To continue talking about innovations and what not does not make sense because the average American isn't benefitting from any of that. Th rich are thriving but the average middle Americans aren't. US life expectancy continues to decrease and it's the middle class and lower class that will suffer.
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  1299. @ The average American's quality of life is not getting any better, it's decreasing. Talking about stats is like how Indians talk about India's GDP growth and other achievements, for the average Indian, things haven't changed. That's what's happening in the US, quality of life is decreasing. The rich will thrive though.
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  1300. They are from Myanmar, not Bangladesh!!! You are dark skinned too, Muslim man.
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  1301. Malays were not part of that. Malays came during the Dutch rule.
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  1302.  @ihavenojawandimustscream4681  The Maldives is doing fine, so is Bhutan and Bangladesh.
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  1303.  @kjellvb1979  If one is aware of the issues of modern Korean society post-modernisation, then they will understand that the show as a whole is an allegory of capitalist Korean society in particular. Yes, it's an allegory of a capitalist society in general but the show is set in South Korea and the characters have been influenced by current day events in Korean society. If this was set in the US, then there would be no North Korean defector for example. Gi-Hun's (the main character) back story would be different as the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis did not affect the US and there would be no South Asian migrant worker from Pakistan. South Korea's severe household debt crisis (which is the highest in the world) influenced the series and if it was set in the US, there may have been another reason for why Squid Game exists in that alternate American society. I guess what I'm trying to say is that the show is very specific to Korean issues and provides an allegory of a capitalist world through modern Korea.
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  1304.  @yerri5567  Homosexuality and bisexuality exist in all living species of the world. You comparing it to marrying a sibling is just wrong. Why do you care about something that doesn't affect you????
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  1305. There are a few things here I think are worth pointing out. Gautam Adani was the first person from Asia to place so high up on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, peaking at #2. White tech billionaires have traditionally dominated the list so to see an Asian person rise so high up and so quickly was unseen until last year. Adani is known to be close to Modi (a polarising figure to those in the West). Adani Group is also linked to several sectors that Modi has listed as sectors of growth that he wants to invest in as part of India's economic growth. Adani isn't just a billionaire, he's visibly linked to India's booming corporate and IT sectors or what is described as "India Inc." and has clearly said he is interested in investing in the country's development (it is Adani that announced a complete redevelopment of Dharavi, one of Asia's largest slums). So it's no surprise that fervent nationalists in India have reacted in a way in which they field like they have been attacked. Have they been attacked? I don't know. Apparently lawyers are going to be involved but India's rise hasn't sat well with everybody. The 2022 Ukraine War led to a much more neutral India that refused to bend over to the USA's demands (it angered the US so much that Biden mulled sanctioning India at one point). It also led to a sort of revival of BRICS (a Global South-dominated bloc that includes India) and the SCO (an Asian-dominated bloc led by China and of which India is a part of). It has led to anti-American sentiment to rise in India much to the excitement of China, a 2023 survey revealed 22% of Indians fear the US is India's greatest threat (only behind China). Arch-nemesis Pakistan is no longer a concern to many of them. India has also begun using other forms of currency to make purchases with other countries without US dollars. There is talk of India, China and Russia using a gold-backed currency to make transactions with each other (of which Saudi Arabia has expressed interest). India is projected to become the third biggest economy by 2027, right behind the US whereas China is expected to rise to #1.It currently has the strongest economic growth rate and has an official plan of reaching high income status by 2047. None of this is good news for the US. As Japan generated fear among Americans in the 1980s, China became the prime fear of the US in the 2010s and 2020s and now it seems India has finally joined that rank. Chinese state media for the past decade has continuously spoken about how India will face the same treatment as China is currently facing from the US once it ascends to a position where it holds more influence. The Indians never listened but if Adani's demise is anything to go by, it's that the US doesn't like a rising India controlled by Modi and those close to him. What has happened to China since the beginning of the 21st century is beginning to happen to India. Mind you, the US has never liked India they tried to attack it at one point because India tried to prevent the Bangladesh Genocide of 1971. You know who they have consistently supported however? India's arch-nemesis Pakistan, yes even after 9/11 and hiding Bin Laden, the Americans still maintain stronger ties with Pakistan than they do with India. Something to think about.
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  1306.  @SerCrispinCole  Benefit India? So we can see what the real reason is. Y'all just want to own Sri Lanka because it benefits you, not them. Please, nobody is joining anybody. Indians demanding Sri Lanka join them sound just like the Chinese government demanding Indian territory like Arunachal Pradesh, Taiwan, East China Sea and South China Sea belong to China. Don't you think it's a little ironic?
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  1307. @ There's nothing wrong with Singaproean-Indians
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  1308.  @IVEREIStan  It's Sri Lanka, it's a country located in southern Asia next to the Maldives and India and most people there practice Buddhism.
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  1309. He clearly said that Asia overall has low crime rates but then said he's focusing on East Asia
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  1310.  @user-wr4yl7tx3w  Angkor Wat wasn't built by slaves, do some research, and notice how this Westoid deflects from the question that European and North American heritage should be given to Asians? They want to claim Asian heritage but when the tables turn they get all defensive. Angkor War is Cambodian heritage, Angkor Wat is Asian heritage. Stop trying to steal it!
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  1311.  @dhisonpadma  There is slow progress in parts of South and Southeast Asia where people are challenging colorism. For example, there was a dark skinned Thai model who won a beauty pageant and she famously said at the time that she wants to be a representative for all of the dark skinned boys and girls across the whole of Asia. Also, there was discussion about why each of India's Miss Universe candidates all look the same with pale skin, long straight black hair and sharp nose last year I believe. I think the Black Lives Matter movement last year generated more discussion on colorism within Asian communities as well. However, there is still a long way to go as most big celebrities in Asia are light skinned.
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  1312. Why be racist? The women in India are suffering and you're here saying this. Of course you're a man, you don't care at all about women.
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  1313. Nothing that you said is true because she's currently at her peak and she's been in the industry since 2006 or something. She just keeps getting popular and people like you continue to get mad. 😂
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  1314. Bangladesh has a fertility rate of 1.9. Use Google, their fertility rate is below replacement level now.
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  1315.  @1525boy  Are you always this bitter and unable to accept when you are wrong? You complain about Bangladesh having high fertility and then I tell you that Bangladesh now has below replacement fertility but you're still complaining. Stop complaining!
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  1316.  @vivieneng9882  Why is it strange? Muslims speak about Muslim solidarity but when it comes to actually putting those words into actions, it's silence. Indonesians disregarding Rohingyas, Saudi Arabians, Qataris and Egyptians hating Palestinians are just two recent examples of how this solidarity doesn't exist.
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  1317.  @NP1066  They're not part of India, so why are you claiming them as your own? That's like saying China is much bigger if you group all East Asian nations together.
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  1318.  @andrzej2501  It was never good under colonisation either. The people were still poor. What India should do is listen to Xi Jinping and accept the "Asia for Asians" ideology the man has been pushing since 2014
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  1319.  @gregruppert2555  They're talking about the Americans engaging in neo-colonisation by keeping these nations down by pegging them to the US system, which is what's happening.
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  1320. Firstly, no "Asian" is not a race. Indians and Arabs are Asians. Nobody in Asia considers "Asian" to be a race. If we're being pedantic, part of the genetic lineage of Indians/South Asians is shared with East and Southeast Asians through the Pleistocene era ancestors who are all distantly related sharing a common ancestor in Tianyuan man. Just because most South Asians look different to East and Southeast Asians does not mean they are genetically complete opposites, there is some common genetic overlap. Are you aware of the fact that there Chinese looking people in India and Indian looking people in Thailand? Is one "Asian" and the other not? Secondly, "Hindu" is a religious group. There are Hindus in India, Nepal, Bali in Indonesia and other parts of South and Southeast Asia. Don't speak about Asian topics when you're not even Asian. You know nothing about us.
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  1321.  @ni3070  No, it wasn't to you. It was to another user. Sorry, their name wasn't showing but yeah I understand what you're saying. My comment was to the other user.
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  1322. +N I It was to another user. Sorry, I don't know why their name wasn't showing up but yeah I understand what you're saying. The other user said something else.
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  1323.  @raibhansjadhavrsj6352  It's actually about masculinity in the Western world. The small size stereotype is always attributed to Indians/South Asians too and those viral size of [redacted] world maps depicting India on Twitter don't help. The emasculation of South Asian men started with the British Empire when Bengali men were emasculated and feminised. South Indian men working in tech in the US have been associated with the "nerdy male who can't speak to women" stereotype. Additionally, the stereotype has been fueled due to the fact that South Asians are stereotyped as studious and that studying is more important than sport in the eyes of the general public in Western countries.
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  1324. ​ @raibhansjadhavrsj6352  Firstly, I'm not going to comment on you talking about the sizes of your private areas with your friends. Not sure why you're airing out such private details on a public platform. Like I said, you and your friends don't represent 1 billion people. Go look at the size of [redacted] world map and tell me what you see, this is where the stereotype comes from. Secondly, why Arabs? Arabs are not the same as South Asians, they're completely different. They look different, they have different cultures, everything about them is different. They have nothing to do with this and are viewed differently in Western countries. Finally, you can google it because I can't go into detail (otherwise this is going to be a very long comment and you're not going to read it). During the Age of Exploration, the Orient was feminised by the Europeans and Asian cultures and people were seen as more effeminate than Europe. The British imperialists created a trope that there was the "manly Englishman" (who was tall and big bodied) and the effeminate Bengali man (who was short and had a small body). In discussin the effeminate nature of Indian men, Thomas Babington Macaulay, a British historian of the time, had said, "The dark, slender, and timid Hindu shrank from a conflict with the strong muscle and resolute spirit of the fair race (British), which dwelt beyond the passes". This is why South Asian actors in Hollwyood are trying to break these stereotypes by portraying roles that depict South Asian men in more masculine roles. Dev Patel has increasingly been cited as an attractive man breaking existing stereotypes through the roles he has played.
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  1325.  @ThePolymerisst  The Sinhalese formed in Sri Lanka from a lineage that came from East India that mixed with the indigenous groups on the island. The Sri Lankan Tamils too also underwent differentiation on the island. This is why Sinhalese and Sri Lankan Tamils are closer to one another than they are to groups outside of Sri Lanka.
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  1326. Firstly, she's Singaporean so that's why she doesn't have an Indian accent. Secondly, that's a Singaporean accent not a Chinese accent.
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  1327. If you go around developing Asia (especially tropical Asia) like Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Laos, you will find plenty of newer young Chinese immigrants that have settled in these countries and have opened up shops and businesses. They really enjoy their new lives and like the slower pace of living. They also enjoy the fact that they don't face overt Sinophobia (which is what many news articles on the new Chinese migration have mentioned). China is now the dominant power in the Asian region and these new Chinese immigrants will be able to bring the Asian nations closer together amid turmoil in the world.
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  1328.  @jasonjones6639  Yes for bringing the rest of the world closer than ever before
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  1329. cause it is. The country is politically polarised at a horrific rate.
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  1330.  @joeshen2232  Yeah Japan is an influential country in other Asian nations like Sri Lanka and Myanmar but it doesn't change the fact that they have their own issues they must address. Japan is not as powerful economically as it was in the 1980s.
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  1331. It's so annoying when people say this because it just shows one's ignorance of Asian history and cultures. China and India are the two main cultural powers in Asia and culturally influenced East, South and Southeast Asia. People always make this distinction that "Asia" makes no sense and talk about East Asia and South Asia simply because the majority of people of East Asia and South Asia look different from each other but the reality is that culture is the binding factor here, not facial features. Ancient Asians had their own ideas of Asia such as the Japanese with the concept of "Sangoku" which centred on China, India and Japan and defined due to cultural similarities. When Imperial Japan invaded and colonised large parts of Asia during WW2 they were doing so in order to unite the areas of Asia that were culturally influenced by China and India in order to create the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. Since the Age of Exploration, Europeans have tried to divide Asians up - they did this in Singapore creating ethnic ghettos and separating the Chinese, Malays and Indians from living together, they did the same in Malaysia and sowed division in other colonies of the regions such as Myanmar and Sri Lanka. This ignorance of Asia and this idea that the concept of "Asia" makes no sense is why the Chinese government's pro-Asian rhetoric is at an all time high today, so high that it has gained sympathisers in other parts of Asia believing in ideas that Americans and Westerners in general are a threat to the stability of Asia and being radicalised into believing in Asiacentrism - in order words the CCP is echoing the same views that the Japanese did during WW2 and people in the West continue to think the concept of "Asia" makes no sense.
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  1332. Yes he is. He's from Nepal, a country located in Asia between China and India. Not all Asians look "Chinese".
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  1333.  @mattisvov  Yeah if you commit violence as a Buddhist you are breaking the first and most fundamental teaching that the Buddha taught which was to not take the life of any human or animal.
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  1334.  @Ansh_yadav-zo5ns  Tulsi is not Indian. Vivek is of Indian descent but is an American.THEY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH INDIA
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  1335.  @Manish_Kumar_Singh  That's what you're mad about???? Myanmar is its own independent country, it is NOT a vassal state of India for you to be getting mad at it when it decides to its own thing. I can't believe this. You get mad at China claiming Taiwan and other parts of Asia (including Arunachal Pradesh) but in the same breath you start demanding Myanmar do things according to what India wants.
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  1336. As horrible as it sounds, it seems like something like this was meant to happen because now people in Sri Lanka are demanding a complete overhaul of the system and also realising the need to treat all ethnic groups equally. It has to start at the bottom, the people are now finally asking for it.
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  1337.  @Banom7a  Yeah but Chinese are East Asians and Singapore is in Asia. Mauritius is in Africa but most of its people are not native to Africa. Do Indo-Mauritians consider themselves Africans or South Asians or neither? I guess it doesn't matter. They're Mauritians first and foremost.
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  1338.  @hannesRSA  The conclusion of my comment would be that since colonisation - which resulted in the emergence of Eurasian communities and the idea that proximity to Whiteness gave you greater chances of success, American military intervention which boosted the sex industry in Asia during R&R as well as Westernisation has meant people in certain parts of Asia (specifically the countries I previously mentioned + East Asia) have become open towards intermarriage with White people. As a result, there ismore acceptance towards Eurasian features in pageants than there are for other mixes. In the entertainment and modelling industries in parts of Asia, looking Eurasian is considered exotic. They look Asian enough to appeal to full Asians but European enough to look exotic. Asia has a long history of considering fair skin to be attractive (before the Europeans arrived), this development of looking Eurasian is just a modern extension of an ancient ideal. That's why you have Eurasian women like Catriona Gray of the Philippines and Ornella Gunesekere of Sri Lanka representing their countries at major pageants. Both women are fair, both women have typical Asian features (black hair, dark eyes) but also have European features that make them stand out. It seems to be the case across the world that mixed race people are considered beautiful, no matter the mix.
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  1339.  @annegracyliberal7327  The Japanese people generally don't want that. However, with a shrinking workforce, rapidly aging population and declining fertility, the Japanese government has had no choice but to bring people in. However, they're selective of who comes in and they gravitate towards accepting people from other Asian countries due to the cultural similarities. That's why the largest foreign groups in Japan are all Asian (Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, Nepali). The Japanese government signs agreements with other Asian countries like Nepal, the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar and some other South and Southeast Asian countries to allow temporary migration where people temporarily come to work and then go back to their home countries. Generally speaking, Asian countries that allow this form of temporary migration (e.g. Japan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan) tend to accept people from other Asian countries.
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  1340. My Indian friend who is from south India told me she believes that India would make more sense if it was broken up. I suppose so, she being from Kerala must feel extremely detached from places like Uttar Pradesh.
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  1341.  @AAAAAA-tj1nq  So sad that it affects you LOL
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  1342.  @mondaysinsanity8193  Reincarnation is a concept that exists in so many religious traditions, it's not just native to Eurasia. We're talking about Asia and you're talking about Europe, where is the correlation? You can't understand Asian history by looking at everything and comparing it to European history. That's not how it works.
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  1343.  @dad-ms8mz  Indians always bring this up. So what I understand is that India always wants something in return and the world is expected to believe India is a fair country.
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  1344. yeah and he faced a lot of hate too
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  1345.  @cwpv2477  No, one of the many Pakistani accounts that populate X would've done that
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  1346.  @Naruto-u2k3n  Nobody in Thailand or Indonesia is attacking them or spreading hate against them online like what we saw happen in the UK a couple of weeks ago.
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  1347.  @casioak1683  The issue is that people in Europe and Canada will act nice to your face but then degrade you online using burner accounts. Horrible people.
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  1348. The victim is literally an Indian...
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  1349.  @dharshinijayatilake7922  Singapore is a multiethnic nation made up of Chinese, Malays, Indians etc. - so people from all over Asia can blend in unlike in Europe. I think it's better to stick to travelling around Asia instead. Doesn't matter where whether it's Singapore, Dubai, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Maldives or Tokyo, the people will always treat you well. Asian cultures are nonconfrontational and passive, that's why Asians can get along better even if we look different to one another. Europe is different.
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  1350.  @dharshinijayatilake7922  Europe loves to define people based on skin tone, which is why they use words like "brown people". Time to de-Westernise your mindset and refrain from viewing yourself in the context of "brown people". Most people in the world have brown skin but are not all the same.
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  1351. You have to move on from the past. Sri Lanka's situation is just like Malaysia's situation. The Malays of Malaysia also felt they were wronged because the British preferred the Chinese and the Indians/Tamils. So the Malay-dominated government tried to right the wrongs of the past by creating the Bumiputera policy and disenfranchising the Chinese and Indians. Look at Malaysia today, divided by race, suffering from a brain drain with educated Chinese and Indians leaving the country in droves to Singapore and Australia and race-based politics constantly playing out in Malaysian society. Malaysia is so close to becoming a developed country but also still so far. What has happened in Sri Lanka is the exact same, the only difference is that Sri Lanka faced a civil war and that is very much due to the fact that the Tamils are also locals in Sri Lanka and not descendants of migrants from the 18th and 19th centuries.
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  1352.  @porkysharma8423  Singapore is a developed country today because it acknowledged the past, learned from it and moved on. Singapore could have remained as a developing country and let ethnic division to continue to tear the country apart but Lee Kuan Yew and his close political team decided they wanted to change Singapore for the better. Lee could have easily demonised the minority Malays of Singapore as payback for Singapore's 1965 expulsion (Singapore was expelled from Malaysia by a Malay-dominated government following catastrophic race riots between Chinese and Malays) but he didn't. He decided he wanted to treat everybody equal and looked at the betterment of all Singaporeans, not just his own community which is what the Malay-dominated and Sinhalese-dominated governments of Malaysia and Sri Lanka continue to do.
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  1353.  @melvinstarita638  cautious??? They don't even accept their past, they still believe what they did is right and it's clearly evident with the idolisation of the Yasukuni Shrine, which also houses a gigantic map of South and Southeast Asia - most of which are developing that Japan is now helping, claiming the only reason they're independent today is because of the Imperial Japanese Army.
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  1354. and yes I think they need to follow Singapore by having very strict rules and laws in regards to PR and citizenship. If any country needs to accept immigrants, following the Singapore model is by far the best model to follow.
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  1355.  @uku4171  They're not Indian. It's a Pakistani bot. If you go to Asia-oriented channels you'll see this Pakistani bot and sometimes an Indian bot constantly spamming the comments about India and Pakistan.
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  1356. Outside of the concept of basic geography, when you think about it, Eurasia is really just one region in terms of culture and genetics and all that as it is a gradient that transitions from the more West Eurasian-based cultures and groups of the west to the more East Eurasian-based cultures and groups of the east. The two sides have been interacting with one another ever since the first humans emerged out of Africa.
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  1357.  @horvatlovren7198  This isn't a one way street. African medical and engineering students were beaten by Ukrainian border officials and I saw Ukrainians online justify or downplay the racism those students faced. You only think one group is wrong? FYI, those African students (and Asian students) contribute US$542 million in revenue to Ukraine's developing economy.
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  1358. I've always felt it had similar vibes to the French Revolution because the President of Sri Lanka continuously lived comfortably while the middle class and lower class populations lost everything. When the ordinary citizens faced electricity blackouts, they kept the electricity on for the homes of the president and prime minister.
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  1359. Asian countries are far more accepting of ethnic diversity and new immigrants than European nations. Millions of ethnic Chinese and ethnic Indians settled across Southeast Asia in the 18th, 18h and 20th centuries and in most countries they are accepted as locals without question. There is none of this "perpetual foreigner" stuff that continues to happen in countries like the UK, even if your ancestors have been living in the country for generations. There are so many Russian and Ukrainian refugees living in the resort towns of multiple Southeast Asian and some South Asian nations since 2022 and nobody says they need to leave. There are so many new ethnic Chinese migrants that have settled across Southeast Asia and parts of South Asia and nobody is protesting in the street demanding them to leave. That is the only continent on earth that struggles with accepting people is Europe and this isn't even about new immigrants, I'm talking about the people who settled in the UK during the post-colonial era whose second and third generation descendants are still treated like foreigners.
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  1360.  @Highwhyman19  No because Singapore's PAP under Lee Kuan Yew and S. Rajaratnam taught its people to respect each other and they learned from experience that the race riots of the 1960s only hurt their society.
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  1361.  @hellgorama  Joining India is not the option and I don't know why you think joining them is going to solve your problems. If there is any country in South Asia Sri Lanka would be better off with, it would be the Maldives. The Maldives has living standards that were comparable to Sri Lanka's prior to the crisis and the Maldives has the highest national income in the whole of South Asia. It is also a stable country. The Maldives will eventually become a high income developed nation soon, maybe even this year when the new data is released at the end of the fiscal year considering its national income now exceeds US$14,000. The Maldives and Bangladesh are on the right path.
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  1362. I remember years ago reading how Bangladesh had become a new Asian Tiger economy and during Trump's China tariffs era, Bangladesh was one of three Asian nations to benefit from the tariffs. Like it or not, Hasina is the reason why Bangladesh had a booming economy. So I wonder what will happen now. The fact that the military quickly swooped in to form an interim government looks like a red flag. I'm only saying this because I have read about what Bangladesh was like under a military dictatorship.
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  1363. @Nick Arjoma No. South Asians are not closely related to Middle Easterners. They're their own group and if anything, most South Asians are culturally closer to East Asia through their shared cultural heritage involving Buddhism and other Dharmic religions as well as the festivals and traditions celebrated between the two groups like the Hungry Ghost Festival. Why do you think the Imperial Japanese invaded the rest of Asia (including India)? They wanted to unite Asia based on cultural similarities and establish the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. I'm not Indian but I am South Asian and as a Buddhist I honestly see nothing in common with the Middle East in terms of culture or looks. Y'all need to learn more about Asia and Asians before you speak about us.
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  1364.  @helcurt2509  We do not need another nation teetering on the brink of "failed state" status or relying on donations of foreign aid in Asia.
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  1365. There's always the other side of the coin too. There are many White people who are interested in Asian wellness practices and philosophies like yoga, meditation and Buddhism and fascination with Eastern imagery like Buddha statues, Asian tattoos as well as martial arts, those who go to Asian countries like India and Nepal for spiritual trips (e.g. hippies), those who are interested in anime, manga, Kpop, Kdramas and general East Asian culture and aesthetics and those who enjoy living in tropical Southeast Asian lifestyle and culture like Thailand and Bali among other things. Ever since the East and West came in contact with each other, there has been a deep fascination and idolisation of each other.
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  1366. What they stated were facts though. Can't believe you're this upset about a news report, I'd be more upset about the subpar living conditions that exist across a country that is rapidly growing. How is India growing so fast and yet the country sill looks horrifically undeveloped???
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  1367.  @selvymariani3771  Singaporean can mean any Asian as Singaporeans descend from people from all over Asia. There is no "Singaporean look". Singaporeans are mostly Chinese, Malay or Indian descent. So if he's Singaporean, then he's of ethnic Chinese descent.
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  1368.  @hmj3547  He didn't agree with Hindu teachings
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  1369.  @mahinegi3064  If Buddha's teachings were the exact same as Hinduism, then Buddhism wouldn't even be a thing.
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  1370.  @medanchess7892  and now many Bamar now support Rohingyas, people can change.
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  1371. So because Sri Lanka accepts assistance from China it makes it a "stupid greedy country" but if it were to offer the non-existent support from the US it's a "benevolent partner"? The audacity. When Sri Lanka opened up for other countries to engage in FDI, nobody came except for China. BTW this crisis has nothing to do with China. Did you even watch the video? Imagine commenting before even watching the video from start to finish.
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  1372. Agreed
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  1373.  @fortpark-wd9sx  What Rodro Zil said is not correct lmfaooo. It just proves how little he knows about Myanmar or Asian countries in general. He seems to infer that Rohingyas are not Asians because they are related to Bengalis, who are Asians themselves. He seems to base this on appearance which is not correct either because as I already said there are people from the majority Bamar Tatmadaw that look more similar to Rohingyas who are persecuting Rohingyas.
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  1374.  @aleenaprasannan2146  If she's speaking about facing colorism, then she's faced colorism. Idk why you're saying she hasn't. Are you that girl? No. End of.
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  1375.  @aleenaprasannan2146  She probably faced discrimination from her family or other Indian or South Asian people and that's probably why she feels strongly about it and wanting to showcase her feelings about the topic so others in her situation can relate. Idk why you immediately think when it's about discrimination among minorities in Western countries, you always think it's the majority discriminating against the minority. Have you thought about the fact that racism is rampant among Indian people? They're racist and colorist to their own kind. She's obviously talking about the discrimination she's faced from other Indians.
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  1376.  @user-gf5dr5nq6l  Malaysia is a lot richer than India but that's because of the Malaysian Chinese. Malaysian Chinese power the Malaysian economy and Malaysian Chinese (and Malaysian Indians) earn more money than the Malays. Despite the Bumiputera law and all the attempts to redistribute wealth, the ethnic Chinese and ethnic Indians still earn more money than the Malays. With all the discrimination against minorities in Malaysia, many Malaysian Chinese and Indians have left for Singapore and Australia and Malaysia's catastrophic brain drain has led to the country continuously failing to reach high income status (a target it should've reached by now). Now Malaysia's leaders lament at the lack of talent in the country that has been lost to Australia like they did earlier this year and the World Bank continues to warn that Malaysia will never reach high income status until it stops it brain drain.
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  1377.  @user-gf5dr5nq6l  Lee Kuan Yew had a history of being blunt and making racially charged remarks on the Malays and infamously said that companies in Singapore should recruit more talent of Chinese, Indian and White origin with no mention of Malays. He though White people (who aren't even Singaporean) are more worthy of working in Singapore than Singapore's own indigenous people. Yikes. You think you're on a high horse but at this rate with everything we have seen in the history of Malaysia and Singapore, there is no high horse for you to even climb onto.
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  1378.  @user-gf5dr5nq6l  Yeah just like the Indians leaving India but difference is that they aren't leaving due to discrimination, they're leaving cause their government can't create enough graduate jobs for them. Malaysia, on the other hand, is richer but its government can't get its priorities straight, it discriminates against the Malaysian Chinese and Malaysian Indians and is equally corrupt. There is a reason why most Malaysians outside of Malaysia are ethnically Chinese rather than Malay. Now if Malaysia got its priorities straight, the country would not be dealing with an uncontrollable brain drain. It has all the opportunities to be successful but can't do so because of its ultra pro-Malay and pro-Muslim voter base and politicians.
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  1379.  @silentkiller421  No, Sri Lanka's problems all come down to its treatment of its ethnic minorities, particularly the Tamils. You can't compare Sri Lanka to Malaysia because in Malaysia, the Chinese and Indians are not native to Malaysia and they are also not confined to certain parts of the country, they are found across the entire country. In Sri Lanka, the Sri Lankan Tamils are native to Sri Lanka and are found across the island but predominantly in the north and east. By enforcing the Sinhala Only Act, they demonised all ethnic minorities and made it seem like they were not valid to be part of the nation. People focus on the Tamils and rightfully so but the Eurasian Burghers also felt disadvantaged too as they mostly spoke English and consequently many left for Australia. The Sri Lankan Moors spoke Tamil and the Sri Lankan Malays spoke Sri Lankan Malay. By making Sinhalese the official language and medium of instruction, they put the Sinhalese at the top and everybody ese at the bottom. A country can't function if its citizens don't feel like they belong.
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  1380.  @georgeinjapan6583  Most of Sri Lanka's debt is owed to Western institutions. The debt it owes to China is less than the debt it owes to Japan or India.
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  1381.  @kengleetan63  Same mistake? What mistake did Singapore make? Lmfaooo what????
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  1382.  @bubbles-ge3lj  South Asia culturally influenced other parts of Asia. Southeast Asia (e.g. Thailand, Indonesia etc.) are Indosphere nations and are culturally related to India. Idk why nobody knows this. E and SE Asia are not the same.
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  1383.  @Voltaicz  It is rare for me to see a Tamil Indian speak like a North Indian but there's a first time for everything
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  1384. Okay then, they can deal with their disappearance. Then all of the Asian countries that will export their labour can keep them to develop their own countries.
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  1385.  @fantasysportsanalysistfsa8938  So bowing down to threats is okay? How is that okay? How is accepting US hegemony and control okay?
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  1386.  @arthas640  The thing about Sri Lanka is that most of their debt is owed to Western institutions, not China. Their issues stem from a powerful political dynasty that stole people's money much like the Marcos dynasty of the Philippines.
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  1387. It's not though. China isn't colonising other Asian countries.
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  1388.  @ulooqulg  Volunteer to do what? Be specific instead of beating around a bush
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  1389. or pakistani
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  1390.  @YashSharma-zp8yu  That's okay, all good
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  1391. You call yourselves Asians
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  1392.  @chan6565 ...and? Gulf Arab nations don't care about that. If they can't even support their own flesh and blood in Palestine, Syria and Iraq - who are all Arabs, what makes you think they're going to show support to a culturally distant and ethnically different group of people all the way from an isolated Southeast Asian country?
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  1393.  @chan6565  Also, pretty sure Rohingyas aren't thinking of Gulf Arab nations or the Middle East in general as the place they wish to settle in. Many move to Australia and Rohingya refugees seem to gravitate to suburbs with large Southeast Asian populations. In my city, most Rohingyas reside in a suburb that has a Southeast Asian majority (Vietnamese, Cambodian etc.) + a large Chinese population and when I visit that suburb I can see how Rohingya refugees feel at home there. Burmese cuisine shares similarities to both Chinese, Indian and Thai cuisine so they're able to find all the suitable groceries they need from the Asian supermarkets and the Vietnamese-run clothing stores sell Southeast Asian-style hijabs that are worn by Burmese Muslims/Rohingyas. I see them congregate at the bubble tea shops and they own restaurants that sell Burmese food. They may be Muslims but they're culturally Southeast Asian.
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  1394.  @zmc2585  In what universe did I say it was my land?
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  1395. Are you a Meitei?
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  1396. No, Buddhism is not a branch of Hinduism but it is a Dharmic faith however.
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  1397.  @ariapinandita9240  Sunda - that is literally a Sanskrit word 💀 Saptadwipa/Nusantara - those are literally Sanskrit words 💀 Indonesia literally means "Indian islands" 💀 You sound like the Korean nationalists who say they aren't related to Chinese culture.
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  1398.  @matgranger5061  What's with the whataboutism?
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  1399.  @matgranger5061  Indian men always bring this up. No, cases are underreported in India! India's culture allows this to happen. No where else in the world is it this bad. This is why I only support Indian women.
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  1400.  @matgranger5061  They're severely underreported in India. Why can't Indian men change their behaviour?
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  1401. Free them from what? The Meitei and Kuki-Chin of Manipur can't even get along.
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  1402.  @melody964  I'm a Buddhist. We don't worship gods. Yes, the Buddha never wanted people to worship him and we don't worship him. We pay respect to him, that's not worshipping him. We don't pray to him in hopes he can solve our issues. There is no god that we worship in Buddhism.
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  1403. No
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  1404. The background audio is the Stranger Things theme song 😭
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  1405.  @uwet.8826  How is that related to the topic of this video?
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  1406.  @vpn2830  Yes absolutely it has the highest quality of life in South Asia. The country has the highest HDI in South Asia and was only one of two countries in the region that was able to bring COVD cases down to 0 at one point in time. The war only occurred in the north and east of the country. That's why international media is marvelling at the collapse of Sri Lanka because this was a country that once had everything going for it.
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  1407.  @VARMOT123  Is South India a country? No. So your point is?
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  1408.  @hunterblake5911  No the average Mexican is in a better position than the average Brazilian. The national income of Mexico is higher. At this rate, you're going to tell me that the average Indian is in a better position than the average Australian person because India has a much much larger GDP than Australia has.
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  1409.  @goeast12  Malays are NOT East Asians. So you can't say "more than 90% East Asian". To say it's "more than 90% East Asian" is only indicative of one's lack of knowledge on Singaporean multiracialism. Malays are native Southeast Asians and have always been viewed as such. Chinese (and Japanese, Koreans) are known as East Asians while Indians (and Ceylonese, Bengalis etc.) are South Asians. This distinction has always been noted until the 21st century, including by Singapore's founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, as Singapore is described as a "mini Asia" composed of people of East Asian, Southeast Asian and South Asian origin.
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  1410.  @goeast12  Chinese, Malays and Indians are all from different cultures. The idea that Singapore is not diverse because most people are from different Asian groups is wrong because you're implying that they are all basically the same. Asia is a diverse place. You are only saying this because in the US, many European-descended people (excluding those of Italian and other Mediterranean and eastern European people) have lost touch with their ancestral heritage and so now they're just a mish-mash of different European groups with no unified cultural heritage. It may be news to you but local Chinese, Malays and Indians find more in common culturally with Malaysians (who are composed of the same racial makeup, with the same ethnic subgroups and share pretty much the same culture) than they do with people that come from mainland China or India. There is extreme xenophobia and racism directed towards people from mainland China and India in Singapore. So saying "it's not diverse" doesn't make sense. Singapore actually has a lot of temporary immigrants from other parts of Asia as well as PR from other parts of Asia. It is very much diverse, just not in the way you're used to. Local Singaporeans of diverse origins alongside foreign workers and expats from Malaysia, India, China, Philippines, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Myanmar among other places. It's diverse even beyond its own local population. If it wasn't diverse, anti-immigrant sentiment and the whole "Singapore for Singaporean" mentality wouldn't exist and be a contentious issue.
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  1411. Yes it does, they published it in their national map in 2020.
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  1412. Indians and Aboriginal Australians descend from a lineage known as East Eurasian (aka Eastern Non-African) that also gave rise to the ancestors of modern East Asians, Southeast Asians, Siberians, Native Americans and Pacific Islanders. Majority of them don't look alike but they share a distant genetic connection. When the ancestral Asian population (known as deep East Eurasian) left Africa and moved into what is now India, it split into three distinct lineages: AASI in India, ESEA which moved into East and Southeast Asia and AA which moved into island Southeast Asia and Australasia. All of these historical populations are distantly related to each other and contributed either fully or partially to modern populations we see in Asia and the Pacific.
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  1413. and if this continues, trust there will be people trafficking women from other parts of Asia into Japan to work in this trade. Southeast Asia's sex trade is the most developed in Asia and there are women who travel from other parts of Asia and set up business in places like Thailand and Malaysia. In addition to that, women from other parts of Asia like China, South Asia and other parts of Southeast Asia are continuously trafficked into the trade. So sad.
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  1414. Ikr that was so confusing to me. I've noticed that there are some mixed white people who really want to believe that they face the same issues that non-mixed race people go through even though they are physically more similar to White Europeans or White passing. Someone needs to tell them that it's okay if they're white passing, it doesn't undermine that they are of mixed origin. However, trying to claim you face colorism when you're pale skinned or insisting you look "non-white" even when you're literally white passing (like I see many Americans do on TikTok) is just a strange thing to do.
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  1415.  @King_Neptune  You can't honestly be serious right now. It's time to move on. Living in the past does nothing.
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  1416.  @cambodianpleasuresquad1753  There is no such thing as "Australoid", that's an outdated racial term. The indigenous people of India are of East Eurasian origin and genetically closer to East Asians and Australasians. They are known as the Ancient Ancestral South Indians (AASI). The Neolithic Farmers from Iran came afterwards but there is no solid evidence to suggest they spoke a Dravidian language. Most Indians are a mixture of AASI and Neolithic Farmers and these two groups created the Indus Valley Civilisation. Austroasiatic people came afterwards, as did Steppe pastoralists and Tibeto-Burman speakers.
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  1417. ​ @cambodianpleasuresquad1753  Who are you to consider them Southeast Asian or not? The Burmese government pre-1970s considered them one of the native ethnic groups of Myanmar, aka Southeast Asian and the Burmese government in exile, led by Aung San Suu Kyi, wants to reinstate their status as indigenous people of Myanmar once they come back to power. They are Southeast Asians and there is NOTHING you can do about it. Do all the mental gymnastic you want but NONE of that is going to change the reality of the situation. You're so hung up on appearance clearly, you aware that there are indigenous people in Myanmar that have features that resemble Rohingyas (just with lighter skin)?
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  1418.  @Voltaicz  You people already claim that it's part of India even though it makes no sense
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  1419. Malaysia???? Malaysia is too bothered beefing with Israel than to notice what's going on in Southeast Asia.
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  1420. India isn't in the Middle East. I don't know you said "other Middle Eastern countries". Don't they have a proper education system in your nation?
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  1421. India is very slow, by the time they decide to make a move on anything, things have changed considerably. We're talking about a country that was a centre of global civilisation in the ancient days and now look at them. I don't get it.
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  1422.  @CosmosChill7649  For the Buddhist and Hindu nationalists in India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka, it's all about identity for them. This is the reason why these are problems that exist in India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka but not in other Hindu or Buddhist-majority countries or communities.
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  1423. @K Y Sri Lanka was like Malaysia, it tried to right the "wrongs" of the past. In Sri Lanka, the Sinhalese felt they were mistreated during the colonial era as the British preferred the Tamils. In Malaysia, the Malays felt they were mistreated during the colonial era because the British preferred the Chinese and Indians. So the Sri Lankan and Malaysian governments enforced policies to make up for what they believe they lost.
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  1424.  @MrColdwilliam  I agree with you but the global perspective will be kind of hard to achieve but they can certainly do a part 2 and include other groups (including recent migrants) to continue the discussion. That would be interesting because this video was very interesting.
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  1425.  @cjo4210  Since when did "dark skinned people = Black Africans only"? You say they have "[nothing] in common with darker skinned people", so where do all the dark skinned South Asians and Southeast Asians go? Colorism in Asian communities has nothing to do with White European people.
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  1426.  @serebii666  Their entire dispute is the result of colonialism, it doesn't change the fact that their pre-colonial cross-cultural history is still evident to this day with Hindu holy sites found across the border in modern China. China and India can come to a compromise in the same way Tajikistan and China or Myanmar and China were able to fix their border dispute many decades ago. Idk why so many people think they can't fix it. If you can sit there and genuinely believe that the US will allow another country to emerge that can compete with them then you're living in a bubble. The US is not interested in a high income India with such a huge population to sway world politics, like they're already doing. Did you not see how Euro-America reacted when India refused to join the West and support Ukraine at the expense of their historic relationship with Russia? The US government literally mulled sanctioning India. You think they won't do that in the future? India is only of interest to the US because of China. India is what Saudi Arabia or Pakistan are to the War of Terror. Wake up and realise that nobody is actually fond of India. I see so many anti-India posts all over Twitter and TikTok and comment sections filled with extreme hate like I've never seen before any country. The crazy thing about all of this is that it's not just Western conservatives but Western liberals who are espousing this hate. and yet India is controlled by a hard-line leader called Modi and his legion of nationalist followers mirror the wumao that used to be everywhere on international social media. Contagion containment you say? and the Indians are agreeing with you on this.
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  1427. India is literally in Asia, what are you talking about?
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  1428.  @SA_IN  Genuinely curious to know, do you consider Nepali people to be Indians and that Nepal should become part of India? Do you think India has a right over the land that is known as "Nepal" today?
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  1429.  @shubhamrawat8028  Yeah but I see a lot of Indians, specifically the North Indian men, claim that Nepal and many other countries in Asia are part of India. It's not the same as comparing it to the US and Canada. That's what I am trying to understand, do you consider Nepali people "Indian"? Do you think that they should be part of India? I genuinely want to know.
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  1430.  @abhinaysingh8306  You're justifying it and of course you're an Indian man whose last name is "Singh".
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  1431. Girl, just focus on Afghanistan, Pakistan not Southeast Asia.
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  1432. 1. Malaysia is not a Chinese dominated country. The NATIVE Malays are in the majority 2. Malaysia and Singapore are naturally multiethnic and Little Indias are a natural extension of their multicultural nature but you wouldn't understand that. This is why Singapore is one of the most successful multicultural countries in the world. 3. Chinatown in Kolkata still exists Kuat Kong Ket. If you care about Chinese Indian community then you'll read about them and know that it still exists. There are YouTube videos about it. Go watch them instead of peddling lies. 4. Posting a bunch of lies aren't going to make them true
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  1433.  @lenniefei6710  This is slavery. Why do I feel like you are comparing this to slavery that existed in the US?
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  1434. Oh Toby, you really need to get your facts straight. Indian countries??? Oh my goodness, I can't believe the type of people that exist in this world. There is only one country called India. There is no such thing called "Indian countries". Sri Lanka is not an "Indian country". Just because you see Indian-looking people does not mean they are Indian. BTW, Sri Lanka has a very low infant and child mortality rate and a low birth rate. Contrary to your ignorant views, Sri Lanka was quite a stable country in terms of its social indicators hence why it has a large elderly population due to low birth rates and high life expectancy and good healthcare standards. You ought to know that Sri Lanka, like many other Asia-Pacific countries, pursued a Zero COVID strategy which allowed it to escape the destruction that plagued Europe and North America in 2020.
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  1435.  @mangopudding5979  Ravana is a fictional character. Sinhalese formed in Sri Lanka and were not brought by the British 150 years ago lmfaooo. This is why YouTube needs to be banned in India so we can be free from these statements.
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  1436.  @sitandchill2897  Most of Southeast Asia was culturally influenced by India. Most of South and Southeast Asia is part of the Indian Cultural Sphere. So how on earth can you say that East and Southeast Asia are the same and that it has nothing to do with anything else beyond it? If you actually knew Asian history you'd know that China and India culturally influenced East, South and Southeast Asia. If anything, those three regions form one cultural zone and the Imperial Japanese literally colonised East and Southeast Asia and invaded India to create "Greater East Asia", the areas of Asia that were culturally Sinic and Indic. Afghanistan has nothing to do with Idia, they're culturally rooted in Iranian (Iranic) culture. "Desi" literally refers to India, Pakistan and Bangladesh (aka ancient India), not the whole of South Asia. I don't think you understand Asia if this is what you think. The only thing I agree with is that Asia is a very big and culturally diverse region.
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  1437.  @sitandchill2897  Japan, Thailand, Taiwan and the Philippines?? All four of those countries are different in themselves. Japan and Taiwan are Sinic (East Asian Cultural Sphere) countries. Thailand is part of the Indian Cultural Sphere and the Philippines was colonised by the Spanish and a lot of its indigenous cultural heritage and Hindu-Buddhist heritage was wiped away. If the Spanish never colonised it. the Philippines would have been part of the same cultural sphere composed of other Indic influenced countries of Southeast Asia.
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  1438. Tell me you know nothing about Asia without telling me you know nothing about Asia lol. You being based in the region doesn't mean you understand the region.
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  1439.  @sitandchill2897  ...and yet you clearly know nothing. What a shame. I don't need to live in the country to comment, I'm still of Asian origin and read so much about the whole of Asia. Clearly you're unaware of the facts or you're being selective. Peddling your obscure fairytales aren't going to make them reality. So don't comment.
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  1440. No it's SOUTH ASIANS! It's not just Indian Hindus who celebrate it, Nepalese and Sri Lankan, Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Bhutanese Hindus celebrate it too. So saying "South Asians celebrate it" is NOT wrong and incomparable to Indian Christians celebrating Christmas.
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  1441. Indians are mixed. Their indigenous component (AASI) is East Eurasian and thus closer to east Asians and Australasians. Tribal Adivasis and low caste Indians carry high levels of this ancestry. The majority of other Indians (including high caste Indians) mostly carry West Eurasian ancestry which is related to Europeans and Middle Easterners. The northeastern and some other groups in the north of India mostly carry ESEA (related to East and Southeast Asians) DNA.
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  1442.  @williamdripspeare741  Indians aren't racially "East Asian". Asian is not a race and is simply just a geographical term and that is how it is understood in Asia.
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  1443. ​ @williamdripspeare741  Yep I agree, it's quite hard to categorise people into neat categories of "races". Population clusters make more sense based on PCA plots imo. So there would be a West Eurasian cluster (Europe+Middle East), North Africa cluster, Horn of Africa cluster, ESEA-East Asian-related cluster (East+Southeast Asia), South Asia cluster, Central Asia cluster, Pacific Islander cluster, Native American cluster, Australasia cluster (Australia+PNG) and Sub-Saharan Africa cluster. Those are the broad clusters that form on PCA plots when measuring genetic distance.
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  1444.  @williamdripspeare741  Yeah I agree but that's in the West, many in the West use "Asian" as a race. I wouldn't say East Eurasian genes though imo, more in regards to Asians with epicanthic folds as many predominantly East Eurasian groups like the Kondh of India and the Semang of Malaysia don't look typically East or Southeast Asian. Outside of Asia, "Asian" is used to describe certain physical features.
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  1445. That's what happens when you vote in Sinhalese nationalists, discriminate against the Sri Lankan Tamils (who, at the time, were more educated) and make Sinhalese the official language disadvantaging the Tamils, Moors, Burghers and Malays who only speak Tamil, English and/or Sri Lankan Malay.
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  1446.  @canto_v12  Singapore is affluent, safe and educated.
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  1447.  @sendakan666  Rwanda has moved forward at a remarkable scale acknowledging the Rwandan Genocide and creating and environment that fosters ethnic unity and harmony. The problem is that people think Sri Lanka's situation is too far gone but it's not. People just need to look at other countries around the world and learn from them. It's very easy to say it's difficult to fix things but when you can see other countries that put a tremendous amount of effort to reconcile divided groups and foster nationality unity, then you know it is possible if you try.
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  1448.  @Nickuh31  It's not done in Sri Lanka, it's a tradition practiced in certain northern areas of South Asia (India, Pakistan and Bangladesh).
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  1449.  @viktorcheng2061  Agree but it should have just listened to Lee Kuan Yew from the early days of the 1960s. Lee Kuan Yew, in his book and interviews, speaks about everything Sri Lanka could have been and the reason why they are not where they should have been is because of ethnic supremacism. If not Singapore, then it should have gotten advice from Mauritius (another island nation that has managed its ethnically diverse population and prospered as a result of it).
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  1450.  @deusmachinima1189  How is Sri Lanka not respecting India's sovereignty? Sri Lanka is its own independent nation, it can allow any ship to dock in its port because it's an independent country.
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  1451.  @b11-x3o  You really should stop thinking everybody that says anything you don't like is from Pakistan, Bangladesh or China.
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  1452.  @JUSTFORFUN-cd5dd  One day the level headed people who live in India will come to power and actually create meaningful change instead of this ultranationalist rhetoric that dominates that society.
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  1453.  @anandshankar8466  Yes they did, you're triggered by what I said hence the name calling. I'm not interested in engaging further. Thank you, next
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  1454.  @amaramachupa6422  All of my facts are straight Amara. Maybe it's time you do a little reading on the RSS. Thank you, next
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  1455.  @tankman20064  Burmese people care. Non-Rohingya Burmese have become very supportive of Rohingyas after the military takeover. Burmese people aren't heartless like chin ying loong.
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  1456.  @juanchoresultay2704  They need to fix their culture. Laws won't change anything if the men still have the same mindset.
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  1457.  @TheRealBozz  They were colonised by the British, English is a language that is taught there at school level.
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  1458.  @shasha0076  It was never theirs to give it away. It was always under the jurisdiction of Sri Lanka but India claimed it India never once had any ownership of the island. India simply claimed it but it had no control over it. What India did was relinquish its claim to the island.
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  1459.  @magnuskallas  He wasn't Roma. Stop blaming them and fyi, 60-70% of the genetic makeup of Roma is West Eurasian (meaning European-related).
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  1460.  @SomeoneFromBeijing  Yes I am aware he has said that Tibet doesn't need independence and he has also said that Arunachal Pradesh isn't part of Tibet.
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  1461.  @royjacobs1204  I'm not talking about finding solace in anybody but the truth is that the Global North can't let Global South countries be pushed around because hey don't view the world in the same way the Global North does. They should be allowed to think however they want. They're independent nations. I find it strange how you can't see that the US is also bad in this context. The US and Russia are both bad in their own ways. You say "get back to me in 10 years", well we already have examples of what happen when countries get too close to the US so we don't need to wait to see what happens. Are you aware that the native Chagossian people were expelled from their own country so that the the US and UK could establish a US military base on their islands? This is the type of stuff that is not discussed in the West and people don't know unless they read about it. Sri Lanka's situation is very different. Please don't tell me you think it's because of China. Most of Sri Lanka's foreign debt is owed to international capital markets, Chinese debt only accounts for 10%. These aren't lies or anything, all political institutions have documented this such as the Australian Lowy Institute. As much as I despise the CCP, they are not responsible for Sri Lanka's debt crisis. Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the behaviour of his predecessors are the reason why Sri Lanka is suffering an economic crisis. They are way too self absorbed with uplifting themselves instead of leveraging Sri Lanka's high HDI and making use of it.
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  1462.  @Uvevwevwevwe  It actually is because you're mad about it lmfao
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  1463.  @roxy5588  It's the biggest grossing tour, you're just going to have to deal Caitlin.
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  1464.  @chumajamesnxele106  They're not Black Africans. Pack it up and stop claiming Asians as your own.
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  1465. Well good thing he wasn't a North Indian, isn't it?
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  1466.  @rodrozil6544  What are you even doing? Why is there so much hatred in your heart? Actual Burmese Buddhist people are telling you the real facts and you're here still trying to convince us that what you're saying is true. Not all people in Myanmar speak Tibeto-Burman languages! It's a diverse country, the first people in Myanmar were Austroasiatic Mon, everybody else came later. However, to say that Rohingyas are not native to Myanmar just because they speak an Indo-European language is NOT true! Maramagyi people in Myanmar speak a language that is classified as Indo-European and yet they are native to Myanmar and culturally related to majority Rakhine people. What does genetic testing prove? It proves that Rohingyas like many others in this region of Asia have ancestry related to AASI, Tibeto-Burman, Austroasiatic and Indo-Aryan.
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  1467.  @ID_iKONIC_VIP  Two of the most successful Asian groups in the US (who dominate household median income rankings, educational attainment rankings and placements at American Ivy leagues) are of South Asian and Southeast Asian origin: Indian Americans and Filipino Americans. So it's not just about East Asians. Also, I don't know what you mean but "when ppl talk about Asians they mean East Asians" because nobody in Asia hears "Asian" and thinks of East Asians first. That is such an American way of thinking.
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  1468. Stop drinking, it's not good for you
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  1469.  @ATMKGandhi  It's the correct map.
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  1470. What you're talking about is more of an American issue than anything else.
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  1471. It's such a trivial thing to talk about lmao.
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  1472. That's not an Indian accent. That's a Sri Lankan accent. They're Sri Lankans. The ones who look mixed is because they've mixed with Sri Lankan Moors but identify as Malays.
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  1473. Asian countries are far more accepting of ethnic diversity and new immigrants than European nations. That is a FACT. There were so many ethnic Chinese and Indians that settled across Southeast Asia in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries and they're accepted as locals without question. So many Russian and Ukrainian refugees living in resort towns in South and Southeast Asia, not one local has protested in the street demanding them to leave. Bring up the Caribbean and Asians that settled in the UK in the 20th century and you'll learn their descendants are still treated like foreigners. The only place in the world where this behaviour is normal is Western Europe. Before anybody comes for me, I'm NOT from the UK or anywhere in Europe. So telling me to go home makes no sense because I already live in my home nation.
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  1474. The Tamil community is currently suffering right now... Y'all say anything without doing any research. Anime profile pictures...
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  1475. Why would they go back to India when they were brought to Uganda by the British and have lived multiple generations in Uganda? Uganda needed the Asians because the economy of Uganda basically collapsed overnight. It was such a huge issue that President Yoweri Museveni, who came to power in 1986, encouraged the Asians to go back to Uganda. Idi Amin made a huge error and the country paid the price for it, that's the truth. Look at all of the ex-colonies trying to rectify the issues of the past, have any of them progressed to a meaningful position? The vast majority haven't and the few that have are still relatively behind. I know you and many others don't like this, but this is the truth whether you like it or not,
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  1476.  @LordYamcha  She looks Northeast Indian
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  1477. You must be a Rajapaksa supporter if you're saying something like this.
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  1478.  @davidivory3234  They don't actually care about the Buddha's teachings because they're breaking the first and most basic rule that a monk should follow. They only care about the concept of "Buddhist identity" as written on paper. Most Javanese are Muslims but they still respect their pre-Islamic Hindu-Buddhist heritage because it's part of their culture.
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  1479.  @unsulliedthe832  SG is SG because of the ethnic Chinese, Malays, Indians and Eurasians. How do you not know this???
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  1480.  @omega-nf5ku  You all have an East Asian fetish and it shows. This is what an East Asian looking Indian girl told me a few weeks ago because she's always mistaken for Thai or Chinese by White Americans and refuse to believe that she is Indian. She told me you all have an East Asian fetish and so whenever India or Philippines or anywhere in Southeast Asia is brought up, you will downplay anything anybody says and pass it off as some sort of wish that Indians/Southeast Asians want to be associated with Korea. You will also say South/Southeast Asians are not "real Asians".
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  1481.  @omega-nf5ku  This is because you have an East Asian fetish so when someone actually does speak about pan-Asian similarities like the FACT that Indians, Cambodians and Koreans all celebrate the Hungry Ghost Festival you say things like "they share nothing in common, let's not go there". This is purely an American issue because this never happens anywhere else in the West, especially not in highly developed nations like Australia and New Zealand. Do you know why? It's because the American education system is broken and why it ranks basically last in every education ranking of developed countries, that's why a lot of the East Asian Americans are ignorant of reality too.
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  1482.  @omega-nf5ku  Christmas and Hungry Ghost Festival are two completely different things. Christinity being practiced in Korea is not the same as Buddhism in Korea. Buddhism is part of traditional Korean culture. There is a reason why North Korea allows moderation for Buddhists to practice their religion because it's a part of Korean culture. Christianity is a new phenomenon. Learn the difference between cultural influence and cultural diffusion. Hungry Ghost Festival is part of cultural diffusion. You know literally nothing about Asia. Get your facts straight about Asian countries before you start speaking about Asia James, the White American boy.
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  1483. ​ @omega-nf5ku  Who is taking credit? Did I ever take credit? NO. You posted something that was factually incorrect and I corrected you, that is all I did but notice how you're now attacking me because you can't accept what I'm saying and thinking I'm associating with East Asians? A White American man supposedly living in Korea thinking he's Korean with an East Asian fetish claiming Indians/Southeast Asians are "fake Asians". Laughable. It's always the Americans who say things like this. They're the only group of poeple who say "Indians are closer to Arabs" and "Filipinos are closer to Latinos". Arabs and Latinos are constantly on their mind and you want me to believe you're Korean? Nobody outside of the US/Latin America uses the term "Latino" because Latinos are a small minority everywhere else in the world.
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  1484. ​ @omega-nf5ku  Also it's so funny how you're talking about credit blah blah when it's the rest of Asia that actually made Kdramas and Kpop popular back in the late 1990s/2000s. You would know this if you were actually a Korean that lives in Korea. 💀 You wouldn't even be here talking about Squid Game today if it weren't for the rest of Asia. China/Southeast Asia/South Asia/Japan made Kdramas popular and when Netflix entered the Asian market they invested money in creating Kdramas because of how popular they are in this part of the world. Asia is the biggest Hallyu market in the world and you're talking about credit. Be grateful that Asian countries decided to dub Kdramas in the 2000s and broadcast them on local TV and the Korean government decided to invest in pop culture because of its popularity. Asia made Kdramas popular, remember that. So checkmate ***. 😂
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  1485.  @omega-nf5ku  If you think that's a drag then you're sorely mistaken. You don't even know where I'm from and you just said a random bunch of things. Firstly, you're not Korean, that's a fact. So stop pretending to be one. Secondly, I can see that you're a bigot and a racist which is why you said those things. Doesn't bother me though because it doesn't affect me but it shows the type of person that you are.
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  1486.  @omega-nf5ku  You can't differentiate religion and cultural root. Learn the difference! Why are Americans so ****?? Stop bringing up Christianity as if that's a point. It's not. Most Koreans are atheist, yet despite being atheist you'll find many Koreans still acknowledging traditional festival that are Buddhist or have Buddhist origins. Daeboreum, for example, was introduced to Korea from China and is originally of Buddhist origin. Why? It's because Buddhism and Chinese culture are the culrutal root of Korean culture. Learn this. Checkmated you yet again. Stay in your lane James Hetfield and cool it with the East Asian fetish. The pro-Asian subreddits have a lot to say about people like you lmao.
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  1487.  @omega-nf5ku  White American boy claiming he's Korean, so if you're Korean answer these two questions. 1. Who does Ali represent in Squid Game? He was included in the series for a reason, why? 2. What is the Korean word for South/Southeast Asian? Don't go to Google translate because that's not the word. If you're Korean and live in Korea you should know both of these things. 💀
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  1488.  @omega-nf5ku  I'm not Indian, how many times do I need to tell you this for you to understand this? Also, how am I cursing? Also "habibi" is an Arabic word, not Indian. Americans stay in school challenge
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  1489.  @Hoo_huu  It's based on Korean society. It focuses on groups of people who suffer from inequality in the country.
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  1490. Exactly. That's why all of the booming Asian economies are the nations that have robust manufacturing industries. Sri Lanka has a garment manufacturing industry but it's nothing like the industries in Bangladesh, Vietnam or China. The wise thing Sri Lanka should have done in the early 2010s when it had high economic growth was to adopt the Asian Tiger economic model which has proven to work. Bangladesh and Vietnam currently use the Asian Tiger economic model and both countries are now rapidly developing and have thriving garment and tech manufacturing industries.
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  1491. ​ @heisenbergs9415  That's why I said "growing", it's a fast emerging industry in that country. They're diversifying through the electronics industry. You seem to have a problem with everything I have said. All these comments of yours to negate everything I said. Let me guess, you're from India. That's why in your initial comment you said they "only have a garment manufacturing industry" and then when I tell you all of the companies that manufacture products in the country, you said. "hmm there is some", you keep changing your story because you don't know what you're actually talking about. Plus, idk why you need to like your own comments.💀
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  1492. I'm from southern Australia, we're like you, in the southern hemisphere but closer to Antarctica so it's autumn but last week we had a surprisingly warm day like it was spring and these days, the weather, even though it's cooler, is nowhere near the usual autumn weather. I had a look at the Rio weather forecast and it's all in the 30s, what are the usual temperatures you have during the autumn in Rio?
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  1493.  @SalmanWong  Spaniards literally stripped them off most of their Asiatic heritage. In fact, the only reason there is still a notable Asian element in Filipino culture is because of the cuisine and influence from the Filipino-Chinese but the pre-Hispanic heritage is basically gone.
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  1494. They aren't going to fall first. They're still rising and still have room to rise because they're still developing. The US on the other hand is a high income fully developed nation. It is much harder for a fully developed nation to continue to grow at the rates that exist in developing nations.
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  1495.  @matheuss886  Don't worry, they're not letting in your kind. They prefer other Asians like those from Vietnam, Nepal, Philippines, Indonesia and Myanmar.
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  1496.  @iamgreat1234  You know nothing about Singapore and you're 100% incorrect. Coming here with your race-oriented holier than thou mentality while Singaporeans uplifted themselves through hard work and forward thinking. I can tell why you're upset.
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  1497.  光宗耀祖啊  Well you are a Southeast Asian of Chinese descent which would explain your feelings. Well I don't agree with any of them over their claims that Chinese martial arts are of Indian origin. I don't know why they're even saying that.
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  1498.  @jonathanthomas7228  That's not the doing of Singaporean-Indians or other Singaporeans. Little India is actually clean, it gets its rough vibe due to the migrant workers from India that use it as their base on their days off. Singapore is also more advanced than any nation in Europe.
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  1499. Shrilanka? What's that?
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  1500. Ended 15 years ago
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  1501. Islam is not part of traditional Han Chinese culture.
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  1502. Ming boggling that conservative Americans think like this. Where is the manufacturing going to come from? Are Americans willing to work for peanuts? Is it not clear that for whatever American company exits China or India that there is an alternative Chinese company that will fill the void? Chinese companies are already deeply influential across Asia. China will fill the void and the US will lose access to so many markets.
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  1503.  @RextheRebel  Firstly, India is in South Asia, not the Middle East. The Middle East is composed mostly of West Asian countries west of Pakistan like Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, UAE etc. all of these countries are in ASIA.
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  1504.  @joemosely9383  English is from the UK.
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  1505.  @joemosely9383  Democracy is from Greece
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  1506.  @ToiChutGongWu  Cry harder
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  1507. That's right but it needs to be pointed out that there are different Muslim groups in Myanmar. There are Rohingyas and then there are others like the Bamar Muslims, Panthay (Chinese Muslims), Burmese Malays and so on.
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  1508. The West will never support such a thing and why annex? Rakhine has been an independent region out of the control of the Bengalis of Bangladesh.
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  1509.  @westrim  That's not related at all with this. 8 being a lucky number only applies to East Asian countries and ethnic Chinese communities in Southeast Asia. Myanmar is an Indospheric (Indian culturally-influenced) country which practices Theravada Buddhism, it has more in common with neighbours like Thailand and India than with the Sinic countries of East Asia.
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  1510.  @AdanSolas  So where does Southeast Asia fit in all of this? SE Asia was culturally influenced by India and China.
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  1511.  @AdanSolas  Cambodia and Thailand were culturally influenced by India. They are NOT similar to South Korea. The customs, the beliefs, the religion, the etiquette, the architecture, music, literature, mythology and so on are all similar to India, not East Asia. There are native people in Thailand and Cambodia that look more like Indians too like Miss Universe Thailand contestant Alisa Arunahiran.
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  1512. ​ @StrawberryMilkkTeaa  The indigenous people of India are the AASI and they are genetically related to other East Eurasians, including East Asians. The AASI contributed partially to the formation of all Indians and other South Asians. So whether you like it or not, East and South Asians share genetic overlap. This is only an issue in the US because you use "Asian" to describe only one part of the continent when nobody in Asia uses it like you do. "Asian" has always been used to define geography only. Idk why it is so hard for Americans to understand this. It's ridiculous!
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  1513.  @StrawberryMilkkTeaa Yes they are genetically the closest Indian population to East Asians but that still doesn't change the fact that all Indians carry at least partial East Eurasian ancestry. Indians are a mix of differentiated West and East Eurasian ancestries.
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  1514. ​ @StrawberryMilkkTeaa  All ethnic groups in South Asia have significant East Eurasian ancestry, except for some groups in Western Pakistan. Try learning more about the world. This person wants to claim South Asians don't have any indigenous ancestry so bad. This isn't about being closely related to East Asians. This is about them having East Eurasian ancestry which you claim they don't have. Stop thinking "East Eurasian" means "East Asian" only. My gosh, what is your obsession with East Asians???
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  1515.  @AdanSolas  In the UK, it's literally the opposite. In Asia, nobody thinks of it like that. The whole world isn't like the US and some other Western countries.
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  1516.  @ouamari  The ironic thing is that the Near East was called "Asia" first before East Asia was considered part of Asia too. Orient was associated strongly with West Asia before it was hijacked by non-Asians and used to identify East Asia only. The entire Orientalism issue is largely based on the Western obsession of West Asian cultures in the 18th century. It's crazy how everybody in the US associates it with East Asia and somehow has no idea that "Asia", "Orient", "East" etc. were all terms used to describe West Asia/Middle East first before anything else.
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  1517.  @leocorn5559  There are some Thai people that look more like typical South Asians. SOME Thai, I never said all. Do you hate Indians that much that you'd deny the fact that there are some Thai that look more like them? Emphasising on the East Asian looks but many native Thai look more similar to Khmer and Burmese.
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  1518.  @sampahpribadi  Desi just means "local". Nobody in Asia goes around thinking Asian only means East Asian. In Singapore, where East, South and Southeast Asian live people will use "Asian" to refer to everybody when speaking about Asia-specific cultural customs and such.
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  1519.  @xyXCG364hhgs  I'm going to call you it/that
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  1520. Kerala has below replacement level fertility, they're below 2.1.
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  1521. India is in Asia.
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  1522.  @okthen716  She doesn't look Indian? She looks typical South Indian
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  1523. Everybody fighting over her appearance. Maybe her entry into the Korean entertainment industry will help show the world how physically diverse Indians are and by extension other South Asians in general. So then we won't have these obscure discussions in the comment sections anymore.
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  1524. and even when that happens, the Indonesian Muslims will be caring more about what's happening in the Middle East then in their own region of the world.
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  1525.  @tanjongmalim6869  You're absolutely correct, they don't have their priorities straight and the issues that happen in Southeast Asia could have ripple effect repercussions that affect Indonesia but they still don't care. If Myanmar breaks up that's going to have consequences for the rest of the region, possibly instability, will these new nations be able to manage on their own are they going to be relying on foreign aid from ASEAN, China, India,, Japan? Also yes, there are many Islamic-related situations in Asia but they're more worried about something happening on the other side of the world. It's fine to care about other issues in the world but it's strange how they haven't cared one bit about what's happening with Asian Muslim groups.
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  1526. Chinese tourists in Sri Lanka and that's "colonialism"?? Stop watching Godi media
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  1527.  @NoobGamer-ki9pz  Neutrality is simply not getting involved in the logistics of an issue. Generally speaking, humanitarian efforts supersedes geopolitics. So that doesn't effect India's neutrality. India's neutrality is played out it in it relations on the geopolitical landscape. Hope this helps.
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  1528. India must be isolated internationally until this is fixed. Girls and women deserve better.
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  1529. Kind of shows just how much influence has shifted back to the Eastern world.
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  1530.  @helmutkase8135  and??? India is the largest manufacturer of vaccines and generic drugs. It was always expected that they would end up manufacturing COVID-19 vaccines when one was found.
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  1531.  @natashka1982  1. I'm not a kid. Not every Gen Z person is under 18. 2. You were the one that started talking to me 3. Notice how you have nothing to say after I called you out? I suggest you follow my advice otherwise people will continue to call you out.
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  1532.  @theannouncer3423  I said it brought awareness, that's still really powerful. However, TikTok has helped mobilise groups like the Milk Tea Alliance, a pan-Asian online youth movement active in parts of Asia, that fights for democracy and criticises the CCP.
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  1533. China, Japan and Korea are not just Asia. 💀💀
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  1534. I think you visited Singapore with an already preconceived idea of the nation and then when you spoke to locals you spoke about the government and then came here to YouTube to speak down on the nation. Idk why you're even saying "China mentality", are you saying that only because most Singaporeans are Chinese? I'm asking because the difference between Singapore and China in terms of governance are very different. How much will I win if I bet that you had no idea that there are ethnic groups that are part of the Singaporean population?
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  1535.  @unuldintrevoi3350  I don't know what country you're from but you were obviously dealing with severe cultural shock because you probably heard very little about Singapore. Your experiences in Japan and Thailand were better because Japan is fetishised and Thailand is famed for being a tourist hotspot that attracts both the upper and lower class tourists. In regards to Singapore, it was hard for you to comprehend that a democratic society that has faith in the same political party at every election could be filled with people that are actually happy. Domestic helpers are not slaves and it's very wrong and offensive of you to call them that.
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  1536.  @_summer_wine  Yes he is
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  1537. @ Wishing the best to your wife's nephew. Hope he gets better soon
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  1538. @ Yeah my other one to goletest disappeared too. It's happening a lot n YouTube
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  1539. @ So glad you're better now and wishing you the best
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  1540.  @k.k.c8670  We're both on the same page. I am referring to the Cell and Science papers too. Yeah it was a migration.
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  1541.  @malithaw  The term "Indian subcontinent" was coined by the British to describe British India (modern India, Pakistan and Bangladesh), not the whole of South Asia.
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  1542.  @doit2810  Whatever helps you sleep at night
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  1543.  @sportingdirector1  Their fertility is now 2.0
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  1544. She's an attention seeker and everything that has happened to her since the release of the show, no matter how bad it is, is the product of bad karma. You reap what you sow.
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  1545. It's the correct map though
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  1546. Nobody is Indian here, racist
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  1547. Can someone please tell me why it's always men protesting in Pakistan and the like? Whenever I see mass gatherings in Pakistan over religious issues I always see men. Where are the women?
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  1548.  @EienSakuraStudio  No, it's a combination of factors: high income status according to the World Bank and the IMF and a "very high" HDI.
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  1549.  @Incognito-co  NO SAY THINGS THAT DENY THE FACT THAT GRAPING IS A SERIOUS ISSUE IN INDIA!
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  1550.  @Incognito-co  In all of your comments you denied it.
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  1551.  @helen11652  Humans are humans. Just because somebody becomes a monk doesn't mean they actually follow through with what a monk is supposed to do, which is to give up everything.
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  1552.  @SebTheEpixGamer  and which ideology is that you speak of?
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  1553.  @ffgggkok  You're right, they can't be called Buddhists. At the end of the day, they're humans and they want things. Just like the Buddha said, desire is suffering. These people still desire things. If they truly followed the Precepts as monks, then they wouldn't care because they have given up all attachments.
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  1554.  @mrgoodnigth6742  Muay Thai has nothing to do with Buddhism.
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  1555.  @helen11652  The majority of Kachin State's population are Buddhists, what are you talking about? There is no "Buddhist government".
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  1556. I think most people know that this really has nothing to do with Sri Lanka, he came from a particular religion and it's that religion that caused him to do this.
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  1557.  @ishanbajpai6940  Indian land? Only Pakistan and Bangladesh were part of ancient India or what you call "Indian land" (Bharat). Do not claim Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Maldives and even Myanmar as Indian. They were never part of India.
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  1558. Yes that's right. The Andamanese tribes like Onge and Jarawa are an archaic people that descend from the East Eurasian lineage. They are genetically related to other South Asians, East Asians, Southeast Asians and Melanesian populations, who all descend completely or partially from other ancient East Eurasian populations.
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  1559. Sri Lanka absorbed so many ethnic groups and many ended up assimilating into Sinhalese identity or the identity of other ethnic groups on the island. There is a book about Sri Lankan Malays and it talks about Balinese and Ambonese men (who were non-Muslims) from Indonesia that married Sinhalese women because they didn’t practice Islam. So their descendants probably went on to identify as Sinhalese. I know of Sinhalese who claim Burmese ancestry (another group who settled in Colombo during the British rule) and these Sinhalese people who claim Burmese ancestry leave Burmese-like features. Miss World Sri Lanka 2018, Nadia Gyi is of half Sinhalese and half Sri Lankan-Burmese descent. Her father is a Sri Lankan with Burmese heritage. There are Malays who settled in southern Sri Lanka in Hambantota and assimilated and identified as Sinhalese. It makes sense why they and their descendants have Malay-like features because they were originally Malay. There needs to be more studies on Sri Lankan genetics because I did a DNA test and a sizeable portion of it came back as “Southeast Asian (Indonesian, Myanmar, Thai)”. I’m ethnically Sinhalese though and identify as such. This idea of “pure” this or that doesn’t make sense though, nobody is 100% anything.
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  1560. @izzigosa Indonesia does not have a two kids only policy. The fertility rate is still higher than the replacement level. Indonesia needs to bring it down ASAP.
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  1561.  @Buzz727  You are correct. They are from the refugee camps.
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  1562.  @NoName-yf4zi  Why am I not surprised?
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  1563. The West has nothing to gain in the Myanmar conflict, that's why they're not there. The biggest players in Myanmar are all Asian countries (China, India, Japan, Singapore). The West has no influence in the country. Due to its isolation for decades, it still remains very much within the fold of a bygone era that is purely very much Asian - much like North Korea to the north. Myanmar was once the "North Korea of Southeast Asia".
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  1564.  @CrazySamycraft  I'm Buddhist. I said, "Theravada Buddhist cultures", not Theravada Buddhism. In Asian cultures that practice Theravada Buddhism like Thai, Sri Lankan and Burmese, people still revere Bodhisattvas due to the Mahayana influence. That's what I'm talking about.
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  1565.  自干五小粉红☭  It will fail but nobody's going to forget what China did. Anti-China sentiment is rife across the world, especially in other Asian and Pacific countries.
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  1566.  自干五小粉红☭  Yeah China has been very aggressive lately sinking Vietnamese boats, encroaching Malaysian territory, building on Bhutanese land, agitating India, threatening Taiwan, bullying Australia, entering Natuna Sea in Indonesia, bullying the Philippines, refusing to condemn and punish the Burmese military, housing and training terrorists/insurgents from India and Myanmar in Yunnan province such as Paresh Baruah who lives in Yunnan and receives funding and patronage from the Ministry of State Security of China, allowing the human trafficking of women and girls from Myanmar, Vietnam, Pakistan, Nepal, Cambodia and Laos into China because single Chinese men can't find Chinese women to marry them because China implemented one child policy that led to the abandonment of innocent babies who were girls, transforming and destroying statues of Buddhist figures and temples in Tibet such as Guanyin, Uyghur cultural genocide and the list goes on. This crazy idea that China has done nothing wrong is a filthy lie, an abomination. This is why China's reputation is at such an all time low that the CCP is doing everything it can to reconstruct its image by sending its broken vaccines around the world. Such a disaster that Indonesia and Thailand decided that they can't rely on Chinese vaccines and Singapore announced it won't include Sinovac in its vaccine tally.
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  1567.  自干五小粉红☭  and because of the filthy tactics of the CCP, innocent Chinese people in other parts of Asia are being racially abused. The CCP is a menace to society.
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  1568.  自干五小粉红☭  I'll take that as you admitting defeat.
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  1569.  @pierceblackburrow2140  Well that's what you get when you become world police.
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  1570.  @TommyJefferson1801  Why would they go to Saudi Arabia?
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  1571.  @TommyJefferson1801  Sri Lankan Muslims are very different to Saudi Arabian Muslims though. They are more similar to South Indian Muslims, Burmese Muslims and Indonesian Muslims (many of them are in fact of Javanese descent). Sri Lankan Muslims practice a Sufi-based form of Islam which is different to Saudi Arabians. Sufis are attacked by radicals that practice the same form of Islam that Saudi Arabians practice.
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  1572.  @nilnil12345  Are you Indian?
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  1573.  @sigmawords7795  South China Morning Post is a Hong Kong-based English language publication. It has nothing to do with Mainland China.
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  1574.  @evaruv2050  Secular on paper, it's an Islamic theocracy in reality.
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  1575.  @solidus_reaver4381  No they aren't. Do you even know what's going on?
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  1576.  @surojsarkar6054  Hindu nationalist detected
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  1577.  @disciplinethn  This is why I continuously say that the interne needs to be blocked in India. Y'all are too much for the rest of the world, I'm sorry.
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  1578. and how will they do that? They're suffering too, probably in a worse position that those in the south of the country.
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  1579. Biased?? Lmao blud thinks misinformation is real news
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  1580. Maybe if India wants to do that (but they seem to prefer to be neutral). Also, a US blockade of the Strait of Malacca is not going to sit well with other nations in the region that rely on the strait like Singapore and Malaysia. Depending on how long the blockade lasts for, Singapore's economy would be gravely affected. It's about hurting China but consequently, America's allies and partners end up being affected too.
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  1581.  @blazer9547  It's not ethnically Burmese either and also "Indian" is not an ethnic group, so what exactly would "ethnic Indian" mean? Anyway, the natives of the islands are in fact related to Indians, Burmese and all other Southeast, South and East Asians. They are a genetic bridge between all of these populations, having descended early on from the ancestral East Eurasian (Basal Asian) population that contributed fully or partially to all of the modern populations of the Indo-Pacific.
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  1582.  @Peter-be5lo  Most of them came from Sri Lanka. The reality is it doesn't matter where they came from because they are their own people called Maldivians who speak Dhivehi. They aren't related to Lakshadweep people, a lot of whom have come from mainland India. The only Lakshadweep people they are related to are the Mahl people of Minicoy island who are ethnically Maldivian. You call this pseudo-history and yet you're here trying to tell me Maldivians are Indians. Please be serious for a second.😐
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  1583.  @mgsindica1840  How does that change anything though? My point is that Maldivians are not South Indians.
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  1584.  @Peter-be5lo  Maldivians are NOT South Indians and Sri Lanka is a separate country. Are you going to say Koreans are of North Chinese origin too? Nobody is trying to dissociate the Maldives from the rest of South Asia. What I am saying is that the MALDIVES IS ITS OWN NATION. What's not clicking?
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  1585.  @Peter-be5lo  It's true though! You get upset that China wants to claim Indian territory like Arunachal Pradesh but in the same breath you're here claiming the Maldives, Sri Lanka and the rest of South Asia is part of India. How do you not see the irony in that???? 💀💀
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  1586. He clearly said that Asia overall has low crime rates but then said he's focusing on East Asia
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  1587.  @Electroshk  East Asia wasn't colonised by Europeans, except for Macau, Hong Kong and briefly Taiwan.
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  1588.  @Electroshk  Ethnic Chinese moved to Singapore during British rule... try learning about Singapore
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  1589.  @jamiek1714  It's due to globalisation and access to the internet. Before, Korean pop culture became popular in the rest of the world, it was hugely popular in many parts of Asia as early as the late 1990s. Korean dramas and pop culture made their way to the West via Asian diaspora communities. For example, there were Asian-oriented TV channels on cable TV in the US that broadcast Korean dramas in the 2000s. Streaming apps created by Asian TV channels (from my knowledge, specifically those from China and Sri Lanka) also emerged in the US and Australia providing Asian shows for overseas Asian migrant communities. These apps included dubbed Korean dramas. Kdramas were a pan-Asian thing that seemed to be of common knowledge to many different Asian groups (not just Koreans) and thus it helped in their exposure on a larger scale. Then Gangnam Style happened and it was the first time a Korean pop cultural item became widely popular outside of Asia. I never expected Kpop to become popular but it gained mainstream popularity in the West in 2019 and I never thought Kdramas would become popular in the mainstream either but Squid Game has done that. The internet has helped a lot in the spread of different cultural exports. It's made them easily accessible. If we were in the 1990s or 2000s, this wouldn't have been possible in my opinion and Kdramas would have remained an Asia-specific thing like how South American telenovelas are very much specific to Latin America.
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  1590.  @Neil-Aspinall  It sure is. If it's not education, what is it?
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  1591. I don't want to see a single American point fingers at Russia or China or any other nation ever again. For those of us that already knew, we already knew that the US had no right to point fingers but this month that Trump has been in power, the whole world learned that the US doesn't treat its allies correctly but claims to be about peace and fairness whilst claiming China and the lot are problematic.
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  1592.  @elpenprice679  The American has been spotted
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  1593. Ainu descend partially from the Jomon. The Jomon were a group found in Japan that developed from a southern Asian-related lineage possibly from the Himalayas and a northern Asian-related lineage possibly from Siberia. The reason why you think that man doesn't look Ainu (he does) is because of that ancient southern Asian-related ancestry that is found in the Jomon who contributed to the formation of the Jomon. That's why his features look "Indian" or "dark skinned Filipino". Hope this helps.
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  1594.  @darkz1563  Almost all people experienced their culture? No, that's wrong. Hardly anybody knows anything about that country's culture.
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  1595.  @aburetik4866  Oh get over it ffs! It's a valid comparison. China succeeded in areas India could not. My gosh do you people ever stop getting offended??????
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  1596.  @abhinaysingh8306  and your comment is why India will never change
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  1597.  @ElonMuskIsPsycho  Uyghurs aren't Islamists. The most popular actress in China is a Uyghur woman, Dilireba. Uyghur cuisine is popular in China. North Indian Hindu men and their inability to stop hating on others has to be studied.
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  1598.  @TienyeeTien  Is the US an Asian country? No.
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  1599.  @lshulman58  Yeah it's just a coincidence. The Vesak festival has been celebrated across Asia for thousands of years, it's a very old festival but it was known by different names depending on the culture. In China it was celebrated as early as 300 CE and is still known as Fodan and in Japan, it's still known as Hanamatsuri (Flower Festival). In India, the festival is still known as Buddha Jayanti. It's only in some South and Southeast Asian countries that it's known as Vesak or Wesak or Visakha or Vixakha as it's named after the second lunar month on the Buddhist calendar which is also known as Vaisakha.
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  1600. The rest of Asia must follow this. Authoritarianism works in Asian cultures. Malaysia was at its peak under the hardline rule of Mahathir Mohamad, India's most developed state is a state run by a communist government and China has emerged under authoritarian rule.
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  1601. Most Indonesians are BROWN. The most famous Indonesian woman in the West has BROWN SKIN. Don't hate on your skin colour like that, INdonesian
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  1602.  @tivo3720  Christmas is actually really popular in some parts of Asia where Christianity is a minority. I know Christmas is considered the second biggest festival in Buddhist-majority Sri Lanka (only second to the South and Southeast Asian Solar New Year).
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  1603. Shafi Malik, you are a Pakistani.
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  1604. The stereotype of "freewheeling journeys of self-discovery" in relation to Asian cultures is rooted in the gurus, sadhus and monks you find meditating in the Himalayas or across other parts of Asia and those who partake in Eastern religions. Not to mention the Asian wellness practices like yoga and mindfulness.
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  1605. No it's not.
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  1606. That is a perfect way to describe it, yes just like Dogtown.
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  1607. Asian countries are far more accepting of ethnic diversity and new immigrants than European nations. That is a FACT. There were so many ethnic Chinese and Indians that settled across Southeast Asia in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries and they're accepted as locals without question. So many Russian and Ukrainian refugees living in resort towns in South and Southeast Asia, not one local has protested in the street demanding them to leave. Bring up the Caribbean and Asians that settled in the UK in the 20th century and you'll learn their descendants are still treated like foreigners. The only place in the world where this behaviour is normal is Western Europe. Before anybody comes for me, I'm NOT from the UK or anywhere in Europe. So telling me to go home makes no sense because I already live in my home nation.
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  1608.  @rainboworiental9521  Yeah I suppose it's due to the Wa State fascination with China. So adjacency to Chinese culture is preferred rather than association with Bamar majority of Myanmar. Also, there are Wa people found natively in Yunnan in China, they are one of the officially recognised ethnic groups of China.
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  1609.  @rainachoudhary6861  He's still not dark and it's quite insane to associate him with brown or dark skin when there are Indian actors like Shaun Romy who actually have dark skin.
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  1610.  @studydesign2071  ...but they aren't fleeing to Europe or North America in droves. In fact, most of them are settling in other Asia-Pacific countries such as neighbouring countries of Myanmar, Australia and Japan has a history of adopting small numbers of them since the 2000s too. You should read up about the Myanmar crisis because the Rohingya don't want to leave Myanmar but had no choice because they were being genocided in 2017. The Burmese government in exile is actually supportive of bringing Rohingyas back, it's just the Burmese military stands in everybody's way. Not everything is about religion and not all refugee crises are the same.
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  1611. ...because they don't have any sort of significant influence in global geopolitics. Nobody cares what they do. They're a meaningless and worthless country in the world of global geopolitics. Their impact on the world is next to nothing. It doesn't matter what they do.
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  1612.  @incontrol2280  Tell me you know nothing about global geopolitics without telling me you know nothing about global geopolitics. Not everything has to do with "views". Come on, seriously? This isn't Pewdiepie or any of that junk.
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  1613. Agreed. The ultranationalists are always out and about saying all sorts of things.
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  1614.  @madhukarmurthi9064  Sky Australia has questionable content too.
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  1615.  @SjH98  Comments like this is why I want the Indian government to ban Google, YouTube, Twitter and every other social media application in India. Y'all were blocked from using TikTok and now TikTok is a peaceful place. If India blocks YouTube, the rest of the world will be free from these types of comments.
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  1616.  @verniadonegan6805  There's no point explaining. He's one of those nationalists from India, they complain about everything. He should be grateful that he comes from a place of privilege because I saw a comment from a Dalit girl who said her family faces abuse because her parents bought a house.
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  1617. One of the largest foreign groups in Japan are Nepalese and most of the Nepalese in Japan look similar to Indians. Part of the Nepalese population in Japan look East Asian. Virtually all of Japan's migrant workers come from other Asian countries - particularly in South and Southeast Asia where most people don't look Japanese, they don't strike special visa deals with countries outside of Asia. The furthest west, they'll ever go is Central Asia most likely. Not everything is about looks, it's about culture. A Burmese Buddhist with brown skin is viewed more favourably than someone who's not and I say this because there was a video about a Japanese company going around Asia to find aged care workers and they settled on Burmese people because they were and I quote "calm like the Japanese" and "devout Buddhists".
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  1618. These are migrant workers, they aren't going to Japan to permanently settle in the country. People seem to be very confuse and assume these people will settle in the country permanently. No, it's temporary migration on special work visas given to select Asian nationalities.
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  1619.  @Harz604  Nepalese constitute the sixth largest foreign group in Japan with a total population of 125,798. Conversely, there are 291,066 Filipinos in Japan, 83, 169 Indonesians in Japan and 54, 618 Thais in Japan per data from 2022. The Chinese population stands at 744,551, Vietnamese at 476,346 and Korean at 412,340.
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  1620.  @Harz604  You need to do more research. Japan doesn't let people migrate and bring their whole families with them. Japan creates special working visa deals with select Asian nations like Vietnam, Nepal, Philippines and Indonesia for example. Only the workers can enter Japan with these visas an they aren't given the chance to permanently settle in the country. They're temporary.
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  1621.  @Harz604  Well they can't be permanent residents because the policy on PR in Japan is very strict. There has been a long history of migrant workers going to Japan since the1980s, none of them have been allowed to stay. So it's all good.
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  1622.  @Mkayou  No, Sri Lankan people are completely different. Why do Indians always want to claim Sri Lanka??? It's so weird.
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  1623.  @Mkayou  I'm not conflating anything. The fact is that Sri Lankan culture is not Indian at all. It is its own thing. Are you going to say Thailand should be a state of India too? They were culturally influenced by India too. Is Thai culture "very Indian" too? Sri Lanka is completely different and even modern Sri Lanka is changing. There are a lot of Chinese immigrants in Sri Lanka and they have integrated into the nation opening Chinese shops, businesses and restaurants. There are Sri Lankan people who now watch Chinese dramas and they broadcast Sinhalese-dubbed Chinese dramas on TV. People also watch Thai and American shows while Bollywood is declining in popularity in Sri Lanka. A Japanese-themed market is set to open as a tourist attraction in Sri Lanka soon and there are so many Russians and Ukrainians that live in resort towns in southern Sri Lanka like Unawatuna and Hikkaduwa nowadays, so much to the point that locals in the area can now speak Russian and there is Russian signage everywhere. Sri Lanka is cosmopolitan in nature. Sri Lanka is simply different, stop claiming that it's "very Indian". Try learning more about your neighbours.
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  1624. Why does everybody say this? South Korea has been receiving temporary migrants for decades. 99% of these migrants are from other Asian countries including China (most of whom are ethnic Koreans from Northeast China), Vietnam, Indonesia, Uzbekistan, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Philippines and Nepal. Korea also has special visa agreements it has signed with select Asian countries like the C-3 visa and E-9 Non-professional Employment visa. So if Korea were to ever increase the number of temporary migrants, they're going to get other Asians who are culturally compatible with Koreans. There is no way Korea is going to start searching for people beyond the borders of Central and South Asia. It will always will be other Asians as long as the rest of the continent remains developing.
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  1625. Agreed. Ronnie is just making a joke but many people dont' know about Malaysia's diversity and so don't realise he's joking.
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  1626. Who asked?
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  1627.  @jackkenna696  Why should they pick a side? They can do what they want. They have their own interests. Trust me, I was annoyed at India too but once you do more research and learn about how "grey" this whole war is then you realise why India and a lot of other Asian countries are not doing anything or are doing the bare minimum. This is a war started by NATO and Russia, this is a European/American war. Why must Asian countries be coerced into siding with the US? Asia remembers the failure of Vietnam and Afghanistan. They have every right to stay dead silent and refuse to support Ukraine/Europe.
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  1628.  @xlr8695  Not everybody is a radical in Malaysia and Malaysia, despite itshistory of turmoil, does a lot better in managing race relations than most other Asian countries (especially India, where there is rampant discrimination among every single ethnic group, even within their own ethnic groups). The discrimination against Indians in Singapore has nothing to do with skin colour, in fact Indians face the most discrimination in Singapore from local Singaporean Indians who are xenophobic towards Indians from India (especially from North India). Despite that, Singapore is the most successful multicultural country in Asia. There is no other Asian country that has managed to create a safe and harmonious where different ethnic groups live together in peace.
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  1629.  @xlr8695  Singapore is the most successful multicultural country in Asia. There are laws in place to maintain harmony. There are three main ethnic groups in the country (Chinese, Malays and Indians) and it is by law for every housing development to have the same percentage of Chinese, Malays and Indians as there are nationally. The three ethnic groups have intermixed with each other so much that they can speak each other's languages, they've mixed their cuisines together (that's why Chinese have curry mee (mix of Chinese and Indian influences) and Indians have mee goreng (mix of Indian, Malay and Chinese influences)), they wear each other's clothing, they have their own unique creole language called Singlish that is a mix of Hokkien, English, Malay, Tamil and other languages, they celebrate each other's festivals and the list goes on. When Singapore became independent, it was a Tamil politician that created Singapore's policy on multiculturalism and the country promoted meritocracy, meaning anybody of any race could succeed in Singapore regardless of their race because it's based on merit, not your race. Singapore is a model for all other multiethnic Asian countries. You can't compare you experience and claim all Singaporean are racist. India is diverse but it doesn't mean its racially harmonious. There is so much discrimination between different Indian ethnic groups like widespread racism towards Biharis and Northeast Indians, racism towards Tamils, Malayalis and other South Indians, racism towards Punjabis, racism towards Bengalis (they're called Bongs), racism towards Kashmiris, discrimination towards scheduled castes, discrimination against religious minorities and the list goes on. Many North Indians don't even know about other parts of India. That's why they call Northeast Indians "Chinese" and "Nepali" without realising that Northeast Indians are native to India. That's why North Indians were describing that viral Sri Lankan song "South Indian" when it's literally a song from another country and spoken in a language that is not even spoken in India but they thought it was Tamil or another South Indian language. That's why North Indians got upset when foreign media praised Kerala at the start of the pandemic because Kerala had controlled the first wave of the virus. Let's also not forget the fact that Black African students have been attacked and racially stereotyped in India. As beautiful as India is, there is a lot of racism and discrimination. If you can't see that then you must be from the Hindi-speaking majority.
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  1630.  @xlr8695  Most of the Muslims in Malaysia are not radical though. Your have a biased attitude towards Muslims and I'm not surprised.
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  1631. It's a break away group of the Communist Party of Burma
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  1632.  @synaestesia-bg3ew  I understood what you meant :)
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  1633.  @kellyname5733  Yes you're right, they won't increase the population but they need workers to power the economy, a shrinking workforce will result in societal collapse if there is nobody to power the economy. These workers will fill vital roles in the Japanese workforce and make up for the loss of Japanese workers.
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  1634.  @bry4162  You have no respect for the victims
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  1635.  @bouche8503  You need to do more research on Singapore instead of saying "nonsense". English is the main language in the country. Have you visited it before?
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  1636.  @only_fair23  You say all that but it doesn't change the fact that you don't understand the basics of Singaporean society and it's clear with the things you say. Singapore's government has always been composed of ethnic Chinese and Tamils with Malays and Eurasians appearing now and then. So what were you saying about one group having all the power? Singapore is a meritocracy.
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  1637.  @only_fair23  Pan-Asian means pan-Asian, do I really need to explain that to you? Singapore is made up of Chinese, Malays and Indians/Tamils - they're all Asian groups and pan-Asian refers to that mix of different Asian groups present in Singaporean society. There is no such thing as "pan-Eurasian" and what on earth is "Chini culture"?
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  1638.  @only_fair23  You still haven't answered me, 73% of Americans are white, are you going to tell me that the US is not multi-ethnic? You want to know a country where one ethnic group has all the power, look at India. The North Indian Hindi speakers have all the power, they speak in their language in government and try to force their language on to the other ethnic groups in the power (Hindi imposition). Despite Singapore's majority Chinese population, the government made sure all communication was done in English in order to create a level playing field in the country and like I said, the country is meritocratic.
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  1639.  @only_fair23  The US is 73% White. Hispanic is not a race, it's a term to describe people from Latin America (many of whom are White) and no, the US is most definitely multi-ethnic. If you don't think the US is multi-ethnic, then what is multi-ethnic to you?
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  1640.  @only_fair23  How does that change anything? The people in power in India are North Indian Hindi speakers. They have all the power in the country and they rule over the other ethnicities and try to force their language onto them. I disagree, Singapore and the US are multi-ethnic and it's clear you haven't been to either of them because you're focusing so much on percentages and not reality.
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  1641.  @sovietroll7880  UAE, Qatar and Oman were built by South and Southeast Asians and Africans. In the 80s Koreans went there to work too. So what's your point?
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  1642.  @sovietroll7880  You'd have a point if the local Arabs were not in the minority in those countries but they are
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  1643.  @davidbeach5563  One country, that doesn't apply to the whole of BRICS
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  1644.  @davidbeach5563  Yes it actually does. Peace and collaboration between the BRICS nations.
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  1645.  @davidbeach5563  It does, between BRICS nations.
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  1646. That's because it's of the Sanskrit influence, the same word is used in many other South and Southeast Asian languages to mean "religion"
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  1647. Singaporean-Indians are different to India-Indians. Their ancestors have been living in Singapore for centuries. They're also NOT second class citizens in Singapore. Singapore treats everybody equally and there are Indian ministers in the Singaporean government, always have been. It's very easy to generalise them, like you do here.
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  1648. Oh cry harder. If you've lived in Japan for 18 years, then you should know that Vietnamese, Nepalese and certain other Asian nationalities are allowed into Japan on a special work visa not given to other nationalities.
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  1649. What resources are being wasted?
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  1650. The whole world at that
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  1651. Y'all can never ever take criticism, this is why India is lagging behind.
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  1652.  @manofsan  1. Singapore's government is mostly made up of ethnic Chinese and ethnic Indian (mainly Tamil) politicians. This has been the case since independence from the British. So calling it "Chinese run Singapore" not only shows your lack of understanding regarding Singaporean governance but also your disregard to the distinct Chinese culture that exists in Singapore. 2. He's not a "sepoy". Sepoy is an Indian Mughal thing, nothing to do with Singapore. Sepoy/Mughal/North Indian culture is not part of Singaporean Indian culture. He's a Singaporean Sindhi.
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  1653.  @manofsan  1. Singaporean Indians/Tamils have the highest household median income in Singapore. Yes, they make the most money in Singapore. 2. Singaporean society is much better than what exists in other Asian countries. The country manages ethnic diversity really well. 2. Singapore is a democracy. Just because the same political party is voted in all the time does not mean it's a dictatorship. You should research about why the PAP is always voted in. I'll give you a hint it's because they transformed the country into a first world nation and they created an equal society in the aftermath of the ethnic riots.
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  1654.  @manofsan  Provided no content? I gave you an entire paragraph explaining the failure of the current Indian government. Pack it up. You know very well that what I said holds substance unlike everything you've said. All you've done the past few days is parrot the same old stuff over and over again. You have no argument. All you can do is throw words around in order to discredit people that you don't agree with. Looks at this, you just called me a bot. You call Kishore a "sepoy" yet provide no counterargument to what he says. Come back to me when you actually know what you're talking about and actually have some proper arguments to make. I'm not interested in borderline petty schoolyard-style arguments.
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  1655.  @ovehlu  Sorry but this way of thinking is why nothing changes.
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  1656. I think some people will be surprised to hear that many Australians actually want good relations with China and don't want to rely so heavily on the US. People have actually commended out new foreign minister for trying to improve ties with China. The thing is, Australia and China are in the same region. So the reality is that one has to find ways to get along even if they don't agree on everything. China and Australia don't have eye to eye but before the pandemic and Australia's decision to push even closer to the US, China and Australia were still able to get along.
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  1657. Singapore since the colonial era, at the most basic level, was always mixed. Chinese and Indians settled on the island with the native Malays and their coexistence yielded a common cultural identity underpinned by common values that Lee Kuan Yew called "Asian values", a diverse cuisine that incorporated elements of the Chinese, Malays and Indians and a creole language called Singlish that is a mix of English and Asian languages. The migrant communities who have come from other parts of Asia are an extension of Singapore's original diverse identity.
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  1658. It's 2024, Bangladesh is no longer a basket case.
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  1659. The Rajput is coping hard
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  1660.  @WastedBananas  Yes they are Asians and always will be.
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  1661.  @andrewcrean8526  Yes Japan but it's nothing like what OP has said. Japan accepts temporary migrants and the migrants are handpicked by companies that travel around Asia in search of workers. Its not comparable at all to Western countries and immigration.
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  1662.  @SenatePalpatinetroller  What Western influence?? Myanmar is the second North Korea of Asia, it had no contact with the outside world until 2011 and even since then, the most common foreign influences on Myanmar come from India, Thailand, China, Japan, Singapore and South Korea (in the form of K-dramas and Kpop). The West literally NO influence on Myanmar whatsoever, which is why the West has struggled to contain Myanmar. The West keeps asking India, China and Japan to step in and help Myanmar since the 2010s but they don't.
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  1663.  @comradekenobi6908  India is the biggest and most diverse country in Asia. They literally became a country because the Brits united them as one and many of the groups in northeast India are related to the minority groups in Myanmar fighting against the Burmese military.
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  1664.  @timspiker  You didn't answer my question. Do you think Asian is an ethnic group?
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  1665.  @xedaslopes3975  They have their own languages, cultures and traditions. Idk why you're making this about language family. The Burmese military has been discriminating against minorities because they are ethnically and culturally different. Their aim is to Burmanise the country.
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  1666.  @timspiker  It's you that doesn't understand it. Asian is not an ethnic group lmfaooo. Since when are Arabs, Chinese, Indians, East Timorese and Asian Russians part of the same ethnic group?
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  1667.  @timspiker  Chin, Rohingya, Rakhine etc. are NOT subgroups of Bamar. Lmfaooo what??? Quit trolling 💀
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  1668.  @timspiker  Bamar is the largest ethnic group in Myanmar! What's not clicking? This is why people shouldn't speak about things they don't understand, especially when they think Asian is an ethnic group as if Chinese, Arabs, Russians, Indians, Tajiks and Indonesians have the same culture.
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  1669.  @timspiker  and yet you still said that Asians are an ethnic group. 💀 Not to mention that Chin, Bamar, Rohingyas etc. don't have the same genetics. This man... some people are so...
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  1670.  @timspiker  Indians, Chinese, Arabs, East Timorese, Russians etc. etc. don't have the same genetics. 💀
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  1671.  @timspiker  You did when you kept telling me "aSiAn iS aN eTHnIC gRoUp"
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  1672.  @timspiker  Asian is not an ethnic group. Burmese is not an ethnic group, it's a nationality. You want to talk about subbranches and lineages, then we must start talking about population genomics.
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  1673.  @xedaslopes3975  Common origin means nothing, idk why you'd even bring that up.
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  1674.  sixmillionisimpossible  I never said that. Don't misconstrue my words please. Separatism emerges when people don't feel like they belong, when they feel mistreated.
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  1675.  sixmillionisimpossible  What are you talking about? India is the most diverse country in Asia and it only became a country because the British colonised it. Had that not happened, there would be at least 25 countries in that region today. Bangladesh and Pakistan are Muslim-majority and couldn't fathom the idea of living with non-Muslims.
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  1676.  @reach2prasanna  Thank you for your comment. I still think there is hope for India because it still has a young population but India's window of opportunity is closing. The reason I say this is because India's fertility rate is now 2.0, its urban fertility is 1.6. Every state in India now has below replacement level fertility, except for 5 which also happen to be the poorest in the nation. That's pretty alarming in my opinion because India is still a lower middle income nation. [PART 1]
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  1677.  @reach2prasanna  I'm not a fan of Modi (I think aggravating minorities does not help in development, there are more important things imo to do than to engage in present-day nationalistic views which is really just water under the bridge). Leaders must look at the future and understand that everybody has a role in developing a country, by alienating a portion of your population you prevent sound and robust development because you are opening up potential wounds that can destroy your plans and your momentum [PART 3]
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  1678.  @reach2prasanna  However, I think Modi is hardline and I think if he focuses solely on development (really empowers his belief in making India a developed country within 25 years), then it can be possible but India only has 25 years left. By the middle of the century, it will be losing steam with its growing elderly population and declining fertility. [PART 4]
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  1679.  @riorio745  Yes I agree, prosperity brings democracy. Democracy works best in developed nations in my opinion.
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  1680.  @wuhuhu1390  Sorry but who's saying the dictatorship in Korea was a good thing? Nobody is but the fact is that economic reforms were enforced under Park's rule and that laid the foundation.
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  1681. Are they though? All of those countries along with Southeast Asia (Thailand, Myanmar, Indonesia etc.) are part of the Indosphere (Indian Cultural Sphere). They all share things in common (I guess with the exception of Pakistan which is now very Islamic). For example they celebrate Songkran (the South and Southeast Asian New Year -kind of like the equivalent to the East Asian Lunar New Year), linguistic scripts all derive from the Brahmic script, Sanskrit influence is widespread, traditional clothing, mythology, architecture, culinary influences, religion and dining etiquette among many other things trace back to Indian cultural influence.
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  1682. It's a channel from India, they're not based in the US
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  1683.  @acpgson695  Sri Lankan Malays and Sinhalese share blood too. There are Sinhalese with mixed Malay ancestry. There are also Sri Lankan Moors with Malay blood. All ethnic groups in Sri Lanka are blood related. Moors are not extremists. Sri Lankan Moors are traditionally very peaceful and practice Sufi-based Islam.
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  1684.  @garryslater3834  Moors do share genetic affinity to Tamils. Only some have partial Arab ancestry.
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  1685.  @chathuramahesh  Islam as practiced in Sri Lanka is different. They practice a form of Sunni Islam that is heavily influenced by Sufism. There was an article written about this by a Sri Lankan Muslim author who argued how the Sufi influences were being eroded by Arabisation in the lead up to the Easter Sunday attacks.
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  1686.  @markhowells13  How is that any different to people having ill feelings towards Muslim Indonesians because of the multiple Bali bombings that have specifically targeted Australians? A normal person won't generalise an entire country but unfortunately most people are not normal.
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  1687.  @markhowells13  I think someone who lays the blame of Suharto's rise on Australia shouldn't be calling themselves an adult. How about use this activism to call out what Australia has done in Iraq, a country it should never have been in?
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  1688.  @Kattufei135  How is it that we as non-Muslims are more compassionate towards Rohingyas but Muslims in Indonesia aren't? Going so far as to say they are different and should be treated with disrespect and being utterly racist to them when the reality is they literally share genetic overlap with YOU. In my city in my country (Australia), we have a suburb with a Southeast Asian-majority (Vietnamese and Cambodian) and many Rohingyas have settled in the area because it is Southeast Asian. They have opened up Burmese + Thai + Malaysian restaurants and bubble tea shops. Their presence is felt everywhere and the Vietnamese clothing vendors sell Burmese-style hijabs for the Rohingya women while the local schools provide instruction in Vietnamese, Khmer, Burmese and Rohingya in addition to English and yet you're here telling me they have more in common with Indians. So if that's the case, why didn't they migrate to the Indian-majority suburb??? Oh wait, that's right it's cause they're Southeast Asian and not Indian and so they're going to find more in common with other Southeast Asians than with Indians. Google is your friend.
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  1689.  @Ghenouveau  They're called Malays because the British called them that. Nobody thinks they are related to Malaysia. Sri Lankan Malay itself sounds more similar to eastern Indonesian languages.
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  1690.  @ingenuity296  Stop trying to back track. You made your bed, now lie in it. Mocking people who have died... sick af.
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  1691.  @ingenuity296  What goes around comes around. Don't scream "it's unfair" when something happens to you or your loved ones.
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  1692. Is this an attempt to make a racist remark? If so, it doesn't make sense... just saying
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  1693. Instigating hatred is never the right thing to do and India's ruling party and their supporters have been so aggressive lately by demonising the Muslim minority instead of caring about developing their country. However, I still don't understand what caused all of this. All the media reports say the comments were Islamophobic but what were the comments? The most I could find was a report from DW of Germany where it said the woman had made remarks about the age of Prophet Muhammad's youngest wife, which I don't understand how it could be problematic when she merely mentioned his wife's age. Obviously a lot more was said by that woman and man if it's caused backlash like this across the Muslim world.
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  1694.  @Aspirant24-uy3zp  Buddhism isn't a branch of Hinduism.
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  1695. You'd think they'd realise what they lost but the Sinhalese-dominated government will never realise it until they recognise the fact that the Sri Lankan Tamils need autonomy.
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  1696.  @jpasiu9999  I'm talking about NORTHERN SRI LANKA!
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  1697.  @ChannaJayawardhana-h1o  Yeah and I'm talking about the extremists and some Sinhalese people who still say Sri Lanka is a Sinhala Buddhist nation only.
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  1698.  @ChannaJayawardhana-h1o  Never said it was
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  1699.  @jpasiu9999  If they are Sri Lankans then why is the military still on their land? Why are there Buddhist monks claiming some Hindu temple is actually a Buddhist temple? Bringing shame to Buddhism. Some Sinhalese monks don't understand Buddhism. If they did, they wouldn't be behaving like this. Look at the way you just said go to Tamil Nadu, their birth place, as if Sri Lankan Tamils are not native to Sri Lanka.
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  1700.  @ChannaJayawardhana-h1o  What has that got do with you saying Sri Lankan Tamils belong in Tamil Nadu?
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  1701.  @Indian_Rajput  India is the way that it is because of BIMARU people. Have some humility.
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  1702. Clearly not
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  1703.  @keshavraman7739  Hinduism and Buddhism are two different religions, I never denied this
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  1704.  @silasfrisenette9226  That's because people don't aim to unite their soul with Brahma. They try to unite themselves with Brahman, which is a concept that represents divine consciousness and the story described in the video was was about that.
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  1705. It's South Asia. No such thing as Indian subcontinent.
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  1706. ​ @MiguelDLewis  Do you mean "Buddhist-majority countries"?
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  1707.  @dx-ek4vr  Well as he said, Taiwan will always be important to China over Myanmar because this is about taking back control of territory that the Qing Empire once controlled of which the PRC sees itself as the successor. So Taiwan and all the other disputed areas in Asia that China claims will always be more important. Myanmar was never a piece of territory of China and while it was once a vassal state of Chinese dynasties (as was the rest of Central, East, Mainland Southeast Asia and parts of South Asia) and cited as "lost territory" by ROC and PRC figures in the 20th century, it is not claimed Chinese territory. So Taiwan will forever be more important.
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  1708. What education when most of them go overseas instead?? May as well actually accept people who want to study instead of those who don't
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  1709.  @Spasticmir  Firstly, caste system discrimination is not racial discrimination. Caste has nothing to do with race. Secondly, this is Singapore and this case involves a Malaysian man. His ethnicity has nothing to do with this. His nationality has nothing to do with this. Thirdly, Indians discriminating against other Indians is not racism if they're from the same country and if it's an Indian discriminating against another Indian from another country (say Singaporean Indian discriminating against a Malaysian Indian) it's called xenophobia.
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  1710. Me when I don't know anything
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  1711. WHY DO INDIAN MEN CONSTANTLY BRING UP THE US OR EUROPE?????
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  1712.  @SirisenaDhammarakhita  Yes they were given citizenship. You have no understanding of Burmese history. Rohingyas were stripped off their citizenship and they were rendered stateless by the Tatmadaw. Use Google and learn about Myanmar's military dictatorship.
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  1713.  @SirisenaDhammarakhita  I am aware of what has happened to the Chakma but they were not stripped off their citizenship like the Rohingyas were. Keep up.
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  1714.  @SirisenaDhammarakhita  Stop larping as a Buddhist. Buddhist people don't behave like this. You are a North Indian Hindu man using a Sri Lankan first name and a Theravada Buddhist name used by nuns and monks in Sri Lanka, Thailand and other countries.
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  1715. What? You should probably read some texts from Japanese authors and then you'll understand that Japan doesn't ignore the Indian influences in its culture. It's a well known fact that Chinese, Korean and Indian culture played a role in shaping Japanese culture.
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  1716. The victims were non-white...
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  1717.  @ernestoguevara8599  All that and they're still called pendatang.
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  1718.  @dedeyusuf223  Correlation?
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  1719.  @dedeyusuf223  Ok and how is that correlated with my comment?
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  1720.  @hejiranyc  Exactly
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  1721.  @Catlily5  India's colorism is not from caste. There are dark skinned people who are high caste and light/pale skinned people who are low caste.
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  1722.  @HenryLeslieGraham  Maybe stop thinking everything is about left-right wing politics. OP made a valid point. If one is talking about colorism, why select people from mostly one racial demographic and people who are mixed race and fair/pale skinned?
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  1723.  @Catlily5  I have to respectfully disagree, there aren't exceptions. Caste has a genetic element to it based on autosomal DNA but it's not exactly about skin colour. There are light skinned people who are classified as low caste in India (e.g. Other Backwards Class category) and that's because they're tribals. Caste is about occupation in society. Some of the most important gods in Hinduism like Vishnu and Krishna have dark skin.
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  1724.  @Catlily5  I have to respectfully disagree.
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  1725. @Vegas Element No I absolutely am not. If you think a White passing mixed person in the United States faces colorism then you're either living in an alternate universe or have a strong desire to be treated as a victim.
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  1726. Your view of Singapore is one based on stereotypes. You should actually visit the country before judging it.
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  1727. No, Bali is known for its hospitality. Nobody in their right mind is going to Jakarta or Aceh for a holiday. Bali is like a different country, different ethnic group, majority Hindu, very hospitable and not influenced by middle east religion.
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  1728.  @RiseAgainst369  What's naïve and vapid is this comment. This is about geopolitics. Anybody that actually understands South Asian geopolitics or Asian geopolitics in general would know that historically speaking, it would make more sense for Bhutan to choose India based simply on the fact that after Tibet was incorporated into China cross border relations declined so much to the point that China spoke of a supposedly now dormant strategy called the Five Fingers of Tibet which purported multiple Himalayan regions and nations in South Asia (including Bhutan) should be united with Tibet under the Communist doctrine.
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  1729. Migrant workers can't settle permanently in Japan, they are temporary migrants who will eventually return. What a horrible thing to say. Is this what's on your mind all the time? Is it because you do that sort of stuff too to the women in your life? The migrant workers in Japan come from other parts of Asia such as Vietnam, Nepal, Myanmar and Philippines. Calm down.
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  1730. Palestine didn't welcome anybody. Stop believing your Indonesian Muslim propaganda.
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  1731. Heartless comment
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  1732. What goes around comes around, remember that.
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  1733.  @ipinsos2000  Surveys have shown more than 50% of young people in Australia don't want to partake in a US-led war and most people in Australia prefer if Australian soldiers are involved in peacekeeping missions rather than warfare. It's the Australian government that refuses to wake up. Maybe once more Gen Z Australians enter the government, things will change.
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  1734.  @nikhiltiwari6923  Give it a break ffs. In the US "Asian Indian" is the legal term used to describe people of ethnic Indian origin to differentiate them from Native Americans who were once called "Indians".
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  1735.  @ms.gregoria2249  Lol I remember you. You're the man who pretends to be an East Asian woman by using a photo of Xue Xinran.😂
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  1736.  @jeremyjones8258  Major Asian players in global geopolitics abstained, that's the point here. You're focusing on pedantic and trivial details that don't matter at all. Not all countries in the world are heavyweights with agency in global geopolitics. The fact that only Japan, South Korea and Singapore have been the most vocal about condemning Russia whilst, India and China say nothing is a significant detail to focus on. You need to remember that Japan, India and China are the main geopolitical powers in most of Asia. Most Asian countries fall somewhere within the line of these countries when it comes to geopolitics as well as economics. You also need to remember that this is geopolitics and there are different definitions. It's often described and viewed that the Asia-Pacific (everything east or and including Pakistan) is one geopolitical region and the Middle East (West Asia+Egypt) is considered a separate region. The major geopolitical players of the Middle East (Iran and Saudi Arabia) do not have much impact, if anything at all, on what happens in the Asia-Pacific. In the Asia-Pacific, it's Japan, India, China and Australia that are the major players. So you can't blame her for focusing on the Asian countries of the Asia-Pacific becuase those are the countries that are interconnected politically and economically and like I said before, they all fall in line somewhere with Japan, India and China.
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  1737. What a peculiar comment. 99% of South Korea's temporary migrants are from other Asian countries.
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  1738. Arab Americans, this is what you voted for.
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  1739.  @ronraji  and a Malay king from Southeast Asia conquered northern Sri Lanka, does that mean Sri Lanka is now part of Malaysia? Please just stop.
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  1740.  @ywoisug8845  Yep you're right.
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  1741. @@Robey-si8ed Did you just comment and delete your reply? Also, to answer your question, I'm not.
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  1742. @@Robey-si8ed Singapore doesn't want any refugees because they claim they're too small but the fact is that they prefer to maintain their culture hence why they prefer accepting Malaysian immigrants over anybody else who are the same ethnicity as Singaporeans (Chinese + Malay + Tamil). Thailand doesn't want more Burmese refugees but they still accept them. You're speaking about other things but the point is that Rohingyas aren't moving to India (especially North India) because they want to, they're moving there out of sheer desperation. They have no choice but to move to India. If they had a choice they'd be moving to other Southeast Asian countries like every other Burmese refugee has in the past.
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  1743.  @kunalgohil7628  Like I said, nobody is moving to India, especially North India of all places, willingly. The richest states in India are located in the south which is far away from Myanmar. They moved to North India out of sheer desperation. So many Indians move to my country (Australia) each year, in fact they are now the largest source of migrants to this country overtaking the UK. There are zero opportunities in India compared to other Asian countries. SO anybody who is trying to get into that country is doing so because they are desperate. This is why Rohingyas deserve respect. They face extreme persecution and so escaped to India out of sheer desperation because they simply needed to escape. They have been moving to Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand for a long time and until recently there were no issues. They have always had opportunities in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand because those countries are far richer and economically well off with a focus on social development but that's not the case in India. Rohingya refugees have zero opportunities in India. They'd much prefer to be back in Myanmar, not in India. Compared toother refugee groups, Rohingyas actually want to go back to their nation but their military government continues to persecute every minority group that lives there and so they're barred from going back.
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  1744.  @PZantanKilla  They literally said she's going to Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia and even Kazakhstan. So she's going to at least 3 different regions in Asia.
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  1745.  @miga-x  I'm not, now what?
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  1746.  @Therealtuxedo No Sinhalese are not mainly of Bengali descent. Sinhalese share some genetic affinity to Orissa people and what not but the Sinhalese are a group that formed in Sri Lanka from many different groups. Also, Bengalis only carry some Southeast Asian-related ancestry. So yeah some of those features might come from that East Indian-related lineage but that is from thousands and thousands of ago. These features are also more Malay-like and probably indicate more recent ancestry hence why there are Sinhalese with epicanthic folds and facial structure that looks more Malay.
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  1747.  @Therealtuxedo There is a lot of misconception regarding the Sinhalese because of one genetic study published to Wikipedia. We are not Bengali or Gujarati or anything like that. What that study said is that from the Sinhalese samples in their study, most of the genetic markers of the Sinhalese samples were more similar to Bengalis and some were similar to gujaratis and others to Tamils. That does not mean Sinhalese are Bengalis or Gujaratis. Sinhalese are of mixed origins and the closest relatives are Sri Lankan Tamils and other ethnic groups of Sri Lanka. Sinhalese is closest to Maldivian and the two languages sound similar too unlike Bengali which sounds completely foreign. There needs to be a bigger study done on Sri Lanka. There are genetic similarities to Bengalis and so on but we are not mostly bengali or anything like that. Bengali-related or genetic affinity to Bengalis does not mean of Bengali descent. The reality is that a Sinhalese and Sri Lankan Tamil are genetically closer.
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  1748.  @jesseberg3271  Yes they are but that has absolutely NOTHING to do with this. After the Meiji restoration, the Meiji government ordered that Shintoism be separated from Buddhism in what was known as shinbutsu bunri, that meant all temples and shrines legally had to be separated an that Shintoism must be viewed separately from Buddhism in order to create a purely indigenous national identity. The Meiji government implemented State Shinto and became the state religion for Imperial Japan. Shinto shrines were integrated into political functions and ideological Shintoism emerged. State Shinto became the driving force for Imperial Japan and its deep connection to Imperial Japan led to the Shinto Directive in 1945 after the way where the occupation forces demanded Japan abolish Shintoism as the state religion. It was NOT Buddhism. Make sure you actually understand what's going on before speaking on these topics please.
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  1749.  @jesseberg3271  Shintoism and Buddhism still remain interconnected today but during the time of the Meiji government and Imperial Japan, they were legally separated and State Shinto was the state religion. Buddhism was not the state religion. All divinely orders were ordered through State Shinto, not Buddhism. The impact of State Shinto was felt in the occupied territories in Asia, it was not Buddhism. So no, your comment is 100% incorrect.
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  1750.  @CreepyTrendMan  I'm not obsessed with celebrities, their personal lives or they vote for. I like their music and that's it. A deluded person talking to me about "god". God doesn't exist. There is no huge gigantic man living in the sky. Grow up, stop believing in fairy tales.
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  1751.  @S-K555  It's the international map of India. We're neutral on Indian issues.
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  1752.  @S-K555  Someone from China or Pakistan could easily claim that map of India is depicting territory that belongs to them. So the world is neutral.
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  1753. They don't need a three child policy. Their fertility rate is 2, that's the replacement level and the level that is expected for a population to be sustained.
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  1754.  @marcothebarber764  The UK needs to leave Asia. It's a country located in Europe and yet you want it to own a piece of land located in southern Asia.
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  1755.  @marcothebarber764  Yes Asia! It's south of the Maldives, a country in Asia. USE GOOGLE
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  1756.  @marcothebarber764  Asia is NOT just China, Japan and Korea! India is a country in Asia.
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  1757. Why would Malaysians go to the US???? Lol what?? Americans are literally moving to Malaysia because of how much better it is. What's also funny is that the computers and phones you use most likely use semiconductor chips that were made in MALAYSIA. The US is now imports more semiconductor chips from Malaysia than any other region in Asia. Don't embarrass yourself.
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  1758.  @太陽神-u1l  The only Asian country that has significant global influence is China, not India, not Indonesia, not South Korea and not Japan.
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  1759. I find your comment to be utterly hilarious as it shows that you don't actually understand what's going on lmfaooooo. Hui Muslims live peacefully in China without an issue. In Myanmar, there are many other Muslim minorities like Kaman and Bamar Muslims who are recognised and live peacefully.
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  1760. and this is why India will remain like this forever.
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  1761. Stop crying
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  1762.  @PEMILIK_SANGKAKALA  You are literally an Indonesian, sit down.
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  1763. Yeah there are a lot of Nepalese students and immigrants in Australia. They are actually one of the fastest growing demographics in Australia and are also now one of the largest Asian groups in Australia now. Historically, it was the Indians at #1 and the Sri Lankans at #2 when it came to the largest South Asian groups in Australia and this was the case since the colonial days. Now Nepalese are the second largest South Asian group in Australia and you can see their impact more widely like Nepalese restaurants and momo trucks. Also, Lunar New Year in Australia was always a Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean-oriented celebration but this year, SBS (one of Australia's main TV channels) featured Nepalese-related programming for its "Lunar New Year in Australia" celebrations.
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  1764. She has an Indian accent cause she's actually an Indian and not from China.
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  1765. India is in Asia. So they're Asian. Is this supposed to be a joke?
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  1766.  @WastedBananas  They're all Asians. Asian is just geography. Stop conflating race with geographical terms. 💀
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  1767. When it comes to Indians, people feel it's okay to generalise and be racist
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  1768.  @UnlimitedWere  How is that even comparable? India is an artificial nation, it's made up of many different ethnic groups. A Tamil is genetically closer to a Maldivian than they are to a Punjabi from North India. They are all different ethnically speaking.
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  1769.  @UnlimitedWere  Race is a flawed construct but what you are referring to can be described as "South Asian" which broadly covers other nations close to India.
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  1770. It is
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  1771. That's not going to help them at all.
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  1772.  @falsemcnuggethope  Studying online was fun for some time but in the long run it's not viable. That's my opinion. There are many things you lose out on with online study. For many in my state in my country (Australia) we had to spend 2 academic years online. While 2020 was interesting for online study by 2021, all of the primary, high school and university students were very fatigued.
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  1773.  @Aurelianightshade  You're not even Indian because if you were, you would be talking about Indosphere and all that
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  1774.  @Itriedtobe-wq9lj  Europe contributed nothing compared to what China is contributing
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  1775. Considering this is an Asian channel, I'm going to say Trump's win may actually be a win for China and the rest of Asia despite all this talk of tariffs and things. China will continue to build on its ties with the rest of Asia as views across the region have increasingly begun to shift in favour of China. Trump will most likely pursue an America First policy like last time which will only help China and the rest of Asia to integrate further and contribute to the ongoing idea that US power in the region is declining. This is a good thing for the people of Asia.
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  1776.  @marcusaetius9309  Yeah they did
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  1777. The second hand embarrassment I felt after reading that
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  1778. and what happens when we actually do end up in war and our region is destroyed?
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  1779.  @BhushanPatil-gz5fk  Buddhism isn't a branch of Hinduism.
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  1780.  eldarmario presario  The Eastern world has been interacting with each other for thousands and thousands of years, long before the Europeans arrived in Asia. Indian cultural influences on Japanese culture came via Chinese and Korean influence on Japan. These ideas of "exoticness/mysteriousness" may have existed in the early days but through constant interaction, that mysterious nature wouldn't have existed. Japan itself has its own concept of "Asia" known as "Sangoku" during the ancient days which placed China (Kara), India (Tenjiku) and Japan (Honshu) as the three main civilisations in eastern/southern Asia. Also, not to be pedantic but if we go back all the way to the pleistocene, then we'll see that darker skinned East Eurasian groups emerged in Asia and spread south into India, the rest of South Asia and Southeast Asia (providing part of the ancestry that makes up the genetic makeup of modern-day South and Southeast Asians). These groups were known as the Ancient Ancestral South Indians, Hoabinhians and Negritos and all came from the same clade. There was also another group that emerged from the same clade that these darker skinned groups came from. They were an ancient ancestor to the Jomon (a comparatively dark skinned group who settled in Japan and Siberia) who intermixed with the lighter skinned East Asian looking Yayoi from the mainland to produce modern-day Japanese people.
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  1781.  @jujikjhg467  You're from paksitan
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  1782.  @hankjones3527  Always encouraging war and trying to create problems that the next generation has to solve.
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  1783.  @robboinnz  Broaden your outlook, they only want to protect their interests. If they were objectively a force for good, they would've brought "freedom" to the Burmese people but they didn't.
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  1784.  @giliganbrown6962  Stop pretending like you care about Chinese Australians, you don't!
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  1785. These poor Indian women. 😓 As someone from another country I feel such immense pain for females in India. It shocks me that regardless of age, female Indians face the threat of graping and gendered violence in that country. I was always on the side of Indian women but this case pushed me over the edge. It's so unfair that they can't live a life of safety in India. It's a never ending story, they're always suffering and they're so strong, they come out and protest knowing that the system is built to bring them down. The whole world is in support of all of the Indian female babies, girls and women. You all deserve so much better. Wishing you all the best.
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  1786. Who are you even talking about???
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  1787. India is called a "subcontinent" in reference to its ethnic diversity because every state in the country has its own language, culture and ethnic group. It's basically like a continent. It's still a part of the Asian continent.
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  1788. So let me get this straight, Adani bribed officials in India and yet the US wants to prosecute him? So why not India? Clearly there is something else going on here. Why on earth would the US be this invested in a billionaire that allegedly committed a crime in another country?
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  1789. Which Indonesian because there's so many different ethnic groups in Indonesia. Still discriminating against Chinese-Indonesians or have you moved on?
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  1790.  @PawSmalls  Just a little more information to help you understand everything. Have you heard of the Belt and Road Initiative? China is interested in using Myanmar in this project that connects Asia to Europe. China wants a direct access point to and from the Indian Ocean. By using Myanmar (and Pakistan), it will provide China the ability to get direct access to the Indian Ocean without going via the Strait of Malacca in between Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia (which is a choke point and in close proximity to Indian waters, which China doesn't like for obvious reasons). So in a time of crisis, China can easily divert its trade to Myanmar and can also use the area that it has jurisdiction over to stage blockades or other antagonistic naval exercises. It would also mean China can use the area in Myanmar to store military equipment if a naval war were to ever occur in South and Southeast Asia. Rakhine State in Myanmar is very much at the centre of this development regarding Chinese influence in Myanmar. In general, China is very interested in becoming the dominant power in the Asia-Pacific and that's why China is placing a lot of attention on certain Asian countries like Myanmar, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Nepal etc. in an attempt to widen its political, economic and cultural influence in the region. What China wants to see is an Asia free of a US presence in which other Asian countries place China first. That's why China would very much like to see an Asia where India and Japan are working with China than against it.
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  1791.  @SIGMA_CENTRAL_IKON  Things are changing. Myanmar and Sri Lanka are going through crises now and the majority ethnic groups are now respecting and treating the ethnic and religious minorities. A few weeks ago, Buddhist monks and Buddhist people sat down with Muslims to have iftar during the protests in Sri Lanka. The younger generation is especially becoming accepting and refusing to listen to what these people are saying. These monks are trying to divide South and Southeast Asia up along religious lines but people are waking up and refusing to listen to them now.
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  1792.  @lll3069  They're the ones that always scream about wanting to help Muslims but when it comes to actually doing something, they say nothing.
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  1793. China will back whichever side that will allow its ambitions to not be hindered. That is why China has oscillated between supporting the junta and some of the anti-junta groups. China will NEVER allow the conflict in Myanmar to spill over into its Yunnan province, a province which has traditionally been porous as the province is home to thousands and thousands of Burmese traders who migrate back and forth who are engaged in the jade trade, especially in cities like Ruili where everything is a mix of Chinese and Burmese culture.
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  1794. He never said that.
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  1795. Yeah Asian countries have their own versions of this story. It's a beautiful Indosphere story.
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  1796.  @skipper2594  The majority of people in Sikkim are Gurkhas, who are related to Nepalese though.
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  1797.  @harukrentz435  Yes I do. You have misunderstood me. I'm talking about how the government banned the use of artificial fertilisers in one go instead of phasing it out. You're supposed to phase things out when implementing drastic new changes. The government did not do that.
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  1798. Never thought the IPEF was meaningful but India walking away from the IPEF after they walked away from the RCEP only shows one thing: that India has a very weak market that is unable to compete with multiple other countries in a large trade zone. They're so protectionist. This is why only 10% of India's population holds 77% of the country's wealth, while 670 million Indians who comprise the poorest half of the population saw only a 1% increase in their wealth.
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  1799. It's a mix of several different religious and cultural elements.
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  1800. ​ @Daph112  I'm talking about a photo of a man wearing a yellow top and he has glasses on and appears to have dark brown hair. He looks European or Middle Eastern.
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  1801.  @Daph112  I don't think you know what photo I'm talking about. There is no way that man would be mistaken for Southeast Asian.
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  1802. Is that what they're upset about?
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  1803. It applies to both East Asians and South Asians
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  1804. This was an international student, they weren't even a Canadian 💀💀
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  1805.  @RoachChaddjr  I just want to quickly say, I only have a problem with the nationalists and supremacists. I've met many online from that country who are nice but the ones whose whole personalities are based on Indian nationalism and patriotism are really problematic. It's very hard speaking to them because they think we're all out to get them even when we're not. I honestly believe the extreme nationalism is part of the reason why India is behind today.
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  1806. The people in Myanmar are native to the lands they live on. You can't compare Myanmar to Western countries accepting immigrants. 💀
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  1807.  @mahinegi3064  That's what Indian Hindus believe.
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  1808.  @steel47  Your "truth" will not spread in the Indo-Pacific nations.
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  1809.  @ashutoshgupta9410  Why are you telling me that?
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  1810.  @mrsalwaysright6478  Based on your comment, you must be from India because many Burmese (especially young people and the Burmese government-in-exile) are now supportive of the Rohingyas and the Burmese government-in-exile wants to reintegrate them back into Myanmar's society. They also used the word "Rohingya" instead of "Bengali". I only see Indians continue to say "illegal Bengalis" and "Bangladeshi refugees" and that type of stuff when the rest of the world has moved on. You must be an Indian.
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  1811.  @nomastersnogods9303  The Muslim population in Myanmar is still small today. There are small minorities of native Burmese people who are Muslim (many of whom live in Rakhine State) such as the Kaman. The Arakan Kingdom was always separate in identity to the central plains and was home to Rakhine Buddhists and Arakanese Muslims. The idea that there was "hardly any Muslims etc. in Myanmar" is wrong because Myanmar, as we know it today, was a collection of several different kingdoms. It is only expected with the Islamic invasions of South Asia that Islam eventually spread into neighbouring western Myanmar in which groups like the Kaman became Muslim.
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  1812.  @nomastersnogods9303  Myanmar is not homogenous, it has always been home to hundreds of different ethnic groups. Idk where you got this idea that Myanmar is homogenous, it's not and never has been. Myanmar is so diverse that the country has officially recognised 135 different ethnic groups but there are many other minority groups who are not recognised. The largest ethnic group are the Bamar and there are hundreds of other indigenous minorities in the other states of Myanmar such as the Mon (the first inhabitants of Myanmar), Shan, Rakhine, Karen, Kachin, Wa, Kaman, Maramagyi, Daingnet etc. This is why Myanmar has for so long dealt with separatist movements from minority groups. On top of that, there are non-indigenous minorities, many of whom came during the colonial era, such as the Burmese Indians and Burmese Chinese (who now after several generations and also through facing systematic racism have become Burmanised). Myanmar is far from homogenous and the Tatmadaw has, like the CCP in China, engaged in a process known as Burmanisation. This is why you will be able to find many Burmese Muslims (such as Bamar Muslims) who are only Muslim by religion as their culture, mentality, style of dress, food etc. is "Bamar Buddhist". In fact, it is generally accepted that for a Burmese Muslim, the more "Bamar" you are the more accepted you will be in society. Myanmar is a heterogenous country.
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  1813.  @ar2r1an04  All of you are correct. There are ethnic Tibetans in India and Tibetan-related people who are indigenous to India. There are also Indians with what you call "Tibetan-like" features elsewhere in India like in Northeast India but also in Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Ladakh (areas all located in proximity to the Tibetan Plateau) that are not Tibetan-related but completely different. So, all of you are correct.
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  1814.  @no_more_spamplease5121  Rohingyas are part of Arakan.
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  1815. It's true though
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  1816.  @hke.4475  Nowhere did I speak about India, y'all are proving my point though. Didn't even mention "India" and they're talking about it lmao.
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  1817.  @programmersdiary6859  Their fertility rate is 2.0, which means it'll eventually stop growing and peak and then decline.
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  1818.  @Al-so1ly  Exactly what I'm talking about. This would be an issue had Indonesia, Bangladesh and Rohingyas all practiced Hindu-Buddhist-animist culture/beliefs.
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  1819.  @Al-so1ly  You're only saying that because you don't like what I'm saying.
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  1820.  @Al-so1ly  Jakarta, Aceh does it matter? It's nothing like Bali or even eastern Indonesia.
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  1821.  @Al-so1ly  Burmese people are fighting to reclaim their nation. Nobody in Southeast Asia cares. In fact, China cares more about the pro-democracy rebels than any democratic Southeast Asian nation does. Indonesia can do whatever it wants, who it lets in and who it doesn't but I find sheer irony in the way they relate this to Palestine whilst crying out for "Muslim solidarity", it's solidarity until it comes to doing something. Picking and choosing. Not a good image.
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  1822.  @RyanAmplification  India won't join. They don't side with other countries, the only reason for them to join is if they were attacked.
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  1823.  @doom9603  QUAD is not a miliary alliance. India isn't going to join any conflict unless it directly affects them, neither will the rest of Asia.
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  1824.  @ChandanMishra-ql1bi  Since when did India want Tibet other than the Akhand Bharat nationalists?
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  1825.  @vlhc4642  They absolutely were not, China has always been ahead of India in the post-colonial age.
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  1826. Do you think the whole country is leaving or something? Did you not see all of the young people fighting for their freedom a few weeks ago? Calm down Pat and think with logic. Not everybody is going to leave. The ones who are educated and desperate will leave, others will not.
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  1827.  @AB_NYC  They're right though. There is a reason why people like Indian Americans but not Indians from India. Indian Americans are hardworking people, they are overrepresented in the STEM fields, pioneers in new inventions in the US, dominate the academic sector (alongside other Asian Americans) and contribute so much to the US economy. While I am not quick to use IQ to define groups, a study of 10 year old American kids found those with Indian heritage collectively had one of the highest IQs in the study. These are elite people, no wonder Trump is so fond of them.
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  1828.  @AB_NYC  When people say, "Indians are hardworking, great people", they're talking about the Indian Americans. Don't think for one second, that people think Indian Americans are the same as Indians because if they were the same, India would be on par with China now but it's not.
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  1829. Not all Rohingyas are Muslims though. There are Christian and Hindu Rohingyas too. They live in Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh.
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  1830. It's the same thing...
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  1831.  @paulfri1569  No it doesn't. I live in the Asia-Pacific, it means everything from India to French Polynesia.
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  1832.  @AchaemenidPersia-wl9du  Northeast India is mainly Hindu
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  1833. She's a compulsive liar, that's why. Lying is a habit for her.
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  1834. DEI? Of course an American weeb said this
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  1835. Hong Kong was under British rule, many people from South and Southeast Asia settled in Hong Kong during the colonial period. These people speak English and Cantonese. I just know you've never stepped foot in Hong Kong or Asia for that matter.
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  1836.  @ozairmehmood2016  Both India and Pakistan have issues but lynching and burning a man, then taking selfies with the corpse is very sickening. I'm not from India or Pakistan but that incident with the Sri Lankan worker was reported on national TV in my country and people were really shocked. It's not something to be proud about. Religious conservatism does nothing to progress a country. India is at a crossroads between choosing religious extremism or secularism but Pakistan is so far down the lane of religious extremism that I honestly think it's beyond saving at this point (unless people collectively wake up and realise the damage it is causing).
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  1837.  @freydy4598  It's not
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  1838. China has NEVER seen Australia as being theirs.What???
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  1839.  @micol2434  What did they sow? Tell me.
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  1840. Well one reason why people learn Korean in other Asian countries is because many Asians (Chinese, Southeast, South and Central Asians) go to South Korea to work or go there as international students. Then yes, there are those people who are obsessed with Korean pop culture and so learn Korean so they can become Koreanised.
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  1841.  @shivambakhshi4859  Indians aren't all ethnically and culturally the same though. A Malayali is different to a Punjabi who is different to a Manipuri who is different to a Kashmiri and so on. Sri Lanka is a different country, it has a different culture and mentality. It is safe to say that nobody in Sri Lanka or anywhere else wants to be integrated into Indian culture and lose their own identity.
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  1842.  @shivambakhshi4859  As I said before, occupation of Sri Lanka by India, China and Japan who act as observers through the reconstruction process makes much more sense than erasing their whole identity by joining another country, never to taste freedom ever again.
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  1843.  @no1reallycaresabout2  I'm sure those who live there don't want that but I don't see anything else for them. How are they supposed to survive? That country will become a failed state or at the least, borderline failed state if nothing happens because we know those politicians won't do nothing. Sri Lanka needs to be occupied or we risk the stability of not only Sri Lanka but the rest of the Asia-Pacific region and the Asia-Pacific is relatively stable when it comes to food and development security. The last thing people want is a failed state to pop up in the region and I know Sri Lankan people especially don't want that, especially after most of the Sri Lankan population was living so comfortably until recently. My family is originally came from there too but they when they were younger.
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  1844. In the US, they are not usually considered as such but yes in Asia they are and Uncle Roger is from Malaysia (the most pan-Asian nation in Asia)
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  1845.  @divineflu34567  Southeast Asia (except for Vietnam) was not influenced by Chinese beauty standards. The root of most Southeast Asian cultures is Indic. Everything from clothing, architecture, music, language, scripts, literature, art, etiquette, mannerism and so on are of Indian origin. Look at their beauty standards. Do you know what traditional Southeast Asian beauty looks like? It's not Chinese-looking. It's typical Southeast Asian looking with often pale or lightly tan skin. It's much more in line with Indian beauty than Chinese beauty. Look at the traditional Khmer apsara dancers of Cambodia or the Balinese dancers of Indonesia, they're all traditional Southeast Asian beauty with Indian influenced ornaments, jewellery and clothing.
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  1846. ⁠@ Rajapakses are Sinhalese, they may have some Malay ancestry but they are Sinhalese. Let’s not downplay the fact that it’s a Sinhalese family that caused all of the issues in Sri Lanka, not Malay people. I say this as a Sinhalese person. Had the Sinhalese government just treated everyone equally back then there would be so many Tamils, Malays, Burghers, Chinese and Sinhalese still living in Sri Lanka. Despite people’s mentality changing and now believing inequality, there are some who still like to pain themselves as victims.
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  1847.  @aalampara7853  The Rajapaksas are not Malays, they're ethnic Sinhalese. Those people ruined Sri Lanka
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  1848. I say that as a Sinhalese person. The Rajapakes are a disgrace to Sri Lanka and Sinhalese people.
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  1849. Most of Southeast Asia is actually culturally related to India. It's part of the Indosphere, not Sinosphere. Also, Indians aren't Black Africans...
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  1850.  @Iamdead666  QUAD is not a miliary alliance and the US is close to Pakistan too.
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  1851.  @gurugurukuma  Singaporeans are mostly of Chinese, Malay and Indian descent.
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  1852. Their fertility rate is below replacement level. They're not having enough babies and the country is rapidly aging. By 2028, their country would be officially classified as "aged" and the country's workforce will be shrinking because there aren't enough young people anymore. Do some research.
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  1853.  @ChicMag  Ok do that because if that actually happens then my opinion will change and it will also change if Pakistan takes over the entire area or if it becomes an independent nation but right now that isn't the case
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  1854.  @thomashunter5645  Overall the port and jurisdiction of the port is still owned by the Sri Lankan government who works jointly with the SLPA to control it.
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  1855.  @adventurehunt6080  What?
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  1856.  @adventurehunt6080  I'm not Nepalese. You don't even know who I am. 15% of "Indo-European" Nepalese?? What are you talking about? Indo-European is a language family. Who are these people you speak of that you consider to be non-indigenous? Give me a name. What is "indigenous Nepalese"? Answer that instead of rambling. You say 85% of Nepalese are "indigenous", who are they? Who is "Asian"? Everybody who is native to Asia is Asian. Are you going to tell me Kashmiri or something is not Asian? Are they "European" to you? Nepal is an extremely weak and highly undeveloped nation in Asia that relies on so much aid, calm down and humble yourself. 💀
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  1857.  @wangtrista5019  I'm not blaming the whole of China. I'm talking about the CCP. Did I say that I'm blaming the whole of China? No I did not. Stop jumping the gun.
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  1858.  @wangtrista5019  I never blamed the whole of China. I said CCP. Read my comment! Stop jumping the gun.
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  1859. says the person literally living in the West
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  1860. This is South China Morning Post, not CGTN
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  1861. No, it's because they need people for an economy to function. Without people, you have no economy.
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  1862. ​ @Leiska86  The point of the matter is that the people living on either side of the Himalayas did not have issues with each other until later.
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  1863.  @nrabbi93  Singapore doesn't accept refugees because it's a small country and the country is also ethnocentric in who gets PR. Most Singaporeans are Chinese, Malays and Indians and the government has traditionally been more accepting of people from Malaysia (which is ethnically and culturally very similar to Singapore), China and India as a result of this. This is not to say everything is perfect, racism towards Malaysians, Chinese from China and Indians from India is well documented and authorities have expressed concern that there is a growing divide between Singaporeans and new immigrants from other Asian countries.
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  1864. This is why Sri Lanka isn't progressing because a lot of you think this way. If you don't know, the plantation workers are Tamils of Indian origin brought over during the colonial rule. So of course the majority is going to be Tamil and so what if there was a Muslim girl? The girl is Malay and Malays and Sri Lankan Moors are some of the main minority groups in Sri Lanka. Stop making everything about religion and ethnicity.
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  1865. A Canadian weeb with an obsession for the IJA
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  1866.  @indo-pacific5940  There absolutely is. The native hunter-gatherers of South Asia are known as the AASI and they are genetically related to East Asians and Australasians. So that's one ethnic link. Secondly, ESEA (East/Southeast Asian) people have genetically contributed to certain populations in South Asia. I'm of Sri Lankan descent, Malays have settled in Sri Lanka in large numbers since the 13h century. My eyes are more like Malay-like eyes. The problem here is that you're homogenising us and being incredibly Indocentric. Stop calling us "Indian subcontinent". It's South Asia, not Indian subcontinent which is a term created by the British to refer to India, Pakistan and Bangladesh (British India). Really Chindians? So you just ignore all of the indigenous ethnic groups in South Asia that are connected to East and Southeast Asia. Let me repeat, the indigenous people of South Asia are genetically closer to East Asian people. The majority of Indians (e.g. Hindi speakers) are primarily of non-indigenous descent and there is an irony in someone suggesting South Asians have no genetic ties to East or Southeast Asia when all of the indigenous people of the land are far closer to East Asians than the typical North Indian who is closer to a European than an East Asian as they mostly carry West Eurasian ancestry.
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  1867. You don't have ours though
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  1868.  @mefisto05s.20  Yes it is. Brazil is just another example of a middle income trapped nation. They have the opportunities but they don't use them.
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  1869.  @off_grid_javelin  India started in 1990 and they don't have much time left. They have wasted so many opportunities and continue to waste them. It's just talk but never action.
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  1870.  @off_grid_javelin  No, India will run out of time. Economic growth isn't infinite. India wasted a lot of time and now they're on the cusp of a demographic crisis.
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  1871.  @tuffnutvalo6717  I can tell you are offended by my statements but everything I said was the truth. Your comment consists of a whole lot of words but there is no clear point to it.
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  1872.  @tuffnutvalo6717  and yes I do believe India is running out of time. India's leaders consistently fail to see this but if people think India has an infinite amount of time to develop, then they are severely mistaken. Not everything is condescension or hate. Not everybody is out to get you.
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  1873.  @dancingcar8974  You're so triggered lmaooooo, this is so funny to me. I'm laughing and you're behind that computer or phone so angry and furious with what I said
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  1874.  @dancingcar8974  Not you crying lmao
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  1875.  @uzochiokeke4328  With this attitude you're basically asking them to do as you say or be punished. Y'all sound just like the Americans at this point. Would expect you to understand this after how the Americans have treated India's decision to remain neutral in the Ukraine War but clearly not. Big countries will always push smaller countries around either bullying them or downright subjugation.
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  1876.  @milkandspice1074  She looks Northeast Indian and could pass in Southeast Asia and Nepal too.
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  1877. Not the same at all.
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  1878. ​ Lelouch Yeagar  He did it in the name of that religion. At the end of the day his allegiance is with that religion. Nation borders mean nothing here when they all identify with their religion before anything else. Let's also not forget the fact that that religion is not native to South Asia, it was brought to the region through Arab, Persian, Turkish and Afghan invasions which resulted in forced conversions. That religion has never had a positive history in that region, there's a reason why there's so much anti-Islam sentiment in South Asia because it's culturally so different to the indigenous Asian/Eastern religions and philosophies of the region like Buddhism and Hinduism.
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  1879. Jack Teerawat The fact that you have a gigantic Christian cross on your banner on your channel says it all. You're believing in a foreign religion that was introduced to East, South and Southeast Asia on a large scale via colonisation and European Christian missionaries that preyed on the vulnerable. Pathetic, that's all I can say. Stupid idiot.
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  1880. @Raine Riny 7 No it did not but I'm merely stating the truth. Christianity was introduced to Asia via European colonisation and Christian missionaries. Read about the history of colonial Asia and Christian missionaries that entered Asian countries like Francis Xavier. The reason why Christianity is a major religion in South and Southeast Asia is due to the work of missionaries and colonial rulers which introduced Christianity to the region on a grand scale. I don't know why you're getting offended over the truth.
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  1881.  @hewas_chewasky  That's why India is one minute supporting the West (e.g joining Quad) and the next minute supporting China by saying it won't join a Western-led diplomatic boycott. It's an unpredictable country led by unpredictable and incompetent leaders.
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  1882. Modi Godi is too busy stroking his ego
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  1883.  @frankfleming1103  That's what they mean that China will need to import labour from other locations in Asia like Southeast Asia
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  1884.  @markostanic9442  BTW I don't support the Chinese government but they are right about a few things
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  1885.  @khaingeieiko8230  I agree, the Tatmadaw were controlling her and she didn't have the freedom to have full control.
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  1886. If you don't mind me asking, what country do you live in? Are you from Italy?
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  1887. It's happening all over Asia. The fertility rates in Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, Vietnam, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Maldives, North Korea, India, Iran and Bangladesh are all below replacement level.
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  1888.  @Zoza15  If you knew anything about Sri Lanka, you'd know that the country has a lot of Western influences and that Sri Lankan immigrants integrate well into their new nations like Australia. Are you aware that Sri Lankan immigrants, despite being such a small population in the US, are one of the most educated ethnic groups in the US?
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  1889.  @Zoza15  What makes you think nobody is fixing the mess there? Did you not see the thousands and thousands of people who stormed the presidential palace? This is mainly about young people who have finished high school and want to study overseas.
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  1890. They're Rohingyas. A Western man isn't going to explain Asian affairs to Asian people. If we go far back in time, the animosity between Rohinyas and other Burmese is actually due to the actions of British colonisers. Think about that.
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  1891.  @davidivory3234  It is in Indonesia's best interests to look at its Asian relatives (China, India, Japan, rest of ASEAN) than elsewhere. By the middle of this century, Indonesia will be one of the top 5 largest economies in the world. It is important that Indonesia remains in the Asian political sphere to maintain peace in Asia-Pacific.
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  1892. ​ @varun2250  Cause they said, "as an Indian woman", they obviously think they have a valid opinion simply because they're from India and can speak on two American women who happen to have Indian ancestry.
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  1893.  @varun2250  No she added it to indicate that somehow her opinion is more important even though she's not even an American
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  1894.  @songoku-jx3cb  Nobody is talking to you!
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  1895.  @PalyamBabu8308  I was generalising. There are successful Indians in India but it seems like they are in the minority as many of them choose to migrate to the West.
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  1896.  @Rook-gz5dy  Okay and none of these people were born in India and studied in India. They were born to Indian immigrants.
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  1897.  @bunnitomoe3866  No
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  1898. This comment made me laugh hahaha
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  1899.  @ilikevines  They moved there. They didn't colonise anything (Malays still live in dignity) unlike Anglo people who colonised Australia
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  1900.  @naruto6918  They're right. You're literally losing your most talented and yet you want them to remain in the US. How is India going to develop if it keeps losing its educated?
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  1901.  @Mar-wal-s6i  Without you? You're in India, you're not one of these educated immigrants working in the US
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  1902. @whoareyou3185 Do it again after you read my comment BAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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  1903. How is this propaganda when I have actually given a study while you haven't given me anything but "that's propaganda"? Keep living in denial but it's not going to change reality. Cry harder
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  1904. @ Some people just don't and never will be able to understand population genomics. Not my problem, this is for the smart ones.
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  1905.  @banukasilva6153  Bring men in and then the problems start. Enough already. Women >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> men. Society is a lot safer when there are more women than men. Japan should only accept women but that won't happen so it should be a lot more women than men.
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  1906.  @banukasilva6153  Stop bringing in men! Females>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> males
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  1907.  @appa609  No
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  1908. 💀
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  1909.  @sontoloyo-zo9er  What I said is a fact
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  1910. @ They are from Myanmar, not Bangladesh
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  1911.  @sanjadebbarma2388  There is no such thing as "Asian race". Asian is just a demonym to describe people native to Asia. They're talking about Asian academic excellence in the US, what is the group that tops the list among the Asian groups with the highest household median income? It's the Indians. The Asians that dominate Americans universities are mostly East Asians, Indians and Filipinos. Silicon Valley is controlled by Chinese and Indians.
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  1912. and what's wrong with that? Sexual minorities have freedom in Singapore.
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  1913.  @sumit6190p  Nah, you're the one that needs to chill because you clearly didn't watch the video if you're talking about India on a video about Singapore.
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  1914.  @Kazim28  It's Little India and it's purely Singaporean-Indian (which is predominantly culturally and ethnically Tamil. These people are Singaporean whose ancestors left what is now called India many centuries ago). It's not supposed to be a mini version of India, so it's not supposed to representing West Indians, North Indians or Northeast Indians (who are all virtually non-existent among the Singaporean-Indian community). Little Bangladesh exists simply because there are a lot of Bangladeshi migrant workers that live and work in Singapore.
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  1915.  @marwin4348  Most Burmese are Buddhists, what exactly has this got to do with Islam???
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  1916.  @Paconennation  When you asked, "have you ever visited Kenya?". Investors, goods... again how is any of that different to India? Well the whole world knows that it's the Kenyan-Asians that power y'all's economy. So again, I ask you how is it any different to India? Both of y'all are the same.
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  1917. ​ @Paconennation  They have extreme income inequality where the top 10% hold like 40% of the country's wealth. Kenya has extreme wealth disparity too. Less than 0.1% of Kenya's population own more wealth than the bottom 99.9% of the country according to Oxfam. I'm guessing most of that 0.1% are Kenyan-Asians. So like I asked before, how is it any different to India? My facts are straight, I'm not delulu. I don't need to go to Kenya to see that there is no difference. Both are developing nations but there's a difference here because a delulu citizen from Kenya somehow thinks his country is better than India when there's literally no difference.
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  1918.  @Paconennation  Tell that to them
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  1919. They're just described as "Indian" or "South Asian" in Hong Kong society. Colour terminology is not used anywhere in Asia.
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  1920. Elon Musk destroyed my once positive perception of India with all of those videos on Twitter and all of the racist tweets, that I still see on a daily basis. However, this video gave me a good glimpse into what India will slowly become and it looks nice and will be better. Being such a rich country, I'd expect to see changes like this contrary to what you see pushed online.
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  1921. No, they're Singaporeans of Indian descent. About 9% of Singaporeans are of ethnic Indian descent. Their ancestors settled there in the 18th, 19th centuries.
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  1922. They're in the Himalayas, they're fine.
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  1923.  @jsthereforfun1648  Correlation to the comment??? Nowhere to be found
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  1924.  @simongross3122  How are they lying??? Bffr
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  1925. cringe
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  1926. No. Ainu people descend from the Jomon and the Jomon are not connected to Northern India and certainly not Turkhans. Jomon are 100% East Eurasian and they descend from a "southern" East Eurasian lineage closer to the Kusunda, AASI, Andamanese and Hoabinhian of South and Southeast Asia and a "northern" East Eurasian lineage from Siberia.
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  1927. What has any of that got to do with the video?
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  1928. Yes that was in the past but not anymore and it wasn't due to religion, it was due to ethnicity. Malaysia and Indonesia are predominantly Malay/Indonesian while Singapore is predominantly Chinese. Singapore has good relations with Malaysia and Indonesia.
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  1929.  @Anonymous-qb4vc  Only in some Western countries does "Asian" mean "Mongoloid" appearance. In the UK and eastern African countries, "Asian" means Indian/South Asian appearance. Desi is too narrow of a term to use and really only applies to Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis. Asian is not a race, people outside f Asia have turned it into one but nobody in Asia thinks it's a race. Hong Kong has a large colonial-era Indian community, they are considered Asians and in colloquial language they are known by the Cantonese equivalent for "South Asian". This issue of Asia's definition is only a non-Asian issue.
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  1930.  @anasian8894  It has a negative connotation in the US only and it's primarily propagated by East Asian Americans who claim calling someone "Oriental" is degrading because the term "oriental" is used to refer to non-human objects like rugs (e.g. Oriental rugs of the Middle East and Central Asia).
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  1931.  @SpookerNoa  Of course it's an Indian male
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  1932.  @leonal522  Yes I fully agree with you. The foreign policies of China, India and many other Asian and African nations are rooted in non-alignment and so they have a seat on the fence where they can see both sides equally. They're able to play both sides because of their neutrality.
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  1933.  @Deridus  Yeah maybe some inexperience due to age but I am part of the same generation he belongs to but I definitely don't see the world the way he sees it. He just needs to do more research, particularly on what happened before out time or when we were too young to remember because the US in 2023 is nothing like the US that existed in 2000.
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  1934.  @hadifjamalluddin3319  It's because the Rohingya issue has nothing to do with Islam. It's an ethnic issue. There are other Burmese Muslim groups in Myanmar. The issue here is that a lot of people think Rohingyas are the only Muslims in Myanmar and that the Rohingya issue is due to Islam. It's not. There are a lot of historical factors behind it.
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  1935. ​ @hadifjamalluddin3319  No because you shouldn't equate everything and view them through the lens of religion. Islamophobia in France or Israel has nothing to do with the Rohingya issue and neither do they have anything to do with the rest of Myanmar. The distinction between religions means nothing here. Burmese people of all different religions are protesting. ASSK has had Burmese Muslims in her government. There have been Burmese Muslims in the government. There were Rohingyas in the government before the military took over. The issue here isn't do with religion. Hope this answers your question.
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  1936. They're not from the Indian subcontinent. 💀💀
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  1937. That's because they all became Muslims. So they forgot about their pre-Islamic heritage.
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  1938. Then have babies!
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  1939.  @themoonsvice  No it's incorrect because Rohingyas are from Southeast Asia, not South Asia or the Middle East
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  1940.  @comparatio9148  Oh and I won't forget, I'd feel a lot safer in the UAE, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain and maybe even Saudi Arabia than in most, if not all, of the Muslim-majority areas of Indonesia. So I really have no idea what you're saying about the Middle East. The hate is real, that's what I can see.
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  1941.  @comparatio9148  Are you aware that Rohingyas were officially recognised as a native ethnic group of Myanmar until the Tatmadaw took power and stripped them off their citizenship?? All of the Rohingya politicians in the Burmese government were asked to leave and after that, they were rendered stateless. Idk where you are getting this information from, it's clear your attitude comes from a place of hate because the National Unity Government of Myanmar (Burmese-government-in-exile, led by Aung San Suu Kyi - NUG) has a Rohingya minister in office and the NUG publicly said they will reintegrate Rohingyas back into Myanmar once they take back power from the Tatmadaw.
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  1942.  @comparatio9148  Your hatred for South Asians and Middle Easterners is real because you can't even tell me I'm wrong. You really hold hatred in your heart and yet I will always find beauty in the Nepalese, Bhutanese, Sri Lankans, Omanis and Iranians than with the people I see in this comment section, which all happen to be Muslims from Indonesia.
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  1943.  @comparatio9148  I don't know where this sense of superiority came from. Vietnamese, Thai, Burmese, Cambodian, Singaporean, Filipino, East Timorese etc. are very different to Muslim Indonesians who hold conservative religious views wearing tudung and niqab, who will obsess over Thai BL dramas whilst not supporting LGBT among other things.
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  1944. How can they ensure that when their government doesn't even support them?
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  1945.  @davout5775  They do though.
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  1946. "Indo-Pacifc" means Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean, has nothing to do with India.
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  1947.  @lanwilliams9536  Not all Southeast Asian women. Most Southeast Asian women are brown, whereas Vietnamese women look East Asian so "yellow fever" can't describe all Southeast Asian women. In Thailand, for example, you can find so many foreign men with brown skinned Thai women - clearly they are into darker skinned women.
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  1948.  @athena608  Yes those things you said are true and to add, it differs depending on group and location. Brown skin is also fetishised and there are men who prefer darker skinned women and thus there is a long history of Western men who fetishised darker skinned South Asian (and Southeast Asian) women during R&R in the 1970s in Singapore and Malaysia (countries where many dark brown South Indian and Malay women live). Saint Jack, a film from the 1970s and set in Singapore, documents this reality of how South Asian, East Asian and Southeast Asian women were fetishised during the Vietnam War period by Western men when bathouses, bars and hotels became locations for sex to relieve Western soldiers of the stress of war. Many of these stereotypes of submissive women emerged during this period and mixed race Amerasian (born to Asian mother and American soldier) were born across Southeast Asia and Amerasians faced severe discrimination with the common belief that they were born to a mother who was a prostitute. Additionally, the diversity of South Asians also adds to this. Many Sri Lankan women have dark brown skin and before the civil war, Sri Lanka used to be a location for European men who went in search for a Sri Lankan wife. One of the largest waves of Sri Lankan migrants to Denmark comprised of Sri Lankan women who migrated with their Danish husbands they had met back in Sri Lanka. Not to mention that Sri Lanka remains one of the main mail order producing nations in Asia after various Southeast Asian nations like the Philippines. Dark brown women are fetishised and in Thailand (which is a major sex tourist destination), you will find many foreign men who prefer the dark brown Thai women over the lighter skinned East Asian looking Thai women.
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  1949.  @Natasha-to1mh  because Southeast Asians are very diverse. Southeast Asians don't all look the same but they are all mostly from the same ESEA lineage. A brown skinned Southeast Asian person like tennis player Nick Kyrgios' Malaysian mother (Nill Kyrigos) is not going to be mistaken for a Chinese/East Asian but a light skinned Southeast Asian person with features resembling East Asian people will be mistaken for a Chinese/East Asian person. Also, besides native Southeast Asians with features resembling East Asian features, many Southeast Asians are of full or partial Chinese descent. A lot of Southeast Asians who have faced racial violence in the past few years are those of full or partial Chinese descent.
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  1950. @Kumar Aniket No but I am interested in Myanmar and read a lot about the country. I also have friends from Myanmar and we talk about Burmese issues all the time.
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  1951. @Kumar Aniket Are you talking about the monks or about how Burmese people are fighting against the Burmese military? Sorry, I don't fully understand your question.
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  1952.  @avatarairbinder6157  They said Asian countries should work together. Who said that Asia belongs to China?
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  1953.  @avatarairbinder6157  Asian NATO will never happen
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  1954. Maybe you should understand that Buddhism, like all other Eastern religions, have been syncretised with local beliefs and Hinduism is a sister religion to Buddhism and one of the main forms of cultural influence on other parts of Asia before the emergence of Buddhism.
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  1955.  @kihihil1196  The fact that you can't see the clear resemblance between the LTTE, ISIS and Al Qaeda is baffling to me. I don't support terrorists.
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  1956.  @captainalex157  You have a positive attitude, you simply want the best of both worlds and I can't argue with you on that. Thanks for the discussion, it was good. :)
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  1957.  @xcutioner5411  There will be new groups. SNSD and Super Junior were replaced by Blackpink and BTS.
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  1958. About time that man is declared "wanted"
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  1959.  @comparatio9148  The Tatmadaw doesn't like them. Ordinary Burmese have no problem with them. There is a Rohingya minister in Aung San Suu Kyi's political party (Burmese government-in-exile).
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  1960.  @anthonychan3336  BTW, there is a Rohingya minister in Aung San Suu Kyi's political party and Wai Wai Nu is a Rohingya pro-democracy activist who has been one of the most vocal pro-democracy voices in Myanmar since the 2010s. Use Google!
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  1961.  @fahreza1186  The religion is to blame for everything and Aceh is a prime example of how radical it is. That's why Aceh is such a third world location. Had the whole of Indonesia, Bangladesh and Rohingyas been like Bali, none of this would be an issue because they would be practicing Hindu-Buddhist-animist beliefs. None of this tribalistic behaviour would be present.
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  1962. 💀
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  1963.  @niket527  No, he's right and I say this as an Asian Buddhist.
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  1964.  @aangka0701  They were kicked out by the Tatmadaw because they stripped them off their citizenship. Do a little research.
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  1965. We've found another one
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  1966. Trust you to make this about politics, they already do btw
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  1967.  @ILLUMINATI838  You say all that while you continue to repeat the same talking points the Tatmadaw use against the Rohingyas.
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  1968.  @ILLUMINATI838  Learn about Myanmar first, then talk.
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  1969.  @bernardseah703  She is half Malay and half Indian.
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  1970.  @ashokmohan6323  What has that got to do with anything??? Singaporeans of Ceylonese Tamil descent migrated from Sri Lanka long before the modern nation of Sri Lanka was formed. There is a reason why they are called "Ceylonese" and not "Sri Lankan". This has NOTHING to do with the Sri Lankan Civil War. He is a Singaporean of Ceylonese Tamil descent, he has nothing to do with Indians.
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  1971.  @ashokmohan6323  What makes you think they're Sri Lankans who are correcting you??? No, it's just people (including Singaporeans) correcting Indians for spreading blatant misinformation. This has nothing to do with the Sri Lankan Civil War. Like I said, Singaporean Tamils have nothing do with y'all.
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  1972.  @ashokmohan6323  This is why India is the way that it is, y'all are constantly looking outwards and never inwards. Do you think Chinese people in China look at Lee Kuan Yew or the plethora of other successful ethnically Chinese people in Singapore or other parts of Southeast Asia and the Western world and hark on about that? No. They focus on themselves, that's why China is so successful. It's only Indians in India who are claiming the success of foreign ethnic Indians or Tamils or whatever instead of trying to create their own successful people.
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  1973. I mean I can understand why someone in India may feel that way. English was adopted out of a necessity due to the sheer ethnic diversity and it came with colonisation. Japan's relationship with English has no nationalist undertones
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  1974.  @evelynzlon9492  💀💀
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  1975. A lot of East Asian Americans are no different to the White Americans you find in southern USA. A lot of them don't know much about the world, especially Asia, but will claim "Asian" identity.
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  1976.  @aniruddhrajendran7570  I don't lack awareness. The only good infrastructure in India are its trains and train stations. Walk outside the train station and it's still undeveloped. I'm not even trying to be hateful. It's frustrating that people can't see that India needs to develop a lot, lot, lot more.
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  1977.  @aniruddhrajendran7570  I'm not from India and it is hopeless if people think India as it stands in 2024 is something to be proud about. Travel to other Asian nations, then you'll realise how much has to change. Human pulled rickshaws are still a thing in India, need I say more? India has the ability to change drastically with all of its wealth but doesn't.
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  1978.  @aniruddhrajendran7570  Really degrading another nation? This is one issue I have with Indians in India, they seem to believe that degrading other nations is okay. They even degraded Australia on Australian TV. The reality is that the image the world sees of India is very much true, to a significant extent. Northern India is exactly what the world sees. This is why Indians who travel to other developing Asian nations are left shocked when they see how different those countries are to their own. I think part of developing is also accepting that things need to change and that includes mentality. That means letting go of things like caste and realising human and animal powered modes of transport are inhumane.
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  1979.  @ramanchaudhary2518  Which is why India needs to increase its cooperation with China
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  1980. Sri Lanka had all of the right ingredients and failed because of Sinhalese nationalists, history should remember what those people did. It's too late for that country to achieve high income status. Why do I say that? Sri Lanka was already dealing with a low fertility rate and a rapidly aging population before the economic crisis. Now, after the crisis, the fertility rate has dropped even further because not only do people not want to have children at all now, many young people left to go work overseas. So the young population which was already getting smaller before 2022, just got even more smaller. You know who's left in Sri Lanka? The growing elderly population. The only prediction about Sri Lanka that will come true is that Sri Lanka will face population decline by 2037. This prediction was made 10 years ago but considering what's happened, I'm sure population decline will come sooner for them than later. Sri Lanka, today, is the worst case version of what Thailand is today: both are poor, both have rapidly aging populations, both will face population decline in the next 10-15 years, both have low fertility rates and both will reach peak working age population by 2027. The difference, Sri Lanka is a lower middle income country where the average income is a third lower than Thailand.
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  1981. Suhanjaya cry harder cause you clearly don't know the history of Thailand or that of Buddhism..
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  1982.  @iamgreat1234  You must be living in an alternate universe. Most people in Singapore speak English
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  1983. Where did you think it came from then?
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  1984.  @chiron6699  Okay so firstly, I just want to say that I am not from Myanmar. Secondly, I fully agree with you that it's all about mentality. That explains why areas even within one country are more prosperous. For example the southern states of India are socially and infrastructurally more developed than those in the north and America's north and west coast are more developed than the south. What I was trying to say is that Myanmar as we know it may have been much smaller and only included the areas primarily inhabited by the Bamar, Rakhine and on rather than the north-western tribal groups (who only became a part of Myanmar due to colonisation) had it never been colonised by the British and merged into British India. So Myanmar in an alternate universe may have been smaller and more prosperous had it not absorbed ethnically diverse areas along the borders of India and China. Thailand is quite different to Myanmar because it is not as ethnically diverse as Myanmar. Christians in Thailand are also not a prominent demographic in Thai society unlike in Myanmar where entire tribes are majority Christian and fiercely independent. Thailand is predominantly Buddhist and most people are ethnically Thai or have assimilated into ethnic Thai society (e.g. Thai Chinese). The Muslim Malays in the south are the only different group where separatist feelings exist but that doesn't negate the fact that most Thai Malays and Muslims across southern Thailand (e.g. Phuket) are completely Thai in mentality. What Myanmar tried to do and failed was to Burmanise the population. What they hoped for was something like Thailand where everybody is culturally Thai or like China where everybody is Sinicised. Instead, they got something like India (where many states within the country have their own language, culture and ethnic group). The big difference with India though is that Myanmar tried to assimilate all ethnic groups into one culture
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  1985.  @benjamindover4337  Yes to study. You can calm down and stop thinking other things. They'll study and apply for PR if things don't change. Australia has a long history of settlement of Sri Lankan people dating back to the colonial era then to the migration of Burghers (Eurasians) and later with other Sri Lankan people.
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  1986. He has been influenced by Western far right ideology where Chinese and Japanese are minorities in the West, that's why.
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  1987. Australia needs to wake up and realise that we are being prepped to be the Ukraine of Asia-Pacific. If the US gets it way and war were to break out on all fronts of Asia-Pacific (Taiwan, South China Sea, Eastern Indian Ocean, even the Himalayas) and Australia gets involved out of no choice, trust that they will not come to our aid. They will abandon us the way they abandoned Ukraine. So like I have been saying for years, it is us Asia-Pacific people that will suffer, not the Americans who live on the other side of the world. We need to protect our region for the sake of our survival.
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  1988. The only good comment here
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  1989.  @Mr.Septon  Absolutely not. Sorry but the truth of the matter is that all of the Asia-Pacific nations you listed there (Japan, South Korea, Australia and India) will much prefer co-existence with China rather than making it a full fledged enemy. Nobody wants the EU, UK or Canada to get involved. These are nations so far away from the Indo-Pacific and are not going to be hurt if a war were to break out in the region, it's the nations in this region that will suffer the most because of how incredibly interconnected these nations are. The US is also criticised too because they are not part of the region but their heavy presence in the region is something that cannot be rid of so quickly. The reality is that many across the region (including Australia) recognise the fact that they don't see eye to eye with China but that shouldn't stop co-existence. Nobody wants war, nobody wants an arms race, nobody wants the militarisation of the whole region and nobody wants to pick and choose sides. Many outside of the region think the rest of the region is staunchly anti-China and will immediately fight against it but that is not the truth. The Trump presidency created a significant shift in the mentality of the region echoed at the various annual Asia-Pacific summits. Co-existence is what most desire today.
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  1990.  @rodrozil6544  Bangladeshis are NOT Caucasians, even if we were to use that outdated terminology, they'd be a mix of Caucasian, Australoid and Mongoloid DNA
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  1991.  @sourabstyles3118  You've been offended at my words and I have no intention of engaging with you because you will never understand. Thank you, next.
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  1992.  @blueshirt26  GO READ ABOUT SATUN BEFORE SPEAKING.
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  1993. Well Asian's not a race anyway and Indians aren't Caucasian either. Genetically speaking, Indians are "mixed race". The first inhabitants of India were an East Eurasian people who are genetically closer to East Asians known as the AASI. Adivasi tribal people in India are comparatively closer to East Asians than most other Indians as they carry the most amount of indigenous South Asian (East Eurasian) ancestry. Most other Indians, on the other hand, carry higher levels of West Eurasian ancestry (which is related to Europeans and Middle Easterners). So in conclusion, Indians are a separate race. They can't be placed into "Caucasoid", "Mongoloid" etc. India's cultural output is also different. They culturally influenced most of Asia. Most of South Asia (India, Nepal etc.) and Southeast Asia (Thailand, Indonesia etc.) is part of the Indian Cultural Sphere and the spread of Buddhism across Asia transported Indian ideas to East Asia. Imperial Japan tried to colonise India during WW2 and unite it within "Greater East Asia" due to this very fact of cultural commonalities. Europeans tried to divide and conquer Asia one time and that led to Imperial Japan, they're trying to do it again and now we're having China talk about "Asia for the Asians" all over again. Trying to designate them as a separate entity doesn't do anything, geographically India is in Asia. Asia is just geography, that is all.
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  1994. I thought the video was good but yeah the comments are interesting, good discussions are happening.
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  1995.  Abhishek  Missionaries keep them going? Are you for real? I don't think you are aware of all of the problems missionaries cause in the countries they go to. Africa is more Muslim? Christianity is the most practiced religion in Africa. The countries in continental Africa that are the most successful in social indicators are North African countries which are all Muslim-majority countries. The poorest country in Africa is Burundi, a country where Christians make up 90% of the population. The issue here is that you're defining everything based on religion. Which religion you practice has nothing to do with this. Look at the most successful countries in the world, are they countries defined by Christian law? No. The Scandinavian countries of Norway, Sweden and Finland are not controlled by Christian laws and they are some of the most successful countries in the world. Singapore, Taiwan - countries which have Buddhist majorities or pluralities and some of the most successful nations in the world. The school of Humanistic Buddhism plays a huge role in Taiwanese society today. Where are the Christian laws in Taiwan?
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  1996.  @TingTong2568  How did you check him? What did you say?
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  1997.  @simplica1  No, we need more Asia-literate people in Australian government and Australian society in general. Too many of these people harbour hateful views. That has to change,
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  1998.  @ridhwanasri5913  Hmm but that doesn't mean anything though. Thai Chinese are "Thai", practice Thai culture, speak Thai language, use Thai names and practice the Thai form of Buddhism. Everything about their identity is Thai and this is due to government policy which demanded all Chinese people in Thailand to adopt Thai culture and identity. 40% of Thai people have at least some Chinese ancestry, it's just a part of the ethnic framework of Thailand, it's not political. Just because one has a Chinese grandfather or Chinese father, does not mean they will immediately side with China. Many Thai celebrities are full or half Chinese. When a Thai actor whose half Chinese made a statement showing support for Hong Kong, he was cancelled by Chinese people in China and the popular TV show he was starring in was boycotted by Chinese people. There is a difference between "Chinese" as an ethnic identity and "Chinese" as a political identity. The same thing can apply to Singapore but in the case of Singapore, those Singaporean Chinese who empathise with China are part of a broader effort by the Chinese government to woo overseas ethnic Chinese and generate this idea that Asia is facing a threat from the US. The Chinese government is increasingly creating this idea of the need for ethnic Chinese to support China because an attack against China will be an attack against all ethnic Chinese. The Chinese government is also broadly encouraging pan-Asian sentiment in Asia in general, pushing this rhetoric that "Asian people should be in charge of Asia".
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  1999.  @tonupharry  What Ukraine has taught the Global South is that there are no good guys. Everybody is interested in themselves (and rightfully so) and the true colours of certain countries have also been revealed. China and India ought to work on mending ties with each other because animosity between the two countries contributes to the broader power struggle and instability in the Asia-Pacific region and also fuels the USA's militarisation of the region. People want a multipolar Asia-Pacific, not one dominated by China or the US, so China and India need to work to fix this.
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  2000. One has to ask why Canada is always trying to be the saviour and safe place for extremists from far off lands? They literally brought this upon themselves by becoming the safe place for Khalistan separatists. You'd think alarm bells would have rung in their ears after the Air India bombing but clearly they don't care about their own citizens.
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  2001.  @Porkusido  I was born in the West. Maybe it's you who is blinded by the truth because you live in the US or Europe and thus are unable to view the faults of your homeland.
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  2002.  @VINLAND_777  How am justifying this when I'm literally saying Russia is in the wrong???? Calm down for crying out loud. You can't handle the fact that this is not a black and white issue. When I'm literally saying Russia is wrong and that Ukraine is being used as a pawn, you're claiming I'm justifying it. Russia and NATO all played a role in this war, accept it and get over it instead of jumping down people's throats and claiming they're saying things they didn't do. Lunatic behaviour.
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  2003.  @VINLAND_777  I did have something valid to say though.
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  2004.  @VINLAND_777  Anyway, if you don't want to continue this, that's okay. I hope you're well too
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  2005.  @ui6144  It's not special emphasis on NATO. The origins of the conflict trace back to NATO and the current battle playing out is due to Russia. That is what I'm saying.
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  2006.  @jyd3490  It's provoking
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  2007. Exactly, Asian is a secondary identity for actual Asian people in Asia. Nobody thinks of it first. Such a trivial thing to talk about.
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  2008.  @veila0924  What has them being European got to do with anything?
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  2009.  @sahilbharti7047  They're a lot richer than other South Asian countries. There is absolutely no way they're moving to Pakistan or India, that would be a horrifically severe downgrade in quality of life for them. They've already done a lot to fight rising sea levels, including using their money to collaborate with private agencies and they're looking into building floating cities.
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  2010.  @Lil_Elegant  If that's the case how come Black men are travelling around Asia as passport bros trying to date Indian women?
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  2011.  @imdone2114  That's why Black passport bros are dating Indian women across Asia lol
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  2012.  @maureenbennett809  If that was truly the case, I wouldn't be seeing these types of videos popping up on YouTube.
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  2013.  @stephanatlas5331  Bollywood loves that pale white Punjabi look, let's be real. Nobody is looking for that round faced Assamese or Bengali look (e.g. Sayani Gupta) or the dark skinned South Indian with neotenous features (e.g. Shaun Romy). There is a specific idea of what is considered the standard in Bollywood and that's the sharp featured fair skinned Punjabi look.
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  2014. Asian is just geography, only people who seem to struggle with this are people in the US.
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  2015.  @Judah_889  You've replied to me under multiple comments. It's getting out of hand. You're so triggered by what I said that your immediate response is to be condescending. You've done this multiple times now. So a few politicians said some bad things, how does that represent all Maldivians? It doesn't. What ego? I'm not from the Maldives. What exactly do I have to gain? You literally just said that the Maldives can do whatever they want but you're mad that they chose China and are basically saying they're not going to survive because they don't have India. What even is that logic??? Nobody owes India a thing.
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  2016.  @meawwow  That's not woke.
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  2017. ​ @anaesthete5592  Indians get offended at the use of "South Asian" but then use "Indian subcontinent" which means the same thing LOLOLOLOLOLOL
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  2018. Exactly, the CCP only cares about their image and nothing else. They're doing all of this to save their image. They don't actually care about the people, that's why they locked up sick people in 2020 in their homes with nails and planks of wood without giving them help. Then they cracked down on VPNs to prevent information from leaking from China to the rest of the world. That's why my friend in China couldn't complete online study because it's too risky to use a VPN all the time.
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  2019. If South Asia and Southeast Asia remained a Hindu-Buddhist-animist region, none of this would be a problem but your ancestors had to convert to Islam. 🤦
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  2020.  @Wise_Thinking_All  The President and Sri Lankan government in general are responsible. They kept on borrowing money from different institutions like the Asian Development Bank, IMF and countries like India, China and Japan to construct infrastructure. They stole the people's money and finally ran out of foreign currency to pay for imported goods like fuel and essential services.
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  2021.  @Toon_With_Tune  It's controlled by Pakistan so it's part of Pakistan. Just because you believe it is an "integral" part of India, does not mean the world sees it that way. China believes Arunachal Pradesh is an integral part of China so should all maps depict that Arunachal Pradesh is part of China instead of India (despite the fact that India controls Arunachal Pradesh)?
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  2022.  @Toon_With_Tune  That part of Kashmir is part of Pakistan, whether you like it or not. They control so it's part of Pakistan. Idc about Akhand Bharat, yes India, Pakistan and Bangladesh were all part of the same country at one point in time but they're now all separate nations. Just accept it.
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  2023.  @Toon_With_Tune  Don't start getting upset at China's expansionism when you believe in taking over other areas as well.
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  2024.  @Toon_With_Tune  China believes that Arunachal Pradesh is proudly part of China. Will you accept their territorial "integrity" too or does it only apply to India? Why would you speak Hindi if I can't even understand it?
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  2025.  @Toon_With_Tune  I can't understand anything that you're saying. You're wasting your time speaking in Hindi while using Latin letters to write it. Why don't any of you use the Devanagari script to write it?
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  2026.  @Toon_With_Tune  So it's in your constitution? So what about theirs? They believe it belongs to them so why does your view trump everybody else's view? Why do you think India's constitution is the only truth?
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  2027.  @PissMenn  He's making a comparison between the military dictatorship of Park Chung-hee and the Tatmadaw. It was under Park that South Korea began its path to becoming a developed nation. Park's economic policies led to the economic miracle known as the Miracle on the Han River.
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  2028.  @tellyboy17  Most of the Indo-Pacific's biggest trade partner is China and has been for a long time. We don't see eye to eye all the time but all of the nations in this region (including Japan, South Korea and India) don't want war and are more interested in co-existence. Australia's mentality is no different to the rest of the region. The US wants all of us to pick a side though but we're the ones that will be hurt if the US and China go to war in our region.
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  2029.  @aesop1451  You must be one of them too
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  2030.  @RextheRebel  INDIA IS LOCATED IN ASIA. Americans trying to divide Asia up again. Gosh, I hope the Indians wake up and finally pick China's side.
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  2031.  @KhalidAlharbi67  Well everything Julia said is exactly what was said in the video.
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  2032.  @morwickchesterham3875  The hierarchies existed all over Britain's Asian colonies - White people, Eurasians and minority Asian groups were always given preference. It's why countries like Malaysia, Myanmar and formerly Singapore have dealt with ethnic violence and animosity from the majority group towards the minority groups.
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  2033. ​ @noahtylerpritchett2682  Yeah you're right, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I personally think those Indian women (whether Indo-Aryan-speaking or Dravidian-speaking) who have more "South Asian native" neotenous features (round race, small nose) are more beautiful. That's not to say other Indians are not beautiful but as you said, everybody has their own form of beauty and that's right. There are beautiful people everywhere. I just think someone like Indian actress, Shaun Romy is more appealing in my eyes. As for the men, I don't know. I don't think facial hair is very attractive and it seems that most Indian men from India prefer facial hair. Clean shaven is more handsome and masculine in my eyes.
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  2034.  @Funnyeboi  You do know that Asian communities in the West can also be colorist right? It doesn't matter if she's American, she's speaking about an issue that affects South Asian people like her across the world
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  2035.  @Funnyeboi  You can't compare yourself as a light skinned Black man to her when pale white South Asians like Nepalese actress Aditi Budhathoki are considered the ideal in South Asian cultures.
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  2036.  @raghuvenkatesan6792  You're 100% correct and it's because most of the locals don't work, they rely on expats and foreign workers from Asia, Europe and Africa to do everything for them. Same thing applies to all of the other Arab Gulf nations. They're all the same and cannot be compared to places like Singapore that built themselves up by themselves.
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  2037. also Hong Kong too, many Indians settled in Hong Kong during the colonial era and live peacefully with the Chinese and can speak Cantonese too. There are some famous Hong Kongers of Indian descent.
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  2038. Outlandish idea but it would be nice if the Chinese and Indians could establish a city/special district to show the world (especially the West) that they can cooperate. Maybe they can fix their border issue and part of the resolution is the establishment of a neutral zone, a zone that is jointly operated by China and India. Xi Jinping has said he wants to show the world that two systems (Mainland China and Hong Kong systems) can work together in one country so why can't the Indians and Chinese establish a zone that proves that they can cooperate because they can. The entire border dispute is the result of Euro colonisation.
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  2039.  @郭-e7p  Too many blinking China bots and India bots on Western social media.
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  2040.  @郭-e7p  China bots needing to use VPN to comment on Western social media ijbol
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  2041. What's the pattern, care to explain?
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  2042. The fact that this is what you're talking about after a minority family was murdered. Everything about race with you lot.
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  2043.  @DMS-pq8  I've basically summarised it in my comments but this research report provides a good overview of the ESEA, AASI and AA lineages that contributed to the formation of most Asian and Pacific populations, including the Andamanese tribes. "A genetic history of migration, diversification, and admixture in Asia" - Melinda A. Yang, 2022
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  2044.  @DMS-pq8  Thank you and you're very welcome. :)
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  2045.  @raphaell4808  It's these types of comments that have inflamed this gender discourse by pigeonholing men and women into certain categories.
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  2046.  @ZeeJuque  Wai Wai Nu, pale skinned Rohingya activist who fights for democracy in Myanmar. Is she not Rohingya anymore??????? ANSWER THE QUESTION.
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  2047. Oh this is so tiring. Elle, these are middle class people who had kids before the crisis and were able to take care of them. How is this so hard for you to understand? They have a low population and they've had low population growth since the 1990s. They're set to peak and begin declining in 2037 as are many other countries in Asia over the coming decades. The problem has nothing to do with population. I don't know why people see a developing country and immediately think the issue is due to population, it's not. Let me also add that Asia's pressing issue today is not population growth but how to take care of their growing elderly populations (of which Sri Lanka is dealing with).
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  2048.  @ubik5453  Do you know what imperialism is because what exactly about BRICS is imperialistic in nature?
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  2049. This is so far from the truth. It's actually the Tatmadaw vs everybody else. This is why ordinary Burmese people support the Rohingyas because they know how evil the Tatmadaw is.
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  2050.  @lu544  Except it doesn't which is why they are finally giving it back
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  2051. Stop AAPI Hate is not reliable according to you? Please be serious
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  2052.  @shikharsrivastava3558  Indians must help build India into the respected nation it once was in the ancient times. There will always be people who suffer from self hate and white worship. I hope you get better soon.
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  2053.  @shikharsrivastava3558  I understand all of that but this isn't about that, it's about the fact that geopolitically, India needing to move away from the nations that espouse hate towards it.
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  2054.  @shikharsrivastava3558  The US, Europe and Canada don't represent the entirety of the West. I'm not talking about Australia or New Zealand with the things I say. So talking about Western values doesn't mean anything in this context.
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  2055.  @abhinaysingh8306  It's higher in India.
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  2056. That's because she's Bengali. Bengalis have on average 15% East Asian genetic admixture, some have higher and I assume it's higher for her hence her features.
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  2057. Living in the past will NEVER get you anywhere. It's time to move on.
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  2058. You can get hints of the Singaporean accent but a very Westernised version of it. It's definitely a mixed accent.
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  2059.  @techtoch5030  What???????
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  2060.  @Rollinstrikepackagebravo  85K is absolutely insane. It needs to be brought down to 0
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  2061.  @Rollinstrikepackagebravo  You know a country is a complete failure when its own citizens are scared that a US president may reduce the number of visas its citizens can get LOLOLOLOLOL
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  2062.  @Rollinstrikepackagebravo  India is such a failure cause its people are scared Trump may reduce the number of visas it can get
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  2063.  @Rollinstrikepackagebravo  Failed state India thinking 85K visas is a good thing LOL
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  2064.  @Rollinstrikepackagebravo  Indians wanting to flee India for the US but are obsessed with India. Embarrassing
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  2065.  @ZontarDow  How is it working?
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  2066. Remember when commentors on The Global Times website said that the US went after Japan, then China and then will go after India in the future? Yeah well if you haven't noticed it's been happening since 2022 and you know the crazy thing, they're getting India before it has even managed to lift most of its people out of poverty. China, you were right once again and yet there are people/nations in other parts of Asia that want to believe the US.
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  2067. It's crazy how you even when facts are laid out you bring it back to Indian nationalism. This is a known fact. It has nothing to do with all of the Indian nationalism we see online today. Calm down.
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  2068. The damage Indian nationalism has caused has led to delulu people like HakuYuki001 thinking historical events like this are not true just because they involve Indians. Indian nationalists, do y'all see what you have done to your own country's image?
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  2069.  @jacoblee5546  The OP is a Buddhist...where's the correlation? Speaks about 9/11 when it has nothing to do with the OP's comment? Knows nothing about the world around them? Assumes OP is a Muslim? Extremely uninformed? Must be an American. Tell me you're an American without telling me you're an American.
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  2070. Nobody here is Mongolian. Why would it be Mongolian?
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  2071.  @dallasyap3064  Actually the UN is to blame because they infamously said they won't let another genocide happen and then the Rohingya genocide happened. They didn't do enough. So yeah they're partly to blame.
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  2072. X is an absolutely horrific platform and the fact that you can get paid for tweeting means that blatant misinformation and the recycling of old videos is rampant on that site. Not to mention, the amount of racism from both the right and left wing is insane.
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  2073. Mine too.
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  2074.  @physicsonline8853  They're not erroneous. A Tamil in Chennai or a Naga in Dimapur can't speak Hindi for example. You say they're proficient in three languages and what is the binding language? The binding language is English. English is the lingua franca of India due to colonisation. Remove English, is there a binding language that all 1.4 billion Indians will be able to understand?
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  2075.  @physicsonline8853  China has a tremendous ethnic diversity, that's the thing. A Uyghur, Russian, Kazakh, Tibetan, Dai, Manchu, Mongol, Korean, Hakka, Yi, Nakhi, Teochew, Blang, Hui, Tajik, Wa and Zhuang are bound by Mandarin even though they have their own indigenous languages. Walk around Urumqi, the Uyghur heartland or Jilin, the Korean heartland and you'll be able to see signage in Mandarin and the local language. Walk around Chennai or Kinnaur and you'll only find the local language(s).
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  2076.  @physicsonline8853  It has to be asked, why is it that China was able to make Mandarin the lingua franca but India couldn't make Hindi the lingua franca? Why must Indians communicate in English instead of their native languages to understand one another? Any street interview video in India will result in most people answering in English instead of their local language, why? Why can't Hindi be the binding language of all 1.4 billion Indians? Wouldn't that be better?
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  2077.  @physicsonline8853  Maybe India's diversity is why India is taking a long time to development, that and also democracy. Kerala is miles ahead as if it's another country. Something has to be done to unite that country because just a few minutes ago, I saw a TikTok with the comments flooded with the usual North vs South Indian issue.
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  2078. If you're wondering, most Singaporean-Indians have dark skin like the girl in the video. There's a famous Singaporean influencer who is in an interracial relationship, she has really dark skin too and is beautiful and of Indian descent. I can't remember her name though.
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  2079.  @matgranger5061  No they don't
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  2080. By simply maintaining an economic relationship with both, that's the furthest they're going at the moment.
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  2081.  @tomouk3346  Sri Lanka owes the same amount of debt it owes Japan to China (10% each).
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  2082. OH STOP BEING DRAMATIC FFS!!!
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  2083.  @petepetersen5418  ...and I'm of full Asian descent and I was born and raised in the Asia-Pacific and have lived here my entire life. As an Asian, I have read deeply about Asia as it is part of my heritage. So who on earth are you trying to educate me?
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  2084.  @petepetersen5418  Quit it with the racist nonsense. I called you uneducated because you don't understand Asian history not because I looked at your name. Do you use the race card all the time? Grow up and do some research. I'm speaking from an Asian perspective and I'm speaking more specifically about the East, South and Southeast Asian countries which all share the Sino-Indic (Dharmic-Taoic) heritage. I'm not talking about the Middle East.
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  2085.  steve beineke  I'm not Indian you moron. I told you I'm not Indian a few days ago, did you not read my replies? Say what you want to say. At the end of the day it's a known fact that I have presented facts with the multiple replies I have sent you detailing the history of Pan-Asianism and the genetic history of South Asian and East Eurasian DNA and have sources to back up what I've said (which I also sent to you). I'm also Asian, I live in the Asia-Pacific and I've spoken from an Asian perspective (which means "Asian" is not a race from our perspective). You, however, have nothing and you're not even Asian. You have probably never step foot in this part of the world and interacted with Asians that live in Asia. So say what you want to say because we all know what the reality is. What you say doesn't mean anything anyway. End of story.
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  2086.  @Shukra9665  How much time is needed? 10 years and the streets of India's largest cities all look the same. Compare them to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, Colombo in Sri Lanka and Phnom Penh in Cambodia and you'll see just how different those three cities look compared to what they used to look like in 2014. So why does India still look the same?
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  2087. However, after India, Sri Lanka was also culturally influenced significantly by Indonesia by way of cultural contact with Southeast Asia and the Sri Lankan-Malay community. Sri Lankan cuisine is heavily influenced by Indonesian cuisine with staple Sri Lankan dishes like sambol and achcharu having been derived from Indonesian cuisine. The Sri Lankan Malays have also influenced other aspects of Sri Lankan culture such as the creation of batik, the traditional redde hatte dress and the use of the sarong. Apart from the fact that the Sri Lankan Malays exist, they've also genetically influenced other ethnic groups on the island such as the Sinhalese. Many Sinhalese people, especially in the southeast, have partial Malay ancestry. I am ethnically Sinhalese with some Malay ancestry for example. Indians need to stop thinking Sri Lanka and Sri Lankan people are an appendage of India. Sri Lanka has been influenced significantly by India and is an Indosphere nation but it's also been influenced by other cultures as well as its own indigenous cultures too. It's its own thing.
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  2088.  @shalabhpradhan529  It's not a claim.
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  2089.  @shalabhpradhan529  Not my problem you don't know anything about Sri Lankan history.
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  2090.  @shalabhpradhan529  Yes because Google is right there.
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  2091.  @santhoshv3028  Sri Lanka is a sovereign nation, they can do whatever they want.
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  2092.  @santhoshv3028  Sinhalese are NOT Indians. Stop conflating South Asian DNA with Indian nationality. I already said this. This is why nobody likes India nowadays cause of the nationalists who think the whole of South Asia is India and South Asians are all Indians.
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  2093.  @santhoshv3028  Sinhalese formed in Sri Lanka from an East Indian-related lineage that mixed with the indigenous groups of the island. Sri Lankan ethnic groups are closer to one another than they are t groups outside of Sri Lanka. Keep crying.
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  2094.  @santhoshv3028  Not my country + India always expects things in return. This is why people like China more.
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  2095.  @jayantkamble6082  How is it a different thing? I'm sorry I'm confused. If they are not part of mainland South Asia, then what are they? I think people always forget about places like Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka etc. because they have small populations that are so incomparable to the incredibly highly populated areas of most India, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
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  2096.  @KrazeDiamond  Yeah I know
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  2097. SCMP needs to do something about these anti-India and anti-China bots that swarm to every one of their videos. I expected a comments section with people talking about Taylor Swift and the Eras Tour (just like the Australian videos when she was in Australia) but no, the entire comment section is full of jobless account holders and bots we see on every SCMP video. 💀
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  2098.  @TheGahta  The Greenlandic people want to be free, neither American nor Danish
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  2099. Pol Pot was from Cambodia. This is Myanmar, they're two completely different countries.
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  2100. India is located in Asia, so they're Asian. Simple as that.
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  2101.  @lolsiahsahf  The fact that there are Bangladeshis there proves that Malaysia is a prosperous country. If foreigners are moving to your country then that's a sign you're on the right path.
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  2102.  @lolsiahsahf  Huh?
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  2103. 15% of Singaporeans are Muslims, of which most belong to the indigenous people of Singapore: the Malays...
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  2104. So this remark makes no sense
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  2105.  @blackbull2561  I'm interested to know because I really have no idea because I don't live there but I was reading the comments of Northeast Indians under a different video published by a Singaporean news channel about the issue a while back and one of the comments was from a from Northeast Indian boy which had ~1.2K likes and he said that the issue in Manipur has been exacerbated by refugees coming from Myanmar who are ethnically the same as the Kuki-Chin and are now fighting and that it was started by them. It suddenly made sense to me as it did to many other non-Indians because the Manipur crisis began so suddenly after years of Mizoram taking in refugees since February 2021. Is this true?
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  2106. Sri Lanka is as distinct to India as the Philippines is distinct to Indonesia.
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  2107.  @eugenedebbs2189  I can't believe you can sit here and spread lies about historical events when the facts are literally there. It was a war between Sinhalese and Tamils, not Buddhists and Hindus.
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  2108. ​ @Andy-P  Yep, Kishore Mahbubani is a prominent Singaporean-Indian representative of China's pro-Asian and pro-China rhetoric. His career began in Singapore when Lee Kuan Yew practiced the ideology of Asian Values and his worldview is completely shaped by that Asiacentric, anti-West worldview that 1990s Asian leaders and modern CCP-led China profess. I would say Kishore Mahbubani is the most prominent non-ethnic Chinese Asian figure to have a worldview that aligns very closely with China's. It is why, while respected, his views are questioned in the West and among Western-leaning Asian people.
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  2109. Idi Amin didn't like how the Asians controlled the Ugandan economy. The Asians (basically all of them of Indian origin) were economically superior the indigenous Ugandans and owned the country's wealth because they were the ones producing it. Indigenous Ugandans were disadvantaged as a result of this. The Asians were a dominant minority, just like the Chinese in Southeast Asia and the Jews in various parts of the world.
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  2110. The same thing across Asia, not just Southeast Asia. Buddhism was syncretised with local beliefs and Hinduism. It's very fluid.
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  2111.  @JD-fx9ly  It's not Buddhist violence. In fact, it has nothing to do with it. You're trying very hard to categorise everything per your own cultural perspective because it's easier for you to understand but do not care to understand the root cause of Myanmar's issues. This is an ethnic issue, please Google and learn about Bamar nationalism and Burmanisation, the policy the Tatmadaw has been pursuing for decades. All ethnic groups that are not Bamar are subject to it and that includes other ethnic groups that also follow Buddhism.
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  2112.  @Xiaa_Jyoti_xingpho  That was done by ARSA in the 2010s but that is not happening anymore and ordinary Rohingyas don't support ARSA.
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  2113.  @SiGa-i1r  Nowhere in Buddhism does it justify treating someone badly because of "bad karma". Stop lying!
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  2114.  @SiGa-i1r  It's also the reason why other groups in Myanmar like Bamar Musims are treated with more respect because Bamar Muslims are culturally related to the Bamar Buddhists, they dress the same, eat the same food and speak the same language. Bamar leaders have infamously spoken about their fear of disappearing. They infamously spoke on the behalf of newly independent Asian nations in the 1940s such as Sri Lanka, that their countries are the only places in the world where their people reside and that they don't want to be absorbed by the larger countries like China and India. Burmanisation is very similar to the process of Sinicisation undertaken in China. (Part 2/2)
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  2115. What democratically elected government? Aung San Suu Kyi's political party as of now has its first ever Rohingya minister. The Tatmadaw is responsible for the Rohingya genocide and btw, there are many Rohingyas who are Christians and Hindus (sure they were treated better than their Muslim brethren but they still were driven out of the country due to violence).
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  2116. They are. They just said they are in the video and Ronny was making a joke anyway. He's Malaysian so of course he's joking. Malaysians are of Malay, Chinese, Indian and Orang Asli descent and is known as "mini Asia" as a result of it.
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  2117. That's what happens in Australia. Federation Square in the Melbourne CBD becomes host for the Buddha's Birthday and Multicultural Festival. It's basically a huge Buddhist and pan-Asian festival that attracts Buddhists and non-Buddhists. Your Zen Centre seems to have been more of just a centre rather than anything else. You should visit a Buddhist temple or a monastery, doesn't matter if East Asian or South/Southeast Asian as you will see all types of people there celebrating Vesak.
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  2118.  @aliya_aqeel  Yeah you're right but as the OP said there's a difference depending on context. For example, the mainstream Western media and those social media users on YT and other platforms who look down negatively on India and Indian people and then there are those outside of the internet (and even on the internet) who praise Indians for their academic and intergration success in Western countries.
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  2119.  @wakhansharma8225  I'm not Indian, please translate.
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  2120. They don't want help. In fact, many of them are proud to identify as "incels". There was an article published in The Conversation and it said that incels are united in their way of thinking despite how ethnically diverse they are. The article revealed that some incel subgroups of different ethnic origins even have names for themselves such as "ricecel" for East Asian incels and "currycel" for South Asian incels. They even have terms to criticise women such as "noodlew****" for Southeast Asian women and "curryw****" for South Asian women and claim that Southeast and South Asian women view White men as more desirable than themselves. So you can clearly see that they have developed a full fledged movement, developed their own language and identity markers and relate to one another. They aren't interested in getting help. They think what they're doing and how they think is right. These aren't people seeking help, these are people seeking validation for how they think.
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  2121. Absolutely not. 💀
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  2122.  @dragosstanciu9866  There is a lot for you to learn.
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  2123.  @Justin_Why  No but many Indians are dark with rounder eyes (except for northeastern or some tribal groups). Some of the Montagnard tribes of Vietnam have rounder eyes and darker skin. They look more "Indianish" than typical "Southeast Asian". I don't like comparing them to Indian features because they aren't "Indian". Those tribes, like many of the tribes of India and various parts of Southeast Asia, descend primarily from an ancient East Eurasian lineage that traditionally had rounder eyes, darker skin straight or wavy hair before the development and arrival of lighter skinned neo-East Asians into Southeast Asia. There just isn't a word in the English language that can describe that type of phenotype. I just say "Indian" because that's the largest country in Asia that has a similar phenotype even though the majority of Indians are actually mixed.
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  2124.  @WastedBananas  Yes they are. 💀
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  2125.  @Hhh93556  Are you from Kerala? I have read that Kerala people don't have issues with different religions, they live harmoniously together and they are also even pro-Palestine. In fact, they are what the whole of India should be like: diverse but united and identify as one. Your comment doesn't sound like that of a Kerala person.
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  2126.  @hellion6737  Yes I know that.
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  2127. Cause it was demonetised by YouTube and age-restricted which also meant people in the EU, UK and Australia could not watch the video unless they verified their identity to Google with a passport or selfie.
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  2128. Only a small portion of the Sri Lankan population is of full "Austronesian" origin and can speak an Austronesian language, Sri Lankan Malay historians say a larger portion has partial Malay ancestry but no coherent genetic study has been done yet. However, the cultural impact of the "Austronesians" (Malays and Javanese to be specific) on Sri Lanka as a whole is far greater. They contributed a lot to the development of Sri Lankan culture. Sri Lankan culture would be very different if Austronesians never settled in Sri Lanka. I have some Malay ancestry, so I acknowledge the significance of Austronesia.
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  2129.  Alejandro  ...because the Burmese military did the same thing in 1990 and refused to recognise the election results and took control of the country from the woman (Aung San Suu Kyi) that was voted in. They did the same thing in 2021 and refused to recognise the election results and detained Aung San Suu Kyi claiming voter fraud.
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  2130.  @regularIndian4352  Imagine believing in caste in 2024.
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  2131. This literally has nothing to do with religion. Japanese practice both Buddhism and Shintoism and it's part of the cultural identity of Japan. They did not leave Buddhism. In fact, it as Shintoism that was the state religion of Imperial Japan during WW2, not Buddhism.
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  2132.  @justwalkinalong  Except Japan did not leave Buddhism. Most Japanese are still influenced by Buddhist-Shinto practices because it is part of Japanese culture. There are many Buddhists in the country today. Also in WW2, Imperial Japan's state religion was Shintoism, not Buddhism.
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  2133.  @nayanmipun6784  That's not the reason at all. Japanese practice both Buddhism and Shintoism and it's part of the cultural identity of Japan. They did not leave Buddhism. In fact, it as Shintoism that was the state religion of Imperial Japan during WW2, not Buddhism.
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  2134.  @andrewrai5752  No it's not. I notice a lot of you like to bring up this statistic and yet why is it that the ultrarich reap the benefits of India's economic success? Why is it that so many are still so poor and infrastructure is abysmal? Why doesn't India's biggest cities look like eastern Chinese cities?
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  2135.  @gautamssinha9000  I don't come from India, I'm not Indian... now what?
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  2136.  @Avantika005  Israel was established a nation for the Jewish people exiled by the Romans. How is that comparable to India? It's not.
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  2137.  @nishantdwivedi6805  You say all of that stuff like it doesn't happen in India. What about the Hindu women, girls and even female infants getting r*ped in Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Haryana, Jharkhand and so on? What about female tourists that visit India and want to experience Indian culture but end up having a negative life changing experience in the country?
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  2138.  @nishantdwivedi6805  There is religious persecution in India, you just need to look beyond your own state and cultural region to the other areas of India that people, even the government, often forget about.
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  2139.  @gautamssinha9000  Why do Indian men always think everybody that calls out the issues in India is from Pakistan? 😐
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  2140. Until India starts to treat its female babies, girls and women like actual FEMALE BABIES, GIRLS AND WOMEN, that country should be isolated from the international community in the way South Africa was deemed a pariah state during Apartheid or the way Russia is now deemed a pariah state in the West. I feel so bad for Indian girls and women. They face the brunt of everything because of what those Indian men do.
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  2141.  @awijaya2116  You bring up a very interesting question regarding the American view of India. In the eyes of the US and pretty much the rest of the Western world, India is always juxtaposed with China. To the US, India is what they want China to be. The American view always stresses the fact that India is a democracy and thus as a democratic nation, India is always seen as a country that the US can work with (even though historically both countries have never been close). Personally, I think the American view of India will change as the country continues to grow - at least to an extent. If we look at history, the US has never been fond of another country challenging American hegemony. The government and those in positions of influence will find a difference between India and the US and use that to construct a narrative that pits the two countries against. All this talk of the Asian Century has also received negative reports. So in the future, with China projected to be at the top and India challenging the US economically, that negative rhetoric we've seen when some people talk about the Asian Century will probably become more prominent.
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  2142. It's a shame how you have so much hatred towards people you don't even know anything about, even after Burmese people have accepted Rohingyas and continue to show support to them.
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  2143. In fact, it's the opposite. The US wants Asia to pick a side (China or the US).
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  2144.  @puclopuclik4108  Russia is responsible for the war.
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  2145. @imyourrealfather-yes There are people like that everywhere, doesn't change what they said.
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  2146. The Tatmadaw is responsible for the Rohingya genocide.
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  2147.  @kanyewest992  The Muslims in Sri Lanka are very tolerant. In fact, they take part in Vesak (Buddhist festival) celebrations and there are Muslims that have financed the construction of Buddhist temples and there is a Muslim village which houses a Buddhist shrine and the Muslim men in the village come to the shrine and clean it regularly and take care of it. Sri Lankan Muslims are like Southeast Asians Muslims, very tolerant.
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  2148.  @top10mostamazingthings4  I looked at his channel after reading your comment and I'm so confused rn. The comments on this video proclaim he's of Bangladeshi descent and a Google search gave me one AI response that said he's an American of Bangladeshi descent. So I'm confused as to why they have a "I love Narendra Modi" video on his channel.
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  2149. Cry
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  2150.  @PunkDogCreations  The only people upset here are the ones upset at this girl being trans.
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  2151.  @lello5100  They bring up a point though. In the US, they always represent South Asian Americans with Indians (especially North Indian Hindus). The rest of that community is ignored. If you're talking about pan- Asian issues why would you only bring Indian Americans to represent the South Asian community? So when you're talking about something like Stop Asian Hate which was born out of discrimination against people of Chinese or East Asian descent or appearance as a result of COVID-19, it makes no sense to be asking the conservative Indian man called Vish Burra about his thoughts on Stop Asian Hate, who doesn't have East Asian features, because it hasn't affected him. He's never going to fully understand it. Conversely, there have been many South Asian Americans with East Asian or SEA features who have faced COVID-19 related racism. Many from the Nepalese American community have faced racial abuse and violence and a Sri Lankan American was bashed on the NYC subway. Nepalese Americans (all of whom look "East Asian" or "South Asian") have also widely participated in Stop Asian Hate rallies in the US because it affects them and their friends and families, it affects their community. So if you're going to discuss the topic of Stop Asian Hate with South Asian Americans, it makes more sense to discuss it with people who have had to change their behaviour or become vigilant as a result of their appearance. That means South Asian Americans with East Asian-looking features. I don't see why doing that is a problem. I'm from Australia, our former Miss Universe representative is of Indian descent but phenotypically she is physically more similar to Southeast Asian populations and the media interviewed her on COVID-19 racism and rightfully so because it has affected her and she's been an outspoken advocate for calling out COVID-19 related racism against East Asian-looking Asian Australians. So they can easily do the same here by bringing in South Asians that have faced this type of racism.
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  2152.  @MomMom4Cubs  What are you talking about? Your comment shows that you know nothing about Singapore. You've probably never even step foot in the country.
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  2153. To be honest, I expect much better from Bangladesh. However, sometimes religious-oriented events occur like this happen and I hear of mass protests in countries like Bangladesh and Indonesia, which from my understanding are moderately religious and not as strict in their religious practices compared to the Pakistanis and Arabs.
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  2154.  @ishikawananda3688  Attitudes among Bamar began to change last year after the coup. There is much more support for Rohingyas among Bamar now because they realise the Burmese military is the real enemy. Last year, there was a viral social media campaign called Black4Rohingya by Bamar and other Burmese to show support to Rohingyas. The Burmese government-in-exile which recognises Aung San Suu Kyi as the official leader of Myanmar announced last year that they want to reintegrate Rohingyas into Myanmar society and recognise them as one of the official indigenous ethnic groups of the country. Additionally, there has been public apologies to Rohingyas from the Bamar during the 2021 protests.
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  2155. TV journalism tactics
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  2156. I'm trying really hard to figure out why anybody would call you evil.
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  2157. Most of them came to Hong Kong before India was even a country.
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  2158. There was an article published by The Financial Times this year entitled "Japan is haunted by a return to emerging economy-status". Some economists and other experts in Japan fear that the country is declining quickly.
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  2159. The migration of Malaysian workers and other Asian nationalities to Singapore to work is something that happened largely after the country's economic transformation. More affluent countries need workers, it's happening all over Asia - even Thailand uses labour from Myanmar and Cambodia. Idk why you're clutching pearls right now.
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  2160.  @aesop1451  This is just Westoid cope. East Asians are 100% East Eurasian and the Ancient North Eurasians (ANE) are simply a genetic bridge between West Eurasians and East Eurasians. Jomon are not descendants of the ANE(they may have some of that ancestry but it's very little). The Jomon are basically 100% East Eurasian and as a Japanese study in 2021 revealed, they can be modelled as a Northeast Asian + Onge/Hoabinhian-like population.
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  2161.  @aesop1451  No I'm not a Westerner that is interested in claiming East Asians are connected to Europeans.
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  2162.  @aesop1451  Indo-European does not mean European. East Asians are not related to Europeans. You're kanging by claiming Europeans are related to East Asians. The Ancient Nort Eurasians exist, it's not some creation of scientists and the fact is that East Asians don't carry Ancient North Eurasian ancestry and Europeans only have a small amount of ANE ancestry. The two groups are unrelated, there is no genetic, cultural or ethnic connection.
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  2163.  @guyfaux3978  Not Persian. Some have Arab ancestry or Malay ancestry but most have Tamil ancestry.
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  2164.  @ayaankhan-eh1xy  There are no official statistics on poverty in Brunei. Take a look at the country's HDI and tell me what you see.
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  2165. This is the beauty of the Indosphere nations of Asia, one of the most beautiful regions of Asia. South Asia + Southeast Asia = Indosphere (Indian Cultural Sphere). All the more reason why the Asian nations and people need to work together, we have a common cultural heritage.
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  2166.  @goesastawan4969  Khan is of Mongol origin. The name spread across Asia due to the expansion of the Mughals and their ethnic brethren: the Turco-Mongols.
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  2167. The perpetrators are Uyghurs and linked o some Turkic group. I remember when this incident happened, it was all over the news and it was a Thai Hindu shrine that was targeted. When Thai police released the footage, they said they are looking for two men of "Middle Eastern or European appearance". It was never about Thai Muslims.
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  2168.  @prityable  No the military instigated it. Stop believing the biased mainstream media and keep up with the facts! Military has been targeting Rohingyas since the 1970s.
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  2169. If you permanently settle in the country and take up PR then you're an immigrant but most of these people are temporary migrants who will eventually leave. They don't plan on staying forever and anyway, it's very hard to permanently settle in Singapore in part due to the country's ethnic demographics.
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  2170.  @alive9386  India is older than Asia? Lmao what are you talking about? India is in Asia, what on earth makes you think India is older than the continent of Asia? India wasn't even a united country until the British colonised it.
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  2171.  @kakashihatake1113  Malaysia is an upper middle income nation. India is a lower middle income country and is already dealing with people moving out of the country in large numbers. India can't provide jobs to all of its people. Its STEM graduates end up leaving for other countries.
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  2172.  @kakashihatake1113  The CEOs of major American tech companies are all originally from India, talent that India lost but you still don't see the issue and so I can't help you then.
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  2173. As an Australia, nobody wants war and this is the perspective held by others across the rest of Asia and the Pacific. A lot of Australian people are beginning to realise that the US is grooming Australia to fight a war with China, the mood has really changed since the end of the 2010s.
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  2174. India didn't give anything away. It simply relinquished its claim to the island that was under the jurisdiction of Sri Lanka.
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  2175. You'd expect a fully grown man who created an account on YouTube in 2006 to be more educated but clearly not. Terrible comment, the lack of understanding of Asian issues is insane.
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  2176. Rohingyas are from Myanmar. They are Southeast Asians, so where does "South Asia" come from?
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  2177. There is a Rohingya minister in the Burmese government-in-exile, Burmese people are united and you're this Westerners is claiming they are from South Asia. 💀
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  2178. Very
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  2179. Nobody wants to understand something that is filled with hate. That belief system was spread across the world with violence and hate.
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  2180.  @savannahmitchum1187  Well the argument wouldn't exist, if y'all live and let live but most of y'all don't do that. That's why y'all are in isolated villages in poverty-stricken Asian countries like Nepal and Myanmar trying to convert people to your faith.
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  2181.  @Bunnyhop21  Ppl practicing their faith? This is about people using their religious beliefs to discriminate other people. How can you make yourself the victim?
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  2182.  @brentsaddress  As I said, the hate is real
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  2183.  @Meowie765  I don't know what you're talking about but considering this video is about Buddhism, I am talking about Buddhist-majority countries. My entire comment is about Buddhist Asia, not Hindu-majority Nepal.
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  2184.  @Jtnn713  WRONG
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  2185. Talks about "race" but mentions a bunch of stuff related to culture lol
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  2186.  @krashme997  Did you read my entire comment or did you just pick that sentence and take it out of context? When I say Asian countries don't judge each other, I mean they don't speak on matters affecting countries within the region, in other words they don't judge each other. The Hong Kong protests are one example, all of China's rivals and enemies like Japan, India, Philippines, Vietnam etc. etc. could've easily made public statements denouncing China, they could've all voted in favour of condemning China at the UN but not a single one of them did that. In fact, some of them said that it's China's internal issue and not for us to talk about while the West continued to insert themselves into the issue. Why did Asian countries do that? That's because they don't judge each other even if they don't like each other. Do you understand now?
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  2187.  @andynct  It's not called a subcontinent because it's on a separate tectonic plate.
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  2188. You must be an American or a European
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  2189.  @dmitryballonov5742  Being Asian doesn't correlate to appearance. At this rate, Southeast Asians won't be considered Asian because they're culturally related to Indians or vice versa, Indians would only be considered "culturally Asian" because they influenced Southeast Asia and parts of East Asian cultures. Kazakhs are predominantly Muslim which is why people may think otherwise. A "Indian-looking" Bhutanese who practices Vajrayana Buddhism has more in common with a Mongolian than a Kazakh. Appearance doesn't mean anything here. Asia is just a gradient of different ethnic groups and cultures, you can see cultural overlap across the continent.
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  2190.  @watch1981  You don't know what a one party state is then.
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  2191.  @dylanpt2220  Argentina, the next Singapore but not Vietnam??? HAHAHAHAHAHA part of the success of Singapore is because it followed Asian principles or what Lee Kuan Yew called "Asian values". Since when is Argentina an Asian nation??
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  2192. The case of Sri Lanka is quite peculiar because this country could have followed the path of success but it went down the route of ethnic disharmony and violence. The leaders of yesteryear were more interested in fuelling their egos and righting the wrongs of the past instead of moving on. Despite the end of the war in 2009 and the hallmarks of a new economic miracle, the situation did not improve because the country was fractured along ethnic lines. With high economic growth rates of 9% in the early 2010s, Sri Lanka eventually peaked as an upper middle income nation in 2019. Sri Lankans, at one point, enjoyed a per capita national income that was higher than all other South Asian countries except for the Maldives, along with a longer life expectancy as a result of strong social services such as healthcare and education. Sri Lankans began living longer and longer to the point that the country has now become one of the fastest aging societies in the world and began to recruit migrant workers from India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Myanmar to combat its shrinking workforce (problems that high income nations face, not developing ones but it's a testament to Sri Lanka's successful efforts in boosting the quality of life for its people). Sri Lanka's last beacon of success was in 2020 when the country was successfully able to control COVID-19 by pursuing a Zero COVID policy using contact tracing and harnessing its good healthcare system bringing cases down to 0. Performing so well that it ranked #10 in the world among countries that were most successful in controlling the spread of COVID-19 by the Lowy Institute in early 2021. What we see now is civilisational collapse. All civilisations peak and decline. What a shame to see everything they achieved and what they could have achieved go down the drain. Sri Lanka now pays the price for everything wrong that its leaders, past and present, did to the country and its people. I hope in due time that the lives of the innocent people become better and that they can take control of their country from the Rajapaksas and other corrupt politicians as well as the nationalists and rebuild their country.
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  2193.  @deathnote4171  Hindu Rohingyas have more rights in Myanmar and hold Burmese citizenship. Muslim Rohingyas, on the other hand, unfortunately have none of that. However, the Burmese government in exile wants to accept all Rohingyas as one of the recognised native ethnic groups of Myanmar. They announced this in June.
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  2194.  @Alejrued  and this is why I will say that Asian countries are way more accepting of immigrants than anywhere else because here we have someone saying that South African Indians are not South Africans even though they have been there for generations whilst the several Asian nations are happy to accept African immigrants and half African descendants as their own to represent their nations in beauty pageants without any issue. Oh Asia, you will always be ahead of the rest
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  2195. Thankfully the Maldivian people protested his arrival and he had no choice but to leave.
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  2196. Good, her remarks made no sense, especially the Christian part.
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  2197.  @paolamaria1992  Why do Christians constantly belittle other beliefs? This video is about Buddhism but this Christian woman is here arguing and saying her religion is the best.
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  2198.  @paolamaria1992  Is there ever a second where these people don't force their beliefs onto other people??????
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  2199.  @paolamaria1992  and the majority of Africa is Christian-majority and yet they are among the poorest nations in the world. Your logic makes no sense. Christianity had no role to play in industrialisation. Just accept this fact instead of arguing with me. Well your personal opinions do affect your opinions as can be seen by the statements that you're making.
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  2200.  @battlerushiromiya651  Buddhist culture isn't responsible for ethnic nationalism among the majority ethnic groups in Sri Lanka and Myanmar. If it's Buddhist culture, why don't we see this nationalism in Taiwan, Cambodia, Singapore, Laos, among the Buddhist minorities in Nepal, Bangladesh, Indonesia or Malaysia?
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  2201. She's not black. She's quite literally of South Asian descent. Her ethnic background is Bangladeshi.
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  2202. @ No it would not. Richest nation in the world??? Is this what Modi Godi has been conning people into believing. Must be a North Indian, only they say stuff like this
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  2203.  @Thecoolestnumberone  A decline is a a type of fall. When something peaks and declines that's a type of fall.
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  2204. @ Quality of life in the US is decreasing, its life expectancy has dropped. The country was unable to manage the COVID-19 pandemic during the first wave while much of Asia (including developing Asian nations) were able to. The nation is severely divided and there is anti-government sentiment across the country, n matter who is in power, anti-corporate sentiment is rising and the entire Global South is re-aligning in a way that hasn't been seen since the end of WW2. It's very clearly declining.
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  2205.  @RaulRodriguez-tm4tl  The rise part is yet to be seen
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  2206.  @sitaljitakoijam3272  First focus on getting along with Kuki-Chin instead of calling them "Burmese invaders" and discriminating them before you think about creating a new nation. 💀
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  2207.  @dearg_doom  and now modern Japan has surpassed the West
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  2208.  @आयुष_पराशर  Nepal is not part of India, sorry.
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  2209. Same thing
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  2210. Um... that's an Indian accent
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  2211.  @lalboimanlun1230  Yeah but the fact that entire ethnic groups are separated by an international border can't be ignored. There have been movements in the past about gaining independence and unifying various tribal areas along the India-Myanmar border. All of that is just part of the broader Myanmar conflict and the unrest in Northeast India.
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  2212. ​ @xxxcool2565  Yeah you're right. Despite its myriad of problems over the decades, Malaysia was still able to boost quality of life for most of its inhabitants and for a time pursue an economic strategy used by the Asian Tiger economies during the 1990s which helped the country become an upper middle income nation. It would be a complete disaster to see all of that go to waste, people's hard work and efforts to uplift the country go down the drain. You're right nevertheless, the climate of the world has meant its becoming increasingly harder for low and middle income nations to go about business as they normally would. Inflation, food shortages and rising cost of living is undoing so much work that a lot of developing nations achieved over the past 2-3 decades.
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  2213. They don't know how to do anything, they only know how to fight online.
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  2214. Canada should've done that 10 years ago. They're always too slow to react
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  2215.  @ЮшлавДжелачнов  Nobody believes you. Since independence, the Burmese military caused all of this. Burmese military caused all of this. Stop blaming innocent people who have no rights and no control over things.
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  2216.  @pokectmonostergamers2608  No it won't.
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  2217.  @brianmb4820  They're literally separate concepts. Not my problem you don't understand that and idk what you mean by "drain the swamp", nobody's going anywhere if that's what you think. So silly BAHAHAHA
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  2218. Then fix your nation!
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  2219.  @muhamadizhamm1831  You look like a Bangladeshi
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  2220. IT'S A NEWS CHANNEL SMH
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  2221. That has nothing to do with Theravada Buddhism and it's really wrong of you to spread misinformation. Lao people are Theravada Buddhists. Sri Lanka's civil war has nothing to do with religion. It was Sinhalese (who were both Buddhists and Christians) against Tamils (who were both Hindus and Christians). It was an ethnic conflict spurred by linguistic changes and Sinhalese nationalist beliefs that they must undo the "wrongs" of the colonial era. Pol Pot's violent genocide has nothing to do with Theravada Buddhism. Idk why you would even bring that up. Myanmar didn't justify anything in the name of Theravada Buddhism. How can you say that when other minority groups in Myanmar like the Shan, Rakhine and Karen (who also all practice Theravada Buddhism) are facing persecution just like the Rohingyas? The mental gymnastics to make this about a sect in Buddhism, even when Mahayana beliefs, are still widely practiced in all of these countries instead of actually understanding the root cause of all of these different issues is crazy to me.
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  2222. They aren't. It's because the YouTube system doesn't work. Our comments keep disappearing. I don't know if you'll even see this comment cause it happens to me all the time.
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  2223. Also for context regarding Singapore, Singapore's fertility rate stands at 0.97 and they favour Malaysians, Chinese, Indonesians and Indians because they are ethnically the same as the local Singaporean population but even though they prefer them, it's really really hard to get PR in Singapore and a lot of Singaporeans are against immigrants because even though they are ethnically the same, they are culturally different (except for the Malaysians).
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  2224. Y'all have to realise that Japan was once a poor nation too and in the decades after WW2, Japan was dirt poor. Singapore was dirt poor too. It only had a national income of US$500, that is not the definition of "rich". Modern Mozambique has a national income of US$500 today, are you going to tell me that Mozambique is not a "poor place"? 💀💀
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  2225.  @DieHardBall  It's problematic when those people in that church start suggesting that non-White people are inferior and that they shouldn't be procreating with White people.
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  2226.  @TheThinker365  I'm sorry that your government has failed you. They love to boast about you overseas but they can't actually support your goals.
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  2227. They have below replacement level fertility, their urban fertility stands at 1.6. That's not "breeding like rabbits", be serious.
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  2228.  @Sumi_S  Actually, to be fair, that's not true because India and other Asian countries were home to the first civilisations to emerge out of Africa. While Europe expanded through imperialism, the East did not. So with imperialism, Europeans were able to settle in other areas of the world at a large scale. The European-diaspora stands at ~900 million today. There was never a mass exodus of people from India so it explains why they have much more people today.
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  2229.  @ariapinandita9240  Insanity
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  2230. The military committed the genocide against Rohingyas. I can't believe you'd support the military. That's why you need to do your research before you say such things.
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  2231.  @Jambudvipa-ug6yg  Asian isn't about looks
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  2232.  @pyaephyoaung3408  Agreed with everything you said except for the last part. Rohingyas are not Bengalis.
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  2233.  @gfys756  Why are you under every comment repeating the same thing over and over again? Focus on your own country of Jamaica and its high crime rate.
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  2234.  @gfys756  Omg stop trolling and focus on Jamaica and its high crime rate for crying out loud.
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  2235. ​ @ikeshkumar9246  Ashoka sent his son to Sri Lanka and Ashoka sent two monks to Myanmar. Mon people of Thailand adopted early forms of Buddhism from India. Later, Shin Uttarajiva of the Pagan kingdom of Myanmar introduced the Theravada school from Sri Lanka into Myanmar and Thai monks travelled to Sri Lanka to be ordained in the Theravada tradition which subsequently spread Theravada to Thailand and other parts of mainland Southeast Asia beyond Myanmar.
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  2236. The mechanic is illegally living in the US for 25 years and yet can't even speak English properly. On top of that he has two US-born children who are American citizens and you call that a real person.
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  2237.  @foxooo  I suppose for developed Asian countries with aging populations, automation and robots could work in certain industries but not for everything, particularly those related to health fields such as the medical world and aged care. For developing Asian countries with aging populations like Sri Lanka or Thailand, I don't think automation and robots are going to work for them because unlike the developed countries, they are still developing middle income nations and have a lot of room to grow. They risk falling into the middle income trap if they have no working force. They also wouldn't have the money to invest in such technology compared to a country like Japan, Singapore, Korea or urban China (which is on par with the developed world).
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  2238. Being white and a white collar professional is not the same as being a low wage worker from another Asian country
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  2239.  @pikachuthunderbolt3919  No they weren't.
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  2240.  @pikachuthunderbolt3919  You are quite literally an Indian
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  2241.  @benktlofgren4710  It's not just the West, it's basically anybody that is out of touch with the world. Beyond the scope of governments, organisations and online geopolitical discussions and those interested in these issues, are any lay people online talking about the Myanmar civil war at this moment? I've seen more people online of different cultural origins argue about Selena Gomez wanting to take a social media break due to the backlash she has received from pro-Palestine people for saying she wants peace for innocent people on both sides of the Israel-Gaza conflict. Most people don't care. The sad reality is that everything has to be trendy to capture attention. The Myanmar Civil War is simply not trendy enough to catch people's attention the way other conflicts have at the moment and in the past.
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  2242.  @NP1066  I'm not talking about Bangladesh and Pakistan, hence why I didn't mention them. I'm talking about the Maldives, Nepal, Fiji, Sri Lanka and the like. All of those areas are separate entities and not part of India. Fiji, of all places, never had anything to do with India. Not to mention the country is not even in Asia, it's an Oceanian nation populated by native Melanesian people.
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  2243.  @laus7987  Yep, you're right. It depends on country and context.
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  2244.  @Dand40  Well I was talking about South Asians and they're culturally close to Southeast and East Asian groups, especially Southeast Asian groups. East, South and Southeast Asia share a common Sinic/Indic heritage. I know Middle Easterners are different culturally but they're still Asian, those that come from West Asia that is.
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  2245.  @ni3070  Which is weird because there are Indians/Sri Lankans who look "East/Southeast Asian". I remember somebody called a Southeast Asian looking Sri Lankan pageant contestant "Asian".
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  2246.  @ni3070  Which is weird because there are Indians/Sri Lankans who look "East/Southeast Asian". I remember somebody called a Southeast Asian looking Sri Lankan pageant contestant "Asian".
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  2247. So you trust a Laotian man that lives in the US and not the actual Burmese people that are risiking their lives and posting updates on what is happening in the country on social media before the internet shuts down. Why am I not surprised? There is a reason why the US is stereotyped as an uneducated country.
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  2248. You Americans think all Asians are the same. Just look, you're believing the words of a Laotian and applying that to Myanmar. Oh goodness.
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  2249. or maybe we need to finally stand on our own and decide to remain neutral and not get involved in conflicts that have nothing to do with us.
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  2250. If you actually voted for him, can you please tell me why you voted for him? What did you want to change? I'm not an American so I'm interested to learn.
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  2251.  @theylaughatmynickname4860  Last time I checked you're not a bureaucrat so your opinion doesn't matter. Malaysia tip toeing around and criticising China on one hand and then supporting it on the other is the reason why ASEAN is a failure.
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  2252.  @asdfasdf6271  In different contexts, yes absolutely cause not all Indians are the same and "South Asia" does not equal India. Culturally wise, all of the northern areas of South Asia speak Sino-Tibetan languages and have adopted a mix of Indic and Tibetic cultural elements, many people in the region look East Asian or are mixed with Tibeto-Burman tribes. Many of these cultures like Kinnaur, various Nepalese groups, Bhutanese, Sikkimese, Arunachalis and Ladakhis in India all celebrate the Lunar New Year, which is related to the Chinese and Korean New Year. Please stop generalising and do some research.
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  2253.  @asdfasdf6271  NOT all Indian languages are part of the Indo-European language family. There are Dravidian languages, Austroasiatic, Sino-Tibetan and Kra-Dai languages spoken in India. The hatred for India is so insane that people will literally generalise cause they don't want to learn about that country. I'm not even from India and yet I know this. Use Google. Also, language family is not the end all of things. Stop thinking East Asia is the crux of Asia. Most of India's cultural similarities are with other parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia. I'm sure you had no idea of this.
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  2254.  @earthalien2584  Well Asians did have their own words for it like the ancient Japanese used to describe China, India and Japan as "Sangoku" (Three Kingdoms) as those three countries were the main forms of cultural influence on eastern and southern Asia.
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  2255.  @asdfasdf6271  Istg if most Indians looked more East Asian or Southeast Asian-like, none of y'all would be saying these things and saying they're not Asian.
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  2256.  @ha-kj2ex  Doesn't change the point that I made! What's not clicking??? Stop erasing the diversity of South Asia just because the majority are different. So irritating
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  2257.  @manh9105  Sinhalese formed in Sri Lanka from an Odia-related lineage that intermixed with indigenous groups. Indian people stop being racist challenge impossible.
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  2258. The comments... it's full of jobless men living in developing nations posting rage bait instead of comments about the video. Giving widespread internet access to some of these nations was a HUGE mistake.
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  2259. @superayr Asians don't all look the same
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  2260.  @Pmc987  India is in Asia, so it's Asian. Not that hard to understand
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  2261.  @Pmc987  The festivals celebrated in SEA are related to Indian festivals. The most important festival in SEA is the Solar New Year which is celebrated by South Asian countries too. Native SEA people don't celebrate Lunar New Year, except for Viet people. In fact, out of these three groups and much of Asia, it is actually East Asia that is very different to the rest of Asia. I wonder why people in the US think East and Southeast Asians are the same, I think it may be due to the large numbers of SEA people with Chinese ancestry that migrated to the US compared to native SEA who like to stay in SEA.
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  2262.  @Pmc987  White South Africans are not native to Africa the way Indians are native to Asia. It's shocking to me that non-Asians will say that Indians are not Asians. Part of their ancestry actually represents the most basal form of "Asiatic" ancestry called basal East Eurasian which is represented by modern Andamanese and other Negrito groups in Southeast Asia.
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  2263. Lower scale ethnic conflicts?? Where have you been??? Almost every border state in Myanmar is fighting for autonomy or independence from Myanmar. This has been the case since independence.
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  2264. Chinese blood? SE Asian countries? Singapore? You really don't understand the diversity of Singapore and the rest of Southeast Asia if you think everybody is Chinese.
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  2265. No. It's an ethnic group found in Northeast India, western Myanmar and eastern Bangladesh.
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  2266. okay and?
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  2267. If Singapore was still part of Malaysia, it wouldn't be anything like what it is today. Singapore became Singapore because of its expulsion. Had it still been part of Malaysia, it might have been like Penang (another island that is part of Malaysia)
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  2268. Well this video is in response to a segment on a US talk show...
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  2269.  @zhugeliang3905  China is destabilising Myanmar.
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  2270.  @ninastonely9555  He knows he's wrong. That's why he didn't reply to you. Wumao/50 cent army will blame everybody but themselves.
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  2271. The Tamils are literally suffering at the moment so what karma? Such a childish response to an economic disaster from a grown man. Embarrassing. What are we in? Grade 1.
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  2272. Exactly, nobody wants to hear about Q*tar. The 2022 World Cup was enough. No more.
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  2273. Lol why do some people in Nepal, Myanmar, India and other Asian countries always claim they related to the Buddha?
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  2274.  @patakichi  Agreed. That's why Eastern religions have been syncretised.
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  2275.  @somedeepbarat9852  Yes I suppose you are correct. I'm just talking about the current circumstances per 2022.
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  2276. No he wasn't. We know he wasn't because 1. the economy of Uganda basically collapsed after the Asians left and 2. President Yoweri Museveni, the new president of Uganda, encouraged the Asians to go back to Uganda because of the state of the Ugandan economy.
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  2277.  @peterpaullee9952  The Burmese military committed the genocide, it has nothing to do with Burmese Buddhists and Muslims. It has nothing to do with religion. There were Burmese Muslims who didn't support the Rohingyas. The thing is a lot of people nowadays are realising that they should have supported the Rohingyas because the common enemy of the people is the Burmese military.
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  2278. How is that weird? Ukraine is fighting Russia's invasion. So yeah a war against Russia.
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  2279. I don't think you know what that word means
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  2280. He was re-hired. Delete your comment now
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  2281.  @Xyy2387  Oh give it a rest. The Canadian-Indians born and raised to immigrants that settled in Canada are not a problem
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  2282. @ It's already industrialising. Industrialisation won't stop. Why do you want them to have a small population? Their population is already small for their size.
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  2283. He clearly said that Asia overall has low crime rates but then said he's focusing on East Asia
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  2284. Yes they are a minority, doesn't matter if their population is bigger than the population of some countries. They do not form the majority of India's population, hence they are a minority.
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  2285. @Vidya CK A boot licker? This is the issue, you only see things through the lens of religion and not through compassion. My goodness, this is why India is changing. I feel so bad for the Indians who have to live under such corrupt, nationalist and racist leaders and figures. No wonder South Indians and Northeast Indians feel so disconnected from India. Our hypocrisy? Don't be so narrow minded and don't make everything about yourselves. Nobody here is talking about Kashmiri Pandits. I get more understanding when I see comments like this because I can see that it is this way of thinking which has left India so far behind. There is zero unity. Can't you see what's happening around you? China is now light years ahead and even Bangladesh is doing better than India with their replacement level of fertility and high growth rate and rising standards of living. I should remind you that Bangladesh was described as a "basket case" and a borderline failed state when it gained independence in 1971 but now it's called an Asian Tiger economy. What happened to the India of the ancient era? I want that India back.
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  2286. Let this be a reminder again that Asian countries are far more accepting of ethnic diversity and new immigrants than European nations. That is a FACT. Millions of ethnic Chinese and ethnic Indians settled across Southeast Asia in the 18th, 18h and 20th centuries and in most countries they are accepted as locals. There is none of this "perpetual foreigner" stuff that continues to happen in countries like the UK and France, even if your ancestors have been living in the country for generations. There are so many Russian and Ukrainian refugees living in the resort towns of multiple Southeast Asian and South Asian nations since 2022 and nobody says they need to leave. There are so many new ethnic Chinese migrants that have settled across Southeast Asia and parts of South Asia and nobody is protesting in the street demanding them to leave. The only place in the world where you see this type of behaviour is EUROPE. That is the only continent on earth that struggles with accepting people and this isn't even about new immigrants, I'm talking about the people who settled in European nations during the post-colonial people whose second and third generation descendants are still treated like foreigners.
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  2287. ​ @casioak1683  This isn't just about migrant workers, it's about everybody. Europe is not a good place to go to for work anymore because a lot of people there are very racist.
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  2288.  @casioak1683  There is a growing number of people in Europe that are very hateful towards non-White people that will slowly outnumber the good people. Also Asia isn't just Chinese, Koreans, Japanese and Arabs. In Thailand, there have been so many ethnic Chinese who have become the leader of Thailand. The current leader of Thailand is ethnically Chinese. In Malaysia, there was a leader who had Indian ancestry that became the leader. Nobody has elected non-white people to any leadership position in Europe, except for Ireland (one of their leaders was half indian). The UK prime minister doesn't count, the gp didn't want him.
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  2289. I understand what you're saying but the way you phrased it is wrong. Asia is culturally Eastern both philosophically, culturally and mentally. What you are talking about are Western institutions, most countries in the world have Western institutions.
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  2290.  @anomalianomali5080  Collectivism in East Asia and other Asian cultures for that matter is not dictated by rule-based hierarchy, it's based on respect for one another and is similar to other similar values that are taught in traditional Asian belief systems like filial piety. I think you have a skewed perception of East Asian cultures and believe that East Asian cultures only practice values like collectivism due to an "overbearing body of power", that's not the case.
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  2291.  @violetweston3401  Yes Ji too but also the others. They all played a role in what has happened.
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  2292. China refused the border because it annexed Tibet. Before that the British made the border agreement with the Tibetans and there was no problem.
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  2293. Singapore has the lowest crime rate in Asia and it is a multiethnic nation composed of East Asians, Southeast Asians and South Asians. Singaporean people and culture is mostly a mix of Chinese, Malays and Indians. Singapore too had a violent past with the race riots between Chinese and Malays in the 1960s and this led to a complete change in mentality to create a harmonious society after it became an independent nation against its will in 1965.
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  2294.  @elpenprice679  So all the crimes that these so-called "friendly troops" have committed in Okinawa, Japan is "good"?
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  2295. Oh Sri Lanka is unique, your assessment about its culture and claiming it's very similar to Kerala is wrong. There are similarities but that's not all. Sri Lankan culture is a mix of Sinhalese, Sri Lankan Tamil, Moor, Malay and Eurasian cultures. There is nowhere in India where those five groups are present. As a result a lot of the culture present in Sri Lanka is not found in India. Nobody in India eats lamprais for example, nobody eats sambal, nobody makes batik, nobody wears redde hatte, nobody eats seaweed, nobody wears tubular sarong, nobody listens to baila, nobody speaks Sinhalese, nobody speaks Sri Lankan Malay, nobody eats seenakku, nobody eats achcharu, nobody eats nasi goreng, nobody plays the rabana, nobody creates Kandyan masks, nobody wears the traditional Kandyan chieftain attire and I could go on and on. All of that is found in Sri Lanka, not in India.
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  2296. Basing your assessment on a bunch of YouTube videos is just wrong. How can you understand a country and its culture or its people based on a bunch of YouTube videos?
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  2297. That's literally his voice. Are you new here?
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  2298. Myanmar is just culturally Asian (a mix of indigenous Burmese culture with Indian and Chinese influences). Most Asian cultures have absorbed Indian and Chinese influences. Indian is Asian and Chinese is also Asian. So Myanmar is no different.
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  2299.  @daksh6388  The Hindu influences in Thailand, Cambodia etc. is because Hinduism was practiced in these regions before the arrival of Early Buddhism from India and later Theravada Buddhism from Sri Lanka. The Hindu elements did not come with Buddhism, they were already there and like elsewhere in Asia, Buddhism is syncretised with other beliefs so people blend Buddhism with Hindu and Tai folk religious practiced in Thailand.
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  2300.  @VeganSanatani  We don't call ourselves "Sanatanis", I've never even heard of that term as a Buddhist.
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  2301.  @Gauravondrugs  I'm a Buddhist, don't worry about them. Nothing that they have said is right. I'm shocked as to why they're saying all these things even though they don't follow the Buddha's teachings.
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  2302.  @VeganSanatani  Tantra has existed long before Buddhism emerged. Tibetan Buddhism absorbed Tantric practices from Tantra-influenced Buddhism in India. Tantric worshipping didn't originate in Buddhism. Vajrayana schools absorbed Tantric practices. Please be serious for a second.
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  2303. Why do people say this? I have never heard a proper explanation
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  2304. Well to be fair, the emphasis on visiting a religious institution is not stressed in Eastern religions like Buddhism. So people don't visit Buddhist temples on a weekly basis like a Christian would visit a church every Sunday or a Muslim would visit a mosque every Friday because visiting a Buddhist temple is not the root of the Buddha's teachings. In fact, the Buddha never intended to create a religion. What emerged after his death is the syncretism and spiritualism that existed in Asian societies at the time that eventually developed into rituals and traditions that now form a big part of "cultural Buddhism".
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  2305. No we didn't
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  2306.  @wheresmyeyebrow1608  Never heard of that but LKY is a role model for the world.
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  2307.  @melovetv  The person who commented that is quite literally a Burmese, likely a Buddhist too. You, on the other hand, are an Indonesian Muslim who loves to speak about Islamic solidarity, you love to scream out "free Palestine" and "I love Hamas" but when it actually comes to helping your brethren, it's "no". Why is it that those of us who aren't Muslims and practice other beliefs like Buddhism are more sympathetic towards Rohingyas than their own Muslim brothers and sisters? Shame on Indonesia. It seems to me that the Balinese people are the only nice people in that nation.
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  2308.  @pagelinepie2  You reluctantly accepted them in 2017, you never wanted them to begin with. Don't lie.
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  2309.  @pagelinepie2  I don't need proof, I already know the truth.
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  2310.  @vonn2221  Why would I see when all I see is hypocrisy? Not interested in them. Only Balinese and non-Muslim Indonesian people are of interest to me.
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  2311.  @ranadeepjash1150  Why on earth would Sri Lanka want to become the "Hong Kong of India"? Why is it that for every problem the solution Indian nationalists give is to become a part of India?
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  2312. There's actually a difference. You're just talking about it within the context of Asia but when you broaden it, it's very different. Within the context of the "old world" (Africa, Asia and Europe). Abrahamic religions like Christianity and Islam spread eastwards and westwards into other parts of Asia and into Europe and Africa. Eastern religions like Buddhism, Hinduism and Taoism, either stayed within their respective regions or moved eastwards but never westwards. That's why Eastern religions are still only found within Asia, whereas Abrahamic religions can be found across the world.
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  2313. That's nice to hear, yeah those are very large floating lanterns. People also float small lotus lanterns on the water.
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  2314. Idk why they can't contribute to India instead
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  2315. lol
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  2316. ​ @MiguelDLewis  Sorry the Thailand case was just an example. Japan isn't accepting people from China on the scale that it is from countries in South and Southeast Asia. I actually understand what you're saying but the Japanese look for workers outside of East Asia. There is also a Chinese minority in Japan that has existed in the country for a very long time and they are well integrated into Japanese society. I have to respectfully disagree here. Singapore is diverse but it has its own culture. A Singaporean-Chinese and a Singaporean-Indian don't actually have anything in common with China and India respectively. They have been living in Singapore for centuries and identify as Singaporeans. In fact, in Singapore there is long standing xenophobia and racism towards PRC Chinese and Indians from India as well as well documented extreme hatred towards other Southeast Asians, particularly from Malaysia and the Philippines that has led to the Singaporean government calling out statements made by locals towards foreigners. Singapore's ethnic diversity hasn't helped it maintain connections with other countries, that's purely because they adopted a policy of non-alignment and to "be a friend to all and an enemy to none".
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  2317.  @MiguelDLewis  Well tbf all of those languages could be found in modern Japan or any other country like the US too. The thing is only English, Malay, Mandarin and Tamil are the official and mother tongues of Singaporeans. Singaporeans don't speak Tagalog, that's only spoken by the Filipino migrant worker community in the country and they are not citizens of the country.
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  2318.  @MiguelDLewis  Filipino citizens in Singapore are not Singaporeans, they are foreigners living in Singapore. I think you are under the impression that Singapore is some super diverse pan-Asian nation but it's not, not in the sense of citizenship and identity. Singaporean people, culture and identity are based around the CMIO people which stands for Chinese, Malay, Indian, Other (which basically means Eurasian, Peranakan). Singaporean food, Singaporean customs, Singlish language, Singaporean society as a whole is centred around the ethnic Chinese, Malay and Indians that have been living in Singapore for generations. Singapore is most similar ethnically and culturally to Malaysians, who themselves are a mix of Chinese, Malay and Indian. Foreign citizens are not part of Singaporean identity. You're conflating migrant workers and expats with citizens. Foreign citizens don't have the same rights as citizens because they are not citizens.
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  2319. ​ @MiguelDLewis  The Singapore model for immigrants involves bringing in thousands and thousands of Malaysians (Malays, Chinese and Indians/Tamils) to Singapore because they are ethnically and culturally basically the same as Singaporeans. Filipinos and other nationalities in Singapore are not immigrants, the chance that they will get citizenship is basically 0. Why? It's because they are not ethnically Chinese, Malay or Indian. You have to be from one of those three groups and particularly of Malaysian origin to be allowed to permanently live in Singapore and acquire PR and citizenship. You are confusing the importation of foreign labour and skilled workers with immigrants. They are not the same. Foreign labour and skilled workers will never be recognised as Singaporeans because they are foreign citizens. Japan is already accepting migrant workers and skilled workers but these people will not be allowed to stay in Japan. The Thai model is the best because if immigrants are allowed into Japan, then they need to assimilate to the fullest degree. Singapore is basically doing the same thing by accepting Malaysians more than any other nationality on earth.
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  2320.  @MiguelDLewis  and I did, Singapore's ethnic diversity or its migrant worker population have played no role in its standing on the international stage in regards to non-alignment and the like.
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  2321.  @ariapinandita9240  Jumbudvipa refers to the era when humans actually existed. Lol what?
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  2322.  @ariapinandita9240  I know
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  2323.  @whitewolf2767  These aren't the 1980s anymore. Japan has been experiencing decline for decades and for a multitude of reasons. They've peaked, by 2030 China will number 1 followed by the US and then by India.
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  2324.  @whitewolf2767  Yeah they won't and that's why they're fighting with them at the moment.
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  2325.  @whitewolf2767  Yep the US will fight with them too, expect tariffs and increased pressure to remove India from schemes that support developing nations (which has already been discussed before).
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  2326. William Gibson said that and William Gibson is an American. Last time I checked, the US has the death penalty and yet Americans seem to believe they are morally better. I think for a nation where people are high on drugs, where mass shootings are a daily occurrence, where racism is normalised, where flunking school is a flex and violence is part and parcel of society, the US has no right to be pointing fingers at anybody and yes Singapore is indeed a utopian society in Asia.
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  2327. That is such a racist thing to say.
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  2328. The West supported India for hundreds of years? Huh??? You may want to do a little research on the way the US was always against India from the time of the Cold War. When they were fighting a war with Pakistan in the 1970s, the US supported the Pakistanis and President Nixon was staunchly anti-Indian. If I was in charge of India, I'd do a 180 and embrace China in full just to spite them.
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  2329. He has a Malaysian accent. Indian accent sounds very different.
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  2330. South Asian women have historically always outperformed South Asian men. There was a Buzzfeed video about this and South Asian women ranked higher. Something similar was reported in Australia regarding street harassment from men and South Asian women were one of the top groups that were affected alongside East and Southeast Asian women. It really depends on country I think.
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  2331.  @WastedBananas South Asian women have historically always outperformed South Asian men. There was a Buzzfeed video about this and South Asian women ranked higher. Something similar was reported in Australia regarding street harassment from men and South Asian women were one of the top groups that were affected alongside East and Southeast Asian women. It really depends on country I think.
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  2332. Agreed, idk why they spent time talking about this lmao
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  2333. No you don't. Asia-Pacific is the term that has ben used for so long. It's only under Trump that the term "Indo-Pacific" became more common.
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  2334.  @paulfri1569  Y'all getting triggered over the most meaningless of things...
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  2335. There is no genocidal campaign against Hindus in Myanmar and Sri Lanka.
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  2336.  @neodenz  Exactly, I have never seen a Kashmiri person want to be part of any of those countries.
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  2337.  @jameschristophercirujano6650  Last time I checked most of Southeast Asia is part of the Indian Cultural Sphere not East Asian Cultural Sphere. The traditional clothing, the linguistic scripts, the mythological stories, the architecture, traditional music, the religion, the festivals, the culinary influences and linguistic influences among many other things are derived from Indian culture. None of that is Chinese. The most important festival of mainland Southeast Asia (exclude Vietnam) is the traditional Solar New Year (South and Southeast Asian New Year). That's not Chinese-derived. Idk why you think China's influence is greater because it's not. What part of SEA are you from?
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  2338.  @jameschristophercirujano6650  Yes it's definitely part of SEA cultures, it's not "Indian" but the fact is that India is culturally related to most of Southeast Asia. They're not a world apart. To infer India is not culturally Asian is to infer the base of SEA cultures is not "Asian". You are also Filipino which is quite different to other SEA (especially mainland SEA) if we're being pedantic. I'm not Indian but I'm ethnically South Asian (Sri Lankan Buddhist) and when we celebrate Songkran at the temple in my country (Australia) we have Thai, Cambodian, Burmese and Malaysian Chinese celebrate with us. Upon finding out I was of ethnic Sri Lankan descent, my Cambodian co-worker began speaking about our similarities as a way to relate to me as I am also a lot younger than him. He also happens to be of ethnic Chinese descent. I think you, as a Filipino, will find it hard as the Indic influence in the Philippines has rather faded away from modern Filipino society (nobody uses Baybayin for example and those SA/SEA-style shawls you see in old photos are now a thing of the past). I can't speak for Indians but at least for the South Asian Buddhists or those that were historically influenced by Buddhism (Sri Lankan, Nepalese, some Northeast Indians), I can see the similarities we share with both the mainland Indian Hindus and Southeast Asians. Appearance could play a role overseas in the West but see, I have epicanthic folds which has made people think I'm mixed with some Southeast Asian group (and maybe because Sri Lankan Malays exist - I have to do a DNA test to find out) but for me it doesn't affect my view, maybe because South Asians are already very diverse and many SEA are diverse too (I have seen southern Thai and Khmer who look more Indianish than typical SEA).
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  2339. 1. Taiwan: Don't even need to explain this 2. The Philippines: Took over Scarborough Shoal in 2012. Scarborough Shoal is part of the Philippines and was administered by the country until 2012 when China and the Philippines were caught in a stand off which resulted in China capturing the shoal. When China's control of the island was found to be illegal by the arbitration court, China ignored the verdict and sent more warships to patrol the island. To this day, China still controls the island (an island which is right next door to Luzon in the Philippines and nowhere near China). 3. Nepal: China and Nepal don't even have a bad relationship but in recent years China has begun building things within Nepalese territory and claiming it as Chinese territory. 4. Bhutan: China infamously claimed that Bhutan was a lost province of China that belonged to China in 1960, resulting in anger from the Bhutanese. China continues to claim large pieces of Bhutanese territory and began building things on Bhutanese territory which resulted in the Doklam crisis in 2017. 5. India: China attempted to advance into the Galwan Valley, a disputed territory between India and China without just respecting the status quo. The advance has since led to skirmishes along China-India border that has continued to this day and also involved the death of soldiers on both sides. China has been sending submarines and spy ships into Indian waters in the Andaman Sea since 2012. You don't see India sending submarines and spy ships into Victoria harbour in Hong Kong. 6. Vietnam: Sank a Vietnamese fishing boat among a multitude of other examples of blatant and vicious bullying towards Vietnam. 7. Malaysia: China sent 16 military jets into Malaysian airspace in 2021 in addition to other intrusive activity near Malaysia in the South China Sea 8. Indonesia: Indonesia and China don't even have a dispute but China sent warships into Indonesian waters in the Natuna Sea and also demanded Indonesia stop drilling near Natuna Islands (which is literally Indonesian territory) 9. Myanmar: China has traditionally, refused to condemn the military coup of Myanmar and vetoed any attempts to penalise the Tatmadaw. Burmese people continue to suffer but the Tatmadaw continues to be funded in part by China These are just some of China's examples of bullying. There are a lot more that involve all of these countries and which date back centuries.
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  2340. Bangladesh and Malaysia have NOTHING to do with this. The Sri Lankan Malays are originally from Indonesia. Stop being racist
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  2341. Aung San Suu Kyi's party has elected its first ever Rohingya minister (his name is Aung Kyaw Moe and he is Rohingya). It's time this narrative that Aung San Suu Kyi is evil comes to an end. The military had all of the power and she was merely their mouth piece.
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  2342. India is already suffering from or about to begin suffering from a brain drain. I've said this many times before. India does not have enough jobs for its people so why would educated young people remain in the country when they can't even make a life for themselves? The idea that India is in some good position because of its huge population is delusional with all due respect. If a country can't provide jobs to its people, how can it develop?
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  2343. Wrong! Christians are NOT facing genocide in Manipur, don't spread misinformation. The violence in Manipur has NOTHING to do with religion, it's about ethnicity. The majority Meitei people demanded they receive tribal status which angered the Kuki people (minority group) who fear their lands will be taken by Meitei people if the Meitei are also granted special tribal status. There are Christian Meiteis, so how on earth is this a "genocide"? DON'T use such words when real genocides have taken place like in neighbouring Myanmar and far off Armenia or Rwanda.
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  2344. What you should be angry about is Euro-American and Korean Christian missionaries flooding the entire Himalayan and Sub-Himalayan regions of South Asia and trying to convert marginalised ethnic groups to Christianity. That's the DIGUSTING thing.
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  2345. He was born Hindu but he did not agree with the Hindu casteist life which is why he became an ascetic.
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  2346. What goes around comes around. If you hope for innocent people to suffer for the actions of what others did, expect the same thing to happen to you. Mark my words and when it happens to you, then you'll remember my comment.
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  2347.  @saitandale8482  I mean they're technically right. The concept of India was created by the British. What exactly does a person from Punjab or Haryana or Delhi have in common with someone from Tamil Nadu? They may as well be different countries like Bhutan and Myanmar.
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  2348. because they annexed it and it's under their control.
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  2349.  @Hindu9054  No it absolutely was not!
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  2350. India and China ought to get closer and closer for the stability of the Asian region
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  2351. Decreased quality of life? How? Imagine not going to a fast food restaurant just cause the people there are of a different ethnicity. You speak as if there are no Aussies of Indian descent here. You identifying as CN/VN but not identifying as Australian is crazy too. No, not good on you. Hell will be extra warm.
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  2352.  @Chris-pq3wp  Interestingly, the city that is the safest in the world is home to East Asians, South Asians and Southeast Asians. Singaporean culture is simply unmatched. This is why Singaporeans are willing to accept hard line rule of law and their discipline is why Singapore became a developed nation in such a short amount of time.
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  2353.  @fortpark-wd9sx  So according to you Rohingyas who look more like typical Bangladeshis are foreigners and Rohingyas who look more like typical Bamar are the real Rohingyas? The Western obsession with appearance and race is quite suffocating. So what about the other Burmese who are native to Myanmar but don't look like typical Bamar? Are they no longer Burmese too? The thing is that you need to understand that the entire region of South and Southeast Asia is mixed. You're talking about nose and eye shapes but using stereotypes to define these qualities and the ethnic groups they are associated with.
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  2354.  @rodrozil6544  Indo-European is a LANGUAGE FAMILY. It's not a race. Maramagyi people speak an Indo-European language whose culture is related to Rakhine people as well as to Bangladeshi Buddhists, they are native to Rakhine and officially classified as part of the Rakhine nation. Rakhine people even clearly point out how they are not like Rohingya people even though they look similar to them.
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  2355.  @fortpark-wd9sx  You still haven't explained to me why people like Soe Naing Oo Hugo Naing look the way that they do. You haven't been able to explain to me why Maramagyi look the way that they do or the Kaman. You haven't been able to explain my friends family, nothing. Why? How can the Tatmadaw be 1% correct on this issue? You don't even know what the issue is. 💀 You literally think Rakhine people are Rohingyas when Rohingyas and Rakhine people are COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. Idk why people love to insert themselves into issues they don't actually understand.
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  2356.  @fortpark-wd9sx  What is your obsession with the MSM? Seriously, what is your obsession? This has nothing to do with the MSM and yet you keep talking about it. Why is it that you cannot answer a single one of my questions? Tell me why on earth does Soe Naing Oo look more like a Bangladeshi despite being BAMAR??? ANSWER IT! ☠☠
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  2357.  @DonzaiNoHana  This isn't about Indian immigrants. This kid was born in the US.
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  2358.  @kumarXgaurav  Another Indian in India trying to claim a successful Indian American as his own. No, this boy is an Indian American and an Asian American.
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  2359. Let me guess, you're from the US
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  2360. Which is why this video makes no sense because they're interviewing Indians who live in India (a country in Asia).
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  2361.  @user-gf5dr5nq6l  Yeah no I'm not keen on any of that, I merely stated these facts because it's the only way for people like you to understand. No, I am not an Indian and I know everything that Lee Kuan Yew said, you don't have to tell me, I admire him a lot. I've read articles about him, I've read books on him, I've watched his interviews and I paid respect for him at one of the public tribute spaces for him.
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  2362.  @sublimefermion2205  I have no idea why Indian men love to claim other South Asian ethnic groups. This is why anti-Indian sentiment is so profound across South Asia and Myanmar, y'all are constantly claiming everybody as Indian.
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  2363. I don't hear it
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  2364.  @Null-o7j  The British definition of Asian only encompasses India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. What are you talking about?
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  2365.  @turtlesoup8134  Asian means from Asia. The only people who have issue with this term are non-Asians like Americans who refuse to use words like "East Asian" and "South Asian".
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  2366.  @turtlesoup8134  I think East Asia is the most different to the rest of Asia (meaning Middle East to Southeast Asia) but many East Asian Americans don't know enough about Asia to be able to take note of this.
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  2367.  @WastedBananas  The stats are available out there. More Singaporean-Indian women date White men compared to Singaporean-Indian men that date White women, same thing in Malaysia. This is not about Chinese people, so idk why you're bringing up Chinese women. There is even a term in M'sia and S'pore to describe Chinese, Malay or Indian women that go after White men. Tabitha Nauser, Sofia Dendroff, Amelia Henderson (she's not Indian but her mum is Ceylonese Tamil who are ethnically similar to the Indian Tamils), Stephen Langdown and there are models who have competed for different Miss Malaysia pageants. Neotenous features are what women have, not men! I'm talking about WOMEN, not men. Men don't have neotenous features. There are many Indian women that have neotenous features and it's because they have more AASI (East Eurasian) ancestry, it's different to the West Eurasian (so called "Caucasoid") ancestry that prevails among most Indians, especially the North Indians. They have sharp features and such. Neotenous features make women look more "cuter" according to science.
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  2368.  @WastedBananas  I guess the point of the matter is that when it comes to Malaysians or Singaporeans (of any ethnicity) dating non-Asians, it's far more common for Malaysian and Singaporean women (of any ethnicity) to date non-Asian men than Malaysian/Singaporean men dating non-Asian women. It's just the way it is and has been this way since the colonial era. People simply prefer Malaysian and Singaporean women over the men. This doesn't just apply to White men, it also applies to Black men. I remember years ago of a Singaporean-Indian women who was married to a Black American man and they had one daughter (unlike White people, I am yet to see an ethnic Indian or even other Asian man with a Black woman).
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  2369.  @whateverwhatever4026  Well Asian Russia is composed of people related to East and Central Asians, not Europeans
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  2370.  @whateverwhatever4026  Better more applicable labels but you think it's okay to group East and Southeast Asia together?
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  2371.  @xandercorp6175  It's so funny seeing people say things like this. Are you aware that Southeast Asia (Thailand, Indonesia, Myanmar, Cambodia etc.) are Indosphere nations and are culturally more similar to Indians? Try learning about Asia.
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  2372.  @michaelamor1646  He's ethnically Chinese, not Malay
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  2373.  @Redstoner34526  I had no idea that Thai Miss Universe contestant Alisa Arunahiran looks Chinese (NOT, she looks more similar to an Indian). People need to learn about how diverse Asia truly is.
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  2374.  @cailyndhayes10  They don't consider themselves Asian because people constantly say they are not Asian.
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  2375.  @user-rx7in7ox4s  India culturally influenced Southeast Asia. Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia etc. are Indosphere nations just like India. Crazy how people have no idea that Asian cultures have been influenced by both India and China
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  2376.  @Xiaox93  More familiarity? Are you aware that Southeast Asia was culturally influenced by India and that most of the region is part of the Indosphere?
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  2377.  @riskyriskywiggywiggy6954  People in South Asia don't call themselves Desi, only Indian, Pakistans and Bangladeshis do. East and Southeast Asians are NOT the only Asians. Gfy
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  2378.  @merc9nine  When Britain occupied India and Hong Kong, they were occupying Asian territory.
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  2379.  @AstriMaulidina  No, they use it to describe South Asians. Not East Asians.
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  2380. ​ @Redstoner34526  Most and East and Southeast Asians look more similar to one another when compare to Indians but anybody that is familiar with Southeast Asia will know how diverse it is. There are many SE Asians that look nothing like East Asians or South Asians. Also, genetically speaking, Asians (except Mid East) descend from East Eurasian lineages (AASI and/or ESEA) so there are common traits among all of these people even if phenotypical differences are evident such as the ABCC11 dry earwax allele and the EH1 genetic signal.
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  2381.  @Redstoner34526  People in Asia know they are Asians, they just don't go around defining themselves as Asians 24/7 the way East Asian Americans do.
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  2382.  @Redstoner34526  Most and East and Southeast Asians look more similar to one another when compare to Indians but anybody that is familiar with Southeast Asia will know how diverse it is. There are many SE Asians that look nothing like East Asians or South Asians.
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  2383.  @Redstoner34526  Also, genetically speaking, Asians (except Mid East) descend from East Eurasian lineages (AASI and/or ESEA) so there are common traits among all of these people even if phenotypical differences are evident such as the ABCC11 dry earwax allele and the EH1 genetic signal.
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  2384.  @user-zgp6o9v51e  Not even comparable. North American and South American are two different things. Asian is another completely different thing. There is no country called Asia.
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  2385.  @whateverwhatever4026  Except I'm not. Somehow you think "Asian" is appropriate for E/SE Asians even when SE Asians have more in common culturally with Indians. Middle Easterners are called West Asians in Asia.
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  2386.  @xandercorp6175  Except I have since you think the Indians coined the term Indian subcontinent. Completely unaware that it's because of the Brits who grouped different regions together to create British India.
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  2387.  @xandercorp6175  You said Indians identify separately and yet you're now denying it. So lying is part of your repertoire
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  2388.  @xandercorp6175  Did you or did you not say Indians identify separately?
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  2389.  @xandercorp6175  The nerve to say that it didn't say that when it quite literally did. Westoids stay in school challenge impossible
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  2390.  @xandercorp6175  All you can do it attack me without actually addressing the points that I'm making. The blatant deflection and ad hominem attacks, inferring I'm uneducated, all because you can't handle the fact that someone is calling you out on your anti-Indian remarks. I'm keeping track of everything and I know what I'm talking about. Don't insert yourself into Asian people's business. Stay in your lane.
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  2391.  @xandercorp6175  I haven't assumed anything about you either. I'm merely basing it off what you have said. Really funny how you make me out to be the villain even though you were the one claiming to be Indian, when you're not and claiming Indians identify separately. Very cunning, playing victim after everything that has been sad
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  2392.  @pranavjadhav18  Pranav Jadhav more worried about a tiny uninhabited island that is part of Sri Lanka instead of real issues like unemployment. This is why India is the way that it is. Bimaru/Hindi Belt people are the reason why India is the way that it is. Had India been ruled by Singaporean-Tamils, India would be a highly developed nation.
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  2393.  @Voltaicz  Okay but India's neighbourhood isn't "India's". Bangladesh can do whatever it wants.
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  2394. Exactly, I fully agree with what you're saying. You said it perfectly. People in specific Asia will be aware of the diversity within their country but may not be aware of the diversity in other countries in Asia. Same thing applies to people in the West, those who are familiar with particular Asian countries will know of the diversity. I know someone who is White Australian and he has done backpacking across India and other parts of Asia and he knows about the Indians who look "Chinese". This is why I think pop culture in these countries can be used as a tool to showcase the diversity of their people, instead of relying on one beauty standard and phenotype. I've already seen some people who watch Thai dramas make comments on the diversity of Thai people because they've seen extras in the background or characters who look more "Indian". I think Bollywood ought to start showing more of their country's diversity, it would actually make it more interesting to watch imo.
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  2395. They are and they're also oppressed in India. Both are right.
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  2396.  @fantasysportsanalysistfsa8938  Philippians. Filipino people, do you see how these Americans don't even know what the name of the Philippines is?
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  2397. Yes that's what I thought too, the actor who plays Sokka sounds like the animated Sokka
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  2398.  @justit1074  It's termed the Switzerland of the East because it's politically neutral.
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  2399.  @milonbag9787  You need to stop getting defensive for everything. I think part of the reason why y'all get so much hate is because y'all react too quickly. Not everybody is a hater. Some of us have nice things to say about India too.
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  2400.  @sleek4546  There may be no united movement as such but they do exist. I came across one on Twitter a few months ago. It had a full meltdown, lashing out at people and it was so embarrassed by its race, it pretended to be a woman from another racial background. They do exist, it's just that they aren't as mobilised as male incels.
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  2401.  @thekrakenrises9040  Cambodia is in Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia is east of South Asia and south of East Asia.
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  2402.  @mudeasno1baby73  I think the OP mentioning her race made sense because she was communicating with people who practice an ideology that does not support people like her.
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  2403.  @djcesar7934  The situation bears similarities to what happened to Indonesia in the 1990s in terms of economic damage. Indonesia managed to recover, it takes time. Things don't just change overnight.
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  2404. Can y'all just stay there then?
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  2405. Maybe they don’t live the part of Sri Lanka you live in or maybe you have met someone but didn’t know they were Malay
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  2406.  @AkilaRampatidewage  Well I’m not from Sri Lanka, only by heritage. My mum had Malay friends growing up in Colombo and is still in contact with them. So I guess it depends on where you live.
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  2407.  @Learningram  It doesn't because India's top 10% own most of the country's wealth.
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  2408.  @pandakekok7319  The Philippines has always been a country that has tried to do the best and I respect them for that. I remember they offered to take in Rohingya refugees back in 2017 even though they are far away from Myanmar. It's no wonder people say Filipinos are one of the friendliest nationalities.
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  2409.  @AntiDegenerate1971  You can't tell that the OP's comment was sarcasm? Also, did you look at their channel? They upload Indian videos. Let me also say, being literate does not mean knowing how to speak English. English is not the only language spoken in the world.
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  2410.  @xiaowenxu7594  It's so crazy when CCP supporters come here to try and downplay the severity of the issue. The CCP is responsible for this.
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  2411.  @adineatha9766  Aboriginal Australian don't share any cultural similarities with South Indians or Sri Lankans...
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  2412.  @alvinaliathos6137  Oh stop it!
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  2413.  @JakeRed378  Those are mythological stories created due to Indocentrism. Cambodians, Thai and various other mainland Southeast Asian groups have mythological stories like the Sinhalese have in which they claim they are also descendants of a prince from India. Due to the greatness of India in the ancient era, people wanted to claim association with India. A modern DNA test however paints a different picture. The average Sinhalese is mostly a mix of AASI, Neolithic Farmer and a small bit of Southeast Asian ancestry. The Sinhalese formed in Sri Lanka in which indigenous groups mixed with an Odia-related migrant group in addition to other groups. If the Sinhalese were truly from Odisha or Bengal, then the Sinhalese would not be genetically closest to Sri Lankan Tamils.
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  2414. It was ethnic so not Hindu Tamils but Christian Tamils as well. Literally has nothing to do with religion in the case of the Tamils.
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  2415. They're both very selfish. They don't care about the other countries in the region, only about themselves.
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  2416. 1. Asian is not a race, never was and no it isn't racist. Nobody in Asia considers "Asian" to be a race and everybody knows that Indians are Asians. Americans need to stop dictating to us who is Asian and who is not. Just because Asia is diverse in appearance doesn't mean we don't share things in common. Stop correlating appearance with culture. 2. This stereotype literally affects Indians too so that's why they have been included here
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  2417. I know some of the Meitei view the Kuki-Chin as immigrants from Myanmar.
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  2418.  @Randomyj  Yes but that doesn't mean Buddhism is a branch of Hinduism.
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  2419. Not far fetched tbh, India has a nationalist faction known as RSS who believe that India is a lot larger than it actually is. They believe Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tibet, Qinghai and parts of Sichuan, Yunnan and Gansu (provinces of China) belong to India. They publish maps of "Akhand Bharat" and teach young children about how India was once a very large country in Asia - exactly the same thing the CCP does in China.
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  2420.  @ariapinandita9240  Borobodur Buddhist temple was bombed in 1985, several Chinese temples and Buddhist temples were burned in northern Sumatra in 2016, a Buddhist temple was bombed in 2013. These are just a few examples of the so called religious harmony that exists in Indonesia. No respect for minorities but you speak about India. YOU are no different to them! 💀
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  2421.  @ariapinandita9240  Every single word and concept you used in that essay of yours is of Indian origin. Indonesia means Indian islands. You are the same and you are Muslim. You are part of the caliphate. Sorry but that is the truth.
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  2422.  @ariapinandita9240  So many excuses and yet the reality is that there are people in Indonesia who can't live besides other religious or ethnic minorities + your culture came from India.
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  2423.  @horrrortv  Yes they most definitely are. Look up the etymology for all of those words. It's all Sanskrit in origin and he's saying all that. Extremely ironic.
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  2424.  @horrrortv  It's Sanskrit, that is one of the classical languages of Asia and all these words are of Sanskrit origin.
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  2425.  @horrrortv  If they're not Sanskrit in origin, then what is their origin?
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  2426. He's Singaporean Indian, not Indian from India. Singaporean Indians have a different culture to Indians from India and most are of Tamil descent. The way this man learned these languages is slightly different but you can find older Singaporean Indians who can speak Malay and Chinese languages like Hokkien.
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  2427.  @matgranger5061  It happens more in India!
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  2428.  @matgranger5061  A 3 month old infant was literally redacted in Uttar Pradesh a few months ago, it's not the first time it has happened either and this man here is talking about European and American men.
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  2429. ​ @freddymercury2259  I mean those Chinese are Indians too, the ones doing the dances now are Bengalis I presume
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  2430.  @akmalbruhaha4658  Well if they've been there for 10 years what do you expect to happen?
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  2431. Exactly and the funny thing is that the majoirty of White Americans are actually of German descent, not Scandinavian heritage. They co-opted Nordic heritage to create a racist ideology.
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  2432. YOUTUBE YOU'RE SO ANNOYING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! STOP DELETING ALL OF MY COMMENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  2433. Well in this case, the war did end. The LTTE does not exist anymore.
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  2434.  @donaldmartin9394  Saying "bye" as if it's a good thing
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  2435.  @iamgreat1234  You see the whole world though Sinocentric lens.
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  2436. Why would you say "Slava Myanmar"? Burmese people don't speak Ukrainian...
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  2437.  @melody964  Yeah but people don't worship them. Those Hindu deities have been adopted from Buddhism and are part of Buddhist cosmology and are subject to the cycle of reincarnation too as they are sentient beings according to Buddhist thought.
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  2438. I just googled and it and turns out everything is going well for them. Two Japanese companies, Japanese Railway Track Consultants and Japanese Railway Technical Service are working closely with India's Ircon International to build the railway. The first part of the line is scheduled to open in 2027 and the rest of it in 2028.
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  2439.  @lvjinbin28  It's because India believes Sri Lanka, Maldives and northeast Indian Ocean is "India's backyard".
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  2440.  @blackumbrella6199  Look, you don't have to be fond of particular governments and other entities but the fact is that India has helped Sri Lanka greatly. That is something that can't be denied, even the Chinese government praised India for helping Sri Lanka. So facts are facts.
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  2441. They switched to organic farming way too quickly. It needs to be a gradual change.
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  2442.  @Trita-wg4nw  The group that faces the most hate in India are the Muslims, not the Christians
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  2443.  @IK_MK  You're not even South Korean
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  2444.  @vpn2830  The fighting was only concentrated in the north and the east of the country. How do you think Sri Lanka was able to continue to boost their quality of life and continue to rise up the HDI rankings, bring down fertility rates and increase literacy while being in a war? The war was concentrate in the north and east so yes they had absolutely everything going for them.
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  2445. Such a beautiful, amazing and talented singer.
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  2446. They're talking about South Asians. This has nothing to do with the US. 🤦‍♂️
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  2447.  @jonathancrompton9388  Yeah nah, not when your name is "Crompton"
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  2448.  @divineflu34567  The whole of South Asia was not colonised by the British though. South Asia had its own beauty ideals on features too. You're under the belief that fair skin as never idolised anywhere in South Asia but it was. There are examples across the region of both fair skin and dark skin being associated with beauty. British and Mughal colonisation of India only racialised the concept of fair skin. Before that, fair skin was merely skin tone and nothing else.
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  2449.  @divineflu34567  Fair skin was uplifted and so was dark skin. As time went on, only fair skin was uplifted.
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  2450.  @12villages  You must be conflating "caste" with "ethnic group" which are two different things. Caste in South Asian contexts refers to things like "farmer caste" and "priestly caste", regarding types of livelihoods.
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  2451.  @goeast12  Singapore is a small country and uses that to excuse itself from accepting refugees, whether that's right or wrong it's not my place to say. Singapore is also very strict when it comes to managing its own ethnic diversity. It gives preference to people from Malaysia, China (including Hong Kong) and India because people from those places are of the same ethnic or of related ethnic origin to local Singaporeans. Singaporean government uses Malaysian+Chinese+Indian immigration to maintain the ratio of Chinese to Malays to Indians (the fertility rates of all three groups are incredibly low, with the Chinese and Indians having statistically less than 1 baby - 0.9 - each year). You also can't compare Singapore's ethnic demographics to the USA's ethnic demographics. Remember, the US only consisted of 13 colonies along the east coast that were taken from Native American populations. On top of that, slaves of West African origin were brought over to the US adding to the ethnic demographics. Additionally, the USA's expansion west meant it acquired land that was originally owned by Spain (and post-independent Mexico) which was already home to many people of Latin American origin (of whom many are of European origin as well as mestizo origin). Singapore's native people are Malays and like the rest of Southeast Asia, thousands of ethnic Chinese and ethnic Indian migrants settled in Singapore over the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Singapore and the US have different histories and different geographies.
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  2452. @ They are from Myanmar, not Bangladesh
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  2453. Source: A genetic history of migration, diversification, and admixture in Asia - Melinda A. Yang, 2022
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  2454.  @dr.batman2530  You really think India would ally with the US in a heartbeat? I personally don't think so. At the end of the day, they seem to hold very strong beliefs of non-alignment. I think after the USA's reaction to India's neutrality in the Ukraine War, they know that they will always be on the chopping block if things were to go south between them and the US.
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  2455.  @psy_inamorato5703  Once India reaches a level of development that jeopardises the US, India will be on the chopping block 24/7 à la Japan in the 1980s and China in the 2010s and 2020s. We've already seen glimpses of that in the past 5 years and especially earlier this year with India's decision to be neutral in the Ukraine War and buy oil from Russia and how upset the US was, even thinking whether to sanction India.
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  2456.  @dr.batman2530  I read your comment properly and I did not confuse neutrality with pacificism. India is a member of the Non-Aligned Movement, its entire foreign policy is rooted in non-alignment since the end of WW2. This is why the country has traditionally remain neutral on many things. There have been cases where it has broken neutrality and paid consequences for it (e.g. Sri Lanka). This is not about pacificism but the fact that is knows its interests are more important than anything else going on around them. This is why they, despite being a democracy, have remained silent on the pro-democracy protests and coup in Myanmar for example. They maintain the same mentality that many other Asian and African countries harbour: neutrality which is why most Asian and African nations are part of the Non-Aligned Movement.
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  2457.  @dr.batman2530  The truth of the matter is you don't know what India will do. It is that type of country, so unpredictable. Once that country reaches a level of development comparable to China, I know they won't be tiptoeing around with the US anymore. As a political analyst put it, India is only interested in maintaining its own sphere of influence where its interests are unchallenged and China is willing to accept that as long as their interests aren't jeopardised. What the analyst basically said is that China sees an Asia where China and India are the sole regional powers with no US interference.
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  2458.  @delinquentsplayground  It really is
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  2459.  @city_of_coompton6832  True but in Japan, they are overrepresented in crime statistics. Funny that these men in the video hark on about certain groups, Indian restaurants, Africans blah blah blah but the fact is almost 50% of foreigners arrested in Japan are from Southeast Asia.
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  2460.  @King_Neptune  I'm not from Sri Lanka but I am a Sinhalese and a Buddhist. Idk if it's because I'm from another country but I honestly think you all need to move on. Sri Lanka has screwed up every opportunity is had because of ultranationalist people. Funny you bring up Rwanda, they went through a genocide and are now a beacon of what can happen when people move on, recognise the past and treat all ethnic groups of a country equally. It's such a shame after everything that is happening to your country, you are still interested in justifying ethnic minority discrimination because of stuff that happened more than a hundred years ago.
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  2461.  @Yash-f8e  so in other words, you
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  2462.  @smilekelp  There are many other Burmese people who look more like South Asians too. There is literally a military general of the Tatmadaw (Burmese military) that looks more like a South Asian. Are you going to send them away? This has NOTHING to do with looks. Rohingyas were considered one of the native peoples of Myanmar until the Tatmadaw took power in the 1970s and stripped them off their citizenship. The Burmese government-in-exile, led by Aung San Suu Kyi, wants to reinstate equal rights for the Rohingyas once they get back into power.
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  2463. So you're telling me that Indonesia is culturally more similar to China, Japan and South Korea than it is to India? You have got to be kidding me. Once again another non-Asian speaking about Asian affairs without knowing a single thing about us. Please be quiet.
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  2464.  @cambodianpleasuresquad1753  The Bamar Burmese have decided to side with the Rohingyas, publicly apologised to the Rohingyas, created a social media campaign for the Rohingyas and a Rohingya minister has been elected to Aung San Suu Kyi's party. Yeah, the Bamar Burmese Buddhists definitely did make their decision and it's the right one. Deal with it and cope harder.
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  2465.  @cambodianpleasuresquad1753  Yes they have. Keep up. Where were you in 2021 when the coup happened? Everything has changed. You're telling me "not they haven't"? Did you not see the Black 4 Rohingya social media campaign on Burmese social media, did you not see the Rohingya politician that was elected to the NUG, did you not see the public apologies to the Rohingyas in February 2021 during the anti-coup protests? You're full of hatred towards them that you refuse to see the facts.
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  2466.  @suryandii  If Rohingya, Bangladeshi and Indonesians practiced indigenous Eastern (Hindu-Buddhist-animist) religions then this would NOT be a problem. That religion from the ME is the root cause of this issue!
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  2467. Grow up!
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  2468.  @Himanshu_Khichar  This is why India and China need to work together.
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  2469.  @cyrilkarpenko691  The most American thing to say.
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  2470. No it's only outside of Asia that it has become a racial term. Asian languages have different terms for "race" and "geography (continent)".
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  2471.  @tomstory8502  Why do people constantly complain, even when they don't know what's actually going on?
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  2472.  @tomstory8502  It's funny how you think the US or the West are supposed to bring an end to these injustices.
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  2473.  @tomstory8502  If you follow Burmese affairs, you'd know that all of the pressure is being applied on other Asian nations (Japan, India, Singapore and especially China) because it is these countries that hold the power to bring down the Tatmadaw. They're the ones with the influence in Burmese society and governance, not the US or West.
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  2474. It's so ironic. The Tatmadaw has to be one of the most inorganised and useless militaries in the world.
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  2475.  @kiev999  Oh to be blissfully ignorant
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  2476. The rise of Korean pop culture on the world stage is clearly a sign of the projected Asian Century. For decades, aspects of Asian cultures have entered the mainstream conscience in the rest of the world, particularly the West. We saw the rise in popularity of Buddhism, meditation and Karma (popularised in the West by John Lennon's single "Instant Karma") in the 1970s and the decades after we saw Asian wellness culture (yoga, mindfulness, acupuncture and other traditional Chinese medicine, cupping, gua sha, Thai massage) gain mainstream popularity. In general, we also saw the popularity of symbols and ideas of Eastern religions and a general interest in Eastern spirituality (dating to the 1970s) as well as the rise in popularity of manga and anime. Now, we've entered a new phase in which content in Asian languages have become popular (as seen with the rise of Kpop and Kdramas). Half a decade ago, I never thought Kpop or Kdramas would become popular in the West simply because they are not in English but it really shows how much times have changed.
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  2477. 1. East Asia doesn't need to accept immigration if they don't want to 2. Japan and Korea already accept temporary immigrants from other parts of Asia like India but most come from other areas like Nepal, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar and the Philippines. They are temporary migrants who eventually leave. 3. Japan and Korea have their policies in place that allow blue collar and white collar workers from other parts of Asia to work temporarily in their countries. This is due to cultural compatibility so if you look at the bilateral agreements that Japan and Korea sign with other Asian countries, the furthest west they go is India or Kazakhstan. They don't go further because they know that even though immigration is controversial, the most suitable option is to allow people who are most culturally compatibile to temporarily work in the country. They know that other Asians are the type to look down and do their work without making a scene so it's easier for employers and for the society in general. That's why most foreigners in Korea and Japan are foreign Asians. The same thing applies to the rest of Asia which accepts temporary immigration.
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  2478.  @dvkaw7780  He wasn't Roma.
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  2479. God does not exist
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  2480.  @davidford3115  Sorry it seems I have been too judgemental and assumed the worst by grouping you with those other people without knowing anything about you. I can see after talking to you that you are rather different to those people that do fetishise. So apologies to you. Yep I agree, not many know about Greco-Buddhism which is a shame because the civilisation that emerged from the two was quite beautiful. It also happens to be that Greco-Buddhist civilisation lies in an area of modern Asia that now no longer practices Eastern philosophical traditions, which may explain why not many people know about it so it doesn't become an incentive for tourism or anything like that. Yeah I imagine it would be a lot different had those Eastern philosophies travelled to Europe (particularly with Alexander the Great). New traditions derived from those Eastern traditions would have also emerged in Europe and syncretism with European pagan beliefs may have transpired too (akin to the way Buddhism, Hinduism and Taoism were syncretised with local folk beliefs of Southeast Asia, Himalayas, Japan and regional areas of China and India). Interesting points you made about the Shinto gods, I do think that people in Europe may have been more receptive towards Eastern traditions had the indigenous European religions continued to dominate Europe. Syncretism would have been easier due to fluidity. The rigidity of the Abrahamic faiths always made it harder to accept other belief systems, which is why they all disappeared in Europe.
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  2481. No. Where'd you hear that from?
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  2482.  @ImGodSoAreYou  No Chinese and Japanese Buddhist eats monkeys, neither do Sri Lankans. 💀
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  2483.  @Will-nb8qk  Keep telling yourself that...
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  2484. @K Y Sri Lanka had everything going for it to create an ethnically harmonious society. Doesn't matter which ethnic group one is from, they are immersed in "Sri Lankan culture" 24/7. For example, sambol is one of the main dishes in Sri Lankan cuisine, it's eaten with rice all the time. Sambol is just as important as curry when it comes to how rice is eaten in Sri Lankan culture. It is the Malays who created sambol and introduced it to the other ethnic groups of the island (Sinhalese, Tamils, Moors etc.). The Tamils have introduced multiple dishes that are eaten by the Sinhalese and other ethnic groups. The Moors have done the same as have the Burghers/Eurasians. One of the traditional garments of Sinhalese women is a garment of Malay origin. The Negombo Tamils have adopted many Sinhalese cultural traits. The Moors speak and write in Tamil as their first language. There are Sinhalese in southern Sri Lanka who speak a dialect of Malay that is spoken by the local Malays. You can find Hindu gods in Buddhist temples and Sinhalese and Tamils partake in the Kataragama cult, which is the worship of a god of Hindu origin. The ethnic groups of Sri Lanka aren't divided strictly along ethnic lines, there is significant overlap.
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  2485. The day y'all realise there is a whole outside of the US and that Asia, particularly, is not centred around US politics but rather Chinese politics is the day we'll know peace. We are talking about Sri Lanka, a country that is traditionally within the political sphere of China, India and Japan. The US is not in the picture.
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  2486. India will become Russia 2.0 and China 2.0 as the country will try to lay claim to foreign pieces of land in the future as it becomes stronger in a manner that is similar to what we see Russia and China doing today. One has to be wet behind the ears if they can't see the pattern.
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  2487.  @sps6  No he absolutely does not. Why do some Indians constantly claim White people look Indian? When will the colonial hangover end?
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  2488.  @sps6  Well yeah he doesn't look like a native Indian. Y'all want to claim native Indians look white so bad.
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  2489.  @cjo4210  Huh? Where did you hear this?
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  2490.  @rodrozil6544  The Arakan Kingdom literally acknowledges the Arakanese Muslims! They include the Rohingyas! Don't just peddle misinformation and what on earth has Indo-European got to do with this? There is an indigenous Burmese Buddhist minority group that is part of the Rakhine nation that speaks a language that is classified as Indo-European. Also, there is a Rohingya minister that is part of the NUG, Aung San Suu Kyi's government and the NUG has clearly said they want to reintegrate Rohingyas back into Burmese society. There were public demonstrations in 2021 showing support for Rohingyas. The world has moved on. Learn about Burmese society and history!
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  2491.  Dragon Force  It's really not that deep. Calm down and stop yelling. 💀
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  2492.  TheBasedDude  Ukraine is in Europe
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  2493.  @bxzidffbxzidff  The two countries are nuclear armed nations so I highly doubt they're going to engage in a full blown war. Also, let's not forget the fact that the main reason why India and China are at each other's throats is due to British colonisation. Pre-colonisation, India and China had no issue and were bound together by cultural exchange (e.g. spread of Buddhism). As someone else said, India and China are the yin and yang of Asia - they keep the balance in Asia and always have since ancient times (e.g. most of Asia is culturally tied to China and India and are the dominant powers in the region).
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  2494. You're not Sri Lankan. Only Indians use the word "Bharat". Stop larping as a Sri Lankan, Aadu.
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  2495. Coming here and claiming to be Sri Lankan when every Sri Lankan Buddhist knows that the Buddha was born in Nepal, not India. You can't even larp properly.
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  2496.  @aadu.thoma44  I know that your emotional response further proved you're an Indian. Stop pretending to be a Sri Lankan.
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  2497.  @aadu.thoma44  You clearly do because you keep replying to me. Yeah your country being India. No self respecting Sri Lankan is going to say they want to join bHaRaT. Stop larping as a Sri Lankan, you're an Indian possibly of South Indian origin.
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  2498.  @aadu.thoma44  You clearly do because you keep replying to me. Yeah your country being India.
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  2499.  @aadu.thoma44  No self respecting Sri Lankan is going to say they want to join bHaRaT. Stop larping as a Sri Lankan, you're an Indian possibly of South Indian origin.
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  2500.  @aadu.thoma44  BTW, wait at least 2 hours before you like your own comment, it'll be more believable 💀
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  2501.  @aadu.thoma44  A Sri Lankan isn't going to say they want to join bHaRaT. Stop larping as a Sri Lankan, you're an Indian possibly of South Indian origin.
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  2502. ​ @aadu.thoma44  Stop larping as a Sri Lankan, you're an Indian possibly of South Indian origin.
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  2503.  @aadu.thoma44  Also it's "the Buddha", not "Buddha". Buddha is not a name, it's a title and yet he's claiming to be Sri Lankan even after getting that wrong.💀
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  2504.  @aadu.thoma44  You need to stop liking your comment, Indian male.
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  2505.  @aadu.thoma44  Okay so if you're really from Sri Lanka and infer that you're Buddhist, tell me what Natha is and tell me what a lot of people mistaken see Natha as.
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  2506.  @aadu.thoma44  So you can't even answer the question. So you're in fact a Indian Tamil larping as a person from Sri Lanka. Embarrassing
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  2507.  @aadu.thoma44  It's not about an opinion, it's about you pretending to be a different nationality to spread Indian irredentist fantasies.
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  2508. Ikr while neighbouring Nepal and Bangladesh have below replacement level fertility, even lower than India.
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  2509.  @prakash.pathak  So you consider them Indians and that they don't have their own identity, is that right?
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  2510.  @prakash.pathak  I just asked a question, calm down. I'm trying to understand your perspective because online I see a lot of North Indian men claim Nepal and other Asian countries as their own. Someone on a different video said that they are all "Indian states".
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  2511.  @harshavandu  No, there are many who believe in something called "undivided India", it's not the same as what you and many others here in this thread are speaking about. The people I am referring to identify as nationalists and they claim that India is a much bigger country and that they are all part of India. You are referring to something called the Indosphere (Indian Cultural Sphere) but there are others who refer to something political. I know you mean well but I was just curious to know if all of you believe in the same thing as the "nationalists" believe in.
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  2512.  @dryash866  Indian men need to understand that the rest of the world does not use "crore", what on earth does that even mean??? Oh my gosh Yash, WAKE UP!!!!!!
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  2513.  @danceoffAsh  I'm a believer that if Indians in India were more like Singaporean-Indians , then India would be a very, very different nation. The ancestors of Singaporean-Indians were poor but their mentality changed with education as Singapore developed throughout the 1970s-1990s.
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  2514. They're creating a floating ciy, they announced it in 2022
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  2515.  @svanimation8969  Do you think India has zero debt? Do you ever fact check what you read, look at other news sources? How on earth do you think they've been able to build resorts with no control? That's cause they have money. They're a lot, lot richer than India is. Cry.
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  2516.  @agonnoga6100  That's all Sanskrit influence and that's not what I am talking about. The actual script used to write Thai is related to Tamil and other southern Brahmic scripts not Bengali or Hindi. The Thai lunisolar calendar was altered to follow the Tamil lunisolar calendar (this applies to the rest of mainland Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka). This is why all of these countries celebrate the Solar New Year on April 14, before the Tamil arrival all of the cultures celebrated the New Year per the lunar calendar which resulted in people celebrating the "lunar new year" in late March/early April.
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  2517.  @agonnoga6100  Tamil inscriptions are found on monuments in Cambodia. I know you are not very fond of what I am saying but this is the reality. I am of ethnic Sri Lankan descent and a Buddhist and in my country (Australia), the Sri Lankan, Cambodian, Thai and Burmese communities share close socio-religious ties. When we all gather together and celebrate festivals like the April 14 New Year at the Buddhist temple, I can see the visible impact Tamil culture has had on our communities. When it came to the spread of Indian culture to Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia, the Tamils (and Odia) played a very significant role. There are common dishes eaten by Sri Lankans and Southeast Asians that is of Indian Tamil origin like Puttu and Tamil style roti. We don't eat paratha or naan for example which are associated with North Indian food but you will find all Southeast Asian and Sri Lankan cultures have a version of roti that is traced back to Tamil traders from India. We wrap our food in banana leaves (just like Tamils in India) and the Odia celebrate a festival called Bali Jatra at the end of each year which is about a journey to the Indonesian island of Bali. On the same day, Odia people celebrate Bali Jatra, Thai, Cambodian, Burmese, Lao and Sri Lankan Buddhists also celebrate a festival associated with the full moon. Sinhalese Buddhist and Southeast Asian cultures are closely related to Tamil/South Indian cultures.
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  2518.  @agonnoga6100  Prince Vijaya was not Bengali, he was a Sinhalese king who brought his people with him to the island of Sri Lanka and intermixed with the local people. The legend is that Prince Vijaya and his people came south from India and intermixed with the Nagas creating the Sinhalese people. Similar legends exist in other Asian cultures like among the Khmer, Cham and Jarai people of Southeast Asia. Stories of Indian kings who intermarried with local women. All these names like Sri Lanka, Srivijaya, Ma Ganga etc. are of Sanskrit origin. Sanskrit had a big impact on all of these cultures but nobody is denying that. I have read the Ramayana and I have never seen anything about them looking down on "Dravidians". Dravidian is just a language family, not a group of people. Also, even if we are to talk about Bengalis, they are not the same as North Indian Hindi speaking people who are very different to Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka.
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  2519.  @agonnoga6100  You're correct but Bengali, Tibetan and Devanagari scripts are all part of the Northern Brahmic script family. They all descend from the Gupta script. The scripts of Southeast Asia descend from the Pallava script, which is part of the Southern Brahmic script family. No, the cultures of Southeast Asia is more similar to South India and Odisha. The architecture, the festivals, the scripts and so on are most similar to South Indian cultures. I'm sorry but idk why you are trying so hard to fight me on this. South Indian is Indian, North Indian is Indian so why be divisive? They are all Indian, aren't they or do you think one is considered more Indian than the other?
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  2520.  @agonnoga6100  Southeast Asians don't eat roti? Roti is a major food item eaten in Thailand, Malaysia, Myanmar, Indonesia and Singapore. It came from Tamils. Southeast Asians today are not of Chinese descent, they are of native Southeast Asian descent and are culturally much more like Indians than Chinese. Indian cuisine heavily influenced Southeast Asian cuisines. Where do you think curry came from? Have you eaten Southeast Asian cuisines (Thai, Cambodian, Burmese, Malaysian, Indonesian) before? The Indian influence is clear in everything from ingredients, to cooking techniques and to the way they traditionally consume food like rice using the right hand just like Indians.
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  2521.  @agonnoga6100  Tamil not pure vegetarian though. In Singapore and Malaysia, there is a Tamil community who have lived in the two countries before Ancient India was partitioned into India and Pakistan and they eat meat and fish too. Keling is a racial slur in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia and is used maliciously against Indians, especially South Indians. Sinhalese Buddhists are not very different from Hindu Tamils actually. I am Sinhalese Buddhist and I feel very close culturally to Tamils (there are Sri Lankan Tamils for example). I have many friends who originally came from India and they are Tamil and even though I'm Australian, I can relate to them because they are quite similar to my cultural upbringing. Similar food, similar words, similar customs and so on. Also, while I have fairer skin, for most other Sinhalese they look just like the majority of Tamils.
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  2522.  @agonnoga6100  Well I mentioned the scripts, so that's a similarity. Architecture is another similarity. Certain elements of different SEA cuisines include Tamil influences. You can read more about this in "George Yeo on Bonsai, Banyan and the Tao", it's a book by Singaporean author, George Yeo and he talks about the Tamil influence on Southeast Asia. Anyway, I don't see how this is something to argue about. Tamils, Indo-Gangetic people, Bengalis etc. are Indians. Nobody is saying Indo-Gangetic influences did not influence Southeast Asia, they did, but this idea that Tamil and Odia influence is a lot less is a complete denial of history. India influenced Southeast Asia, why must one feel the need to analyse this to an extent that it results in Indian group vs Indian group. You're all Indians. Why cause division?
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  2523. ​ @agonnoga6100  Many Sri Lankans are of Malay descent, most of them do not look Chinese. Some Malays look like Chinese, some look like Indians and that's all because of mixing with Chinese and Indians. Most Malays however look distinct from Chinese and Indians.
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  2524.  @agonnoga6100  The type of roti eaten in Southeast Asia was created by Tamil Muslims. It's stretched and folded and cooked on a flat pan or heated tray so it's layered with air trapped between each layer making it airy and puffy and not like North Indian rotis. BTW, roti is from India not Central Asia/Middle East. The word roti is from the Sanskrit word "rotika". You must be confusing roti with naan or something. Different types of roti are eaten all over India.
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  2525.  @agonnoga6100  Tai people are not Dai Chinese. The Dai are a group that belong to the Tai ethnolinguistic group. People of the Tai group are not all the same. Bamar are not Chinese, just because their ancestors migrated south from China does not make them Chinese. Just like the people in Nepal or Sri Lanka are not Indians.
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  2526. and this is why YouTube needs to be banned by the Indian government
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  2527. She's from an older generation hence why she even prefers to communicate in Chinese (only the older generation will be more comfortable speaking in Chinese, Malay or Tamil rather than English). Singapore was one of the poorest nations in Asia in the 1960s but now it's one of the richest and most technologically advanced nations on earth.
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  2528.  @Ccb88888  I don't know why you think Singapore was some well off nation in 1965, it absolutely was not and there is a reason why Singapore is marvelled for its economic transformation within a generation. Singapore was a bona fide poor country and comparing Singapore to other Asian nations in 1965 doesn't mean anything really because in 1965, the continent was poor. Israel was at #1 with US$1389 GDP followed by Japan with US$857. Singapore came in at #4 with US$494. That is not the definition of "rich". Singapore was poor through and through. So like I said before, that woman is from an older generation who was alive when Singapore was still a poor nation. The very fact that she chooses to communicate in Chinese rather than English is a clear testament to the bygone era she belonged to. You will only ever see Singaporeans who speak an Asian language (Chinese, Malay, Tamil, maybe Hokkien) as a first language among those from the older generation.
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  2529.  @Ccb88888  No, Singapore was not a middle income country. I'm really confused as to why you think it did. Having a national income of US$500, which is what Singapore once had, is far from a middle income nation. South Sudan of 2023 has almost US$500 but it is not a middle income nation. Singapore was not classified as a middle income nation in 1965 by the World Bank. It was classified as a "low income country" and rightfully so. I don't know why you want Singapore to be classified as a middle income country so bad when that was not reality.
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  2530. It has nothing to do with China...
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  2531. He's actually making a mockery of the American idea that there is only one type of "Asian" which contrasts to the UK's idea of "Asian" which means Indian or someone who looks Indian. Ronnie is Malaysian. Malaysians of ethnic Indian descent are the third largest ethnic group in the country and played a significant role in shaping Malaysian culture. He knows what he's doing.
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  2532.  @peterfireflylund  It does. Ukraine's GDP per capita places it in the developing category. There are other developing countries that are constantly viewed as "third world" but are wealthier and have good healthcare and good living standards almost on par with the developed world but are still viewed as "third world" such as Malaysia and the Maldives.
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  2533. It wasn't
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  2534.  @mangopudding5979  Wrong. Sinhalese are not descendants of Bengalis.
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  2535.  @mangopudding5979  There is no such thing as Ravana, that is a mythical creature.
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  2536.  @mangopudding5979  Ravana is a myth. Nobody with 10 heads is exist. Sinhalese emerged in Sri Lanka from an East Indian-related so-called "Prince Vijaya" lineage that mixed with the indigenous groups of the island. Ramayana is a legend, it's not real.
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  2537.  @mangopudding5979  He's fictional and Sinhalese formed from an East Indian-RELATED lineage and indigenous lineages. Cope. Nah, I want YT banned in India so we don't have to deal with India nationalists 24/7.TikTok is super peaceful without y'all there.
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  2538.  @MaroonedInDub  Exactly, Japan is one of the main geopolitical powers in the Asian region alongside China and India. Japan has every right to comment.
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  2539.  @fernbedek6302  Germany and France are "not in the region". Are they part of Asia? No they aren't. What role do they play in Asian geopolitics? The answer is nothing. So no, they're not part of the region.
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  2540.  @AlexS-vv8rl  The EU is not a global leader. You want to see who the global leaders are look at the main non-Asian players in Asian geopolitics (the most pressing geopolitical issue at the moment). Is the EU one of them? No. They're irrelevant and are trying so hard to insert themselves into Asian and Pacific issues when they absolutely have no right to be here after they started half of the issues in our part of the world.
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  2541.  @fernbedek6302  This is more just geography. You need to let go of this idea of proximity and look at things for what they are. Germany has no sort of significant influence on the affairs of Central Asia, it is not a major political or economic player in the region, let alone the rest of Asia. Thinking Germany is part of the same "region" is a naive thing to believe. This is about geopolitics. Japan is a major player in Asian geopolitics alongside China and India. Japan has a history of providing grants and aid to Afghanistan. In 2017, it provided a $3.6 million grant to be invested in education, procurement and infrastructure projects. Japan, like China and India, has a history of doing these sorts of things in other Asian countries. It's all about political, ecomomic and social clout. It needs to be understood that Asian and Pacific countries trade more between themselves than they do with anybody else outside of it. The region, as a result, has on a broad scale uplifted itself by itself through the support of the different countries in the region. The Asia and Pacific regions are deeply interconnected economically. What happens in one part of Asia can affect another part of the region due to how connected the region is. So this is why Japan has every right to speak about this because it affects them, it affects their region and it affects their interests. Germany and France have nothing to do with this.
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  2542.  @sitandchill2897  Tell me you know nothing about Asia without telling me you know nothing about Asia lol. You being based in the region doesn't mean you understand the region. In fact it's a shock that despite being based in the region you think this is right. Not everything is due to appearance. You've naively divided the region based on stereotypical appearance and attributed it to culture.
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  2543.  @xinyiquan666  Facts don't care about your biases. Get a grip and stop crying you Chinese CCP supremacist nationalist thing. Japan has influence in the Asia-Pacific region and so does India. If you weren't so oblivious to the rest of Asian geopolitics you'd know this. Stop thinking China is the only country in the region with influence. If it was, nobody in Asia would be playing two sides like they are now. Your CCP narrative isn't what the rest of the world sees. Step out of your bubble.
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  2544.  @xinyiquan666  I absolutely know everything about Asia. I live in the Asia-Pacific, it is you that knows nothing because you only see things through your mainland Chinese CCP perspective. You're the type of person who will believe COVID-19 originated in the US and that the whole of the South China Sea (inc. Spratly Islands and Paracel Islands) belong to China. That the Chinese maritime borders extend all the way to the coast of the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei. Insane.
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  2545.  @robertconklin3850  Okay and? Nobody in BRICS nations are clamouring to purchase American goods.
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  2546.  @elpenprice679  Yes they do because war means their economy grows
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  2547. He might put tariffs on Indian goods too, just like he did in the late 2010s.
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  2548.  @dshah8921  Newar Budhists in Nepal celebrate it too. Jains and Sikhs celebrate it too. So no, it's not just a Hindu festival and they never said it's a South Asian festival. Listen! They said it's celebrated by South Asians, which is correct!
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  2549.  @budakpiw03  Thailand is still practicing its indigenous cultural heritage. Most people are Buddhists who blend their Buddhist beliefs with indigenous Thai spirit worship and Hindu influences. So no, not Thailand.
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  2550.  @Knowledgeandententertainment  .Always whataboutism. This is about Indonesia, please don't detract from this conversation.
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  2551.  @agape.ahimsa  I agree, the Dharmic (Buddhism, Hinduism etc.), Taoic (Daoism, Shintoism etc.) and animist beliefs of Southeast, South and East Asia are beautiful contributions to human development.
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  2552.  @user_ar6332  Propaganda reports, true
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  2553. So many people in the West are scared of AI and criticising it and I understand their reservations but AI will also open up so many doors for the progression of human civilisation and for other beings. In Asia, it's the opposite, because the surveys have shown most people there are open to it and the region's biggest AI-linked countries (China, Japan, South Korea, India, Singapore) have refused to regulate AI, instead waiting to see how it progresses before putting a cap on its influence. Europe is demanding Asia regulate AI and I just can't support that. Human civilisation has progressed through multiple eras ever since the first humans emerged so AI is the next frontier in human development.
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  2554. and Tamils are still suffering, so your point is?
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  2555.  @canto_v12  It's democratic. Singaporeans are allowed to vote and they vote for the PAP.
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  2556. I agree
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  2557.  @ananthakrishnan9326  All that land under the sea doesn't belong to India though. Some of it belongs to other nations and other areas constitute international waters.
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  2558.  @pikachuthunderbolt3919  Yes and I also hear good things about Bhutanese and Maldivians too.
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  2559.  @HP-hu8rw  Yeah it's the Asian mentality, emphasis on oneself in relation to the community and a culture of docility and honour.
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  2560.  @Sabundy  Why do you always bring up the US government? Nobody here is talking about the US government, we're talking about the Chinese government and all the wrong things they have done. The US government isn't pulling the strings in Myanmar, the Chinese government is so please don't talk about the US government here when China is wrecking havoc in Myanmar as we speak.
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  2561.  @christianevanherck6023  Myanmar ranks 76th in the world and accounts for about 0.0% of the world's total oil reserves of 1,650,585,140,000 barrels. It's literally nothing compared to other oil-producing nations.
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  2562.  @kaustubhraizada  Yeah I'm not a Sri Lankan citizen, when did I ever say I was?💀
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  2563. @XENENEX So you all believe that because you donated money to them, you want them to give you something in return? I'm sorry but I understand your point but that's not how diplomacy works. Every country is interested in themselves and India should not be asking other countries to bend their foreign policy to suit their needs.
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  2564.  @justanothermortal1373  Actually it wasn't sold, it was leased to a Chinese company but Sri Lanka still has control over it and who is allowed to enter it. It's under their jurisdiction and there is a Sri Lankan company connected to it too. The Chinese company has a 70% stake in the port. Similar dealings have happened elsewhere. For example, in Australia, the Port of Darwin was leased to a Chinese company but it's still under Australian jurisdiction. These ports are given on leases to foreign companies so the local governments can make money off them.
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  2565. What she said is the truth. Cry about it.
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  2566. It's all Sanskrit influence
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  2567.  @UniversityofUniverseOfficial  Buddhists are not Hindus.
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  2568. Deal with it. Australia is a Western country and it's an Asia-Pacific country too.
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  2569.  @rolex8743  You're claiming the whole of South Asia belongs to India, it does NOT. Now you can call me names and insult my intelligence but it's not going to change the fact that the whole of South Asia does not belong to India. The "Indian subcontinent" was a term coined by the BRITISH to describe British Indi (modern India+Pakisan+Bangladesh). My facts are straight, I'm not an Indian nationalist to blindly believe the whole world belongs to India. Google is your friend, not an incel subreddit
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  2570.  @JUSTFORFUN-cd5dd  Why wouldn't I? You keep replying to me
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  2571.  @vaisakhvij9601  The idea of "Bharat" only included modern India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. It did not include islands in the Indian Ocean, certain regions in the Himalayas, Tibet or Myanmar - areas all claimed by Akhand Bharat people.
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  2572.  @mrr4717  Firstly, what I stated wasn't "advice". 💀Secondly, the British coined the term "Indian subcontinent" to describe British India (India+Pakistan+Bangladesh). I know what a "subcontinent" means, I fail to see the point you're making other than the fact that you're incredibly upset at all of my comments. Thank you, next.
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  2573. @Zynex RavenOP No, all of South Asia is NOT part of Indian civilisation. That's like saying we're all Africans because modern human civilisation stated in Africa. Indonesia is NOT part of the Indian subcontinent and Sri Lanka was never part of India. Only Pakistan and Bangladesh were part of ancient India and no Western person uses "Indian subcontinent" to describe the whole of South Asia and Southeast Asia. Idk what you're talking about but all I see is someone who wants to be independent and says they have nothing to do with the West but then resorts to using Western terminology.
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  2574. @Zynex RavenOP "If you don't respect our interests" So in other words you're just telling me you're no different to China. Now didn't I just say that? So if we don't recognise the issue of ultranationalism in India and its threat to regional stability, you won't do business with us? Okay, got it. China and India want the world to bend to their rules just like the Americans wants the world to bend to their rules. There is no difference, every country only cares for themselves. Let me just say this, at this current moment the ones who have the most control in India are not people who want to swallow up large parts of Asia (and so the world is respecting India) but trust me, the day the RSS/Akhand Bharat nationalists get full control of the country and start encroaching into other nations' territories the world will realise that the Indian establishment is no different to the Chinese establishment. The thing to note here is that I and a few others elsewhere in the world recognise that these irredentist elements do exist in elite positions in India and can always rise to the top with more power and influence. I am critical of these elements in Indian governance.
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  2575. @Zynex RavenOP The nationalists of India are no different to the nationalists of China. Both groups believe they're wounded civilisations and believe they have a stake in Asia. There is no difference between them. Just as China is flexing its muscles knowing it has greater influence and power today, India will do the same this century if the Akhand Bharat nationalists take full control of the country.
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  2576.  @amaramachupa6422  TikTok? TikTok is banned in India and that app is still on your mind? Huh? The RSS is a thing and many believe in it. I suggest you go read about AKhand Bharat (of which the RSS believes in) and have a look at all of the comments here who believe in that ideology in which they believe a very large part of Asia belongs to India. You can stop bringing up Pakistan btw, Idk what you think you're achieving by name dropping that country every 5 sentences.
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  2577.  @daicekube  They decided to have no guns in the border regions, the clashes are fist fights. The fact that they engaging in fist fights instead of using weapons is a testament that they have some dignity for one another.
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  2578.  @daicekube  which is better than using guns...
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  2579.  @manasmishra8945  I just know you're an Indian man.
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  2580. @SpiritualSeeker-oq5pt Can't y'all be respectful for once??
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  2581.  @sirg3137  What language are you speaking? I don't understand that.
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  2582. At 12:44 all of the kids are Singaporeans. Why did you put Taiwan, Myanmar and India flags over some of the kids' heads? 💀
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  2583.  @pjacobsen1000  China isn't accepting any refugees. The only Burmese they accept are the Jade traders, many of whom are Burmese Muslims, who live and work in Yunnan and speak Mandarin and contribute to the Chinese economy. When it comes to other Burmese, they don't want them.
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  2584.  @sathishreddy22  Does that make you worried for your own culture and heritage? If people from the north migrate in large numbers do you fear that you will experience what the Uighurs are facing in China? (A lot of Han Chinese have settled in Xinjiang and now form a plurality of the population in the province. Uighurs will eventually become a minority in their own land). I also recently learned about "Hindi imposition".
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  2585.  @hasna449  It's a shame that y'all are ahead but aren't getting the support that you need because parts of the north are still far behind.
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  2586. Lol all you want but it's true, T-Wave is rising. Thai dramas are now a clearly visible form of pop culture in other Asian countries and based on your name, you should already know this. Also, it's getting attention in South Korea too and there's a Thai reality show atm and the contestants have included people from all over Asia: South Korea, China, India, Vietnam Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.
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  2587. I like India but ngl, the comments in this comment section just proves that India is not benevolent like it wants the world to see it as.
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  2588. The gender imbalance in some Asian countries is so extreme. That's why the men's right movement is growing in South Korea, Japan and India. Those boys have come of age and been taught their whole life that they will have a woman by their side by to do everything for them but now they have nobody. The women in these countries are now paying the price for the way these boys have been raised. Now there are many sexually frustrated men in Asian countries where there are more men than women and that's why we're seeing things like semen terrorism in South Korea, incel extremism in Japan, gang r*pe culture in India and importation an trafficking of Asian migrant brides to rural China.
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  2589.  @mklmo831  Maybe if Malaysia actually focused on racial harmony, the country would actually be in a better situation today than it currently is. That's what happens when you vote in leaders that don't know how to do their jobs and are more focused on religion and ethnicity than actual progression. Malaysia actually suffers from a brain drain because so many educated Malaysian Chinese and Malaysian Indians leave your country for places like Australia and Singapore. Worry about that instead of focusing on France and calling everything you don't like "Islamophobia".
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  2590.  @dearg_doom  When Japanese nationalists say that Asia was decolonised they are speaking about the South Asian and Southeast Asian nations that became independent from Europeans, not China and the Koreas which were never colonised by Europeans. If you go to Yasukuni Shrine you'll find an entire display that propagates this narrative. There is a huge map of South and Southeast Asia on a wall and it basically says that they were all freed because of the Japanese. There are also photos of various South and Southeast Asian leaders from Myanmar, India etc. praising Japan and imagery and text displaying Japanese propaganda and pan-Asian themes.
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  2591. They're neutral and once China works its magic, India will eventually wake up and realise it must work with China for the betterment of its people and Asia.
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  2592. The Dalai Lama doesn't exist even consider Arunachal Pradesh to be part of Tibet anymore so idk who on earth is including those territories in an independent Tibet.
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  2593. So you want to rename South Asia with a colonial and Indo-centric term (Indian subcontinent)? So in other words, you dislike the use of "South Asia" because it makes India invisible. The only people who say this are people who believe the whole of South Asia and Southeast Asia belong to India. This is why you want every thing to have the name "Indian" in it. Stop making everything about India.
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  2594.  @royjacobs1204  In my opinion, I think the non-aligned policy is still an option and is an option all Global South countries should pursue because if the Cold War is any precedent for what's to come, then the Global South ought to remain neutral or risk getting caught up in the struggles of the US and Russia .
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  2595.  @royjacobs1204  Firstly, Bangladesh abstained, meaning they are neutral and in no way are supporting anybody. They abstained. Abstain is not showing support. Secondly, your contempt for the lives of the Global South is paramount. You talk of "jeopardising" the way of life of Europeans and Americans, but are indifferent to the destruction the US/UK/EU has caused to the Global South. So it's okay that 3 million Bangladeshis were murdered and faced genocidal rape by Pakistanis with strong support from the US or the thousands of Korean, Sri Lankan, Nepalese, Filipino and other Southeast Asian women trafficked into working as sex slaves on US military bases in Korea in the 1990s but when destruction happens in a part of Europe (excluding the Balkans because the rest of Europe and the US simply do not care about that region either) you want the whole world to fight your war. That doesn't sound fair
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  2596.  @RextheRebel  Indian is NOT a race. It's a nationality. Asian is not a race. Regardless of how you spin it, Indians and other Asians share genetic similarities with each other. They all descend fully or partially from an East Eurasian lineage. Do you really think two neighbouring populations are not going to share genetic overlap????? Americans stay in school challenge impossible
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  2597.  @amalksuresh2538  There's no confirmation for that though. It's based on a legend that 4 men were sent to Kerala from Sri Lanka at the request of King Bhaskara Ravi Varma. It's these 4 men that are considered the progenitors of the Ezhavas.
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  2598. True.
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  2599.  @gentleboyier4518  Ok
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  2600. @pluto8404 Do you know why areas in Asia have higher density living? It's because those lands were able to provide enough food to sustain population growth. There is enough arable land to sustain a population. That's why Asia is so densely populated. Additionally, there was no mass exodus of people from Asia like there was from Europe. Almost 1 billion people of European descent live outside of Europe today. Now just imagine if that almost 1 billion lived in Europe today.
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  2601. The comedian is from Malaysia. The comedian was making a joke. The comedian knows that Indians are Asian as Malaysia is known as "Malaysia Truly Asia", it's home to Malays, Chinese and Indians. The comedian knows that in the US, "Asian" means East Asian and that in the UK "Asian" means Indian or South Asian. The comedian is making a joke about the way non-Asians view Asian as a descriptive term for appearance, when it's not. The idea that "Asian" is dictated by how close you are physically to East Asians makes no sense. So why would Indians not think of themselves as Asians? Asia is just a continent, nothing more. People are reading way too much into this and the joke is flying straight over their head.
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  2602. and what is thing about PC? How exactly is "Global South" the PC term for third world?
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  2603. ​ @12time12  Why is everything viewed through the lens of politics for certain people? The term is used by actual countries in the Global South like China, India, South Africa and Brazil in which this binary left-right wing dichotomy is not so clear cut in how we understand economics.
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  2604. Why would you expect Thai students in Thailand to know how to speak English when English is the not the lingua franca of Thai society? Be serious.
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  2605.  @Nielson941  "Are the best", based on what? Sorry idk where you are getting you information from but foreign professionals from India or Southeast Asia are not classified as "Americans". So idk why you brought them up. You say they're "so so" in school, how did you come to that conclusion? Indians and Filipinos have a high school graduation rate of 90.2% and 90.8% percent, the highest out of all Asian American groups reported. In terms of bachelor's degrees, 70.7% of Indians have one, only the Taiwanese have more at 73.7%. Why do you think the "Asian quota" in Ivy leagues exist and why it's not just Chinese/East Asian Americans protesting affirmative action but the Indian Americans too? Silicon Valley is dominated by Indians (and Chinese and to some extent Filipinos). I'm quite surprised you think they're just average or just below average when reality paints a very different image. They are after all stereotyped as "nerds" and "academically gifted" in pop culture. All stereotypes have some truth to them because of prevalence of a certain action or trait. Obviously we know where these stereotypes have come from.
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  2606. It's culturally a Western country. The dominant cultural system in the country is Western and that's not going to change ever. When people say "Western" they mean "culture" these days. Australia is not culturally "Eastern" like China, India or Japan. There is a large Asian-descended population in the country, with some having roots dating back to colonial days but that is not the dominant cultural system. Mahathir Mohamad of Malaysia once said that Australia will become "more Asian" in the future and maybe the country will become "Eurasian" culturally speaking but that will still mean a significant Western cultural element continues to exist. Mainland Australia, in the future, may feel like Christmas Island (overseas Australian island territory) which is a blend of Asian and Western cultures, the result of Chinese, Malay and Indian settlers from Singapore/Malaya and the British and Irish settlers who came afterwards. It will still be culturally Western though.
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  2607.  @s._3560  Singapore or Malaysia is a better bet if we compare it to the US or UK. At least they're still in culturally similar Eastern societies as opposed to a non-Eastern society. Apart from the many Hong Kong Chinese who have migrated to the UK, many have also migrated to Malaysia or Singapore for the very reason of them being Eastern societies too.
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  2608.  @barry1807  When will these people learn that Africa is a continent and NOT a country?
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  2609. Almost 50% of foreigners arrested in Japan are from the so-called Far East. Maybe don't generalise entire nationalities.
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  2610. 😐😐
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  2611.  @ambujverma695  It's true
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  2612. Tibet to China? Aksai Chin to China? You need to look back at history
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  2613.  @tivo3720  ...
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  2614. Won't be surprised if that claim is resurfaced.
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  2615.  @CitizenCan  Wrong
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  2616.  @CitizenCan  The Jews are from Israel. Don't compare third world Aceh with Israel and say the Jews are not native to Israel.
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  2617.  @deltapapa130  Except Uganda unfortunately didn't prosper after the Ugandan Asians left. Uganda had the lowest economic growth rate in the whole of Africa by 1987. The economy continued to spiral downwards while other African nations surpassed Uganda. Uganda suffered economically after the expulsion of the Asians, the strain of civil wars and the nationalisation of certain industries in the country. That's why President Yoweri Museveni asked the Ugandan Asians to come back.
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  2618.  @deltapapa130  It was also in part because of the expulsion of the Asians. The Ugandan Asians were the ones who controlled the economy and through the control of the economy, one is able to control the development of a nation. If one class or group controls the economy and is removed from their positions overnight, who is there to run things? There has to be somebody who can take their place. In Uganda's position, there wasn't. That's why historians and political scientists describe the expulsion of the Asians from Uganda as one of the biggest mistakes in modern history. Without redistributing wealth and creating a system that allowed native Ugandans and Ugandan Asians to both thrive in Uganda, Idi Amin acted on a dream he had that he attributes to his religious beliefs. It was a complete disaster. The Ugandan Asians went on to become a model minority in the UK after they left Uganda because of their integration success and economic and academic success. I am aware that Museven is a dictator and I am very well aware that Rwanda is a shining example of a developing nation today and has done so much to succeed since the end of the civil war. It's a development model for the rest of Africa and even for some other countries outside of Africa - I am very well aware of Rwanda's success.
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  2619.  @nextentrepreneur9288  Internet celebs meaning right wing European-Americans
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  2620.  @nextentrepreneur9288  So opposite views means blatant misinformation and extreme hate? Got it
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  2621.  @curiositycloset2359  Irdgaf, the amount of racism towards non-white people is at an all time high, so I will support non-white people when it's necessary
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  2622. Extreme much?
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  2623.  @bginoc  Did you watch the video? Most of their states are below replacement level, only 4 aren't and those 4 are the reason why India's population is still growing.
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  2624.  @TyroneBeiron  If anything it's a CMIO (Chinese, Malay, Indian, Other - Eurasian) nation
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  2625. 💀
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  2626. You should have worked harder instead of blaming the victims
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  2627. You have zero respect for the victims
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  2628. They've literally been living in Japan for decades omd
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  2629.  @silvermine2033  They're specifically ethnically Japanese from South America
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  2630. The UK should be glad that the Indians have settled there.
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  2631. The stats say China will still be number 1 by 2100.
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  2632.  @Toefoo100  Y'all can't go one day without being racist. 💀
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  2633. Said by someone who doesn't live in Singapore
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  2634.  @unsulliedthe832  A typical Chinese supremacist
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  2635.  @unsulliedthe832  They say Singapore is the most successful multi-ethnic nation in Asia but there are always some people who try to encourage this divisive rhetoric. If you are truly Singaporean you would know that the SG government will never allow any group to get bigger or smaller, the demographics of the nation will consistently remain 75% Chinese, 13% Malay, 9% Indian and 3% other (mainly Eurasian).
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  2636.  @unsulliedthe832  Always one person that has to espouse divisive rhetoric. Let me guess, you're an ethnically Chinese man? Am I right?
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  2637.  @unsulliedthe832  Always one person that has to espouse superiority. Let me guess this thing is Chinese or maybe even someone who suffers from self hate?
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  2638.  @unsulliedthe832  Let me guess you're Chinese?
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  2639.  @omega-nf5ku  1. Indians aren't culturally close to Arabs. Just goes to show you know nothing about Asia. Indians are culturally close to other South Asians and Southeast Asians like Thai, Cambodians etc. Most of South Asia (including India) and Southeast Asia is part of the Indian Cultural Sphere. Arabs are culturally very different and unrelated. I don't know why Americans think Indians are like Arabs, they don't even look alike, aren't genetically similar and aren't even culturally similar. 2. East Asians do share things in common with Indians and Southeast Asians. India/Nepal had various forms of influence on East Asia from Buddhism to even architecture. Hu Shih, a prominent Chinese philosopher famously said, "India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border". China also had impact in Southeast Asia through Chinese migrants who assimilated into Southeast Asian societies. The fact that noodles exist in all non-Sinic Southeast Asian countries like the Philippines and Malaysia is the result of Chinese influence. 3. Filipinos are not like Latinos. Once again, Americans always think Filipinos are like Latinos when they're not even the same. Filipinos are culturally closer to other Southeast Asians.
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  2640.  @adan2099  I know that.
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  2641.  @omega-nf5ku  This is because you have an East Asian fetish so when someone actually does speak about pan-Asian similarities like the FACT that Indians, Cambodians and Koreans all celebrate the Hungry Ghost Festival you say things like "they share nothing in common, let's not go there".
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  2642.  @omega-nf5ku  I'm not Indian you White boy.
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  2643.  @cynthias4107  They're Singaporeans of Indian descent.
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  2644.  @schrodinger_kot  They're Singaporeans, they're not recent immigrants from India.
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  2645.  @heisenbergs9415  Bangladesh also has a growing tech manufacturing industry. Samsung, Sony, Nokia, Xiaomi, Realme, Vivo and Oppo all have manufacturing facilities in the country. This is common knowledge.
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  2646.  @thelastminmom5251  They lifted the ban after the farmers protested the government's decision to ban it.
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  2647. I have no issue with the US but their desire to hold onto relevancy has got them doing reckless things. It's so easy to spread misinformation online. I wouldn't be surprised if they're the root for all of the other anti-[insert country or group] campaigns we see online atm.
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  2648.  @fatboyRAY24  COVID-19 was a turning point in world history and just as the world began learning to live with the virus, Russia invaded Ukraine. The political divide between Global North and Global South had already begun to emerge once again in 2021 with vaccine distribution but 2022 saw the division become even more stark as a result of the Ukraine War. "Multipolar world" and "dedollarisation" may be words we hear a lot in 2023, especially with what's going on in the East (China, India, Russia).
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  2649. How does she embarrass an entire continent???
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  2650.  @cuteandfunnyearthlings2863  Someone who has no money shouldn't be telling other people how to use their money.
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  2651.  @yoursincerewellwisher1695  Why are you mad at me? Stop yelling. You're obviously Muslim, that's why you're very upset. Islam can free them from the caste system but it's not going to free them from control, that's the point. Why would they drop one religion for another controlling religion? I never said Buddhism is a foreign religion in India. Maybe calm down and read my comment. I literally said that them adopting an Eastern faith makes more sense to them as opposed to adopting a foreign religion like Islam.
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  2652.  @yoursincerewellwisher1695  Why are you mad at me? Stop yelling. You're obviously Muslim, that's why you're very upset. Islam can free them from the caste system but it's not going to free them from control, that's the point. Why would they drop one religion for another controlling religion?
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  2653. ​ @yoursincerewellwisher1695  I never said Buddhism is a foreign religion in India. Calm down and read my comment. I literally said that them adopting an Eastern faith makes more sense to them as opposed to adopting a foreign religion like Islam.
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  2654. @ Why are you mad at me? Stop yelling. You're obviously Muslim, that's why you're very upset. Islam can free them from the caste system but it's not going to free them from control, that's the point. Why would they drop one religion for another controlling religion? I never said Buddhism is a foreign religion in India. Maybe calm down and read my comment. I literally said that them adopting an Eastern faith makes more sense to them as opposed to adopting a foreign religion like Islam.
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  2655. @ Why are you mad at me? Stop yelling. You're obviously Muslim, that's why you're very upset. Islam can free them from the caste system but it's not going to free them from control, that's the point. Why would they drop one religion for another controlling one?
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  2656.  @RisingSun-123  Clear dislike for Islam? Where did you get that from? Me pointing out that neither Hinduism or Islam freed them from control doesn't mean I dislike it and yeah you are a Muslim because you keep hounding me. If you weren't, you wouldn't care so much. Like I said, not everybody likes your religion. Just accept it and move on.
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  2657. @ and the fact is that OP said that neither Hinduism nor Islam improved their lives, you asked why and I gave you an answer. What you should have done was move on but because you're a Muslim who wants everybody to love Islam you continued to question me instead of just accepting the fact that even though Islam doesn't have a caste system, Islam is just as controlling.
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  2658.  @Jambudvipa-ug6yg  They are
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  2659. The Malaysia shade 😭
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  2660. Where are you from?
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  2661.  @sardinesandpyjamas  They could be from Himachal Pradesh, Ladakh or Uttarakhand too. Majority of NE Indians look more like Southeast Asians than East Asians.
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  2662. North Koreans used to watch socialist films from India
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  2663. So loud and wrong and for what??? Traditionally speaking, the Chinese-Singaporeans and Indian-Singaporeans have been better off compared to the Malay-Singaporeans but your analysis is so wrong. I see you everywhere saying these types of things and you're an Indian-American. 💀
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  2664. Self hating Indian-American, constantly trying to fish for compliments and pity. Malaysian is a nationality, not an ethnicity. Don't know anything about Singapore or Malaysia? Then don't talk!
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  2665. Embarrassing comment.
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  2666. Yeah that's the sad thing. Indonesian Muslims will care more about a conflict happening on the other side of the world than what's happening to a fellow Southeast Asian nation.
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  2667. The only country you should be thanking is Indonesia.
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  2668.  @snakeeater0224  I've been to China too but being there doesn't mean you know what's actually going on. You have to read. Saying China is no friend is the most American thing to say. China and India just began a process of thawing their relations which is also going to open the doors to more FDI. If you understand economics, you will understand that for a fully developed nation, it is harder to grow further unlike a developing nation which is poorer and has greater boundaries to grow. The idea that the US is going to have an endless boundary to grow is crazy because that is not possible.
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  2669.  @matheuss886  This video is about the dire need to bring in workers, especially migrant workers, to industries that need staff like aged care. Japan prefers to accept other Asians and that's why they launch special working visas deals with certain Asian countries. In a news report on Channel News Asia, a Japanese employer said he and his people went around Asia to find the most compatible nationality for his company and they decided upon Burmese because they were the most similar to the Japanese in culture and I quote "they are calm like the Japanese" and "many are devout Buddhists".
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  2670.  @matheuss886  Well migrant workers and expats are not allowed to permanently live in Japan, so you don't have to worry about that. Additionally, female migration should be encouraged over male migration. Society is safer with more females than men. Yes, I said what I said because that's the truth and I say that as a male.
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  2671. I think you just have a problem with Indians and have hatred and contempt for them because this is just a random and out of place comment.
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  2672.  @iamgreat1234  That's completely wrong. Singapore is a multiethnic country with Chinese, Malay and Indian influences.
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  2673. Nobody is going to brush it off if they respect their culture. The thing all of you have to understand is that other Asian countries absorbed Indian influences but it does not mean we are Indian or connected to Indian culture or something. Will you say Korea is connected to China because it's influenced by Chinese culture? No. Why even make the comparison to begin with? You're basically otherising a huge part of Cambodian culture and inferring it's completely foreign without understanding its completely Cambodian. You're trying to say Cambodian culture is not a thing and that it just absorbed Indian culture and now modern Cambodians don't acknowledge it. This is so wrong, it's quintessential Cambodian culture because it's from Cambodia. The culture developed in Cambodia with local influences. Nowhere else are you going to find this culture. Stop trying to correlate ancient influences with notions of modern-day states. Republic of India did not even exist when these cultural interactions were occurring. You just have hatred for India people because no person is going to correlate local SEA cultures that absorbed Indian influences in this manner in which you refer to it as alien. Typical SEA Indo/Malay mentality which is ironic because many Indo/Malay Muslims want to be Arab these days and are doing everything they can to erase the indigenous culture of SEA.
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  2674.  @iamgreat1234  No, I'm 100% correct. If you actually understand Singaporean culture you'll know it's a mix of Chinese, Malay, Indian and Eurasian influences. Stop bringing up percentages and telling me I'm wrong. Look at Singaporean culture as the most basic level, the cuisine is a mix of Chinese, Malay and Indian influences. The dishes you find in Singapore are similar to those found in Malaysia which is a mix of the same three ethnic groups. In what area outside of Southeast Asia are you going to find dishes that blend Chinese, Malay and Indian techniques and ingredients? Nowhere. The colloquial language known as Singlish (spoken by all Singaporeans) is a mix of Chinese languages like Hokkien, Teochew along with English, Malay, Tamil and other influences from other Asian and Western languages. The very value system that Lee Kuan Yew propagated in the 1990s as part of his initiative in strengthening ties between Singapore's ethnic groups draws Confucian elements that are valued in not only the Chinese community but the Malay and Indian communities. I have seen you before saying these things. Please, read about Singapore. This is so wrong.
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  2675.  @iamgreat1234  No you're just trying to deny Singapore is one of the most successful multi-ethnic nations in the world. The 4 founding fathers of Singapore were of Chinese, Peranakan and Tamil descent. Stop arguing with me and stop being obtuse. 💀
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  2676.  @gold-toponym  I'm talking about some people having hatred for Indian people, which is the truth. It doesn't matter if Malays received genetic admixture from them though. Malays are a separate ethnic group. Mainland Indians face a lot of racism and xenophobia from Singaporean Indians in Singapore despite being the exact same race and speaking the same language so ethnicity, genetics has nothing to do with this. I respectfully disagree, it has nothing to do with colonial era. Chinese immigrants settled in Malaysia and Indonesia too and while you see discrimination against Chinese, this hatred for India is not the same as the colonial era resentment towards Chinese and Indians. You will see the hatred people have for India is always juxtaposed with China. People compare and say association with China is better than an association with India. It's a modern development. That's what I'm talking about.
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  2677.  @gold-toponym  I did not say indigenous culture of SEA cultures is connected to India. What I'm saying is that Cambodian culture, Malay culture, Thai culture, Burmese culture, Indonesian culture etc. are all native to SEA and all of those cultures absorbed Indian influences but that does not mean those cultures are connected to India. These are all separate cultures that blended external influences like Indian with native influences. The OP is trying to otherise aspects of Cambodian/SEA cultures that are now firmly embedded in SEA and not related to modern India. For example, the apsara dances of the Khmer court developed from Indian influence but that is purely a Cambodian invention. You can't find apsara dancers in the Cambodian form in India despite the dance having developed from Indian influence. I don't know if that makes sense but these are all SEA cultural traditions. They are native to SEA, not India.
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  2678.  @gold-toponym  Everybody has influenced everybody in Asia (India on SEA, China on SEA, SEA on India, SEA on China). What I'm saying is that each culture is unique in Asia. We have absorbed influences from one another but you can't find those traditions in other countries. Apsara dance is one example, native to Cambodia, curry laksa developed from Malay and Chinese influences but is native to SEA not China. India did not even exist when the Khmer absorbed influences from what we now call India. Khmer absorbed "Indian" influences from the Tamil and Odia people (aka people who did not identify as "Indian" until the British arrived and today are only minority groups in modern India). I hope this makes sense.
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  2679.  @gold-toponym  Yes you're right, it's embedded in the culture but if you look at Arabisation in Southeast Asia, you'll know many SEA Muslims want to become Arab. They adopt Arabic clothing, use Arabic names, practice Wahhabism or stricter forms of Islam practiced in the Middle East compared to the Sufi-based Islam that traditionally exists in SA/SEA. Authorities in Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia have all spoken about the issue of Arabisation. The 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks in Sri Lanka are the result of Sri Lankan Moors and Sri Lankan Malays who were Arabisised after adopting Wahhabism and pledging allegiance to ISIS. The attacks were a wake up call in SEA Muslims about the threat of Arabisation. In the weeks after the Sri Lanka attack, the Malaysian authorities foiled an ISIS-inspired terror plot to attack 3 famous Hindu temples that are visited by both Malaysians and foreign tourists.
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  2680.  @iamgreat1234  The people who can't achieve anything aka failures are the ones who race bait or make everything about race. They need to make themselves feel good about something because they have nothing to be proud about themselves (they have contributed nothing of worth to society). They leech onto other people and cling onto things out of their control (e.g. like one's race which is something one is born with and not achieved). Normal people don't race bait and view the world through the lens of race. This is why advanced Singapore has moved so far on that a survey revealed most Singaporeans view class differences as a potential form of discrimination in Singapore and not race.
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  2681.  @iamgreat1234  You aren't ever going to get my point and of course you won't. There's no point talking.
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  2682.  @iamgreat1234  You have an obsession...
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  2683. @Tic Bollywood has nothing to do with that though
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  2684.  @doujinflip  Another big reason is because child mortality rates are higher in poorer nations so people have a lot of kids because only a few will survive to adulthood. Nobody ever talks about this.
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  2685. NATO has no connection to this whatsoever
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  2686.  @aprilchan3726  Your name says it all. Rohingyas were considered part of Myanmar until the citizenship law in 1982. Prior to 1982, there were Rohingyas in the Burmese government. Don't speak about things you don't understand.
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  2687.  @aprilchan3726  Just to make it easier for me? Why would you mention India? I'm not even from there. This has nothing to do with India. Like I said before, it's very clear. I know where you stand. Don't pretend that you have more of a right over others. I can see right through it. Yes there were issues regarding the Rohingyas that created tension but if you did your research you'd know that the British played a prominent role in what happened during WWII in Myanmar. I don't need to give you sources. If you actually cared about getting your facts straight instead of believing the Tatmadaw's propaganda, you wouldn't be asking me that because it's right there in English on the internet. I'm someone who prefers to accept reality as it is. I know what happened, I know there were issues with the Rohingyas, I know the historical baggage but I also know that the Tatmadaw is the cause for what we are seeing today. Prior to 2012, things were not as bad as they are currently now in Rakhine State.
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  2688.  @aprilchan3726  What I said is true. It's not sudden. They want to be part of it because they are part of Burmese society. The Tatmadaw stripping off their citizenship isn't going to change reality. There was no issue with Rohingya during the Arakan kingdom days. You really have no idea of what you're talking about. Go read some books.
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  2689.  @aprilchan3726  You're talking about comprehension skills but you can't even comprehend this basic piece of information. Tell me how on earth can a government strip a population off their citizenship if they were never a part of the country to begin with? You can't strip a population off their citizenship if they never had citizenship in the first place. For the Rohingyas to be stipped off their citizenship in 1982 proves that they were part of the nation before 1982. They became stateless in 1982 after they lost their Burmese nationality. Understand now? Is this clear to you or do I need to spell it out for you again? Educate yourself on the 1982 Citizenship Act and understand that Rohingyas were left out of the act before you start speaking about this topic.
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  2690. ​ @aprilchan3726  Can't stay on topic? All I've been doing is sticking to the topic. Notice how you're running around in circles parroting the same old stuff knowing well that what I said is right there online for you to read? Did you even watch the video you sent me???? He literally spoke about the 1982 Citizenship Act which excluded Rohingyas from Burmese nationality. Goodness gracious, you're claiming I don't understand a thing and then here you are sending me a video that supports exactly what I've been talking about.
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  2691.  @aprilchan3726  False? False? False? What I explained in my previous comments are detailed in the video you provided a link for in your other comment. Throwing a tantrum and telling me that it's false isn't going to change reality. It is what it is. He literally mentioned the 1982 citizenship law right before he spoke about the regulations. WATCH THE VIDEO.
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  2692.  @aprilchan3726  Get your facts straight before you comment for goodness sake. You don't know what you're talking about.
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  2693.  @aprilchan3726  1. They sided with the British because they were bribed into thinking they were getting their own state. 2. There was no Bangladesh until 1971. 3. I think it's pretty clear to see that Rohingyas of today want to be part of Burmese society. You have many Burmese activists of Rohingya descent like Wai Wai Nu who are fighting for democracy in Myanmar.
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  2694.  @aprilchan3726  Your comments have proven to me why Myanmar is still so far behind. While some ex-colonies manage to move so far forward for the betterment of their citizens, some countries still hang onto the past and fail to understand the importance of building bridges and starting new. I don't know if you're a Buddhist or not but this really isn't the way to go. It's the way you generalise and fail to realise that people can change. You're one of those people who believed the Tatmadaw so there's really nothing I can say to change your mind. All I can say is that many members of Gen Z, especially those on the frontline fighting, are the ones that believe in ethnic unity and recognise the Rohingyas. It seems like they have the mentality that extraordinary leaders like Lee Kuan Yew and S Rajaratnam (both of Singapore) had in terms of building ethnic harmony and unity. If you're more interested in holding grudges and burning bridges, then so be it. We can't change your mind.
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  2695. ​ @aprilchan3726  I'm just talking about you not supporting Rohingyas and believeing they all deserve to be punished. That's what I'm commenting on. Your comments show that you don't care about them or like them. Is that not correct? I'm not talking about anything else that you don't or do support, I'm just talking about your belief that Rohingyas don't deserve rights in Myanmar. I'm not assuming anything. I'm commenting on what you have published here. Try to rationalise? No, how about you try and rationalise things from both perspectives? Up until 2012, there was no issue with Rohingyas. Yes Rohingyas have no rights in Myanmar but Rakhine villagers were living side by side with Rohingyas in Maungdaw and Buthidaung until the ethnic riots of 2012. You keep harking on about defense this defense that and I'm defending Myanmar and all this stuff but you're just masquerading your bigotry behind this belief. If you genuinely had a heart, you would move on. Most Rohingyas don't deserve this but no matter what you say you believe that they do. You keep speaking as if Rohingyas are the ones to blame. Have you thought about what the Rakhine people have done? It takes two to tango. Both Rohingya and Rakhine are to blame. You see, I'm rationalising things from both perspectives - you aren't. This is why I said that Myanmar is still so far behind. Look south and you see Singapore which has managed to pull itself out of ethnic division to create an ethnically harmonious nation. Malaysia doesn't have a good track record in terms of ethnic unity but it's so much better than Myanmar's way of managing diversity. Myanmar had so much potential but now look at it now. What a waste.
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  2696.  @aprilchan3726  1. No you believe all Rohingyas deserve punishment. Stop behaving like this. I can see all of your bigoted replies throughout this entire comment section. Crying because people keep talking about the Rohingyas. 2. I never have blamed Aung San Suu Kyi or the civilian government. The military is to blame. Accept this. 3. Crying to me and throwing a tantrum because you can't accept the fact that both sides are to blame isn't going to change this. 4. I know that before 2012 there were issues but there was a sense of calm of anf if you actually cared to listen to Rakhine people who live in Maungdaw you'd know that they said they would go to Rohingya shops and Rohingya children would play with Rakhine children. 5. There were Rohingyas in the Burmese government prior to the military takeover in the 1960s. In fact, there was a Rohingya politician who won the seat of Maungdaw in 1990. So prior to 1982, Rohingyas were (de facto) treated as a part of Burmese society. It's not my problem that you're clueless about these facts and are instead parroting propaganda because you're more interested in defending the Tatmadaw. Facts over feelings. You stating all this stuff isn't going to change the fact the Rohingyas were treated as a part of Burmese society by their representation in Burmese politics. Go cry about it. 6. No you didn't win the argument. You're just running around in cirlces claiming i'm ignorant when I am fully educated on this topic. Also, no I will never delete my comments. Why would I? Everything I said is correct. It is you that should delete your comments after failing to get your facts straight, not once, not twice but three times. Please, this whole thing is so funny.
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  2697.  @faithlesshound5621  Everything you said applies to Abrahamic religions as they're organised religions.
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  2698.  @ahmadfaris6013  UAE and Saudi have a strange definition of "peace" because they confiscate people's passports and make them work as slaves
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  2699. If you're going to pretend to be Indian and least make it believable, White man
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  2700. Something about non-Asians consistently going after Indians rubs me the wrong way. Somehow other Asians going after Indians feels more palatable (it's not) because at least they are Asians (share same East Eurasian ancestor) and inter-Asian rivalry has been a thing for centuries but people called Ronald??? I'm not even Indian but I get overtly pro-China whenever I see White people go after any type of Asian group.
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  2701. Use Google, then you will understand
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  2702. That's because they have higher fertility rates
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  2703.  @pikachuthunderbolt3919  Are you aware that the Burmese military is targeting civilians in western Myanmar, which borders India? None of this would be happening if the Burmese military wasn't pure evil.
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  2704. What on earth are you talking about? Chinese people are not moving in droves to Japan. Indians are also not moving in droves to Japan. They aren't even one of the largest migrant groups in the country.
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  2705.  @davidford3115  India's backyard? Sri Lanka is not India's backyard. This "India's backyard", "China's backyard" etc. is why the Asia-Pacific is so wary of these power-hungry countries gaining control of the region.
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  2706.  @davidford3115  I don't expect someone from the US to understand the issue of such overbearing terminology. For the US, the whole world is their playground which is why they're trying to force countries in the Asia-Pacific to pick the side of the US and refuse to just accept our view that we don't want to be caught up in their China war.
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  2707.  @davidford3115  Three posts after one another is not me throwing a temper tantrum, it's because for some reason I can't post long replies using the device I post comments on. So you can stop assuming.
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  2708.  @davidford3115  You haven't made a single point. You're using a lot of jargon just to say nothing and calling me "Anti-Western" and "Anglophobic" and all these things. It's typical of people today, call someone "(something)phobic" and call it a day and think they've made a point. Embarrassing but we all know you'd be very upset if someone were to call the USA "Mexico's backyard" and how convenient of you to ignore this when I brought it up days ago. People who believe in national supremacy and hegemony will never understand, they only want power and control. Small countries and less powerful countries belong to them in their eyes.
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  2709.  @davidford3115  Actually I have. I told you that such terminology is indicative of hegemony as it indicates ownership. Sri Lanka does not belong to India, so how on earth is it "India's backyard"? You never responded to that. Instead you're using random jargon and ranting about Marxism, Anglophobia and all this random things because you don't know what to actually say. You think you're making a point by constructing this "holier than thou" mentality but all I see is arrogance and toxicity.
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  2710.  @davidford3115  There is only one person here who needs to get over themselves and it's not me. Due to their mentality of hegemony and national supremacy, these people do not understand how narrow their thoughts are. He speaks about anti-colonialism as if that's a bad thing. Nobody in the Asia-Pacific wants to be a colony and nobody in this region wants to be pushed around by China or the US. You are just deeply upset that I (and many others in this part of the world) are pushing back against the views you support. Accept it. We don't like to use such terminology "[insert country's name]'s backyard]" because it indicates ownership. So if you're going to speak on what happens to countries in this part of the world, look beyond your American perspective.
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  2711.  @davidford3115  Notice how you only described Arizona, Texas, and California as "Mexico's backyard"? No, the whole of the USA is "Mexico's backyard" according to your logic. Accept it or get over it.
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  2712.  @davidford3115  You don't know what to say so you said that instead. You will never understand the perspective of nations that do not aim to enforce hegemony over other countries.
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  2713.  @davidford3115  So when you can't accept other people's views, you resort to name calling? Typical. I mean that's all you've been doing this whole time. I don't need to touch grass. You just need to understand the fact that most people do not believe in this terminology of "[insert country name]'s backyard" unlike some people in certain countries. We don't believe independent nations belong to other countries so we don't use this "[insert country name]'s backyard", a backyard belongs to a house. So why on earth would we say "[insert country name]'s backyard"????? Why is this so hard for you to understand?????
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  2714.  @davidford3115  This has nothing to do with isolationism... 🤦‍♂ Virtue signalling? I see more mainstream American jargon is being. Please, just give us a break...
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  2715.  @davidford3115  He won't get off that high horse... imagine how tired we are
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  2716.  @7s_rohitgaming789  Well they're not letting them use it for military purposes
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  2717. India is in Asia. Maybe if you stayed in school instead of trying to become a singer, which btw you flopped so hard, you would know your geography.
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  2718.  @watjejanssen7535  Is it that hard for you tell that that person is a troll? 💀
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  2719. More like when you lie to your people and steal their money for years and years until the money runs out and you're exposed for what you did.
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  2720. You say that whilst living comfortably in the West. International departures is waiting for you.
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  2721. It covers the rest of Asia too, I assume the Middle East too
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  2722.  @robertconklin3850  Where are they going to go? Almost the entirety of the Global South has applied to join BRICS (51 nations). Those American companies will not be setting up business in the US where people are not willing to work for well below average salaries.
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  2723.  @RextheRebel  There are three Easts: Far East, Middle East and Near East. All of these Easts are what is known as ASIA. Try learning about the world, White American
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  2724.  @RextheRebel  There are three Easts: Far East, Middle East and Near East. Try learning about the world, White American
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  2725. What are you talking about??? Can you please Google before you publish a comment? Their fertility rate is below replacement level. Their population is set to peak in 2037 and begin declining because of their low fertility. This is also a country with the highest quality of life in South Asia. You have access to Google, so use it!
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  2726. It's a real thing, it's called island mentality and I mean technically speaking, Sri Lanka and the Maldives (both island nations) have the best living standards in South Asia so you can understand why both of these countries feel this way in regards to the rest of South Asia.
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  2727. Don't describe all Australians like that, that only applies to the politicians and the like. Nobody wants war with China and people aren't interested in this military alliance with the US anymore because it only causes problems for the people of this country.
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  2728.  @user-ll6pr5cw1f  Sinhalese or broadly speaking Sri Lankan culture/people are not "Desi". "Desi" means Indian (especially North Indian), Pakistani and Bangladeshi. Sri Lanka has nothing to do with that. In terms of cultural connections to other parts of South Asia, Sri Lanka is closest to South India (Tamil Nadu and Kerala).
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  2729.  @user-ll6pr5cw1f  Sinhalese isn't from North India though. It's a Sri Lankan language.
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  2730.  @user-ll6pr5cw1f  Sinhalese is not spoken in India, it's spoken in Sri Lanka and thus a Sri Lankan language. Also, let's not forget the fact that there is a lot of Tamil influence in the language. The language is really a product of its context. The closest Indo-European language to Sinhalese is Dhivehi and they even sound the same. The Indo-European languages of India however sound very different and they don't have the Tamil influence either.
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  2731.  @user-ll6pr5cw1f  How can you say that Sinhalese nationalism is only to do with Buddhism? Language is the whole reason why Sinhalese nationalism is even a thing. Why? It's because the Sinhala Only Act implemented by the Sinhalese-dominated government. I don't think you understand Sri Lankan history if you believe that. Sinhalese nationalism began to develop during the colonial era. The British created this idea that Sinhalese are "Aryans" and Tamils are "Dravidians" in order to divide the population of the island. That is one of the contributing factors to nationalism in the country. The Tamils and Sinhalese believed the British and both groups tried to counteract each other by judging each other. The Tamil nationalists claimed they were superior because they were "pure" whereas they claimed the Sinhalese were inferior because they were "mixed", having formed through the mixing of Indo-Aryans, Dravidians, Malay, Vedda and Mongoloid people, which is what they claimed. The Sinhalese nationalists claimed the Tamils were inferior because they were "Dravidian" and not "Aryan". The whole thing is rooted in ethnicity, language and outdated pseudo-racial terms. Nowadays, the pseudo-racial terms don't play a role but language still does.
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  2732. They do, this video was just speaking more specifically about East Asian women.
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  2733. It's freedom of navigation. Sri Lanka lets Indian and American ships to dock at their ports, a Chinese ship is no different. It's the power struggle between China and India and China and the US that is creating a situation with things like this.
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  2734. CNA is an English language channel...
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  2735.  @joemosely9383  It's called Channel News Asia, it's a major news channel in the nation of Singapore. The main language of Singapore is English. Pro-Chinese where?
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  2736.  @joemosely9383  Most people who view this channel are from Asian countries and many of them are anti-US for obvious reasons.
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  2737.  @joemosely9383  Most viewers are from Asia and they harbour anti-US views for obvious reasons
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  2738.  @joemosely9383  English is from the UK, NOT from the US. Democracy is from Greece. Mimic US technology where? Capitalism is not of American origin. Americans really think they created the world huh?
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  2739.  @joemosely9383  Singapore is a multiethnic nation made up of Chinese, Malays and Indians. The main language of Singapore is English. Why on earth should it be in Mandarin? Try learning about the world
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  2740.  @joemosely9383  English is from the UK. Democracy is from Greece. Mimic US technology where? Capitalism was created by a Scot. Americans really think they created the world huh?
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  2741. ​ @joemosely9383  English is from the UK. Democracy is from Greece. Mimic US technology where? Capitalism was created by a Scot.
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  2742.  @joemosely9383  Democracy is from Greece. Capitalism was created by a Scot.
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  2743. ​ @joemosely9383  I cannot believe you think English, democracy and capitalism are from the US. They're not!
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  2744.  @joemosely9383  English is from the UK. Democracy is from Greece. Mimic US technology where? Capitalism was created by a Scot.
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  2745. English is from the UK. Democracy is from Greece. Mimic US technology where? Capitalism was created by a Scot.
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  2746. English is from the UK. Democracy is from Greece. Mimic US technology where? Capitalism was created by a Scot.
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  2747. The US created none of those things! Gosh, try learning about the world!
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  2748. Blud thinks America created capitalism, English and democracy.... embarrassing
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  2749. Europe called and said they want y'all to stop claiming their inventions
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  2750. Blud thinks America created capitalism, English and democracy....
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  2751.  @joemosely9383  CAN Y'ALL LEARN ABOUT THE WORLD??????
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  2752.  @joemosely9383  Americans thinking they invented everything. This is why everybody is anti-US
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  2753. Americans claiming European inventions...
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  2754. I can't believe this Yank just claimed European inventions as US in origin
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  2755. Yanks and their obsession with claiming European inventions
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  2756. Capitalism is NOT American omd
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  2757. You have no respect for the victims
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  2758.  @sk_tv99  So in other words you're telling me that the Indian government has zero jurisdiction over the India-Myanmar border? They're the rulers of the entire country and yet they can't fortify their own borders. Now it makes sense why that country is flooded by refugees because the government is not strong enough to fortify its borders and enforce its rule over its people.
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  2759.  @humansotamblu5654  What are you talking about?? Your comment has nothing to do with what I am speaking about.
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  2760. it's correct
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  2761. Well Ruili looks very different now. It's very developed now but the mix of Chinese and Burmese cultures is still evident in the city. Many Burmese working in the jade industry in Ruili, particularly Burmese Muslim men - same as in the 1990s.
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  2762.  @kudurrumaqlu  I think the OP is calling out the ignorance of those that called out Aung San Suu Kyi and claimed she was Islamophobic. The Rohingya issue has nothing to do with Islam. It's an ethnic issue dating back to WW2 because the Rohingyas sided with the British and were seen as traitors because they didn't side with the Bamar when Myanmar was invaded by the Japanese. Aung San Suu Kyi has always had Burmese Muslim people in her government.
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  2763. Japan is the most "Western" country in Asia, that's why. It was the first Asian country to Westernise itself in order to escape Western imperialism and did everything it could to adopt Western mannerisms and be accepted by the West. It let go of its traditional calendrical system and adopted the Gregorian calendar. So while the rest of Asia celebrates Lunar New Year or Vesak (Buddha's Birthday) 1-3 months later, Japan has already celebrated these festivals. It forgo its traditional clothing in areas of business and government and adopted the Western suit. This all happened during the Meiji era. It was also the first and currently only Asian country in the modern era to adopt Western imperialistic tactics and create its own empire whilst allying itself with certain Western countries that believed in its irredentist ideology. The country does everything to please the West, so it's no surprise that the country prefers to associate itself with Western countries post WW2. It also explains why there is a deep admiration and fetishisation of Japan by Westerners and vice versa. So much to the point that you have White supremacists that idolise Japan, the only non-Western country they admire. Singapore, which is incredibly rich and highly advanced and also very Eastern in way of thinking and governance, on the other hand has never received such admiration from the West. In fact, it is often that I hear criticism about Singapore and its governance from Western media than anything positive about it when it comes to governance and public policy.
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  2764. Why Australia?
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  2765.  @suumitsingh  That doesn't even make sense cause you made that up.
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  2766.  @Rona-4r  Nobody is choosing India or China. They aren't fighting to join another country and be subjugated.
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  2767.  @Rona-4r  Myanmar doesn't want to become a part of India and China though. When Myanmar gained independence from the British, the leaders of Myanmar infamously said said that they (and other small Asian countries like Sri Lanka, who they were speaking on behalf of) don't want to become part of China or India. So Myanmar becoming divided between China and India will not happen.
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  2768.  @homelesslavie_vlogs9600  Myanmar can be stable on its own. It was stable in the past until the military took over. It's quite appalling for you to make such a statement, I must say. Idk why China and India is so obsessed with taking over other parts of Asia. A Burmese leader once spoke about this after decolonisation.
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  2769. They exist.
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  2770. They're too busy focusing on Palestine, look at Malaysia and Indonesia. They forgot Southeast Asia exists, they think they're Arabs.
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  2771.  @ZX235w3  No, they only care when it's Middle Eastern and North African Muslims. They don't care one bit about Rohingyas or Uyghurs, let alone anybody else.
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  2772. He lives in Azerbaijan 🙄
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  2773. Singapore will never sit around and ait for that to happen, it will do everything it can legally do to prevent it from happening.
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  2774. Why do y'all always talk about "dept trap"? That has been debunked by so many journalists all around the world, most recently by Bloomberg. Try to keep up.
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  2775. I can't believe you just said that... tell me you're joking
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  2776. Indo-European is just a language family The ancient Indo-European civilisations did not persist after they mixed with the various groups already extant in Europe and Central and South Asia.
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  2777.  @shikharashish4839  Saying all of this while the North Indians say viciously racist things about South Indians and every other Indian group besides North Indians.
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  2778. People from developed countries don't care about these stats. Y'all care way too much about stats, that's why you always see people from developing countries and Gulf Arab nations constantly rattling on about stats.
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  2779. This is not about the southern Thailand issue
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  2780. The country is no longer socialist.
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  2781. You're so bitter lmao
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  2782.  @alileevil  Mahatma Gandhi is not an icon
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  2783.  @ishaanrohmetra3447  No he's not.
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  2784.  @peterseth3296  Except SL is not blaming others for their problems. Have you been following what's been happening there? Western and Indian media has presented this idea that this is all due to China. You need to start looking at other sources an stop believing what the Europeans, Americans and Indians are saying.
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  2785. No he's right, that's how we address him because "Buddha" is a title so we say "the Buddha".
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  2786.  @orangestink47  Example?
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  2787.  @JoeC92  The Indians in Canada are Sikh Punjabis so why would they be following the Hindu caste system? Nobody likes Canada anyway
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  2788. Maybe don't generalise entire ethnic groups and thinking others are worse. Almost 50% of foreigners arrested in Japan were Southeast Asians (Vietnamese, Filipino). There are good and bad people everywhere.
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  2789. Isn't it funny that she's actually not an immigrant?
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  2790. This is more than just religion. This is wiping out traditional Chinese heritage. You really don't understand what "religion" means in an Asian context. Best if you don't speak on things you don't understand.
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  2791.  @AdanSolas  How is it irrelevant? You literally said they're all different and are trying to divide up the continent.
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  2792.  @AdanSolas  Cambodia and Thailand were culturally influenced by India. They are NOT similar to South Korea. There are native people in Thailand and Cambodia that look more like Indians too like Miss Universe Thailand contestant Alisa Arunahiran. You're talking so much about Asia and yet you literally said Cambodia, Thailand are more similar to South Korea. I'm going to call it racism atp because only a racist will group East and Southeast Asians together and say they're all the same.
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  2793.  @AdanSolas  Cambodia and Thailand were culturally influenced by India. They are NOT similar to South Korea. There are native people in Thailand and Cambodia that look more like Indians too like Miss Universe Thailand contestant Alisa Arunahiran. You're talking so much about Asia and yet you literally said Cambodia, Thailand are more similar to South Korea. I'm going to call it racism atp because only a racist will group East and Southeast Asians together and say they're all the same.
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  2794.  @StrawberryMilkkTeaa  Firstly, the Andamanese are 100% East Eurasian and Basal East Asians are an East Eurasian lineage. They're all East Eurasians.
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  2795.  @StrawberryMilkkTeaa  Northeast Indians are Indians, they're not "Indians", they're Indians and yes they are genetically the closest Indian population to East Asians but that still doesn't change the fact that all Indians carry at least partial East Eurasian ancestry. Indians are a mix of differentiated West and East Eurasian ancestries.
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  2796.  @StrawberryMilkkTeaa  Northeast Indians are Indians, they're not "Indians", they're Indians
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  2797.  @StrawberryMilkkTeaa  Northeast Indians are Indians, they're not "Indians", they're Indians and yes they are genetically the closest Indian population to East Asians but that still doesn't change the fact that all Indians carry at least partial East Eurasian ancestry. Indians are a mix of differentiated West and East Eurasian ancestries.
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  2798.  @StrawberryMilkkTeaa  Northeast Indians are Indians, not "Indians". Stop being racist
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  2799.  @StrawberryMilkkTeaa  Northeast Indians are Indians. Putting "Indian" in quotation marks is so shady
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  2800.  @StrawberryMilkkTeaa  NE Indians are Indians. Don't negate their Indian nationality.
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  2801.  @StrawberryMilkkTeaa  The issue here is that people use "Asian" to describe so-called "race". Idk why people do such things because nobody in Asia uses it for anything but geography. This is an American issue, it's always the Americans who start these discussions.
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  2802.  @StrawberryMilkkTeaa  ESEA is still East Eurasian. AASI/Andamanese are genetically closer to ESEA than they are to modern mainland Indians. Yes most of their ancestry is West Eurasian-related but it doesn't change the fact that the rest of their ancestry is East Eurasian. That's why South Asians occupy a middle band between West Eurasians and ESEA/Oceanians on a PCA plot.
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  2803.  @StrawberryMilkkTeaa  Maybe people outside of Asia need to stop obsessing over phenotype and focus on real issues instead of making everything about race.
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  2804.  @StrawberryMilkkTeaa  East Asians descend from East Eurasian lineages and South Asians descend partially from East Eurasian lineages too.
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  2805. ​ @StrawberryMilkkTeaa  The lineages are on separate branches but they still East Eurasian and thus share affinity to ancient individuals like Tianyuan and Oase 1. There is a reason why Adivasi tribals in South Asia are genetically closer to modern ESEA than they are to North Indians, for example.
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  2806.  @StrawberryMilkkTeaa  You keep repeating the same thing over and over again. I am talking about East Eurasian DNA. You keep ignoring that and narrowing it down to ESEA, I'm not talking about ESEA. All Indians have some level of East Eurasian ancestry, whether ESEA or not. Do you understand now?
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  2807.  @StrawberryMilkkTeaa  No because in Asia, people don't view "Asian" the way you do. So of course people will be annoyed if some distant group in another land co-opts the term to describe one group only because whenever somebody who is not East Asian says they're "Asian", people get mad. That should not be happening. Nobody in Australia or New Zealand bats an eye when a South Asian calls them "Asian", only Americans do.
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  2808.  @StrawberryMilkkTeaa  It has absolutely NOTHING to do with Kpop, you racist. It's insane that you even say that when Korean pop culture has been popular in parts of South Asia since the early 2000s, long before the West even knew about it. They've been broadcasting dubbed Korean dramas on TV channels in NE India, Nepal and Sri Lanka since the year 2000.
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  2809.  @StrawberryMilkkTeaa  It's always Americans saying these things, claiming it's because of Kpop. No! It's because South Asia is in Asia. Don't be pathetic and asinine. Educate yourself on Asia and stop being an East Asiaboo. What a racist thing to say.
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  2810.  @StrawberryMilkkTeaa  It's insane how you think South Asians calling themselves "Asians" means they want to be associated with East Asians. This just proves you associate "Asian" with "East Asian" and lack the ability to understand the term in different contexts.
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  2811. ​ @StrawberryMilkkTeaa  It's about you claiming ESEA is radically different, when it's not. Andamanese itself is closely related to ESEA and Tianyuan and as are all other East Eurasian lineages.
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  2812. ​ @StrawberryMilkkTeaa  You keep bringing up Finnish people but that's NOT the point. The point is that the indigenous people of South Asia are East Eurasian and they form the base layer for all South Asians. The indigenous people of South Asia itself formed from Basal East Asian + deep East Eurasian.
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  2813.  @StrawberryMilkkTeaa  You're not understanding any of my points because you constantly think anybody that uses the term "Asian" means they want to be associated with East Asians. Let go of that ridiculous mentality. There are 6 replies or so, read them.
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  2814. ​ @leocorn5559  Nobody gaf, you want to be East Asian so bad but you're not East Asian and never will be. Nobody here is talking about genetics, we're talking about culture and it's just insane how you downplay everything in order to claim you're part of Sinosphere.
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  2815.  @leocorn5559  You're basing this on Disney Princesses, that's just insane. Who says all Southeast Asians identify with Mulan? Who says all South Asians identify with pPrincess Jasmine. Omfg this person wants to be associated with East Asians so bad. Give it a reast East Asiaboo.
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  2816.  @leocorn5559  Basing this on Disney Princesses, that's just insane. Who says all Southeast Asians identify with Mulan? Who says all South Asians identify with Princess Jasmine. Omfg this person wants to be associated with East Asians so bad.
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  2817.  @leocorn5559  An Indian movie was literally popular in Korea last year called Gangubai Kathiawadi. Indian movies like Dangal have been really popular in China, even Xi Jinping said he was a fan of Dangal. It's insane how this East Asian wannabe person is trying so hard to claim they're closely related to East Asians and saying South Asians are in their own bubble unaware of the actual reality. Keep crying East Asiaboo, get that racism in check too.
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  2818.  @leocorn5559  An Indian movie was literally popular in Korea last year called Gangubai Kathiawadi. Indian movies like Dangal have been really popular in China, even Xi Jinping said he was a fan of Dangal. It's insane how this East Asian wannabe person is trying so hard to claim they're closely related to East Asians and saying South Asians are in their own bubble unaware of the actual reality. Keep crying East Asiaboo, get that racism in check too.
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  2819.  @leocorn5559  To think this person said this all because I said that Thailand shares cultural ties to South Asia. Such a racist person.
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  2820.  @leocorn5559  An Indian movie was literally popular in Korea last year called Gangubai Kathiawadi. Indian movies like Dangal have been really popular in China, even Xi Jinping said he was a fan of Dangal. It's insane how this East Asian wannabe person is trying so hard to claim they're closely related to East Asians and saying South Asians are in their own bubble unaware of the actual reality. Keep crying East Asiaboo, get that racism in check too.
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  2821.  @leocorn5559  Thailand is culturally related to South Asia. Go cry about it. Come back to me when Thai people stop using the wai, stop wearing sabai, stop using Thai names, stop eating curries, stop creating Thai temples and traditional buildings and the list goes on and yes, Khmer introduced all of this to Thai people. Nothing is going to change the fact that Thai people are SOUTHEAST ASIAN.
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  2822.  @leocorn5559  An Indian movie was literally popular in Korea last year called Gangubai Kathiawadi. Indian movies like Dangal have been really popular in China, even Xi Jinping said he was a fan of Dangal. It's insane how this East Asian wannabe person is trying so hard to claim they're closely related to East Asians and saying South Asians are in their own bubble unaware of the actual reality. Keep crying East Asiaboo, get that racism in check too.
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  2823.  @leocorn5559  An Indian movie was literally popular in Korea last year called Gangubai Kathiawadi. Indian movies like Dangal have been really popular in China, even Xi Jinping said he was a fan of Dangal. It's insane how this East Asian wannabe person is trying so hard to claim they're closely related to East Asians and saying South Asians are in their own bubble unaware of the actual reality. Keep crying East Asiaboo, get that racism in check too.
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  2824.  @leocorn5559  Proud to be Thai and yet claiming to be associated with East Asians. Nobody in SOuth Asia is trying to associate with East Asia by talking about cultural influences on Southeast Asia. SOUTHEAST ASIA IS ITS OWN THING> YOU'RE NOT AND NEVER WILL BE EAST ASIAN.
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  2825.  @leocorn5559  Proud to be Thai and yet claiming to be associated with East Asians. Nobody in SOuth Asia is trying to associate with East Asia by talking about cultural influences on Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia is its own thing, it is NOT East Asia
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  2826.  @leocorn5559  This East Asia wannabe Southeast Asian just said that Southeast Asia is part of East Asia, no it absolutely is not!!!!
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  2827.  @leocorn5559  I see so many Southeast Asians wanting to be associated with East Asia because of Kpop it's insane and this thing tells me that South Asians want to be associated with East Asians lmfaoooo. wrong!
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  2828.  @leocorn5559  Look at how this Thai person said "even I might have ancestors from China , foreigners think I'm Chinese". The literal delulu behaviour from these Koreaboos and they have the nerve to say South Asians want to be East Asians when the biggest East Asian wannabes on planet earth are located in Southeast Asia.
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  2829.  @leocorn5559  An Indian movie was literally popular in Korea last year called Gangubai Kathiawadi. Indian movies like Dangal have been really popular in China, even Xi Jinping said he was a fan of Dangal
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  2830.  @leocorn5559  An Indian movie was literally popular in Korea in 2022 called Gangubai Kathiawadi. Indian movies like Dangal have enjoyed popularity in China, even Xi Jinping said he was a fan of Dangal.
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  2831.  @leocorn5559  I posted at least 15 replies, go read all of them
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  2832.  @leocorn5559  Nobody is talking about genetic origins of Thai people, it's about culture. Downplaying it so bad, nobody gaf the truth is that Thai culture is closely related to South Asian cultures. CRY.
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  2833.  @leocorn5559  If it's not South Asian-related, change your name stop using wai, stop wearing sabai, stop using so many Thai words, stop walking into Thai temples, stop claiming Thai architecture, mythology, cosmology, stop using the Thai script and so on.
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  2834.  @leocorn5559  The racism jumped out. It's always the Southeast Asians with the East Asian fetishes that are so incredibly racist towards South Asians and claim they want to be associated with East Asians when it's literally the whole of Southeast Asia that screams and cries when somebody says they look "East Asian". Taking it as a huge compliment when somebody says "oh you look East Asian" when the reality is that they are 100% Southeast Asian and NEVER will be East Asian. The sheer embarrassment.
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  2835.  @leocorn5559  The racism jumped out. It's always the Southeast Asians with the East Asian fetishes that are so incredibly racist towards South Asians and claim they want to be associated with East Asians when it's literally Southeast Asians that wants to be East Asians.
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  2836.  @leocorn5559  The obsession with being East Asian is so clear in this East Asiaboo - "oh people think I'm from China, maybe I might have ancestors who are Chinese" and in the same breath "South Asians want to be associated with East Asia by way of Southeast Asia", lolololol. Southeast Asia is not East Asia and NEVER will be East Asia.
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  2837.  @leocorn5559  "Proud to be Thai", "don't want to be East Asian" and yet it has a profile picture of a Japanese dish. Smh who do they think they're fooling???
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  2838.  @leocorn5559  "pRoUd tO bE tHaI" - has a pfp of a Japanese dish. EMBARASSING.
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  2839.  @leocorn5559  "pRoUD tO bE tHaI", pfp is of a Japanese dish lmfao.
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  2840.  @leocorn5559  "I'm proud to be Thai but let me use a picture of a Japanese dish as my pfp". LUDICROUSY
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  2841.  @leocorn5559  South Asians watching Korean dramas isn't anything new. People in Nepal, parts of Northeast India and Sri Lanka have been watching dubbed Korean dramas since the early 2000s with shows like Winter Sonata and Full House making Korean pop culture popular over there. They were broadcast back then because they were culturally similar compared to Western pop culture. So, wrong again.
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  2842.  @leocorn5559  I said SOME Thai look South Asian. You should know this if you are Thai.
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  2843.  @leocorn5559  So you're telling me that iconic Thai actors of the 70s like Phairoj Sangwaribut and ชาตรี พิณโณ are half Indian? That the Governor of Phuket, Narong Woonsiew, is half Indian? That Praewwanich Ruangthong is half Indian? That Jennie Panhan's dad is half Indian? So they're all half Indian and not descended from more ancient basal East Eurasian lineages native to Southeast Asia like Hoabinhian that had darker skin and rounder eyes, is that what you're saying?
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  2844.  @leocorn5559  Idk why you're even saying these things, it's very clear to see that you have a problem and it's the result of wanting to be East Asian I believe because such people with such features are found in Myanmar and Cambodia too but don't have any Indian ancestry but according to you they're all Indians. Sounds racist to me.
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  2845.  @leocorn5559  East Asian wannabe Thai person is so racist towards South Asians, calls them Indians and then wrongly claims most E and SE Asians don't view South Asians as Asians. It's very clear to see that this is a person who lives in a Western nation because only Western E Asians and SE Asians that want to be East Asians say such horrible and racist things.
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  2846.  @leocorn5559  Most E and SE Asians don't see South Asians as Asians BAHAHAHAHAHAHA. If that's the case, then Japan would have never invaded South Asia to make it part of Greater East Asia in the 1940s, China would not be creating Asian security dialogues and including South Asia in it. Singaporean-Indians wouldn't be called Asian if most E and SE Asians don't see South Asians as Asians, Hong Kong South Asians would not be classified as "other Asians" and colloquially described as "South Asian" in Cantonese if they weren't Asian. The racism is so blatantly clear to see and the way this East Asiaboo said that most E and SE Asians see all South Asians as Indians? Wrong!
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  2847.  @leocorn5559  East Asian wannabe Thai person is so racist towards South Asians, calls them Indians and then wrongly claims most E and SE Asians don't view South Asians as Asians. It's very clear to see that this is a person who lives in a Western nation because only Western E Asians and SE Asians that want to be East Asians say such horrible and racist things.
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  2848.  @leocorn5559  East Asian wannabe Thai person is so racist towards South Asians, calls them Indians and then wrongly claims most E and SE Asians don't view South Asians as Asians.
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  2849.  @leocorn5559  East Asian wannabe Thai person is so racist towards South Asians, calls them Indians and then wrongly claims most E and SE Asians don't view South Asians as Asians
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  2850.  @leocorn5559  East Asiaboo Thai person wrongly claims most E/SE Asians don't see South Asians as Asians and views them all as Indians. The racism jumped out. It's clear to see that this is a person living in a Western nation causes Asians in Asia don't think like this lol
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  2851.  @leocorn5559 It's so funny how you deflect from the examples I gave you. They are dark Thai but they are not Indians, that's my point. What's not clicking East Asiaboo?
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  2852. Yeah true, ever since the rise of TikTok I have come across so many South Asian TikTok videos of ethnic Indians in the US, UK etc. who have East Asian features (either from Assam or places like Uttarakhand). Their traditional clothing, names etc. are all Indian.
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  2853.  @starsign0805  He's North Indian and is claiming his experience and identity is applicable to the whole of India, he just replied to one of my comments about Austroasiatic-speaking Indians trying to downplay what I said even though India is a diverse country.
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  2854. Everybody uses pronouns or should I call you "it" since you don't believe in them?
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  2855.  @CheeLiekHo  You must be from India
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  2856.  @santoshonlyss  Yes, India's population will continue to grow because most of its people are young. Those young people will have kids. It's different to nations where the population is getting older and people are having less kids. It's in those nations that the population is declining such as China, South Korea, Japan and Singapore and also what's going to happen in Thailand, Sri Lanka and Vietnam in the 2030s.
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  2857.  @immealldayeveryday9425  For Asians, she doesn't look "mixed". Her features are very typical in eastern India and other parts of eastern South Asia. Outside of South Asia, people are used to seeing one type of Indian/South Asian and aren't aware of how diverse South Asians are but if you travel to eastern South Asia (eastern and northeast India, Bhutan, Nepal and Bangladesh), you will find many people who look like her. South Asians are descendants of three ancient ancestral groups: indigenous AASI - native to South Asia but related to Aboriginal Australians and East Asians, West Eurasian farmers and pastoralists from Central Asia and Iran and East Asian-related farmers from Tibet and Southeast Asia. So we are physically very diverse. Some of my features resemble her features too.
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  2858.  @ycwnzn  She doesn't look typical Southeast Asian. Southeast Asians don't typically look like her. She has features that are typical in Bhutan, parts of Nepal and Northeast India but also has features that are typical in Northern India and parts of Nepal. She's representative of the type of people you find in east and northeast India, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Nepal.
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  2859.  @xtunux  Indo-Aryan speaking Assamese people are still Northeast Indian.
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  2860.  @hmshmc  Not say that I agree with what was said but how is that racist? Islam is not a race.
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  2861.  @M.A-k6u  You have no respect for the victims
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  2862. Right? So funny
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  2863.  @factopener9708  The Buddha was from the Sakya clan in eastern India/southern Nepal. He wasn't Rajput. Rajputs are all the way in western India.
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  2864.  @bobafett5757  No it's not a NATO in the making. It's not a real policy, it's just a symbolic gesture. There is actually no benefit to the IPEF. In other words, it's nothing.
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  2865.  @bobafett5757  "Your up"? Sorry I don't know what you mean. Have you actually read what the document is? It's merely symbolic, there is nothing to it at this current point. That is the objective truth.
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  2866.  @yolemae6580  You're joking right? The US has military bases dotted all across the Asia and the Pacific.
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  2867.  @yolemae6580  What other countries?
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  2868.  @yolemae6580  All of those areas are within the control of those countries, be serious. It's just that there are separatists in those regions who wish they were independent. Are you going to tell me that Canada is occupying Quebec? Are you going to tell me that the UK is occupying Scotland?
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  2869.  @yolemae6580  You can't compare any of that to the fact that US military bases dot the entirety of the Indo-Pacific stretching from Diego Garcia, just south of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean all the way across the Western Pacific up to Japan. It's literally an entire arc and the USA is not close to any of these bases. Maybe you'll understand why China is so angry because it's literally surrounded by US military bases and is destabilising peace in the Asian region.
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  2870.  @yolemae6580  The Americans haven't stopped militarising Asia. They tried to set up military bases on the island nation of Sri Lanka back in 2019 to continue surrounding China but failed due to mass protests, due to fears that the American military will be able to commit crimes and get away with it. A clause in the SOFA said that the US military will be exempt from Sri Lankan law and it generated fear akin to what has happened in Okinawa, Japan where US military have raped and murdered Japanese girls. It must be noted that thousands of Sri Lankan women and other Asian (including Korean) women were trafficked to US military bases in South Korea during and in the aftermath of the Korean War to work as comfort women. In South Korea, these women are known as "kijichon" or "Yankee princess" (translated into Korean as foreigner's w****) and their history is still a point of political tension. That's one of the many dark sides of US military presence in Asia, local women face systemic abuse to please American soldiers.
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  2871.  @belajadevotchka2  What jobs??? If they were given jobs they would not need to leave India, would they? Are you a baby that you can't understand this?
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  2872. @ No they don't. How old are you? 1.
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  2873. Most people there are Buddhists. 💀💀
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  2874. This is about taxes and it's the opposition party who is protesting.
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  2875. It needs to be appealing
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  2876. No
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  2877. Ordinary Australians are not violent people.
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  2878. Never thought the IPEF was meaningful but India walking away from the IPEF after they walked away from the RCEP only shows one thing: that India has a very weak market that is unable to compete with multiple other countries in a large trade zone. They're so protectionist. This is why only 10% of India's population holds 77% of the country's wealth, while 670 million Indians who comprise the poorest half of the population saw only a 1% increase in their wealth.
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  2879.  @Iceyfire12  They have around 1-2 children. Their fertility rate is 2.0 and most of their states have rates of 1.9 or below.
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  2880. Gun control??
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  2881.  @RBG-tr9ce  In most mass shootings that have occurred in the US, has there ever been an armed citizen that has managed to stop a mass shooting?
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  2882. India should swing to China-Russia for three reasons: their economic success, stability in Asia and to spite the US.
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  2883. It's insane how Indians care so much about visas to get into the US. You know a country is a complete failure when its own people are worried that they won't be able to get a visa to enter another country instead of staying back and making their country great.
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  2884. HIndu or Muslim men in India, doesn't matter. They do the same thing
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  2885.  @antwango  India will still kowtow to the US though cause most people there believe in Modi
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  2886. Firstly, why should she change her appearance? Secondly, those products are very clearly developed for Asian, especially East Asian skin types. Japanese are already quite fair and the ones who are more tan are not what you would describe as "dark". A dark skinned person will be using that product for an entire lifetime for it to have any sort of effect.
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  2887. Exactly, I agree.
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  2888.  @simonbrown7455  All the big Asian countries, China, India and Japan - they all do business with the Burmese military.
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  2889. One of the videos featured in this video is of tourists and the rubbish they left behind.
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  2890. Nobody wants war, do you want our country to be destroyed?
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  2891.  @Cayden1988  I am most definitely an Australian.💀 Not all of us want our region destroyed.
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  2892.  @Cayden1988  Telling us Australians??? I'm literally Australian myself and no, how about waking up to reality and realising the US is grooming Australia to fight a war with China? The US is going to get Australia to fight a war with China while they remain unscathed, we will be the ones who will suffer. The CCP would leave Australia alone if we left them alone. How can you not see this? Do you see the CCP bullying Singapore? No. That's because Singapore is neutral and not picking sides, something that Australia is not doing.
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  2893.  @Cayden1988  Lmfao it's so funny how you think I'm Chinese because I'm against war. The fact that you're encouraging war says enough about the type of person you are. It's also crazy how you refuse to believe I'm Australian just because I'm against war. You really believe all Australians want war. How about you go look at the polls and take a look at the information that Peter Cronau has gathered via his Declassified Australia project? You don't care one bit about the future of this country and the people that have come after you and will come after me. You just want war, death and destruction.
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  2894. What??? Indian men stop hating on China and Sri Laka challenge impossible
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  2895.  @ironmantis25  I'm not Indian so jokes on you. Don't speak about things you don't understand. You know nothing about this topic. Stick to things that you actually understand.
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  2896.  @dakkossman2063  Yet the Indian American IQ is 112 - makes sense why they (along with the Chinese Americans) help start Silicon Valley and now dominate it. Asians really dominate America's tech industry, most of the workers are of Asian origin. Wow. Also, IQ is not fixed. You should look up the Flynn Effect.
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  2897.  @dakkossman2063  Except there is, you just need to look harder. Silicon Valley is only a thing because of the large scale Chinese and Indian immigration, without them migrating to the West Coast in the 1980s Silicon Valley wouldn't be thriving like it is today. Most of the people there are Asians. America's tech industry is dominated by Asians. You're using YouTube an app that was created in part by two people of Asian origin. Asians dominate America's STEM fields. That's why non-Asian Americans are feeling threatened by the domination of Asians in the STEM fields. That's why Chinese and Indian tech workers have been threatened with violence and why a UPenn law professor has been going on rants the whole of 2022, including appearing on American TV to talk about the danger of the domination of an "Asian elite" if Asian (especially Indian and Chinese) immigration to the US is not stopped. The rise of Asia and the widespread domination of Asians in STEM fields in the US has created a lot of fear in the US. They know a group of people more capable than them are rising to the top at an incredibly fast rate and there's nothing they can do about it. That's why the US ivy leagues have Asian quotas in place, they're that scared of Asians now. This is the Asian Century after all so buckle up.
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  2898.  @dakkossman2063  Do you even know the history of Silicon Valley? Silicon Valley would not be a thing if there were no Chinese and Indians in the mix. It's funny how you're saying all of this when I literally watched a documentary on Silicon Valley last month. Okay and? Last time I checked they're the ones rising to the top in the USA. No, it's because they're scared of Asians. Doesn't matter left wing, right wing or whatever, they're all scared of Asians. That's why a conservative law professor is talking about how scared she is of Asian immigrants 24/7, including on Fox News and why left wing White Americans are criticising Asian countries for being neutral in the Ukraine War.
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  2899. @KrO Asians in Asia know what the Europeans did not so long ago. So don't blame them that they have tight immigration rules. Have you forgotten colonialism? Sorry but your house example does not make sense because at this current moment, it is the Asian Americans who are at the top of US society (they didn't go there to "decorate" US society). They're the ones actually contributing to the country by dominating STEM fields, creating start ups and competing with the rest of the world. Let's also not forget that not all Asians in the US are immigrants, many are first and second generation born Americans but I already know that the US considers them "perpetual foreigners". Truth is American society is incredibly scared of Asians and continuously has been since the 1980s when Japan was rising. Fast forward and the same fear exists in the form of China today, in another 10 years the next country could be India (at least that's what Chinese state media continues to say). On top of that fear is the fear of educated Asian immigrants and their descendants. That's why Chinese and Indian tech workers face threats of violence and why people in the US (on both sides of the political spectrum) are attacking Asians. One side is claiming Asians are "white-adjacent" - and yes that term has been used to describe the brown skinned Indians too - and that "Asian privilege" is a thing and the other side is either violently threatening them or asking for immigration from Asia to be stopped. So yeah, they're very scared.
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  2900. @KrO Why do you think Asian countries are homogenous? Is it because you think everybody looks the same and so they are all ethnically the same? Most Asian countries are not homogenous unless you think Japan and Korea are the only Asian nations. Asian countries prefer people from other Asian countries due to cultural compatibility. Take a look at where low skilled migrant labour in various parts of Asia come from, they all come from other Asian countries. For example, 99% of migrant workers in South Korea are from other Asian countries like China, Philippines, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Cambodia, Bangladesh and Thailand. Asian countries make deals with other Asian countries that result in special visa deals to allow people from other Asian countries to get in, a visa that is not offered to countries that are not part of the agreement. That 99% statistic from South Korea is because South Korea has deals in place with these other Asian countries.
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  2901. @KrO Silicon Valley would not be a thing if it weren't for the Chinese and Indian immigrants that settled there in the 1980s. If you think White Americans are the ones who established it on their own, then you're wrong. It was an effort from White Americans, Chinese and Indians. Maybe think about the fact that it's the Asians that are holding those systems up today and contributing to economy of your country. They're the ones at the top of American universities and dominating STEM fields. Talking about the past means nothing when they're the ones dominating everything today. Victim complex? I don't have that, if anyone has that it's you because you're upset at what I'm saying. Truth of the matter is that Americans are scared of Asians, you can't deny that fact. If they aren't scared why do they want to stop Asian immigration? Why are they demanding Asians be classified as "white adjacent"? Why are Asian (plus White) applicants in certain industries being discriminated against? They're scared. Idk where you think I live but it's not a bubble.
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  2902. @KrO Firstly, I'm not American. Secondly, I'm not coping. Everything I stated is a fact. Who is the top group in American society in terms of educational attainment? Oh that's right, it's the Asians. So yeah, they're scared of Asians.
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  2903. @KrO You are from the US though, so you will be witnessing the decline now.
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  2904. @KrO Lmaooo he's scared of Asians, LGBT, George Floyd and feminism. It makes sense now. Imagine being scared of LGBT, feminism and a man that's not even alive. 💀
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  2905. @KrO Ok but either way you're scared or rather annoyed at reality.
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  2906. @KrO I'm not scared of George Floyd, the man is a symbol of the racist American police force and their culture of police brutality and using violence against Black Americans. I am also not scared of the LGBT flag, in fact I'm so happy that corporate America uses the LGBT flag because it makes right wing Americans upset. Oh America, while you are scared about Black Americans fighting for their right to live and LGBT people to live with dignity, the rest of the world is progressing and realising how intolerant that nation is.
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  2907. @KrO The fact that you brought up George Floyd and the LGBT flag, two things that have ABSOLUELY NOTHING to do with the topic of this video, shows me how scared you are of them.
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  2908. @KrO You're scared of Asians, George Floyd and the LGBT flag. What a struggle.
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  2909. ​ Therebelliousprince001  No because it's nothing compared to India
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  2910.  Therebelliousprince001  and here we are, an example of an Indian man claiming that the crimes Indian women face is not important. My gosh...
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  2911.  Therebelliousprince001  I looked at your account and it's a cesspool. Nothing is happening in "East Turkestan".
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  2912.  Therebelliousprince001  Always thinking Gaza is the centre of the world. Smh
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  2913.  @riccardos2955  The whole military did it. You people don't know the destruction the military has inflicted on minority groups like Rohingyas, Shan, Karen, Rakhine and against Bamar people who don't support the military.
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  2914.  @itsoblivion8124  Yes he did, the Buddha never claimed to be a representative of a god. Using tantric texts to back up your claims isn't suitable here because Tantric Buddhism is diverged from the early schools of Buddhism that developed from the teachings of the Buddha.
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  2915. ​ @tiagocarioca  You're correct, the Buddha rejected the idea that he was an Avatar of any god. The other user is quoting passages from tantric texts, which is different to what the Buddha taught.
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  2916. because they're not Middle Eastern and they don't distance themselves from Asian. Ask anybody else in Asia if they identify as "Asian" first and the answer will be "no".
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  2917. The NUG (Burmese government in exile and Aung San Suu Kyi's government) supports equal rights for Rohingyas. There is even a Rohingya politician who has been elected to the NUG.
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  2918.  @natashka1982  If you're saying that then you don't know what "mainstream media" is.
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  2919.  @kyopo18  No they don't. Indians share cultural ties to other South Asians (Sri Lankans, Nepalese, Bangladeshis, Pakistani, Bhutanese etc.) as well as Southeast Asians (Indonesians, Burmese, Thai, Cambodian etc.). South Asia and Southeast Asia are part of the Indian Cultural Sphere. Arabia has nothing to do with them. Arabians are Muslims and most Indians are Hindu. Idk why you would think that.
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  2920.  @kyopo18  Wow, you are extremely racist. Well I'm not Indian so idk what you're talking about but only Indians in the West call themselves "brown" and that term is also used by Pacific Islanders and Latinos too.
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  2921.  @kyopo18  Koreans respect other Asians challenge (impossible)
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  2922.  @kyopo18  It's time you educate yourself on other parts of Asia if you're going to start speaking about them.
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  2923. Rohingyas were quite literally recognised as one of the native ethnic groups of Myanmar until the Tatmadaw coup in the 1970s when they were stripped off their citizenship.
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  2924.  @tranducanh-ok  What are you talking about? What does "they look like Bangladeshis" even mean? There are Rohingyas and Bangladeshis that look more like typical Southeast Asian like Rohingya pro-democracy activist, Wai Wai Nu. There are Bamar people who look more similar to typical Bangladeshis like the Tatmadaw general Major General Soe Naing Oo, whose fellow military members have been targeting Rohingyas. You're so obsessed with appearance and yet clearly know nothing about SEA. Do you think Maniq and Semang look like Kinh Vietnamese people? No. They're still Southeast Asian.
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  2925.  @tranducanh-ok  Their language is not Bengali, it's related to Bengali but it's not Bengali. Their culture shares similarities to other Burmese people and to Bangladeshis. Maybe you should understand that most of Southeast Asia was influenced by ancient India. It's Indospheric so talking about culture in this context kind of doesn't make sense. It's time you stop hating on them and saying they're from Bangladesh when ordinary Burmese Buddhists have apologised to Rohingya in 2021 and now support them. There is a Rohingya minister who has been elected to Aung San Suu Kyi's National Unity Government (NUG) aka Burmese government-in-exile. While the rest of us have moved on, you're still hating on them like we're still in 2017.
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  2926.  @tranducanh-ok  The only people who still hate them are Indian nationalists, the rest of Asia has moved on so it's time you moved on too.
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  2927. People don't become gay, Indian male.
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  2928. Mexican is a nationality, not an ethnic group though. There are White Mexicans, Mestizo Mexicans, Black Mexicans, Asian Mexicans and Native Mexicans among others.
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  2929.  @carolinaHbrzavala  Ah I understand now haha.
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  2930. Well India's fertility rate is already below replacement level, so don't expect them to have a population explosion this century.
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  2931.  @ArjunVB666  Stop living in the past
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  2932. Yeah a cultural revolution is needed and in that cultural revolution, they need to learn how to treat people fairly instead of judging based on religion and caste.
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  2933. Nobody should be surprised by this. If you alienate and exclude a huge portion of your country's population, you should not be surprised that things didn't go your way. In a country with 200 million Muslims, why would they vote for a party that views them as lesser people?
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  2934.  @luxmid7486  What they're saying holds truth. There is nothing for the US to gain. The Vietnam War was an ideological war that happened during the Cold War. The US supported the capitalist South, the economic ideology is represented worldwide. The North was communist. What is there for the US to gain in Myanmar today? Ideological? Maybe one could argue that but it's definitely different today to what was happening during the Cold War era. The influence of the US in Myanmar has diminished considerably since the 1990s. Today, it has no influence in the country. It is China, India, Japan and ASEAN nations like Singapore that hold the most power in what happens in Myanmar today. At the end of the day, the US has no power to start a war in the country. To start a war in Myanmar is only going to bolster anti-American sentiment within the Asian region, a region that the US is very interested in today. Southeast Asia, itself, has fallen considerably under China's influence in the past decade and Trump's poor foreign policy damaged the reputation of the US across Asia in the past four years. So any negative US interference in the region is going to be a field day for Chinese state media, the CCP and anybody that is stitting on the fence regarding how much of a military presence the US should have in the region.
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  2935. Well they kind of did in the sense that they developed a "community" through overlapping cultural similarities. We've seen it more clearly during the era of pan-Asianism which peaked in the 1940s when Japan invaded other parts of Asia in order to unite the areas of Asia influenced by Sinic (Chinese) and Indic (Indian) cultures akin to the irredentis movements in Europe (Greater Germany, Italian irredentism). While the Europeans had their idea of "Asia", people in Asia had their own ideas of "Asia".
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  2936.  @shantanushan7301  India has no friends
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  2937. Yes, they descend from an East Eurasian lineage and a predominantly West Eurasian lineage with East Eurasian admixture that originated in northern Asia.
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  2938. No, she said specifically Northeast Indians who are Christians, not Hindus.
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  2939. She was criticised because her remarks made no sense.
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  2940.  @Day.Of.The.GroundBreaker  It's not degeneracy, just because a Muslim said it is does not mean it is. Remember that Bugis culture has existed much longer than Islam has been in existence.
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  2941. ​ @maverickjones9418  The Asians aren't on the American ship, so nobody's sinking. Y'all stay safe though.
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  2942.  @maverickjones9418  The Asians aren't on the American ship. Y'all stay safe though
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  2943.  @BartimaeusAurelius  Belligerent in what way?
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  2944.  @atheistbushman  Genetics has nothing to do with that at all. If it's because of so-called "Brahmins", explain to me why Singaporean-Indians who descend from poor traders and migrants who practiced Hinduism, Islam and Christianity that settled on the island of Singapore more than 200 years ago have gone on to become one of the most successful diasporic Indian communities in the world? These people alongside other Singaporeans went on to create one of the most advanced nations on earth. It comes down to mentality which stems from culture.
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  2945.  Shazzad Amin  I know Pakistanis are different. They have more West Eurasian admixture and those western Pakistani groups are actually related to Middle Eastern groups and Afghanis. Yes I am aware of that.
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  2946. Well it was a joke and Ronnie is Malaysian. Malaysia is known as "Malaysia Truly Asia" because it's home to different ethnic groups that originally came from other parts of Asia, including Malaysians of ethnic Indian descent. The funny thing is people actually believing he thinks Indians aren't Asian when he's pointing out how Asians are physically diverse and that we are not all the same.
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  2947. Correlation to the video??
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  2948. because Myanmar needs attention!! Why talk about India? You CCP people are so annoying.
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  2949. Not surprised of course Jason CHANG supports the Burmese military.
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  2950.  @WastedBananas  India is literally a country in Asia... 💀
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  2951.  @life_is_a_myth  To be fair, it's much more than just the genre. The drama is an allegory of modern Korean society and how inequality and the hypercapitalist system of this era has affected vulnerable lives within Korea.
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  2952.  @life_is_a_myth  Yep you're right but I guess what I meant to say is that this genre was used to discuss the reality of inequality and South Korea's debt crisis.
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  2953.  @close_all_tabs  People are way more educated in Asia than they are in Europe/America/Canada.
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  2954. The blatant racism. Firstly, SCMP is Hong Kong-based and they present themselves as Hong Kongers. Secondly, the Rajapaksas are to blame for everything. Their economic mismanagement, prematurely banning fertilisers and stealing the people's money. They apparently found US$17 million dollars stolen by the Rajapaksas from the Sri Lankan people.
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  2955.  @ramchandrajoshi9512  Why did you like your own comment 50 seconds after you clicked "reply"?
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  2956.  @kdamprae4236  I think you are talking about modern Han Chinese ancestry if I have understood you correctly. A lot of southern Chinese people intermixed with Khmer and other Southeast Asian populations contributing detectable partial Chinese ancestry in modern Cambodian populations as well as other parts of SEA. For example, 40% of Thai have at least some Chinese ancestry.
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  2957. ​ @kdamprae4236  Yeah you're right. Many Thai have Khmer and Chinese ancestral components but there are many Sino-Khmer in Cambodia too not as much as Thailand though. Well my comment is clearly related to yours because we're talking about the genetic makeup of Khmer people. I don't understand how you can't see that.
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  2958. If he truly believes that to be the truth, then he needs to walk the talk and leave. You should do the same.
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  2959. You say that when there are millions of Burmese Muslims living in peace in Myanmar. Rohingya issue has nothing to do with religion. Stop blindly believing mainstream Western media and educate yourself on what is actually happening in Myanmar.
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  2960.  @wakanda6547  No it's not, racist. Oh bad karma will come for y'all.
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  2961.  @lindaloo206  What have Indians got to do with this????
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  2962.  @lindaloo206  This has NOTHING to do with Indians, racist!
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  2963.  @lindaloo206  Nobody here is Indian. What's not clicking????
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  2964.  @lindaloo206  Oh bad karma will come for you real good, think of me when it strikes.
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  2965. That's what many people believe but a few weeks ago I saw an IG reel titled "pov: this is the new India" or something like that and it was a bunch of skyscrapers and clean roads (it honestly looked like it could be somewhere in Malaysia) and in the comment section, Indians said it was Hyderabad which was surprising to me because on Google I see ancient monuments and stuff when I google "Hyderabad" but it made me realise that there is a lot more to India that we don't know because the algorithm pushes the negative stuff.
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  2966. Excuse me? No they’re not 💀
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  2967. Most of Sri lanka's debt is owed to Western institutions, not China
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  2968.  @thingswhatilike  There are exceptions everywhere.
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  2969. @ Firstly, I'm not even from the Maldives and the Maldives will literally become a developed country in the next 10 years or maybe even less. Take a look at the key factors that determine developed status. They're close to reaching those thresholds. So bitter 💀
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  2970.  @SathyaswamyS  That won't stop it from becoming a high income nation though. It's national income is already on track to reaching high income status.
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  2971.  @EienSakuraStudio  That means nothing because they're on course to reaching high income status because of their tourism which will then make them a high income nation aka developed.
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  2972.  @xijinpig8982  The Maldives is not going t sink in 10 years bfr
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  2973. Learn how to spell "migration" properly.
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  2974.  @stefanor.1771  Recording breaking for HER. It's a personal achievement for HER. She could've had more than 100,000 too but her stage is big so it blocked out the seats at the rear end. So those tickets weren't put up for sale.
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  2975. and if someone said they were against Muslims, you'd be protesting in the street like y'all always do.
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  2976.  @Deccan-Times  It was the South Indians and the East Indians that spread Indic culture to Southeast Asia.
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  2977. Yes bur not just South China Sea but Taiwan, Strait of Malacca/Andaman Sea and various countries of South Asia and Southeast Asia too.
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  2978. That's how I understand it, the concept of the Avatar in ATLA is a combination of Vishnu Avatar concept and the Dalai Lama.
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  2979. What? Sri Lanka is not overpopulated. They've had low population growth since the 1990s. They're set to peak in population at 22 million in 2037 and begin declining afterwards. Before the pandemic, they were importing foreign workers from other Asian countries to fill up positions in their job market because there weren't enough young people to sustain the working population. This crisis has nothing to do with population but a greedy government that stole the people's money.
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  2980. Also, you can't speak of Bangladesh being a paradise 150 years ago. That was 150 years ago. Civilisations peak and decline. Bengal Subah (which includes modern day Bangladesh) was incredibly wealthy in the past but as time goes on, new governments take control and other nations emerge as competitors and so things change. Bengal Subah declined. Do you think the US is at the same level of economic and political prowess it had in the 1980s or 1990s? No. Japan peaked in the 1980s and the entirety of the 1990s was lost and Japan is now declining with a rapidly aging population, very low fertility rate and increasingly facing aggression from a much stronger China. All civilisations rise and fall.
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  2981. The TFR of Singapore is 0.97
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  2982.  @Rob_F8F  Not exactly true. Culture plays a big role in how a society can function and Lee Kuan Yew spoke about this. Singaporean people and the Singaporean government, that is based on meritocracy, would've led to a stable society in Guinea Bissau. It's about culture, not ethnicity or anything like that. If you are raised with the right mindset then you can succeed.
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  2983. No offence but nobody is going to obsess over a country like Qatar or any of those Arab Gulf states. They haven't built themselves up in the way South Korea or Singapore or any of those nations have for anybody to have respect for them. They extracted oil, sold it and got blue and white collar workers from all over Asia, Africa and the West to do everything for them. Not to mention a multitude of other reasons as to why they have such a negative perception on the global stage. The only time I have ever seen such universal negative remarks directed towards a country, it has always been towards a Gulf nation. I am yet to see a single positive comment about any of those nations. The closest I have seen are defenders of Arab Gulf states who all happen to be from other Arabic-speaking Muslim-majority nations but that doesn't count at all.
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  2984.  @IndoManiac90  The Buddha was born in Nepal, he was Nepalese but yes India influenced the whole of Asia and I don't think Asians in Asia deny this.
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  2985.  @ishanbajpai6940  Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka are not debatable. They were never part of India. Yeah they're part of the Indosphere but so is most of Southeast Asia. The claim on cultural similarity does not work when everything beyond India including Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia etc. are Indosphere nations too. I didn't say you claimed Myanmar but many nationalists do. I see the Akhand Bharat maps include Myanmar and Tibet too. Yeah I know that but I'm just saying they weren't part of ancient India. They're all culturally Indosphere nations but are not part of India.
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  2986.  @alpacacomentadora413  What about other parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia that share cultural ties to India and are part of the Indosphere?
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  2987.  @alpacacomentadora413  Well I said one can make an argument for all subregions and Southeast Asians are actually genetically closely related to East Asians. They are culturally related to Indians but genetically related to East Asians.
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  2988. A grown man crying about people's music tastes. Pathetic.
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  2989. Are some of the Kuki Chin native to Manipur or are they all from Myanmar?
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  2990. Still Gen Z
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  2991. Hopefully the Sri Lankan government can get them back by fixing the country asap
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  2992.  @arvindgb7995  Yes it does! It's not nonsense. I fall castes were equal, there would be no people living in poverty. Always the North Indian high castes saying this stuff
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  2993. That's the Tatmadaw for you, pure evil
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  2994. Malays are literally the natives of Singapore and the fertility rates of the Chinese, Malays and Indians of Singapore are all well below replacement level.
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  2995. @ Yes Malays are the natives, correct
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  2996. I have never seen a nationality with so much hate for their own people. They hate their own people so much that they will create accounts larping as Azerbaijanis that spread hate against Hindu Indians, which is literally what some Indian Muslim man did as I learned a few months ago.
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  2997.  @human9512  Sri Lankans don't have the D'Souza surname, that's what Indian Christians have
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  2998. Most of them now live in Bangladesh. Rohingya refugees also live in other neighbouring countries like India, Thailand, Malaysia and further afield in Indonesia, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
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  2999. I believe they did search the Andaman Sea, if I remember correctly but abandoned it after they created a flight path plane and suggested the plane either went northwest towards Central Asia or southwest against the Western Australian coast. They chose the southwest fight path. Maybe they should've searched the Bay of Bengal and other areas of the northeast Indian Ocean, especially after Maldivians claimed they saw a Malaysia Airlines plane fly low over their country.
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  3000. Only 10% of India's population is rich, they're the ones that hold most of the country's wealth. All those Indian billionaires we see on international rankings are the ones who own the country's wealth. The average citizen is far from rich.
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  3001.  @balajeepratham8200  No because the US is a high income nation, India is not. India is still a lower middle income nation where its high economic growth rate hasn't changed the living standards for the poorest people of India's population.
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  3002.  @balajeepratham8200  India's economic rise benefits the ultrarich like the Ambanis and Adanis. They're the face of India's economic rise, not the average Indians you see here posting comments online. India's rise is lop sided because it only benefits a small portion of the country.
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  3003.  @lie01234  It's so sad that you say this because you're kind of right, the US will determine everything.
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  3004. They have a humiliation kink
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  3005. The president of Sri Lanka didn't care about going green, he just wanted to save foreign currency and so banned artificial fertilisers to be replaced by organic fertilisers. The thing is, the government didn't import the ingredients necessary to create organic fertiliser. You can't change a well established system overnight, this is what the Sri Lankan government did. You need to phase things out. It could have worked if they planned it our properly but the president couldn't do that because he and his family had been stealing money for years.
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  3006. and with the rise of the eight wing that, hate also increases. Expect more of it in 2025.
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  3007. because they simply do not care about non-White European people.
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  3008.  @Superclip2543  No point bringing up Indonesia, they support Muslims only when it's convenient for them.
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  3009. China wanted to build an airport. The US claiming it'll become a military base is fear mongering. Now compare that to the US trying to establish military bases across Asia (as if they don't have enough already). Do you know that the US was complicit in the expulsion of the Chagossian people so they could establish a military base on the islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
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  3010.  @NoName-yf4zi  Do you identify with that symbol?
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  3011. Just like what happened with the UK riots. Right wing Europeans don't care about facts.
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  3012. Well it's not going to happen
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  3013.  @dulio12385  India is not going to interfere, I really don't think so. India is not going to suffer from a bypass of the Malacca Strait (Singapore and Malaysia will suffer so any pushback might come from them). Asian countries hate each other but the reality is that they prefer to mind their own business. Most of them are signatories of the Non-Aligned Movement. India could have easily criticised China during its Hong Kong protests in 2019, like the West did, but it remained silent, as did the rest of Asia - even going as far as to abstain from voting to condemn China in 2019 at the UN. China and India could've easily demanded their soldiers use guns at their disputed border but they chose not to, instead using clubs like we're in the ancient days. The Tatmadaw that rules Myanmar has close ties to China, India and Japan - all three countries benefit from Tatmadaw rule in some way. That's why all three countries have said nothing and abstain at any attempt to condemn Myanmar at the UN (such as when the Rohingya genocide was happening).
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  3014.  @david-bd6td  It doesn't change the fact that China is the neighbourhood bully of Asia.
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  3015. ok
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  3016. You should be on the side of the rebels. So you want the Tatmadaw to still be in power?
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  3017.  @alphapeters3474  How can they do that when the people in power don't let them do that?
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  3018.  @doyoumissme8442  Actually they do and people in Myanmar do care about it a lot now.
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  3019. The victims were immigrants, you have zero respect for the victims
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  3020. It's always race or sexuality with the right.
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  3021.  @hjkfff3034  wrong
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  3022.  @Si_nengatcha  Dgaf, they're refugees.
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  3023.  @AzadHind572  Why Saudi Arabia? Apart from the majority practicing Islam, their culture and mentality are completely different. Notice how these children are learning how to speak Burmese and singing the Myanmar national anthem? Their culture and identity come first, religion second. Not to mention that there are Christian and Hindu Rohingyas too.
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  3024.  @AzadHind572  Who is asking for permanent resettlement? These people would really like to go back but with the Tatmadaw in full control again, they don't want to go back. The Burmese government-in-exile which has said they want to reintegrate Rohingyas back into Burmese society are not in power at the moment, they have been ousted from power. You need to understand the issue before presenting arguments.
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  3025.  @AzadHind572  BTW, Japan has accepted small number of Rohingya refugees during the 2010s. In 2019, there were about 300 in total.
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  3026. @AJ Yeah 300 is a lot when you understand Japan's refugee policy. Idk why you're trying to turn that into something negative.
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  3027.  @esther_18  That's not something to gloat about
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  3028.  @esther_18  Bali and eastern Indonesia >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> hypocrite Islamic western Indonesia
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  3029.  @esther_18  Calls me a hypocrite while that thing supports Palestine but not Rohingyas. Islamic Indonesia in a nutshell
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  3030.  @johndo100  Rohingyas are from Asia, NOT EU
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  3031.  @esther_18  Of course it's not but Indonesian Muslims love to view the world through an Islamic lens which is why they're so antisemitic and pro-Palestine, without just being pro-Palestine only.
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  3032.  @esther_18  Indonesian Muslims love to view the world through an Islamic lens.
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  3033.  @esther_18  So much attention for Palestine, why no attention for Myanmar, fellow Southeast Asian country? Oh that's right, cause most of them are not Muslims.
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  3034. Nobody gaf
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  3035.  BlackBannerz  The Singaporean government won't allow that. The entire country is based on CMIO (Chinese, Malay, Indian, Other) and its immigration policy is very ethnic-based. People from Malaysia, China and India have a much greater chance of getting PR in Singapore because they are ethnically the same/similar as most Singaporeans than someone from another Asian country or from outside of the region. This is because the government wants to maintain the ethnic ratios of each main ethnic group for stability as a result of its past history of ethnic violence.
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  3036.  @liongkienfai104  That data includes foreign workers, international students and expats in addition to permanent residents.
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  3037. Well if you look a things objectively (I'm neither Indian nor Chinese), Aksai Chin is uninhabited and yes it's controlled by China because Pakistan gave it to China. Arunachal Pradesh is a state in India of which most if it is disputed and it's controlled by India because the British controlled the area and agreed with the Tibetans to draw the border there. Millions of people live there and they all carry Indian passports and people from other parts of India can fly there anytime they want. Someone from China is unable to enter the area without going through Indian customs. Makes total sense.
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  3038.  @hyeung1  When countries set out goals of becoming "developed", they mean reaching the threshold of high income nation as per the World Bank or IMF listings (these threshold levels change every financial year). People wrongly believe "developed" is about infrastructure and high economic growth and all these other things and so believe when goals like this are set, they are trying to achieve ideas of what "developed" is per 2022 standards. That is so wrong and I don't know why anybody would think that if they are familiar with economics. The whole reason we have the concepts of "developed", "developing" etc. is because of national income (the total amount of money generated by a country), this is what in part dictates quality of life.
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  3039.  @hyeung1  Well Saudi Arabia is a high income nation. It has been so since 2003 and their quality of life is per the standard required to be considered "developed" according to the Human Development Index. They have a HDI of 0.854 which ranks them as "very high". Only reason why they may not be considered "developed" in colloquial contexts is because they haven't reached the IMF threshold for developed status and their economic influence and prowess is limited to oil. In other words, they're only rich and have a high standard of living because of oil and their heavy reliance on foreign labour (both skilled and unskilled) to hold their economy up. Other than that, they tick all of the other boxes required to be considered "developed".
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  3040.  @hyeung1  Another thing to point out is that Saudi Arabia may not be considered "developed" by many but they won't be considered "developing" either.
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  3041. Rohingyas don't persecute non-Muslims in Myanmar. Why do you all lie? Anytime I see you on one of these videos about Myanmar, I see that all of you do nothing but lie. Stop it.
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  3042.  @surojsarkar6054  You're a Hindu nationalist nobody gaf what tf savarkar or mitha is
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  3043.  @surojsarkar6054  and this is why people don't like Hindu North Indians. Providing internet access to India was a HUGE mistake. Horrible people
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  3044.  @surojsarkar6054  and this is why nobody likes North Indian Hindus. All the anti-Indian hate is cause of these Hindu nationalist BIMARU things
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  3045.  @surojsarkar6054  Savarkar does not exist.
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  3046.  @surojsarkar6054  Indian men are the reason why there is so much hate towards Indians
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  3047.  @surojsarkar6054  One thing I have come to learn about the p@jeets is that they are the sole reason why there is so much anti-India hate.
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  3048.  @surojsarkar6054  Buddhists have NOTHING to do with Hindu nationalists.
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  3049.  @surojsarkar6054  Buddhists have nothing to do with Hindu nationalists. BIMARU always claiming Buddhists lololol
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  3050.  @surojsarkar6054  Buddhists are not Hindu nationalists lmfao
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  3051.  @surojsarkar6054  No, not Buddhists. Buddhists are not Hindu nationalists.
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  3052.  @surojsarkar6054  Not a single Buddhist knows or gaf about what a Savarkar is. Nobody wants to associate with Hindu nationalists. Learn how to use a toilet.
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  3053.  @surojsarkar6054  Buddhists don't know or don't gaf about what Savarkar is
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  3054.  @surojsarkar6054  Learn how to use a toilet, Suroj
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  3055. How?
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  3056. Same view as the ones in this video because Asian is not understood in physical appearance terms in Asian countries. It's just geography.
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  3057.  @Fnndjkvlf  China isn't trying to takeover us. The US wants to control us though and even when we want help, the Americans refuse to give it to us. Some friendship huh?
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  3058. Something about non-Asians consistently going after Indians rubs me the wrong way. Somehow other Asians going after Indians feels more palatable (it's not) because at least they are Asians (share same East Eurasian ancestor) and inter-Asian rivalry has been a thing for centuries but people called Steven Hickey??? I'm not even Indian but I get overtly pro-China whenever I see White people go after any type of Asian group.
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  3059. Anti-Indian hate will increase exponentially online and in real life in 2025, mark my words.
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  3060.  @blazer9547  Well yeah it's not an ethnic term, it's just a nationality (there are indigenous ethnic groups in India who are genetically closer to East Asians than to the majority of Indians but they are Indian nationals for example). Most of the natives are not more akin to the majority of Southeast Asians though. They are Andamanese who are genetically closer to the ancient indigenous people of India known as Ancient Ancestral South Indians (AASI). Today, all Indians carry some degree of AASI ancestry but the tribal people of India carry most of this ancestry and so the tribal groups of India (e.g. Gadaba, Bonda, Juang) as well as the Maniq people of Thailand are genetically closest to the Andamanese people. As I said before, the Andamanese are a genetic bridge between all of the populations of the Indo-Pacific (from India to Japan to Australia to Easter Island) as they are one of the earliest descendants to descend from the ancestral basal Asian population that contributed to the modern people of the Indo-Pacific. Anyway, genetics has nothing to do with geopolitics (at least not in this case). So it makes no sense to use it as a justification for anything.
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  3061. Just inside Japan
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  3062. Yeah I believe they do.
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  3063. True and also because religion plays a significant role in the way they live their lives. Abrahamic religions encourage people to have children.
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  3064.  @tendwa5263  Well they've done videos on India, including this one and their channel is meant for street interviews in Asia and related to Asian topics so I think you have the answer haha
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  3065.  @sleepEasy2  Most of them speak English because they have so many languages. English is the unifying language for them.
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  3066.  @sleepEasy2  They're Indians living in India. Sounds authentic to me.
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  3067.  @sleepEasy2  Well firstly, I'm pretty sure all those Indians you speak of would say the same thing. Everybody in Asia knows that they're Asians but it's not the first thing that comes to their mind, nobody thinks of "Asian" first but they still know they're Asian because they're from Asia. It's a trivial thing. Secondly, the video is in response to a skit/a joke done by Ronnie Chieng in English for an American comedy show. The interviewees are going to have to know English if they're going to understand the context of this video.
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  3068.  @RobP317  It's funny how "Southeast Asian" is mentioned here in reference to "Asian culture" because most Southeast Asians (excluding Vietnam) belong to Indosphere cultures which are related to South Asian cultures. Asian in the US basically typifies Sinosphere cultures, so anything East Asian or East Asian-related.
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  3069.  @DHcycling  This has to be a joke and just Indophobia because Indians in the US and other Western nations have a very low crime rate. You don't have to be Indian to acknowledge this. I'm not Indian
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  3070.  @Sriwijaya888  The video needs to compare East Asia behaviour with Indonesia behaviour I think
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  3071.  @Gen-w9p  In what universe are Punjabis identifying as Middle Eastern when they're literally Indian???
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  3072.  @John-ct9zs  Indians in Asia identify as Asians
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  3073.  @Peter-be5lo  You're agreeing to OP's claim that they are South Indians. I shouldn't need to point this out for you. I know how to speak English, it's my first language. Idk why y'all are so condescending. Maybe that's why there's so much hate online.
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  3074. @ Confucianism is not a state system. It's a philosophy. It tells people how to function but it's not used to control people.
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  3075. No they won't.
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  3076.  @LeedsunitedNepal  Aryan isn't a race, it's a term that means "noble" in Sanskrit.
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  3077.  @LeedsunitedNepal  "Arya" and "Aryan" are the same thing, they're variations of the same word. "Aryan" is the English translation for the Sanskrit term "Arya". They're the same. Like I said, "Aryan" is a term used by ancient Indo-Iranian speaking tribes, it is not a race, never was. Hitler appropriated an indigenous Asian term used in Central-South Asia and associated it with White Europeans disregarding the fact that ancient Indo-Iranian speaking tribes in Iran and northern India are the ones who used. It is not a race.
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  3078.  @jianyang6281  What???
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  3079.  @johnboy2349  Of course you'd asked such a question.
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  3080.  @quartermaster1976  No
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  3081. @JYHK-c9y Get a job
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  3082.  @ava9104  Definitely a North Indian
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  3083. JD Vance is promoting Indian hate abroad. What Chinese netizens said 8 years ago has turned out to be correct.
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  3084.  @Futuremodi  India better join China because everything that has happened so far in the 2020s, China has been correct.
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  3085.  @elpenprice679  I'm not even Chinese
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  3086.  @elpenprice679  American is triggered
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  3087.  @vertabray5064  I'm not
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  3088.  @vertabray5064  That doesn't even make sense
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  3089.  @vertabray5064  It's so funny how you think you're doing something but you're not. You can't even argue with facts, all you can do is call me "Abdul" even though I am not even Arab or Muslim.
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  3090.  @satyannair4837  English is the lingua franca of the country. If you're going to communicate and integrate into Singaporean society then English is the language to learn. If you're only going to speak Mandarin then you'll only be present in some sections of the Singaporean Chinese community. Also to add, Mandarin, Malay and Tamil are taught as second languages at school so the younger generations use English as their first language.
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  3091. Who in Sri Lanka is talking about exploitation?
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  3092. I'm from Australia and as someone that actually recognises our geography, we need to look at our own interests first (just like every other nation on earth is doing). Stop focusing on what's going on elsewhere and demanding nations in OUR part of the world to take part in wars taking place on a whole other continent. India (and China) being neutral is a benefit for the rest of the Asia-Pacific.
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  3093. It's 2025 and people still don't know that India's fertility rate is below replacement level now and that most states in India actually have low fertility rates? One of India's states, Sikkim would have the third lowest fertility rate in the world if it was a country and the Sikkimese government is giving money for Sikkimese people to have children to protect the unique ethnic diversity that emerged in the state from disappearing.
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  3094. They have? The monks have come out and protested against the military coup.
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  3095. The military has the most power. Monks don't have the type of influence that the military has. You either stand by the military or you go against them and face consequences.
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  3096. Mahbubani's point about how the mainstream Western media claims that "Asians keep fighting and will never get along" is very true because it's still a point discussed in all arenas of geopolitics including by book authors, political scientists and lay people online. The reality is that despite the border issues between different Asian countries and, for some, fraught histories amongst each other, almost all of these nations believe in non-alignment and the belief that they despite issues between each other, they must work together. That's why things like the Asian Development Bank and RCEP emerge without any issue and why at times of distress, Asian representatives abstain or vote against resolutions against the UN. The most recent ones being the Hong Kong protests in 2019 and the Myanmar crisis of the late 2010s, most Asian countries abstained and voted against resolutions condemning China and Myanmar. It sounds horrible but it's because they believe in non-alignment and these are "internal issues".
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  3097. Yeah nobody is idolising Qatar
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  3098.  @Ynhockey  True but as you said, Qatar is known for the wrong reasons only. There is actually nothing positive associated with that country, that's why it has such a negative perception. Their influence is also not far reaching, only within the Arab or maybe more broadly Muslim world but beyond that, the influence is non-existent.
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  3099.  Therebelliousprince001  Well male relatives are 🍇ing their female relatives too, so yeah I guess so.
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  3100.  Therebelliousprince001  This is not to say that all Indian men are in the wrong, they're not but they're clearly in the minority and that needs to be changed
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  3101.  Therebelliousprince001  Not majority, a significant amount do
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  3102.  Therebelliousprince001  I'm not Indian, nor a woman.
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  3103.  Therebelliousprince001  Small minority in India is equal to 50 million.
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  3104. Well when it comes to English language, the British speak is correctly. It's the Americans that change everything.
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  3105. As someone who is neither Chinese nor Indian, I think putting blame on one side makes no sense because clearly both sides have faulted each other. Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan being listed there separately makes sense as they all have their own separate passports whether PRC likes it or not. The fact is that they have their own passports. Tibet wasn't listed as a country, so idk why you said that. Finally, I remember reading that China has a history of barring Indian pilgrims visiting sacred sites in Tibet like Mount Kailash. So the idea of Indians not letting Chinese into Sikkim doesn't seem so strange. The only reason why this stuff happens is both those countries continue to argue with each other over territory, Tibet, Dalai Lama and so on. If all of this was resolved, none of this would be an issue.
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  3106.  @TienyeeTien  cause both countries have 1 billion+ people, what's not clicking??? Jeez, do you people ever stop getting offended at everything???
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  3107.  @GH-mj2ti  India's unvetted access of the internet is the reason why the country's men are the way that they are. India should have had its own internet system comparable to China.
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  3108.  @TienyeeTien  Yes, get over it. Both of those countries have huge populations so it makes sense to compare them. Ffs stop getting mad triggered.
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  3109.  @TienyeeTien  China and India are neighbours, the US and Indonesia are not neighbours and have literally nothing in common. Indonesia has more in common with China and India than the US.
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  3110.  @TienyeeTien  OMFG. China and India are the two most influential nations in terms of cultural influence over Asia during the ancient time period. China and India are two sides of the same coin, the coin representing Asia. So comparing them makes sense. My lord, everybody is saying good things about China but you're still getting mad triggered. Go outside and touch some grass ffs.
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  3111. America wasn't going to provide anything substantial in the first place. Once again, China was proven right.
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  3112. Vaisakhi has nothing to do with Vesak actually. It's completely unrelated and they're not celebrated on the same day. They just both have similar names because they're both named after the Indian lunar month of Vaisakha. Vesak as practiced in India is not called Vesak, it's called Buddha Jayanti, while the festival in various other parts of South and Southeast Asia like Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia are named after the second lunar month of Vaisakha on the Buddhist calendar.
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  3113. You speak as if Indians make up the majority of their tourists. They don't. The Chinese make up a similar proportion to the Indians and considering the Maldivian government is pro-China, more Chinese will go to the Maldives.
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  3114. This is why the rest of Asia is lagging because they're democracies trying to imitate the West. It is against Asian values, as Lee Kuan Yew called them, to believe that individualism is superior to collectivism and respect for authority. Malaysia was at its peak under the hardline rule of Mahathir Mohamad, India's most developed state is a state run by a communist government and China has emerged under authoritarian rule.
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  3115. The rest of Asia must follow this. Authoritarianism works in Asian cultures.
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  3116.  @uzzab6937  Miss World and Miss Universe are two different pageants...
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  3117. Using a racial slur to describe Indians, typical and this is why Malaysia is going to become a high income developed nation and Indonesia is still 10,000,000 year behind.
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  3118. The disrespect you have for the victims who were migrants too
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  3119.  @fyodordoestoevskyisfineasf  I'm not from India, now what? 😐
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  3120.  @fyodordoestoevskyisfineasf  I'm merely asking them if they care or not, I'm not angry. I asked because they posed the same comment on some other video.
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  3121.  @Bobalulubruhbibble  The Northeast is no different. What happened to those two Kuki-Chin women at the hands of Meitei people made news around the world too and changed my opinion on that region. They need to ban Western social media in India and create an internet firewall. TikTok is so much better without men from that country.
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  3122. Indian women need to take their safety into consideration 24/7 in India, even in their households. They already know what it's like because their own m*n don't treat them right either.
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  3123. Yes
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  3124. No they are natives of Myanmar and the Tatmadaw needs to be held responsible and they need to be returned to Myanmar. Tatmadaw is a huge headache for the whole of Asia
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  3125.  @JD-env1  So you're part of the US military or related services contracted to work on Diego Garcia? I'm asking because lay people (including the native Chagossians) can't enter the territory.
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  3126.  @kidrobot.  So you're telling me Chagossians weren't expelled from their nation and the UN court case in Hague declaring the occupation of Diego Garcia to run a military base "illegal" are all lies? Please, be serious
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  3127.  @kidrobot.  As I said before, lay people (including the native Chagossians) are barred from entering the territory. Sorry but the only person lying here is you. You have never visited the territory.
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  3128. You think China interfered in the election?
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  3129.  @giuseppecalegari3852  There are many poor people in Asia and it's the poor people in parts of South and Southeast Asia that ended up converting to Christianity. Christian missionaries target the poor in Asian nations cause it's easier to convert vulnerable people as opposed to people who are successful and don't need an organised religion to give them hope.
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  3130. No, they're an Asian culture.
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  3131. even though I want India to move completely away from the US to spite them, I would be happy if this ended up becoming the reality
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  3132. What agenda do you think they have? Curious to know?
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  3133. Too many children? What?
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  3134. So many Malays I have seen have Indian-like features. So they've all been bullied? Maybe Mahathir was bullied too
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  3135.  @danish6192  "Indian countries"???? Do you know any basic geography? There is no such thing called "Indian countries". Gosh, Google is right there use it!
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  3136.  @danish6192  So if it's an independent nation, how is it still a part of India? Your logic makes zero sense. There is no such thing called "Indian countries". I cringe when I see someone say something like that, it really shows how uninformed and ignorant they are. The moral of the story: stay in school or otherwise you end up like this.
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  3137.  @danish6192  Since when does the Indian subcontinent mean "Indian countries"? You keep digging a hole for yourself and you don't even realise it...
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  3138.  @danish6192  Do you know what the origin of the term "Indian subcontinent" is?
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  3139. You seem to be talking about Wa State but Wa people mostly practice Theravada Buddhism and speak the Wa language (an Austroasiatic language) unless you're talking about another region of Myanmar.
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  3140.  @rainboworiental9521  It says that Bao Youxiang is of Wa origin and he looks Wa too. Han Chinese are not that tanned.
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  3141. Normalise what? It's already normalised and both the left and the right (Dems and Repubs) in the US played a role in this. So interesting how the US is consistently proven to be wrong while China is continuously proven to be correct in the 2020s. I remember Chinese people on Chinese news sites began predicting in the late 2010s that the US will eventually go after India and since 2023, that's exactly what's been happening. Now the anti-Indian hate is so mainstream that it has made its way to the US government. When Xi Jinping infamously echoed the word "Asia for Asians" almost 11 years ago, he knew what he was doing. Despite everything that has happened, I still don't think India will have the brain to recognise their friend is located in Asia and not all the way in far off North America.
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  3142. Shah Rukh Khan dark? He's not dark. D
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  3143.  @Thyalwaysseek  Kalki is NOT real. Cry
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  3144.  @Thyalwaysseek  Imagine getting so triggered that two people of the same sex got married. Their marriage has no effect on you. This is why India is so far behind.
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  3145. They're not even overpopulated. Stop being ignorant. They literally have a declining fertility rate, rapidly aging population and their population is set to peak and begin declining in the late 2030s.
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  3146.  @SP95  Do you even know what overpopulation is? Sri Lanka is not overpopulated. They've had low fertility for decades. They have one of the highest aging populations in Asia, they've been dealing with lack of young people since the 2010s that they had to rely on cheap labour from other Asian countries to fill up gaps in their job market. That country is not overpopulated and far from it. You see a country where most people have dark skin and you think it's overpopulated. Stop with the blatant racism and ignorance. Y'all are so tiring!
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  3147.  @SP95  This is what happens when you have someone talk about something they don't even understand. Large parts of Asia are dealing with aging populations and low fertility rates not overpopulation, keep up with the times for crying out loud. This is 2022 not 1945.
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  3148. No respect for the victims, I see
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  3149.  @unknownidentity3774  ...because the UAE isn't a significant power in global geopolitics. Their influence globally is next to nothing in global geopolitics. It really doesn't matter what the UAE does because they're not one of the big players. Nobody cares what they do.
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  3150. Well we know it was divided along religious lines (Muslim and non-Muslim). It just happens to be that non-Muslims make up the majority of the population of the chicken's neck. So they're stuck with it.
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  3151. Yeah and the Malaysian comedian knows this because Malaysia is home to Malays, Chinese, Indians and Orang Asli. Malaysians don't all look the same. None of Malaysia's prime ministers look like Ronnie Chieng (the comedian). People took the joke way too seriously.
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  3152. Well can you blame them? Sri Lanka once had the right ingredients before the ethnic nationalists took over and basically implemented their own version of "bumiputera". Of course the past was better because the country hadn't been torn in two at the time.
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  3153. Which ones? Be specific.
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  3154.  @Mkayou  Sri Lankan people are mostly Sinhalese, Tamil, Moor, Malay, Burgher and Vedda. The main native languages in Sri Lanka are Sinhalese, Tamil and Sri Lankan Malay. The main foreign language is English. The culture of Sri Lanka is a mix of Sinhalese, Tamil, Moor, Malay and Eurasian elements. Remove one of those elements and you lose what Sri Lankan culture is. Sri Lanka is Sri Lanka, it can never be a part of India because its culture is completely different. Lamprais is a major traditional Sri Lankan dish that was created by the Eurasian Burghers who combined culinary elements from the Burgher, Sinhalese, Tamil and Malay communities. In what universe would the Sri Lankan dish lamprais be considered an Indian dish??? Stop saying such silly things.
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  3155.  @Mkayou  That was just an example to show you how Sri Lankan identity was shaped by the people that live on the island. Sri Lankan culture is NOT very Indian. You obviously know next to nothing about Sri Lanka if you think that is the case.
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  3156.  @Mkayou  Broad Indian culture is so different in terms of mentality and behaviour, none of that applies in Sri Lanka. You need to learn about Sri Lanka and stop claiming it is part of India. It's insane how these Indian nationalists think Sri Lanka is "very Indian". Very Indian how?? They don't even have an Indian accent, their mentality and behaviour is very different, the cuisine is different, the languages are different. Very Indian how??
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  3157.  @Mkayou  Like I told you, Sri Lankan culture and society is a mix of Sinhalese, Tamil, Moor, Malay and Burgher elements. Are you aware of the fact that Indonesian culture has played a big role in developing Sri Lankan culture? Sri Lankan cuisine would be completely different if there was no Indonesian influence. There would be no sambal, dodol, nasi goreng, nasi kuning, seenakku, achcharu, wattalapan, fried noodles or any of that stuff let alone other cultural elements like traditional clothing (sarong, redde hatte) or batik if it weren't for the Indonesian influences that came with the Sri Lankan Malays. How is any of that Indian????
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  3158.  @Mkayou  Worship and greet? Well people in Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Bali worship and greet in the same way. Does that mean they are part of India too? Speak with each other? What exactly is Indian about the way Sri Lankans speak? Sri Lanka has its own languages. Indian how? Indian civilisation does not include Sri Lanka and Sri Lanka is NOT yours. What type of delulu behaviour is this??? Jeez, Indian nationalists are seriously beyond me. No, Sri Lanka is not yours and never will be. There is nothing Indian about Sri Lanka. Try learning about Sri Lanka before you start claiming it's yours. My gosh and these are the same people who get upset that China claims their territory.
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  3159.  @Mkayou  Then what is Indian? Good question, you just proved to me that India is an artificial nation that makes no sense to exist as one. What does an Assamese have in common with an Uttar Pradeshi? A Laccadive islander from Minicoy has more in common ethnically and culturally with a Maldivian than they do with anybody from the rest of India.
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  3160.  @Mkayou  They got Indianised pretty late?? Oh you don't have any knowledge of Sri Lankan or Thai history it seems.
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  3161.  @Mkayou  Hebrew? So you're telling me that there are 200,000 recent Israeli immigrants living in India now who have integrated into the local society? Idk what you're trying to say but that is not comparable at all. 200,000 Russians and 5,000 Ukrainians have migrated to Sri Lanka and settled in the resort towns since 2022, they've also settled in the resort towns of Thailand, Vietnam and Bali. The default European people language that Sri Lankans in these resort towns now use is Russian because of the large Russian population, it's the same case in Vietnam and Bali. If you are white, you're going to be greeted and served in Russian until you say you're not Russian because people will assume you're Russian.
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  3162.  @Mkayou  India is a huge country of 1.4 billion people, Sri Lanka is a small country of only 22 million. The migration and settlement of other nationalities are a big change for a small nation. How do you not understand that? Well I'm not from Sri Lanka, I have Sri Lankan ancestry though but the fact is Sri Lanka is completely different and you need to respect that. Stop trying to claim they have Indian culture and educate yourself on Sri Lanka and its people. I do not understand why on earth you want to claim that country so bad. It is NOT your country, they are NOT your people. Day by day it seems that India is becoming aggressive. What is going on?? I cannot believe the fact that you are upset because I told you Sri Lankans are their own people with their own culture. They are not part of India and they will never be a part of India. You are a foreigner in that country and have nothing to do with them.
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  3163.  @Mkayou  Bottom up approach in what? Development? A country shouldn't be a work in progress in terms of its culture. The country should already have a binding culture. I think India has a culture of being philosophically non-violent (at least trying to strive to achieve that) which would explain why it has remained united but the fact is that it's not exactly united in all aspects, there's the caste system but more than that, people in the same state can't even get along - Manipur and then there's anti-Bihari sentiment among other things. Tamils don't want to speak Hindi even though Hindi is the most widely spoken language in the country.
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  3164. and Nepal
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  3165. Oh the embarrassment of it all. This is what MAGA wants
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  3166.  @hindrashtravaad  The male to female ratio in India is just as bad as China's male to female ratio.
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  3167.  @Moorthigv  Yeah I noticed the South Indian states are always ahead of the rest of India, they're more socially advanced. My South Indian friend tells me India should be broken up into several countries and I see where she's coming from.
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  3168.  @MarathiTradingAcademy  *was a great country
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  3169. Malaysian?
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  3170. Becoming a military ally with the US is absolutely not the answer and will honestly, only create more problems.
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  3171. Cutting India's water supply will also cut off the water supply to Bangladesh. China also has control over the water sources for the whole of mainland Southeast Asia (Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam) and damming those rivers will lead to no fresh water in mainland Southeast Asia. China is very interested in Tibet because Tibet is known as the "water tower of Asia" as it supplies so much fresh water to many parts of South and Southeast Asia. So cutting off water would basically be an act of war.
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  3172.  @alexgibb8406  Respecting another nationality doesn't mean you need partake in their brain drain and take their educated people. Stop saying such things. Gosh, someone says something positive and there's always one person that needs to paint out the other as a villain and make it negative.
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  3173.  @alexgibb8406  Seriously what is your problem? You can't even communicate in English properly, look at all of your spelling errors and you live here in Australia where English is the main language. Embarrassing. 65 year old racist man. Nah, we don't need people like "u". We need people that are educated and can actually speak English. Imagine the nerve to say such a thing and think you're morally superior. Australia is right next door to Asia, stop your crying. I despise Mahathir Mohamad of Malaysia but Mahathir and the other Asian leaders like Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore were right, this country will become more Asian and there's NOTHING you can do about it. 17% of Australians are of Asian descent (including Sri Lankans). Stop thinking we are all foreigners, most of us were born here and our ancestors have been living here for generations.
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  3174.  @alexgibb8406  Yuck, yuck, yuck. The racist can't even speak English properly despite being Australian LMFAO.
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  3175.  @ashandesilva9455  Lmfao just ignore him. He's one of the racist White Australians that exist in our country. He and the people he support like Pauline Hanson have always had a problem with Asian people. He's just going to have to accept the fact that Australia is in the Asia-Pacific and that Australia will become more Asian in the future. There's nothing that white man can do about it.
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  3176.  @alexgibb8406  Yeah educated people (and plenty of the educated Australians here are of Sri Lankan descent, I'm Australian you 65 year old man) and there's NOTHING wrong with Sri Lankan culture. What on earth are you talking about, racist?
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  3177. Why would Sri Lanka want to join India? People have got to stop thinking that joining a large country is how you solve problems... it's not.
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  3178.  @DonesdeMotivacion  Most Sri Lankans are Buddhists, most Sri Lankans speak Sinhalese, Sri Lankans are ethnically Sinhalese, Tamil, Moor, Malay, Burgher/Eurasian, Vedda and even Chinese. Sri Lankan culture is a mix of South Indian, Malay and indigenous influences.
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  3179.  @DonesdeMotivacion  Most Indians are Hindus. Most Indians speak Hindi (those who speak Tamil in India are a minority group unrelated to the people in India who hold power). Indian culture is not a blend of indigenous Sri Lankan, South Indian and Malay influences, it's a lot more diverse than that. India is very ethnically diverse and is not home to Sinhalese, Moors, Malays, Burghers/Eurasians and Vedda, even the Sri Lankan Tamils have their own distinct culture compared to Indian Tamils. People have got to start learning the difference between different nations instead of assuming they are the same just because they can't tell the difference between the people of those countries.
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  3180.  @DonesdeMotivacion  THEY'RE NOT ALL GENETICALLY THE SAME. LEARN THE DIFFERENCE. This is like me claiming Italians and Greeks are genetically the same. There is only one person here who is ignorant and it's not me. American people have got to stop talking about things they don't understand. Let people in Asia-Pacific figure out what to do, there is no need for someone on the other side of the world to give their unwanted two cents about something they don't understand.
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  3181.  @DonesdeMotivacion  Imagine a Latino person on the other side of the world speaking about an issue that doesn't even concern them and then when someone corrects them, they refuse to acknowledge their errors. American exceptionalism in a nutshell.
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  3182. ​ @DonesdeMotivacion  People are getting tired of the US because they're sticking their nose into everybody's business and telling people how they must identify and how they should behave. There is a reason why China is now so powerful.
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  3183.  @akhanddbangladesh8274  Sorry but I don't need to go to Bangladesh to know the country is not anywhere near the level Sri Lanka was at before the crisis or where the Maldives is at, at the moment. Let's not do this.
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  3184.  @andrewbellinger6120  Azov Battalion are a neo-Nazi group. The things people will say because they just can't accept the fact that there are bad guys on both sides of the conflict.
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  3185. He's Nepalese, that's an Asian nationality. Asians don't all look the same. Many dark skinned Asians in South and Southeast Asia who don't look "East Asian".
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  3186.  @only_fair23  According to data from the US government, 73% of the US is White. I'm curious to know, would you say the US is not ethnically diverse either?
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  3187.  @only_fair23  So then how are you going to tell me that one ethnic group as all the power? Like I said, you want to see a country where one ethnic group has all of the power, look at India which is ruled by North Indian Hindi speaking Hindus and you still haven't answered my question. The US population is made up of 73% White people. Are you going to tell me that the US is not multi-ethnic anymore, especially considering the fact that the US isn't even a meritocracy? Answer it.
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  3188. No it was the Rajapaksas. Sri Lanka owes the same amount of debt it owes to Japan to China as well.
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  3189.  @sajeevanyoga4360  Wrong.
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  3190. Just kingdoms. The maps in the video are so wrong. It shows Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bhutan as part of India even though they were all separate areas ruled by different kingdoms.
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  3191.  @crate249  Yes but pirates aren't an ethnic group and thus it's not comparable. There are pirates all over the world. A pirate costume is akin to a police costume or a superhero costume or a Disney princess costume.
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  3192.  @crate249  Yeah but the traditional clothing of Native American is culturally tied to Native American people. Based on the discussion in the video, I assume that this is what she was getting at.
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  3193.  @crate249  Hmm well you can find pirates in many different regions of the world such as Europe, Africa and Asia. The difference is that there are different pirate clothing worn. Pirate and geisha are different though because a geisha is only limited to Japanese culture and the geisha is held in high regard in Japanese culture, having upheld traditional Japanese art forms including dance, music and singing.
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  3194.  @crate249  How though? The concept of a pirate is found everywhere.
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  3195.  @crate249  That's not cultural appropriation in my opinion. Every culture in the world has been influenced by one another. That's the adoption and absorption of different cultural elements into another culture. Cultural appropriation, at least for me, refers to people who adopt something without actually understanding its significance and being able to freely wear or use that item without any sort of discrimination. So, for example, girls of non-South/Southeast Asian origin wearing bindis for aesthetic purposes at Coachella. They can freely wear those bindis without any discrimination but a girl of South or Southeast Asian descent who wears it in public may face discrimination and be told to go back to where they came from (which does happen).
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  3196.  @crate249  Cultural appropriation is controversial because of what I explained in my other comment. A dominant culture adopting the traits of a disadvantaged minority is what makes all of this controversial. That's why some people are upset. Adopting cultural traits as seen during the ancient times and later is not cultural appropriation. It's different.
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  3197.  @crate249  No, that's cultural diffusion. Cultural diffusion and cultural appropriation are very different. Cultural diffusion is what we saw in the ancient days and what we continue see today. The spread of customs, traditions, languages, scripts, music, literature, food, architecture, clothing, belief systems, philosophical beliefs among others are all part of cultural diffusion. Cultural appropriation is very different and is nothing like cultural diffusion. It's controversial to adopt traits from a minority group because the group is marginalised or judged from the dominant society's perspective. For example, if Black American women are continued to be asked to have straight hair and use hair relaxers to abide by the standards of US society in corporate positions and other white collar positions yet a White American woman is allowed to adopt hair styles suited to Afro textured hair without any penalty then that's problematic. It isn't fair for society to continue to ask Black American women to straighten their hair or wear wigs to be "professional" yet allow White American women a pass because it's "exotic" or "trendy". There's no fairness in that. That's why cultural appropriation, in this context, is problematic. These days it seems like everybody calls everything "cultural appropriation" but there are specific details as to what constitutes cultural appropriation. This is an example. I hope you understand the difference now.
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  3198. So you're a supporter of the Rajapaksas?
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  3199.  @starrynight43451  Where are you getting this "communist party" thing from? These are just protestors. Also, that elected government has resulted in people starving. Not to mention that the elected leader is comfortably living while the general population suffers. I don't know how anybody could support that but such people exist.
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  3200.  @durian111  Clearly not anymore considering that everybody has turned on him. I remember thinking that something like this was probably meant to happen to the country in order to wake people up from the cycle of disaster they have been a part of for so long. It seems now Sri Lankan people finally want something different and they seem to have finally lived up to the words that Lee Kuan Yew said about Sri Lanka decades back.
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  3201.  @luxmid7486  Nobody wants the West to get involved. The US and European countries don't have any siginificant influence to change things in Myanmar. If you follow Burmese affairs, then you'll know that it's other Asian countries (China, India, Japan and ASEAN) that can create change. The international community, since at least the Rohingya genocide, have asked China, India, Japan and ASEAN to put pressure on the Burmese military.
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  3202.  @luxmid7486  No they 100% don't need Western governments. The West has zero influence in Myanmar to actually create change in the country. So why would they want the West? People in Myanmar and experts want Asian governments to take the lead. That's why Asian businesses have also been targeted with a push to get Asian businesses to stop doing business with the Burmese military. Singapore is the biggest foreign investor in Myanmar. China, India and Japan are also investing in Myanmar. All three countries have a relationship with the Burmese military. So I'm not sure why you think the West has a leading role in this. They don't. At the end of the day, Asia has the power and everybody has been saying this since 2017 when the Rohingya genocide occurred. If the West had power in Myanmar, the sanctions would have worked and the military wouldn't be as powerful as they are today.
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  3203.  @luxmid7486  You're clueless about Burmese affairs and Asia-Pacific affairs in general. Stick to yopics you actually understand. Stop inserting yourself into discussions that you don't have any right to talk about. You're not a political scientist, you're not a citizen of an Asia-Pacific nation. Be quiet and sit down.
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  3204.  @luxmid7486  No you're the big fail here. The fact that you're correlating two different things together clearly shows me that you know nothing. Just because ethnic minority refugees are seeking refuge in North America that doesn't mean that North America is the key to solving the crisis in Myanmar. It boggles my mind how US-centric and pretentious you are that you correlate two different things together and think they're mutually the same. Yikes, American ignorance on display once again.
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  3205.  @luxmid7486  It's also pathetic how you mention Cambodia in the same senetence as Myanmar. They're two different ciuntries with two different issues. Just becauswe they're both Southeast Asian countries does not mean they are the same.
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  3206.  @luxmid7486  The Khmer Rouge ceased operations in 1991. Seriously??? The Burmese military has nothing to do with Cambodia today. It boggles my mind how ignorant one can be. You have no idea which countries support and arm the Burmese military. Truly bold of you to claim I suck at this stuff when you believe there is a connection between a dead regime and a current regime.
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  3207.  @luxmid7486  What????? What is the relationship between what I'm talking about and Hitler??? Your comments are making absolutely no sense! They're devoid of intelligence! I told you that Asian nations are the key to solving the Burmese military coup crisis and you're here throwing a tantrum because you can't accept reality. People like you need to stick to topics you actually understand. You people know literally nothing about places like Myanmar let along pin point it on a world map.
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  3208.  @luxmid7486  I'm talking about Myanmar though. The ideology of the Khmer rouge is not the same as the ideology of the Tatmadaw (Burmese military) of today. All I'm trying to tell you is that we need to let Asia take the lead. The US literally said in the days after the coup that they are working with India and Japan to figure out a way to solve the crisis because they know that Asia is the key. The whole reason why the Burmese military is still thriving and has gone unpunished for the things they have done is because most Asian nations at the UN either abstain or vote against any resolution to penalise Myanmar while all of the Western countries vote to penalise Myanmar. If the West, as you're saying, has the power to change Myanmar then the military wouldn't even be in power today because those past resolutions and sanctions would have worked.
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  3209.  @davidbeach5563  No different to the US expelling Chagossians from their nation and setting up a US military base
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  3210.  @davidbeach5563  The US claims to be about peace but then uses napalm.
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  3211. Exactly and it's funny seeing all the Chinese nationalists in the comment acting all benevolent as a result of it. They only care about the money.
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  3212. Except there is. Indus Valley (IVC) ancestry is the dominant ancestral component of most modern Indians and most other South Asians for that matter.
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  3213.  @n.c9653  Yes it is! Everybody knows this. Where do you think the IVC went for them to not have any connection to modern Indians???? One group of IVC people mixed with Steppe pastoralists to form Ancestral North Indian and another group of IVC mixed with the AASI hunter-gatherers to form Ancestral South Indian. All Indians have varying degrees of this component. My gosh, what is with these people getting upset at facts that we have all known for the past decade?? internationally peer-reviewed evidence lmaooooo. 😂😂 A simply Google search will give you this information. You shouldn't need to ask for this. Get with the times. I'm not even Indian btw. 1. The Formation of Human Populations in South and Central Asia - Vagheesh M. Narasimhan et al. 2019 2. Reconstructing Indian Population History - David Reich et al. 2010
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  3214. I guess science isn't your forte
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  3215.  @RM-yf2lu  That's not correct. If we look at pop culture, which is one of the main factors of influence on contemporary culture, many people in Sri Lanka watch local films/shows, Bollywood films, South Indian films and Korean dramas and follow those trends. People are more in touch with the rest of Asia than they are with anything outside of it. When I was in Sri Lanka, I couldn't find a single Western show on local TV - it was just local shows or Sinhalese-dubbed Indian, Korean and Chinese TV dramas. Then I asked my grandpa and he told me that American shows aren't broadcast on local TV as often as they were in the 1990s. In the late 1990s, Indian shows became popular and then in the late 2000s, Korean shows became popular. Most people nowadays prefer Indian and Korean shows.
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  3216. I actually cannot believe how racist people are towards Indians. Calling them second class citizens, claiming they're not Singaporean even though Singaporeans are literally of Chinese, Malay, Indian or Eurasian descent and claiming all other Asian countries treat them as second class citizens. Not everybody is racist. Maybe it's time to stop discriminating people just because of their ethnicity.
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  3217. Singaporean-Indians are lovely people, the reason why they weren't nice to YOU is because you judge them and disrespect them. Look at how you called them second class citizens in their own country and generalised them. I just know you're from a developing country but somehow think you're superior. Embarrassing.
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  3218.  LonerBlack66  ????
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  3219. Sri
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  3220. Not a single Burmese, including Rohingyas, arrives on a boat to Australia. The only time Burmese travel by boat is to go to other Asian countries and that happened at the height of the Rohingya genocide in 2017 when boats of refugees left Myanmar in all directions to reach Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Sri Lanka or by foot into Bangladesh, India and even all the way to Nepal.
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  3221. Anyway yes, Australia is geographically an Indo-Pacific nation and yet it seems so detached from the affairs of what's actually going on in this region. These are the times when the brash comments on Australia made by Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew and Malaysia's Mahathir Mohamad are valid. Australia wants to be engaged with Asia, be a regional leader and yet it doesn't give enough attention to what is going on in this region (such as Myanmar). It is too pre-occupied with US/Euro-centric issues. The country's Asian links have always come in second place despite its geography.
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  3222. If people like Mahmoud think the way that they do, why do they, their people and their parents migrate in droves to the West where tolerance is the norm? That is something I simply will never understand.
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  3223.  @manofsan  1. I'm not Singaporean 2. There are other political parties that exist in Singapore. They had an election last year and the opposition party won a notable amount of seats. Make sure you actually understand what you're talking about.
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  3224.  @manofsan  1. Hong Kong is not a country 2. Do you have an issue with Singapore? Just asking because you seem to not like what I'm saying. I think the fact that the opposition appealed to many voters on the basis of anti-immigration is a clear that this is no token party. 3. I know the CCP is not good, I'm not defending the CCP.
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  3225.  @manofsan  1. You're comparing Hong Kong, an SAR of China, to Singapore, a sovereign nation. Your comparison does not make sense in this case. 2. Where does it say that Singapore is a one party ruled state? Where? Tell me where you have gotten this information? You have a very ignorant attitude towards Singaporean politics and Singaporean society. Why are you projecting your obviously incorrect views onto a nation that you don't understand? Yes, freedom in Singapore is more restricted than other countries but Singapore is not a one party ruled state. There is a very specific reason why the PAP constantly gets voted in every year and this is because the PAP is what transformed Singapore from a poor, dilapidated developing port city into one of the most advanced nations in the world. Most Singaporeans still have trust in the PAP (maybe not as much as during the Lee Kuan Yew years) but still nevertheless more than the opposition party. Please, if you're going to criticise Singapore at least get your facts straight. It uses a multi-party system. 3. Kishore is not Chinese and neither am I. This video places focus on India among other things and everything he has said about India is true. Stop talking about China because nowhere in my intitial comment did I speak about China. You have an obsession with that country.
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  3226.  @manofsan  I'm not Chinese... I'm just stating the truth. Hong Kong is an SAR of China. Trust me, I don't agree with what the CCP is doing in Hong Kong but that doesn't change the fact that Hong Kong is legally an SAR and not a country. No I just think Kishore is very intelligent and knows what he's talking about. I don't agree with everything he says but his points about India are correct. There you again with the ignorant remarks about Singapore. Why do I even bother?
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  3227. ​ @manofsan  1. Don't call me a "wumao", I am not supportive of the CCP, never will. 2. I'm talking about Kishore's points about India. What is so hard about these words that you don't understand??? I have told you this multiple times but you keep throwing tantrums. Talk about ignorance. 3. I'm talking about his points on protectionism. India is so protectionist, this is why India is now even behind Bangladesh. By being so protectionist, India failed to join the RCEP and create history. What a disaster.
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  3228.  @manofsan  1. Japan is part of the RCEP 2. You believe in way too much propaganda it's sad. This is why India hasn't progressed and it's disappointing to see India like this because I really like Indian culture 3. What did I say that proves that I support everything the CCP does?? Tell me. Oh wait, you don't have an answer. You're just making stuff up because you don't like what I'm saying 4. India would be thriving if it wasn't using the political system it is currently using. I have come to the realisation that Asian countries do better under a hardline leader or a group of hardline leaders. Had India been run in such a manner then it would have been light years ahead. Why? It's because there wouldn't be so much bickering and didagreement over issues. Nobody would be pulling out the religion card and things would have been enforced and enabled a long time ago. However, that is not the case for India. India is still relying so much on agriculture that it does not have the ability to open itself up to the world because it's not up to the standard of the markets of other countries. It's still stuck in the 1990s and people, like yourself, don't realise this. This is why Bangladesh is ahead of India now. They're following the same economic model of the Asian Tiger economies. No wonder they're called the new Asian Tiger eoconomy. They're doing so well that they have a set target of becoming a developed nation by 2041. Malaysia followed the same model and they also set a target for themselves too and now they're going to become a developed nation later this decade. The whole of Asia is powering ahead and you're still championing protectionism over integration.
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  3229.  @KangMinseok  There have been wars raging on Europe since the 1990s.
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  3230. You can't expect minority groups to take a stand when they're fighting for their lives too. The Burmese military is the only one to blame here and all of the other countries and the UN who watched and let it happen.
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  3231. Huh? Ramayana is still very popular across Southeast Asia. Everybody knows it.
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  3232. Those Americans who stormed the Capitol are terrorists because they couldn't accept the results of a democratic election. The Sri Lankans who stormed the presidential palace are saving their lives because their president stole all of their money and now they're having to skip meals, can't send their children to school because the government shut the schools down, young people can't get an education because there's no money left to buy paper for exams, they're having to use firewood because there's no more gas and electricity has been cut and they're "legally" supposed to be inside their homes because the government enforced a curfew. All of that while the president and his family live comfortably inside their homes. Notice the stark difference?
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  3233.  @jillibleu6930  Yes and yes. Is he white? No he's not. That whole theory is based on this idea that White people fear being replaced by non-white people. So yes and yes.
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  3234. You have zero respect for the victims
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  3235.  @Rishabh-Dev  What's embarrassing is that Modi had 10 years to develop India and yet India still looks the same and the fact is that no matter who is in power in India, India will forever remain the same.
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  3236.  @RadicalFloat_95  You're upset about something that doesn't even affect you. That's so embarrassing. You must be an American or a European to have said that.
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  3237.  @001mhu  The Burmese military (the people that staged the coup in Myanmar) is funded in part by China. So why are you talking about the US and "containing China"? The US has no influence whatsoever in Myanmar. So it would be no surprise if China supported the military coup because it will provide them more access to the country, particularly in regards to the Belt and Road initiative.
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  3238.  @001mhu  Also, just because Aung San Suu Kyi was the leader of Myanmar doesn't mean she had complete control of the country. Prior to the coup, the military still held 25% of seats in the parliament and they still played the leading role in how things function in the country. The Burmese military is close to China.
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  3239. and this is why Australia is going to suffer if it doesn't stop being America's lap dog.
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  3240.  @கோபிசுதாகர்  Indian in India focus on India please
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  3241.  @kampoengbatoe2699  Get a job
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  3242.  @kampoengbatoe2699  Jobless male, go touch grass
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  3243. You're joking right? Singapore is in Southeast Asia, not East Asia
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  3244.  @ur-inannak9565  Singapore is not in East Asia, that's the point. Why are you talking about Iceland??? Singapore is in Southeast Asia and its native people are Malays. It is a multiethnic nation composed of Chinese, Malays and Indians and Singaporean cultre is a mix of these three groups. It has four official languages to represent the Chinese, Malays and Indians and the society is completely based on CMIO (Chinese, Malay, Indian, Other). It has nothing to do with China, Japan or Korea. Did you miss the part where he wanted to target Malay Muslims? Now tell me where is he a supporter of the civilisation that his nation belongs to when he wants to target indigenous Malays because he thinks "they will take over"?
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  3245.  @ur-inannak9565  Singapore is a multiethnic nation made up of Chinese, Malays and Indians. The country is multiethnic, everything about Singapore is multiethnic. The food that all Singaporeans eat is a mix of Chinese, Malay, Indian and Eurasian influences. The language that Singaporeans speak: Singlish is a mix of English, Chinese languages, Tamil and Malay, the cultural mentality of Singapore was forged from the Chinese, Malay and Indian communities and the country's government has been controlled by Chinese and Indians and to an extent Malays. I have no idea how you can say it's "Chinese", when Singapore at the most basic level is pan-Asian.
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  3246.  @ur-inannak9565  Malay does not mean Malaysian. Malaysian is a nationality to describe people from Malaysia who are also multiethnic of Malay, Chinese, Indian and Orang Asli descent. Singaporeans and Malaysians are culturally and ethnically very similar and used to be one nation. So no, Singapore is not in East Asia and it is not Chinese. Try learning about Singapore (and Malaysia). That thing wanted to use violence against Singaporeans of Malay descent and you're here supporting that thing for trying to destroy the harmony Singapore has worked so hard to achieve. Not every nation can be successful like Singapore, there isn't a single Western nation that is successful in both economics and cultural relations like Singapore is.
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  3247. @ Singapore is a multiethnic nation made up of Chinese, Malays and Indians. The country is multiethnic, everything about Singapore is multiethnic. The food that all Singaporeans eat is a mix of Chinese, Malay, Indian and Eurasian influences. The language that Singaporeans speak: Singlish is a mix of English, Chinese languages, Tamil and Malay, the cultural mentality of Singapore was forged from the Chinese, Malay and Indian communities and the country's government has been controlled by Chinese and Indians and to an extent Malays. I have no idea how one can say it's "Chinese", when Singapore at the most basic level is pan-Asian.
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  3248. The person who created this video is an immigrant
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  3249. You haven't trained them properly. That's your own fault! Japan has been hiring Nepalese and Indian nurses for decades and there is no issue.
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  3250.  @tyronecardwell5132  Like I said your own fault! Why on earth are you hiring people that don't have the right qualifications????? Incompetent people blaming the employees instead of themselves for hiring the wrong people. Always this lot making everything about race.
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  3251. @ That English grammar is insane and this is an Anglo man living in Australia. Jeez...
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  3252.  @unclekumars8246  Yes I am aware of that
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  3253. How can you say that Aung San Suu Kyi is not a fan of Rohingyas or non-Buddhists? Some of her closest political allies are Burmese Muslims.
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  3254.  @archonmarch3965  Yes but that doesn't negate the fact that she has Muslim members in her government. Bamar Muslims are culturally very similar to the Bamar Buddhists. The Burmese military are the people who kicked out all of the Rohingyas out of the Burmese government in the late 20th century.
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  3255.  @archonmarch3965  1. Bamar Muslims and Bamar Buddhists eat the same food, use the same names, wear the same clothes, speak the same language. They're culturally similar. That's what I'm talking about here 2. It's very easy to judge from the outside without actually putting yourself in one's shoes. The very fact that ASSK was arrested is a clear indicator that she never had full control. She was a puppet. There is a reason why she was called the "de facto" leader of the country and not the "de jure" leader of the country. She was never official in the way other heads of states are.
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  3256.  @archonmarch3965  That is culture. Full stop. Ever heard of cultural diffusion? Chili peppers may have originated in the Americans but they are firmly part of the culinary cultures of South and Southeast Asia. Christianity didn't originate in Europe yet it's an integral part of the religious heritage of Europeans, whether Christian or non-Christian. Bamar Muslims and Bamar Buddhists are culturally similar. I have no idea why you are responding like this. What is it that you don't like?
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  3257.  @archonmarch3965  She was the de factor leader of Myanmar, aka the de facto head of state in the country. It doesn't matter how you feel about her, she was out there representing Myanmar at international forums because she was the de facto leader of the country. Extend the same courtesy to you? I haven't been rude to you. This also has nothing to do with the West so if you think a Western person's opinion on this is lesser than yours because you don't live in the West, then you're wrong.
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  3258.  @guyfawkes8384  but it worked in Singapore, maybe if you treat everybody equally then things can work out.
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  3259.  @timspiker  Embarrassing comment to post
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  3260.  @juamu1132  China is a great example of an ethnically diverse country that is united.
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  3261.  @aylmer666  There are so many other ethnic groups in Indonesia without any problem like the Balinese Hindus, Christian Ambonese, Acehnese, Batak, West Timorese etc. etc.
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  3262.  @timspiker  Do you think Asian is an ethnic group? 💀
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  3263.  @xedaslopes3975  Wrong. Tibeto-Burman is a language family, not a race. Chin people are not the same as Bamar people for example. Mon are not the same as Bamar either. You must think they all look the same too. Maramagyi people literally look like Rohingyas with light skin and yet culturally they are basically the same as Rakhine Buddhist people. There are Bamar people that look more like mainland Indians like military general, Soe Naing Oo. Are you going to say all Europeans are the same?
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  3264.  @timspiker  No what's embarrassing is that you're telling me that Asian is an ethnic group and then proceed to say all Burmese people are the same.💀Oh okay, then you are the same as a Russian.
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  3265.  @timspiker  Asian is not an ethnic group and Burmese people are ethnically diverse. R E A D.
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  3266.  @xedaslopes3975  Wrong. Idk why you think it's okay to say most Burmese people are the same even when the Tatmadaw is discriminating almost every single minority group in the country. Well okay then, since you want to make this all about genetics then I can say you are the same as a Russian and Palestinian.
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  3267. I agree that India's development is impended by democracy and it's not just India, it's all developing nations (especially Asian ones because I am most familiar with Asian cultures). The truth of the matter is India is not a Western country and just like what the think pieces of the China's Global Times say and its avid reader's who post comments, India is a traditional country controlled by typical Eastern mentality. By believing modernisation comes with Westernisation, India will never develop. Only one Asian country was able to Westernise and develop at the same time, that is Japan but that happened at a very different time period. The rise of the Asian Tigers and China show that traditional modes of Asian development is how Asian countries must develop. It is no surprise that the Southeast Asian nations of Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines as well as the South Asian nation of Bangladesh have adopted the Asian Tiger/East Asian (China+Japan) economic model. India was once on the right path when it engaged in manufacturing in the 1990s but its decades of closed economic borders, socialist policies and now a desire to align with the West has prevented the country from reaching its full potential.
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  3268.  @reach2prasanna  So India's window of opportunity is closing, with less children being born and that means less economic development and more pressure on the system to aid those older people who will retire. There needs to be people on the younger end that can support the growing elderly population. [PART 2]
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  3269.  @reach2prasanna  This is why Modi must unite the entire Indian population and pursue rapid development, by proving he his worthy he can be re-elected by people of all types (including minorites like Muslims). Maybe I'm too optimistic and I do not like Modi at all but I feel like he's the only one in India tm that can do anything. I don't think Rahul Gandhi or whoever is going to contest will be suitable for a developing India. You need someone hardline in my opinion but India does not have many options, it has to make do with what it has before the window closes. [PART 5]
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  3270.  @reach2prasanna  I must also say that India really needs to work with China in a better way. Every once in a while we see comments made by Chinese or Indian officials about how China and India must work together to realise the Asian Century and extend hands of support but they're only gestures. I think India is the one who is reluctant in accepting Chinese cooperation and I truly believe that a multi-polar Asia-Pacific is the only way tis region is going to survive. That means the Indians must work with China and somehow and urgently reinstate the status quo in regards to their disputes. It's not an easy thing to do but I hope it happens. I hope there are more people like you in India, you have the right ideas and forward thinking mindset that is needed in a country like India. [PART 6]
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  3271.  @wuhuhu1390  It's most definitely democracy in my opinion. South Korea began its process of economic modernisation under a military dictatorship. India is so far behind because of democracy. One can't speak of unity and culture when India is such an ethnically diverse country. As a democactic nation, those in the majority will vote for those who they view benefit them. Why is it that it's always northern Indians who vote for BJP and other Hindu nationalist figures whereas the southern states are not supportive of BJP? Majority rules. They are so incredibly far behind first because of socialist policies of the past and now because of democracy and their failure to open up their country. They can't move forward because of democracy. There is a reason why some states and territories in that country are more advanced than others. Culture would play a role in why some of those most advanced states are more advanced but it's also because they vote in leaders that benefit their states and territories.
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  3272.  @wuhuhu1390  Park Chung-hee, dictator of South Korea, initiated economic reforms in the 1960s which led to the Miracle of the Han River in the 1960s and 1970s, giving South Korea one of the fastest growing economic growth rates in the world at the time and making it in Asian Tiger. Chaebols (family-run conglomerates like Hyundai, Samsung) were also established under his rule and played a huge role in pushing South Korea into developed status.
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  3273.  @wuhuhu1390  South Korea was already a fully developed country by 2000. It, along with Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong experienced rapid growth during the 1960s-1990s and were collectively known as Asian Tigers. Their economic growth rates became a model for other Asian nations, specifically those in Southeast Asia from the 1990s-present and Bangladesh from the 2010s-present.
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  3274.  @wuhuhu1390  Sorry but you're not understanding my point. A dictatorship in South Korea ushered in the Miracle on the Han River. I'm not talking about developed status, I'm talking about the road to getting to developed status. South Korea as an Asian Tiger economy that emerged in the 1960s under a dictatorship. India is struggling to move forward rapidly in comparison to China and Asian Tigers because it is a democratic nation.
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  3275.  @wuhuhu1390  India's leaders come and go every 4 years, maybe some will last two terms but there is no concept of honouring in a democracy of a developing country. The new leader will undo everything the previous leader did because they have their own vision of development. That is not something that happens in an autocratic nation.
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  3276.  @wuhuhu1390  India is developed at such a slow pace because it stops and re-starts every time a new leader comes to power.
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  3277.  @wuhuhu1390  You didn't prove a single thing, instead you rambled on and on and on and on thinking you were making points... but you weren't. I'm done with this useless conversation. I only deal with facts.
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  3278.  @barryram2605  That's correct but you can easily make the same argument for the subregions of Europe too. Malaysia is a blend of Southeast, East and South Asian cultures. It's home to Malays, Chinese and Indians who have mixed together to create a cultural that is most similar to neighbouring Singapore than anywhere else in Asia. Absolutely correct but that's the thing, that's an outsider's perspective, it's not based on reality. If we were to divide Asia (exclude Central and West Asia) we could divide it into two main spheres, Sinosphere (East Asia + Vietnam) and Indosphere (South Asia + Southeast Asia). The cultural foundations of these two spheres are either Chinese (Sinic) or Indian (Indic). An equivalent in another continent would be the way Roman and Greek culture underpin southern and western European cultures, while Russia underpins eastern European culture and Nordic culture underpins the cultures of Scandinvaia. Each of the subregions of Asia can be divided up and those subregions can also have stark differences. For example, I actually can't find anything that a Sri Lankan or Nepalese could have in common with a Pakistani. Same thing with a Burmese and Filipino, despite both being Southeast Asian.
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  3279. Martha from Baby Reindeer
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  3280. Middle income trap? It's a high income nation and will remain one as per predictions for the rest of the 21st Century up to 2100.
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  3281. It's the flag of the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army
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  3282.  @Wipeout-tx4rl  You have zero respect for the victims, I hope you know that. Bad karma will treat you well
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  3283.  @acpgson695 Sri Lankan Malays are blood relatives of the Sinhalese and Sri Lankan Moors too. All sri lankan ethnic groups share blood relations because there has been intermixing between the different groups on the island and no the Moors are not extremists.
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  3284.  @acpgson695 Moors themselves are descendants of Arab men that married Tamil women or Tamil-speaking Muslim converts
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  3285. ⁠@ Sri Lankan Malays have blood relations with Sinhalese and Sri Lankan Moors too. All Sri Lankan groups are connected due to intermixing. Sri Lankan moors are genetically closest to the Tamils as they are descendants of Tamil converts to Islam or descendants of Arab men who married Sri Lankan Tamil women.
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  3286.  @garryslater3834  No it's not BS! Sinhalese are indeed closer to Tamils but there are Sinhalese with Malay ancestry, I am not talking about genetic distance. Yes Malays and Moors are a lot closer, I already mentioned that. The point is that Sri Lankans have mixed with one another. So everybody is connected one way or another
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  3287.  @markhowells13  Australia is a lap dog of the US. The government needs to rid itself off this mentality.
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  3288. Exactly, it's so embarrassing.
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  3289.  @vonn2221  Yeah nah, all we see are a lot of empty words.
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  3290.  @Kattufei135  Rohingyas are not Bengalis or Indians. They are different to the Indians brought by the British. Cool it with the racism.
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  3291.  @Kattufei135  They look Indian and so that must mean they're Indian? What even is that logic?? There are Acehnese people that look Indian, does that mean they're Indian? There are native Indonesian who look Chinese, does that mean they're Chinese? Please stop being racist.
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  3292.  @Kattufei135  Rohingyas don't speak an Indian language. Are you serious right now? You don't even know what you're talking about. Bangladesh was forced to accept them because they entered the country, Bangladesh didn't want to keep them though. Rohingyas were considered native to Myanmar until the Tatmadaw took over the country in the 1970s. Regular Burmese people accept Rohingyas, it's the Tatmadaw that is discriminating them. There is a Rohingya politician that has been elected to Aung San Suu Kyi's political party (NUG) and the NUG wants to re-integrate Rohingyas once the Burmese military has been removed from power. All that and you're saying such racist things.
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  3293.  @Kattufei135  Non-Mongoloid??? There are indigenous ethnic groups in Myanmar that DON'T look "mongoloid" like Kaman and Maramagyi and they are Burmese and seriously. The entire nation of Myanmar and the entirety of Bangladesh and eastern India is a mix of South Asian and Southeast Asian genes. The average Bengali has 10-15% Austroasiatic and Tibeto-Burman ancestry and average Bamar has around 10% South Asian ancestry. There are Bamar Buddhist military generals in the Tatmadaw that look more like typical Bangladeshis like Major General Soe Naing Oo. BTw, the average native Indonesian also has some Indian ancestry. Can't believe you just made this about appearance and genetics and said some of the most racist language to exist without knowing a single thing about Myanmar or why the Rohingyas were attacked.
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  3294. That's so distasteful
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  3295. @ Most Nusantara people in Sri Lanka are from Java and they were called Javanese in both the native languages of Sri Lanka: Sinhalese and Tamil and Dutch. The British are the ones who used the term Malay to classify all Nusantara people because they spoke a Malay dialect called Betawi Malay that developed into Sri Lankan Malay. Since then, the name has stuck. The pre-British legacy doesn't change the fact that Indonesian words were used to describe the Nusantara Sri Lankans. There are towns in Sri Lanka named after the Javanese as well as street names that are of Indonesian origin.
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  3296.  @bigm2156  You talking about Americans as a whole and yet they're talking about Arab Americans
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  3297.  @CoupleDrinks  Horrible comment. Hell is waiting.
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  3298.  @ingenuity296  There's a special place in hell for people that mock the dead
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  3299.  @chinavirus841  Bad karma will come knocking soon
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  3300.  @ingenuity296  You are though
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  3301.  @ingenuity296  and not everybody is heartless... you reap what you sow.
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  3302.  @paragonaaa817  How embarrassing when you try to be racist but can't even do it properly lmfaooooooooooooooooooo
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  3303. Truth of the matter is that China was giving the Sri Lankans things that India simply could not afford at the time.
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  3304.  @puppetmaster579  Possibly but Indonesia may end up having a lot more influence in ASEAN as it continues to grow. It will be among the 10 largest economies by the latter half of this century.
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  3305. What has ethnicity/race got to do with this? It's only "faith" that is the driving factor. Also, stop yelling.
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  3306.  @sandhopper599  The fact is that he was a Muslim, his ethnicity has nothing to do with it. There are only two reasons as to why you would think this way: 1. You think "Muslim" is a race (which is wrong) 2. You are unaware of the fact that Sri Lanka is a Buddhist majority country and that Muslims are only a minority over there (and now you know) The terrorist was radicalised by his Iraqi and Syrian neighbours.
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  3307.  @NA-sz7np  Ethnicity? Absolutely not. What does ethnicity have to do with this? Religion? Absolutely. The terrorist was radicalised by his Syrian and Iraqi neighbours. They all believe in Wahhabism, an ultraconservative branch of Islam. Strange how you say "yes" to ethnicity but "no" to religion.
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  3308.  @NA-sz7np  The terrorist was radicalised by his Iraqi and Syrian neighbours so again, I ask you what does ethnicity have to do with this? Also, let me ask you what is the ethnicity of the terrorist? I want to understand what it is exactly that you're thinking. ...and as I explained before this is a terrorist, like all of the other Islamic terrorists, who followed Wahhabism, an ultraconservative branch of Islam that emerged in Saudi Arabia and spread to Muslim populations all over the world through a process known as Arabisation.
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  3309.  @NA-sz7np  You're conflating, ethnicity, culture and religion together when they could all be understood separately and in this case, this was a Muslim man. The Muslim man practices Islam and is thus part of the Islamic cultural framework but ethnicity has nothing to do with it. His ethnicity is Moor (a distinct minority group in Sri Lanka). They aren't changing their ethnicity to Arab. Arabisation doesn't mean to identify as "Arab". Arabisation is about culture, adopting Arabic cultural traits. It's not just Arabs and neighbouring Middle Eastern people, It's so much more than that. Arabisation has affected Muslim groups well beyond the Middle East including among the Moors of Sri Lanka, the Malays of Malaysia, the Javanese of Indonesia, the Moro of the Philippines, the Bengalis of Bangladesh - all of these Muslim groups live in South or Southeast Asian countries.
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  3310.  @NA-sz7np  That's not the case. It's a fact that Arab traders brought Islam to Sri Lanka and some of them intermarried with locals (this also happened in other coastal areas in Asia such as Sumatra in Indonesia). Not all of them descend from Arabs though. However, their culture isn't Arabic. The type of Islam practiced by Moors in Sri Lanka is very different to Middle Eastern Islam. Sufism is the predominant type of Islam practiced by Moors in Sri Lanka and Sufism is considered "heretic" by conservative Muslims in the Middle East. That's why there has never been an issue with Muslims in Sri Lanka until Muslims started going to the Middle East to work and by working in Dubai and those places, they were exposed to ultraconservative Islam where men wear robes and women wear niqabs. The Sri Lankan Moors in Sri Lanka have been aware of Arabisation of their culture and have notified authorities in the past of extremist people who target Sufi believers and Buddhists. The type of Islam practiced across most of South and Southeast Asia is very different to Middle Eastern Islam. The man's Iraqi and Syrian neighbours radicalised him. That says it all.
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  3311.  @NA-sz7np  I honestly don't understand how you can say ultraconservative Islam has nothing to do with this and constantly speak about "interpretation". It has everything to do with it and I don't know what planet you live on then if you think otherwise. Ultraconservative Islam is the reason for this terrorist attack and Islam and other Abrahamic religions are not open to "interpretation" in the way you that you believe they do, they exist on very strict rules that must be followed such as Sharia law. That's why syncretism does not exist among the Abrahamic faiths like it does in Eastern faiths, it's impossible to practice other beliefs if you are to follow the teachings of Christianity or Islam.
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  3312.  @NA-sz7np  You can decide if you want to interpret it differently but if you are to follow the religion step by step as stated in these religious texts, then it's "ultraconservative". So Islam in its purest form is "ultraconservative" per 21st century globalised values. That's why the term "moderate Muslim" has emerged to describe those Muslims who are more moderate in the way they practice Islam. "Arabic Islam" is "Islam", Islam started in Saudi Arabia, all the other types of Islam found elsewhere in the world that aren't Arabisised are localised versions of the religion. Those localised versions like the Sufi-influenced form practiced by Moors in Sri Lanka or the version practiced in Indonesia or the version practiced in Tajikistan are moderate versions that have not absorbed the original Arabic version of Islam. There is a reason why Muslims outside of the Middle East are more liberal in the way they practice their religion because they have retained their own cultures or have been influenced by neighbouring cultures.
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  3313.  @sandhopper599  ...and what does his nationality have to do with anything? "Sri Lankan" is not a race...
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  3314.  @NA-sz7np  ...but isn't "god's" view the one that's dictated to the believers through the religious texts? Anything that deviates to what is stated in these religious texts is an interpretation but following the scriptures to a T is not. Abrahamic religions are very strict and their core beliefs are considered conservative.
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  3315.  @NA-sz7np  At the end of the day, the man committed a terrorist attack in the name of Islamic teachings. To say that this has nothing to do with religion is disasteful to those that have suffered due to the actions of these extremists. The whole root of this issue is religion. If these teachings in the religion did not exist, then there would be no such thing called "Arabisation" or Wahhabism. Also, if we're talking about socialists why would we identify a socialist from Poland as simply "Polish" without pointing out the fact that they are also a socialist?
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  3316.  @sandhopper599  Tell me what his nationality has to do with the situation. Are you aware of the fact that he was radicalised in New Zealand by his Iraqi and Syrian neighbours?
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  3317.  @sandhopper599  I'm not splitting hairs, the fact is "Sri Lankan" is not a race. There are many different ethnic groups in the country like Sinhalese, Tamils, Moors, Malays, Burghers/Eurasians, Veddas and much smaller groups like Chinese and Bhoras. That man came from the Moor ethnic group, a distinct minority ethnic group in Sri Lanka and yes he was radicalised in New Zealand by Syrian and Iraqi people. It needs to be understood that the form of Islam practiced in Sri Lanka by Moors is actually considered "heretic" by Middle Eastern Muslims. In fact, the type of Islam traditionally practiced across South and Southeast Asia is very liberal. That's why, until recently, South/Southeast Asian Muslim women didn't even cover their hair because they were still very much "Eastern" in their way of thinking. It's only after these Muslims started travelling to the Dubai, Qatar and other Middle East locations that they were exposed to the stricter branch of Islam.
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  3318.  @NA-sz7np  ...but the things is the ideology is demanding that they do that. So it has everything to do with religion. There is no such thing called "copyright" in religion, you can't apply modern concepts to talk about things like religion or philosophy. They're two very different worlds. It has nothing to do with ethnicity. If we use your logic then the Filipino Mindanao Muslim man who tried to orchestrate a terror attack in New York in 2017, planned it because of his ethnicity. He planned it in the name of religion just like this terrorist here in NZ, nothing to do with ethnicity.
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  3319.  @NA-sz7np  Firstly, it's "Sri Lankan", not "Siri Lankan". Secondly, you can find similarities in both groups if you really wanted to. You're inferring that there is a stark difference like comparing Japanese and English culture. Both are Asian cultures and thus there are similarities, particularly in regards to Buddhism and the cultural influences that came via ancient India (e.g. hungry ghost tradition). Imperial Japan, after all, wanted to colonise all of Asia (from India/Sri Lanka to the Pacific) because they believed in pan-Asianism (uniting the cultures of Asia that are rooted in Sinic and Indic cultures). I agree however that using "Asian" so broadly, especially to describe a single person, makes no sense.
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  3320.  @NA-sz7np  It wasn't carried out, it was a foiled attack. I can't send links because YT marks them as spam but it was a Filipino doctor who plotted the attack on NYC in 2017. Again, like Sri Lanka, there is a distinct Muslim minority group in the Philippines and this doctor had ties to the terrorist groups located in the southern region of the Philippines which is where this distinct Muslim minority group lives and where there is currently a war happening. I'm not sure why you can't accept the fact that this is simply due to religion. If that man wasn't a Muslim, he would never have been radicalised and adopted hardline Wahhabism from his neighbours and this wouldn't have happened. There are teachings in Islam, within the sect of Wahhabism (which is predominant in certain Arabic countries) that justify this type of thing. An Islamic cleric even said that this is something that needs to be addressed. So yes it's due to religion because it happened in the name of Wahhabism. To say otherwise, is incorrect.
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  3321.  @NA-sz7np  ...and Wahhabism is a sect of Islam, that can't be denied.
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  3322.  @NA-sz7np  Are you a Muslim?
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  3323.  @NA-sz7np  Yep I agree and so is lumping everybody from the same ethnic group with this terrorist too. Singaporean Muslims and most other Southeast/South Asian Muslims are very different to Arabs. In the end this was a terror attack carried about a man who was radicalised by his Arab neighbours into adopting Wahhabism, a sect that is not practiced outside of the Arab world and only emerges elsewhere through Saudi Arabia funding Islamic schools and mosques.
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  3324.  @missingno88  How is that a stereotype?
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  3325. Why do you expect them to talk about China just because it's about rice? So weird.
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  3326.  @tylerdurden4006  You have got to be kidding me
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  3327. ​ @gaosunibu  Chinese and Indians always fighting. Give the rest of us a break for crying out loud.
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  3328. I know, cinnamon smells so nice
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  3329. The Earth Kingdom has influences largely from China but also South and Southeast Asia (India, Vietnam) and Korea. The dominant Fire Nation influences are from Thailand, not Japan and there are influences from other Asian cultures like China, India and Japan. All of the nations in ATLA are a combination of elements from real world cultures.
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  3330.  @MisterCynic18  The only East Asian cultures represented at a large scale in the series are Chinese, Japanese and Tibetan. The bulk of the other cultural elements come from the Indian, Thai (yes, that's the dominant influence for the Fire Nation) and Inuit cultures with other elements from other cultures also present at various points in the series like Korean and Nepalese.
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  3331.  @SerCrispinCole  I'm a Buddhist, Buddhism isn't a branch of Hinduism. The only reason why Buddhism even exists is because the Buddha rejected the Vedas as he didn't see it fulfilling his life as a member of the Kshatriya caste.
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  3332.  @SerCrispinCole  So idk why you're saying "outsiders", because not a single Buddhist considers Buddhism a branch of Hinduism. I only ever see Indian Hindu males say this, never see Nepalese Hindus or Balinese Hindus say this.
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  3333. No offence but nobody is going to obsess over a country like Qatar or any of those Arab Gulf states. They haven't built themselves up in the way South Korea or Singapore or any of those nations have for anybody to have respect for them. They extracted oil, sold it and got blue and white collar workers from all over Asia, Africa and the West to do everything for them. Not to mention a multitude of other reasons as to why they have such a negative perception on the global stage. The only time I have ever seen such universal negative remarks directed towards a country, it has always been towards a Gulf nation. I am yet to see a single positive comment about any of those nations. The closest I have seen are defenders of Arab Gulf states who all happen to be from other Arabic-speaking Muslim-majority nations but that doesn't count at all.
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  3334. Well the region was known as Asia-Pacific until Trump came to power and started calling it "Indo-Pacific and for some reason, the name has stuck.
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  3335. @Noads3K What? She's of Bangladeshi descent
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  3336.  @AbhrajitSarkar-mk3lj  She's a she, not a he. Always the Indian men that are like this. Gosh, can we ban YouTube in India?
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  3337. Well if they are writing manifestos and encouraging violence and actually partaking in violence then yeah they're all cut from the same cloth.
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  3338.  @Titank_Production  Firstly, why are you defending terrorists??? These are terrorists. They killed people. Secondly, do you think jihadists started out with everything they have now? No they developed over time. The fact that incels are now murdering people and promoting mass murder by publishing manifestos, such as the case in Ohio, is a clear sign that they are mobilising in the same way jihadists too. They are cut from the same cloth. Incels are terrorists so stop defending terrorists.
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  3339. Incels defending incels, nothing to see here.
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  3340.  @AN-sf5bm  I didn't speak about marriage?
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  3341.  @AN-sf5bm  Literally what I said, incels defending incels. That is what I said and that is what I meant. Only incels will defend incels and downplay the severity of their mentality.
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  3342. Meitei are native to Myanmar though. I heard from some Manipuris and other Indians that many of the Kuki Chin fighting against the Meitei are from Myanmar. Is that true? Idk what to believe but this is what they were saying under a Singaporean video about the conflict.
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  3343. A very heartless comment
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  3344. Bad karma's going to come knocking on your door Debra.
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  3345. America's economy is powered by war, they need as many wars as possible. So they're grooming Australia now.
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  3346. India has always been the loose cannon in QUAD. It has never truly fulfilled the role it's believed to pursue because it knows that stable relations with China is necessary.
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  3347.  @PrashanthB-bi7lc  China's customers = US only
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  3348.  @NeostormXLMAX  Russia vetoes everything. 💀
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  3349. Blacks of India? What does this even mean???
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  3350. These are Malaysian Indians, not Indians from India. Type M
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  3351.  @alexputra-w1u  I'm not even Indian. Everything about Malay people and culture is rooted in Indian culture, you even have some Indian ancestry and now you're trying to be Arabs by becoming Muslims and thinking to be Muslim is to be Arab. Malaysia wouldn't be all that without the Chinese, Indians, Orang Asli and other groups. It's no wonder y'all are so bitter and fear domination that you had to introduce bumiputera.
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  3352. I'm not even Indian. Everything about Malay people and culture is rooted in Indian culture, you even have some Indian ancestry and now you're trying to be Arabs by becoming Muslims and thinking to be Muslim is to be Arab. Malaysia wouldn't be all that without the Chinese, Indians, Orang Asli and other groups. It's no wonder y'all are so bitter and fear domination that you had to introduce bumiputera.
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  3353.  @alexputra-w1u  I'm not even Indian. Everything about Malay people and culture is rooted in Indian culture, you even have some Indian ancestry and now you're trying to be Arabs by becoming Muslims and thinking to be Muslim is to be Arab.
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  3354. Malaysia wouldn't be all that without all of the other ethnic groups. FYI, I'm not even Malaysian but know so much about it. Nobody is going to Malaysia to see hyper religious Malay Muslims.
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  3355. I'm not even Indian. Everything about Malay people and culture is rooted in Indian culture, Malays even have some Indian ancestry and now they're trying to be Arabs.
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  3356. I'm not even Malaysian lol
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  3357. @ Gagged
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  3358.  @perorenchino2036  Can you please elaborate?
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  3359.  @SrValeriolete  He never intended on creating a religion. You're looking at this from a Western lens instead of an Asian one. In ancient India, there was no concept of organised religion, it was simply a set of practices that were deeply imbedded in the general way of life of the people. So no, the Buddha didn't create a religion. He never said he has the truth and his truth is the only truth. There is no such thing as "never before heard Dharma". Dharma does not mean religion, it can't even be translated.
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  3360.  @keshavraman7739  They're related. Do you not understand that?
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  3361.  @fanpulse5439  cause those three countries are the only ones that matter, it's called the Asian Century for a reason. China slowly pushing the Asian countries to its side and away from the US, so exciting
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  3362.  @fanpulse5439  Those are the only three that matter, that's why. It's the Asian Century after all
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  3363.  @iceteazen  That was a political crisis, not an economic crisis. No different to Thailand's 2014 coup.
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  3364. Well Japan doesn't accept refugees and most refugee applicants to Japan come from other Asian countries that have no conflicts.
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  3365. It's because he portrayed a migrant worker. There are more Pakistanis in Korea than Indians.
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  3366.  Unknown Guy  It's not because they wanted to show him poor. The whole premise of the show was to provide commentary on modern Korean society and how inequality manifests in the capitalist driven Korean society that it is. South and Southeast Asian migrant workers are a prominent community in the Korean workforce doing jobs that the Korean population are not interested in doing and it make up for the shrinking labour force in the country. What you said about the agreement is right, Korea has signed deals with other Asian countries (South, Central and Southeast Asia and China) since the early 1990s to bring in migrant workers to temporarily work in the country on special visas that are only meant for migrant workers from these countries.
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  3367. It's correct
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  3368.  @palstime150  That's because those areas are not under the control of India, they're under the control of Pakistan. So no, the map is actually correct.
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  3369.  @palstime150  No I'm from Australia. I'm not Pakistani.
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  3370.  @palstime150  The rest of the world recognises that Kashmir is disputed between India and Pakistan and so the map is correct because it's disputed.
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  3371. These comments have me cackling
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  3372. Lol he thinks he's Russian
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  3373.  @benwyness148  They're incels, nothing more to it.
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  3374. The military committed the genocide, not Aung San Suu Kyi.
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  3375.  @wildturtle126  The genocide against the Rohingyas. Everybody knows and there are people in Myanmar who have awoken to the truth. The thing is, Aung San Suu Kyi is not to blame. The Burmese military is the one who committed the genocide and they are the ones currently wrecking havoc in Myanmar by taking over the country's government in full once again. The military is to blame for everything.
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  3376.  @vikramaditya6812  Yes this is why syncretism exists among all Eastern religions, people blending Hindu and Buddhist practices or blending Shinto and Buddhist practices or blending Taoist and Buddhist practices and so on.
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  3377. @rohitsharma-e8h Indian Americans are very different to Indians in India. The former are well mannered and successful, the latter not so much
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  3378. Why would you think India should be above Iran and Sri Lanka? Please be serious for a second.
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  3379. Idk what you know about those countries but both Iran and Sri Lanka are a lot more socially developed than India and their human development and national income rankings are a lot higher than India's rankings.
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  3380. This crisis actually has nothing to do with China.
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  3381.  @aldonalidia3850  The show is an allegory of Korean society. It's specifically representing the issues of the capitalist Korean society.
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  3382. The person who created this video is an immigrant from the Middle East. Look at his bio
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  3383. Well what else if there in Mumbai to see besides the skyscrapers juxtaposed against the slums? Street level-wise, most of Mumbai is no different to a place like Delhi, it lacks infrastructure.
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  3384.  @evilentity302  South China Morning Post has nothing to do with the CCP, it's an international Hong Kong-based media outlet.
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  3385. He should have encouraged cultural integration like the policies introduced in certain Southeast Asian countries to integrate the Chinese populations.
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  3386.  Mr Beast  He did a very bad job, that's why Uganda suffered.
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  3387. Absolutely not
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  3388.  @chankaan888  This has nothing to do with any of that, it's about quality of life, life expectancy, national income, HDI and other factors.
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  3389.  @chankaan888  It's a ranking of countries in Asia regarding quality of life, big or small doesn't matter as they're all Asian. China just isn't #1.
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  3390.  @chankaan888  So many Chinese people, including millionaires, move to Singapore and yet somehow you think the country is #1. You're Chinese, so you want to see China at #1 but objectively speaking, it's not.
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  3391.  @chankaan888  More than 50,000 people from China have made their way to the US-Mexico border in an attempt to cross over into the US, the highest number in recent memory. China is not #1, I'm sorry.
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  3392.  @onjajaboy  Why are you laughing? Are you laughing too when your people are convicted of gang g** in Europe?
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  3393. @ My reaction when I see Arabs/Middle Easterners/Lebs arrested in Europe for gang g
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  3394. @ East Asians being ray sis again
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  3395. It's always the East Asians
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  3396.  @MiguelDLewis  Hello again. 😊 Ah I see, yes I understand what you're talking about but I don't think they were refugees. From what I remember they were selected by that Japanese employer to come work in Japan and he said that he preferred them because they were like the Japanese in that they were calm and devout Buddhists. I don't think they're allowed to stay permanently in Japan though. As this video explained, pathway to citizenship is very strict.
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  3397.  @MiguelDLewis  Seek refuge and applying as a refugee are two different things. Those workers did not go to Japan as refugees, if that was the case then they would've been granted refugee status. They didn't. Learn the difference between the two.
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  3398.  @MiguelDLewis  There are thousands of Russians and Ukrainians living across tropical Asia in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam and Bali. They have been given extended visas to escape the war or the draft but they are not refugees. This is the same case in regards to those Burmese workers. They are not refugees. The real refugees from Myanmar are the ones living in refugee camps in India, Bangladesh, Thailand and China along the Myanmar border.
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  3399. Japan prefers Vietnamese, Filipinos, Nepalese, Burmese, Indonesians and other Asians, including many who are brown skinned. They don't want white people who are culturally incompatible with Japanese culture. So don't say "maybe white people", it's not "maybe", it's "never".
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  3400. There are news reports on all of these places. Look it up
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  3401.  @sayfolman7752  Rohingyas are not Indians. The sheer racism.
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  3402.  @supersn6295  No they're from Myanmar
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  3403.  @zect556  No they're originally from Myanmar. The claim that they were brought in by the British is a lie peddled by the Tatmadaw. At the time of the Arakan Kingdom, there were people described as Arakanese Muslims who are purported to be the Rohingyas we know today. British colonisation and the merging of British Burma with British India resulted in immigration from India to Myanmar, now maybe there were Muslims who made their way to Myanmar and adopted the Rohingya identity and inflated the size of the Rohingya community but the idea that every Rohingya is from modern Bangladesh is incorrect.
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  3404.  @zect556  The Tatmadaw claims that the Rohingyas are from Bangladesh and that the only indigenous Muslim group in Rakhine State are the Kaman Muslims (who look similar to the Rohingyas). The Tatmadaw claims that any Rohingya claiming to be "Burmese" are pretending to be Kaman in order to get Burmese identity cards. Since the 2021 coup, there is greater understanding of the issue and clear visibility that the Tatmadaw are targeting everybody who does not conform to Bamar culture. That is why other minority groups like Shan, Karen and Kachin are also being targeted with greater force.
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  3405.  @pikachuthunderbolt3919  The person you replied to is an Indonesian, not a Bangladeshi. You are an Indian and they're claiming that you and Rohingyas are the same "race" with the same skin colour. So while you spread vitriolic racist remarks against Rohingyas, the very people that you are supposedly siding with are targeting you and claiming you are no different to Rohingyas. 😂
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  3406.  @zect556  Well they're from Myanmar. Them causing problems is another issue.
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  3407.  @adekurniawan4130  Nobody wants to become an Indonesian citizen. Calm down. Aceh needs saving from its own people. All that extreme Islamic fanaticism, Sharia law and discrimination against people who don't practice conservative Islam. The people you need saving from are your own people. Same with Malay Muslims in Malaysia. No wonder foreigners only love Bali.
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  3408. It's crazy how you think Singapore is an oppressive authoritarian regime with a lack of accountability or transparency. Idk what country you are from but wherever you live clearly is promoting propaganda to you if you think Singapore is on the level of a place like China or North Korea or Myanmar.
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  3409. Agreed.
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  3410. Well good thing nobody wants war, unlike y'all
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  3411.  @HoldMyCowsberg  What has this got to do with Indians?
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  3412. China wants Arunachal Pradesh because it has Tawang. The 6th Dalai Lama was born in Tawang. China fears the idea of a Dalai Lama being born in India as it now controls Tibet so the entire pan-Indo-Tibetan cultural sphere is seen as something that China must take control of. China also has something called the "5 Fingers of Tibet" and it refers to Tibet being the palm of the hand and Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh being the fingers and that the "fingers" need to be connected to Tibet. Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh all share the same Indo-Tibetan cultural heritage and so ideally these areas should become part of China per the CCP's views.
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  3413.  @k.k.c8670  Yes Indo-Tibetan cultural sphere. Tibet has NEVER a been a part of India but it absorbed cultural influences from India and the Himalayan areas. The entire region of the Himalayas is described as "Indo-Tibetan" because it is a blend of Indian and Tibetan culture. Don't try to tell me that Tibet and the entire Himalayan region belong to China, they DON'T. Are you trying to tell me Tibet, Ladakh, Nepal, Bhutan, Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim are "lost territories of China"? We already know the CCP has claimed this in the past. I don't need to learn any history because I already know it. You don't know though. BTW, I'm not from India. Why are Chinese and Indian people always trying to claim other Asian countries as their own???? These two countries are creating instability in Asia. Living comfortable in the West while you harbour these views. Abhorrent.
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  3414.  @Flanker-L  I'm not from India lmfao
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  3415.  @k.k.c8670  Right here in East and Southeast Asia? How do you live in two places at the same time?? Be specific. All I know is that you harbour these views and don't live in the PRC. Did I not tell you that I'm not from India? You're coping hard lmfao.
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  3416.  @k.k.c8670  Comfortably living in another country harbouring these views instead of moving yourself to mainland China. Typical.
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  3417.  @annsgal2025  There's nothing about Indian immigrants but there was a study a few years ago where they tested the IQ of 10 year old Americans and divided them along ethnic lines and the Indian Americans kids had IQs a lot higher than the American average, same with the Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Filipino American kids. Mixed race kids of half Indian and half White, half Chinese and half White, half Japanese/Korean and half White and half Filipino and half White had above average IQs too.
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  3418.  @annsgal2025  "A Genetic Hypothesis for American Race/Ethnic Differences in Mean g: A Reply to Warne (2021) with Fifteen New Empirical Tests Using the ABCD Dataset" - that's the source that was used to create that diagram that someone created which consolidated all of the IQ scores
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  3419.  @LeonBelmont1000  He did everything legally
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  3420. IT'S CORRECT
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  3421. @ No it's not
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  3422. You could easily make the same claim for the rest of India, not just the northeast.
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  3423.  @GoodVibes9988  They don't care because the Meitei Hindus (their cultural brethren) are committing atrocities against the minority Kuki-Chin because the Meitei desire tribal status. Had it been the other way, they'd be talking.
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  3424. Yep and the success stories of the region (Singapore and Malaysia) will suffer greatly, especially Singapore. No wonder Singapore invests so heavily in its military to the point it has the strongest military in Southeast Asia, it knows it faces threats that could jeopardise its existence.
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  3425.  @SuperStockist-lc6pj  The people being discriminated against in India are literally Indians. Logic left the chat
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  3426.  @mos9139  I'm not from India...
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  3427.  @youknowme2322  When will this talk of "being colonised" end? The excuses need to stop or India will never develop. Constantly claiming to be a victim leads to nowhere. Chinese saw themselves as victims but then they got up and rose. Anyway, India wasn't the only one that was colonised. Malaysia was colonised and it's set to become a developed nation by at least 2027. Maldives was colonised, once classified as an LDC and yet it's on track to becoming a high income nation at least by the 2030s. Ireland was colonised by the UK, subjugated by the English, faced persecution and viewed as inferior (businesses refused to Irish customers), the Irish Potato Famine occurred and yet it became a developed country.
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  3428. Yeah true, nobody cares about this stuff in Asia.
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  3429. Journey To The West is a Chinese Buddhist classical novel. Buddhism has no issue with LGBT or women, cry. So there is no need to bring this up in situations where it doesn't matter.
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  3430.  @SirisenaDhammarakhita  The Rohingyas are not illegals. They were considered indigenous to Myanmar until the Tatmadaw came to power. Aung San Suu Kyi's NUG literally has a Rohingya minister in her political party. There was a genocide and the Tatmadaw are behind it, ordinary Burmese realise what the Tatmadaw did and now support them.
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  3431.  @haricharan9852  They are not terrorists. They were considered indigenous to Myanmar until the Tatmadaw came to power. Aung San Suu Kyi's NUG literally has a Rohingya minister in her political party. There was a genocide and the Tatmadaw are behind it, ordinary Burmese realise what the Tatmadaw did and now support them.T rust that it's always men from India spreading this rhetoric against Rohingyas. The rest of Asia has moved on, only India is still peddling propaganda about the Rohingyas. This is why India is supporting the Tatmadaw instead of the anti-military groups because India and Tatmadaw are made for each other.
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  3432.  @SirisenaDhammarakhita  The same thing did not happen to the Chakma. The Chakma were not stripped off their citizenship and rendered stateless. Instead of worrying about what's going on in other countries, spend this time focusing on the persecuted people in your own country. All this energy focusing on others and not a single word about what's happening in your own country.
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  3433.  @SirisenaDhammarakhita  There is not a single Rohingya organisation that is linked to ISIS and no they absolutely did not want to impose Sharia law on Rakhine State. What propaganda are you consuming? Oh my gosh, after everything that has happened to your country you still harbour this extremist mentality. This is why Lee Kuan Yew was right about your ethnic group. His own country is collapsing right in front of our eyes and yet despite that he is still filled with extreme hatred.
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  3434.  @charlespaton3016  You are literally an Indian.
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  3435.  @SirisenaDhammarakhita  That is history. That organisation doesn't even exist anymore. Use Google and learn about what has happened in Rakhine State since then. We are in 2023, not the 1970s. Keep up.
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  3436.  @SirisenaDhammarakhita  I'm a Buddhist but unlike you, I live in a high income developed country which isn't plagued by Buddhist extremists who are more interested in persecuting ethnic minorities.
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  3437.  @SirisenaDhammarakhita  Stop focusing on other persecuted minorities and start speaking up for the persecuted ethnic minorities in your own country! The whole world knows what happened in your country. Just because the war is over, does not mean discrimination no longer exists.
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  3438.  @SirisenaDhammarakhita  Rohingyas literally had citizenship until they were stripped off it in the 1960s. There were Rohingyas in the Burmese parliament. Maybe update yourself on what's going on because there is now a Rohingya minister in Aung San Suu Kyi's National Unity Government.
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  3439.  @SirisenaDhammarakhita  Did I say you were from Myanmar? No I did not. High income in India? Who do you think you're fooling? Always the Indian men focusing on what's going on outside of their nation rather than what's going on inside their nation. You are not a Buddhist, you simply identify as one but don't actually understand the teachings.
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  3440.  @SirisenaDhammarakhita  They had citizenship. Saying they didn't isn't going to change reality. If they had no citizenship, how on earth were there Rohingya politicians in the Burmese government before the rise of the Tatmadaw? With all of the issues plaguing India these days, you still focus on what's going on in other countries and no, no Bangladeshi has voted in Indian elections. You are a North Indian Hindu larping as a "Buddhist".
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  3441.  @SirisenaDhammarakhita  I'm from Australia and I'm a Buddhist. Australia is a high income nation. I'm not a hateful person. Do you not have any humility? When Google is right there, you still can't use it to verify your information before you post a comment. Indian man, there were multiple Rohingyas elected to the Burmese parliament in the 1950s such as Aye Nyunt (Zura Begum) and multiple more were elected in the 1990s such as Chit Lwin Ebrahim, Tin Maung and Kyaw Min (Shamsul Anwarul Huq). Google is right there, USE IT!
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  3442. Yes English is the main language of Singapore as it's the unifying language of the country's Chinese, Malay and Tamil populations.
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  3443. They're not illegals from Bangladesh. They're Rohingyas. Parroting the propaganda of the Tatmadaw, you need to be conscripted ASAP
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  3444.  @lupen_rein  Exactly, Dang Kung needs to be conscripted since he's so in love with Tatmadaw propaganda.
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  3445. China, India and Japan only care about money. This is why they continue to say nothing. So called democratic nations (India and Japan) and they don't even support pro-democracy activists in Myanmar. Incredibly ironic.
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  3446. I think something that is not as well understood among many people is that the ethnic groups we see today are the result of mixing (whether that's between two genetically different components or two components from the same lineage). The idea of "race" is very much an idea that was propagated worldwide through European colonisation and is rooted in facial features, rather than skin deep genetics.
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  3447. @Jenete j It's the ignorance for me. You people hark on about India like we're still in the 1950s. They have a fertility rate of 2.2 - menaing women on average are having around 2 children. You should direct your attention at other countries where the fertility rate is 6 meaning women on average are having 6 children.
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  3448.  @floppy_hands1770  What? I'm merely correcting the OP's comment about India's fertility rate.
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  3449.  @jetskiwillywilly7970  ISRO is from India
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  3450.  @karu489  um...
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  3451.  @srikandisuryavarman222  It's about Malay Muslim identity
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  3452.  @srikandisuryavarman222  Muslims make up the majority of Satun, 77%.
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  3453.  @jedicake3177  No I never did.
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  3454. What Indians in India should understand is that Trump only loves the INDIAN AMERICANS. He is fond of the HINDU AMERICANS. Indian Americans are hardworking people, they are overrepresented in the STEM fields, pioneers in new inventions in the US, dominate the academic sector (alongside other Asian Americans) and contribute so much to the US economy. While I am not quick to use IQ to define groups, a study of 10 year old American kids found those with Indian heritage collectively had one of the highest IQs in the study. These are elite, dare I say superior people, it is no surprise that White nationalists, such as Professor Wax, have in recent years begun speaking about their fears of the "rise of an Asian elite (especially Indian)" in the US. Indian Americans are not the same as Indians in India. Indians in India are instead trying to enter the US illegally via the Mexico border en masse, they are the face of all of the anti-Indian hate that exists on social media and their recent immigrants are wrecking havoc in the USA's northern neighbour of Canada. When people say, "Indians are hardworking, great people", they're talking about the Indian Americans. Anybody that thinks otherwise, make sure you bookmark this video and read my comment again when Trump decides to put tariffs on Indian goods. You Indians in India need to understand this.
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  3455. and for the record, there is a growing distinction on social media, especially on TikTok, where young American people are now saying, "they like and have no problems with Indian Americans" but not the "Indians from India". Trump will ALWAYS put Americans first, don't you ever think that he will put Indians in India first. Do something first to make people respect you.
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  3456. @Zaydan Alfariz He's no dark skinned, he's just trying to make an unjust remark about the USA
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  3457.  @Catlily5  I don't think so. Nepal and colorism are not correlated. Many people can be high caste and be of darker colour but generally speaking, most Nepalis have lighter skin compared to most other South Asians (Himalayan people are generally the lightest people in South Asia). I would say it's because of India's cultural influence. India was the main cultural power in South and Southeast Asia and the concept of idolisation of light skin and high bridged noses among other things can be seen in Hindu poetry. Indian cultural influence spread across South and Southeast Asia so that explains why lighter skin is preferred across South and Southeast Asia (even in countries where a caste system doesn't exist and were never colonised such as in Bhutan and Thailand).
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  3458.  @HenryLeslieGraham  I feel sorry for you people, imagine living in a toxic country where you can't see the world without making everything a left/right wing issue even when it has nothing to do with any of that. This is why the USA is experiencing societal collapse and China is rising. Have fun on the ride down Henry, I'll be laughing at the top.
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  3459.  @shalonsmith3653  You're probably the type of person to think South Asians are just Indians and believe in sweeping generalisations, just saying.
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  3460.  @HenryLeslieGraham  You're talking about the US, not the West. Don't drag the rest of the West into this. Nobody in Australia or New Zealand is obsessed with right/left wing politics unlike you. So like I said, enjoy the ride down Henry. You're focusing on the wrong things and you don't even realise it.
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  3461. ​ @HenryLeslieGraham  Australia is not polarised along right and left wing politics unlike the US. There is no bona fide left wing and right wing party in Australia unlike the US. It is blurred. This is what I mean. Maybe do a little reading on Australian politics and society and you'll know. "You must not watch the news? I live in Australia, I know more about my country than an American. Be serious. Our location in the Indo-Pacific honestly has made us cultivate a different type of mentality.
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  3462. @Vegas Element If they're light skinned and white-passing they aren't going to experience colorism.
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  3463. @Vegas Element You must be a white-passing mixed race person that wants to be a victim so bad.
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  3464. @Vegas Element No, there was that man that was completely white passing. I'm from a country that is not obsessed with race unlike the United States of America. If people in my country saw that man on the street, everybody would think he's white. White-passing people don't face colorism. Don't make this about "sweeping generalisations" and all that, maybe stop wanting to be a victim so bad and just accept the fact that you're lucky to not have to worry about being stopped and attacked because of the colour of your skin and your features.
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  3465. @Vegas Element So white-passing, that explains why you're gravely offended by what I said.
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  3466. @Vegas Element He's white passing and I have every right to talk about it because I'm from a Western country and social media is American-dominated. Seeing white-passing people claim they're victims of colorism and racism is really strange to me because nobody sees you as anything but white European. Shouldn't they be glad that they don't have to face racism or colorism? The answer is "yes" but because of identity politics, so many of these people try so hard to be seen as victims and co-opt struggles of non-white people who just want to move on with their lives and not have to worry about these types of things. That white-passing man who said, "i'm the darkest black person in the room" while pointing to his pale skinned hand was really surprising to me.
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  3467. @Vegas Element I actually do know what I am talking about, you don't however because you're supposedly white passing.
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  3468. @Vegas Element I know exactly what I am talking about. You can keep replying to me and getting upset but I 100% know what I am talking about. Stop being xenophobic and just accept that I know what is being discussed here. Rich of you to talk about you facing colorism as a pale skinned man and then go on and be xenophobic to me in the same breath. Please, be serious.
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  3469. The Philippine fertility rate and Bangladesh fertility rate is 1.9 - it's below replacement level.
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  3470.  @user-je7pc2mp5e  They were hating on him still
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  3471. He faced hate too
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  3472.  @nasaihyana  Well everything said in this video is true.
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  3473.  @artificialanimeuniverse  South Africa is a third world nation though
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  3474. Yeah India won't do that, they'll remain neutral until they're actually attacked and even then, they may not want to start a war with China.
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  3475. ​ @darno-qq4uf  I'm not from India, can you please explain to me what happened? What was the Stephanie Soo video about?
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  3476.  @vasavinayar1705  The Indian government does the same thing. They literally banned a video from my country that reported on the Khalistan issue. They're no different.
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  3477. The victims were immigrants
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  3478.  @daniellebcooper7160  You say "multiculturalism has been forced onto us" without realising that the native people of Australia are Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders and that Australia has, since colonial times, also been settled by people from Central Asia and the Middle East (e.g. the Afghan cameleers) and Japanese, Sri Lankan, Chinese, Filipino and Malay pearl divers among others who settled in northern Australia. Let's also not forget that the first inhabitants of the Australian territory of Christmas Island (and who formed the majority before permanent European settlement) were the Chinese, Malays and Indians from Singapore/Malaysia and that the natives of the Cocos Islands are the Cocos Malays. Learn about Australian history and Australia's diversity, Danielle B Cooper.
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  3479.  @daniellebcooper7160  No you aren't aware of Australian history. You know nothing about Australia. I'm sure the little you know about this country is the stuff you learned in primary school and high school. You haven't cared one bit to learn about this country's history beyond the stuff you're taught. So don't tell me It's a "warped version". It's not my problem you know absolutely nothing about this country and its overseas territories. BTW, I'm not talking about China but I'm not denying what they are doing either. The point is that I'm talking about your comment regarding Australia, that is all.
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  3480.  @daniellebcooper7160  How am I trying to change history when I'm literally stating facts? Just because you don't like what I have said, doesn't mean I'm changing facts. Quit with the "woke card", we're in the real world and I'm stating facts. I don't care about anything else you're saying, he fact of the matter is that since colonial times, other ethnic groups (including other people from Europe) have settled in Australia. That is a fact no matter how many times you claim it isn't. I don't care how long you've lived there because clearly you don't have the full picture of the Northern Territory or any of the other neighbouring areas like Broome or the Torres Strait Islands. If you were more aware of the types of people who live up in the northern areas of the country, you'd know that many Aboriginal Australians have some Asian ancestry dating back to those pearl divers and that the people of Broome celebrate an Asian-inspired festival known as Shinju Matsuri which emerged by combining the Japanese Obon, Malaysian Hari Merdeka and Chinese Hang Seng festivals. Your complete disregard to Christmas Islanders shows me you have zero respect for the nation of Australia. Instead of rambling online, why don't you air out your views in public? Go say all of this to someone's face. If you're that adamant about airing out your views, go outside and say it to random people you meet irl just like what you do online. Wait, nevermind you won't and will never do that.
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  3481.  @daniellebcooper7160  You speak as if none of those groups contributed to the development of Australia. For example, Australia was the largest exporter of pearl shells and that's due to the work of the pearl divers of indigenous and Asian descent. So start respecting the indigenous people of this country and the myriad of other people that came to Australia from other parts of Europe, Asia, Africa etc. Stop thinking they're lesser. Quit with this whole "woke" thing. It's crazy how people claim anything that goes beyond their scope of knowledge as "fake news" and "wokeness". Not my problem that some people know next to nothing about Australia beyond the stuff they were taught at school or from their racist ancestors.
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  3482.  @daniellebcooper7160  How am I trying to blow their contributions out of proportion? You literally said that Australia was not a multicultural society and I merely corrected you on your misinformation by talking about the indigenous people and the migrants that came from other parts of Europe, Asia etc. You're twisting my words and rambling about "wokeness" when all you had to do was accept the facts. What I said is a fact. Idk why you're rambling about wokeness and doing everything in your power to shut down what I'm saying when this is basic information you gather from books, online or at Australian museums. Instead of putting words into my mouth, re-read what I have posted before you reply and make sure you understand the facts. Let go of this whole "woke" mentality you have going on. Considering your visible contempt for Indigenous Australians based on your other reply, I think it's safe to say that you've learned it from somewhere. It often starts in the home. So no, I'm not assuming anything. I'm merely coming to an educated conclusion based on what I've seen.
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  3483.  @daniellebcooper7160  Someone else called you out on your attitude towards Aboriginal Australians, maybe scroll up and read through every single sentence you posted in your essay-long replies before replying. It's right there, you just need to look. 16% of Australians are of Asian descent, you think 16% is a small number? This is basic statistics, 16% is not a "small percentage". We learn this in year 7. So you have a problem with non-Anglo Australians being featured in commercials yet continue speaking about "wokeness" and being upset? You really have an issue with non-Anglo Australian people, don't you? Idk why you're so bitter and hateful towards people different to your own ethnic group. Imagine getting upset because TV advertisements are featuring more ethnically diverse people. It actually reflects Australia's population. Why are you being so hateful and bitter? Go outside, you think everybody you see is Anglo-Australian? Like I said before, you learn it at home. So yes, my educated conclusion is correct. Also there is an irony in all of this. You continue to talk down on non-Anglo Australians and speak about the English yet despite being born and raised in this country, you can't construct a gramatically correct sentence in the English language, the national language of this country. Danielle B Cooper, it's time you took several seats.
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  3484. ​ @daniellebcooper7160  So you're saying that all minorities should remain invisible from society because they're minorities? They shouldn't be considered a part of Australian society and represented as such because they are minorities? I actually have no understanding why you have so much contempt for non-Anglo Australians. What's the problem? If you can't see what's problematic about what you said, then I can't help you there. You're literally speaking ill of indigenous Australians and complaining that non-Anglo Australians are being included in TV advertisements. You're literally speaking down on all of these people because you're so upset at their existence.
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  3485.  @daniellebcooper7160  Nobody's twisting anything Danielle, it's all you.
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  3486.  @daniellebcooper7160  I'm not twisting anything. You inferred that people who are in the minority shouldn't be visible on TV screens. You're upset about the fact that non-Anglo Australian minorities are being featured in advertisements for Coles, Woolworths, banks and so on. You're upset about that and that gives me the idea that you don't want to see any non-Anglo Australians on TV. It's not overuse. 36.1% of Australians are English, the other 63.9% of Australians are of other European, Asian, African, Pacific Islander etc. origins and you're telling me that they are overrepresented. Idk why you're so upset that a Chinese woman, Italian nonna or Indian mother are being featured in random advertisements on TV when they are part of the Australian population. Why are you so upset about this? If you scroll up you'll find another user who called you out but you never replied to them. Supporting Jacinta Price doesn't mean one's racist views towards Aboriginals is cancelled out. I'm sorry but it looks to me that you call everybody you disagree with an SJW/Woke person. Why? I don't know what your intention is Danielle but I'll say this. You saying these things makes it seem like those of us who are not of Anglo origin don't deserve to be here and considering the fact that Australia has a sad history of targeting new migrants (Irish, Italians, Greeks, Dutch, Vietnamese, Lebanese etc.), your views sound all the more worse. I don't know what your other beliefs are but that's the impression I have received from your comments. P.S. Thanks + good morning
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  3487.  @daniellebcooper7160  I agree, I too am against anybody that threatens Australian culture or speaks down on our country or bullies us. I just got the impression that you have an issue with non-Anglo Australian people and nobody is shoving anything down anybody's throats. It's our reality, we're part of Australia too and so of course we're going to be featured in advertisements. When I started high school last decade, I joined a drama school as an extra curricular activity and these drama schools are where advertisers select people to feature in ads on TV. Our entire class was ethnically diverse. My teacher was mixed race and she was selected for an advertisement. It's just reality. It's not wokeness or anything like that. Other Europeans, Asians, Africans, Latin Americans etc. are part of Australian society too so of course you'll see them on screen. Danielle, I think I should be the last person you should argue with. Some of your initial comments up above about the Chinese government, I agree with because they're true and I am most definitely not a supporter of the bullying tactics that the CCP uses against us or other Asia-Pacific nations.
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  3488.  @dongshengdi773  Oh pls like what they did to Libya right?
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  3489.  @ragglefraggle9111  India becoming number 1 is not because of extreme population growth, they will reach number 1 because of China's rapid fertility decline. India now has a below replacement level fertility at a rate of 2 nationally with their urban fertility (which is where living standards are the best) at 1.6.
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  3490.  @2KSnSLifestyle  India becoming number 1 is not because of extreme population growth, they will reach number 1 because of China's rapid fertility decline. India now has a below replacement level fertility at a rate of 2 nationally and their urban fertility (which is where living standards are the best) stands at 1.6.
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  3491.  @2KSnSLifestyle  That's why they need to focus on lifting living standards instead of discriminating against minorities, pandering to Hindutva nationalists, trying to control or claim neighbouring countries per their Hindutva beliefs and investing in better infrastructure so as to close the gap between rich and poor. Oh and they need to stop being so protectionist and join the RCEP. They had plenty of time to develop but wasted it. India being a democracy is one of the worst things that happened to that country imo. A developing Asian country is never going to succeed with leaders that come and go every 4 years which is what happens with democracy, it needs a hardline leader. India is so far behind because of democracy.
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  3492.  @dorugoramon0518  Better than having weeb westerners
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  3493.  @wtfdidijustwatch1017 weebs are a menace.
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  3494.  khandkersabahatrizvee8417  Nikkei Asia literally said last week that India's closest friend in South Asia is Bhutan...
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  3495.  @braddo7270  You're an Indian pretending to be white, please be serious for a second.
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  3496. ​ @braddo7270  There is literally so much backlash towards immigration across the entire Anglosphere and you're claiming to be British saying "we need each other". You claim to be British, so then you would've seen all of the viral videos on TikTok right? Basically everybody has seen them.
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  3497.  @chiangchengkooi9791  That would spark an immense diplomatic protest from Singapore and Malaysia.
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  3498.  @ranfak  No! The US and China working together will never happen. We want Asian countries working together.
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  3499.  @ranfak  Asia for Asians, that is the motto and mentality of the CCP. The US is NOT part of it and I'm so happy that it's not.
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  3500.  @ranfak  It will happen. Regardless of what's going on, Asian countries are working closely together than ever before. China is the largest trading partner for much of Asia. A lot of Asian nations are part of the RCEP, even an Indian minister said that India needs to work closely with China in regards to FDI. it's happening: US OUT BAHAHAHA
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  3501. It's strange of you to correlate this with cancel culture and enforce a purely American/Western-centric issue onto the rest of the world. Nobody cares about cancel culture in the countries where these objects were stolen from. They deserve to belong in museums in the countries of their origin. You wouldn't like if somebody stole something of yours. It's not fair to steal other countries' artefacts. Not to mention, that these objects are stolen from their countries' of origin and represent important aspects of these cultures but at the same time, certain Western countries will send Christian missionaries to remote areas of these countries, where these objects were stolen, in order to convert them to Christianity.
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  3502.  @greatappledates2167  Of course this person is justifying what that man said, they will never understand what it's like to be a minority. How can we expect this person to understand this. Sick
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  3503.  @plantsplantz2116  Oh here we are, the MAGA thing is condoning racism
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  3504.  @GabrielBacon  Is crack racism? Of course the White MAGA can't recognise the harm in racist rhetoric.
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  3505. Beauty is subjective. What's not, is that everybody from Asia is Asian
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  3506. So then why haven't they done anything?
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  3507. Of course an anime stan said this
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  3508.  @-Dazai-  Actually you're not and idk why you say you're not an anime stan when you're literally creating and uploading fancams for anime characters.
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  3509.  master mariner  You don't get it do you? The fact that you can't see that the world's stability is being compromised by the US and Europe is astounding because you're conditioned into thinking everything the US and Europe does is "good".
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  3510.  master mariner  ...and there you go again Your worldview is so narrow that you can't even see the bigger picture. You keep harking on about Finland and Sweden without understanding that this more than Finland and Sweden wanting to join NATO. Instead of calling me names, educate yourself and speak in a civil manner for crying out loud.
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  3511. Low standards? You think being compared to China is low? Are you not aware that China is light years ahead of India at this very moment? Be humble.
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  3512.  @vp922  I'm not crying, only Hindutva nationalists are crying
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  3513.  @vp922  Notice how it's always Indians from India claiming Indian American? They don't have their own people to claim so they vicariously live through the achievements of Americans.
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  3514.  @vp922  That boy would experience severe culture shock if he were to go to India, you do know that right???
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  3515. If what you're saying is true then India needs to b SHUT DOWN. How is a country like that even allowed to be part of the international community? It needs to be isolated.
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  3516.  @mushroom11g55  anti-[insert country] sentiment exists in every country that has issues with another nation
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  3517.  Big Daddy  You may want that but that's not what your government feels
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  3518.  @danielhamilton351  I'm a bigot for stating a fact?? Triggered lmaooo. Just because pro-American live there, does not mean anti-American people are non-existent. Accept reality.
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  3519.  @danielhamilton351  Okay and what does that have to do with anything I am talking about?
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  3520.  @danielhamilton351  No, it actually doesn't. So me pointing out the fact that anti-American sentiment exists makes me a bigot. You're so fragile. You can keep fetishising Japan, like so many White Americans do, but understand the fact that people all across Asia and the Pacific are getting sick and tired of this power struggle happening between China and the US. Everything is about YOU, never about US!
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  3521.  @sarveshbabu2908  Exactly, before that it was just a bunch of kingdoms but they don't like it when we say this.
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  3522.  @mira-uf1ie  Burmese people stood out in the street apologising for their silence to the genocide in early 2021. There was a social media campaign last year called #Black4Rohingya to show support for Rohingyas and the Burmese government-in-exile said they want to accept Rohingyas and recognise them as one of the indigenous ethnic groups of the country.
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  3523.  @mira-uf1ie  No, they are not lying. There is a difference between the Burmese government-in-exile and the Burmese military junta. You are confusing the Burmese military junta who is responsible for stripping the Rohingyas off their citizenship and expelling Rohingya politicians out of the Burmese government when they took control of the country. Please do learn the difference. The Burmese military is to blame for everything.
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  3524.  @mira-uf1ie  Who said the Rohingyas are Black? #Black4Rohingyas literally has nothing to do with skin colour it represents a "social media blackout" where people use black coloured posts to express solidarity for Rohingyas. Yikes. Why are people imposing colour terminology onto Asia? Colour terminology to describe people's "race" is not used in Asia. The Rohingyas are also not South Asian, they're Arakanese Muslims who are from Arakan Kingdom. I am so confused right now. Do you support Rohingyas or do you not? You seem to be unaware of their current plight and what is being done to support them and you say the exact same thing that the Burmese military says, that they are foreigners from Bangladesh (a country in South Asia).
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  3525.  @mira-uf1ie  Rohingyas were once considered one of the indigenous ethnic groups of Myanmar before the Burmese military took over the country. Burmese government-in-exile wants to restore the Rohingya's respective place in Burmese society and give their rights back. If they were South Asian, then they would never have been recognised before the 1970s. There are many non-indigenous groups in Myanmar like Indians, Chinese, Panthay, Malays and Gurkhas who are not nationally recognised because they are not native to Myanmar.
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  3526.  @mira-uf1ie  SJW? I'm sorry but why would you think that? We are talking about Myanmar, an Asian country has barely received any Westernisation and was a hermit kingdom, completely isolated from the rest of the world up until 2011. Until 2011, Myanmar was another North Korea stuck in a different timeline with little to no internet access and brainwashed by the Burmese military.
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  3527.  @mira-uf1ie  The hashtag was created by other Burmese people (primarily Bamar Buddhists). The hashtag only went viral in Myanmar and the word "black" is there to represent social media blackout. The whole purpose was for people to stop posting about other things (aka blackout) and post about the Rohingyas and apologise for their silence in other words "Black for Rohingya" (aka social media blackout to show support to Rohingyas). It is not related to skin colour. I think you are very influenced by far leftist American culture which is why you are upset by the terminology, am I correct?
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  3528.  @mira-uf1ie  Except the Burmese don't disagree with me. I have a Bamar-Mon friend who, even before the Rohingya genocide, didn't have an issue with Rohingyas. Burmese people today are accepting of Rohingyas. The Burmese government-in-exile want to reintegrate Rohingyas back into Myanmar society and there were public demonstrations in real life and online to apologise for being silent about the mistreatment of Rohingyas. Attitudes have changed drastically in Burmese society. Also, Rohingyas were once widely accepted in Myanmar. People's attitudes changed after the Burmese military stripped Rohingyas off their citizenship and brainwashed people into thinking that Rohingyas were illegal immigrants. Nobody in Myanmar even knew what was happening to the Rohingyas until 2012 when internet was established in the country. The Burmese military successfully brainwashed people into thinking Rohingyas were a threat but attitudes have now changed. There is so much more to this too (it is not as black and white as you think it is) but I don't want to overload you with information.
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  3529.  @johnwesley111harrison4  Yeah the problem started with that. The government banned chemical fertilisers overnight without any warning and they said they're going to start using organic fertilisers but the ingredients necessary to make them were not imported into the country and so the farmers had nothing. The ban on chemical fertilisers was lifted but chemical fertilisers did not make it to the farmers. The ban destroyed the entire supply chain in the country. It was that and the government's economic mismanagement (like big tax cuts) that caused all of the problems.
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  3530.  @knightofceylon-ms1us  Typical Eelam Tamil mindset to post a comment like this and make it about ethnicity.
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  3531.  @hitthedeck4115  Yeah only the super desperate in South and Southeast Asia will go to Japan and South Korea. If they had a choice, they'd prefer Australia or New Zealand.
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  3532.  @misterbig9025  India bots, China bots saying hateful things about each other... all the time. Give us a break ffs
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  3533.  @aa-0731  Stop coping so hard weeb, only the desperate blue collar workers go to Japan
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  3534.  @jrs2002  Rohingyas are not moving to India for opportunities, they are moving there because they have no choice. They would much prefer to be back in their homeland of Myanmar than to be in India, that is a fact. India doesn't have many opportunities generally speaking and that's why Indians keep leaving India. Chinese are not migrating outside of China as much as they were in the past. India is now number #1 for source of immigration for many countries like Australia and Canada.
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  3535.  @jrs2002  India can't provide enough jobs for its young people so its young people continue to leave. If there were opportunities back in India, all of the Indian international students would move back to India but they don't because their governments has failed them and continues to fail them.
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  3536.  @jrs2002  India continues to lose some of its brightest minds to other countries. It really is suffering from a brain drain. So you can continue to bring up statistics about its huge economy and all that but the truth is that the average Indian is not benefitting in the way India's top 10% are benefitting. The Ambanis, Adanis, the Bollywood elite and all the other rich billionaires live comfortably in India but the educated continue to suffer and so have to leave. India has a huge middle class because of its population but if things continue to go the way that they're going, then India won't have a middle class anymore because that entire middle class would have migrated to other countries. What's delusional is not being able to recognise flaws in addition to positives and I never said there weren't other areas of success in India outside of South India but if you're going to sit here and tell me that a place like Delhi is comparable to a place like Bangalore, then I have news for you. Everybody has seen the quality of life in Delhi on TikTok and YouTube and it's unbelievable that the government hasn't done anything to improve anything.
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  3537. @@swp-ou8mf It's out of sheer desperation. If there are plenty of opportunities in India then how come 225, 620 Indians gave up Indian citizenship and acquired the nationality of 135 other countries? That's because there are limited opportunities in the country.
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  3538.  @jrs2002  They move out of sheer desperation to flee a military government (Tatmadaw) that is brutally violent against all of its minorities and backed by China, India and Japan. They aren't trying to find opportunities but Malaysia is a much more economically well off nation compared to most other developing countries in Southeast or South Asia. It will become a high income nation this decade, according to the World Bank, if it manages its brain drain and curtails its rising Islamic extremism. So there is a reason why I said Malaysia before, the country is much better in terms of living standards than the rest of the region, with the exception of Singapore.
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  3539.  @jrs2002  Plenty move to the West and many also go the Gulf (difference is that those Gulf countries rely on foreigners to do everything for them so they're always in need of white collar or blue collar workers because the native Gulf people don't work). However, the thing is that India has a lot of young people compared to China. Middle aged people and older people are not going to feel the need to move overseas because they already have lives that they have established. India is completely different, it has a young population and the government does not have enough jobs for its people so its young people continue to leave. 225,620 Indians renounced their citizenship in 2022 and acquired the nationalities of 135 other countries. I'm sure the vast majority of those people were young people in their 20s and 30s, people who will go on to establish families in their new countries.
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  3540.  @jyotirups4006  Yes but the situation in India is rather different to the rest of Asia because of how big its youth population is. When I say Asia I am not referring to borderline failed states like Pakistan or anywhere in the Middle East (excluding the Gulf, Iran or Turkey) but rather the stable nations in the region like some parts of Southeast Asia. India's huge youth population contrasts to much of the rest of the region which have aging populations. So India's youth continue to leave because there just isn't enough work to meet the demand of graduates that India keeps producing. In regards to the Gulf, there are plenty of white collar workers who are part of the backbone of these nations' economies. Foreigners make up 94% of Qatar's workforce for example and that includes those in white collar positions such as Qatar Airways (which is dominated by foreigners and not locals).
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  3541.  @shenanigans4177  You should look into Burmese history before you make such remarks. Rohingyas, along with certain other minority groups, sided with the British in WW2 after the Japanese invaded Myanmar instead of siding with the Bamar. General Min Aung Hlaing explicitly said that the "clearance operation" in 2017 was rectifying an issue started in WW2. So don't don't tell me they're barbaric and militarized because they aren't. Out o all the demonised minorities of the developing world, they're the ones that are the most patient. They're also the only one that actually prefers to go back to their country.
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  3542. ​ @shenanigans4177  Well they aren't potential threats, the real threat in India are the predatory men (and even little boys) that roam the streets and gang r*pe and s**ually assault women, little girls and even female infants (e.g. a 4 month old baby that was r*ped by her 30 year old cousin in Lucknow). When India has all sorts of problems, the majority always make scapegoats out of foreigners or minorities when the real threat is themselves.
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  3543.  @sakshigupta8603  Since when do I represent all Australians? Logic left the chat.
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  3544.  @patronam9396  You can tell when someone doesn't know anything about the world when they post comments like this. Among the poverty-stricken in developing nations, child mortality rates are higher. So people have more kids because only a few will make it to 18.
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  3545.  @dalemsilas8425  Dems partake in racism against Indians. Dems and Repubs are the exact same.
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  3546. it's correct
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  3547. Nothing to do with China
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  3548. Well, the US is in part responsible for what happened in Afghanistan so no surprise there. As for Sri Lanka and Myanmar, the US has nothing to gain by helping them. Both countries are firmly within the Asian sphere of geopolitics and fall under the influence of China, India and to some extent Japan.
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  3549.  @reveyz5239  Right, I am not aware of that but I'm not surprised that he has done that. He seems more fond of China. I guess my point is that it's China, India and Japan that are the main forms of influence in eastern and southern Asian countries. They have things to gain by working with other Asian countries but the US and EU have little to no influence in countries like Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Cambodia - which are generally closer to China.
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  3550. It does matter if they're stolen because they deserve to be displayed in museums in the countries where these artefacts were created, not all the way in the UK.
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  3551. Yeah others have pointed that before, especially on Quora. Large parts of Asia would only be part "Asian" if we used this logic.
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  3552.  @jcyt2342  They may not mirror each other exactly but the idea that they don't have anything in common with each other is wrong. Whether they like it or not, they have more in common with each other than do with any country outside of Asia. They're neighbours, of course they share some cultural overlap with each other.
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  3553.  @kamikazee3071  What on earth are you talking about??? What exactly is problematic about what I have posted? I literally just explained the toxic nature of the Burmese military you claim I'm a "close minded individual"? You make no sense. I'm not a ignorant brainwashed person, you are. Don't reply if you don't have the ability to comprehend what has been written. If you have a problem with a single thing I have written that means you're a supporter of the Burmese military (Tatmadaw).
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  3554. Only religious people who believe in Abrahamic religions think like that. Thailand is Buddhist-majority, so no.
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  3555.  @nonameronin1  It has nothing to do with "Western-style modernisation movements". The dominant school of Buddhism in Taiwan is Humanistic Buddhism and is quite influential in the country. The rise of Humanistic Buddhism in Taiwan is not connected to the Western world but due to the fact that the majority of Taiwanese are ethnically Chinese. Humanistic Buddhism emerged from Chinese Buddhism. It's a sub-school of Chinese Buddhism.
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  3556.  @nonameronin1  Yes but it is not directly related to Western-style modernisation movements which is what I'm saying. You're saying it is but that's not the case. Humanistic Buddhism emphasises the living which is the opposite to the East Asian emphasis on the Buddhist beliefs focused on the dead.
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  3557.  @nonameronin1  Okay thank you for sharing your experience but I guess what I'm trying to say is that the emergence of Humanistic Buddhism as a powerful force in Taiwan started with Yin Shun, a Buddhist monk, who undertook heavy research into Buddhism and established the principles that exist in Humanistic Buddhism by focusing on the "human realm" of Buddhist cosmology rather than the realm of the deceased. I know this may not have been your intention but your initial comment made it seem like Asians were unable to understand Buddhist philosophy and humanistic values without the help of Westerners or Western thinking, which is not true. The very basic teachings of the Buddha (The Five Precepts) is that of a philosophy and not a religion and at a basic level is devoid of the cosmology that surrounds Buddhism and other Eastern religions like Hinduism, which Buddhism absorbed many cosmological and mythological elements from.
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  3558.  @AlamoOriginal  Not all of them though and is she even a Hindu? Her family is originally from South India which would mean she's more likely to have come from a meat-eating family.
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  3559.  @mrjumaatsamian  You believe in a religion that is not indigenous or compatible with traditional Malay culture. Embarrassing.
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  3560.  @moarx25  23andMe
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  3561. @ I used 23andMe, it provides a lot of information.
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  3562.  @Ghenouveau  Well I'm not Malay and Sri Lankan Malays are called Malays because the British used the term describe all Sri Lankans who spoke a dialect of Malay, that meant everybody from across the Malay archipelago and there are actual Sri Lankans with actual Malay ancestry too. It's not funny
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  3563. One of the components of the Sinhalese is related to the Bengalis and Orissa people They are not Bengali or Orissa though. Idk why you liked your own comment 2 minutes after posting
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  3564. The only one uninformed is you because of your bigotry towards Tamils, you refuse to accept the fact that Sinhalese and Tamils share close ties. Look at both groups, they share very similar features and genetically there is proof that there is genetic affinity between both groups. Stop liking your own comments. Move on from this obsession of not wanting to associate with Tamils for crying out loud. It's 2025, when will it end???
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  3565. What you need to do is to stop liking your own comment and to learn the difference between haplogroups and autosomal DNA. Haplogroups only form a small portion of the genetic makeup of an individual and is not the determining factor of ethnicity. Autosomes determine our ethnicity and the fact is that Sinhalese and Tamils share close genetic affinity. Sinhalese and Tamil look very similar. What I find truly absurd is how Sinhalese people will talk about Aryans, claiming association with Bengalis, claiming their skin tone is lighter whilst having a low nasal bridged nose and the blackest skin tone seen on earth. I have fair skin, some people can't even figure out my ethnicity and think I'm half white and yet you will never catch me claiming we are closer to Bengalis or whatever because the truth is we are closer to Tamils. Sinhalese, Tamils, Malayalis and Maldivians are closer to one another. Just accept it. Stop relying on one study from almost 20 years ago.
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  3566. You're probably better off with China than the US in all honesty (it's the border disputes that are preventing any sort of peace, that's all). Look at how the US is treating you. They'll respect you as long as you're doing what they say. Now that India is deciding to remain neutral in the war, the US is trying to find ways to punish India maybe hoping to force India into siding with the US. The US doesn't respect the fact that India and Russia have a long historical connection. I hope India continues to remain silent. It's not Asia's war anyway. NATO and Russia started it, let them deal with it.
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  3567.  @SM-qn7sr  If you think leaving South Asians out by saying they have their own dynamics then why would you think including Southeast Asians as part of the East Asian group is right? The dynamics for Southeast Asians (especially darker skinned Southeast Asians) is definitely different and to be honest should warrant its own video.
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  3568. Does this look like a Western media outlet? No.
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  3569. What???
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  3570.  @bobbysue9363  Embarrassing
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  3571.  @xcalibertrekker6693  Cry harder, never going to happen
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  3572. You'll be surprised to learn that these accounts are all from India and Pakistan.
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  3573. So you want Australia and the rest of the Asia and Pacific regions to be destroyed by a war started by China and the US?
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  3574. Indonesia is not going to remain at 2.19 forever though, it's going to end up like India and all these other countries that have dipped below 2.1 and on the path to collapsing. However, the thought of that happening shouldn't be a bad thing. Indonesia has a young population so it still has an economic dividend. The countries that are truly at risk of collapsing this century are South Korea, Singapore, Japan and Taiwan.
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  3575.  @jsthereforfun1648  Indians will help someone and then continue to remind the other that they helped them but not do anything else.
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  3576.  @marcothebarber764  Infrastructure?? The Chagossians were expelled from their own nation so that the Americans could build a military base. USE GOOGLE
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  3577.  @marcothebarber764  Okay and then they became inhabited.
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  3578.  @marcothebarber764  Stick to barbering
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  3579.  @marcothebarber764  Can't believe this white man said that Asia is only China, Japan and Korea. Of course he's trying to divide Asia up.
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  3580.  @marcothebarber764  Blud failed geography. It just said that India is not part of Asia. No wonder it says that Mauritius needs to pay for its own land.
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  3581.  @marcothebarber764  MALDIVES IS AN ASIAN COUNTRY
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  3582.  @marcothebarber764  Blud is speaking about teaching English and doesn't even know how to use a comma correctly HAHAHA
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  3583.  @malinasworld  What's their native country? They're from Singapore.
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  3584. Wrong
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  3585.  @kty8787  The generalisations jumped out.
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  3586.  @kty8787  Karma will come knocking on your door
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  3587.  @maninblack9271  Unfortunately most of the MAGA movement don't think like you.
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  3588.  @oioierwinpp7843  Yes you're right, it's just that traditionally in many Asian cultures, fair skin is promoted as beautiful at the expense of dark skin so it creates this narrative that one can never be beautiful if they have any shade that is not considered "fair".
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  3589.  @sumeet3773  Not really per her skin tone in the video. If you've seen Nepali celebrities, they all have pale white skin as in the colour of snow or a white sheet of paper.
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  3590. Asian nations are more accepting of diversity than the European nations
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  3591. This literally has nothing to do with skin colour. Around 25% of Singaporeans are "brown Asians" (Indians and Malays). The people in the Singaporean government who are supportive of the death penalty have brown skin. The US really thinsk everything revolves around skin colour smh
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  3592. Racist person detected
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  3593.  @TRENCHESandTREADS  Sri Lanka and India are completely different, you racist. Most Sri Lankans are Buddhists while most Indians are Hindus.
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  3594.  @TRENCHESandTREADS  The nasty racism on display here, where is your respect for the victims?
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  3595. An Avatar The Last Airbender fan saying such a thing... oh bad karma will come down hard for real
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  3596.  @jdmytho9599  Firstly, I'm not Indian. Secondly, you might want to double check on that (read my other comment). Plus, why do the perspectives of foreigners matter? I've seen so many Americans claim Filipinos are not real Asians. Just last month, I saw some American man created a whole viral TikTok claiming Filipinos aren't Asians but Pacific Islanders. So obsessed when he's not even Filipino/Asian. Last year, I saw someone on Twitter say Indonesians are not real Asians after an Indonesian girl was accused of "Asian cultural appropriation" for using a Japanese name. Americans are always trying to claim South and Southeast Asians are not real Asians, just like what you're doing. Do we care? Why would we care about what outsiders think when they know nothing about our cultures? Pls, you're so bitter because India hasn't said anything about Ukraine. Well, most countries in Asia haven't said anything and for a good reason. So just respect the views of Asian countries.
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  3597. Only people who support blatant misinformation and hate want to be on that platform, that includes all of the "left wing" Gen Z Stan Twitter people who spread hate against other ethnic groups too
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  3598.  @reddragon100  Yeah and that's what's problematic about India. There are nationalists in India who can't get along with their neighbours because they believe those neighbouring countries belong to them. It's just like China.
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  3599. Christian??? No, only Asian Christians. Hindus are not a problem either, most Nepalese in Japan are Hindus and they are the 6th largest group in Japan. CRY HARDER.
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  3600. Yeah they are trying to fix their issues and the IMF is their ticket to safety because the IMF got them into this situation, when we look at the whole picture. This is why Asian countries are trying to limit their reliance on US dollar pegged systems because that's what drags them all down. It's an unfair system and it's no surprise that the bigger nations in the region like China and India have already made deals in their own currencies and begun implementation of creating a regional Asian currency. Not to mention the whole thing with BRICS. When that happens these small little Asian countries like Sri Lanka will be able to create their own terms that are not pegged to the entire world because the US dollar dictates how the world's population lives.
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  3601.  @paulj2948  Actually that is one of the problems and yeah it's a net importer but so are many other countries.
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  3602.  @ogolow570  That's not true at all. It has nothing to do with their genetics or appearance, it's to do with culture. Kaman Muslims look exactly like Rohingyas but with light brown skin but their culture is more similar to Bamar Buddhists and the language they speak (Arakanese) is closely related to Burmese. Tatmadaw of Myanmar believes in Burmanisation and so groups that are culturally unrelated to Bamar face persecution in hopes that they will become Burmanised. Hui are also closely related to Han Chinese in language and culture. Same thing in China, Sinicisation means that all groups culturally unrelated to Han face persecution in order to be Sinicised. China wants the Uyghur to be Sinicised and their practice of Islam must be compatible with Han Chinese culture just like Hui who practice a moderate form of Islam with significant Han Chinese influence in their culture. Rohingyas are Indo-Aryan mixed with Tibeto-Burman, Rohingyas don't all look the same. Some Rohingyas look more like the majority of Bamar Buddhists like Wai Wai Nu who is a pro-democracy activist of Rohingya descent. Also, Bamar Buddhists are diverse, some of them look remarkably closer to the majority of Rohingya like Major General Soe Naing Oo and Burmese actor, Hugo Naing. Same thing with Uyghurs, some Uyghurs look more similar to Han Chinese. It's do with culture rather than appearance, only some government officials in Myanmar have made unjust remarks about Rohingyas and called them anti-Muslim slurs but I would say that's the result of Rohingyas in the 1940s campaigning to become part of Pakistan, which is why the Rohingya Hindus and Christians are treated better than their Muslim counterparts. It also explains why in the past Kaman were xenophobic towards Rohingyas. Until 2021, many viewed Rohingya Muslims as traitors.
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  3603.  @WastedBananas  Yes they did. Go read the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere manifesto. Go read about Subhas Chandra Bose who fought for the Japanese. Google is your friend.
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  3604. No that's not true. Y'all need to learn more about computer generated imagery
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  3605.  @n-hexane8271  They just made it up.
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  3606.  @balddog470  That person you replied to is from Thailand, not India.
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  3607. and destroy this region and thus your child's future? You're thinking of the future
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  3608.  @phoenixj1299  No it didn't. It was rich because the people that lived there were intelligent and had good morals. That does not exist in the modern India we see today.
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  3609.  @dcmhsotaeh  That's not what I'm talking about. The old India is very different to the modern India. I can't believe how a country that gave so many beautiful and advanced spiritual traditions, philosophies and concepts to the world and one that is so rich in culture can become a country where infant mortality rate is high, where women, girls and female babies are mistreated by men, where open defecation is still a widespread issue, where infrastructure is poor, where street food is prepared in unhygienic settings and practices and where the streets and monuments like Taj Mahal are surrounded by rubbish among other issues.
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  3610. Most of their ancestors are West Eurasian (closer to Europe and Central Asia) but part of their ancestry (the first inhabitants of South Asia) are more related to Southeast Asians and Australasians. Tribal groups in India still retain high levels of indigenous South Asian ancestry compared to most Indians.
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  3611. What do you mean by "woke"?
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  3612. They're not safe in Northeast India either. Idk why NE Indians constantly present this idea that they are better when the same issue exists there. The whole world saw the gang r**e of 2 Kuki-Chin women last year in Manipur and I've read more about how there's racism and attacks towards mainland Indians in NE India. For the longest time, I thought it was NE Indians who faced racism but then I learned that in India, everybody is racist to everybody. It's a two way street.
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  3613. Y'all don't have TikTok in your country but you should've seen the racist comments make about NE Indians on TikTok last year. I honestly feel sorry for all of you because most Indians aren't like this but this finger pointing thing has to stop. Change the culture of the men in that country.
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  3614.  @fortpark-wd9sx  All of that is a myth created by the Tatmadaw who believe in Bamar nationalism. So any group that is not Bamar or Bamar-adjacent is considered a threat. The Tatmadaw is supportive of the Kaman because the Kaman are culturally more like the majority in Bamar in terms of the way they dress, their cultural practices and language (Arakanese, which is related to Burmese). This is why other ethnic minorities in Myanmar have been targeted like the Karen, Shan and Chin - groups that are unrelated to the Bamar.
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  3615. ...because he claimed that he was being targeted by the Sri Lankan government because of his "political background" and because he's from a minority ethnic group. The NZ authorities believed him but sounds more like a lie. If you know about Sri Lankan history, you'll know that his story doesn't make sense. The only thing he said that is correct is that he's a Muslim and Muslims are a minority ethnic group in Sri Lanka.
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  3616.  @manfunny917  Are you from Malaysia?
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  3617. No, it's a civil war.
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  3618. ...because they don't want to pick a side but when India remain neutral and continued to do business with the Myanmar military after committing a genocide and staging a coup, the West sat in silence. The US/Europe really does not care about non-European lives despite their claims of upholding morality. The world is watching...
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  3619. Mizo people are related to the Mizo-relayed groups in Myanmar, not China. Stop thinking all people with epicanthic folds are the same as Chinese people.
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  3620. Mizoram wouldn't be able to function as a nation, it's landlocked
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  3621. Why love Trump?
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  3622. There isn't anything like bumiputera law in Sri Lanka. The Malays are treated equally. In fact out of the minority groups, the Malays and the Burghers (Eurasians) are probably treated the best historically speaking.
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  3623. What??
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  3624. Like y'all are any better
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  3625. A Chinese larping as an Indian hating on the Philippines. Can you make it more clearer than it already is?
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  3626. Huh? That's Kishore Mahbubhani a very well respected Singaporean diplomat. Lol he's not Indian and his ancestors aren't even from India. He is a Singaporean of Sindhi descent and he and his fellow Singaporeans played a huge role in transforming Singapore into what it is today.
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  3627. Agreed
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  3628. Good
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  3629.  @jsways3048  Never said I was a scientist. I'm just repeating the things actual scientists have said. Those categories are outdated racial terms. They have no meaning today when we can see how modern Indians exist because of so many successive waves of humans that intermixed with one another (some male dominated and others female dominated). On a PCA plot, Indians are located in between Europeans/Middle Easterners, Australasians and East/Southeast Asians. Why? It's because they have genetic components that are related to all three of those groups. They're mixed. The indigenous component of South Asia is completely unrelated to the dominant genetic component of most Indians which is related to Europeans and Middle Easterners. They are mixed in the way many others are not. The only skull found in India dating to the Pleistocene is a skull that had physical characteristics similar to both western and East Asian groups. India is located between east and west, it only makes sense that components from either side would end up in the country. Sources: 1. The Formation of Human Populations in South and Central Asia - Vagheesh M. Narasimhan et al. 2019 2. A genetic history of migration, diversification, and admixture in Asia - Melinda A. Yang 2022
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  3630.  @jsways3048  Yeah and their modern DNA is literally mixed.
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  3631.  @WastedBananas  No because Australasians and AASI are closely related to East Asian-related populations. They aren't genetically distinct in the ay West Eurasians are. All of these populations have affinity to Tianyuan Man, so geneticists now say "East Eurasian". Source: A genetic history of migration, diversification, and admixture in Asia -Melinda A. Yang, 2022
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  3632.  @WastedBananas  Within East Eurasian there are three distinct lineages: AASI, Australasian and ESEA (East/Southeast Asian). Source: A genetic history of migration, diversification, and admixture in Asia - Melinda A. Yang, 2022
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  3633.  @jsways3048  Haplogroups only constitute a small portion of a human's genetic makeup. Please don't bring that up as an argument because that is not what I am talking about. You can learn more about what I am talking abut by reading these two sources. Cheers. 1. The Formation of Human Populations in South and Central Asia - Vagheesh M. Narasimhan et al. 2019 2. A genetic history of migration, diversification, and admixture in Asia - Melinda A. Yang, 2022
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  3634.  @jsways3048  Yeah that's right, tribal people in India (and low castes)have the most AASI ancestry which is why they are comparatively genetically closer to East Asians compared to most Indians who are further away due to more West Eurasian ancestry as opposed to East Eurasian. High caste Indians (particularly high caste North Indians) are comparatively closer to Europeans due to higher West Eurasian (Steppe) ancestry. Low caste Indians (Shudras, untouchables etc.) are comparatively closer to East Asians.
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  3635.  @jsways3048  Asian does not equal East Asian. Asian is not a race, it's just geography. What you are talking about is appearance (Mongoloid) but a lot of Adivasi tribes in India don't look "Mongoloid" or only have some "Mongoloid" traits and they are all comparatively closer to East Asians (e.g. Kondh). Genetics is more than just appearance. Adivasi/Janajati - they're all tribals and is also why some of them are classified as "other backward classes". All of these groups have higher indigenous AASI ancestry which is why they're closer to East Asians. Indo-Aryan-speaking North Indians are comparatively closer to Europeans due to higher West Eurasian ancestry. High caste North Indians are the closest to Europeans among all Indians (excluding Anglo-Indians and others with recent European admixture). In India (excluding the majority of NE Indians/Ladakhis), the Indians closest to East Asians are low caste people, many Adivasi tribals and the "Other Backward Classes" groups. The lower one is on the Indian caste system, the closer one is to an East Asian. The higher you are, the closer one is to a European. These are the facts.
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  3636.  @jsways3048  Yep, we agree on the facts. Just the use of terminology that we don't seem t agree on.
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  3637.  @antonio7497  Look at his dp, it says "Peace Asia" clearly he wants those two countries to work together for peace in Asia.
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  3638. Malays in Malaysia get discriminated against? Lmfaoooo I wonder what Malaysia you are living in.
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  3639. It came from Wuhan, CHINA not the US. The Chinese government is hiding the truth.
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  3640. There's nothing about Modi that is likeable
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  3641.  @sounakmukherjee8034  What reason and logic is there to make me change my mind? He is unlikeable and data can not measure the likability of anybody. North Indians stop getting upset for 1 second challenge impossible
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  3642.  @sounakmukherjee8034  I'm not Indian. If Modi has improved things, why does North India still look so "yellow"? TikTok makes me never want to visit North India
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  3643.  @pypypypy3303  India is a diverse country and he's Bengali and if you clearly look at him, his father and his brother (all featured in the video), you can see the East Asian-like features. Bengalis have a lot of East Asian-related DNA, the majority of Indians don't have East Asian DNA. So stop claiming he's the same as you lmfaooo, no he's not.
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  3644.  @pypypypy3303  Indian is a NATIONALITY. It's not a race or DNA component omfg use Google and learn.
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  3645.  @magicworld3242  Indians consider themselves Asians, the ones in India do.
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  3646. That's what the authorities are there for, so they can deal with this type of thing.
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  3647. What is a "brown person"? So many people have brown skin. Is an Indian the same as a Mexican mestizo? Is a Polynesian the same as a an Aboriginal Australian? Please don't use this American terminology when speaking in Asian contexts. We are talking about Hong Kong, not the US. There are many Hong Kong Nepalese who are light skinned and look East Asian but still face discrimination. Hmm I wonder why? 🤔Oh that's right, because not everything is related to skin colour. 💀
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  3648.  @baronarikov1223  So you support terrorists who committed suicide attacks, used child soldiers and expelled Sri Lankan Muslims from their homes?
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  3649. It's cause of his race
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  3650.  @perambu3441  Butter chicken is not eaten in Sri Lanka
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  3651.  @maureenbennett809  They're constantly wearing Asian hair from India and China. Don't lie
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  3652.  @davidford3115  Being a developed country does not mean you can have a space program. Most developed countries do not have space programs and India is one of the main space powers of our time and they're a developing country. For a space program, you just need plenty of money to invest in technology and STEM and develop a space program worthy of being on the international stage. China may not be a high income country like Japan but it is close to becoming one and its living standards in it eastern coastal region are at the same level of development as those found in developed nations.
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  3653.  @davidford3115  Back for more trolling? Are you that upset that I called you out the other day that you simply can't act like a grown up and just move on??????
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  3654.  @davidford3115  Once again, you are jumping around the point and trying to make another point which is not what I am talking about. For goodness sake, stop being so bitter and move on.
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  3655.  @davidford3115  It was a mistake for me to reply to you. I should have known this man doesn't have it in him to move on.
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  3656.  @davidford3115  Learn not to poke a bear? I thought you were mature enough to move on and have a proper discussion but clearly not. Instead of continuously repeating "touch grass", why don't you go touch grass? You're the man who can't move on because he is still bitter and triggered by what I said. Go TOUCH GRASS because that's clearly what you need to do if you're still hollering about an argument that took place on a completely different video from a week ago.
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  3657. I can't believe heartless people are here. Sickening comments but not surprised. Bad karma will come knocking on that door of yours.
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  3658.  @Itriedtobe-wq9lj  Those railway lines that the Indians ride on were laid down by Indian labourers under the commandment of the British.
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  3659.  @Itriedtobe-wq9lj  The modern Indian Army was built by Indians
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  3660.  @Itriedtobe-wq9lj  China is contributing way more
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  3661.  @Itriedtobe-wq9lj  China doesn't need to takeover a nation to make things better.
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  3662. ​ @mgar313  No Rakhine State would absolutely not belong to the Indian subcontinent. If you're going to argue that Rakhine State could belong to India you may as well claim most of Myanmar too as part of the Indian subcontinet because it seems to be that you're doing this based on culture and Myanmar (and the vast majority of Southeast Asia) is part of the Indian Cultural Sphere. You all see Rohingyas (who a minority in Rakhine) and assume that it's an argument for the claim that it belongs to India, it's not. Rohingyas themselves are Burmanised to an extent and many actually use Burmese names (e.g. Wai Wai Nu, a Burmese democracy activist of Rohingya descent).
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  3663.  @mgar313  The Burmese military persecutes Rohingyas because of WWII. The Rohingyas were bribed by the British to fight the Japanese instead of siding with the Burmese. As a result, they are seen as traitors for fighting alongside the British instead of fighting with the Burmese. General MinAung Hlaing of the Burmese military even said that this is "unfinished business from WWII" in regards to the Rohingya genocide. Rohingyas are not a majority of Rakhine. Rakhine State is known as Rakhine because of the Rakhine people (the majority ethnic group of Rakhine who practice Buddhism). Rohingyas have always been a minority in Rakhine.
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  3664.  @mgar313  You're looking at appearance and coming to a conclusion but that's not how Asia works. There are many Rohingyas who look stereotypically "Bamar" and there are many Bamar/Burmese who look "stereotypically Indian". There are different terms in the Burmese language to describe the "Indian-like", "Chinese-like" features in Myanmar society. Rohingyas were known as Arakanese Muslims during the Arakan Kingdom days, there was no issue with Rohingyas. Rohingyas are linguistically and culturally quite similar to the Bengalis but due to co-existence with Rakhine people and following the conquest of Arakan by the Bamar from the central plain, Rohingyas have also been Burmanised to an extent.
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  3665. Most of Sri Lanka's debt isn't even owed to China. You fell for Indian propaganda... expected
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  3666. @ No it owes more to Western institutions
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  3667.  @jsthereforfun1648  and most of it is owed to Western institutions
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  3668. @ Western institutions. Look it up. Do you think IMF is Asia-based??
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  3669. @Candy_labra1111 White female complaining about non-White people in a country where non-white people are the natives. No wonder Lee Kuan Yew said what he said.
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  3670.  @daniello9155  Europe is waiting for you
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  3671.  @ML6103  No it's not
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  3672.  @ML6103  How?
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  3673. Of course you're blaming the Indian couple... typical
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  3674. It's crazy how people try to justify hate against Indians. You're Canadian, no wonder
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  3675. No, it's about diversifying. Relying on India only is not the solution.
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  3676. You're just thinking about aesthetics of the Air Nomads. The very concept of the Avatar in ATLA comes from Hinduism.
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  3677.  @s.h8589  You are though. MAGA is the laughing stock of the world.
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  3678.  @WizardofChrist  Tf is "Indu"?
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  3679. No
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  3680.  @paulfri1569  NO!
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  3681.  @giliganbrown6962  Major Australian Think Tank, Lowy Institute. Cry Giligan
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  3682.  @Minchya  Yeah except this was done across Australia and there are many surveys showing similar results.
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  3683.  @giliganbrown6962  Lowy Institute
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  3684.  @giliganbrown6962  People like Giligan will be racist towards Asian Australians but pretend to defend Chinese Australians because they don't like China.
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  3685.  @giliganbrown6962  Giligan will discriminate Asian Australians but pretend to defend Chinese Australians because they don't like China
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  3686.  @Minchya  It's not flawed
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  3687. You have zero respect for the victims
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  3688.  @xyXCG364hhgs  Conservativism in Asia is not like conservatism found in the West where conservatives try to control how everybody lives their lives.
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  3689.  @victorphonepyae  What????
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  3690. What a crazy thing to say but not surprised that the thing that said it is a raging weeb.
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  3691.  @Ctwosrer  She doesn't look Indian one bit. She's Persian and she looks Persian, maybe more White passing but definitely not Indian.
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  3692.  @EnlightenedGoldenBeauty  Yes he considers himself Asian. He's Nepalese, he literally considers himself a South Asian.
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  3693.  @Peizxcv  Oh really and yet all three groups are found in Singapore and Singapore is the safest nation in Asia
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  3694.  @Peizxcv  The Singaporean-Chinese are not keeping the other two groups in check when Singaporean-Indians are overrepresented in politics and legal fields. Trying so hard to make this into an ethnic thing when Singapore is literally a meritocratic society. Don't come here and bring your Chinese supremacy narrative y'all like to peddle in Mainland China.
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  3695. The Singaporean-Chinese are not keeping the other two groups in check when Singaporean-Indians are overrepresented in politics and legal fields. Trying so hard to make this into an ethnic thing when Singapore is literally a meritocratic society. Don't come here and bring your Chinese supremacy narrative y'all like to peddle in Mainland China.
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  3696.  @Peizxcv  The Singaporean-Chinese are not keeping the other two groups in check when Singaporean-Indians are overrepresented in politics and legal fields. Trying so hard to make this into an ethnic thing when Singapore is literally a meritocratic society. Don't come here and bring your Chinese nationalist narrative y'all like to peddle in Mainland China.
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  3697.  @Peizxcv  The Singaporean-Chinese are not keeping the other two groups in check when Singaporean-Indians are overrepresented in politics and legal fields. Trying so hard to make this into an ethnic thing when Singapore is literally a meritocratic society.
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  3698.  @Peizxcv  Always the PRC that has to make this into a race thing to spread the "Chinese are better" concept in countries that are actually peaceful
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  3699.  @FreddieMurphy746  There were only two boats of Rohingya refugees that went to Sri Lanka and that happened during the genocide in 2017. In fact, 2017 was the year when Rohingyas travelled across South and Southeast Asia to escape. That's why they ended up in nations like Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand in addition to the areas that they traditionally travel to like Bangladesh, Malaysia and Indonesia. Today, Rohingyas are desperate so they cross the border into Bangladesh because it's the closest country to them.
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  3700.  @sportsworld134  Yeah it's the Tatmadaw and Arakan Army that have been targeting them.
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  3701.  @Hoo88846  What on earth are you talking about??? How on earth am I trying to discredit China??? Half the time I am on China's side but every now and then there is a Chinese nationalist that pushes my button. Why did I need to mention China??? IS East Eurasian ancestry only found in China? No. So what's your problem?!
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  3702. The migrant workers come from Nepal, Vietnam, Philippines, Myanmar, Indonesia
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  3703.  @sruthi671  Yep and then there are Singaporeans Indians who are xenophobic towards Indians from India and racist too because many Indians from India who have settled in Singapore are North Indians and thus are ethnically different to most Singaporean Indians who are of South Indian (Tamil/Malayali) descent. It happens everywhere but Singapore is a much more ethnically harmonious country than any other Asian country.
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  3704. Says the Malaysian Muslim as if Malay races in Asia don't have their own third gender communities like the Bugis and these people claim they are peaceful...
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  3705. All of the pearl clutching right wing Westerners do whenever Japan and South Korea hire foreign workers is so nauseating. They fetishise Japanese and South Koreans and believe they should be allowed into Japan and South Korea but not other Asians. Wrong. There is a reason why East Asian nations prefer other Asian nationalities because even though they are different, they are the most similar in comparison to people from outside of Asia. South Korea has been hiring foreign workers from other Asian nations since the 1990s. This has been a thing for decades. It's not new. Also, the workers in this video are women which is actually a good thing. These workers are also temporary workers, they are not permanent immigrants and will NEVER be allowed to permanently settle in South Korea. So stop saying "RIP South Korea".
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  3706.  @aprilchan3726  Doesn't matter. The point is that the Burmese military is continuing to murder citizens, like they have always done.
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  3707. What is Shri Lanka and when was it part of India?
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  3708. ​ @adilsheikh843  "Subcontinent" is mostly in reference to India's ethnic diversity (including Pakistan and Bangladesh were both part of India at one point). I guess what you're referring to is the tectonic plate known as the Indian plate that crashed into the Eurasian plate (consisting of most of Asia and Europe) to form the Himalayas.
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  3709. I'm literally Asian and I can say that the Chinese government is a bully to many Asian and Pacific countries
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  3710.  @linglinghao2250  I think it's you that needs to do that. Many cases involving China's bullying exist such as China's de facto annexation of Scarborough Shoal from the Philippines in 2012, the sinking of a Vietnamese fishing boat, the illegal construction of infrastructure on Nepalese and Bhutanese territory which China claims as its own, the advancement of Chinese troops into Indian territory and the continued presence of Chinese submarines and spy ships in and around Indian waters in the Andaman Sea since 2012, the 16 military jets that illegally entered Malaysian airspace in 2021 and how China sent warships into Indonesian waters in the Natuna Sea and also demanded Indonesia to stop drilling near Natuna Islands (which is Indonesian territory). Those are just a few examples of what China is doing to other Asian countries. Learn more.
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  3711.  @pete5691  Bangladesh is indeed an Asian Tiger and they have a plan to become developed by 2041, whether they reach achieve that or not, only time will tell but they have that plan in place and are using the same East Asian economic model that is also currently being used by Vietnam (another modern Asian Tiger). It is the Asian Century and China is the most powerful nation of the Asian Century. Basing a region's worth on who migrates there is not a valid argument because it's not the same across the whole world. Asian countries (whether rich or poor) have very strict immigration policies. There is a lot of inter-regional migration within Asia and most Asian countries mostly accept temporary migrants from other Asian countries. Asia has experienced tremendous economic success, China is set to become the biggest economy by 2030, India is expected to rise to #3 by the end of this decade and Indonesia is set to rise to #4 by the middle of this century. Multiple Asian countries are competing in key sectors like space exploration (China, India, Japan), robotics (China, Japan, India, Singapore, South Korea) and AI (of which China is currently ahead of the US in multiple AI sectors). A push for de-dollarisation has gained traction in Asia and Asian soft power has also risen considerably, with South Korea now competing with the US on a global scale. The biggest song in the world right now is a song by a South Korean Kpop girl group called "Cupid", the most watched series on Netflix is a South Korean series and the most used app in the world is TikTok, a Chinese app. Idolisation and fetishisation of Korean people and culture is now common place and there are people who are getting plastic surgery to look Korean/East Asian. This level of infatuation and idolisation was only ever seen with the US but now South Korea is up there too. So yeah we are in the Asian Century.
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  3712. Western person spotted.
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  3713. He waived his rights to anything when he did those things. He needs to stop disgracing beautiful Sri Lankan people and return home. There are so many gay people in Sri Lanka and literally gay tourists travelling around Sri Lanka without any issue.
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  3714.  @PawSmalls  The Belt and Road Initiative sounds good on paper but unfortunately with China's behaviour in the Asian region in recent years (especially last year), many of these ports and other projects that are developed with Chinese assistance could easily be used for China's strategic gain during a time of crisis. China is not happy about the amount of US military bases in Asia and wants to tip the scale in China's favour. China will get a stake in all of these projects, that's why some countries are worried that if a war were to break out involving China and the US then these countries that house sites that are part of the Belt and Road Initiative could be used by China for military purposes and not economic purposes.
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  3715.  @PawSmalls  You're welcome and yeah I agree about US/China. It's hard to decide which one is better. A balance would always be better but it's hard to balance them when they're both competing with each other. Also, I'm sorry that my other comments didn't show. I answered your question about Rakhine State but it didn't show up. Maybe I'll try post it again later.
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  3716.  @PawSmalls  You're welcome and yeah I agree about US/China. It's hard to decide which one is better. A balance would always be better but it's hard to balance them when they're both competing with each other. Also, I'm sorry that my other comments didn't show. I answered your question about Rakhine State but it didn't show up. Maybe I'll try post it again later.
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  3717.  @ShubhoBose  Biggest one? Only 10% of Sri Lanka's debt is owed to China.
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  3718.  @pDdsqggcfg  You're right.
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  3719. Nobody in Asia in their right mind will pick the US. Bfr. Asia for Asians. That means working with other Asian nations. Only India and China are of interest.
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  3720.  @Jaxteller-c5j  Indians will keep dangling this over their heads and then claiming to be benevolent.
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  3721.  @TitB1199  You can talk about superiority the day you value education the way the Indians and other Asians do. All of the high achieving schools and private tutoring classes have Asian majorities.
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  3722.  @rn9940  They're helping? Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan are all hosting refugees.
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  3723.  @krunkle5136  Turkey hosts almost 4 million Syrian refugees. Where have you been this whole time???????
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  3724.  @SIGMA_CENTRAL_IKON  Myanmar is making progress too. The Burmese coup woke up a lot of Bamar Buddhist people. Last year there was a #Black4Rohingya campaign on Burmese social media to express solidarity for Rohingyas and there were public apologies from the general public during the anti-coup protests expressing regret for keeping silent on the Rohingya genocide. A lot of young Burmese have become very vocal about ethnic and religious unity. It was such a pleasant surprise to see. I have a Bamar Buddhist friend from Myanmar and I remember she shared videos on the Rohingya genocide and how the Burmese military is persecuting Rohingyas on social media to bring awareness to all of her non-Burmese friends. It appears that Gen Z and Millennials, who have come of age or are coming of age, have realised they really need to change things in both Sri Lanka and Myanmar for both countries to thrive. The Burmese government-in-exile even said they want to reintegrate Rohingyas into Burmese society as one of the officially recognised indigenous 135 ethnic groups of the country. There is also an increase awareness in both Myanmar and Sri Lanka of Bamar Buddhist privilege and Sinhalese Buddhist privilege. I guess it took a major crisis where the majority were threatened to realise they need to stand up and speak up for minorities.
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  3725.  @Retrospxa  Indonesians: "FREE PALESTINE, MUSLIM SOLIDARITY" Also Indonesians:
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  3726.  @stanleytung5465  Middle East? Rohingyas are from Myanmar, a Southeast Asian country and you're talking about the Middle East 💀
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  3727.  @danarristyanandakurnia845  Stop making up excuses. Muslims love to talk about brotherhood but never put words into actions. Terrible.
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  3728.  @danarristyanandakurnia845  How is it that us non-Muslims have more sympathy for them but Indonesian Muslims are hateful and bigoted, calling them "Bangladeshi" and "Indian" and degrading them whilst also screaming about Muslim solidarity?
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  3729.  @Shinetori  A lot of Achenese people look like Indians, should they go back too?
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  3730.  @cafelampung4717  I actually think its you who doesn't know what brotherhood means. All talk, no action.
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  3731.  @smilekepp  You were blaming the Rohingyas in another comment thread.
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  3732.  @dan7236  He said she was beautiful. That's what he thinks. Why are you confused?
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  3733. Sri Lanka has no issues with India. They're working with India in various areas.
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  3734.  @chococlips409  They're right
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  3735. The only people from Myanmar going to NE India are Mizo-related tribes
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  3736.  @neeldani7450  No, South Asian is a term to describe people from South Asia. Indian males stay in school challenge impossible.
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  3737.  @SuryaJinping  cause Christmas is not a festival native to India or South Asia. What's not clicking??
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  3738.  @SuryaJinping  Diwali is celebrated as Tihar by the Lhotshampa. Afghanistan is not part of South Asia. It's ridiculous how this person is focusing so much on Muslims all because they refuse to accept the fact that South Asian Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and some Nepali Buddhists celebrate Diwali or their version of the Festival of Lights.
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  3739.  @SuryaJinping  Lhotshampa are Bhutanese. It's a South Asian festival, not an Indian festival.
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  3740.  @SuryaJinping  They discriminated against them because the Bhutanese government wanted them to assimilate into Ngalop culture
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  3741.  @SuryaJinping  Nah, it's a South Asian festival
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  3742.  @SuryaJinping  South Asian festivals are indigenous festivals like Diwali NOT Eid or Christmas.
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  3743.  @SuryaJinping  They're Lhotshampas who are Bhutanese and identify as Bhutanese. Indians stop being racist to other South Asians challenge impossible
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  3744.  @Anshex.e  What are you going on about? I don't care if you're Rajput. I'm not talking about Rajputs, so why are you talking about yourself? You getting mad triggered at what I said is more of a reason why India is an artificial country. Y'all can't even relate to each other. 💀
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  3745.  @Anshex.e  Yeah last time I checked the stats on India, the Tamils and people of Kerala are not having 10 kids.
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  3746.  @Anshex.e  High population density does not mean high fertility rate. Singapore is a densely populated nation and yet the fertility rate is 1.05. So like I said, Tamils/Kerala people are not having 10 kids. Their populations are smaller because they, like Singaporeans, don't have enough children. So what now?
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  3747. A fellow Blink!
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  3748. What on earth is she talking about at 1:18:00? "Import rice to China"? I don't think she knows what the difference between "import" and "export" are and "replace China's biggest farming with ours"?? Huh??? In the wise words of Walmart "What I do" woman , "what is you talking about?" 😂
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  3749. Good
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  3750.  @AtifBD07  Can y'all just stop for one second??? They are known as Ugandan Asians in Africa cause you know, they came from an Asian country. It's not that deep.
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  3751. China has had incentives to support the Tatmadaw in the past and they did but due to their ambitions in the nation, it is better for them to support the rebels so as to get access to the Indian Ocean.
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  3752. Sri Lanka will gain nothing by joining India. India will gain because the RSS nationalists believe the whole of South Asia, Tibet, Myanmar and Afghanistan belong to India. Joining another country is not how you solve problems like this. Did Indonesia join Australia in 1997 because of their financial crisis? No. What is currently happening in Sri Lanka is very similar to what happened to Indonesia in 1997. With right people in charge and an overhaul of the system, changes can be made.
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  3753.  @jasonnara6786  Unlucky for you but that will never happen
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  3754. Yeah correct while the tribals and low caste Indians have East Eurasian (or what the 1990s/2000s era scientists called "proto-Asian" ancestry).
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  3755. @Aa Low castes too. Those closer to the bottom of Indian society have higher rates of East Eurasian ancestry that places them closer to East Asians than to Europeans. Indo-European-speaking and high caste Indians are comparatively closer to Europeans. In terms of genetic distance to populations outside of South Asia, the higher you are in the caste system the closer you are to West Eurasian populations (European+Middle East), the lower you are in the caste system (low castes, tribals and Other Backward Class) the closer you are to East Asians and related populations. This has been established for a long time and was first confirmed in the 1990s through a major genetic study done on caste genetics and was controversial at the time as a result. I found some news articles online from Indian English language media that spoke about this and they said it was controversial because it was confirmation that there is a genetic element to caste.
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  3756. High caste Indians are comparatively closer to West Eurasian populations (Europe+Middle East) while low caste Indians (including low castes and Other Backward Class) are comparatively closer to East Asians and Southeast Asians. So basically the higher one is in the Indian caste system, the closer they are to a European or Middle Easterner, the lower one is in the Indian caste then the closer they are to a Southeast Asian or East Asian. You can see this in terms of physical appearance too. Many high caste North Indians have sharper features like high bridged nose and prominent eye brow bridge akin to those found in parts of Iran and Central Asia. Among many low caste Indians and the "Other Backward Class" Indian groups, you will be able to find neotenous features akin to those found in Southeast Asia like flat face, flat and/or broad nose, sometimes epicanthic fold and shorter stature.
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  3757.  @cuckoonut1208  They really should.
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  3758.  @rohitmishra670  Excuse me??? The Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean don't belong to India.
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  3759.  @rohitmishra670  If India can do anything, why aren't they drilling under the sea in Sri Lanka's EEZ? Oh that's right, cause it doesn't all belong to India. It's not India's backyard.
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  3760.  @rohitmishra670  Then why on earth did you call the entire Indian Ocean "India's backyard"???
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  3761. Nobody is going to Europe. Don't be silly.
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  3762. She's from the US, she just has Indian ancestry. Omfg
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  3763.  @hamb7260  Okay and what has any of that got to do with his wife? His wife is not an immigrant.
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  3764. Is that what you want?
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  3765. So Modi won again but is anything going to change? We, the world, are expected to believe that India is a rising power and yet every single video I have seen of that country is that of a horrifically undeveloped nation. Tourists go to India and we end up seeing videos of dirt-filled streets, dust everywhere, zero civic mindedness and chaos. The only beautiful images I have seen of India are its natural environments like the Himalayas and beaches, the airports, the train stations, Sikkim and Kerala. Why does 1% of your country's population own 80% of the country's wealth??? Don't you feel sad that when you walk outside of your house, you hear honking, traffic jams and dirt everywhere?
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  3766. Who cares? It's the Emirates
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  3767. St Petersburg is in European Russia.
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  3768. Nothing you said is correct. You're blinded by hate. Also, let's not forget that there are women and girls in the US who can't even get an abortion if they are raped because of archaic laws coming back into society in 2022. Sick.
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  3769.  @annestovgaard681  You don't need to worry about that. India's fertility rate is 2.0 meaning they are now below replacement level. That means by around the 2050s, the same thing that's happening to China today is going to happen to them. The thing they need to be concerned about is the fact that they're still a developing country with high rates of poverty and wealth inequality. China is in a better position because it's very close to passing the high income threshold and urban China already has better quality of life than American and many Western European cities.
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  3770.  @Devbhoomi0730  You seem to be against traditional Indian leadership and acknowledge the flaws of modern India so I want to ask you a question. What is your opinion of democracy in India? Do you think democracy is why India has fallen well behind China? As an outsider, I personally think that's why India is developing at a very slow pace. If we look at other Asian countries that have undergone rapid industrialisation, most, if not all of them, were led down the path of prosperity under authoritarian leaderships. Imo, democracy works best in a developed nation. I will speak more but I want to hear your opinion first.
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  3771. Exactly and we're all going to suffer because the politicians don't realise this. It's so annoying how they don't care about us.
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  3772.  @yethuaung2168  Assam and Manipur were not part of Burma. They were separate independent kingdoms, they weren't part of Burma.
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  3773.  @yethuaung2168  ...and before the Konbaung Empire waged wars against Assam and Manipur, they were both separate kingdoms.
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  3774. No, it means you market is way too weak to compete with multiple other countries in a united trade zone. Protectionism will never get you far.
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  3775.  @gsm771  Keeping one country's data in another country?? Huh?????? What?????? Data??????? I'm talking about market. What are you talking about????????? Maybe read my comment a few times before replying, stop letting anger take over you... calm down 💀
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  3776.  @gsm771  IPEF is about trade policy. India is ditching every pan-region trade agreement possible because it has an incredibly weak market that cannot compete with other nations. It's been "protectionist" for the past 50 years or something
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  3777. The what now??
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  3778. Buddha was born in Nepal and Buddhism was born in India
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  3779.  @OddCompass  Which Buddhist text are you referring to?
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  3780. Hinduism is one of those elements.
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  3781. @ Haitian culture is literally French-based, this comment is just racist and fetishistic too
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  3782. They use toilet paper and then wash themselves. Where did this claim that they use their hand come from?
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  3783. How is that going to solve anything Jacky Tang? The two main ethnic groups of Manipur don't get along.
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  3784. The replies under those pop culture tweets on Twitter were actually entertaining in hindsight. I used to find them annoying because stan accounts would be arguing under every post but those arguments sometimes yielded entertaining exchanges like the ones between stan accounts and big brand accounts. That all changed after Elon took over and the replies were filled with verified accounts posting mundane tweets or farming for likes, not to mention the sex bots. I remember before I left Twitter how horrible the site had become. It's just full of bots, verified accounts looking for attention, blatant misinformation and hate. The only good thing on that site are the Community Notes.
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  3785. The US at 16:19 saying that China has no right to meddle in the Arctic as it's a non-Arctic nation is so ironic it makes me cringe. China believes the US shouldn't meddle in Asian affairs as it is a non-Asian nation, says "Asians must take care of Asia" but these words make the US upset. In the eyes of the US, it's okay for them to insert themselves in other regions but when another country gets involved in their region, it's "no, you're not allowed".
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  3786. They use this music for a lot of videos.
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  3787.  @durgeshsss  It'll fulfil the wishes of the akhan bharat crowd.
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  3788.  @Justnothing467  They literally belong to Myanmar not India or Bangladesh
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  3789.  @Justnothing467  They don't, they belong to Myanmar which is not even part of India or Indian subcontinent
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  3790.  @KafkaesqueBrahmins  Lol funny. Indians are not white. Her ancestry is from southern India which would mean she probably has 30-40% AASI (indigenous East Eurasian) ancestry. Why do ppl from India want to be white so bad?
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  3791.  @GwainSagaFanChannel  Bali is a Hindu majority island. East Timor has a Catholic majority.
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  3792.  @sc4ll1wag94  Go do something productive
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  3793.  @tanjongmalim6869  Syria is literally in western Asia...
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  3794.  @tanjongmalim6869  Go look at a map and then come back to me.
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  3795.  @tanjongmalim6869  Syria is not fragmented like Myanmar. Syria was ruled by a dictator and then fell victim to an Islamist terror group, there are no similarities whatsoever. Myanmar is ruled by a military dictatorship where ethnic minorities have mobilised in their lands to fight the government while ethnic majority Bamar also fight the military.
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  3796.  @tanjongmalim6869  The only similarities that Syria and Myanmar share is that they are basically both facing civil war.
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  3797.  @ЮшлавДжелачнов  Rohingyas were part of Arakan history. They lived in peace in the Arakan kingdom and were known as "Arakanese Muslims". Bamar from the plains invaded to Arakan kingdom and annexed it. Then the British colonised it and the rest is history. So don't say things like Rohingyas are not part of Rakhine history. That's why some Rohingyas were given ID cards and they were reclassified as "Burmese Muslims" by the government. Do some research and make sure you understand what you're talking about.
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  3798. Singapore is a country and nobody cares if Mumbai has the most billionaires in Asia because most Mumbai people are living in poverty and the streets aren't even clean. Why do they bring up stats like this as if it means anything??? Having the most billionaires isn't a flex
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  3799.  Rajnasya  were the perpetrators in the Delhi gang r**e dark skinned aboriginal? What about the Manipur gang r**e?
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  3800. When the majority of people are protesting against one man (the president) and when you have your own ministers and other politicians in the government distance themselves from you (the president), you really think that's indicative of the people's mandate?
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  3801.  @conservos2349  Respect to you for admitting you don't understand the full situation but I think they're just reporting the fact. It would be wrong to say the group of men and women who stormed the Capitol because they couldn't accept the results of a election to be described as nothing more than "radicals". They couldn't accept the election results, that's the reality.
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  3802.  @conservos2349  The case in Sri Lanka is very, very different though. Men, women, boys and girls stormed the presidential palace after their entire way of life changed so drastically that they couldn't afford to eat, had to skip meals, couldn't go to school and were forced to accept a police curfew which had been deemed "illegal" and a violation of human rights while the president of the country stole all of their money, used violence against them to subdue the student protests earlier in the year and was living comfortably in the presidential palace. A country that was once an upper middle income nation and far richer than many of its neighbours like India to deteriorate so drastically in a matter of 3 years is nothing like what happened in the US on January 6, 2021. These people were ordinary middle class people who had to start skipping meals and had no access to electricity because of their president.
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  3803. The entire concept of the Avatar is based on incarnations, without incarnating the Avatar wouldn't exist. Avatars are incarnations of a god. So I wouldn't call incarnation a "European concept", it's a concept that exists in so many different religions.
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  3804.  @samiitb  Then India ought to be quiet.
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  3805.  @yahyamoro  No Malay mixed Indian.
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  3806.  @sofea898  They're Malay mixed with Indian. Cry
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  3807.  @kimimon9057  Wrong
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  3808. Malay mixed with Indian!
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  3809. I'm curious what makes it "Indian Japan"?
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  3810.  @tausifchowdhury8180  Bangladesh is no way, shape or form anything like an "Indian Japan". The country is radically different, including the fact that the majority is Muslim. I'm curious to understand why you said that.
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  3811.  @tausifchowdhury8180  OP's comment makes absolutely no sense because Sri Lanka is not akin to India or Japan. However, there are at least some notable cultural connections to say the least.
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  3812.  @tausifchowdhury8180  A lot of elements in Sri Lankan culture are of Indian origin from culinary aspects to religion, linguistic influences, clothing, festivals, literature, architecture and mythology among many other things. In regards to Japan, Sri Lanka's majority Buddhist heritage has created socio-cultural connections with Japan such as elements of Sri Lanka's most sacred Buddhist temple, Temple of the Tooth, incorporating Japanese architectural elements and how Japanese TV dramas were once widely popular in the country during the 1980s. Sri Lankan women, along with Thai, Korean, Chinese and Filipino women, used to travel to Japan as migrant brides during the 1980s and 1990s to marry Japanese men.
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  3813.  @tausifchowdhury8180  I have no idea why OP even described Sri Lanka as "Indian Japan". I honestly want to know why they thought of such a thing. Edit: Maybe it's because they have an Indic culture and because Sri Lanka has the fastest growing aging population in South Asia with a need to import foreign labour from other Asian countries due to a shrinking workforce (comparable to Japan in this context). Only logical explanation I can think of.
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  3814.  @tausifchowdhury8180  Japan's economy is not that good. It has been experiencing a chronic economic slowdown for the past three decades starting in the 1990s. It's surviving because it's an incredibly advanced nation, one of the most advanced in the world. Bangladesh is a so-called new Asian Tiger economy with a rapidly growing economy akin to Vietnam and certain other Southeast Asian economies. So I don't see the similarities.
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  3815.  @tausifchowdhury8180  Japan is not experiencing rapid growth rate. Japan's economy grew by 1.62% in 2021, that's not rapid.
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  3816.  @tausifchowdhury8180  Yeah but that was 40 years ago.
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  3817.  @tausifchowdhury8180  Bangladesh is no "Indian Japan". End of story.
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  3818.  @tausifchowdhury8180  I didn't fall for anything because I can see your comment in the notifications.
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  3819.  @tausifchowdhury8180  ...and no Bangladesh is not the "Indian Korea", far from it lmaooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
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  3820.  @tausifchowdhury8180  Sri Lanka and the Maldives have much higher living standards than Bangladesh and nobody in their right mind compares those two countries to South Korea.
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  3821.  @tausifchowdhury8180  What on earth makes you think Bangladesh is the "Indian Korea"???????????????? It's not and stop thinking that it is. Lmaooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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  3822.  @tausifchowdhury8180  It's always the people from the very poor countries that speak down on other countries lmao.
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  3823.  @tausifchowdhury8180  Trust me, nobody cares if the Maldives is the size of your backyard. That country is richer and they use Bangladeshi migrant workers. So many illegal immigrants from Bangladesh reside in the Maldives and you should have seen how they treated migrant workers during the COVID-19 lockdowns... with deep contempt just like in Singapore. Humble yourself. 😁
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  3824.  @tausifchowdhury8180  The only things Korea and Bengal have in common is that they had dictatorships, had a history of being extremely poor and dilapidated and experienced high economic growth rate.
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  3825.  @tausifchowdhury8180  Who said being mistreated overseas means your country is bad?
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  3826.  @tausifchowdhury8180  You didn't understand what I said. I said to humble yourself because you think so lowly of the Maldives.
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  3827.  @tausifchowdhury8180  You likened the Maldives to your tiny backyard as a way to undermine it. The world just dealt with COVID-19 lockdowns, the Maldives was surviving. Your point?
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  3828.  @tausifchowdhury8180  Bangladesh is not the Indian Korea, in any way, shape or form. There is no such thing as an "Indian Korea".
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  3829. Politics always complicate things. That whole region, which is traditionally always peaceful, is always on edge because of the growing geopolitical issues in Asia... such a shame.
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  3830.  @uncleelias  Buddhism isn't actually a missionary belief system. The only missionary work that ever occurred was under the rule of Ashoka of the Mauryan Empire who felt compelled to spread the teaching of Buddhism after being overwhelmed by the massacre he inflicted on the Kalinga kingdom. This is why Buddhism only ever took hold in Asia, the furthest west it ever went was Central Asia and each region it was syncretised with local beliefs.
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  3831.  @MustAfaalik  Not to be conflated with the missionaries that people are used to in the West, very different. The term "missionary" should not be used.
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  3832.  @pratiyushsingh21  It's the same thing
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  3833.  @efreitorkjelberg1646  What do you mean by "strong culture and features"? Do you mean a single culture and generally one set of features?
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  3834. Are you from Northeast India?
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  3835.  @crestfire8008  Atp, both groups are terrible. The internet should be banned in those two regions of the world.
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  3836. It most definitely is not. They have below replacement level fertility, that is not a overpopulation crisis.
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  3837. How so?
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  3838. You worked in South Korea as what? A white collar worker, I assume which is completely different to a low wage worker which this video is about.
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  3839. Then it would be better if they all moved to Islamic nations
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  3840.  @RoachChaddjr  Ikr, I'm literally arguing with some of them now in another YouTube comment section and they're so aggressive and nationalistic. They need to calm down.
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  3841. In my opinion, India is lagging behind because of democracy.
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  3842. Huh?
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  3843.  @nicktubby9710  The fact is the only country that will start a war here in Asia and the Pacific is the US because they can't accept the fact that China is now more powerful.
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  3844.  @nicktubby9710  I cannot believe you are comparing this to crises in Europe. What territorial or cultural dispute does China have with Australia? The answer is NOTHING.
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  3845.  @nicktubby9710  Wait until you find out that multiple countries in Southeast Asia claim the South China Sea. The South China Sea dispute is framed by outsiders as China vs Southeast Asia but that's not true. So many countries in the region claim various islands and sea in the area. Philippines' claims overlap with Vietnam, Malaysia and Taiwan's claims. You have no idea what is going on here. Please just leave the Asia-Pacific alone.
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  3846.  @billygoatgruff3536  Working with nations in the region that want the US to start a war here. Most nations in Asia are not working with the US, they are neutral. So why on earth can't we be neutral like Singapore?
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  3847.  @giliganbrown6962  People like Giligan make Australia unsafe
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  3848. They should align with China. If Indians had access to TikTok, they would see the amount of racism that is directed towards them by American, Canadian and European people. Why work people who don't like you?
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  3849. There was no truth to what he said, what's not clicking?
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  3850.  @propottylegend9439  She could also be from Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand or Ladakh for all we know. Indians with East Asian features aren't just native to Northeast India. In fact, the majority of NE Indians look more similar to the majority of Southeast Asians whereas those from areas like Ladakh look more like East Asians.
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  3851.  @calidawg111  Sports isn't everything, people are good at some things that others aren't good at. Clearly, the Indians are better at brain-oriented activities like spelling, chess and Math Olympiads among other things. Having said that, they're good at cricket and badminton
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  3852. There are plenty of Buddhist temples in Japan, South Korea and China and many practitioners of it. What is not understood is that most East Asians don't believe in organised religions but there are many that may partake in traditional practices in their cultures like the Three Teachings (Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism) in China and Shintoism and Buddhism in Japan. 86% of Japanese identifying as non-religious means they don't believe in organised religion (like Abrahamic religions) but during cultural festivals, weddings, funerals, wishing for blessings and luck before an exam you will see Japanese partaking in Shinto and Buddhist practices. It's a cultural practice, not a religious practice.
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  3853. There is no such thing called "Sinhali", it's Sinhalese or Sinhala.
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  3854.  @seinarugomi  Just stop it. Both Rohingya and Rakhine committed atrocities against each other and the military started all of this.
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  3855.  @Right-Knight  How on earth is that secularism? Secularism means to conduct affairs without the involvement of religion.
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  3856.  @blitzkrieg9925  Okay but compare the quality of life in China and that with India, quality of life in China is far greater and the poverty rate is much lower. 2022 data shows that India once again has the most poor people in the world at 83 million people living in extreme poverty, surpassing Nigeria which briefly held the title from 2018 to 2022. It's very easy to talk about stats but the ground image is very different. I used to have a lot of faith in India and hope that it would become a high income nation. I used to think Modi was the right leader for India but 10 years on, I don't think so. People seem more interested in trivial matters rather than developing the country. All I see are more Indian people continuously leaving India and migrating to Western nations while Chinese emigration slows. I wanted to visit India but that entire northern region seems like a very unsafe place. Maybe only Kerala and Sikkim are worth it, everywhere else absolutely not. The damage those viral videos on TikTok and Twitter have done to India's reputation overseas is catastrophic.
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  3857.  @blitzkrieg9925  How heartless can one be to care more about looking at percentages instead of absolute numbers? I mentioned absolute numbers because that is the reality. Percentages shouldn't matter, you should care more about making the lives of these people better in order to make India a high income country. This way of thinking is why India is still the way that it is. What is it going to take for it to change? I'm tired of waiting.
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  3858.  @blitzkrieg9925  Quality of life in China is not slightly better, it's a lot better and yeah maybe their one party government is why they're so successful in addition to their culture and their mentality. Yeah all of this talk of multi-ethnic states and things is why India seems better off breaking apart because I've taken note of the way some states are more developed than others. How is it that somewhere like Kerala is not having enough kids while a place like Bihar is struggling to bring fertility rates down. The breath of diversity in the country is extreme.
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  3859.  @blitzkrieg9925  You say all these things about China and yet that country's quality of life is so much better. I'm not crying or sulking, the fact that you think I am just shows me why India is NEVER going to change. I can't even point out the plethora of issues in the country without a nationalist getting upset at me. If India is so amazing, as you claim, why do Indian people keep leaving India and moving to my country? There are more Indians coming to my country than all but 1 country in the world. In the future, they will be #1. Due to this, people from lower socio-economic backgrounds are coming too and they're actually jeopardising the reputation of local born Indians here by doing unsavoury things like assaulting local born women. Now people are so racist to them as a result of the actions of some people.
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  3860.  @blitzkrieg9925  Every single year, I see men in India tell me that India is getting better. Where??? Stats don't mean anything if nothing changes on the ground. Tell me why are the streets of North Indian cities undeveloped? Why is infant morality still so high? Why are women being targeted? Why is the quality of street food so unhygienic? Why is there trash everywhere on the streets and around the Taj Mahal? Why is open defecation still an issue? What happened to Swachh Bharat?
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  3861.  @blitzkrieg9925  I don't know if you're aware but the reputation of India internationally is extremely poor. Last year was a turning point because hundreds of viral videos recorded by Indians and people who travelled to India went viral for the wrong reasons on TikTok and Twitter showcasing the quality of street food in the country, the streets of cities like Delhi as well as the Taj Mahal and videos of Indian and foreign women being harassed and stared at. Indian people say don't eat street food if you go to India and there are some saying don't go to the north. As a result, there is now a lot of racism towards Indians online. It's so bad. I want to visit India but everything I've seen so far just tells me it's not safe. I'm tired of waiting, how long am I going to wait until I can visit that country?
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  3862.  @Dateraho  Nothing I said constitutes "blabbering". My gosh, I can't point out flaws without them scolding me. Why is India still such a poor country???? Why is there rubbish everywhere, why are men defecating on a beach and why are people using their feet and bare hands to make street food??? We are in 2024 and yet North India still looks like it's in the 1940s. I want to visit India but nobody promotes that country anymore as a safe destination. Seriously, what is going on??? I thought India is a remarkable nation that is developing at a quick pace but the viral videos on TikTok last year changed everybody's perspective of India last year and despite that, I still had faith in the country but yet again another video went viral this week and it put the nail through the coffin. I'm actually shocked. I used to have so much faith in this country and even did a project in school about how the "Rise of India" was important to the world.
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  3863.  @blitzkrieg9925  The quality of life in China is better because they are ruled by leaders that want to create a better life for their people.
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  3864.  @blitzkrieg9925  The GDP you're talking about does not directly translate to better quality of life. The only GDP that translates to better quality of life is national income. India's national income stands at $2,850. Those "folks" you speak of are not running my country. They're too busy committing crimes like scams and assault and jeopardising the reputation of local-born Indians. It's really quite sad because overseas, Indian people are viewed as hardworking and driven to succeed academically. When you have men from lower socio-economic backgrounds entering the country with this idea that women must obey them it creates an environment where that perception is ruined and I fear that it's already begun. Why? It's because Modi is too busy focusing on trivial matters rather than using the money India generates from its high economic growth rate every year to improve the quality of life and education in the country.
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  3865.  @RodrickColbert  You are absolutely correct. It's an opulent house and nothing more. The poor still remain poor.
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  3866.  @thingswhatilike  No I'm an Australian and I mentioned Osama Bin Laden because he and his successors have caused immense damage to the world. Pakistan was supposedly supporting the War on Terror whilst supporting the Taliban and hiding Osama Bin Laden. Nothing has changed, last year there were many Pakistani men praising the return of the Taliban in Afghanistan and they lynched a Sri Lankan man whilst taking selfies with his burning corpse. I don't think you realise the type of media portrayal your country receives overseas. The fact that you're trying to say that the man killed in Pakistan wasn't Osama Bin Laden only shows me why Pakistan is the way that it is. I know and have met such friendly and intelligent Pakistani people and it's a shame that there are other people from that country who are the complete opposite and so loud, unapologetic and boisterous about it too. A shame.
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  3867.  @thingswhatilike  The proof is in all of the photos taken of Bin Laden. I don't know why you're calling it "Bin Adam", its name is "Bin Laden" and I know every country has bad people everywhere but the truth of the matter is that a lot of people, including those with power, seem to have more concern over things that happen outside of their country than within it.
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  3868. ​ @thingswhatilike  You saw 1 picture? I was old enough to remember when he was captured and killed. We were only kids back then but I remember people at school were talking about it. His image was all over the papers and TV, that was him. You've been mistaken I'm not judging anybody, I'm merely making an observation that obviously you don't like. It's probably best if you stop worrying about my observations of reality and go back to watching your Kdramas.
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  3869.  @thingswhatilike  I clicked on your account and clearly I have hit a nerve. I just stated my observation, you can easily move on. It's not that deep. I have every right to speak about my observations. Now please stop telling me what to do and move on.
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  3870. @@nggelsss222 he Jews are from Israel. They didn't just magically form out of nowhere. Jacob and his 12 tribes? What is that? I don't believe in fairy tales. I believe in science and Jews have Middle Eastern DNA. Cry
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  3871.  @Al-so1ly  Incorrect. The US?
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  3872.  @Al-so1ly  You're not the ones taking care of everything. Boat loads of Rohingyas wash up on third world Aceh and you start telling me that you have been taking care of everything? No you haven't! While you worry about what's going on in the Middle East instead of Southeast Asia (your own region), Burmese people (including Rohingyas like Wai Wai Nu) have been fighting for restoration of democracy in Myanmar. Burmese people have been doing this on their own.
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  3873.  @Al-so1ly  I know everything about Myanmar. It is you that needs to do some reading. If you do, then you will know that there is a Rohingya minister in Aung San Suu Kyi's government and that one of the most prominent pro-democracy activists in Myanmar today is a Rohingya woman called Wai Wai Nu.
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  3874.  @Al-so1ly  Please make sure you understand Burmese affairs before giving your opinion on what is happening in the country. If not, then speak about stuff you know about like your Muslim issues in the Middle East.
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  3875.  @Al-so1ly  What I know is that Aceh is a third world region, always has been. Some things never change. It's also highly religious and extremely radical. Nobody is going to Aceh or anywhere else for a holiday. People only like Bali. Now if Indonesia could be like Bali, things would be very different.
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  3876.  @Al-so1ly  Why did you just say "Inggris"? Of course I'm going to speak English.
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  3877.  @Al-so1ly  Yes it should've been and then this would not be an issue. Yeah when it changed its religion, that's when it all went down hill.
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  3878.  @Al-so1ly  Oh you're mad 😂
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  3879.  @Al-so1ly  and yet you keep replying to me cause you're mad
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  3880.  @Al-so1ly  Well you made your bed, maybe it's time to lay in it
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  3881.  @derekh9209  The IPEF is merely symbolic, it actually means nothing. That's what the OP is saying. It's not effective or a real policy. It's just a gesture to reiterate and strengthen US presence in the region. There is nothing to gain from the IPEF. It's nothing like the RCEP.
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  3882.  @derekh9209  What has Vietnam's economic rise got to do with the IPEF? Nothing. Where am I from? I'm from the Asia-Pacific region. There is nothing to benefit from the agreement, it's only a piece of paper. Compare the IPEF to the RCEP (the largest free trade agreement in the world). What do you see?
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  3883.  @derekh9209  I'm not saying they're mutually exclusive, I made the comparison to show you that the IPEF is nothing. There is nothing to it. Safeguards? What safeguards?? In the court of public opinion, nobody wants to be forced to pick side between China and the US. Biden's IPEF literally means nothing. It provides nothing of benefit to the average people of these countries and I say this as someone that lives in the Asia-Pacific and is deeply concerned with the fact that we are going to get caught up in a battle between China and the US. The IPEF is nothing, it's a photo-op for a bunch of Asian and Pacific leaders with the US president. The lay people of this part of the world don't care about it.
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  3884. There is no need to worry because the IPEF is actually a worthless document. There is nothing to gain from it. It's just a symbolic gesture, it's not a real policy. There is nothing effective about it. If a new US president tears it up, it won't mean anything because signing the document was merely a symbolic gesture at reinforcing US influence in the region. 12 countries signed the agreement, that's all that the US wanted.
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  3885.  @JohnnyRotten-uf6xw  The Indian Ocean does NOT belong to India.
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  3886. cause theyre freedom fighter rebels
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  3887.  @doom9603  No it absolutely is not. They will absolutely always choose to remain neutral unless it directly involves them.
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  3888.  @doom9603  It's funny how people who don't live anywhere in Asia or the Pacific think they know what people in this region want BAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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  3889.  @doom9603  The cope is actually insane. Imagine thinking India is going to join a war with the US and fight for Taiwan 😂
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  3890.  @doom9603  Learn about India and their non-aligned stance instead of rambling. 💀
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  3891.  @doom9603  Non-Aligned Movement, LOOK IT UP
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  3892.  @nsmithssp  With the Tatmadaw in power, you never know. Tatmadaw and rogue Burmese politicians in general have always been close to the Rajapaksas and the other ethnic nationalists of Sri Lanka. Recently, the Tatmadaw said they don't risk an economic collapse like Sri Lanka but you can never believe the words coming out of the Tatmadaw.
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  3893.  @xueueux  You support a brutal regime that has murdered so many children in 2021 (including random children walking in the street) and genocided and murdered ethnic minorities across the country for decades and refused to recognise the results of an election. They did the same thing in 1990 and you think this is Western propaganda? Should I be surprised? Maybe not. Indonesia isn't exactly the beacon of human rights success either. So many in the country are becoming radically conservative and discriminate against non-Muslims (that incident involving a Chinese Indonesian made international headlines) not to mention the frequent beheadings in Aceh.
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  3894.  @xueueux  The situation in Myanmar literally has nothing to do with Syria. They aren't similar in any way, shape or form. Idk why you would even compare the two. Seems to me you're just anti-Western and trying to conjure up falsities to fuel those beliefs of yours. Myanmar has next to zero influence from the West but you think it's backed by Westerners? We are talking about Myanmar, a country that is held together by the economic and political influence of China, India, Japan and Singapore. There is a reason why Western-led sanctions have never worked on Myanmar in the 21st century because Western influence in the country is non-existent.
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  3895.  @xueueux  The junta committed a genocide and killed random children that were playing in the street. A little boy was playing in the street in February 2021 and the Burmese military shot him. You stand with people who are ruining the lives of Burmese people. Myanmar didn't even have widespread internet access until 2011/2012. People were so brainwashed by the junta through the propaganda they fed to people. Until 2011, Myanmar was another North Korea and the junta and North Korean government are close. The Burmese military also wants to create a nuclear weapons program and North Korean scientists have even visited Myanmar to help start this program. If you stand with the Burmese military, then surely you stand with Kim Jong Un too.
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  3896.  @AnjelLee-f8c  I find it so embarrassing the way Indians in India need to claim Indian Americans because their own citizens can't ever be successful.
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  3897.  @AB_NYC  Do you think I was born yesterday? Don't lie. Your ancestors have NOT been living in the Western world since the 1860s. If that was the case, you wouldn't even hold any sort of allegiance to India if you're that far removed from India because not a single White person in the US whose ancestors were living in the US in the 1860s cares this much about the European lands their ancestors came from. Based on your name and your drive to defend India it is very clear that you either live in India or you are one of those recent male Indian immigrants.
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  3898.  @AB_NYC  Do you think I was born yesterday? Don't lie. Your ancestors have NOT been living in the Western world since the 1860s. If that was the case, you wouldn't even hold any sort of allegiance to India if you're that far removed from India because not a single White person in the US whose ancestors were living in the US in the 1860s cares this much about the European lands their ancestors came from.
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  3899.  @AB_NYC  Based on your name and your drive to defend India it is very clear that you either live in India or you are one of those recent Indian immigrants.
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  3900.  @AB_NYC  This is what I am talking about. Indian Americans won't blatantly lie the way Indians from India would. Be better.
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  3901.  @AB_NYC  This what I am talking about Indian Americans would NEVER blatantly lie the way y'all do. I cannot believe Amit here tried to fool me into thinking his ancestors have been in the West since the 1860s and yet somehow has an Indian name after all these centuries and a clear obsession with India.
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  3902.  @AB_NYC  Firstly, stop dragging White people cause I'm not even White. Secondly, you're an Indo-Caribbean, I was never talking about the Indo-Caribbean community. The Caribbean is not the West. Finally, I was talking about Indians in India. So you shouldn't have been offended. I was never talking about the Indo-Caribbean people or any of those diasporic Indian groups who have lived in other nations like Uganda or Fiji for generations due to indentured work. I'm talking about modern India. You or your ancestors have nothing to do with the state that modern India is in, so why are you offended? There is a difference in accepting and maintaining your cultural heritage and somebody pointing out the flaws of a modern nation. You ought to instead take pride in the fact that your fellow Indo-Caribbean people were able to help create the most developed high income nation in the Caribbean (Trinidad and Tobago).
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  3903.  @AB_NYC  There is a difference between spiritual India, that you admire, and modern India which is rife with corruption and extreme wealth inequality. Do you know the top 1% of India owns 40.5% of India's wealth? It's no surprise why we keep seeing dystopian images coming out of India because the rich people are the only ones benefitting from India's rise.
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  3904.  @AB_NYC  The West is not a geographical concept. Stop being obtuse! Australia and New Zealand are part of the West because they are of Angosphere heritage. Are you going to tell me that they are not Western anymore? Are you seriously trying to tell me that the Caribbean is part of the West? West of what???? The world is a sphere, not flat. Don't you dare try to twist things after you've been called out.
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  3905.  @AB_NYC  I'm not a Trump supporter and I'm not from the US and don't you dare lie and tell me you weren't offended because if you weren't offended, you wouldn't be here trying to eat my head. Did I tell you that you were from T&T? I said, "your fellow Indo-Caribbean people". Learn how to read! I know you're mad triggered but if you're going to reply to me then read my comments properly. Now stop getting mad triggered and be like the Indian Americans and start working hard instead of arguing online like a raging Hindu nationalist
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  3906.  @AB_NYC  This is why I say that Indian Americans are elite people, they don't behave like Amit here.
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  3907.  @AB_NYC  I'm not a Trump supporter and I'm not from the US and don't you dare lie and tell me you weren't offended because if you weren't offended, you wouldn't be here trying to eat my head. Did I tell you that you were from T&T? I said, "your fellow Indo-Caribbean people". I know you're mad triggered but if you're going to reply to me then read my comments properly. Now stop crying and be like the Indian Americans and start working hard instead of arguing online like a raging Hindu nationalist
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  3908.  @AB_NYC  I'm not a Trump supporter and I'm not from the US and don't you dare lie and tell me you weren't offended because if you weren't offended, you wouldn't be here trying to eat my head.
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  3909.  @AB_NYC  Did I tell you that you were from T&T? I said, "your fellow Indo-Caribbean people". I know you're mad triggered but if you're going to reply to me then read my comments properly. Now stop crying and be like the Indian Americans and start working hard instead of arguing online like a Hindu nationalist
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  3910. ​ @AB_NYC I never said you were from T&T. Is it the low caste ancestry that makes you not understand what I'm saying? I said, "your fellow Indo-Caribbean people". I know you're mad but if you're going to reply to me then read my comments properly. Now stop crying and be like the Indian Americans and start working hard instead of arguing online like a raging Hindu nationalist
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  3911.  @AB_NYC  I never said you were from T&T. II said, "your fellow Indo-Caribbean people". I know you're mad but if you're going to reply to me then read my comments properly. Now stop crying and be like the Indian Americans and start working hard instead of arguing online like a raging Hindu nationalist
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  3912.  @AB_NYC  You said, "The West". If you were talking about the Western Hemisphere then say Western Hemisphere. Don't try to shift the goal posts now that you have been called out. The Western Hemisphere is NOT the same as the West. My gosh, no wonder these people are so different to the Indian Americans.
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  3913.  @AB_NYC  Did I tell you that you were from T&T? I said, "your fellow Indo-Caribbean people". Learn how to read! I know you're mad triggered but if you're going to reply to me then read my comments properly. Now stop getting mad triggered and be like the Indian Americans and start working hard instead of arguing online like a raging Hindu nationalist
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  3914.  @AB_NYC I never said you were from T&T, where did I say that????? READ
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  3915.  @AB_NYC  Now stop getting mad triggered and be like the Indian Americans and start working hard instead of arguing online like a raging Hindu nationalist
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  3916.  @AB_NYC  Did you say, "Western Hemisphere" or did you say, "The West"? You said, "the West". If you were talking about the Western Hemisphere, you should have said that. I have never denied the fact that Indians have been living in the Caribbean. Instead of just accepting the fact that you don't know geography and geopolitics (Western Hemisphere is NOT the same thing as The West), you continue to argue with me. Considering the fact that Indians in the Caribbean are descendants of poor indentured labourers who became servants, maybe I shouldn't be surprised that you're here lacking comprehension skills and arguing with me.
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  3917.  @AB_NYC  Did I lie? You're arguing with me over trivial matters, that's what Hindu nationalists do
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  3918.  @AB_NYC  *you're not your and the reference makes sense in this context
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  3919.  @AB_NYC  You bringing up Bilibili is what a Hindu nationalist will do. You speak like one, hence why I compared you one.
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  3920.  @AB_NYC  I never called you a Hindu nationalist. Learn how to read.
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  3921.  @kokekuka24  Y'all want to be European so bad 💀
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  3922. @SoundwaveSinus9 I'm glad to hear.
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  3923.  @nukkun6967  Actually there are many in Rakhine State that claim to stand by the Rohingyas. This started happening last year when the Burmese military engaged in fresh fighting with the Arakan Army. Rakhine Buddhists realised for the first time that the enemy was the Burmese military because they were getting the same treatment that the Rohingyas faced in 2017.
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  3924.  @reemsafith5178  They're economic migrants from an ethnic minority. They'll be okay if they go back.
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  3925.  @sudiptoghosh3861  I know that, so why say Indian Ocean as if it belongs to India? 💀
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  3926.  @virupakshawalla5734  As she should
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  3927.  @davecooper3238  It actually has nothing to do with religion but ok
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  3928. This is Sri Lanka. The US doesn't have much influence in the country. India, China and Japan are the three countries that have traditionally wielded economic, political and social influence over the country.
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  3929.  @Ryan-hk8bx  Yeah and the founding fathers are Inuits who have dry earwax and no BO.
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  3930.  @aleenaprasannan2146  Curry is an overarching term that refers to similar dishes. You know exactly what I mean. Stop trying to cut me down please. I literally said something positive and you're here making everything negative. Who said pan-Asian only means East Asia?? I was referring to Southeast Asia and other parts of South Asia too like Sri Lanka and Nepal.
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  3931.  @aleenaprasannan2146  There are dishes in Sri Lanka called black pork curry among others. Like I said, "curry" is an overarching term to describe similar dishes. Idk why you're so upset.
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  3932.  @aleenaprasannan2146  No it's used to describe overarching dishes with similarities Stop throwing a tantrum. It's really not that serious Aleena.
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  3933.  @aleenaprasannan2146  I say something positive about similarities between Asian countries and India's cultural influence but then someone comes along and starts writing up think pieces and getting offended at what I said. There are bigger issues in the world, including in your own country of India, so focusing on my usage of the term "curry" is trivial to the point that it's not even funny.
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  3934.  @aleenaprasannan2146  It's not just your culture. 💀 Curry dishes are found across Asia.
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  3935.  @aleenaprasannan2146  Stop coming here and spreading your negativity.
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  3936.  @aleenaprasannan2146  So you're not saying we're culturally appropriating curry? YouTube needs to be banned in India cause what even is this???
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  3937.  @aleenaprasannan2146  The more you speak, the better you are at revealing your true self as a troll, Indian female racial nationalist and racist who think she's superior to other Asians. You can't even walk safely in your own country and you're here spreading this hate.
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  3938.  @aleenaprasannan2146  The more you speak, the better you are revealing your true self as an Indian nationalist that thinks they own the whole of Asia.
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  3939.  @vaishakviswam1970  What on earth are you talking about????? Omfg these Indian nationalists are insane.
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  3940.  @vaishakviswam1970  What on earth are you talking about??????? READ MY COMMENT AGAIN!!!
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  3941. Asian???? Since when were all Asians Muslims??? Stop using the word "Asian" when we all know who you mean. Stop clubbing non-religious, Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh, Christian etc. Asians with those people when they literally have nothing in common.
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  3942. I remember at the time, some Maldivians said they saw a plane with the Malaysia Airlines logo flying very low above their nation. What came of that? There is a conspiracy theory that the plane landed in Chagos Archipelago, a colonised territory located to the south of the Maldives of which the native inhabitants were expelled by the UK and US in order to create a US military base. If that theory is indeed true, then it would make sense why nobody knows anything today because nobody is allowed to enter the islands except military personnel and contracted personnel with the US defence forces. Nobody actually knows what's going inside that territory because media and cameras are not allowed there either.
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  3943. Such an interesting video.
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  3944.  @martinprice6215  Australia was one of the regions that Japan claimed as part of its GEACSP because of the Aboriginal Australians. The Imperial Japanese viewed the Aboriginal Australians as "Asiatic people" that needed to be freed from the Europeans. Genetically speaking, the Aboriginal Australians share the same ancestor that gave rise to all Asian groups (excluding Middle Easterners).
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  3945.  @martinprice6215  I agree but yes they did not have a plan, they only laid claim to Australia. Also, technically speaking, the Aboriginal Australians share a distant genetic connection to the Japanese. Both groups descend from an East Eurasian lineage. In fact, all people in Asia (except the Middle East) as well as the natives of Oceania and the Americas descend from East Eurasian lineages. That's why they all share common traits like the ABCC11 dry earwax allele despite all looking different to one another.
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  3946.  @godsbelovedchild1810  ...and once again you're forcing your religious beliefs onto other people. Maybe all of you need to understand the fact that Christianity has never been native to Singapore or any other Southeast, South or East Asian country. It's a foreign belief system that has actually damaged local Asian beliefs and traditions. The indigenous beliefs of Southeast, South and East Asia are Dharmic and Taoic religions like Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism and Shintoism. Remember that.
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  3947. Same thing.
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  3948.  @mikelloyd520  The second includes India too. The two terms mean the same thing. Indo-Pacific became more common because the Trump administration began using it instead of Asia-Pacific.
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  3949.  @mikelloyd520  Well to be fair, that's not the US definition. The definition of Asia-Pacific includes India, along with the rest of South Asia and Myanmar. I live in an Asia-Pacific country and at school we were always taught Asia-Pacific stretches from India/Pakistan to the Cook Islands/French Polynesia. There are many international products released in this part of the world which define the Asia-Pacific in the same way (e.g. Apple). Indo-Pacific is just another term to describe the same area that Asia-Pacific covers.
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  3950. It's so funny what's happening to y'all BAHAHAHAHAHA
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  3951. Never face? What Malaysia are you living in?
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  3952. Indians in the West commit less crime
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  3953. Have fun tonight!
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  3954. So let me get this straight. You want the Indians make an enemy out of their friend (who has supported them since the Cold War) because you can't accept the fact that most countries in the world prefer to remain neutral and do maintain relations with Russia, right? Take a look at Cold War history. The US supported India's enemy Pakistan when India and Pakistan were fighting and the Soviets supported India. The US has never been on India's side. So why would they make an enemy out of the only country that has been by their side, supported them in their own struggles? Nelson Mandela once said, "One of the mistakes which some political analysts make is to think that their enemies should be our enemies".
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  3955.  @Parkerminami  When did Afghanistan attack another country? They were the ones being invaded by everybody from the Russians, to the Americans, to the Persians and defending their land.
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  3956.  @Parkerminami  I'm not from India and no, the US isn't an enemy of India but it's not an ally either. You can't expect countries to forgo their own interests because another country on the other side of the world is demanding you make an enemy out of your friend. The US hasn't helped India in any sort of way. Their close relationship with Pakistan is more of a reason why the Indians shouldn't side with the US. If the US can still maintain close contact with Pakistan despite the fact that the Pakistanis were responsible for the deadliest terror attack in India and were responsible for hiding Bin Laden in their country, why should India side with the US? The issue is that people think the US is always right but fail to realise that the US has done harm to other countries through their actions. The US is no angel. Let's also not forget that the US actively supported the genocide of 3 million Bangladeshis in 1971 and when India tried to intervene and stop the Pakistanis from committing genocide against the Bangladeshis, the US had given orders to the USS enterprise to attack Indian Army facilities. The actions of the US in 1971 during the Cold War is why India is remaining neutral today.
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  3957.  @neptunesnymph  It's true though. Colonisation only partially played a role. It exacerbated historical beauty ideals in South Asia. Not all of South Asia was colonised. Nepal and Bhutan were not colonised by pale fair skin is considered the beauty ideal in both of these countries. So it's wrong to say it's purely the result of colonisation. There's a lot more to it.
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  3958.  @divineflu34567  No because Indian beauty ideals spread across South and Southeast Asia through the broader spread of Indian cultural influences and fair skin was considered ideal. This is why Nepal, Bhutan and Thailand (countries that are part of the Indian Cultural Sphere and never colonised) all prefer fair skin and Indian ideals presented ideas of fair skin and sharp noses to these cultures. British colonisation only racialised fair skin, before that fair skin was considered beautiful and associated with those that were wealthy.
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  3959.  @divineflu34567  No they don't. Classical beauty in these countries is in line with Indic influences. All the portrayals of national icons like ancient heroes look more Indic than Sinic (Chinese).
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  3960.  @divineflu34567  Wrong
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  3961.  @Tomhito  I'm non-Chinese, I hope China will prevail over the US regardless of who is in power.
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  3962. Who is blaming India?
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  3963.  @alphacompany4837  Where's this public opinion coming from?
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  3964.  @alphacompany4837  Nobody in China is blaming India. Just a few weeks ago the Chinese government commended India for what they have done to help Sri Lanka.
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  3965.  @breastmilkgaming  Nobody is blaming India. Everybody is blaming the Rajapaksas. I don't know why people constantly lie.
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  3966.  @breastmilkgaming  No they are not. Real sites? My mum has friends and family who live in Sri Lanka and none of them have blamed India. Nothing is achieved by lying.
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  3967. Ehhh that's mostly a myth. Most of the genetic components of Sinhalese people are indigenous to Sri Lanka and Sinhalese are genetically closer to Sri Lankan Tamils and other Sri Lankans.
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  3968.  @Kevin-fq3zh  They're the rich ones but it's true that many, especially the men who live in that country, are overly patriotic and nationalistic. Too much of that does nothing good for a country. I think this is part of the reason why India can't progress because they can't criticise themselves and understand their flaws. Always get defensive, never self reflective.
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  3969. Why do you say that, genuinely curious? The US tried to use Sri Lanka to contain China in 2019 by trying to get them to sign a SOFA and MCC so they could station US troops in the country in order to surround China on three sides but there were protests in Sri Lanka and the agreements weren't signed. In reality, US influence in virtually non-existent in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is like Myanmar, it falls under the economic and political influence of India, China and Japan just like Myanmar.
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  3970.  @asmirann3636  No it's the culture. Women in India have to protest because NOBODY listens to them.
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  3971.  @asmirann3636  It's consistently suppressed in India, which is exactly what's going on with this case in India.
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  3972. @ They are not Malays. They are Sinhalese people. They may have some Malay ancestry but that family is Sinhalese. Be truthful.
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  3973. @Johnny1Utah It's true, she does
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  3974.  @shay5839  Colorism is not about race. Colorism is discrimination based on skin colour and it happens within the same ethnic group or race.
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  3975.  @maxa6453  That's not at all what colorism is, that's what certain race-oriented people in the USA will say but colorism has never been about wanting to be European. Whiteness is not just about White European people. One of the people on the panel spoke about Asia and skin bleaching, in Asian countries and communities it's not about being proximate to White European people.
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  3976.  @maxa6453  White does not equal European, that's the distinction here. Most East Asians have white skin too. Colorism isn't linked to race, it's a phenomenon that exists within many communities around the world.
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  3977.  @pavan923  So you think Sri Lanka belongs to you?
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  3978.  @pavan923  I'm not from Sri Lanka, I'm not a citizen of that country so you were saying?
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  3979.  @pavan923  This "holier than thou" mentality that exists among sections of the Indian public is quite amusing to me. India is still a developing nation with extreme wealth inequality and they want to absorb another country into their territory without fixing the poverty that plagues their most populous states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar? Why it's because they believe in Akhand Bharat.
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  3980.  @BruceWayne-qe7bs  Sri Lankan Tamils are not Indians, they are natives of Sri Lanka.
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  3981.  @BruceWayne-qe7bs  You sound just like the CCP, I hope you know that.
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  3982.  @chrisc.5848  Huh? Most Southeast Asian cultures (Thai, Cambodian, Indonesia, Burmese etc.) are all culturally related to India and the rest of South Asia from linguistic scripts to cultural traditions and is known as the Indosphere. East Asia and Vietnam form what is known as the Sinosphere (the areas of Asia that were influenced by China). There is still interaction between Sinosphere and Indosphere. There is no such thing as "Oriental Asian". If anybody is "Oriental" it's actually Middle Easterners like Arabs, Persians and Turks. The term "Oriental" was first applied to them. Also, South Asian and Southeast Asian food is not "really weird". What a thing to say. Nobody in Asia looks Black African except for the Andamanese and Negrito tribes like Aeta.
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  3983.  @Iamdead666  Part of Kashmir is controlled by Pakistan and China controls Aksai Chin.
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  3984. Wrong
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  3985. Malaysians are mostly of Malay, Chinese, Indian and Orang Asli descent.
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  3986.  @problemperson4221  Malaysia is a multiethnic nation. Stop getting mad triggered over the ethnicities of the people in the video, they are all MALAYSIANS. Of course this thing is hung up about ethnicity.
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  3987.  @problemperson4221  Acting like the video was 90% Indian when it's not. The people at 7:10, 7:55, 8:10, 13:52 are all Malays (4 Malays in the video), there are 2 Chinese people in the video and there are 4 Indians in the video. Throwing a literal tantrum when there are literally 4 Malay in the video, not ONE hijabi like you claim there was (stop making everything about race and religion ffs)! Can't believe this behaviour. They are all MALAYSIANS, what's the problem????
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  3988. There are Malaysians of Indian descent. They are one of the main groups of Malaysia.
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  3989.  @irs4486  East Asians are not White and they aren't related to you Europeans. Turks??? Turks are not East Asians (stop bringing them up!) and I'm not even Indian.
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  3990.  @irs4486  and you're a non-Asian all up in our business. GTFO
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  3991.  @irs4486  Europeans and their strong desire of claiming East Asians as their own. I carry haplogroup Y-DNA O and I'm East Eurasian, I am more related to Chinese, Japanese and Koreans than you people will ever be. COPE AND SEETHE westoid
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  3992.  @irs4486  The thing brought up Turks, the Turk wants to claim East Asians are Turks. Turks are mostly European in DNA. Unrelated. GTFO
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  3993.  @gurugurukuma  That man is not Singaporean.
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  3994.  @This_tub  Why is the Vietnamese refugee lighting fire crackers on the streets of the US instead of trying to create change in Vietnam? FYI, I'm not even from India
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  3995. There are Japanese gods that derive from Hindu gods. Stop the pearl clutching. Nobody goes to Japan to work and then demands a place of worship. Plenty of Nepalese Hindus in Japan, you don't see them making a scene.
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  3996. The military committed the genocide. The military are the people inflicting violence and are the ones in power. How does that prove "what goes around comes around?". You people know nothing.
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  3997. You mean North America and Europe because Australia and New Zealand, being Asia-Pacific nations, followed similar rules that were enforced across Asia from Japan to the small island nation of the Maldives.
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  3998. It's still rising. The living standards in Asia have increased and nations in the region are richer than before. That does not mean everything is fine, there are still issues.
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  3999.  @rickgolder6818  Read my comment again. I said "South Asia", not "SE Asia".
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  4000.  @rickgolder6818  In what universe did the Mauryan Empire rule the entirety of South Asia??????? When did they ever rule Bhutan, Maldives, Sri Lanka??? In what universe was Bhutan, Nepal, Maldives, Sri Lanka part of Bharatvarsha??? In what universe did the Cholas rule the entirety of South Asia????
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  4001.  @rickgolder6818  There is no difference between India's claims and China's claims. Indians clam something called Akhand Bharat and so people, like yourself, claim the whole of South Asia was once part of India. Chinese claim that China is actually the size of the Qing Empire and thus includes Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin in India. There is NO difference. Y'all are the same.
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  4002.  @rickgolder6818  Next time, before commenting, try understanding what the other person is trying to say. In no universe is there such a ridiculous thing as Bharatvarsha - it sound absolutely horrible and disgusting. 🤢🤢🤮🤮
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  4003.  @rickgolder6818  Northeast India was literally a separate entity during certain times of history, trying to claim the Ahom Kingdom is related to the Hindi-speaking peoples of the Gangetic region is insane. If it weren't for the British, the Ahom and Assamese would've had their own separate country.
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  4004.  @rickgolder6818  Previous land? That's the point, that land was never part of India to begin with. So yeah there's no difference. No it's not true. In what universe did the Cholas rule Delhi?? In what universe did the Kushans rule Sri Lanka?? In what universe did the Sikhs rule the Maldives? You're grouping all of these people together and calling them "Indian" but back then there was no India. An Ahom person has more in common with a Thai person than they do with a Sikh. A Tamil has more in common with a Tamil from Sri Lanka than they do with an Assamese. It makes no sense to apply to the concept of "Republic of India", as we know it today, on ancient empires where the concept of the Republic of India did not exist.
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  4005.  @rickgolder6818  You're not understanding the point that you all believe all of these countries were once part of India. The only countries that were ever a part of ancient India are Pakistan and Bangladesh, NOTHING else.
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  4006.  @rickgolder6818  The Cholas do NOT equal modern Indians. I don't need to learn anything because I already know. What part of Cholas did not rule the whole of SOUTH ASIA do you not understand?????????? In what universe did the Cholas rule Delhi or Assam or Nepal or Bhutan???? They didn't. The Cholas existed at a time when India did not even exist. Don't claim their history or their culture! Tamils are their own people!
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  4007.  @rickgolder6818  In Buddhism there is absolutely not such thing as Bharatvarsh. How dare this Indian person claim that Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Tibet, Myanmar and even the whole of Southeast Asia belongs to India.
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  4008.  @rickgolder6818  Don't speak about thins you don't understand! If you're going to talk about other religions or other countries, learn about them! Don't bring your Indian propaganda here.
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  4009.  @rickgolder6818  The Mauryan Empire did not rule Sri Lanka, Maldives or Bhutan or any of that. So wrong. Next.
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  4010.  @rickgolder6818  India is a modern concept. Ahoms and Assamese are their own people and really should've had their own country.
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  4011.  @rickgolder6818  Part of Sri Lanka was ruled by King Chandrabhanu of Thailand, does that mean Sri Lanka was once part of Thailand too?
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  4012.  @rickgolder6818  Go learn about this, go learn about that. I already know all of that stuff. You don't have to tell me anything. Now properly read all of my comments. I have posted 8 comments for you to read.
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  4013.  @rickgolder6818  You're trying to group all these empires that existed in what is now India and claim that they are part of something called India when India only became a thing when the British colonised it. The Chola Empire has nothing to do with any other community but the Tamils.
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  4014.  @rickgolder6818  You did say Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and the Maldives were part of India though. No, they are not.
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  4015.  @rickgolder6818  Sri Lanka, Maldives, Nepal, Bhutan and Myanmar were never part of Bharat. Respect their sovereignty. South Asia was NOT called Bharatvarsh. The Indian propaganda is insane... just like CCP propaganda.
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  4016. Muslim vs Muslim LOLOLOLOL
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  4017. No. They have always brought in other Asians from countries like China, Vietnam, Philippines and Nepal and that's how it's going to stay.
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  4018.  @bruch-TB  I'm not even Indian but this is just embarrassing lmfao. Why would you create an account for something you don't even like? 💀
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  4019. Yeah that makes absolutely no sense when most of the kids winning these spelling bees are of South Indian origin and whose languages are part of the Dravidian language family and thus not related whatsoever to Indo-European languages. You do realise your nation of India is big and not just composed of North Indians right?
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  4020. The map is correct
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  4021. Which part of Sri Lanka does China own? Literally nothing. Where did this claim even come from?
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  4022.  @thomashunter5645  Omg the propaganda campaign has been so successful that people literally think China owns a port in Sri Lanka. China doesn't own anything. The port is controlled jointly by China Merchants Port Holdings Company Limited (CM Port) and Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA). CMP Port has a 70% stake in the port while the other 30% is owned by SLPA. Overall the port and jurisdiction of the port is still owned by the Sri Lankan government who works jointly with the SLPA to control it.
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  4023.  @thomashunter5645  Omg the propaganda campaign has been so successful that people literally think China owns a port in Sri Lanka. China doesn't own anything. The port is controlled jointly by China Merchants Port Holdings Company Limited (CM Port) and Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA). CMP Port has a 70% stake in the port while the other 30% is owned by SLPA. Overall the port and jurisdiction of the port is still owned by the Sri Lankan government who works jointly with the SLPA to control it.
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  4024.  @thomashunter5645  Omg the propaganda campaign has been so successful that people literally think China owns a port in Sri Lanka. China doesn't own anything.
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  4025.  @thomashunter5645  The port is controlled jointly by China Merchants Port Holdings Company Limited (CM Port) and Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA). CMP Port has a 70% stake in the port while the other 30% is owned by SLPA.
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  4026.  @thomashunter5645  Omg the propaganda campaign has been so successful that people literally think China owns a port in Sri Lanka.
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  4027.  @wanderingson  weebs stop obsessing over Japan for 1 second challenge impossible
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  4028.  @wanderingson  It actually does because you're coping so hard when 99% of migrant workers in Japan come from other Asian countries.
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  4029.  @wanderingson  Look at your initial comment
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  4030. The US is not a native European nation
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  4031. Its population being 70% ethnically Chinese doesn't mean it's pro-China. There is widespread anti mainland-China sentiment in Singapore directed towards Mainland Chinese immigrants of which Singaporeans, of all ethnic origins, claim they don't assimilate into Singapore's multicultural society and form cliques.
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  4032.  @CRenggi  Progressive Muslim? Do you not realise how ridiculous that sounds? If a Muslim has to be identified as a "progressive Muslim" then it means they aren't following the core teachings of Islam. How is that not clear to you? Malaysia is in this state because of radical Islamism and as long as that continues and as long as people continue to support that, Malaysia will continue to fail to progress into a stable high income nation and it will continue to be viewed negatively by the rest of the world. Hardcore fanatical religious beliefs derived from regions that are nowhere near Southeast Asia and completely culturally incompatibile with indigenous Eastern religions is why Malaysia (and other Muslim-majority nations in Asia-Pacific) are lagging.
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  4033.  @CRenggi  So in other words if they're young and are Muslim and can be classified as "progressive" then they aren't following basic Islamic teachings.
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  4034.  @CRenggi  With so many Malaysians Muslims identifying with Wahhabism and other ultraconservative branches from the Middle East, I'm not surprised that you have to say "progressive Muslim" because the strand of Islam originally practiced across Asia-Pacific (Pakistan all the way to Indonesia) was different to the version practiced in the Middle East. Now terms like "progressive Muslim" have to be coined because the original strand of Islam practiced in Asia-Pacific is increasingly being lost.
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  4035.  @CRenggi  Do you call everybody that disagrees with you a "communist"? Do you even know what communism is?
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  4036.  @CRenggi  ...and this is why Malaysia is still a third world country. Ultraconservative religious beliefs and governance don't go hand in hand
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  4037.  @CRenggi  Don't you think you need to get to the root of the problem? What is blaming the people going to do if the root of the problem is not addressed? People are following ultrareligous beliefs, that is the issue. They are behaving in these regressive ways because of these ultrareligious beliefs.
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  4038.  @abba-Flammenfresser  It was the end of WWII and Japan's failed invasion of India that bolstered the independence movements of the Indians and Pakistanis. The US has no hand in freeing them. India's desire independence received support from the US, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, the Soviet Union and China but that's about it.
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  4039.  @abba-Flammenfresser  Firstly, I'm not from India. Secondly, I am aaware that Russia is evil and what they have done to Ukraine is abhorrent but you also need to understand that your perspective is not the same for everybody else. While the Americans were supporting the genocide of Bangladeshis in 1971 and President Nixon was making racist remarks about the Bangladeshis, it was the Soviets that gave support to the Bangladeshis. Thirdly, the US has no significant hand in providing independence to India. India and Pakistan were not two separate colonies which makes me believe you are not aware of colonial Indian history which is why you believe the US is the reason for Indian independence. The Indian independence movement was already thriving before WWII even began, it exacerbated during WWII when the Japanese invaded India and set up a puppet state known as Azad Hind which was controlled by Indian nationalists fighting for independence. By the time WWII ended, the British realised that India was a too costly to maintain control of India and that animosity between Hindus and Muslims was too high.
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  4040.  @abba-Flammenfresser  Fourthly, you don't understand Indian history if you think the Americans have always been there for them. The US has always supported Pakistan, their arch enemy. In 1971, when the Bangladesh Liberation War started, the US was supporting Pakistan in its war against India. When Indian intervened and tried to stop the genocide from happening, the US sent the USS Enterprise to attack India. Fast forward to the 21st Century when India faced its deadliest terror attack committed by Pakistani terrorists, the US continued to support Pakistan. When the Bin Laden was found hiding in Pakistan in 2011, the US continued to support Pakistan. Terrorism is such a huge issue for India (it has dealt with Islamist terrorism committed by Pakistan-backed terrorists long before 9/11 happened), yet the US continues to support Pakistan. So how can you say that the US has always been there for them? India and the US have never been allies but the US and Pakistan are allies.
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  4041.  @abba-Flammenfresser  Get this treatment? The US only serve its interests, they aren't the ones being hurt. The ones being hurt are the 3 million Bangladeshis that died in the genocide that the US supported that President Nixon was vocal about and staunchly anti-India. The ones being hurt are the thousands and thousands of Korean, South Asian and Southeast Asian women who were trafficked to US military bases to work as sex slaves during and after the Korean War. The ones being hurt are the Chagossian people who were expelled from their country so that the US could establish a military base on their islands. The list goes on. You need to realise that the US and Russia have both done bad things. You can't think that one side is an angel and the other side, the devil. It's not black and white like you think it is. You need to learn more about the dark side of US presence overseas and lose this idea that the US cares about the world, it doesn't. They only care when it serves their interests. That is why to this day, the US has not allowed for the temporary waiving of IP that would allow China and India to produce Pfizer and Moderna vaccines that would be given out for free to developing nations across Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Pacific. Why don't they care? It's because they gain nothing out of it and likely view the lives of the Global South as expendable.
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  4042.  @abba-Flammenfresser  Firstly, I'm not from India. Secondly, I am aaware that Russia is evil and what they have done to Ukraine is abhorrent but you also need to understand that your perspective is not the same for everybody else. While the Americans were supporting the genocide of Bangladeshis in 1971 and President Nixon was making racist remarks about the Bangladeshis, it was the Soviets that gave support to the Bangladeshis. Thirdly, the US has no significant hand in providing independence to India. India and Pakistan were not two separate colonies which makes me believe you are not aware of colonial Indian history which is why you believe the US is the reason for Indian independence. The Indian independence movement was already thriving before WWII even began, it exacerbated during WWII when the Japanese invaded India and set up a puppet state known as Azad Hind which was controlled by Indian nationalists fighting for independence. By the time WWII ended, the British realised that India was a too costly to maintain control of India and that animosity between Hindus and Muslims was too high.
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  4043. ​ @abba-Flammenfresser  The US only serve its interests, they aren't the ones being hurt. The ones being hurt are the 3 million Bangladeshis that died in the genocide that the US supported that President Nixon was vocal about and staunchly anti-India. The ones being hurt are the thousands and thousands of Korean, South Asian and Southeast Asian women who were trafficked to US military bases to work as sex slaves during and after the Korean War. The ones being hurt are the Chagossian people who were expelled from their country so that the US could establish a military base on their islands. The list goes on. You need to realise that the US and Russia have both done bad things. You can't think that one side is an angel and the other side, the devil. It's not black and white like you think it is. You need to learn more about the dark side of US presence overseas and lose this idea that the US cares about the world, it doesn't. They only care when it serves their interests. That is why to this day, the US has not allowed for the temporary waiving of IP that would allow China and India to produce Pfizer and Moderna vaccines that would be given out for free to developing nations across Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Pacific. Why don't they care? It's because they gain nothing out of it and likely view the lives of the Global South as expendable.
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  4044.  @chaosXP3RT  I'll try to explain. The US has always supported India's enemy, Pakistan. Pakistan and the US developed close relationships in 1954 and the US has since then supported Pakistan. In the 1971 war, the US supported Pakistan against India. When the preceding Bangladeshi genocide occurred in 1971, the US supported Pakistan's genocide of the Bangladeshis and encouraged the transfer of arms from the Middle East to Pakistan so that the Pakistanis could use them against the Bangladeshis. The Indians were on the side of the Bangladeshis. President Nixon, of the time, was staunchly pro-Pakistan and anti-India and infamously made racist remarks about the Bangladeshis when the genocide was happening. Relations between Pakistan and the US continued to remain warm even when the War of Terror began. when India faced its deadliest terror attack at the hands of Pakistani terrorists, the US continued to support Pakistan and in 2011, when Bin Laden was found hiding in Pakistan, the US continued to support Pakistan. In the eyes of the Indians, the US has never been on their side. So, when you think about it, it is kind of a surprise that India has tried to develop better ties with the US in the 21st century despite being treated wrongly by the Americans throughout most of their time as an independent nation.
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  4045. They had so many documentaries and videos about the Rohingya genocide back in 2017. Where were you??? You obviously didn't watch any of them and you probably think the Rohingya genocide is due to them being Muslim, it's not.
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  4046.  @dbcoopepr2318  Why do you support the Burmese military?
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  4047.  @BradleyHewlett  White people are not native to Australia
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  4048.  @seohn  No. There is a difference between "Asian" and what you describe as "Eastern". In Chinese, "Asian" is known as "亞洲人" and refers to everybody from Asia (Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Kazakh etc.) but the word "黄种人" means "East Asian race" and is not the same as "亞洲人". If you use, "黄种人" then you are referring to Chinese, Japanese, Koreans etc. (i.e. East Asians) but if you use "亞洲人" then you are referring to all Asians (i.e. the native ethnic groups of Asia). "黄种人" is racial and "亞洲人" is geographical.
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  4049.  @seohn  For example, in Hong Kong there are the native ethnic Chinese people (including Cantonese, Tanka etc.) but also there are South and Southeast Asian minorities, who either came during the colonial era or from the 1980s onwards. These minorities are grouped as "Asian" and differentiated from the White expat community in academic and legal circles. Among these minorities are the South Asians (Indian, Nepalese), Filipinos, Indonesians, Vietnamese and Thai. The South Asians are often grouped together because they have a similar history having settled in Hong Kong during the colonial era either as part of the Gurkha contingent or as traders. They are known by the Cantonese equivalent of "South Asian". The way "Asian" is understood across Asia is not racial. The subregions of Asia are understood more through the lens of "race" if that makes sense.
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  4050.  @seohn  Okay but in Asia, "Asian" (in its broadest extent) isn't understood in the sense of race if that makes sense.
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  4051.  @PhilGregory101  Friends? What do you mean by friends because the US and India are not allies? Also, it's sad how everybody is harking on about India now but when the Rohingya genocide happened and the Myanmar military staged a coup, the West kept silent and didn't criticise India on their neutrality and decision to continue doing business with the Myanmar military. You talk about their reputation being damaged but it's actually the reputation of the US and Europe that is being damaged. "Western hypocrisy" was trending worldwide on Twitter at the beginning of the war, the world (outside the US and Europe) is not happy.
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  4052. That's because it's controlled by INDIAN MEN. They are the reason for why this is all happening.
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  4053.  @anurag_mck  Nobody asked.
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  4054. The fertility rates of most countries in that circle of Asia are below replacement level or close to replacement level. Also, are you forgetting the millions of Europeans who moved to other parts of the world? There are ~800 million European-descended people outside of Europe and form the majority of the populations in countries like the US, Canada and Australia.
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  4055. He's focusing on East Asia but he did say Asia overall have low crime rates.
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  4056. No it's not true
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  4057.  @yqisq6966  I'm Australian and of Sri Lankan descent. What type of festival was it if you don't mind me asking? Was it an event for a bigger multicultural festival or something different? Australia's proximity to Asia has meant there has been a lot of contact with Asians even before the arrival of Europeans. The first Sri Lankans in Australia came during the colonial era as pearl divers. If you go up north to Broome and northern Queensland you will find people of mixed Aboriginal and Asian (Sri Lankan, Malay, Chinese or Japanese) heritage. We also have a language spoken in northern Australia called Kriol which was partly influenced by the Asian immigrants that settled up north. We are a diverse country but I don't think we're as diverse as the US, Canada or UK. Traditionally, most immigrants to Australia come from Europe and Asia. I think it's because we're quite isolated from most Western countries. In Australia's big cities, you will find more ethnic diversity but as you move inwards, it's different. You'll find mostly European settler and Aboriginal Australians and to some extent descendants of colonial-era Asian immigrants (pearl divers, Gold Rush immigrants etc.).
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  4058.  @madjames1134  The Myanmar issue has nothing to do with Buddhism. It's due to WWII when Japan invaded Myanmar. Google is right there, use it!
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  4059. You do know that Singaporeans are ethnically diverse right? Singaporeans are mostly of Chinese, Malay, Indian and Eurasian descent. It's been this way for centuries.
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  4060. You can clearly see that there are Sri Lankan Malays with more Malay-like features and those with more South Asian-like features. THe ones with South Asian-like features look that way because they have mixed Sri Lankan Moor and Malay ancestry but identify as Malays. There is nothing hidden here bffr.
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  4061.  @Jumpman-cb9hw  No, you must be looking at one mainstream media outlet that only focuses on your nation if you don't hear about any of these conflicts.
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  4062. Having a fast growing economy means nothing when 1% of your population controls 80% of the country's wealth lmfao. That's why India still looks horrifically undeveloped.
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  4063. No educated person from Sri Lanka is going to Japan. Only blue collar workers go to Japan and that's because Japan has for decades had a special via agreement with Sri Lanka (and a few other Asian countries) to allow blue collar workers into the country to work for a set number of years.
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  4064. ​ @eavyeavy2864  The exact same things happen in South Korea and India. Stop your whataboutism.
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  4065. This is why I support the rise of Asia and believe that Asians should use their deep common genetic heritage (East Eurasian ancestry) as common ground to unite against those with prejudicial views. All Asians descend fully or partially from an East Eurasian lineage (Ancient Ancestral South Indian [AASI], East/Southeast Asian [ESEA], Ancient Tibetan or Australasian [AA]) and as geneticist, Melinda A. Yang said, "these lineages form the main branches of Asian-related ancestry".
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  4066.  @wretfsfvd  They will become friends, wait and see
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  4067. The US got involved due to the bombing of Pearl Harbour though
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  4068.  @MrDiscostu4u  Best to be careful and educate yourself before speaking about a topic you don't actually understand. The Burmese military has a history of claiming the elections are rigged and ceasing power. They did it in 1990 and they did it again in 2021. It's clear that you don't actually care what's happening in Myanmar. You're only here to express your anger at the BBC which I find to be truly ridiculous.
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  4069.  @MrDiscostu4u  No you're not trying to educate yourself, you're just here to express your anger towards the BBC. If you were interested in educating yourself you'd look at a variety of media publications, including independent Burmese English language media like Frontier Myanmar - which present Myanmar in its full state without the baggage of the mainstream media.
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  4070.  @MrDiscostu4u  No you're the one who is angry and upset because you're unable to let go of this hatred you have for the BBC. Bold of you to claim I'm angry when you're coming to a BBC video only to bad mouth it. If you don't like the BBC why are you even here? Makes no sense.
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  4071.  @MrDiscostu4u  No I'm not. Must I remind you that you came to a BBC video to express your hatred for the network? Who does that? If one doesn't like something then they don't interact with it. You're doing the opposite.
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  4072.  @indo-pacific5940  They're all connected to Asia. Tamils spread Indic culture to Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia. They are the bridge between India and the rest of Asia. Ironic to hear someone say this because every time I say that "indic" culture is not a united thing and that Tamils are the only people to spread their culture to other parts of Asia, some Indians get upset at me. Now to hear someone actually say that it's only the Tamils that are the sole reason for this is amusing to see. Tamil Nadu has connections to other parts of Asia (including other parts of South Asia) and the rest of India has connections to it in their own ways(North Indian scripts are related to the Tibetan script, for example and Vajrayana Buddhism made its way into East Asia from North India), so yeah India is not separate or something. This argument doesn't make any sense, it's like the Japanese who say they are not part of Asia - it all comes down to nationalistic views in which y'all want to make yourself the centre.
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  4073. Don't like it, then Europe is right there. White male complaining about Asians in an Asia-Pacific country.
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  4074. Sri Lankans are ethnically diverse. There are 5 main ethnic groups in Sri Lanka: Sinhalese, Tamils, Moors, Malays and Burghers/Eurasian with smaller minorities of indigenous Vedda, Chinese, Chetties, Bohras and Malayalis. Most Sri Lankans are genetically closer to Maldivians and South Indians.
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  4075.  @inisipisTV  No, Sri Lanka was never a part of British India. They were ruled as a separate Crown Colony known as British Ceylon. British India was broken up into India, Pakistan and Bangladesh due to religion (Hindu vs Muslim). Most Sri Lankans are Buddhists and have no problem with Hindus.
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  4076. Well this stereotype applies to Indians too so it makes sense why they'd include them here.
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  4077.  @LigaFantasma  Asian is not a race, never was. It's to do with geography and culture. Nobody in Asia considers "Asian" to be a race.
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  4078.  @wakakabravo7998  It depends on the context but outside of Asia, "Asian" is used in both a geopgraphic and racial sense due to history. So Americans see East Asians as "Asian" while British see South Asians as "Asian" because "Asian" to them is racial. The whole thing doesn't make sense though if we're being pedantic. There are East Asian looking people in India and South Asian looking people in Thailand. I remember reading from a Singaporean woman of Indian descent how she was always "Asian" in Singapore but when she moved to the US she suddenly became "non-Asian" but then when she moved to the UK she became "Asian" again. I think people don't know that Asian was never supposed to be racial. Also, I wouldn't call Slavic Russians "Asians" because they're not native to Siberia, the original homeland of Slavic Russians is in Europe. A DNA test is not going to say they're from Siberia but from west of the Ural Mountains which is in Europe.
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  4079.  @starr2870  Yes you're right, I'm aware of that. I just said Indian because the OP only specificed Indians.
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  4080. Example #217139823489u08134778134784137974913741379431798431714364163 of Malay Muslims discriminating against minorities
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  4081.  @mefisto05s.20  Well it will be because it's been stuck as a lower middle income nation for so long, still hasn't progressed to upper middle income status and they can't plug their catastrophic brain drain.
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  4082.  @off_grid_javelin  India is still incredibly poor but their fertility rate is now below replacement level. Their urban fertility rate which is where most of the educated people live stands at 1.6. Their population will only grow for a couple ore decades before it reaches its peak. On top of that, they will be dealing with an aging population by the middle of this century. They don't have enough jobs for their educated so all of the young people leave the country. So India will also be suffering from chronic brain drain. None of that helps a developing country trying to become rich. India will probably become a middle income trapped nation.
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  4083.  @indiasuperclean6969  What do you think you're even achieving by spamming everybody's notifications with this? You must be from Pakistan which is very funny because to us, you and Indians are all the same... if not worse so what now?
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  4084.  @dancingcar8974  Not you getting offended at what I said (aka the truth)
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  4085.  @dancingcar8974  Triggered because I stated facts lmaooooooooooooooooooooooo
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  4086.  @dancingcar8974  If you weren't triggered you wouldn't be replying to me like this. Lmaoooooooooooooooooooooo
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  4087.  @dancingcar8974  You're the one barking at me. If you're upset with what I said, come out and say it instead of being passive aggressive. 💀
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  4088.  @dancingcar8974  This man is triggered by what I said but doesn't have the ability to address his concerns lmaooooooooooo
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  4089.  @dancingcar8974  Firstly, everything I stated is the truth. Seethe, cry and cope. Secondly, you say you don't want to waste time but you're wasting your time replying to me with clown emojis. The irony and foolery... Nationalists and their pathetic behaviour.
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  4090.  @dancingcar8974  You don't know what to say to me because everything I stated was a fact. So, you come here become passive aggressive under the impression that you're doing something but you're not. You're hurt by the facts that were stated so now you're throwing a tantrum. Lmaoooo Indian nationalists, they're all the same😂😂
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  4091.  @dancingcar8974  Lmaooo the Indian nationalist is so triggered
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  4092.  @dancingcar8974  Still triggered lol
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  4093.  @dancingcar8974  You are so triggered by what I said about India. Nationalists make me laugh. Deep down you know what I said is true, that's why you're resorting to whatever this is lmaooooooo.
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  4094.  @jiahuiwang6061  The water issue can be solved. India is not the only one that needs water from Tibet. Pakistan, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar need free river flow from China too. It can be solved if they figure out their differences. I'm sure we will eventually see peace between them like we saw in the video game Cyberpunk 2077 where India and China signed a treaty and opened their borders for open travel between them.
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  4095. Look at the rubbish that is found in the streets, the rivers and around the Taj Mahal. Look at the poor safety for women but this is what they're doing. Fast tracking citizenship for immigrants instead of making things better for their own people and land. I'm on the brink of not supporting this country now. I'm tired of the continuous disappointments.
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  4096.  @kimjaiprakashudhaiwala141  Comments like yours (every single one in this thread) are the reason why anti-Indian sentiment thrives in Asia. I don't know why you can't simply observe without malice.
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  4097.  @uzochiokeke4328  India and all of those countries are wrong. Nobody likes bullies.
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  4098. Crazy thing is Tharman Shanmugaratnam isn't even of Indian descent, but of Ceylonese descent. Mr Lee Kuan Yew would wince had he heard the Indian media was claiming Singaporeans of Ceylonese descent as their own after he went out of his way to publicly praise the distinct Ceylonese community of Singapore.
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  4099. True
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  4100.  @Aegon_Targaryen  So? When Myanmar faced a military coup where the democratically elected leader was arrested and sentenced to prison, India did nothing. In fact, they refused to say anything at the UN and in their position of power, with all of the influence and leverage they have in Myanmar they decided to not say a thing. Why? It's because they are doing business with the Burmese military an are more interested in money than being a custodian for democracy in Asia. The Indian government ruined its global reputation as the "world's largest democracy".
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  4101.  @Aegon_Targaryen  It's always about China this and China that. It's never about the actual average people. The problem here is that India likes to position itself as a beacon of peace, a representative for democracy, a benevolent counterpart to China but the truth is that India and China are the same. China is transparent and open about the fact that it's a power hungry country interested in subjugating the region and India is the exact same, it just hides it. That's the difference.
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  4102.  @Aegon_Targaryen  Yean and that's why the Indian government can't be trusted. You and China are the same. People across Asia are waking up to that fact. Good luck.
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  4103.  @_Meng_Lan  You're correct. They're saying the same thing in regards to Sri Lanka too because minority Tamils were persecuted.
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  4104.  @ashkanzahoor7242  Burmese people literally stood out in the street apologising for their silence. There was a social media campaign last year called #Black4Rohingya to show support for Rohingyas and the Burmese government-in-exile said they want to accept Rohingyas and recognise them as one of the indigenous ethnic groups of the country.
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  4105.  @ashkanzahoor7242  Aung San Suu Kyi was merely a puppet of the Tatmadaw. She had no real power. She was put there to appease the international community. The military still retained 1/4 of all seats in the Burmese parliament before the coup. Why would you think she had real power to speak up? Look at what has happened to her in 2021, she was thrown out of the government and in 2022 she is now in prison. Y'all have got to stop blaming her and start blaming the Burmese military and all of the countries that continue to do business with the Burmese military like India, China and Japan.
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  4106.  @gujwdhufjijjpo9740  Correct but it's regressive in this context because they're adopting misogynistic views which leads us back in time to when these views were accepted.
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  4107.  @yoch5383  Do you think our society that we live in now is better than the one that existed in the 1960s or is the 1960s better?
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  4108.  @RussianOccupier190  Were you a child during the 1960s?
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  4109.  @RussianOccupier190  So you didn't live during that time but somehow think it was better? That doesn't even make any sense.
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  4110.  @RussianOccupier190  Is this what you think about on the regular? Your issue is with women having tattoos? What about the men that constantly commit crimes and wreck havoc?
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  4111. Australia is not a nation where White people are native to it
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  4112.  @brentsaddress  White people are not native to Australia
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  4113.  @Tounguepunchfartbox  No, people here just want peace. Nobody wants an arms race and the militarisation of Asia and the Pacific. The last thing we want to hear of is of an "Asian arms race". I respectfully disagree, allying with a power that is not within the Indo-Pacific does not make sense because at the end of the day, when things turn sour we are the ones who will suffer greatly not the foreign power located on the other side of the world who is far away from the damage. We need cooperation. The truth of the matter is regardless of our personal feelings, China is part of this region and the region needs to learn to get along with China. You can still cooperate even if you don't agree on things. Many Asian and Pacific countries signed the RCEP with China so that's proof we can cooperate. As I said before, nobody wants to become a pawn between the US and China. We want to cooperate with both, we don't want to be pushed around and forced to pick sides.
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  4114.  @Tounguepunchfartbox  Nobody wants to solely side with the US and get caught up in a war between the US and China. At the end of the day, the US and China don't care who gets hurt as long as they win. Look at Ukraine. I've said what I've said.
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  4115.  @Tounguepunchfartbox  I fully understand what you're saying. I just don't think it's a viable option for any Asia-Pacific country.
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  4116.  @DrGaryGreen  You got sick from Indian food in Malaysia that is not KL or that you went to India and got sick? Anyway, Malaysian-Indian food is different to North Indian food.
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  4117.  @TitB1199  You've been brainwashed by Twitter because it's insane how people think that country is all the same and I feel really sorry for the people from the developed parts of India like Kerala and Sikkim, who have their own culture and language, who are tarred with the same brush because non-Indians refuse to understand their country.
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  4118.  @DrGaryGreen  Malaysia is a lot more developed than what it was in 1989. Maybe you can visit again.
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  4119.  @jacku8304  So Malaysia is more developed except for the street food stalls that are owned by Malaysian-Indians, is that what you're saying? How can one get "Delhi Belly" in Malaysia? Malaysia is NOT Delhi. You must be under the impression that "Indian food" in Malaysia is just like North Indian food found in India or something, it's not. Malaysian food is Malaysian food, there are Malaysian dishes that are influenced by Indian dishes from India but it's not "Indian food". I swear atp it's all the racism against Indians these days that has people even thinking Malaysian-Indians are no different despite the fact that they have been living in Malaysia long before the nation of India was even created.
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  4120.  @mikedavis4975  You have zero respect for the victims, bad karma is going to play with you like a rag doll
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  4121.  @Hindu_power_200  Wrong
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  4122.  @Hindu_power_200  Sri Lankans are not Indians. This is like saying Koreans are Chinese.
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  4123.  @Hindu_power_200  They absolutely are not. Stop claiming every single part of Asia as Indian territory.
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  4124.  @Hindu_power_200  No
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  4125.  @Hindu_power_200  I can tell you are though
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  4126.  @Hindu_power_200  😐
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  4127. Are Jews not native to the area that is now made up of modern Israel and Palestine? How are you going to claim China's territorial disputes which are rooted in dynastic history and post-Qing Dynasty irredentism to what is going on in the Middle East. They are NOT comparable.
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  4128. These comments show how many people have no understanding of how the world looks like. Have these people never looked at a map before?
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  4129.  @jonatand2045  Like it or not, China is where it is today because of the CCP. Without the CCP, China would not be what it is today. It would be far behind and resemble developing democratic nations in Asia like India or the Philippines because democracy simply does not work in developing nations, especially Asian ones. You have to thank the CCP for what they have done.
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  4130.  @jonatand2045  Except we can see other universes, the other universes being developing democratic Asian countries. Yes but capitalism doesn't equal democracy. The CCP revolutionised is governing style under Deng Xiaoping. It is Deng that helped significantly in part to China becoming what it is today. Had it not been for his economic reforms, China would've remained poor throughout. It's also very safe to say that China would never be what it is today had it been a democratic nation. All of Asia's high income nations became high income through the work of authoritarian or authoritarian-leaning governments. South Korea's economic miracle began under Dictator Park Chung-hee and Singapore became an Asian Tiger under Lee Kuan Yew (not a dictator but a hard-line leader that has been criticised by elements in the West).
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  4131.  @jonatand2045  Democratic governments don't respect the work of the previous government, instead they decide to use their time in office to undue what the previous government did and implement their ideas of what will make their country developed. This is why countries like Malaysia (that achieved its greatest level of success under an authoritarian leader) struggle to achieve high income status because successive democratically-elected governments are corrupt and have their own ideas of development. Sri Lanka is once again a lower middle income nation because of successive democratically-elected governments that turned out to be weak and corrupt despite achieving great leaps in economic and social development under former authoritarian governments. Developing Asian countries that are democratic are subjugated and held down by bodies like the World Bank and IMF because their government is a revolving door of different presidents and prime ministers. Had China been like this, China would've achieved absolutely nothing. Democracy simply does not work in a developing Asian setting and it's a great thing that democracy never made its way to China. The fact is that the CCP is why China is what it is today and it is also the CCP that has had the ability to invest in other Asian countries at such a significant rate. A democratic China would never have been investing in so much in India's tech start-ups for example because it would never be certain if that government would remain in power or not.
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  4132.  @lagrangewei  You're right
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  4133.  @LoveForBluebirds  Except it does complain
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  4134.  @TienyeeTien  Correct
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  4135.  @scottwales9178  The OP is talking about how the Indians were the elite in the British colonies so when these places gained independence, Indians faced discrimination because they controlled the wealth because they dominated the economies. Similar thing happened in SEA countries where Chinese were discriminated against because the Chinese were the elites too. It's a phenomenon known as the 'dominant minority' which refers to a minority group who holds power, most of the time economically and this they own most of the wealth of the country.
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  4136.  @khaosmue2114  He's ethnically Chinese, he has nothing to do with China.
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  4137.  @khaosmue2114  Do you go this hard for the US government or is it just the CCP?
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  4138.  @Bryan3on  Singaporeans are not Chinese nationals
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  4139.  @khaosmue2114  Why?
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  4140.  @aakashnair5170  He literally has a Singaporean accent, INdian
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  4141.  @memeniamemes8191  I feel sorry that you think development corresponds to what religion you practice. Not to mention how clueless you are about Sri Lanka. I cant give you one because every Hindu-majority country that does exist is a secular nation. Go look up the definition of "secular state". There is no country in the world run on Hindu laws. Stop being so obtuse. You made one mistake and you're back here to make some more? Aren't you embarrassed?
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  4142. It also means India won't ever fully develop and that's exactly what the US wants.
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  4143. They mean the same thing 💀
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  4144. Except it hasn't
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  4145. I have Sri Lankan ancestry and I practice Buddhism and no the Buddha is not from Sri Lanka. It shocked me to learn a few years ago that there are some people in Sri Lanka who think the Buddha was from Sri Lanka.
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  4146. The Rohingyas will go back when Aung San Suu Kyi's NUG comes back to power. Her government said they want to reintegrate Rohingyas back into Burmese society and there is a Rohingya minister in the government at the moment.
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  4147.  @4IZUKI  Muslim solidarity until it actually comes to doing something. Two-faced and racist
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  4148. The victims were immigrants too. You have zero respect for the victims.
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  4149.  @naazahs9045  Yet India is part of the US-led Quad. Seems like India can't make its mind up.
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  4150.  @blumebeastchannel7925  So then why is India part of the US-led Quad?
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  4151. @shivam Yet India is part of the US-led Quad, an organisation led by a Western country and following the rules of a Western country.
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  4152.  @blumebeastchannel7925  How am I deciding what they do? I'm literally asking a question. You say India shouldn't align with the West so why is India actively taking part in a Western-led group? I asked a question.
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  4153.  @amalkumar2775  Quad is not an economic alliance, it's a military alliance. It's a security dialogue. The whole purpose of Quad is to contain China's expansion in Asia militarily. All four countries conduct military exercises. It's a full blown military alliance, please look it up.
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  4154. or you're somebody living in the US, am I right???
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  4155. Lmao similar physical features? How many countries in Asia do you think there are?
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  4156. It's happening in Singapore, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Bhutan, North Korea and Taiwan too. It's due to urbanisation, cost of living and also general cultural changes. A lot of these countries are Buddhist-majority (except for Maldives and North Korea) and so there is no belief in a god that tells you that you need to have children unlike in other religions.
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  4157.  @zetiarasessyarani3659  I actually did think about it but I haven't used Twitter in a long time haha
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  4158.  @zetiarasessyarani3659  You can screenshot my comment and post it if you'd like. Thanks for asking
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  4159.  @zetiarasessyarani3659  Someone can take a screenshot and repost it though
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  4160.  @kingkong-gn6oi  I did not unfortunately but I received your first comment. I'll wait for you to post your other replies. You can go to your history, click "comments" and the comments should be there. You can then copy and paste them as a reply here.
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  4161. They have below replacement level fertility, their urban fertility stands at 1.6. One child policy is not going to do anything.
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  4162. You need to do your research. Sri Lanka has edged closer to impeachment in the past regarding its previous president. The thing you're not understanding is that this is Gotabaya Rajapaksa who is part of a powerful political dynasty. He changed laws and stole so much money from the people (including money amounting to reportedly US$17 million which was found in his residence). You really think the Rajapaksas are going to allow for an impeachment trial after everything they have done? The Rajapaksas are just like the Marcos family of the Philippines, they're extremely powerful and evil people who will break rules to suit them. The Sri Lankan people are angry and lost everything they had, they did the absolute right thing to storm the presidential palace. After months of peaceful protests, led by high school and university students, nothing happened. They just kept losing more and more.
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  4163. It's essentially the same thing. It all developed from Chan which in turned is a transliteration of Dhyana in India.
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  4164. Foreigners know it at "Zen" but there are many schools of Buddhism in East Asia that are based on the same concept.
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  4165. They're not even Indian and how dare you say this when the victims are immigrants too.
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  4166. You know nothing. Don't speak about things you don't understand.
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  4167. I can't even be bothered explaining to you the reality because you people never listen. You people only hear one thing and perpetuate lies.
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  4168.  @Sairulamin  So you're assuming things about me that you don't know. I am well aware of the genocide against Rohingyas. Problem is that you think that the Rohingya issue is due to religion, it's not. 1. It has nothing to do with religion. Don't just say "Muslim massacre" because hat's not true at all. There are other Burmese Muslims who are living in peace in Myanmar. 2. The Rohingya genocide stems to issues created by the British colonial administration during WWII. Nothing to do with religion. 3. Many young Burmese are now realising that they should have stood by the Rohingyas because they realise that the military is to blame. 4. Internet access was restricted in Myanmar until recently, nobody actually knew the depth of the issue and were brainwashed by the military and ultranationalists. Unfortunately, a lot of people, actually know nothing about the Rohingya issue and there are even foreigners supporting the Burmese military because they think Burmese people are getting pay back. The military is to blame for every single thing that happened in Rakhine state in late 2017. The Burmese military has been targeting Rohingyas since the 1970s. There was a time when Rohingyas were recognised and part of the Burmese government. The military ruined all of that.
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  4169.  @kovidmaniktalia2870  Their fertility rate is below replacement level. You can use Google if you don't believe me.
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  4170.  @highpeaks3598  I am aware that India is a diverse country and each state has its own culture but that doesn't change the fact that Nepal and Sri Lanka are two different countries with separate cultures and their own identities. They are not Indian. Just because India is diverse, does not mean those two countries ought to join India. Sorry but it's comments like this which fuel anti-Indian sentiment in other parts of South Asia (and Myanmar) because you're basically saying these countries don't have identities of their own but they do. Nepal is a mix of indigenous Nepalese, Indian and Tibetan cultural influences and Sri Lanka is a mix of Sinhalese, Tamil, Malay and Dutch Burgher influences with Indian influence.
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  4171.  @HicSuntL3ones  I'm not Indian but I find it strange that all of you hate on India/Indians for no reason.
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  4172.  @Zoza15  My people? My people are Australians. I'm Australian, I was born here and raised here. My ancestors are from Sri Lanka. I'm not different to the Greek and Italian Australians whose ancestors came from Greece and Italy respectively. So don't say such a thing.
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  4173.  @Zoza15  You are deeply misinformed and really need to know when to refrain from speaking about something you don't actually understand. Maybe I'm asking for too much considering you're a racist and will never accept facts.
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  4174.  @vardhanarya  They show Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka as parts of India when they were all ruled by different kingdoms and ancient Indian literature like the Ramayana treats all of these areas as regions separate from India.
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  4175.  @dwarasamudra8889  Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan are not part of Indian civilisation. You're talking from an Indian perspective but not looking at the other countries' perspectives. Nepal and Bhutan have significant Tibetan influence (e.g. ancient religion of Bon and related derivatives) and Sri Lanka has Malay influence (e.g. Sri Lankan cuisine has significant Malay and Javanese influences, major dishes in Sri Lankan cuisine like sambal and kaha bath are of Malay origin not Indian). The historical texts of these countries recognise their independence and differences and Indian texts like the Ramayana recognise this too. Europe and Ancient India are not comparable.
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  4176.  @indomitablesin984  That's what they say when they don't know what to actually say. Y'all get upset at China trying to take Indian territory but then claim the whole of South Asia, Myanmar, Tibet and Qinghai belong to India. How ironic is that?
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  4177.  @indomitablesin984  What's the difference between the CCP and nationalist India? Nothing. They're both the same.
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  4178.  Saffy Hussian  What?? Do you have any understanding of the history of South Asian and Southeast Asian countries?? Don't talk about things you don't understand! Rohingyas would be living in peace in Myanmar just like the other Burmese Muslim groups (Kama, Bamar Muslims) if the British never ruined things for that community. The Rohingyas are suffering in part due to the British colonisers. Educate yourself. Surprised you're even saying this when your name likely indicates that you're Asian too.
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  4179. The US will never win in Asia
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  4180. and this is why Australia needs to stop following the US and UK. Australia is an Asia-Pacific country and needs to recognise that.
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  4181. India still has its own martial arts. They haven't forgotten anything.
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  4182. It's always "they're serving under a Jewish president, so how are they neo-Nazis?" They're literally neo-Nazis, they have admitted to being xenophobic and have inflicted violence towards Romani and Greeks of Sartana in Ukraine. I can't believe we've gotten to a stage where people are now defending neo-Nazis all because they believe in the "good guy/bad guy" trope and can't accept the fact that there are bad people on both sides of the conflict.
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  4183. Are you from Singapore?
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  4184.  @kalumip1  Why would they show middle class people living in skyscrapers and built up areas when they're reporting on the people who are suffering?
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  4185.  adolft_official  Are you seriously mad that China is doing what it wants on its own island???
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  4186. No.
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  4187.  @songoku-jx3cb  Oh okay, idk why it says that you're replying to me then. Sorry ignore me
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  4188.  @Rook-gz5dy  What soft power??? Nobody in their right mind is associating the success of Indian Americans with India or Hindus. India's soft power is non-existent cause of Modi. People ridicule India online. Where have you been the past 2 years?
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  4189.  @darklord7069  Can't you all just stick to the topic of discussion for once instead of engaging in whataboutism?
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  4190. ​ @darklord7069  Incels have created real world damage so no, they should be focusing on these people. The fact that they feel so much hatred to mobilise on online forums and write manifestos about their hatred of society and actively encourage violence against women is a testament to how deranged they are. The fact that violence has been committed by incels should send alarm bells ringing. Stop thinking incels are like a subreddit or something dedicated to a particular topic, these are people whose warped mentality is spilling into the real world and affecting the lives of others.
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  4191.  @darklord7069  We're not talking about Antifa and whatever ideas they are promoting. This video is about incels. You're deflecting because what this video has done is tell the truth. Incels have committed terror attacks, they have written manifestos encouraging violence so yes they are starting out just like Al Qaeda and IS and those jihadist groups by creating manifestos and encouraging violence. They are cut from the same cloth. One more thing, yes the British empire did "export" homophobia (at least within Asia). Indigenous Eastern religions like Hinduism, Buddhism and Shintoism had no issue with homosexuality until Christian laws were implemented (I'm Asian btw). There are stories and historical documents about bisexual kings in certain Asian countries and homosexual monks in Japan. India's kamasutra has chapters on both heterosexual and homosexual topics. Have you wondered why Thailand is more open to LGBT people than most other parts of Asia? That is because they weren't directly colonised and were only influenced by the West through treaties with European powers. Unrelated to homosexuality but even transgenderism/third gender is more accepted in Thailand (used to be accepted in other parts of Asia too). Compare the treatment of transgender women in Thailand to India and you'll see it's different. Just like Thailand, India has their own ladyboy community (who are considered semi-scared) but these days they live on the fringes and are nowhere near as accepted in Indian society compared to ladyboys in Thailand (there are famous and popular ladyboys/transgender women who are popular among straight men in Thailand). Cambodia has their own ladyboy community too but not as visible as in Thailand. That's due to the use of Christianity during colonisation. It was demonised so Asian people suddenly saw it differently and it's not outright homophobia or transphobia (like in the West), it's now "we don't talk about that" because it's taboo. We know there was no issue with any of that before colonisation but people suppressed it so they no longer talk about it.
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  4192. I don't agree with the comments but the two suspects are Uyghurs
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  4193.  @dra7582  Can you please educate yourself? Why do you think the only Muslims in Myanmar are Rohingyas? Why do you think the Rohingya issue is due to Islam? There are many other Muslim groups in Myanmar like Kaman, Bamar Muslims, Panthay etc. The Rohingya crisis was due to ethnicity. There were Bamar Muslims who were indifferent to what was happening to the Rohingyas but now a lot of people have realised what the military is capable of and feel sorry and regret not standing up for the Rohingyas.
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  4194.  @dra7582  1. Genocide against Muslims? It wasn't a genocide against Muslims. It was a genocide against Rohingyas, an ethnic minority from the state of Rakhine. 2. Kaman are an indigenous Muslim community in Rakhine State. They number around 50,000. Bamar Muslims are found throughout Myanmar, but mainly in the central part of the country, they are one of the largest Muslim groups in Myanmar. Their culture is similar to the Bamar Buddhists. Kaman Muslims are also culturally similar to the Rakhine Buddhists. For example, Kaman mosques look similar to Burmese Buddhist temples. 3. Aung San Suu Kyi has Burmese Muslims in her government.
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  4195.  @dra7582  No, it was a genocide against Rohingyas. There are other Muslims in Myanmar and the military committed the genocide against Rohingyas. It's not okay to peddle false information
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  4196.  @dra7582  The genocide had nothing to do with religion. It is wrong to view the world through the lens of religion even when it has nothing to do with religion.
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  4197.  @dra7582  I guess you really have no idea what you're talking about. Best to come out of your bubble and see the real world.
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  4198. Chinese and Indian Singaporeans did not colonise anything.
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  4199. @ How is this propaganda? Go read the genetic papers of Melinda A. Yang.
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  4200. What?? How is this propaganda??
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  4201. @ Propaganda? Oh how funny. All it can say is "that's propaganda" and yet never give an actual counterpoint while I actually provided an actual study. Keep living in denial and cry harder Westoid
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  4202.  @KIA-MIA-POW  Well the educated should remain because only they can solve the problem and are you really from Laos?
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  4203.  @KIA-MIA-POW  It was a question, maybe calm down and focus on Laos or wherever you are from. Clearly I've hit a nerve.
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  4204.  @KIA-MIA-POW  For the record, I highly doubt you are truly Laotian most likely a foreigner living in Laos like many in other parts of Southeast Asia.
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  4205. Huh???
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  4206.  @XX-gy7ue  What do you expect them to do? Sit and starve to death? Their president is living in luxury while he shuts the schools down preventing students from learning, ordering electricity blackouts for the entire nation but making sure the electricity remains on for his own home, ordering the police to use violence against protestors and implementing a curfew to prevent people from leaving their own homes.
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  4207. Japan has been accepting people from South Asia since the 1980s, especially Nepalese. Idk what you're talking about Banuka.
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  4208.  @banukasilva6153  Well maybe you should've voted in intelligent leaders and then your country wouldn't have gone through an economic crisis that led to all of your people moving to other countries, including the unsavoury individuals that went to Japan and causing problems there. I put the blame on the Sri Lankan leaders and the Sinhalese nationalists. I see way too many South Asians complain about their people but do nothing about it. You think you're better but it's just embarrassing. Fix your country.
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  4209.  @banukasilva6153  Also, accept women instead of men. All of these issues you speak about are because of men. Japan accepted migrant brides from Sri Lanka, Philippines, Thailand and China back in the 1980s to marry Japanese farmers and they all integrated and there was no issue. You bring men in and then the problems start. Enough already. It's ridiculous. Women >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> men. Society is a lot safer when there are more women than men. Japan should only accept women but that won't happen so it should be a lot more women than men.
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  4210.  @banukasilva6153  Also, accept women instead of men. All of these issues you speak about are because of men. Japan accepted migrant brides from Sri Lanka, Philippines, Thailand and China back in the 1980s to marry Japanese farmers and they all integrated and there was no issue. Bring men in and then the problems start. Enough already. People deserve to be safe. Women >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> men. Society is a lot safer when there are more women than men. Japan should only accept women but that won't happen so it should be a lot more women than men.
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  4211.  @banukasilva6153  Also, accept women instead of men. All of these issues you speak about are because of men. Japan accepted migrant brides from Sri Lanka, Philippines, Thailand and China back in the 1980s to marry Japanese farmers and they all integrated and there was no issue.
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  4212.  @banukasilva6153  Bring men in and then the problems start. Enough already. It's ridiculous. Society is a lot safer when there are more women than men. women >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> men
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  4213. ​ @banukasilva6153  Bring men in and then the things you spoke about start happening. Enough already. It's ridiculous. Women >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> men. Society is a lot safer when there are more women than men.
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  4214.  @banukasilva6153  Bring men in and then the things you spoke about start happening. Enough already. It's ridiculous.
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  4215.  @banukasilva6153  Females >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> males. Society is a lot safer when there are more females than males.
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  4216.  @banukasilva6153  Stop bringing in men. Women >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> men. Society is a lot safer when there are more women than men
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  4217.  @banukasilva6153  Stop bringing in men. Society is safer when there are more females.
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  4218.  @banukasilva6153  Stop bringing in men
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  4219.  @banukasilva6153  Women>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> men
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  4220.  @banukasilva6153  Society is safer when there are more females.
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  4221.  @Jambudvipa-ug6yg  Indians are Asians
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  4222.  @christianevanherck6023  This person posts a lot of anti-Burmese comments online. He's always supporting the idea of China breaking up Myanmar into smaller countries.
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  4223.  @stormshadow5283  Brahmin detected
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  4224. It's just very common towards the Indians
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  4225. Why should they be part of India when they are their own country?
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  4226. India will complain about China's expansionism but demand other South Asian countries should join India. Hypocrisy much?
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  4227.  @GoToMan  No, most definitely not.
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  4228.  @marybailey7881  The CCP supports the anti-junta groups because the anti-junta groups fit within Chinese interests. China can only achieve its Bay of Bengal plans with a stable Myanmar.
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  4229.  @sherlockholmes882  You must be an American, China was right all along but nobody listened
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  4230.  @christopherlobo8082  of course the White man is defending the white man for spreading hate against Indians, the very ethnicity his wife belongs to
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  4231.  @aevans-jl9ym  Saying they're of Indian ancestry is like saying Native Americans are of Russian ancestry. They've been living in Europe for thousands of years, most of their ancestry is West Eurasian-like, which means they're closer to other Europeans.
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  4232.  @aevans-jl9ym  It's not completely false. Go read the genetic studies that have been published on this as well as the YouTube videos about them ffs. They're mostly West Eurasian. CRY ABOUT IT
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  4233.  @aevans-jl9ym  Yeah and if you actually watched them, you'd know that they're mixed. How clueless can someone be to think that someone's genetic makeup would remain the same despite extensive mixing over thousands of years?
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  4234.  @aevans-jl9ym  hey have been living in Europe for thousands of years and have intermixed with Middle Easterners and Europeans. CRY>
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  4235.  @aevans-jl9ym  North Indians are a mix of Steppe pastoralists, Iranian Neolithic Farmers (both West Eurasian groups that are closer to Europeans and AASI (the indigenous South Asians who are closer to East Asians). Do some research instead of coping.
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  4236.  @aevans-jl9ym  They have been living in Europe for thousands of years. They've mixed with Middle Easterners and Europeans. CRY
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  4237.  @aevans-jl9ym  North Indians are a mix of Steppe and Neolithic Farmers - both genetically closer to Europeans and AASI - genetically closer to East Asians. Stop coping so hard.
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  4238.  @aevans-jl9ym  North Indians are a mix of Steppe and Neolithic Farmers - both genetically closer to Europeans and AASI - genetically closer to East Asians. CRY
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  4239.  @aevans-jl9ym  Roma are mixed with Middle Easterners and Europeans. CRY
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  4240.  @aevans-jl9ym  Roma mixed with Euros. Use Google
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  4241.  @aevans-jl9ym  Romani are Euros. CRY
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  4242.  @aevans-jl9ym  Use Google. Roma are mixed. CRY
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  4243. ​ @aevans-jl9ym  I'm not going to explain any further. Use Google and learn about the Roma.
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  4244. Indian subcontinent? Stop using that term. The Global South is completely different, it includes all low income and middle income nations. The Indocentrism is rife. How does one even come to such a conclusion??? Not everything is about India.
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  4245.  @Oldlee-g6r  Not surprised that an ethnic Chinese person asked such an insane question.
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  4246.  @visenyatargaryen9130  OP believes in Indocentrism
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  4247.  @SuperAghori  All of those regions were NOT part of India. That's Indocentrism and you're not acknowledging the histories of these countries (except Pak and Bang which were part of India).
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  4248.  @visenyatargaryen9130  They think the whole of South Asia belongs to India, that's wrong. It's called Indocentrism. There are nationalists in India who think the whole of South Asia and even Myanmar and Tibet are part of India.
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  4249.  @SuperAghori  That doesn't mean anything
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  4250.  @rainbowcatplayz1458  India is Asian! India is located in Asia, specifically South Asia. They're South Asian.
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  4251.  @milesinnz  They just want their leaders out and to have a new government in with people that actually care about the population. Idk what's with the condescending attitude.
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  4252.  @milesinnz  You need to learn to get your facts straight. They aren't asking for people to come save them.
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  4253.  @milesinnz  You need to get your facts straight Miles because you don't know what you're talking about, get it? I'm tired of outsiders talking about Asian issues without knowing a single thing about the Asia-Pacific region. There's you claiming they're asking people to give them handouts and then there's those people claiming Sri Lanka is suffering because of China, which is categorically false. You want to talk about Asian issues, then please get your facts straight.
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  4254.  @milesinnz  This is what happens when people start talking about things they don't understand. It's also always the people who aren't from Asia who settle in Asia and start talking about Asian issues as if they understand what's actually going on. Just because you've decided to marry a Cambodian woman and settle in Cambodia doesn't mean you understand what's going on in Asia. You're wrong on so many levels. Firstly, nobody in Sri Lanka is asking for outside help. Secondly, Sri Lanka has a low population growth.
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  4255.  @milesinnz  Sri Lanka has a rapidly aging population. Their workforce is shrinking because there are not enough young people entering the workforce anymore so now they're relying on foreign workers now. Finally, they voted in the wrong leaders who discriminated against minorities leading to a civil war. I'm not even from Sri Lanka but I've read about Sri Lanka.
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  4256. ​ @milesinnz  Nobody is asking you for help so calm down. Be grateful for the fact that it's the Indians and the Chinese who are willing to help their neighbours without the judgement.
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  4257.  @milesinnz  Oh so this is what it's about. The day you all realise that one country's enemy is not the enemy of another country is the day we'll know peace. Stop making other countries' friends enemies. There is history behind this and it's why most Global South nations are continuing to do business with Russia.
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  4258. 83 million people living in extreme poverty in India and this is what you care about?
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  4259.  @ankurantil6137  I know a lot about India but I still don't understand why nothing has changed. Why am I still seeing viral videos on TikTok from the streets of Delhi showing someone making naan with their feet and rubbish everywhere and a video of men on a beach defecating? Talking about Britain doesn't make much sense anymore because a lot of ex-colonies are doing much better now. I want India to become a high income developed nation but I don't think many people there care enough about changing the country anymore. I think nationalism has changed it.
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  4260.  @sontoloyo-zo9er  Burmese fake Buddhist male stop discriminating against Rohingyas challenge impossible
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  4261. Burmese fake Buddhist male
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  4262. It's just cultural. Shinto and Buddhist practices are deeply embedded in Japanese culture so engaging in those practices is just an extension of Japanese culture.
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  4263.  @Austine1452  The Burmese military is responsible for the genocide. They orchestrated and committed the acts of violence against the Rohingyas. Why should the US invade Myanmar? Also, the decision to invade Iraq was made on false ideas of weapons of mass destruction. If you think the US is invading these countries like Iraq and Libya to support these nations then you're truly mistaken because that's not the reality at all.
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  4264.  @mickzammit6794  Comments like this make me root for China to win.
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  4265.  @mickzammit6794  Your comment was so out of place and reeks of prejudice
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  4266.  @franciscouderq1100  Just the army. The army has been targeting Rohingyas and other minority groups in Myanmar for decades.
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  4267. It is, corrupted officials are behind everything discussed in the video. There's a good view from Channel News Asia about everything. The title of the video is "Sri Lanka Meltdown: Can New Prime Minister Save The Country From Bankruptcy?" you can find it on the CNA Insider YouTube page.
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  4268. They literally dominate the tech industry, STEM fields in general. Take a look at Silicon Valley, it exists in part due to Chinese and Indian immigration starting in the 1980s.
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  4269. The platform you are using now (YouTube) was created in part by two people of Asian origin.
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  4270. They have a low fertility rate too
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  4271. it's correct
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  4272.  @Paconennation  Aren't you from Kenya, how is that any different?
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  4273.  @Paconennation  Politicians focusing on the wrong issues, open defecation at a rate of 6%, corruption an all sorts of issues and yet he's here telling me Kenya is different. Mind you, the Kenyan-Asians are the ones holding the economic power in the country. Please be serious.
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  4274.  @Papabuonair  ...because with the Tatmadaw steering the ship, China will know that there will be nothing stopping them from fulfilling their projects in the country. Under Aung San Suu Kyi, certain Chinese projects weren't even progressing like the dam project. However, under the Tatmadaw, China will know that they will easily be able to start and execute all of the projects that they want to undertake in the country. China wants to use Myanmar as its gateway to the Bay of Bengal and the broader Indian Ocean. China will have no trouble fulfilling this now, especially considering the fact that the Tatmadaw has been engaged in fresh armed warfare with the Rakhine people since last year in an area of the nation where these Chinese projects will be situated in.
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  4275.  @Papabuonair  ...and the widespread belief is that China is the one backing the military and if you look at everything that has happened in the past 10 years in the country you will understand why a lot of Burmese people think that China is backing the military with full force. It makes sense.
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  4276.  @Papabuonair  Firstly, China is one of the main suppliers of the Burmese military. It's the closest ally the Burmese military has. Secondly, Myanmar is part of the Belt and Road Initiative. Thirdly, China is interested in making Myanmar the country's gateway to the Indian Ocean. Myanmar is supposed to be located on the alternate land route that skips the Strait of Malacca trade route. This will be established through the economic corridor. There are major investment projects in the country which have faced resistance in ethnic minority regions where the military is engaged in fighting. Finally, the Burmese military never ceded power completely. They made Aung San Suu Kyi the de facto leader of the country but they still held a sizeable portion of the seats in the parliament. With the military in total power, the CCP has the ability to deepen its ties with the country. So far, China has not criticised the coup and has refused to condemn the military at the UN Security Council.
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  4277. They only owe 10% of their debt to China.
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  4278. That video was debunked and it was proven with a community note with attached sources that it was the result of tourists from the US and France who were in the Geisha district. That's why Japan banned tourists from entering the Geisha district a month ago. So many of these videos have been debunked with community notes because they either fabricate entire stories or they exaggerate the details of the incident.
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  4279. It's not actually. People have created this idea that China is the bogeyman but the reality is that the same conditions apply with FDI from the US or international institutions. There have been things happening with Uyghurs, like surveillance and apparent re-education but a lot of Uyghurs also live peacefully in the nation. The most popular actress in China is Dilireba, an actress of Uyghur who is famed for her "pan-Asian" looks and plethora of Chinese dramas she has starred in.
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  4280. Also, Sheikh Hasina, prime minister of Bangladesh, said that a "white man" allegedly offered her safeguard to re-election if she accepted to the creation of a Christian state using parts of Bangladesh and Myanmar. International media has linked the "white man" to the US government based on apparent efforts from the US government to establish a military base in Bangladesh by leasing the island of Saint Martin island in order to fully surround China and contain its expansion in Asia. Sounds bizarre but it's not when you know that Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore was once offered a bribe of $3.3 million by the US government to cover up the CIA's attempt at trying to buy information from a Singapore intelligence officer back in 1965 when the country was undeveloped.
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  4281.  @zackgravity7284  What problems?
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  4282. Nobody's going to Europe which is so far away, so you can calm down.
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  4283. It's almost been 9 years since it disappeared.
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  4284.  @nmpoy  Hindus don't wear similar traditional garb to Muslim people.
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  4285.  @nmpoy  Caucasian is an outdated racial term from the 19th century and there aren't 3 main races. Those terms are rooted in scientific racism. South Asians are not "Caucasian" but are actually are "mixed race", hence why they are so hard to classify. They were formed by the mixing of indigenous South Asian groups with West Eurasian-related (European/Middle Eastern) and East Eurasian (East/Southeast Asian) groups, that's why they look so diverse.
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  4286.  @Monhira6322  China didn't ask for land though. The politicians in the Sri Lankan government asked for the 99 year lease.
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  4287.  @user-pn3im5sm7k  When you view things from a black and white perspective, you will never understand the full scope of things. You see China as a threat but view Japan with admiration. You disregard Japan's actions and the controversy that continues to erupt through their denial because you admire Japan and because China is your enemy. As a result, you don't understand why something like this may ruffle feathers in other parts of Asia. When there is still a shrine in existence that idolises the military personnel that killed and raped thousands of people across Asia and the Pacific and which continues to support the view that the Japanese did the right thing by invading and colonising the region, why do you think people should just ignore it?
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  4288.  @user-pn3im5sm7k  "You are clinging on to the past and fail to see the divide of Japan in 2022 and 1941" There is a stark difference between the Japan of 2022 and the Japan of 1941 but the country still doesn't accept reality. Right wing Japanese people still believe they did the right thing by invading Japan. They deride conversations about comfort women and the Nanjing massacre and continue to claim that South Asian and Southeast Asian countries like Vietnam, India, Indonesia and Malaysia are only independent from Europeans because of them. As a result, they believe they did the right thing by invading and subjugating the region. Their aim was to never free Asia from the Europeans. "This sentiment is of course an anti-Japanese propaganda technique used by Chinese propagandists, which radiates throughout your entire comment" I'm not Chinese and this is NOT anti-Japanese propaganda. You just fetishise Japan and so can never see things from my perspective. This is why you think anybody that says anything remotely critical of Japan is a Chinese propagandist. You don't know enough about the Yasukuni Shrine. It's so wrong for an American man to undermine reality around these events. That shrine houses the Yushukan, a museum rife with Imperial Japanese pan-Asian propaganda including maps of Greater East Asia and walls with a huge map suggesting South Asia and Southeast Asia were freed from the Europeans by the Japanese. That whole museum takes part in historical revisionism. You aren't even allowed to take photos of the content within the Main Sanctuary. Now why would that be the case? Oh that's right because the whole museum is used to justify and undermine the atrocities committed during WW2. One thing that tires me is how White Americans idolise Japan to such a great extent whilst calling out China but not realising that modern China is using the same tactics that Imperial Japan used in WW2. Had you had any idea of reality in the Indo-Pacific today, you'd know that China is using the same pan-Asian vocabulary the Japanese did "Asia for Asians". You idolise Japan but fail to realise that Japan's revisionism of WW2 history is incredibly problematic. I don't hate Japan but I'm not infatuated with it like many White Americans. I have the ability to admire the good qualities of Japan but also be critical of it too. I don't hark on about Japan's past like this usually but seeing Americans blindly support Japan and undermine WW2 reality is lowkey irritating because it comes off with that "holier than thou" and fetishistic mentality. If you were able to read my comment, you'd realise I called out China and its expansionism but because of your fetishisation of Japan, you didn't see that. Of course you're in the US military and of course you're advocating for the militarisation of Asia. Why am I not surprised? The US and China's cold war is going to destroy Asia and the Pacific. I'm so tired of this war mongering. We're always getting caught up in the drama that the US and China create. Constantly asked to pick sides. Please give us a break seriously. When my generation reaches our middle aged years, we want to be living in relative peace not fighting wars started by men in foreign nations decades ago and not realising if our future children (our parents' future grandchildren) will survive. I say this quite boldly, but many people of all ages (young to old) across various parts of the Indo-Pacific do not want war, whether that's a fully blown war or proxy wars. The blatant warmongering has made people very tired.
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  4289. Just use "East Asian", "South Asian", "Southeast Asian" etc. easy. Asian people already use it to differentiate us from each other.
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  4290. Indo-European is just a language family, not a race and not everybody in South Asia speaks an Indo-European language (same with Central Asia and Iran). In fact, the people who brought Indo-European languages to South Asia are more recent because the first inhabitants of the region are actually closer to East Asians, Southeast Asians and Aboriginal Australians. The people who predominantly carry this ancestry are now in the minority in South Asia.
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  4291.  @AngryKittens  Yes you are absolutely correct correct but Indo-European is a language family, it's not a race. Race is a social construct anyway. There are "East Asian" looking people in South Asia whose native language is Indo-European. There are "South Asian" looking people in South Asia and Myanmar who speak Sino-Tibetan languages. In the case of South Asia, this does not make sense. I know what you're talking about, you're talking about the Steppe pastoralists who brought Indo-European languages and understand what you're saying but the case of South Asia is very different because miscegenation has occurred ever since the first humans settled in the region. I wouldn't call it "Indo-European" either but Steppe ancestry. Dravidian speakers are not the first inhabitants of South Asia. They seem to have emerged from the IVC. The first inhabitants of South Asia are the AASI and they are related to East Asians, Southeast Asians and Aboriginal Australians. It's tribal groups in South Asia that have the highest levels of this AASI ancestry out of all South Asians, not the large Dravidian-speaking groups (Tamils, Telugu etc.). The AASI emerged from one of the earliest waves of humans out of Africa. This ancestral Asian population settled in South Asia and genetically split into three populations: AASI, ESEA of E/SE Asia and AA of Australasia. All of these groups are related to one another and consequently share varying degrees of affinity to an early modern human known as Tianyuan Man. Source: "A genetic history of migration, diversification, and admixture in Asia" - Melinda A. Yang, 2022 Nagas are like other South Asians. Everybody is a descendant of various migrations into the region that mixed together. The dominant ancestral component of the Nagas is known as Ancestral Tibeto-Burman (ATB), while small amounts of their DNA comes from mainland India much like the Meitei and Chakma. What I was trying to say is that not all South Asians speak Indo-European languages and genetically, the "Indo-European" component you speak of (which I call Steppe ancestry) is not the dominant component of any South Asian population that speaks an Indo-European language. The dominant ancestral component of most South Asians is Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC)-related ancestry, which is older than Steppe ancestry. IVC ancestry is predominantly made up of West Eurasian Neolithic farmer ancestry from what is now known as Iran (87%) with smaller amounts of Southeast Asian hunter-gatherer ancestry (13%) - related to that first wave f humans out of Africa. Source: "An Ancient Harappan Genome Lacks Ancestry from Steppe Pastoralists or Iranian Farmers" - Vasant Shinde et al. 2019 The IVC is also suggested to be the home of Dravidian languages. Yes, the case of Singapore is like any other area after the Era of Exploration, yes most Singaporeans speak an Indo-European language despite ethnically being Chinese, Malay, Tamil etc.
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  4292.  @AngryKittens  They are Asians because they're from Asia. They're native to Asia. That is all. There is nothing more to it. Asian is not a "race" or "genetic grouping" and people need to stop equating a basic demonym term for describe natives of a continent with a so-called race. Nobody in Asia thinks "Asian" is some sort of race. You're conflating genetic terminology like "West Eurasian" or "ESEA" with geographical terms like "Asian". Steppe pastoralist is literally the name used for Proto-Indo-Europeans. You can read the genetic studies that use this term. IVC is likely linked to Dravidian languages but we do not know for sure and the genetic studies I have given you explain this very clearly. I really can't agree with your decision to equate language families to genetics with such a narrow definition and claim genetics is mostly defined in this way. Most Burmese are of Bamar descent who speak Burmese (a Sino-Tibetan language) but are genetically mostly made up of an ancestral Southeast Asian genetic component. Kinh Vietnamese, on the other hand, are genetically closer to southern Chinese than Bamar people are on a PCA. A lot of generalisations and simplifications are going on here. Broadly speaking, East Asian and Southeast Asian people are genetically overlap with each other and understandably so because the dominant genetic component of both groups is ESEA ancestry. The DNA that came with the introduction of language families is not the prime way one separates groups of people based on genetics. There is a lot, lot more to human genetic makeup than the ancient ancestors that introduced languages to various parts of the world.
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  4293.  @AngryKittens  Sorry but it's not a vague term, it's the actual term used in academics. Everybody is termed based on position in human evolution: pastoralists, hunter-gatherers, farmers etc. There is nothing vague about it. So, for example, when geneticists describe the genetic landscape of South Asia, they will say South Asians are descendants of indigenous ancient hunter-gatherers known as AASI and subsequent waves of exogenous Neolithic farmers, Steppe pastoralists and/or Austroasiatic-speaking and Tibeto-Burman-speaking farmers. These terms are used to illustrate the type of technology that developed within a civilisation over time. So, for example, with rice cultivation in South Asia we know that rice was cultivated in the IVC because that was a farmer-based society and we know that Austroasiatic speaking farmers who settled in South Asia from the east also brought agrarian practices with them, introducing a new form of rice cultivation to the region. Same thing with Steppe pastoralists and the AASI were obviously less developed, due to their early origins, having been a hunter-gatherer-based society. Well Islander Southeast Asians are close to East Asians genetically. The idea that they're far apart is incorrect. It is generally understood that Austroasiatic-speaking farmers were present across a much larger land coverage of Southeast Asia (all the way into western Indonesia) and genetically speaking, Island Southeast Asians are close to East Asians. Both groups carry Basal East Asian DNA. This is why among all groups in Asia and the Pacific that carry some degree of East Eurasian/Eastern Non-African DNA, it is the ESEA (East/Southeast Asian) groups and Native Americans (who predominantly descend from a Basal East Asian lineage) that have the highest genetic affinity to Tianyuan Man (a Basal East Asian from northern China). If you look at all of the other groups in the world that have affinity to Tianyuan Man (Australians, Melanesians, South Asians, Central Asians, Maori, Romani), they are further away in genetic distance. So this idea that Islander Southeast Asians are not closely related to East Asians is incorrect. We already know, from studies dating back decades, that East and Southeast Asians are closely related. Both regions are in proximity to each other and it's understandable that genetic influence from various groups associated with East Asian-related DNA, would have impacted Island Southeast Asia to a great extent unlike Polynesia which is further away. Yes there is a genetic connection between Island Southeast Asians and Austronesian-speakers in the Pacific but that doesn't erase the fact that the closest genetic relation these populations have is with the rest of Southeast Asia and East Asia. All of these populations carry Basal East Asian DNA. Polynesians and Micronesians are also part of this same lineage albeit having split earlier. They're all descendants of ESEA aka East Asian-related lineages. Same thing with Indo-European-speaking South Asians, they all have Steppe ancestry but their dominant genetic component is IVC ancestry which is why they're comparatively closer to Iranian-speaking populations of Central and West Asia than to Europeans on a PCA plot.
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  4294.  @AngryKittens  Some shorten it "Steppe pastoralists", others say "Western Steppe Herders" or "Western Steppe Pastoralists". Surely, you understand what I mean now. "You arbitrarily differentiated Western Steppe Pastoralists with the ancestors of the Indo-Aryan migrations" I absolutely did not do such a thing. When did I say Iranian-speakers reached the IVC???? Huh?? Please read what I said again and read the sources I have given you. I am talking about Iranian Neolithic Farmers. They are Neolithic-era farmers that originated in Iran long before the arrival of the Steppe pastoralists to South Asia. The Iranian Neolithic Farmers are NOT the same as the Steppe pastoralists. They are called "Iranian Neolithic Farmers" because they originated in what is now Iran, some say "Zagros" instead of "Iranian" because it conflates it with modern Iranian people who are of Steppe origin. The IVC was formed from Neolithic Farmers from Iran and hunter-gatherers from Southeast Asia. Read the genetic study I gave you in my other comment. That genetic study was the biggest genetic study done on the IVC and explained one of the main origins for modern South Asians. Idk why you think North Indians don't carry IVC ancestry. They do and they carry it at a high rate. They look the way they do because of that IVC ancestry, those with less IVC ancestry and more Steppe ancestry like in Kashmir look very different and more like the Tajiks. Idk if you're just using different terminology or something but Basal Asians are not any modern East Asian or Southeast Asian group or what you're talking about. Basal Asian DNA is connected to what is known as Eastern Non-African (ENA) and today, that ancestry is detected at the highest level among tribal groups found only in South Asia and Southeast Asia like the various Negrito tribes that retain archaic ancestry due to isolation. Source: "Genetic Connections and Convergent Evolution of Tropical Indigenous Peoples in Asia" - Lian Deng et al., 2021 - this genetic paper discusses Basal Asian DNA and also includes a map of the prevalence of Basal Asian DNA in modern Asia. I totally understand your sentiment about smaller groups being erased but I think we're coming at this from two different angles which is why there is disagreement in some areas of what we're talking about.
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  4295.  @AngryKittens  The reality for most North Indians is that their main genetic base is not Steppe ancestry. Many love to hype up their claims of proximity to Europeans while deriding Adivasi tribals and low caste Indians who are comparatively closer to eastern Asian populations. Only the northwestern populations like Punjabis, Kashmiris and various groups in that region have a dominant base of Steppe ancestry. The rest of North India is largely a blend of IVC and Steppe ancestry. They idolise sharp (Eurocentric) features like high bridged nose whilst deriding neotenous features (flat noses, flat face etc.) and this is why you shouldn't be generalising to begin with. By generalising the whole of South Asia through the eyes of North India you're suggesting the default for South Asia is North Indian Indo-European-speaking people (which is literally what North Indian nationalists claim to be reality) and that's not reality. If there was any sort of "default" population then it would be the Adivasi tribes (dark skinned people with flat noses, flat faces etc.) found across South Asia from south India to Bhutan. If you're suggesting North Indians to be specific are the closest cousins of Europeans, that is not true. It's actually West Asians who are the closest cousins to Europeans. Both groups are of basal West Eurasian origin. Yeah Basal Asian is basically that large ancestral population that gave rise to the ESEA, AA and AASI populations of East, Southeast, South, Central Asia, the Pacific and Americas. It's ancient and their strongest affinity in modern humans is in various parts of South Asia, Island Southeast Asia and Australasia (especially Papua New Guinea). I agree with everything you're saying about Austronesian-speaking peoples but that does not change the fact that Island SEA populations don't share strong genetic ties with East Asia. I don't understand why you're focusing so much on the concept of "Asian" as understood by Americans. Nobody in Asia thinks of "Asian" as a race or something. It's just a demonym and a secondary thought for people that are actually living in Asia. So why should it matter what Americans think when they're not the ones living in Asia and are not aware of the serious cultural and genetic overlap that Asian populations share with other continents? In the US, they transformed "Asian" into some sort of racial, pan-ethnicity, pan-cultural identity due to racial politics. Asian, in its most basic and original form, is just a demonym and at its greatest extent it's just a cultural term. Why do I say it's cultural because Imperial Japan used "Asian" in a cultural context to refer to the areas of Asia culturally influenced by Indian and Chinese culture. This is why Japan tried to create Greater East Asia, a concept rooted in their own historical idea of Asia known as "Sangoku" (Three Kingdoms of China, India and Japan). Additionally, the whole concept of pan-Asianism has been rooted in culture (take for example Lee Kuan Yew's Asian Values ideology). The term, "Asian" has never been associated with genetics or appearance in the way it has been altered to mean in the US and other countries outside of Asia. The US has its own terminology because everything is centred around "race". It's the way things are for them.
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  4296.  @AngryKittens  Being an Austronesian-speaker does not mean you're going to feel culturally close to all Austronesian-speaking populations. My friend is from Bali and a Hindu, outside of Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia, she feels close to Indian Hindus. Why? It's because she's Hindu and her culture was influenced by India. Her clothing, name, etiquette an cultural mannerisms are most similar to India not to the Austronesian-speaking people of Madagascar or Tahiti. It should not matter what Americans have to say. Their worldview on this topic is narrow because migration to the US has been skewed.
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  4297.  @AngryKittens  I wasn't...
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  4298.  @AngryKittens  I watched it, not the whole thing though. Don't have time for that.
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  4299.  @nanonano2595  Your comment is the best comment in this entire comment section. Thank you for posting this.
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  4300.  @AmandaabnamA  Thank you for posting this, I'm glad there are still some kind hearted people. I feel like I'm the only one defending Rohingyas now under these types of videos but I'm glad to see a few more.
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  4301. Calm down. The Sri Lankan Navy has been turning back all boats.
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  4302.  @jaesea323  Only a European American would say this
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  4303. Plain and simple, it's stolen. Idk why you're trying to justify stealing.
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  4304.  @deadmao5814  Not at all
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  4305. Buddhism, Hinduism and other Eastern religions are deeply intertwined. The prevalence of Hindu-derived deity worship in various parts of Buddhist Asia is because of the Hindu influence. Phra Phrom (Thai depiction of Brahma) as featured in the video at 10:52 cannot be tied to Buddhism but more broadly to the general Dharmic/Indic culture that exists in Thailand. Thai people also popularly worship Ganesha, a deity that does not exist in Buddhist cosmology and Thai people also visit Hindu temples in Thailand. Some of the largest Ganesha statues outside of India are located in Thailand. Phra Phrom in Thai-style is also worshipped by ethnic Chinese across Southeast Asia and southern China. In Hong Kong, there is a famous Phra Phrom statue that is frequented by Chinese people. In Japan, there are Japanese versions of Ganesha, Shiva and Skanda and in Sri Lanka, you will find Buddhist people worshipping local folk gods as well as Hindu gods inside some Buddhist temples like Seema Malaka. The same thing applies to other Buddhist groups in Asia. So correlating it to Buddhism is incorrect because some of these devas don't even exist in Buddhism. The reason people worship them in Asia is because of the pre-existing Hindu influence and the general overlap that Eastern religions share with one another. Thailand was previously a Hindu nation, these Hindu practices were simply carried over after Theravada Buddhism was brought to the country from Sri Lanka. There is no restriction to how people must practice Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Shintoism etc. so people mix them together.
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  4306.  @Carlos-bz5oo  You didn't understand the video
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  4307. Buddhism, Hinduism and other Eastern religions are deeply intertwined. The prevalence of Hindu-derived deity worship in various parts of Buddhist Asia is because of the Hindu influence. Phra Phrom (Thai depiction of Brahma) as featured in the video at 10:52 cannot be tied to Buddhism but more broadly to the general Dharmic/Indic culture that exists in Thailand. Thai people also popularly worship Ganesha, a deity that does not exist in Buddhist cosmology and Thai people also visit Hindu temples in Thailand. Some of the largest Ganesha statues outside of India are located in Thailand. Phra Phrom in Thai-style is also worshipped by ethnic Chinese across Southeast Asia and southern China. In Hong Kong, there is a famous Phra Phrom statue that is frequented by Chinese people. In Japan, there are Japanese versions of Ganesha, Shiva and Skanda and in Sri Lanka, you will find Buddhist people worshipping local folk gods as well as Hindu gods inside some Buddhist temples like Seema Malaka. The same thing applies to other Buddhist groups in Asia. So correlating it to Buddhism is incorrect because some of these devas don't even exist in Buddhism. The reason people worship them in Asia is because of the pre-existing Hindu influence and the general overlap that Eastern religions share with one another. Thailand was previously a Hindu nation, these Hindu practices were simply carried over after Theravada Buddhism was brought to the country from Sri Lanka. There is no restriction to how people must practice Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Shintoism etc. so people mix them together.
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  4308. This would not be a problem had all Rohingyas and Indonesian Achenese been Hindu-Buddhist. They would've been the same as most other Southeast Asians.
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  4309. It shocks me that they began looting stores belonging to non-white people and throwing rocks at Filipino nurses. I feel sorry for the law abiding non-white people in the UK who are facing the brunt of all of this.
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  4310. The person who created this video is an immigrant from the Middle East. Look at his channel description.
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  4311.  @someonejustsomeone1469  Actually that term is already being considered offensive by some circles in the US who prefer the term "Black American", I have noticed online.
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  4312.  @rd116s  You must be a man from India to have said this. Did I blame India and South Korea and say they're the only nations in Asia with these problems? No. I said they represent two extreme sides of anti-female behaviour in Asia.
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  4313.  @faraway7733  Except I'm not, Indian male
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  4314.  @yuvrajsingha  Love it how it's an Indian man who said this. Always pointing fingers at others, never recognising the issue at hand.
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  4315.  @unknownboy4428  Blatant whataboutism
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  4316.  @unknownboy4428  The whataboutism
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  4317.  @faraway7733  No I'm not
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  4318.  @SpookerNoa  and boys and girls, here we have an Indian male claiming he's a victim while a 3 month old female baby was [redacted] in Uttar Pradesh.
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  4319.  @SpookerNoa  and here we have an Indian male claiming he's a victim
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  4320.  @Itachiuchiha-g2r  You already know what it is
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  4321.  @This_tub  Only someone who hasn't achieved anything would comment such a thing. Indian Americans and their local born descendants are running circles around you, your kids and your entire lineage for that matter.
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  4322. Your comment is not remotely funny. Stop spreading misinformation about Myanmar and Sri Lanka. You're an Erdogan supporter, think about that.
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  4323.  @Erdogan-zi1ci  Erdogan is not the most powerful president in the world. He can't invade anything. China has the largest Buddhist population in the world, you think Erdogan can step foot in China? No he can't. Erdogan is nothing but human trash.
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  4324.  @thecollierreport  The Christian conversion of the Karen was part of the British rulers' broader strategy of conquering and dividing a population to take control. They used the same tactic in other areas of Asia and the world by converting tribal groups to Christianity and giving them preferential treatment over the non-Christian majority. In neighbouring India, the minority tribal Naga are predominantly Christian and converted by the British and they have very strong separatist feelings too. They don't feel "Indian" and practice Christianity. Their neighbours, Manipuris and Arunachalis on the other hand are predominantly Hindus, Buddhists and/or practitioners of folk religions and do not harbour separatist feelings. Christianity's presence in South and Southeast Asia is tied specifically with colonisation. Today, Korean missionaries continue to convert impoverished and vulnerable tribal groups in remote areas of Myanmar, Nepal and India.
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  4325.  @雷-t3j  Global South is in reference to the developing world (composed of middle income and low income nations - consists of most of Asia, most of Africa, most of Latin America, the Pacific and parts of Eastern Europe). Global North refers to the developed world (composed of high income nations - the definition is subjective but always includes Western Europe, Canada, the US, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Israel). In the case of IP waiving, it was the governments of developed Western nations, Japan, Singapore and a few others that refused to waive IP. Most of the governments of the developing world supported the temporary waiving of IP. The current war in Ukraine has also exacerbated the divide between Global North and Global South. All Global North nations have supported sanctions against Russia, whereas the Global South hasn't. Unfortunately, this is the result of the Cold War where Russia (Soviet Union) was sympathetic and supportive of struggles in the Global South whereas the Global North (led by the US) was not. Many in the Global South fear that picking a side in the war will result in consequences. They fear that siding with the US will ruin their relationship with Russia and thus they will have nobody to support them in their own struggles. They also fear that picking a side will open their countries up to proxy wars and become pawns between the US and Russia like what has happened to Ukraine (also based on their past experiences, the conflicts of the Cold War era backed by either the US or the USSR were fought in Global South nations).
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  4326. Two faced. Typical
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  4327.  @兽Arufisu  It's not one sided at all Mr Pro Palestine. I'm not a Muslim, so no.
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  4328. Prabakaran was a terrorist who ethnically cleansed Muslims, used child soldiers and committed terrorist attacks, including suicide attacks. Hmm what were you saying again?
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  4329. and that's a bad thing how?
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  4330.  @naytonfernandes2991  I'm from Australia. I'm not Indian. Blud wants to make people think China is the bad guy so bad LOLOLOLOL
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  4331.  @naytonfernandes2991  I'm not Indian. Blud wants to make China the bad guy so bad. India surrendering to China instead of the US is a god thing. CRY
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  4332. I'm not Indian. Blud wants to make China the bad guy so bad. India surrendering to China instead of the US is a good thing. CRY
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  4333.  @naytonfernandes2991  What made you think I was an Indian???? and I know how to speak English. 💀
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  4334. This is the thing with these Westerners, they're so quick to belittle. Thank goodness the Asians are working together
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  4335.  @naytonfernandes2991  That doesn't answer my question, what on earth made you think I'm an Indian?
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  4336.  @naytonfernandes2991  You're trying so hard to make China the bad guy as if "surrendering" to the US is the good thing. Please, nobody in Asia likes America anymore.
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  4337. Humans did not even exist back then.
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  4338. Humans didn't exist back then...
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  4339. 😂
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  4340. Their fertility rate is already low. They're going to peak and face population decline in the late 2030s onwards.
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  4341. Yeah all those Himalayan and Sub-Himalayan regions are beautiful. There are people in some of those regions that want independence, understandably so.
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  4342.  @BOS-v2x  Taiwan does not need independence, it is already independent. Xi Jinping just needs to recognise that Taiwan is a functioning independent democracy that is not part of China.
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  4343. Is the Indo-Caribbean community just like the Indians and other Asians in terms of drive to achieve academic success or are they laidback?
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  4344. There are Chinese in other parts of India too, there was a video from a Chinese creator and he came across native Indians who had Chinese grandfathers.
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  4345. Do Canadians just make everything about themselves or is it just you? The fertility rates of Singapore's three main ethnic groups look like this: Chinese - 0.94, Indian - 0.97 and Malay - 1.83. The contribution of Chinese immigration to Canada will not be the same as South Asian immigration to Canada because everybody knows that most immigrants to Canada are from India. There are way more Indians entering Canada than Chinese. The population of South Asians is rising in Canada because you keep accepting immigrants from India (especially Punjab). Singapore is made up of Singaporeans who have been living in Singapore for more than a hundreds years. Don't bring your race issues here please.
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  4346.  @johnlesoudeur3653  Singapore was actually once a part of Malaysia until 1965 when it was expelled from Malaysia. It won't become Muslim-majority despite the Malays having the highest fertility rate in Singapore. The Singaporean government offsets this by accepting large numbers of immigrants from Malaysia (especially Chinese and Indians) to maintain the percentage demographics of the Chinese and Indians of Singapore. Malaysians being culturally and ethnically virtually the same as Singaporeans means that the government prefers them more than anybody else.
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  4347.  @CentristDad155  Don't know they exist and yet commenting on a video about them looooooool
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  4348.  @mandarinandthetenrings2201  The US wants China and India to fight a war while they sell weapons
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  4349. Since when did South Korea = Asia only
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  4350.  @BasedAccountLmao  They have little ethnic conflict within themselves? Yes for Pakistan but not for India. Each state in India has its own ethnic group and language. People from each state hate each other, even people within the same state can hate each other (e.g. Manipur). There is so much ethnic, linguistic and physical diversity in India that India seems very artificial. India and Pakistan both being "desi" (whatever that's supposed to mean) means nothing. Russians and Ukrainians are both Slavic and yet are at war with each other. China and Taiwan are made up of predominantly Han Chinese people and hate each other. Thailand and Myanmar hate each other but both are Southeast Asian. North and South Korea hate each other but are both ethnically Korean. Just because people can be the same ethnic group or the same ethnic stock doesn't mean they aren't going to hate each other.
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  4351. Has no connection whatsoever to Myanmar's civil war.
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  4352.  @John_Doe448  The CCP is to blame but the US government is to blame as well. Why? It's because a Chinese dissident, Wei Jingsheng, had travelled to the US in late 2019 intending to speak to the US president (Trump) or someone close to him in order to inform them of a new virus spreading in China. This information fell on deaf ears at the US government and Dr Fauci, in the early days, downplayed a lot of the things that were happening because he and the NIH had been funding risky virus research in Wuhan.
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  4353. The CCP is to blame but the US government is to blame as well. Why? It's because a Chinese dissident, Wei Jingsheng, had travelled to the US in late 2019 intending to speak to the US president (Trump) or someone close to him in order to inform them of a new virus spreading in China. This information fell on deaf ears at the US government and Dr Fauci, in the early days, downplayed a lot of the things that were happening because he and the NIH had been funding risky virus research in Wuhan. So when you're blaming China, make sure you're blaming the US too.
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  4354.  @deezeed2817  The CCP is to blame but the US government is to blame as well. Why? It's because a Chinese dissident, Wei Jingsheng, had travelled to the US in late 2019 intending to speak to the US president (Trump) or someone close to him in order to inform them of a new virus spreading in China. This information fell on deaf ears at the US government and Dr Fauci, in the early days, downplayed a lot of the things that were happening because he and the NIH had been funding risky virus research in Wuhan.
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  4355.  @deezeed2817  Nobody believes that
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  4356. You're not even Indian. Which self professed Hindu Indian person thinks they are influenced by Muslims when most of them are Hindus? 💀
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  4357.  @amalksuresh2538  No because Sri Lanka is a country, so you compare it with countries. Should we compare India with China? Also, that man is not from Sri Lanka, he's from Somalia.
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  4358. There's a difference between a rogue nation doing this and a nation that claims to be benevolent and standing up for what's right. The US claims to be benevolent but at the same time does things like this. How is it any different to a rogue nation? It's not.
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  4359. Not comparable at all lmfao
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  4360. Then you should know that most of these examples are from years ago and they're not immigrants at all but temporary workers. I can't believe these people have convinced people that permanent migrants are settling in Japan.
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  4361.  @KpopalypseNow  They've done that and it doesn't work, what's not clicking??
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  4362.  @KpopalypseNow  Most of these temporary migrants come from other Asian countries.
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  4363.  @TomIslav-o7l  Oh cry harder LOLOLOLOL
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  4364.  @agustinahakim5348  Wow. So wrong!
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  4365.  @comparatio9148  Firstly, no they originated in Myanmar. They are known as "Arakanese Muslims" in Rakhine sources dating to the Arakan Kingdom. Stop conflating any Bengali people that settled in Myanmar during British rule with the Rohingyas that are indigenous to Rakhine. Their culture is absolutely not aligned with Bangladesh. Do Bangladeshis wear acheik htamein? No, that is worn by Rohingya and other Burmese. Do Bangladeshis eat mohinga or other Burmese food like Rohingyas do? No they don't. Yes, their language is related to a dialect spoken in Bangladesh but there is a Burmese Buddhist minority group that is part of the Rakhine nation that also speaks the same language that is related to the same dialect found in Bangladesh.
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  4366.  @comparatio9148  What has me typing out long comments got with you being prejudicial??? Stop making up excuses! It's not my problem, you're basically saying South Asians and Middle Easterners are aggressive and when I call you on it, you say it's not a bad thing. It is a bad thing and you'd be mad if somebody said that aggressive culture is pervasive in Indonesia but the truth is that it is. All those terrorist attacks, discrimination against non-Muslims - including ethnic Chinese? Be serious for a second. ☠☠☠☠
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  4367.  @comparatio9148  I brought that up to show you how wrong you are with your choice of words. You still don't see the prejudicial views you have. Nobody is flying to Muslim areas of Indonesia, remember that. They fly to Bali, a Hindu-majority island.
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  4368.  @comparatio9148  Remember, just because you're Southeast Asian, does not mean you hold a candle to the wonderful people in other parts of Southeast Asia. Like I said, everybody flies to Bali.
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  4369.  @robertconklin3850  Nobody likes hegemony of one country over the rest of the world, so it's going to happen. This was a threat, why would the rest of the world become submissive? It's going to shake things up completely.
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  4370.  @zohairshakir9967  Where are those US companies going to go? Are they going to set up in the US and are Americans willing to work for peanuts? BRICS nations to stop tariffing? No, what the US needs to do is just accept the fact that BRICS nations want to trade in their own currency. The world is NOT owned by the US, it's time Americans wake up and realised their neo-colonial behaviour is not going to be tolerated anymore. This is the emancipation of the world.
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  4371.  @zohairshakir9967  Where are those US companies going to go? Are they going to set up in the US and are Americans willing to work for peanuts? BRICS nations to stop tariffing? No, what the US needs to do is just accept the fact that BRICS nations want to trade in their own currency.
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  4372.  @zohairshakir9967  The world is NOT owned by the US, it's time Americans wake up and realised their neo-colonial behaviour is not going to be tolerated anymore. This is the emancipation of the world.
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  4373.  @zohairshakir9967  The world is not owned by the US, it's time Americans wake up and realised US neo-colonialism is not going to be tolerated anymore.
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  4374.  @zohairshakir9967  Nobody wants to be controlled by the US
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  4375.  @ab6565  Why do none of you understand that Americans of 2024 will never want to work for well below average salaries? That's the point.
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  4376.  @miss1388  and yet nothing has been done about it. If it's so easy, why hasn't it been done?
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  4377.  @davout5775  Well did you watch the video?
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  4378.  @davout5775  Well the issue started because they colonised the area. Some of these areas that were occupied by Britain were literally their own kingdoms.
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  4379. Yes and that's to be politically neutral but Australia is more interested in being in bed with the USA
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  4380.  @DharmicWarfare  So you want to colonise the Maldives?
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  4381.  @ShubhamKumar-vd9xy  Rohingyas are not voting in India's elections, calm down.
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  4382.  onemanarmy4908  Refugees from Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos during the crises of the 1970s.
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  4383.  @johncheresna  In Australia??? Absolutely not. I live here.
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  4384. ...and how will that change anything? China, India and Japan are the ones helping Sri Lanka and Myanmar so I don't know why you think anything is going to change. Culturally similar countries helping culturally similar countries (all five countries practice Buddhism/Hinduism). You'd have a point if they were receiving financial assistance from a Middle Eastern country but they're not.
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  4385. and Thailand spending it on a golden Buddha rather than "military projection" is so much better imo. I don't want Asia to be militarised.
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  4386. Yeah still ruled by the monarchy and still clinging to old mentalities, it really is embarrassing
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  4387. Chinese have been visiting Sri Lanka as tourists for decades. There are many Chinese who live in Sri Lanka too. Be serious please.
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  4388.  @derekathomson  No, it's not part of a plan for a new world order. China is the only country still practicing the Zero Covid strategy which is why a lockdown is in place at the moment. Mainland China was also not exposed to a lot of the virulent strains that spread across the rest of the world and so the population has weaker immunity compared to the rest of the world. Additionally, China's indigenous vaccines don't work against Omicron and were quite weak against COVID-19 in general. So the Chinese government is still resorting to the Zero COVID strategy while its indigenous mRNA vaccine completes its required trials so it's safe for public use.
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  4389.  @shalonanwar6882  It might also to do with the fact that you're half and thus ethnically ambiguous. There are many people who are into darker skinned women and South Asian women have been fetishised as a result of it. A recent study revealed that one of the most common tropes for South Asian women in US films is that of an exotic and seductive woman. In Australia, a 2021 study revealed that South Asian women (along with Southeast and East Asian women) experienced sexual harrassment in the form of fetishism and as a whole comprised 1/4 of all Australian women to face sexual harrassment on the street. Also remember that traditional South Asian garments like the sari have a history of being sexualised. Indian women have also been trafficked into the escort industry in the West. In the 1960s and 1970s, many Scandinavian men used to travel to Sri Lanka to find a Sri Lankan wife and one of the largest waves of Sri Lankan migrants to Denmark was Sri Lankan women who migrated to Denmark with their Danish husbands. Again, that whole tropical dark brown skinned fetish is quite prominent.
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  4390.  @Myrtillepeacherry  830 people care.
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  4391.  @monicam158  Nobody is worshipping her
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  4392.  @monicam158  You literally believe in a gigantic man in the sky. Sit down
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  4393. There is. Cry
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  4394. Do you think "brown people" are all the same? Do you think "brown people" are an group with a common ancestral heritage? If your answer is "yes", then you must be an American.
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  4395. Had no idea Pakistanis, Mexicans, Filipinos, Tongans, Tunisians, Indians, Dominicans etc. were all the same.
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  4396. @kb ...because for a very long time, they've controlled the country in some form or another. They staged a coup last year giving them total control once again.
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  4397. @Kumar Aniket No, not really. The Burmese military targets ethnic minorities that are culturally not Burmanised so Shan, Karen and Kachin people are currently being targeted in a similar way the Rohingyas were targeted in 2017. The ultranationalist monks agree with the anti-Rohingya view of the Burmese military but their overall issue is that they are Islamophobic so consider all Muslims in Myanmar to be a threat. The ultranationalist monks also believe in this idea that Buddhist people in Asia are under threat by Muslims citing things like high fertility of Muslim women and how a lot of Asian countries that used to practice Buddhism now practice Islam. That's why these ultranationalist monks have a partnership with ultranationalist monks in Sri Lanka. None of what they believe in is right though. They're extremely racist and Islamophobic and use racial slurs.
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  4398.  @ALIRAZA_095  Don't start calling me names! No you are absolutely incorrect. Don't talk about things you don't understand!
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  4399.  William Sherman  That is incomparable. You can't compare the events of the early 2000s to the events happening in Myanmar today in 2021.
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  4400.  William Sherman  There is a good reason why people are against US military intervention. One only needs to look at the cases of Afghanistan and the numerous cases of crimes committed by the US military in non-war zones like Okinawa in Japan.
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  4401. Woke?? What???
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  4402. Actually they've turned towards India, Japan and China because three countries are their "historic allies". I think the US is interested in helping them though.
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  4403. Exactly along with you and your family too
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  4404. At the basic level it is related to the same economic models that were employed in Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and today in Vietnam, Bangladesh and Indonesia.
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  4405.  @abhishekchaubey9849  Cry
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  4406. No because that's what I was thinking too 😭
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  4407. What makes you think foreign fighters are going to travel to Myanmar? Foreign fighters travelling to the Middle East is to do with religion. The Myanmar crisis has nothing to do with religion, there is no universal belief that would entice foreigners to travel to Myanmar. Myanmar's woes are much more similar to situations that happened in other neighbouring regions of Asia than the religious-influenced wars of the Middle East.
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  4408.  @mysteryuntold9531  They engaged in suicide attacks and bombed civilians, they ethnically cleansed the Muslims from their land and then play victim. NO, both groups are terrible. The world can see what y'all did.
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  4409.  @mysteryuntold9531  They engaged in suicide attacks against civilians and ethnically cleansed the Muslims from their land. Trust a Tamil Tiger to claim they're the victim.
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  4410.  @mysteryuntold9531  They engaged in suicide attacks. Trust a Tamil Tiger to claim that they're the victims. Horrible people.
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  4411. ​ @mysteryuntold9531  Both did the wrong thing and yeah they targeted innocent Sinhalese people too, terrorist.
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  4412.  @kihihil1196  Who here is talking about Israel? There is absolutely NOTHING that can justify the LTTE and what they did.
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  4413.  @kihihil1196  Yeah they are terrorists, standing up doesn't mean engaging in terrorist attacks, suicide bombings, ethnic cleansing and child soldiers. Sick, sick, sick! There is a reason no nation in the world recognised Tamil Eelam.
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  4414.  @Sid-vz8rm  The Rohingyas have ARSA but most Rohingyas don't even support ARSA, in fact they are anti-ARSA.
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  4415.  @Sid-vz8rm  Colonised people?? Oh don't play that game, Tamils were not colonised. The natives of Sri Lanka are the Veddas.
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  4416. @ Rohingyas don't even support ARSA. Do not compare the Rohingyas who are actively anti-ARSA to the LTTE. They are not the same.
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  4417.  @Sid-vz8rm  The fact that you said you're smarter than me tells me that you're not. If you were, you would prove it with words. There is NO such thing as Tamil Eelam. The only native people to Sri Lanka are the Veddas, Tamils are and NEVER will be natives. Sorry but I don't partake in delulu LTTE fantasies. I support real Sri Lankan Tamils, not the LTTE and those that want to spread hate towards Sinhalese people.
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  4418. You clearly know nothing about Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan culture is a mix of Sinhalese, Sri Lankan Tamil, Moor, Malay and Eurasian cultures. There is nowhere in India where those five groups are present. As a result a lot of the culture present in Sri Lanka is not found in India. Nobody in India eats lamprais for example, nobody eats sambal, nobody makes batik, nobody wears redde hatte, nobody eats seaweed, nobody wears tubular sarong, nobody listens to baila, nobody speaks Sinhalese, nobody speaks Sri Lankan Malay, nobody eats seenakku, nobody eats achcharu, nobody eats nasi goreng, nobody plays the rabana, nobody creates Kandyan masks, nobody wears the traditional Kandyan chieftain attire and I could go on and on. All of that is found in Sri Lanka, not in India.
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  4419. Notice how the opposition is the one going on about identity politics? That's why Sri Lanka's ethnic minorities voted for the NPP because they're tired of the ethnic-oriented campaigns that only favour them when they are "useful".
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  4420. Nobody wants war
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  4421.  @buceoApulmon  There is no such thing as "Black" in Asian countries to describe native people. That is a Western construct to describe people from Africa, not Asians. The native people of Thailand (e.g. Maniq) are East Eurasian and thus genetically related to the Tai-speaking people that settled in Thailand thousands of years ago. Maniq, Mon, Khmer and Tai-speaking people are live in the area that is now Thailand. All of these groups are 100% East Eurasian and thus genetically related to other Southeast Asians, East Asians, indigenous South Asians (AASI), Native Americans and Oceanians.
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  4422. They have a small population.
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  4423. Not all but always an East Asian American
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  4424. because she's Hong Konger.
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  4425. Wouldn't be surprised if that becomes truer and truer as each day goes by because the Ukraine War has generated significant cracks in the world.
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  4426.  @captainalex157  India's real opportunity is going down the drain because the US is never going to let India develop. Adani's collapse at the hands of a small American firm is ruining confidence in India's market for international investors and just yesterday, George Soros made comments hoping for regime change in India (as well as China), making references to Adani's collapse and Modi. India has no real opportunity to rise up if they let others step all over them.
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  4427.  @dsnodgrass4843  Everything you said applies to the United States too, not just them
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  4428. No. The US doesn't have any disputed territory.
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  4429.  @xcutioner5411  I really don't think so because Kpop isn't the only thing that is part of the Korean Wave. There needs to be something else to fill the void if the Korean Wave ends and there really isn't anything on par with that at the moment.
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  4430.  @xcutioner5411  Ok but what country are you from? BTW, ignoring me is going to give me a good hint as to what nation you are from if you do choose to ignore me.
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  4431. They owe more debt to the Asian Development Bank than they do to China. They also owe the same amount of debt to China that they owe to Japan. China is not the reason. India, China and Japan have traditionally been their allies so they've always had close relations with these three countries. Claiming it is the result of China would be incorrect.
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  4432. Well India is non-aligned, just like Indonesia. So there's nothing to align to.
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  4433.  @_hunter_hunter1048  I agree. Very intolerant, both of them.
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  4434.  @lhamda9883  No, the religion is the problem. If Indonesia was still Hindu-Buddhist-animist, this would not be a problem. That religion is always causing problems.
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  4435.  @dhdhdyd926  Indonesian Muslim always being racist
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  4436.  @user-rz1rw9zn5c  and I see Acehnese people like Bangladeshis too.
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  4437.  @dapuradzuka9040  wdgaf
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  4438. He said Indian, he used South Asian because there were other South Asians there too, not just Indians!
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  4439.  @ajarofmayonnaise3250  You really can't expect Modi to know what peace and democracy is. He is a supporter of the Burmese military, Hopefully the Indians wake up and realise he's toxic and is doing nothing good for India.
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  4440. No they aren't
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  4441. Deluded
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  4442.  @alexzhangdragonn3438  Stop speaking from a place of ignorance and actually understand what China is doing in Myanmar and how China is the closest ally of the Burmese military. Stop pretending that China doesn't support it when China publicly refused to condemn the military coup at the UN Security Council. Everybody knows.
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  4443. Ravana is a mythological figure.
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  4444.  @henrysevern  True
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  4445. Singaporeans are ethnic Chinese, Malays, ethnic Indians as well as some other groups like Eurasians, Peranakans etc. It's a multiethnic country.
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  4446. This is why all Asian countries should cooperate with China. Things get done when you work with China as opposed to the US, who will try to establish a military base on your land (*cough cough* Bangladesh in 2024 before civil unrest ensued). China is a strong believer in Asia for Asians.
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  4447.  @Dalvik.N  Not a single Western government cares about the Rohingyas. Idk why you would think that.
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  4448.  @Valkaze111  all up in asian people's business
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  4449.  @ajaypal14121  you're a high caste
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  4450.  @economiccrisis9267  The fact that they're beating each other with sticks at the border is a testament to them explicitly agreeing that they won't carry guns or use guns in that area. Could NATO and Russia agree to do the same? No, never in a million years.
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  4451. Okay and what's your point????????
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  4452. What didn't you understand?
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  4453.  @jackgoodnight2  What about the Singaporean Hindus? Do you like them?
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  4454. Northeast Indian people don't look Chinese or Japanese and Northeast India is very undeveloped. My lord, I'm not even Indian and yet I know more about your country.
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  4455. POC? Japanese people are POC too, not just her who is of Bangladeshi descent.
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  4456.  @pplesandoranges  That doesn't even make sense. This is what happens when Westerners use their Western terminology and start applying it to different people and not being consistent.
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  4457. If they want more freedom then why are they against things like abortion and people expressing themselves? I don't identify with liberal/conservative so I'm genuinely asking.
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  4458.  @Jezus42  Who is saying that? 1 like for a reason lol
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  4459. You're sad that they're doing what they want to do...
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  4460. Ordinary Australians don't support war with China.
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  4461.  @red_fox1140  Yeah those are the politicians who are in charge 💀
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  4462.  @ILLUMINATI838  You support genocide, it's clear as day.
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  4463.  @hellothere1656  Per your logic, what Israel is doing to Palestinians isn't one either because Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the entire Arab world supports Israel and not Palestine.
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  4464.  @ashokmohan6323  Like I said, he's not Indian and has nothing to do with India or even Tamil Nadu. Why don't you put this energy into creating your own successful people instead of hitching a ride on successful Singaporeans who have absolutely NOTHING to do with you? Maybe if you did that, Tamil Nadu would be as successful as Singapore, just saying.
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  4465.  @ashokmohan6323  Lmfaooooo what???Tamil Nadu's economy is NOT equal to Singapore's economy. Are you serious right now???? Extremely delusional.
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  4466.  @ashokmohan6323  all that and somehow you want to claim people from advanced nations like Singapore as your own. Yeah that's extremely delusional behaviour and don't group India with China, the US or EU. India has a lot of catching up to do. Have you seen the streets of Delhi??? They don't compare to any city in China, US or the EU. Sorry but I have no issue with India but when people start saying things like this, I can't help but correct misinformation. Singapore is one of the most advanced nations on earth, it is nowhere near comparable to a place like India. Idk who would think Tamil Nadu is the same as Singapore.
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  4467.  @ashokmohan6323  You said Tamil Nadu's economy is the same as Singapore's economy, it is not and nowhere close it.
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  4468.  @ashokmohan6323  The GDP per capita of Singapore is $114,246 and the GDP per capita of Tamil Nadu is $3,048. Singapore is light years ahead of Tamil Nadu or anywhere in India. It's always about numbers with you but when it comes to quality of life, it's non-existent. Above my island nation? Nah, I'm from Australia and India is not above Singapore. It's one thing to state facts but it's another to be cocky and look down on other countries while doing so. India is nothing like China, Russia or the US, that is a fact. India has a very long way to go, it's 20203 and India's infrastructure is still very poor and nothing like what China's was in the 1990s. Large parts of North India are still stuck in the 1960s. Have you seen Delhi before?
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  4469.  @ashokmohan6323  GDP per capita growth does not correlate at all to increase in quality of life. India's quality of life is still very poor and the country is still classified as a low middle income nation. By 2010, China was already an upper middle income nation with a HDI of 0.691. India in 2023 is still a low middle income nation with a HDi of 0.633. China become a lower middle income nation in 2001 and in 9 years graduated to upper middle income. China developed at a much faster rate than India and India still relies a lot on China for various items used to develop its economy. So yeah it's best if you come down to earth and recognise the reality.
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  4470.  @ashokmohan6323  GDP growth means nothing if your own citizens are leaving by the hundreds of thousands each year. More Indians migrate to my country of Australia than Chinese do. India is now the number 1 source of migrants to Australia. Young Indian people can't get jobs and all the educated continue to settle in developed countries where they will use their skills to help the new countries they settle in. India is losing all of its talented people. 87,026 people from India relinquished their citizenship up until June this year, your own External Affairs Minister confirmed this.
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  4471.  @ashokmohan6323  So what if Australia is an island nation? What is the problem? Why do you keep talking about Chinese people? Chinese people are making China great, you don't need to worry about them. Just like you don't need to worry about Australia or Singapore. India should fix all that rampant corruption that plagues Indian politics, create good infrastructure, create a safe environment for Indian women, curtail the discrimination against religious minorities, stop Hindutva supremacy, get rid of that caste system, create jobs for young people and stop the brain drain. Take a look the state of Kerala (which honestly speaking could be its own country) and use them as India's model. BTW, there are plenty of Australian bosses. It's Australia, what do you expect? I'll be able to find Indian bosses in India and Chinese bosses in China. The "Indian" bosses found outside of India are citizens of the nations they have settled in. They are no longer Indians.
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  4472.  @ashokmohan6323  Explain what? All I have seen is someone display arrogance and a sense of superiority, which I have no idea where it comes from. With all of the plethora of issues that India faces you spend your time arguing with people and belittling other countries under the false pretence that your nation is better than countries like Australia and Singapore and in the league of nations like China or the US. No, no, no, absolutely not. Swallow that pride and face up to reality.
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  4473.  @ashokmohan6323  You deleted all of your recent replies because you know that the truth does not support the things you stated in your comments. So no, don't talk about wasting time because it is me who should say that.
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  4474.  @ashokmohan6323  No you don't want to continue discussing with me because you know that what you said is 100% incorrect. Also, if you really didn't want to waste time, you wouldn't be sending me 2 replies telling me about how you're wasting time, you'd just ignore me.
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  4475.  @ashokmohan6323  Except YOU are belittling other countries, you deleted all of your replies but I remember clearly how you belittled Singapore and then Australia (and for what exactly? They're economically and socially superior, so don't try to walk back on what you said).
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  4476. They pick the most peculiar topics, idk why
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  4477. They're coming for you. I've been saying this for a long time but they're coming for you. The online hate speech was just the beginning, now they're coming for your assets. Do not trust those people.
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  4478. Asia for Asians. Every Asian nation must think like this. The US wants to divide up the region and keep the developing nations poor.
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  4479. Cringing so hard at the comments. 😑Why can't Indians in India be like Singaporean-Indians or Fijian-Indians or Indo-Caribbeans? The bad rep Indians get is because of Indians from India. I said what I said.
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  4480. They're a developing country for sure but they became an upper middle income nation in 2019 and had good education and living standards. This is why they were able to control the spread of COVID-19 in 2020, bringing cases down to 0 and are dealing with an aging population due to higher life expectancy and low fertility which is why during the 2010s they began importing foreign migrant workers from India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar to fill gaps in their vacant job market. In 2019, there was a dossier published to transform the country to high income status by 2030. So they were in a very good position at one point compared to most developing countries. There's a YouTube video about this, if I find it again I'll post the name of it.
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  4481. Move on please
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  4482.  @thomasastha9007  The person you replied to is Chinese, not Maldivian.
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  4483.  @aniruddhrajendran7570  India is not a continent size country. China and Russia are bigger and nobody says that about them. You keep trying to say India is like other countries but it's not and you know it. There is so much to fix in India. The fact that the capital city of India looks the way that it does is indicative of this issue. Idk why India can't use its wealth to beautify its cities the way other developing Asian nations have. That would show the world that India is changing instead of stats and billionaires having huge weddings
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  4484. Sri Lanka is an independent nation, it can do whatever it wants.
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  4485.  @enriquedizon9030  Your comparison with Taiwan is disturbing to say the least, you must think Sri Lanka belongs to India if you're likening the nation of Taiwan whose existence is disputed by China. Just saying.
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  4486. ​ @ArnoldTeras  What India needs to do is to realise that it needs to think about the rest of Asia first and that it needs to focus on issues in Asia and that stability of the region needs to be maintained.
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  4487. This is not India! Pick up an atlas before you speak!
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  4488. What are you upset about? Korea has for decades accepted temporary migrants from other Asian countries. You don't have to be upset because the Korean government is very selective when it comes to who is let in and like I said everybody is from another Asian country.
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  4489. Cultural difference I believe. Indian and Southeast Asian students from countries like Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia seem to be very open to intermingling with local students I've noticed.
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  4490. It was about immigration
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  4491.  @csaww  I think the reason why they could never communicate is because they never had any rights after the Burmese military stripped them off their citizenship. What exactly could they do? They didn't have access to anything and then they faced genocide in 2017. They are not to blame and that does not mean they are any less Burmese than the Bamar that live in Yangon or elsewhere. The parents still identify as Burmese hence why they even want to teach their kids how to speak the language and sing the national anthem. Myanmar is a nation that is riddled with ethnic strife, it stands out compared to other ethnically divided nations in Asia in that Myanmar is very much like Asia's Yugoslavia. Minority groups in Myanmar have always faced persecution from the majority and suggesting that to be Burmese is to be able to speak the language is not right. All of their lands are within the boundaries of present-day Myanmar they are Burmese through that fact not because they know how to speak Burmese, the native language of the Bamar who are not native to Rakhine State. Rakhine, Mon, Rohingya, Karen, Kachin, Shan, Wa etc. etc. are all Burmese people. They are not the same as the Bamar and they are all different to one another but they are all Burmese. The Tatmadaw has never accepted this though and they have always wanted to Burmanise Myanmar but unlike China's successful Sinicisation policy, Myanmar's Burmanisation policy has always failed. The only hope left in that country are the Gen Z Burmese of varied backgrounds, including Bamar, who are fighting for real change, forming their own militias against the Tatmadaw. Those young Bamar have a different mindset. They have lived with freedom for 10 years and are more accepting of minority groups after seeing their lives turn upside down because of the coup. I know Myanmar can become better if they succeed.
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  4492. Yeah after facing genocide, emerging as an independent nation and being described as a "basket case" at the time, they have made significant strides in developing their country. That's pretty exciting to see. Y'all are always negative about everything. 💀
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  4493. You have zero respect for the victims
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  4494.  @Meikles888  You have zero respect for the victims. Making this about another issue after a family of 6 was murdered. My gosh.
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  4495.  @Meikles888  A family was slain and you're here saying this... always wanting to be a victim
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  4496.  @mariatheresavonhabsburg  That doesn't change anything though. What we can see is that both the West and Japan committed atrocities, none of them are angels.
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  4497.  @mariatheresavonhabsburg  His deflecting is wrong but what he said is true.
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  4498.  @iamgreat1234  Sorry but just because you have to hire Mandarin speaking Singaporeans does not mean most Singaporeans speak Mandarin. Are you aware that Singaporeans are ethnically diverse? Singaporeans are generally of Chinese, Malay, Indian and Eurasian descent and all Singaporeans learn English as their first language as English is the lingua franca of the country. English is the binding language of Singaporeans. The mother tongue languages of Mandarin (even though Hokkien, Teochew and other Chinese dialects are the actual mother tongue languages of the Chinese), Malay and Tamil are the languages taught as the second language in the Singaporean education system.
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  4499.  @iamgreat1234  Mandarin is the not the first language or original tongue of Singaporean Chinese. Most Singaporean Chinese come from southern Chinese backgrounds where other languages like Hokkien, Teochew and Hakka are spoken. Mandarin is not the native language of any of these Chinese groups. Mandarin was taught as a second language because Lee Kuan Yew wanted to unite the Singaporean Chinese groups under one common Chinese language because the Singaporean Malays were united under Malay and most Singaporean Indians (the majority who are Tamil) were united under Tamil.
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  4500.  @gnong2081  It's true
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  4501.  @gnong2081  Triggered
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  4502.  @silverghost5752  Not you being upset ijbol
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  4503. Who said they aren't?
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  4504. Then leave Rishabh
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  4505.  @TheSagaris2  Why did you find your pfp?
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  4506. The answer is only discipline because they already have below replacement level fertility. So no need of family planning.
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  4507. Not everybody has learned from the mistakes. Many still harbour those views here.
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  4508. As they should. Indian women deserve to be safe but they aren't because of the m*n in India.
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  4509. It is
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  4510.  @YashSharma-zp8yu  No
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  4511.  @chiron6699  I mean the UK caused all of these problems by colonising Myanmar and making it a Crown Colony if we're truly pedantic. It conquered large pieces of land in Southeast Asia and united them all under one government, converted remote tribes to Christianity in order to control them, gave preferential treatment to ethnic minorities, ethnic Chinese and ethnic Indian migrants over majority Bamar people and continued to use divide and conquer strategies when the Japanese invaded Myanmar under the Japanese promise that they would free Myanmar from the British. Those ethnic minorities in northern Myanmar have more in common with the ethnic minorities across the border in modern India (of whom were also colonised by the British and merged with India) than with the majority Bamar. Now Myanmar has been fighting with itself since 1948.
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  4512.  @unclefaya  Okay and?? Still they were invited back
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  4513.  @user-xm6ux2di6h  Good
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  4514. @Differently alike One of the biggest songs in the world right now is a song by a Kpop group called "Cupid" after going viral on TikTok. That song has remained at #2 on the official charts in my country (Australia) for the past few weeks and they play it on the radio on the nightly chart countdown radio show.
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  4515. Why?
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  4516. Only Indians want that because they think the whole of South Asia, Myanmar and Tibet belong to India.
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  4517. Incorrect
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  4518.  @sandeepkumarkhuntia8839  Why are people from India like this? Can you just respect them please?
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  4519.  @WastedBananas  Firstly, stop liking your own comments and secondly, what is an "Asian" supposed to look like??? "Asian" is just a demonym, stop thinking it means "East Asian" only! Go to Asia and understand that there are so many people on the continent and they look nothing alike. There are dark skinned groups that are related to East Asians they don't even look alike. Please be serious and stop enforcing these race-obsession foreign ideas on Asia (especially a successful multi-ethnic nation like Singapore which is home to Chinese, Malays and Indians and which is where this YouTube channel is based).
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  4520. They only care about making money
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  4521. Are you an Indonesian larping as a Viet?
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  4522. You don't know what communism is and it shows
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  4523. Yep I agree, the Indian government is to blame for all of this. It's so sickening how the Indian government and the supporters of the Indian government will continue to ignore the reality. It's so sad how these people are suffering because the Indian government did not care for its citizens.
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  4524.  @travellersagar437  I'm not Indian, you're going to have translate that for me but then again I don't think I want to read it anyway because I can get the gist that you don't agree with what I'm saying. It's sad how the Indian government has brought this upon India and is still not doing anything, just sickening.
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  4525.  @travellersagar437  It's the fault of the Indian government. If they didn't allow huge religious festival to go ahead and didn't encourage people to come out in record numbers to vote or naively claim that the pandemic was over in India then this wouldn't have happened. The government became complacent and led to this. Now, the government is trying to silence people who criticise it, in fact they're trying to silence people who don't even live in India. I can't understand how you can sit here and tell me India is doing well and defend the Indian government. The Indian government has ruined everything. Think about the long term damage the Indian government is going to do India and the rest of the world. There are countries that now have to suspend their vaccination program because India can't make vaccines for export anymore. How is India supposed to develop its economy? Look at what's happening to the country. The virus is now spreading to the rural side, something they managed to prevent last year. India once had the largest middle class in the world but because the Indian government couldn't control the pandemic, the Indian middle class lost 32 million people. That's 32 million people back into some form of poverty. The way things are going, as they said, India could very well be sent back 20 years. Imagine, all of the things that India acquired over those 20 years, gone. Totally gone and that's because the Indian government, its supporters and other people became way too complacent even though cases were still at 9,000, 8000 etc. at the start of the year.
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  4526.  @travellersagar437  1. You think everybody that went to Kumbh Mela lives in Uttarakhand? How funny. Also, no Uttarakhand does not have the lowest amount of cases. Yes it's low but not as a low as what is found in some other states. 2. Yes I know each state has their own government and I know that much of what is happening is centred on a select few states that have the most cases as opposed to some others like Himachal Pradesh, Goa or Northeast Indian states. 3. Well, I have to disagree here. Modi did not do a good job in controlling the virus. His national lockdown wasn't executed properly and that meant migrant workers were stranded as soon as it was announced. His focus on minorities instead of the pressing issue of COVID-19 is the reason why this has all happened and now because of Modi and the Indian government, the virus is spreading widely in Nepal after the Indian variant was detected in the country and Nepalese people came back from Kumbh Mela. So no, Modi did not control the virus. India did relatively good during the first wave in relation to its population but everything came undone because of complacency. It's so sad to see and I don't know how people can still support Modi when he cares more about saving face by silencing critics than helping the population. The very fact that his government instructed an Australian newspaper to amend details about him in an article that critcised his handling of the virus speaks volumes to the type of person that man is. The Indian government is a complete failure and the whole world knows it. Trust me, the Indian government is no different to the incompetent governments that exist in other countries. They're all cut from the same cloth and it's this reason why India hasn't progressed in recent years. Truly sad to see.
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  4527.  @travellersagar437  ...because the failure of the Indian government and of Modi is threatening Asia-Pacific's stability and the rest of the world's stability. Modi is causing so much damage and you ought to know that the world has a very negative view of the Indian government now. I have never seen such hatred and contempt for the Indian government before but it now exists and rightfully so. People ought to know how incompetent and toxic the Indian government is. I'm interested in wordly issues, so of course I'm interested in all of this.You don't have to or need to answer any questions, I know very well where you stand and you're absolutely okay and supportive of the Indian government. Also, don't infer that I have no right to speak about this issue. Have you forgotten that this is a global pandemic and we're dealing with a virus here? So of course everybody should care. The Indian government has ruined everything and nobody should ever forgive the Indian government or its supporters. Those people have blood on their hands and even after everything that has happened they still haven't done anything. The world woke up and realised that the Indian government is nothing but a weak, incompetent and chaotic group of people.
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  4528.  @travellersagar437  3. I'm not interfering in your country's affair. I'm voicing my opinion. If you think that's interference then you don't know what interference means. 4. The world has woken up and realised how weak and incompetent the Indian government is. 5. Ironic of you to talk about interference when the Indian government is trying to silence foreign media. Check yourself. The Indian government failed and it's still doing nothing, history will remember the failure of the Indian government and its supporters and nobody will forget how weak and incompetent the Indian government is.
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  4529. ​ @travellersagar437  1. No, the Indian government has failed miserably because it's controlled by incompetent people. Indian people are now suffering because of the Indian government. If you think 3000 people dying each day is a "very good job" then I have no words for you... 2. The whole world has a right to speak about this. The Indian variant has now spread to other countries because of the Indian government's failure.
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  4530.  @travellersagar437  1. Foreign media reports on things that happen around the world. You expect them to keep quiet on what's happening in India? Goodness gracious you don't know how the media works. 2. A blind supporter of the government is what I see. 3. India's press freedom is almost non-existent, nothing to be proud about. 4. India is suffering because it has weak leaders and brainwashed supporters. I feel so bad for the Indians who have to deal with this nonsense everyday. Just imagine where India could be today if it actually had smart and intelligent leaders? What happened to the India of the ancient era, the India that was the centre of knowledge and thinking?
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  4531.  @travellersagar437  The Indian government's failure has threatened the world. Nobody's going to forget that. So keep talking about the foreign media like what your government does instead of focusing on the actual real issue at hand. India deserves better.
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  4532.  @travellersagar437  1. I don't need authorisation to express my opinion. What are you talking about? Do you even know what the UN is used for? Stop getting upset because you don't like what I'm saying. Nothing that you're saying is making sense. 2. The Indian government is weak and incompetent. Its supporters are brainwashed and deluded. That's my opinion, that's how the world sees the Indian government.
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  4533.  @travellersagar437  It's so funny how you're telling me to go to the UN to express an opinion and telling me that's the legal way to do things. The ignorance...
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  4534. Aren't you from Northeast India?
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  4535. No it doesn't. Maybe worry about the fact that the reputation of India and Indian people is at an all time low. You have no idea the type of damage those viral videos on TikTok and Twitter have done to the reputation of India. If you think this is criticism, you should see what's happening online and in Western countries.
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  4536.  @profitmuhammad3290  They're not random, there are hundreds of them and they show the exact same thing - almost all in some location of North India. It's the real world. To refuse to accept the reality is to deny the reality that there are issues that need to be solved.
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  4537.  @Desi_food1  You're focusing on the wrong things, there are much bigger fish to fry.
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  4538. Aww cry harder BAHAHAHAHAHA
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  4539. It's called West Asia
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  4540.  @goolooggg9005  The push against India will mean India may never develop because, like it or not, it was Adani that was building new infrastructure in that country.
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  4541.  @Yeeter000  Why is it always the Muslims saying this? You look Indian af btw
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  4542.  @Yeeter000  Talking about parental relatedness while being a Muslim is ironic
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  4543. Malay also exists
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  4544.  @Ardiantothehulk  There is something there for immigrants in the US and their descendants which why people still move there. However, it can't be denied that the US is plagued with many issues and those issues will continue to worsen. It's shocking to me how American people think it's normal to have homeless people sleeping on trains and at train stations in the US.
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  4545.  @Ardiantothehulk  Not everything is about stats. Like I said, I'm shocked that you have homeless people living on the trains and in the train stations. My country has homeless people too but you don't see them living inside train carriages like you do in NYC or entire tent cities in places like SF or an entire area known as Skid Row.
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  4546.  @Ardiantothehulk  Australia
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  4547. It is a strength if you manage it. Take a look at Singapore, New Zealand and Mauritius. They are all ethnically diverse countries that are very successful.
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  4548.  @rohitanshukhilar1904  and in Canada, Indian international students and new Indian immigrants are scamming elderly people, getting free food from food banks which is meant for the poor, partaking in organised crime, being disruptive in public and committing drive by shootings on cinema complexes because different Indian ethnic groups are bringing their rivalry to Canada and fighting with each other. Does that mean all Indians are like this????
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  4549.  @Kazim28  Well it's outdated because no, Bengalis are not Caucasoid because even if we were to accept that reality then autosomal DNA studies would tell us that they are mixed. Bengalis are descendants of West Eurasian (Europe-Mid East-related) components and East Eurasian components (indigenous South Asian hunter-gatherer, Tibeto-Burman and Austroasiatic Farmers). Only Europeans and West Asians are predominantly of West Eurasian descent.
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  4550.  @Kazim28  Do you think all South Asians look the same? Bangladeshis don't look European or West Asian, they wish they did lmfao. What even is this? The second hand embarrassment I'm feeling right now, you want to be European/West Asian so bad. Mainland South Asians are so...
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  4551.  @JOJO-yd7qs  Idk why people from the West for some reason think their experiences are the same as what happens in Asia. OP's comment is blatant exaggeration and xenophobia. The only reason why they helped was because of their shared faith of Islam.
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  4552. I hope they eventually treat you with better respect.
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  4553. He explained in the video
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  4554.  @possiblyzero3582  India is the way that it is because it's constantly looking outwards instead of inwards.
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  4555.  @ThatBasedGuy  Singapore will NEVER choose. K. Shanmugam, Singapore's Minister of Home Affairs infamously said in 2022 that Singapore will never pick a side even if it came to it. It will do everything it can to remain neutral.
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  4556.  @possiblyzero3582  China has had border disputes with multiple other Asian countries that have been resolved such as its former disputes with Tajikistan, Nepal and Myanmar. The China-India border dispute is simply unresolved and China has attempted to make land compromises with India but India has refused. What did happen though was a breakthrough last week when China and India decided to pull back troops from the border giving end to a 4 year stalemate. That breakthrough is quite significant because it also paves the way for India to accept Chinese investments, which has been discussed for a long time. The Indians are finally realising for their success, they need Chinese economic assistance because most things are made in or sourced from China. So I wouldn't say China is trying to circumvent India, in fact Chinese state media has continuously prayed for India to "wake up", which is why Chinese state media praised the border breakthrough last week. Two countries can work together even if they don't see eye to eye on everything.
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  4557.  @possiblyzero3582  Thanks for you reply. So the Myanmar dispute was resolved in the 1950s and involved both nations ceding small pieces of land to one another, China ended up recognising that most of the disputed territory as Burmese territory. China initially claimed the entirety of northern Kachin region and wanted to control it due to the KMT using it as a base. In regards to Tajikistan, Tajikistan ended a 130 year dispute with China by ceding 200km2 to China whilst China relinquished claims to over 28,000 km2 of Tajikistani territory. It was not done for economic reasons. China has given India the option of land compromise but India has continuously refused to accept anything. China once offered India a deal where China would keep Aksai China while India can keep Arunachal Pradesh but India refused. This was offered in 1960 and has been offered numerous times since. India has refused every single time.
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  4558.  @possiblyzero3582  I wouldn't say India wants to dethrone China economically, even the most nationalistic person in India will know that that is simply not possible. China has a much larger economic output than India and India's current economic growth rate of 6% does not compare to China's 9.5% that it pulled decades before. What India wants is a multipolar Asia in which China is not the sole dominant power in Asia, something that China has alluded to agreeing with. There is no debt trap by the way. People bring up Sri Lanka but a close look at Sri Lanka's debt situation will show that the country owes most of its debt to Western-backed institutions. In fact, Sri Lanka has managed to get out of bankruptcy, albeit with a price of extremely high living standards, because of the IMF's stringent austerity measures. It's not China behind any of this.
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  4559. The US has to stop criticising Russia and China now that they are once again tryinging to annex territory
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  4560.  @rishibaurasi1902  RSS wants to swallow up the whole of Asia, I don't support them.
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  4561. Yes they are Asians. India is in Asia so they're Asian
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  4562.  @williamecrowe  Indians are native to Asia, so they are Asians. It is not comparable to a Westerner going to China at all. Be serious. India culturally influenced the rest of Asia. South and Southeast Asia are part of the Indosphere and you say India is not Asian? The genetic makeup of Indians is partially East Eurasian, which they share with other Asians. Do you really think two neighbouring populations are not going to share some genetic overlap? It's the Asian Century and it surprises me that there are many people outside of Asia who know nothing about Asia
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  4563.  @williamecrowe  Indians are Asians. Repeating the same thing over after facts are presented... typical "i lost the argument" move
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  4564.  @williamecrowe  HAHAHAHA repeating the same thing over, typical "I lost the argument" move
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  4565. They're open defecation free.
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  4566. The older generation is much more accepting the younger generation is no longer accepting and tolerant. I'm speaking generally, many young people across the world are adopting radical views because of 24/7 internet access. It's ruining our generation. The older generation has their issues then and now but in hindsight we can see they were the better generation. Young Gen Z and Gen Alpha is going to undo everything and make the world unliveable.
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  4567. People keep saying this but I am yet to see anything that could indicate that. When 1% of the population controls more than 80% of the country's wealth, nothing will change. India would've actually succeeded as a communist nation, their most developed state is one run by a communist party after all.
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  4568.  @alexzhangdragonn3438  If they don't want us to know that, then how do you know that? We already know that. It's common knowledge.
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  4569.  @abmong  What business when the Burmese military is close to the countries that Western nations like the US don't support?
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  4570.  @abmong  Okay but it needs to be pointed out that Myanmar is closer to other Asian countries than to EU nations and the US has no leverage in Myanmar whatsoever, which is the country I'm speaking about.
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  4571.  @abmong  Okay I understand.
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  4572.  Dennisestrada  The Hokou system in China and the caste system in India have nothing to do with race.
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  4573.  Dennisestrada  I'm really sorry, I completely misread the situation. I was so confused initially. I fully understand what you're saying now and I apologise for what happened before. Yeah you're right, it's worse because your own people are hating on you but the difference is that it doesn't relate to race so it can't be compared to the situation in Ukraine.
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  4574.  @tommyt8998  So because of what happens in Pakistan, she shouldn't be allowed to speak up about discrimination? Also, what makes you think she's Muslim? She could be a Pakistani Christian. Y'all know nothing about these countries and thus are clueless about the minorities that live in all of these countries. There are Christians in Pakistan and she could easily be a Christian.
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  4575.  @doandroidsdream1748  These are international students, many of whom are studying medicine and engineering among other degrees that require a lot of hard work and dedication. International students contribute significantly the Ukrainian economy. Ukraine’s ministry of education revealed that international students (who all come from Africa and Asia) spend $7,000 a year on average meaning they contribute $542 million in revenue to the country's economy. Ukraine's economy is worth $155 billion. International students in the US, however, only contribute $28.4 billion o the US economy. You say you don't want them but Ukraine really wants them and people are attracted to Ukraine and other Eastern European countries because the education is very cheap and not competitive unlike in their home countries like China and India (where medical schools are expensive and have highly competitive and tough entrance exams). Strange of you to say these things when international students contribute to these economies and fill up places in university courses because the locals aren't interested.
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  4576. ​ @doandroidsdream1748  What this war has shown is that there is a great divide along race. Racism comes out strongly at times of crises. The fact that African countries and China have acknowledged that their citizens are facing discrimination in Ukraine shows how serious it is.
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  4577.  @doandroidsdream1748  I won't be surprised if one day, China let the hammer come down on Europe. Maybe they're already doing it by refusing to support Ukraine/rest of Europe.
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  4578.  @doandroidsdream1748  Okay but they have to deal with it. They need them, they're just like the Gulf Arab nations. They need the revenue of foreigners, that's a fact nobody can deny.
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  4579.  @doandroidsdream1748  You keep bringing up responsibility for the country's own citizens and yes that's a fair thing to care about but it's like you're outright dismissing the savage racism these students are facing. Nobody deserves to be physically beaten by military and officials. Nobody deserves to die at the hands of the military and officials. Two international students died ealier this week due to the violence they are facing. Idk how many have died since.
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  4580.  @doandroidsdream1748  Oh it definitely is and China has everybody wrapped around its finger and as someone that lives in the eastern hemisphere, let me just say that it's not pretty. China's anti-Western rhetoric has increased in the past decade and Europe is likely going to be the first to face the consequences of it due to the war.
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  4581.  @3xitthissid3  "pOc cRy rAcIsM" Your US-centric or even European-centric worldview is showing. These are students from African and Asian countries. You really think that the "race card" is on their minds 24/7 when they come from countries where they form the majority? What they are facing is actual racism. Idk why you're dismissing the violent racism they have been facing. Imagine being beaten and killed (already happened to two international students) because the border officials and military stop you from leaving the country. This would never happen in a civilised country like Australia or New Zealand. and just like that, China's antagonistic rise suddenly doesn't sound so frightening anymore.
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  4582.  @doandroidsdream1748  So you're saying they deserve to be beaten and killed? Idk you seem to be justifying the violence they are facing.
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  4583.  @doandroidsdream1748  So sad that you have to deal with something you don't like. That's what happens when you have to rely one educated foreigners to bring in revenue. Most of these are medical and engineering students, they're worth so much for the future of our world but you hold contempt for them. So sad.
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  4584.  @doandroidsdream1748  So you're justifying the violence they have been facing, ok. I was initially upset that a lot of Asian countries were refusing to condemn Russia and sanction them and refusing to show support for Ukraine but now I wonder if their deafening silence is warranted. It seems you view them with contempt, except for the Russians (who are supposedly helping them leave for safety). Maybe the US/Europe should just stop trying really hard into dragging Asian countries into supporting their sanctions and condemnation bills, it's their war. Let them deal with it.
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  4585.  @doandroidsdream1748  Well, there's a difference between understanding the semantics and not expressing any sort of remorse for them getting beaten and killed by Ukrainians. Yeah they don't want to get involved. The European desire of making Russia a pariah state on the international stage isn't going to work out.
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  4586.  @doandroidsdream1748  You might want to know that there were international sudents who attempted to leave the country via plane but their flights were cancelled and so had to resort to border crossings on land. So this idea that they did nothing is wrong.
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  4587.  @doandroidsdream1748  It's not though. If part of the world is refusing to condemn Russia how is it working out? Russia still has lifelines (China, ASEAN, India, not to mention various countries in Africa that have refused to say anything). Russia will never be a pariah state if it still has lifelines. It'll only be a pariah to the West and its allies, not the whole world and that sadly doesn't do anything.
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  4588.  @doandroidsdream1748  The Ukrainian government told people in Ukraine that the USA's claims that Russia's invasion was "imminent" to be false.
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  4589.  @doandroidsdream1748  You really believe they deserve what they got, don't you? You really ought to put some respect to their names. Many of these are medical students and, unlike you, they will never discriminate because doctors, nurses and those in the medical field take an oath to save everybody regardless of who they are.
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  4590.  @doandroidsdream1748  It actually doesn't. How can it do anything if Russia is still able to maintain trade and political relations with other countries? The purpose of being a pariah state is to have the world isolate you, that's not happening.
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  4591. ​ @doandroidsdream1748  When you're a doctor, you can't break an oath. You take the Hippocratic Oath and you can't break that. It's against the rules. So it means everything. That's why it's disturbing how some lowly soldiers and guards are beating and killing these medical students who are much more superior in my eyes because they are going to be working in the medical field, the only field of work where people don't and can't discriminate. You should read about the stories of the Asian American doctors who were being racially abused by White supremacists during the first COVID-19 wave and how despite their abuse, they were still treating these people because that's who doctors are.
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  4592.  @doandroidsdream1748  You're not getting my point. I'm not talking about economic damage. I'm talking about the concept of a pariah state. As long as there are other countries that Russia can turn towards, then it won't ever be a pariah state. North Korea is a pariah state and pre-2011 Myanmar was a pariah state. You need to understand what a pariah state is. Russia is far from a pariah state. You claim I'm not responding to you rationally but you don't understand what it is I'm talking about.
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  4593.  @doandroidsdream1748  Google it. It was reported throughout all media outlets. If you've been following this event from the start, you'd know that the US had been claiming that Russia was going to invade Ukraine in early February. Then they were saying it was "imminent" which led to the Ukrainian president telling the people of Ukraine that a Russian invasion is not imminent. Then the US started saying, Russia was going to invade Ukraine by the end of the Winter Olympics but that also didn't happen.
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  4594.  @doandroidsdream1748  You won't need to ask for sources if you've been following this event from the start.
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  4595.  @doandroidsdream1748  Stop trying to suggest these students are susceptible to evil. You have no respect for medical students.
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  4596.  @doandroidsdream1748  It's not a YouTube link and anyway, I can't post links because it's marked as spam.
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  4597.  @doandroidsdream1748  No they don't. Do you know what the Hippocratic Oath is? You're basically saying that doctors won't try to save people's lives if you're saying they break it all the time.
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  4598.  @doandroidsdream1748  You don't seem to understand what it is I'm talking about. Right from the start, I have been talking about the concept of being a pariah. I have not been talking about sanctions by the West. It's not just China. Russia does a lot of business with various countries in Asia and Africa, especially with arms sales. BTW, Russia is not a communist country. China is also far from a "communist" country. In fact, there hasn't been a single purely communist state in the history of the world.
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  4599.  @doandroidsdream1748  The US, Europe and Russia are to blame for all of this. Due to the greed and control of NATO and the behaviour of Russia, the world's stability has been jeopardised once again. Once again, it is Europe shaking the foundations of earth but they're the ones that hark on about China. Now anti-Western sentiment is rising in countries that once never had an issue with US/Europe. I read an article in Chinese state media about how Chinese netizens were amused at how the Indians are espousing the same views as the Chinese in a rare moment of unity. See what the toxic behaviour of the US, Europe and Russia is doing to the world? This is purely a European issue started by the Americans and the Europeans. They ought to fight this battle on their own.
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  4600. ​ @doandroidsdream1748  Just google it you will learn that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy downplayed US warnings of an imminent Russian invasion a month ago. There are YouTube videos about this where the president says there is no need to panic and the situation is under control. If you google, you will find everything from ABC News to Global to Channel 4 News. You haven't been following this event from the beginning and it shows.
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  4601.  @doandroidsdream1748  You're trying everything in your power to disregard these students, aren't you? Wow the lack of human compassion. Those medical students will be more than those guards will ever be.
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  4602.  @doandroidsdream1748  You're doing everything you can disregard them. Those medical students will be more than anything those guards will ever be.
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  4603.  @doandroidsdream1748  All you have to do is Google. This is your way of saying you can't handle the truth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B3B3MvFuXc
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  4604. ​ @doandroidsdream1748  You really haven't been following this event but are here continously talking about it as if you understand what is going on. Why? 😐
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  4605.  @doandroidsdream1748  Those videos you sent aren't examples of people breaking the Hippocratic Oath. That's malpractice. I don't think you understand what that oath is. Please look it up.
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  4606.  @doandroidsdream1748  Doesn't change the fact that it's not a pariah state. It's doing business with equally shady nations. Russia is different, if you literally have democratic nations still willing to do business with Russia (or even refuse to side with the US/Europe) then that's not a pariah state.
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  4607. ​ @doandroidsdream1748  At least you're aware that you're racist.
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  4608.  @doandroidsdream1748  Call it for what it is, it's an authoritarian nation.
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  4609.  @doandroidsdream1748  Part of the Hippocratic oath says, "to treat the ill to the best of one's ability, to preserve a patient's privacy, to teach the secrets of medicine to the next generation"
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  4610.  @doandroidsdream1748  Russia is trading with ASEAN and India (are they the same as NK)? No.
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  4611.  @doandroidsdream1748  ...and you are an example of one.
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  4612.  @doandroidsdream1748  So many people wrongly believe that "communist" equals "authoritarian" without realising that there are communist parties in power in various parts of the world, including democratic nations.
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  4613.  @doandroidsdream1748  Many ASEAN are composed of dictators? India is run by a dictator? It doesn't matter what you feel but those leaders were all voted in democratically.
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  4614.  @doandroidsdream1748  All the more reason why Europe needs to do this by itself. The tides are turning.
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  4615.  @doandroidsdream1748  Is NK a major trading partner of India? No. NK is propped up by China. It's a Chinese puppet. Russia is a puppet of who exactly? The answer: Nobody.
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  4616.  @doandroidsdream1748  I said that Russia also trades with India and ASEAN.
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  4617.  @doandroidsdream1748  Russia trades with India and ASEAN, that is what I'm talking about.
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  4618. ​ @doandroidsdream1748  I used to be angry that all these countries like India and the like were refusing to condemn Russia but I've learned about Western hypocrisy (only related to the US and Europe - Australia, Canada, Ireland and NZ have nothing to do with this).
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  4619. ​ @doandroidsdream1748  I think those American diplomats were always right. There is arrogance behind all of this.
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  4620.  @doandroidsdream1748  I think those American diplomats were always right. There is arrogance behind all of this.
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  4621. The racism is insane. You have zero respect for the victims
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  4622.  @waltermelyon4300  The military is committing atrocities across the countries. They've done it for decades. More recently, they've begun murdering children in the street and taking their bodies away. A few days ago, a 13 year old boy was playing cards near his house in an empty street with his friend and the military showed up in a truck and fired shots into the air and naturally so, the two boys started running away and the 13 year old boy was shot dead in the back of the head. You ought to go to social media and use the Burmese hashtags to see all the graphic images and videos of dead bodies and people bleeding in the street because of what the military is doing. The Burmese military is now going to shut down wireless internet to prevent Burmese people from connecting to the outside world. While you sit here and question the authenticity of these events, Myanmar is on the verge of sliding into a total blackout where the rest of the world will have no idea what is happening. Sound familiar? North Korea ring a bell?
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  4623.  @waltermelyon4300  You're literally trying to infer that the military isn't the problem here. I brought up the examples of children to show you how violent the military is and if you actually were aware of Burmese history, you'd know that the military has been targeting civilians for decades and you wouldn't be questioning this.
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  4624.  @ericboxer3053  I'm just telling the other user that the Burmese military is to blame here, not average citizens. What's so hard to understand?
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  4625. Exactly, India and China are also like the mothers of Asian civilisation. Ronnie's remarks are jokes, a mockery of how the West has narrow ideas of how Asians look like (East Asian in the US and South Asian in the UK). He is from Malaysia, would be strange for him to actually think Indians aren't Asian considering so many Malaysians are ethnically Indian and influenced the country greatly.
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  4626.  @TheMacbandit  They had children before the crisis and were able to take care of them. These are middle class people. I don't know why you think they're all poor. The average Sri Lankan woman has 1-2 children today. Their fertility rate is below 2.1 (the replacement level). Their standard of living was good for a developing country before the crisis and was so good that the average Sri Lankan began living longer to the point that Sri Lanka has one of the fastest growing aging populations in Asia today. It's also why they were able to control the spread of COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 before virulent strains emerged because their social indicators were good for a developing country. Appears to be that you're making assumptions about a country you don't know much, if anything at all, about. This video is mostly focusing on the middle class people who are now suffering.
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  4627.  @karanvarma5789  No that's not the case at all. President Nixon who was a staunch pro-Pakistan and anti-India president, was from the Republican party. US presidents have never been pro-India because they've always been pro-Pakistan. Donald Trump is the closest you'll get to a pro-India US president. It has nothing to do with Republican or Democrat parties.
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  4628. Don't cry
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  4629.  @blueshirt26  That's history. Satun Muslims identify as Thai Muslims and don't identify with Malay supremacists. Cry about it.
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  4630. Well only Siberians are Asians (who are related to East and Central Asians). Slavic Russians are not native to Siberia (Asian Russia)
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  4631. That has nothing to do with geopolitics
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  4632. True
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  4633. Afghanistan is Central Asia and Pakistan is South Asia.
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  4634.  @arinasuci7544  No they belong to Southeast Asian Myanmar
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  4635. He didn't come from an Islamic country Kevin. Not all Muslims come from Islamic countries, he's from a minority ethnic group within a Buddhist majority country. Gosh Google is right there, use it.
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  4636.  Abhishek  What has religion got to do with this? Are you aware some of the poorest countries in the world are countries with Christian majorities located in Africa?
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  4637. ​ @TingTong2568  Checked him how?
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  4638.  @batissta44  They're not Europeans
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  4639.  @aizen9057  Not for long, their fertility rate is already on the decline and will be like other parts of Asia, but they're too busy discriminating minorities and worrying about what's going on outside of their borders and so have no idea what's going on inside their country.
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  4640.  @jenniekim-5155  Stereotypes have some truth to them otherwise they wouldn't be stereotypes. It's that recurring examples of certain things within a community can create a belief that everybody is like that. For example, you said "Asians are smart", that stereotype is born out of the fact that in the US and many other Western countries there is a notable amount of Asian students who succeed academically. Due to how frequent this observation is, it has developed into a stereotype into this belief that "ALL Asians are smart".
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  4641.  @joelsherpa2187  Exactly. Nepal wants to diversify so as to not rely on one country.
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  4642.  @Gizziiusa  There is a difference between economic clout and political clout. It would be seen as detrimental to many ethnic Chinese in countries like Thailand, Philippines, Laos and Cambodia to be treated as PRC Chinese and thus viewed as outsiders. The ethnic Chinese communities of all Thailand, Philippines and Cambodia are deeply assimilated into their respective countries. Ethnic Chinese in Thailand and Cambodia practice Thai and Khmer culture, speak Thai and Khmer practice Theravada Buddhism and see themselves as "Thai" and "Khmer". The same thing in the Philippines, ethnic Chinese in the Philippines are embedded within the native Filipino culture with most practicing Catholicism and speaking the native Filipino languages. Malaysia is the only exception, where the local Chinese community has retained its Chinese cultural heritage albeit developed it into a unique Southeast Asian-style Chinese identity with some additional influences from the Malay and Indian communities but nonetheless, culturally and ethnically consider themselves as "Han Chinese". Due to Malaysia's long history of ethnic disharmony, there is a large fraction of the Malaysian Chinese community who find more allegiance with China than with Malaysia and this section of the community are constantly questioned about their loyalty with fears that if relations between Malaysia and China deteriorated considerably, this section of the Chinese community would immediately side with China rather than their birth country.
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  4643. For what exactly? Our land and economy is going to be destroyed if we end up in a war.
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  4644. Nothing cultural about it. it's all due to physical appearance because most Southeast Asian cultures are culturally closer to India, not East Asia (China, Japan etc.). Only Vietnam is close to East Asia in terms of culture. So it's all due to physical appearance.
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  4645. It's the flag of the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army
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  4646. Say it again for the people in the back
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  4647.  @hrishikeshdas9641  All three of them spread to Korea. Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism are syncretised in Chinese culture,
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  4648.  @xa-xii7981  Well the Caribbean has a lot of high income nations and if there is any country in South Asia that will become a high income nation in the next 10-15 years, it's the Maldives.
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  4649.  @locdawg3815  Only you. They aren't on the verge of being kicked out. Stop your crying
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  4650. They still go to mainland China via flights through Hong Kong or Nepal 🤡
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  4651.  @johwck1898  What is "dang"? You mean "dung". 💀
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  4652.  @mycodingchannel9690  You're really saying that when there are monks there protesting too.
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  4653.  @mycodingchannel9690  Well I don't think it's most.
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  4654.  @elnoviodetumamaytufuturopa7150  They're talking about the issue in the South Asian community.
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  4655.  @joexavier4070  Tell me you're joking lmao. You're inferring people in another country taking back their future from a president who stole all of their money as "undisciplined"? What's undisciplined is a bunch of men and women storming the Capitol in the United States because they couldn't accept the results of a democratic election.
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  4656.  @sonofsomerset1695  You think it was a rigged election but don't have any evidence to prove it. Don't compare a group of men and women who couldn't accept the results of a democratic election to a group of men and women (including young people) who have been skipping meals, forced to accept a curfew, no fuel, can't purchase food, can't go to school and beginning to starve and so on while the president lives luxuriously in his presidential palace. There is a huge difference.
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  4657.  @sonofsomerset1695  So you expect them to starve to death? Just quit with the attempts at justifying a bunch of brainwashed men and women in the US who couldn't accept the results of a democratic election and cool it with the name calling. Instead of arguing with facts you argue with name calling. Typical.
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  4658.  @sonofsomerset1695  Those men and women in the US who stormed the Capitol were not suffering, they were over themselves and too brainwashed to realise how abhorrent their actions were. You talk about a "non-democratic coup". Majority of people in Sri Lanka were against the government and were protesting for months, even the politicians in the Sri Lankan government went against the President and on Sunday claims suggest half of Colombo's population showed up in the financial district to storm the Presidential Palace and you're calling this a "non democratic coup". I can see that you don't know what you're talking about.
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  4659.  @sonofsomerset1695  Majority of people against one man vs a group of men and women who can't accept the results of democratic election and were brainwashed and thus couldn't think for themselves. I don't even like Biden but I can tell how deranged those Trump supporters were. There's a tremendous difference. Do some Googling before you reply. 💀
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  4660. Nice joke
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  4661.  @Bierce88  I'm from Australia, idk what you're talking about
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  4662.  @VINLAND_777  1.Who continues to partake in the destablisation of the world by continuing to antagonise Russia by expanding NATO? 2. Who is violently beating international students? 3. Who is being called a "nation of (expletive) liars" for not doing enough to help Ukraine? 4. Who continues to proclaim they are he hero hen they have a violent history of bringing permanent destruction to other countries?
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  4663.  @VINLAND_777  When I look at things from both sides, apparently I'm biased. Come back to me when you're able to wake up and realise that Ukraine is nothing but a pawn in a new Cold War. Russia and NATO, they're both in part to blame for this and there is nothing biased about that.
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  4664.  @VINLAND_777  When I look at things from both sides, apparently I'm biased. Come back to me when you're able to wake up and realise that Ukraine is nothing but a pawn in a new Cold War. Russia and NATO, they're both in part to blame for this and there is nothing biased about that.
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  4665.  @Fellow-t4m  Look at the comments, look at the video. There are people here saying Indians aren't Asians cause they're so obsessed with making everything about race. These people are judging each other on how "Asian" they are (whatever that's supposed to mean). It's so embarrassing. Gosh, I'm glad I'm not an American
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  4666.  @Sumonvideos5448  THE BURMESE MILITARY COMMITTED THE GENOCIDE. WHY WOULD YOU SUPPORT THEM?
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  4667.  @Sumonvideos5448  Have you thought that maybe Aung San Suu Kyi couldn't actually do much as the de factor leader? I think it's pretty clear now considering that she and the rest of the government was detained and removed from their positions. She was nothing more than a puppet of the Burmese military.
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  4668.  @Zretgul_timerunner  Many people in Myanmar, especially the younger generation, have realised that they should have stood by the Rohingyas. They now know that the common enemy is the military.
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  4669.  @sahilbharti7047  Are you upset?
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  4670.  @TrueNativeScot  Be gone Euro nationalist because Asians are doing the exact same thing.
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  4671.  @TrueNativeScot  All of that applies to the Asians in question too, now what?
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  4672.  Erina Nagasawa  There's no such thing called "Aryan race" though. Hitler made that up and appropriated the word "Aryan", a term that means "noble" and was used by ancient tribes in northern India.
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  4673.  @roja7426  There are Indians native to the country with East Asian features like those in Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh belonging to various different ethnic groups native to these regions. They all have Indian accents.
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  4674. Oh okay but I'm actually not from India.
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  4675.  @JKAnu-yq1tr  Then why does this video exist? Stay mad
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  4676.  @antionerichardson8631  They have dry earwax, not wet earwax that results in lots of BO. You have wet earwax
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  4677.  @maureenbennett809  That's why Black passport bros are travelling around Asia searching for Indian women right? Don't embarrass yourself like this girlie
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  4678.  @Omisaide  Hindi is a language. You supporting Dalits and yet saying stuff degrading Indians makes no sense.
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  4679.  @toniwinston5191  Your men are marrying them in Asia and the Caribbean
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  4680.  @HenriHattar  Stop yelling and yes it does. Asia-Pacific generally refers to everything east of and including India and everything west of and including French Polynesia.
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  4681.  @techknow9237  CHANGE YOUR BEHAVIOUR!
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  4682.  @techknow9237  Indian men will comment this type of stuff and NEVER change their behaviour.
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  4683.  @close_all_tabs  Only Europeans and Americans think that, people in Asia and the Global South actually admire China, even in Australia more people are admiring China. Cry.
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  4684.  @YashSharma-zp8yu  No
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  4685.  @stephanatlas5331  Yeah but they all have that certain look to them. It's all homogenous.
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  4686. @I.K.illedThatBeardGuy Have you thought that maybe it's actually India ruining India?
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  4687.  @Zaheed-ip8mp  Indians makeup 14.7% of all tourists that go to the Maldives, Chinese male up 14%. Tell me what exactly is the huge difference all of you keep talking about?
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  4688. Oh stop your crying oml
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  4689.  @wonderworld7721  Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis are all South Asians.
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  4690.  @wonderworld7721  India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are South Asian
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  4691.  @quiet7632  They're all South Asian
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  4692.  @anaesthete5592  Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis are South Asians.
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  4693.  @anaesthete5592  Who said they are all the same? Stop getting triggered over a word lmfao. No, I am not Indian or Pakistani or Bangladeshi.
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  4694.  @anaesthete5592  Yes they mean the same thing. Did you not learn geography??
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  4695.  @anaesthete5592  cause only Indian nationalists like to use "Indian subcontinent" because it's Indocentric.
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  4696.  @anaesthete5592  It's South Asia, not Indian subcontinent. Only Indian nationalists use that term because they think the almost the whole of Asia belongs to India lmfao
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  4697.  @anaesthete5592  You don't know who I am and yet you're here saying all this stuff. Jeez, can we ban India from using Western social media? They have their own stuff but prefer to flock to Western and at one point Chinese (TikTok) sites.
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  4698.  @anaesthete5592  Who said I don't like India? This is why the internet needs to be banned in India. Always seeing the most ridiculous statements being made by people from that country.
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  4699.  @anaesthete5592  In your previous comment. Go back and read it.
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  4700. Best if you familiarise yourself with Asian affairs before giving an opinion.
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  4701. Buddhism isn't even a religion and many Buddhists see Buddhism as a philosophy. The Buddha never intended on creating a religion. He just taught his followers principles after he gained enlightenment. The whole reason why he gave everything up and started meditating under a bo tree is because he didn't agree with certain Hindu principles, having grown up in the Khastriya caste. Buddhism and Hinduism overlap and share many similarities, both are Dharmic religions.
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  4702. These are Southeast Asian people from Myanmar. They aren't South Asian! That Indonesian Acehnese man looks more Bangladeshi than the Rohingyas. Is he South Asian now?
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  4703. This is all because of religion. Had the religion in Indonesia and other parts of Southeast and South Asia remained Eastern (Hindu/Buddhist/animist). This would NOT be a problem!
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  4704.  @sallieceelee5660  The Malaysian government supports terrorists. That's why they allow Zakir Naik to live in the country. The whole world knows how Islamic extremism and conservatism have become so normalised in Malaysia (and neighbouring Indonesia).
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  4705. China is not responsible for this
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  4706.  @Toon_With_Tune  Don't speak in Hindi, Idk that language!
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  4707.  @Toon_With_Tune  I don't know Hindi, all I see are random Latin letters and it looks like some Indian language
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  4708.  @Toon_With_Tune  Did I say it was the only Indian language? No.
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  4709.  @Toon_With_Tune  I'm not Pakistani, I'm Australian. I know it's Hindi because I am interested in Indian culture and I know that's Hindi. I know a lot about India, hence why I replied to your comment. I know for a fact that that is not a South Indian or Northeast Indian language. It's Hindi and most of the people who talk about the "correct map of India" are from the Hindi belt. I never see South Indians or Northeast Indians who say that. So yeah it's Hindi. Anything else you want to say or are we done here?
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  4710. Fun fact: Lakshadweep is a Muslim-majority territory and the island of Minicoy is inhabited by ethnic Maldivian people.
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  4711. America is controlling Australia, many people in the country are waking up and realising America is the country that is forcing Australia into this position. Nobody wants war with China.
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  4712. This is Sri Lanka
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  4713. Nobody asked
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  4714.  @tellyboy17  Well we're enslaved to the US too, so I don't see the difference. A lot of people describe Australia as a US puppet. Always bending over for the US and doing their work for them. For example, allowing secret surveillance stations in the country (e.g. Pine Gap), taking part in US wars (e.g. wrongful Invasion of Iraq which ultimately backfired and also affected the general Australian population because the country and its citizens became a target for terrorist attacks including the 2002 Bali bombings and the 2014 Sydney Hostage Crisis among a multitude of other terrorist incidents that occurred mostly during the 2010s. We had a good relationship with China and while we did not agree on everything, our ties with the US damaged them and now a new Australian government is doing damage control. People say we rely heavily on the US and that we need our own independent foreign policy. We are in the Asia-Pacific but we are still looking at the US and UK. We do everything for the US and then when we need assistance, the US says "no". Australia didn't have enough COVID-19 vaccines and the US had plenty of excess ones, that were not being used and would expire soon, but they weren't willing to give it to us... even with payment.
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  4715.  @Homer-OJ-Simpson  It's true, regardless of how much it upsets you. Why doesn't kick out the US? It's because Australia is playing a balancing act one that favours the US and one that favours China. It's the same act that most of the region is playing and the US administration wants the whole region to pick one side and that's not what anybody here wants to do. The whole region (except for probably Japan and for obvious reasons because they have yearned for Euro-American validation since the Meiji era) is tired of this cold war between China and the US because eventually this conflict could turn into a physical war and our region will become the battlefield.
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  4716.  @Homer-OJ-Simpson  There are plenty of things I don't like about China. A lot of things, especially regarding COVID-19 and their secrecy. However, I'm not going to suggest everything China does is bad and that only one country is good. That is not true. The US and China have good and bad sides to both of them. We just need a balance. I'm merely acknowledging the fact that China is a regional neighbour so you have to learn to co-exist and that's what I want.
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  4717. ​ @Homer-OJ-Simpson  If Australia's foreign policy was more similar to Asian nations, then it would be rather different and more similar to say Australia's northern neighbour, Indonesia. It would be able to stand on its own. The country would sit in the middle, maintaining cordial relations between both the US and China without feeling the need to pick a side. Cultural and historical ties have traditionally meant Australia has ignored Asia and looked to the US and UK. This is why Pine Gap (US military base) exists in Australia, it's not a response to China. China's rise and expansionism is only something recent. Australia always pursued closer ties with the US. So it was inevitable that with the rise of the US military, particularly after WW2, that the country would ally itself with the US. It was the expected thing to do for a Western country at the time. Going neutral like Asia and Africa did would have been unimaginable and still is. It's only since the late 2000s/2010s that Australia really began engaging more with Asia and recognising its geography. It sees itself as both a Western nation and an Asia-Pacific nation (we are taught this in school) and has integrated itself into the region in areas ranging from politics to culture such as the Asian Football Confederation and the RCEP. Controversial remarks made by Asian leaders of yesteryear like Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew were always haunting reminders for the dominant White Australian government of what could become of the country if it continued to ignore its geography and present itself as "white only" (the White Australia Policy was only abolished in 1973 and its native population are Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders). On top of that, ever since colonisation, the perceived "Asian threat" has always existed (a fear that Asian migration or invasion would result in the country becoming "Asian"). The fear first began with the migration of Chinese, Sri Lankan, Malay, Japanese Malay pearl divers during the colonial era, it became particularly prevalent during WW2 amid fear that Australia would be colonised by Japan and its most recent incarnation is in the form of China's rise and expansionism. It's also a theme that appears in Australian pop culture. The truth is if Australia's foreign policy was more independent and not dependent on other nations (in this case the US), Australia wouldn't have been so caught up in all of this. This is why Australia is diversifying and building better ties with Southeast Asian countries and India, engaging further in the Pacific, fixing its ties with China and continuing to build its ties (particularly in the area of defence) with the US. It has recognised its nature as both a Western and Asia-Pacific nation.
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  4718.  @Homer-OJ-Simpson  I know everything. 💀 An American trying to tell me what's going on in the Asia-Pacific region??? Calm down. Indonesia is neutral. Just because it has had recent issues with China in the SCS doesn't mean it's anti-China for crying out loud. Indonesia is not even a claimant in the South China Sea Dispute! Google is your friend, use it.
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  4719.  @Homer-OJ-Simpson  So me asking for Asia-Pacific nations to remain neutral means I'm paid by China????? You want to control the whole world, don't you?
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  4720.  @Homer-OJ-Simpson  Person from the Indo-Pacific: Oh we prefer to remain neutral and not get caught up in China and US rivalry. That means we prefer to maintain ties with both countries and not pick sides. Person from the US: You were paid by China!! You aren't allowed to remain neutral and build ties with China, you need to pick the US and if not, we will punish you!!
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  4721. Russia is absolutely 100% wrong but the instigation from the US and NATO is also wrong.
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  4722.  @jvvoid  Average US citizens are spreading hate towards Indians on TikTok and other social media platforms. I'm seeing Indian Americans trying to defend themselves on a daily basis on TikTok. India moving towards China is just karma coming around to the US.
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  4723.  @unknowndescent5880  Ethnically yes, my ancestors are from there. Colonists did bad things everywhere but the idea that all they did was bad is wrong.
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  4724.  @unknowndescent5880  LGBT is one thing, internalised racism is entirely different. You chose to believe in internalised racism, that is a choice you made. Not everybody suffers from internalised racism. So don't compare that anti-LGBT law to internalised racism
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  4725.  @unknowndescent5880  This constant victim mindset is why things never change. China went through a century it termed the "Century of Humiliation" and now it's finally having its moment. So many other Asian countries are rising. I'm sorry you suffer from internalised racism but I also put the blame on the Sri Lankan government for only partaking in corruption. If their minds were in the right place, nobody would be talking about internalised racism.
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  4726. Rohingyas are literally Southeast Asian like Indonesian and they both are genetically closer to one another than the Rohingyas are to African people. 💀
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  4727.  @Skizzo___21  So the people saying normal things are bots?
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  4728. Nobody really knows what the answer could be because this hasn't happened before. I have Sri Lankan ancestry but I'm not from there but my guess is that if they don't plug their brain drain and find a way to manage their elderly population whilst still growing, then the country will become a middle income trapped nation with an elderly population that continues to get older. Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam are the first countries that will experience this because they have low fertility and rapidly aging populations. They will become the first countries to get old before they get rich in the next 15 years. More and more Russians will migrate to those three countries, like they've been doing since 2022 and live there because it's so much cheaper to live there if you come from a more developed nation.
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  4729.  @mrengineerpw5920  of course it's an indian man saying this
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  4730. Did you watch the video?
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  4731. Sri Lankans don't try to associate with India, idk in what universe you think that's true but it's not.
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  4732. What population boom? They have below replacement level fertility. What's happening is that people are moving to the cities and they can't keep up. Their infrastructure has always been outdated and now it's really hitting them hard.
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  4733. Bangladesh is an LDC but it has actually reached the threshold to graduate from LDC status in 2018 and then again in 2021. They just keep deferring their graduation, which is now set for 2026.
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  4734.  @Epidian  Mauritius is in Africa though and is a product of being under French and British rule.
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  4735. Religion? This literally has nothing do with religion. I'm sure you don't even know what religion the majority of that country practice.
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  4736.  @shakira7301  I'm not from Sri Lanka, I didn't vote for him. 💀I'm literally talking about the economic crisis, it literally has nothing to do with religion. Is that not the truth??? BTW, Sinhalese isn't a religion. 💀
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  4737. That's why we should be more like Singapore and be neutral.
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  4738. Can't believe you commented this...
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  4739.  @Felinelover-z1v  YES. COPE
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  4740.  @Felinelover-z1v  Freida Pinto exists
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  4741. Huh?
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  4742. Have you never felt good about accomplishing something you worked hard for?
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  4743.  @user-hq8wm8giyujcg  Internationally, people think South Indian/South Indian-looking people are prettier like Shaun Romy.
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  4744.  @noahtylerpritchett2682  I think most people who are not Indian think they are prettier. I saw people in the comment section of a TikTok video talking about this. They were talking about how all of the pretty Indian women in their eyes are "Dravidian" because they have "softer features" like a round face compared to "Indo Aryan" women who have "sharp and strong features".
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  4745.  @noahtylerpritchett2682  Yeah Indians are all mixed regardless of what language they speak. They are predominantly a mix of South Asian native, Iranian Neolithic Farmer and Steppe pastoralists. It's just the ratio of components differs depending on ethnic group. Yeah the Vedda tribe of Sri Lanka have that archaic look. Also, the tribals of central, eastern and southern India like the Dongria Kondh have that typical South Asian native look too which I think is nice, like the high cheekbones.
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  4746.  @noahtylerpritchett2682  Yeah you're right, the tribals also have other ancestral components too but most of their ancestry is related to the South Asian native hunter-gatherers.
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  4747. Only partially, the rest the genetic makeup of the Sinhalese derives from indigenous groups and a little bit of Southeast Asian. The Sinhalese language is most similar to Dhivehi of the Maldives.
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  4748.  @DWThe77Percent  Are you from Gen Z? Sorry, your reply instantly gave me Gen Z vibes, I'm from Gen Z too so I was wondering
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  4749.  @jgacfhhahjjshggqhhqikwhh3919  Just because they are Muslim doesn't mean they are culturally the same as Arab/Middle Eastern Muslims. They're from Myanmar and if you actually ever interacted with Rohingyas you'd know that their culture is more closer to other Rakhine cultural groups.
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  4750. Joke's on you, India is helping them.
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  4751.  @mildntender  You really want to listen to the Sri Lankan government at a time like this? They're the ones who caused all of this. I wouldn't be caring about what they have to say.
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  4752.  @AutismaMagna  The Westerners have been littering in the Geisha district and then there are the cases of US soldiers r****g Japanese women and girls. Stop thinking y'all are better lmfao. Most temporary migrants in Japan come from other Asian countries for a reason!
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  4753.  @SEAZNDragon  Most Burmese citizens don't endorse it anymore. They did in the past because the Tatmadaw had control of the media and internet and so they spread propaganda. You may recall a few years ago, Rohingyas sued Facebook for not deleting misinformation about the Rohingyas in the lead up to and during the genocide. Before 2021, Burmese citizens only new Facebook as the internet as the Tatmadaw had tight control over the country. After the coup, everything changed. Many Burmese held protests in solidarity for the Rohingyas in 2021 and publicly apologised as well as organised a social media campaign (#Black4Rohingya). Aung San Suu Kyi's NUG has a Rohingya minister and the NUG has said they want to reintegrate Rohingyas as one of the national ethnic groups of Myanmar. Before all of this there were Bamar people who supported the Rohingyas like Maung Zarni, a human rights activist that has always supported the Rohingyas even when the Tatmadaw was feeding propaganda to ordinary Burmese.
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  4754.  @Funnyeboi  Except preference for lighter skin in South Asian cultures dates back before European colonisation. It's only European colonisation that racialised the concept of fair skin and exacerbated the situation. So no, sorry but you can't insert yourself into this situation because colorism and the hue of fair skin people want in South Asian cultures is different to what other cultures prefer. I can understand someone from another Asian background (like SE Asian or East Asian) inserting themselves into this because preference for lighter skin in Asian cultures dates back to the influences of ancient China and India but someone of non-Asian background does not understand the cultural origins of this issue.
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  4755.  @Funnyeboi  Aditi Budhathoki is not my preference. I don't prefer fair skin. It's just that people like Aditi and Indian actress Shivangi Joshi have the type of fair skin that many women (and men) want in South Asian cultures. It doesn't matter if her skin tone is preferred in the US. She's speaking from a South Asian perspective. If she's speaking up on it then she's obviously faced discrimination from her family (and this is what happens in many Asian families in the West, they still harbour colorist attitudes despite living in the West where fair is not the ideal).
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  4756.  @Funnyeboi  Miss World India and Miss Universe India are notorious for picking fair skinned women. There was actually controversy in 2019 after a photo of the Miss India contestants went viral because they all had fair skin and straight long dark hair. You should Google "Miss India 2019 contestants", it's crazy to see how homogenous Indian beauty ideals are. Anyway, there is a shifting attitude in recent years - same thing is happening in Thailand and some other Asian countries. I understand that you're speaking from your perspective and you can say what you want, that's okay. It's just that Hamel Patel's skin tone is not considered the ideal in South Asia or any other part of Asia. Her features aren't the exact ideal either which makes her speaking up very important. I think Shivangi Joshi has the type of features people across the whole of South Asia (from India to Bhutan) want (almond shape eyes, small nose, straight black hair).
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  4757.  @WaMo721  I think there should be a difference noted between the Gorkhas who are from Sikkim and other groups found in Nepal like Limbu - who are all Sikkimese and any newer immigrants, if there are any. They've all been living there before modern borders were drawn.
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  4758. It's got nothing to do with Buddhism. The genocide against Rohingyas and other forms of violence towards ethnic minorities in Myanmar is the result of Bamar nationalism that supports the idea that Myanmar belongs to the Bamar and everybody else must undergo Burmanisation. It's ethnonationalism and isn't related to religion because the Tatmadaw/Bamar nationalists also persecute ethnic minorities who practice Buddhism like Shan, Rakhine and Karen. They want everybody to practice Bamar culture and be culturally adjacent to the Bamar. Many ethnic minorities in Myanmar have faced Burmanisation for decades like the Mon and Karen.
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  4759. That's because Kiratas are not part of the Indian subcontinent technically speaking. Indian subcontinent is a term coined by the British to define British India (modern India+Pakistan+Bangladesh), Nepal is not part of that. I know I'm being pedantic but you may be interested to know that in Hong Kong, there is a long established community of South Asians (Indians and Nepalese) dating back to colonial times. Many of the Hong Kong Nepalese have "East Asian" or a mix of "South Asian" and "East Asian" features. They're all described by the Cantonese equivalent for the English term, "South Asian" so Hong Kong Chinese know that South Asians aren't just those that look like the stereotypical Indian but also those who look more Tibetan or "East Asian". It just comes down to awareness and migration. Most people who migrate out of South Asia are those who look stereotypically "South Asian".
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  4760. Me too
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  4761. Godi
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  4762. Is there a single SCMP video where these anti-India and anti-China accounts and bots are not active??? Give us a break!
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  4763. That's cause she's an American
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  4764. No it's Singaporean
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  4765. ⁠@ There were Sri Lankan Tamils that went to Singapore and Malaysia, not as many as Indian Tamils. People like S. Rajaratnam of Singapore are of Sri Lankan (Ceylonese) Tamil descent and what do you mean from and related to Indonesia? Do you mean India because the Tamils of Indonesia like in Medan came from India too many centuries ago.
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  4766. ⁠Malaysian Tamils are now connected to Malaysia in that they are now locals just like the Malaysian Chinese and other non-indigenous groups
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  4767.  @utopiasimmpin3729  Nobody believes the military. The military is only saying that to appease the international community out of fear that heavy sanctions will be placed on the country, ties cut with the military and the nation isolated from the international community. The Burmese military committed the genocide, they don't care about the Rohingyas.
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  4768.  @mudshovel289  Okay and it's time that y'all fixed it.
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  4769.  @JaiHind_  Did I ask? No
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  4770.  @kunal-ko  I want to give you an explanation for this but the fact hat you asked this question and are dead serious about it makes me think you won't understand my response.
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  4771. Why do Indonesians, Pakistanis and Indians online always say racist things? These three nationalities need to be blocked from using the internet imo
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  4772.  @sharadowasdr  It was Yemeni Arabs and Indians who spread Islam in Southeast Asia, not Ottoman Turks who are faraway from Southeast Asia.
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  4773.  @sherwingonsalves8821  If what is currently happening in India regarding majority-minority relations considered normal then I feel really sorry for you. That might explain why India is still stuck in the 1990s and unable to undergo rapid development using an Asian economic model of development like its neighbours China and Bangladesh have done and one in which Japan and the Asian Tigers used during the 20th century.
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  4774.  @priasco4139  I can see your sarcasm but Bangladesh is not the safest and cleanest country in South Asia, far from it. Despite everything Sri Lanka is going through, they're still a very clean country. The Maldives and Bhutan also come out on top when it comes to clean countries in South Asia. All those countries maintain a mentality of cleanliness. "Do you know sri lanka was also called as the next asian tiger? Guess what happened?" Now why would you ask such a question? This video is about the economic collapse of Sri Lanka. Come on...it's right there. Also, let's be real. Bangladesh is described as an "Asian Tiger economy" today by organisations like the World Economic Forum as are many Southeast Asian countries like Vietnam. Idk why you think they're going under. Why are people from India so bitter about other South Asian countries doing well? I just don't get it. It's also always people from North India saying things like this, never South Indians, Northeast Indians, Punjabis or Marathis and the like.
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  4775.  @priasco4139  How am I making fun of India???So dramatic for nothing, typical. 💀💀
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  4776. The US is pretty two faced too, so where do we go from there? The truth of the matter is every country only cares about themselves, that includes the US. Ukraine is merely pawn in a broader battle between the US and Russia.
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  4777.  @td4190  High and mighty player in this conflict? They are neutral so I don't have any idea what you're talking about. If there is any country that is being "high and mighty", it's the United States by pretending to care about Ukraine and the world, when in reality they only care about themselves. Well, I have looked at one Indian broadcast, it was called WION and they reported in an unbiased way.
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  4778.  @郭-e7p  China and India bots everywhere
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  4779.  @vetiarvind  Yes it does. The caste system is only allowing the higher castes to reap the benefits of India's growth rate, the lower castes are still living in poverty and can't rise due to their caste.
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  4780. Also Pakistani too but they're not bots
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  4781.  @klave_rock1112  You act like this irl too or is it just online?
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  4782. The victims were non-white, you have no respect for the victims
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  4783. How though when most of Southeast Asia is part of the Indian Cultural Sphere. If anything, it is East Asia is that is radically different.
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  4784. Modern Australia is a "Eurasian" country, you're all going to have to accept that eventually.
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  4785.  @overworlder  Japan and South Korea are NOT part of the West. If you believe they are part of the West, then you don't understand what the West is. Just because they are politically aligned with Euro-America, does not mean they are Western. I know y'all really fantasise about Japan and South Korea but Japan and South Korea are Asian and Sinosphere nations, they have more in common with other Chinese-influenced Asian nations like China and Vietnam. Broadly speaking, they are culturally Eastern. Their mentality, cultural habits and essence are completely Asiatic. There is a reason why Japan and South Korea (like all other Asian nations - Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Maldives) prefer hiring migrant workers and skilled workers from other parts of Asia and not from anywhere outside of it. If they were truly Western like you claim them to be then how come the largest migrant groups in Japan and South Korea come from countries like China, Vietnam, Philippines and Nepal? Would they not prefer Westerners over other Asians? Japan and South Korea are definitely Asian and not Western. You said other Asian nations are part of the West too but no, Singapore is also Asian too. They have a lot of Western influences but the overall influences from the Chinese, Malay and Indian cultures dominates the entire nation's state of mind. So it's culturally Eastern just like Japan and South Korea. Singapore is the country after all that gave birth to the modern "Asian values" ideology in the 1990s (an ideology that also generated interest in East Asia).
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  4786.  @overworlder  So you're really going to have to accept the fact that Asian countries are their own thing, they're not part of the West. Culturally they are radically different and we saw it play out very well during the COVID-19 pandemic, while people in Euro-America were protesting for their freedom and demanding they don't wear face masks, all of the Asian countries kept quiet and people wore face masks without an issue. A survey at the time revealed that majority of respondents in the US, UK and Germany didn't want to wear a face mask while the majority of respondents from China, Japan, South Korea and India said they prefer to wear a face mask. Completely different way of thinking. Also, politically they are their own thing. They prefer non-alignment and not getting involved in other nations' issues. While the West criticised China during the Hong Kong protests of 2019, not a single Asian country said a thing, instead saying it was an internal matter of China. Same thing happened with the Myanmar crisis. Asian countries may hate each other but they draw the line at interference and criticism.
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  4787.  @overworlder  Australasia is its own region but Australasia is also a part of the broader Asia-Pacific or what some people call the Indo-Pacific. Like I said, Australia is a "Eurasian" nation and we can see it in every facet of the nation's existence from the people to the politics (Australia has strong economic ties to Asian nations). Ever since the Europeans arrived, it has always been technically "Eurasian". I say "technically" because the indigenous people of Australia (Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders) originally came from Asia 40,000 years ago and so share a common underlying ancestral heritage (Ancient East Eurasian) with all of the other populations of Asia and the Pacific (stretching from India all the way to Japan and the Pacific Islands). Australia's heritage reflects the region it is located in and the people that have settled it. You're just going to have to accept that Mike, sorry.
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  4788.  @overworlder  Australia is part of the Western world, it is also part of Asia-Pacific and it is culturally and ethnically a Eurasian country so just accept it. Asian countries are their own thing, just because some of them side with the US does not mean they are part of the West lmfaooooo. You're just going to have to accept this fact. No amounts of you crying to me is going to change this BAHAHAHAHAHA
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  4789. ​ @overworlder  BTW, everything I stated were facts and you know that.
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  4790. Transgender people are not the same as homosexual people.
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  4791. The old fashioned Canadians are Inuits and other natives who are in fact genetically closer to these immigrants than you.
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  4792. China and India will takeover Canada 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  4793. No we want to be neutral and stand up for ourselves
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  4794.  @brcage  The way you have zero compassion for the victims here, instead making this whole thing about race. Oh bad karma is going to come for you real good, mark my words. Not to mention the fact that none of you can ever make a point without calling others names.
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  4795.  @brcage  A family is murdered and this white supremacist makes it about race. Sickening.
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  4796. Calm down.
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  4797. They're actually genetically "Asian". They are of East Eurasian origin having descended from a basal East Asian (Tianyuan Man-related) and Australasian population and thus are related to other Asian populations like the Indians, Burmese, Malays and Chinese (all of whom have varying degrees of East Eurasian/Tianyuan Man-related ancestry). They also share genetic affinity for Melanesian populations, who also descend from an East Eurasian lineage with Tianyuan Man-related ancestry).
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  4798.  @DMS-pq8  No but the Sentinelese are clearly related to the Onge, Jarawa, Shompen and Great Andamanese populations who live on the same group of islands as the Sentinelese. The Onge, Jarawa, Shompen and Great Andamanese physically resemble the Sentinelese. The difference between the Onge, Jarawa, Shompen and Great Andamanese and the Sentinelese is that the Onge, Jarawa, Shompen and Great Andamanese established contact with outsiders whereas the Sentinelese decided they wanted to remain in voluntary isolation confirmed by the fiercely defensive and hostility they had towards the British colonists, who actually captured 6 Sentinelese people, including children, in 1880. Since India's independence from the British in 1947, the Indian government has declared North Sentinel Island a tribal reserve, prohibited travel to the island within 5.6 kilometres of it and banned photography in order to uphold the desire of isolation the Sentinelese have. So any genetic research on the Andamanese tribes is done through contact with the Onge and Jarawa populations.
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  4799.  @DMS-pq8  The Onge people who belong to the broader group of Andamanese tribes, are genetically closest to other Negrito populations, particularly those in Malaysia but also in other parts of Southeast Asia such as the Philippines. All of these populations resemble one another. The Onge share strong genetic affinity towards East and Southeast Asians such as Burmese and Chinese (via ESEA ancestry which contributed to the formation of modern East and Southeast Asians) and also share genetic affinity to South Asians such as the Indians (via AASI ancestry, which is related to Onge DNA and contributed to the formation of modern South Asians) and Melanesians and Aboriginal Australians (via Australasian ancestry which contributed to the formation of Melanesians and Aboriginals). ESEA, AASI and AA ancestry are all closely related to one another and are part of the East Eurasian lineage. All of these ancestral components also have some degree of basal East Asian ancestry (whether fully or partially) which is related to Tianyuan Man, an early modern human of East Eurasian origin and part of the ESEA lineage. This is why East, Southeast and South Asians (including the Onge and other Andamanese) as well as Melanesians have varying degrees of genetic affinity to Tianyuan Man, with East and Southeast Asians having the strongest affinity to Tianyuan Man. The Onge and other Andamanese tribes are an ancient and crucial population in understanding the formation of most modern Asian and Pacific populations because they are one of the earliest populations to form from the first wave of humans out of Africa and into East and South Asia.
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  4800. Actually, most of their debt is owed to Western institutions
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  4801. The QUAD is only interested in containing China, they don't care about the rest of Asia. That is the unfortunate truth.
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  4802.  @ab01205  It is because you need verified sources.
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  4803.  @linlat3193  Rohingyas lived in peace with Arakanese inhabitants of the Arakan kingdom. Stop believing in the lies the military has pushed. The reason why Myanmar is in this state today is because the Burmese military.
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  4804.  @zenmkultra  Says the person that uses "Zen" as their YouTube name. A word of Japanese origin which is derived from a Chinese word which itself is derived from a Sanskrit (Indian language) word and is the name of a school of Buddhism practiced in Asian countries.
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  4805.  @Gustav_fringe  The point is that none of those countries or island and whatnot were ever a part of some delusional idea known as "united India".
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  4806.  @Gustav_fringe  I'm talking about Katchatheevu
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  4807. Why can't India just pick China and Russia and let go of the US? Shake up the world order. You'd think that amid all of the hate Indians are facing, the Indian government would do that but no. To the Indians who will read my comment, you have no idea what is going on outside of your nation so let me spell it out for you, there is a TikTok video going viral atm about the impending asteroid that will strike somewhere on earth and the top comment is from a Western boy that reads "pls India" and the comment has 100K likes. 100,000 people want your nation to be destroyed by an asteroid. I have never seen a nation get this much hate before. People actually justify it even when it's called out.
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  4808. Did you watch the video? They explain why it's an issue in the video.
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  4809.  @chrisbrown-jw4ce  "Real racism"? I had no idea there is fake and real racism. I guess all of the racism people I know have experienced isn't "real" and I guess all of the constant hate I see on TikTok isn't real either, right? This is what makes people upset.
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  4810. ​ @chriswatson1698  Oh don't flatter yourself!! Look into the history of Asians in northern Australia. Asians (Chinese, Japanese, Sri Lankans, Filipinos, Malays, Indonesians) built northern Australia alongside intermarrying with Aboriginal Australians. People in southern Australia have no understanding of the Asian impact in northern Australia. Oh and 80-90% of the kids at the top high schools in Australia are Asian.
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  4811. @ Saying all this while the top schools in Australia are all dominated by Asian Australians. How funny. I guess us Asian Australians are the better ones now, don't you think? Don't pmo with this divisive rhetoric
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  4812. ​@ Look into the history of Asians in northern Australia. Asians (Chinese, Japanese, Sri Lankans, Filipinos, Malays, Indonesians) built northern Australia alongside intermarrying with Aboriginal Australians. People in southern Australia have no understanding of the Asian impact in northern Australia. Oh and 80-90% of the kids at the top high schools in Australia are Asian.
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  4813. @ Saying all this while the top schools in Australia are all dominated by Asian Australians. How funny. I guess us Asian Australians are the better ones now, don't you think? Trying to pmo with this divisive rhetoric
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  4814. @ Saying all this while the top schools in Australia are all dominated by Asian Australians. How funny. I guess us Asian Australians are the better ones now. Y'all only know how to complain. Putting Aboriginal Australians in the same box as colonisers, the nerve
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  4815. @ This is why this country still enables racism towards non-Anglo European Australians. This country is still very, very, very. very, very, very racist and I will keep saying this to make every Anglo upset
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  4816. Cry harder... making everything about wokeness.
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  4817.  @anirbanbhattacharya2146  Idk why y'all say this, sucking up to them. You do know they don't like your people, right?
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  4818.  @ronaldtrunk7944  It would? Then you should go there.
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  4819.  @SathyaswamyS  Yeah cause the Maldives is totally part of that right? Stop saying South Asia when you only mean a certain region in South Asia.
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  4820.  @JackSardonic  East Asian nations, Singapore and dare I say the Gulf Arab nations are way better than any nation located in Europe tbf
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  4821. Nah it's correct
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  4822.  @tanishksingh3643  Well if it is, then how is Pakistan controlling it?
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  4823. You're right but we shouldn't be surprised, this is an Indian channel. Singaporean media would never report in such a manner. Tharman Shanmugaratnam isn't even Indian anyway, he is Ceylonese (a completely different community to Indians). Indian media loves to claim every foreign successful ethnic Indian or South Asian person as their own. Singaporean Indians have nothing to do with India.
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  4824.  @NegativeSpacesPositiveEntropy  Are you aware colonisation wasn't pursued by Asian people and that's why Asia is densely populated today? Europe would be as densely populated as Asia if it weren't for colonisation. ~900 million Europeans live outside of Europe compared to around ~60 million Asians who live outside of Asia. All this focus on Asia, that they are overpopulated and they're suffering from population growth when there are two big reasons why they are densely populated, one which I previously explained and the one I'm about to explain. Asia, being the continent where the first human civilisations emerged outside of Africa (Sumer, Indus Valley, Yellow River), was always a stable area for human survival so when civilisations are successful, population grows and societies advance. Before the Age of Exploration, Asia was the centre of global economic gravity and housed the two largest economies in the world at the time.
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  4825.  @NegativeSpacesPositiveEntropy  The same thing happened to Europe but with the Age of Exploration which led to colonisation of other parts of the world, new lands were discovered in which Europeans could settle on. That's why ~900 million European-descended people live outside of Europe today. Just imagine if all those European-descended people lived in Europe today, how densely populated the continent would be?
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  4826.  @NegativeSpacesPositiveEntropy  I studied architecture too and recently graduated. I fully understand what you are saying and I actually am interested in what you're interested too, particularly regarding the developing world. However, the situation in Sri Lanka has literally nothing to do with population growth. Their population has been growing at a slow pace for decades. They will peak in their population in 2037 and begin declining afterwards. Population growth is not a concern for them, the concern they had before this crisis started was how to take care of their growing elderly population which will account for more than 1/4 of their population by 2030. They also were grappling with the issue that there weren't enough young people anymore as less people were having babies and so their workforce was beginning to shrink. So they began inviting temporary migrants from India, Nepal, Myanmar and Bangladesh to fill up vacant positions in their job market.
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  4827.  @NegativeSpacesPositiveEntropy  Sri Lanka isn't also a dirt poor country. The country was an upper middle income nation in 2019 and living standards continued to rise for them, even during the war years, so that's why they began facing the issue of a rapidly growing elderly population. For a developing country, they had a very good education and healthcare system. Their good education system allowed the government to teach family planning many decades ago and their good healthcare system allowed them to control the spread of COVID-19 in 2020, successfully bringing down cases to 0 and pursuing the COVID Zero policy that was also practiced in a lot of other Asia-Pacific nations. For most people in this country, it's a shock for them because they haven't had to deal with something like this. The middle class population in Sri Lanka has always lived comfortably but now they are suffering in ways they had never imagined. Their problems have nothing to do with population, it's because their corrupt government stole all of their money.
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  4828. Sri Lanka has a low fertility rate, with a rapidly aging population and their population is set to peak and begin declining from the late 2030s onwards. This was a stable country before all of this happened. Keep up to date and stop being so ignorant.
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  4829.  @Gnashercide  Sri Lanka has a low fertility rate, with a rapidly aging population and their population is set to peak and begin declining from the late 2030s onwards. Keep up to date and stop being so ignorant.
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  4830. You're the only one here who made it about the US. The US has NOTHING to do with this conflict.
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  4831. White Men complaining about India, have they had a look at what their kin do in various parts of South and Southeast Asia towards women and kids? They are one of the biggest nationalities to partake in sex tourism in Asia.
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  4832. Not going to happen with China investing in asteroid deflection strategies but keep dreaming
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  4833.  @shikharsrivastava3558  They published a report that led to one of your largest conglomerates to lose millions of dollars. Their citizens are actively engaged in psychological warfare spreading the most unhinged hate against y'all on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok and they're supporting Canada in its attempt to defame your nation. That's your answer.
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  4834.  @shikharsrivastava3558  US citizens are actively engaged in psychological warfare spreading the most unhinged hate against y'all on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok
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  4835.  @shikharsrivastava3558  The US is supporting Canada in its attempt to defame your nation. That's your answer.
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  4836.  @shikharsrivastava3558  US citizens are spreading the most unhinged hate against Indians on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok
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  4837.  @shikharsrivastava3558  The US is supporting Canada in its attempt to defame India. That's your answer.
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  4838.  @shikharsrivastava3558  Americans are spreading prejudicial posts and comments about Indians on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok
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  4839.  @shikharsrivastava3558  Instagram, Twitter and TikTok is full of extreme hate. It's really bad. Anti-Indian hate is very normalised and half of the people spreading that hate are from the US, Canada and Europe. That's your answer to your question.
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  4840.  @shikharsrivastava3558  US people don't view India positively, if they did I wouldn't see anti-India hate every single day I open up Twitter.
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  4841.  @shikharsrivastava3558  Not credible? Stop AAPI Hate is a group that monitors hate against Asians in the US.
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  4842.  @shikharsrivastava3558  Americans don't view India positively.
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  4843.  @shikharsrivastava3558  Oh to be this delusional. Google "bald and bankrupt" and you'll see how Americans view India
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  4844.  @shikharsrivastava3558  Wake up and realise that nobody in Europe or North America likes India. If they did, they wouldn't be flying all the way to India to mock it, would they?
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  4845.  @shikharsrivastava3558  Wake up! Nobody in the West likes India. They're nice to your face and then talk ill about you on the internet. What's not clicking??
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  4846.  @shikharsrivastava3558  "I Visited India So You Don't Have To ( And offended 1 billion people ) 🇮🇳" - Google it
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  4847. "I Visited India So You Don't Have To ( And offended 1 billion people ) 🇮🇳" - Google it
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  4848.  @shikharsrivastava3558  "I Visited India So You Don't Have To ( And offended 1 billion people )" - Google it
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  4849.  @shikharsrivastava3558  You're in dire need of waking up. Please wake up and face the music.
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  4850.  @shikharsrivastava3558  Backpacker Ben on YouTube represents the average American's views on India. It's not good. This is why India needs to let go of the US.
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  4851.  @shikharsrivastava3558  Not comparable at all. There are Chinese people trying to get to the US too. Now what?
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  4852.  @shikharsrivastava3558  Indians must help build India into the respected nation it once was in the ancient times. I don't expect an EU citizen who originally came from India to understand what I am saying. The white worship can't always be cured.
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  4853.  @shikharsrivastava3558  India does not need the US or Canada. Please be serious. An Asian country thinking it needs two countries located on the other side of the world?
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  4854.  @shikharsrivastava3558  It's not just YouTubers, it's everybody. I'm so sorry that you suffer from extreme self hate and white worship that you can't even see how people view your people.
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  4855. Not even Southeast Asia, just mainland Southeast Asia
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  4856.  @onidoremc9490  It wasn't an immigrant
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  4857. Yes because rice is the staple food there.
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  4858.  @umagovindaraj4339  That's Modi's, Hindutva India for you... always trying to hide things instead of fixing things. Oh how India has fallen. How can a country with such a beautiful cultural and spiritual heritage, that gave the world Buddhism, meditation, mindfulness, yoga and other Eastern spiritual concepts fall to such a level? There is some serious cognitive dissonance going on in India cause what is actually going on over there??
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  4859. Asians don't think it makes sense.
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  4860.  @TheKkpop1  Yep you're right, that's why I said Asians, I was referring to the whole continent of Asia. Nobody in Asia wants that.
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  4861. because they are not "Chinese", they are Han Chinese
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  4862. Yes they were, a lot and Tulsi is not Indian
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  4863. If you're referring to Indian food with other cuisines from Asia, you can say "Asian food" but if you're referring to only one cuisine from an Asian country why would you say "Asian food"?
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  4864.  @aey2579  I know that, I just said that because some people use "Asian" when only referring to one country which really doesn't make sense. Someone could say, "I'm going to Asian food tonight", what does the "Asian" mean in this context? That's what I meant.
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  4865. So all these Kpop men that girls and women idolise are the ones committing these heinous crimes while their labels promote them as role models to the world. This is why I continuously say Kpop female idols are way better, apart from the fact that they're more talented, they don't go around doing this sort of thing. Support Korean women only.
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  4866. More US military bases? Absolutely not. To establish a US military base, countries are asked to sign a SOFA and the SOFA always includes clauses that override the laws of the country that is signing the agreement. It's not fair for local people to be caught up in the USA's desire to maintain hegemony. This is why there is severe anti-US military sentiment on Okinawa, Japan. Not to mention the fact that the native Chagossian people of Chagos Archipelago were expelled from their country so that the US could set up a military base on the country with the assistance of the UK. So no, we do not need more US military bases because it's always the local people that suffer. Plus, China doesn't have a plethora of military bases around the world like the US has, so why does the US need more?
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  4867. Mixed Malay and Indian that adopted Malay culture only, cry about it
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  4868. Nepalese, Bangla or Indian don't sound Singaporean and these men all sound Sngaporean. 💀💀
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  4869. Immigrants? No it's just the descendants of the East Asian and Indian immigrants are making strides but these are Americans.
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  4870. That's because they didn't have fertilisers after the government prematurely banned it. All of their crops like rice died.
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  4871.  @Pain-zd5uo  No it means Indian only and the term itself was created by Banglas or something. Stop trying to say it applies to all South Asians because it doesn't. The term itself is derived from Indian Punjabi names.
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  4872.  @Pain-zd5uo  It's like you saying "c---k" includes all East Asians like Japanese and Mongolians when the term itself was created and used to describe Chinese only. Anybody using "p----t" or "c----k" to describe anybody but Indians or Chinese respectively is doing so because they don't know how to be racist properly.
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  4873.  @Pain-zd5uo  No it refers to Indians only and Banglas are notorious for using that term online.
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  4874.  @Pain-zd5uo  No it's used for Indians. Get over it
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  4875.  @ZontarDow  Are we living in the same reality cause all I see is the Global South increasingly backing Russia
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  4876. If he went to Puducherry he would have seen it was nothing like what we outsiders see about India. People go to Delhi and think India is all the same. Chinese people who have travelled to other parts of India have published their videos to see but only people from around Asia mostly see these videos.
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  4877.  @3TYKX  Canada hoarded vaccines. Nobody is ever going to forget that. Canada along with the US and parts of Europe bought more vaccines than they actually needed and then sat on them refusing to export. Now they're pretending to be saviours by insisting they will export but nobody is ever going to forget what those countries did. Look at what is happening all over the world. Countries that managed to secure enough for a first dose and are now suffering because Canada, US and Europe bought most of the vaccines and then refused to export. The world will remember that there were only three countries (India, China and Russia) that actually produced vaccines for export in addition for themselves. Canada bought 1.5 million vaccine doses from India. Shame on Canada, the US and EU. Everybody knows what those countries feel about the rest of the world.
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  4878.  @3TYKX  Well the ordinary Canadian people have nothing to do with this, they're not to blame. I'm talking about the Canadian government and their decision to buy more vaccines than they actually needed, leaving very little for the rest of the world.
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  4879.  @3TYKX  Well it's called vaccine nationalism and the reputations of Canada, US and EU have been tarnished unfortunately. They bought more than they needed, refused to export and are now pretending to be saviours now that several countries are dealing with fresh outbreaks. The way they announced that they're sending vaccines overseas says it all. On top of that, Canada and the EU still refuse to temporarily waive IP and thus indirectly support the idea of delaying the export of vaccines to developing countries until 2023. It shocks me that this is how they actually think.
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  4880. Indonesia is doing the right thing, Australia should be neutral too but the leaders of the country still have this old "Western" mentality, despite 17% of the country's population being Asian and the country becoming more and more "Eurasian". Australia's future is in Asia, not the UK or US.
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  4881. Yes it's the bully of Asia. Strange how whenever the CCP's antagonistic behaviour in Asia is brought up, people constantly engage in whataboutism. The topic of discussion is China, not about past situations involving other countries.
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  4882.  @dennish5150  Well Japan is in the past, only China, South Korea and North Korea still hold grudges for different reasons. The rest of Asia has moved on relatively speaking. China is a different case because it's happening today. Many cases involving China exist such as China's de facto annexation of Scarborough Shoal from the Philippines in 2012, the sinking of a Vietnamese fishing boat, the illegal construction of infrastructure on Nepalese and Bhutanese territory which China claims as its own, the advancement of Chinese troops into Indian territory and the continued presence of Chinese submarines and spy ships in and around Indian waters in the Andaman Sea since 2012, the 16 military jets that illegally entered Malaysian airspace in 2021 and how China sent warships into Indonesian waters in the Natuna Sea and also demanded Indonesia to stop drilling near Natuna Islands (which is Indonesian territory). Those are just a few examples of today's reality. The Chinese government is throwing is weight around in Asia.
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  4883.  @dennish5150  ...and where do you live Dennis? Please don't tell me Australia. Let me also add that I am of Asian descent so don't think I'm an outsider. I'm well aware of what is happening in the region that my family is from.
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  4884.  @dennish5150  China is a bully Asia. I gave a series of examples of China's textbook bullying. Funny how you continue to speak about the Japanese without realising China is doing that exact same thing, just in different ways. Not to mention the blatant whataboutism. It's always "what about them? and never "what about us?". Typical 50 Cent Army/Wumao behaviour. Pledges allegiance to China and spends their time online defending the CCP, yet lives comfortably in another country without just moving to China and joining the CCP. It's either that or living in China and using a VPN to access Western social media because the CCP is big on censorship.
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  4885.  @TheKkpop1  So calling out the Chinese government's bullying makes me a "Chinaphobe"? Laughable. China is a bully, plain and simple. Cheers Wumao. I hope the CCP don't raid you for using Western social media and if you're living in a Western or Asian country (that has issues with China), I hope the security agencies detect your traitorous behaviour.
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  4886.  @dennish5150  Australia sending troops to other countries doesn't change the fact that China is a bully.
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  4887.  @dennish5150  What are you talking about?? Woman? Who said anything about women? Dennis, are you sure you're replying to the right comment?
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  4888.  @dennish5150  You must be really triggered if you're replying to me a full 20 hours after you posted your initial reply.
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  4889. ​ @dennish5150  So you're living comfortably in this country while you trash talk the people of this nation (I'm not talking about the soliders, I'm talking about ordinary civilians)? If you feel so much hatred for Australian people then why are you here? Shouldn't you settle in China and join the CCP since you love the CCP so much? Oh wait, that's right. You want all the freedom you can get so you settle in Australia so you can say whatever you want whilst pledging allegiance to another country. The type of people Australia lets into this country. Bringing nothing to the table, only to spend time confessing their love for the CCP whilst trash talking the country that provided them a house to live in.
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  4890.  @TheKkpop1  I have facts but you'll deny everything. Many cases involving China exist such as China's de facto annexation of Scarborough Shoal from the Philippines in 2012, the sinking of a Vietnamese fishing boat, the illegal construction of infrastructure on Nepalese and Bhutanese territory which China claims as its own, the advancement of Chinese troops into Indian territory and the continued presence of Chinese submarines and spy ships in and around Indian waters in the Andaman Sea since 2012, the 16 military jets that illegally entered Malaysian airspace in 2021 and how China sent warships into Indonesian waters in the Natuna Sea and also demanded Indonesia to stop drilling near Natuna Islands (which is Indonesian territory). Those are just a few examples of today's reality of China's bullying. These are the facts, like it or not. The Chinese government is throwing is weight around in Asia and bullying everybody in this part of the world. China, the bully of Asia. No wonder anti-China sentiment is so high across Asia-Pacific.
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  4891.  @dennish5150  Firstly, the problem is that you're speaking down on Australians claiming we have "short term memory". Do you not consider yourself an Australian? Secondly, there is no issue in pointing out the faults of your own country but the fact that this video has nothing to do with Australia and is actually about China's bullying says a lot about where your loyalty lies. The fact that you're in so deep for China that you will deny what China is doing and instead hark on about Australia is beyond crazy. I know for a fact that you're one of those people that prefers to live in a country like Australia but will pledge allegiance to the dusty hole they came from. You'll be first to stand besides the CCP if things were to go south. A traitor that belongs in China.
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  4892.  @Jambudvipa-ug6yg  Sri Lankans are Asians!
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  4893.  @Jambudvipa-ug6yg  Sri Lankans have mostly East Eurasian ancestry and culturally related to other Asian nations.
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  4894.  @Jambudvipa-ug6yg  Don't you dare tell me I'm not Asian when I am mostly East Eurasian (AASI+SEA) in genetic makeup, my paternal haplogroup is O which originated in East Asia and my maternal haplogroup is M which is shared with all Asians. I am NATIVE Asian.
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  4895. I have no idea why you a Vietnamese refugee is complaining about American kids of Indian descent succeeding in the US. You are not even an American, you're just some person living off Americans whilst you bring your anti-Communist BS to the US. You are a foreigner, stop claiming these American kids are foreigners. Typical refugee mentality.
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  4896. People always speak about the European view but never look at the Asian perspective. Ancient Asia had its own ideas of "Asia" such as the Japanese, these definitions may not have encompassed the entire continent as defined today but it did encompass most of the continent. Imperial Japan used these ancient ideas of "Asia" as the basis for its pan-Asian ideal it propagated during the 1940s.
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  4897. You should learn to not compare. They've been living in Hong Kong before India was an independent country.
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  4898.  Dragon Force  ...because the Hong Kong Indians have nothing to do with modern India. They're not responsible for what happens in India. Also, I did some more reading and there doesn't seem to be any severe racism against Indian Chinese people (who mostly live in Kolkata). Indian Chinese people are not Northeast Indians, who are racially abused due to a multitude of reasons. You know? You sound like those people who always bring up racism against Black people in China when people speak up about a racist attack against Chinese Americans committed by a Black American even though Chinese Americans are not responsible for any of the racism that happens in China.
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  4899. ​ @jayseaandfriends  Yeah...no but whatever makes you sleep at night. BTW, you can't like a comment 3 times so I'm not sure what you're talking about. Just make sure you get your facts straight before you speak, your silence on what I previously said speaks volumes.
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  4900.  @DWThe77Percent  You're right
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  4901.  @iamhardwell2844  They're native to Rakhine State. They were called Arakanese Muslims in the time of the Arakan Kingdom.
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  4902.  @dallasyap3064  I am well aware of what the UN is.
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  4903. Overrun by who? The answer, nobody.
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  4904. Much of India is divided along the lines of caste, ethnicity and religion that people in the same state can't even get along. I guess there are only four or five states in India that aren't (Sikkim, Kerala, Arunachal Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Himachal Pradesh). What is happening in Manipur is a broader symptom of India's dire issue regarding tribalism and ethnic supremacy. In much of India, there is extreme aversion towards Bangladeshi Muslims, there is aversion towards Rohingyas and now there is aversion towards other minority groups from Myanmar or who are ethnically related to western and northern Burmese groups. The case of Manipur is exactly that. The Meitei majority claim the Kuki-Chin are from Myanmar. I can't think of any other nation in Asia that faces this same issue on this scale.
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  4905.  @fletcherjacobs3688  Better than having watery wet earwax, Jacob.
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  4906. North Korea is facing a low fertility rate too.
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  4907. Say that again without crying
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  4908.  @rebeccaaldrich3396  Asians are happy with China. What people want in Asia is for non-Asians to stop interfering in Asian affairs.
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  4909. Grow up
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  4910.  @AlmightyHeart  Most non-Muslim??? Don't bring your Islamophobia here. All Sri Lankans don't use the term "Indian subcontinent" and no I'm not an American and not everything is about liberalism ffs.
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  4911.  @AlmightyHeart  Do y'all ever go one day without making everything about Muslim vs non-Muslim??? Non-Muslim Sri Lankans don't have problems with Muslims, Muslim groups have contributed a lot to the cultural development of Sri Lanka. Sri Lankans don't go around saying they are from the "Indian subcontinent", only Indians say that because they think the own the whole of South Asia.
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  4912.  @AlmightyHeart  and nobody said that anybody hates India. Stop being paranoid oml.
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  4913.  @nanyanguo1  Exactly, you're correct.
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  4914. South Korea was already on the downward trajectory but after the pandemic, South Korea surpassed Japan. The pandemic knocked the bucket over for certain Asian countries. Singapore also has an extremely low fertility rate. All three of Singapore's main ethnic groups had below replacement levels of fertility in 2020: Chinese - 0.94, Indians - 0.97 and Malays - 1.83 (it's probably even lower now in 2023). That's why Singapore brings in large numbers of Malaysians (who are ethnically the same and culturally very similar to Singaporeans) into the country, but now there is anti-immigrant sentiment in the country.
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  4915. That circle is also known as the Yuxi Circle centred around the Chinese city of Yuxi in Yunnan.
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  4916.  @physicsonline8853  They're not erroneous. A Tamil in Chennai or a Naga in Dimapur can't speak Hindi for example. You say they're proficient in three languages and what is the binding language? The binding language is English. English is the lingua franca of India due to colonisation. Remove English, is there a binding language that all 1.4 billion Indians will be able to understand? China has a tremendous ethnic diversity, that's the thing. A Uyghur, Russian, Kazakh, Tibetan, Dai, Manchu, Mongol, Korean, Hakka, Yi, Nakhi, Teochew, Blang, Hui, Tajik, Wa and Zhuang are bound by Mandarin even though they have their own indigenous languages. Walk around Urumqi, the Uyghur heartland or Jilin, the Korean heartland and you'll be able to see signage in Mandarin and the local language. Walk around Chennai or Kinnaur and you'll only find the local language(s).
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  4917.  @rahulborntobewild  No. China is backing some of the anti-military groups fighting in the north.
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  4918. @ There is nothing wrong with being gay or transexual. Maybe Jehovah Witness people need to start showing more compassion. Complaining about one thing but then demanding others be discriminated against. Yes, the whole of Asia needs to prevent such people from becoming a force on the continent. They are culturally incompatible with Asian cultures.
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  4919. @Basu Most of ASEAN was influenced by India. It's not "some", it's most. The root of most Southeast Asian cultures is Indic. It is very clear to see to everybody who knows about Southeast Asia.
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  4920. That Mahathir creature has severe self hatred, funny how you believe his words lol
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  4921.  @davidrichards1741  Yeah Singaporean/Malaysian Chinese and Singaporean/Malaysian Indian cuisines are top notch.
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  4922.  @kocannery3596  The cope is so clear to see
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  4923.  @appume7670  Yeah the ones in the US, Australia and New Zealand are good quality ones who integrate. The new ones in Canada are kind of problematic. The new ones in Canada are not like the old ones that came before 2010. All of the Khalistan people are ending up in Canada and the old generation Indian communities in Canada don't like the new immigrants.
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  4924. Saudi Arabians are Asians and so are Indians. Where on earth are you from to think they're not Asians?
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  4925. You sound upset
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  4926.  @ckingc05  It's not true cinnamon, that's the point and half of these companies sell it as 100% true cinnamon, when it's not.
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  4927. Yeah that's why a lot of Western people now turn towards Eastern philosophy and practice meditation, yoga, minfulness and things like that. In many Western schools, they now make kids do mindfulness before they start the school day as it calms the mind.
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  4928. Most of their debt is actually owed to Western institutions... I know shocking but The New York Times recently published an article about this that went under the radar.
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  4929. Cause they aren't Bangladeshis.
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  4930.  @bluemarlin2u  You talking about Bangladesh too?
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  4931. Your first four words is why you should've stopped yourself from commenting. China doesn't even have migrant workers.
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  4932. So the people of Sri Lanka don't matter? Wow, now why am I not surprised that you said this? There are people starving in Sri Lanka because they can't afford to eat and you're talking about ending world hunger. Always talking about opposing racial discrimination and making everything about yourselves. This video is not about African Americans and the racism they face. Not everything is about you.
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  4933. You might be interested to know that the French colonists coined the "gens de couleur" meaning "people of colour" to refer to people who were half black in the French colonies. The term has since stuck to refer to any non-European person as it was used throughout other colonies in other parts of the world.
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  4934.  @petepetersen5418  You ought to learn that in Asia, "Asian" is used as a geographical/cultural descriptor not a race. You also ought to know that the definition of "Asian" differs depending on location. In the UK, Kenya and South Africa "Asian" refers to Indians and that's because Indians are historically the largest Asian group to migrate to these countries. In the US, "Asian" tends to refer to East Asians and that's because Chinese, Japanese and Koreans were historically the largest Asian groups to migrate to the US.
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  4935.  @petepetersen5418  In the Gulf Arab nations of the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain, "Asian" refers mainly to South Asians (Indians, Nepalis, Bangladeshis) as well as to Southeast Asians (Filipinos, Indonesians etc.) and that's due to cultural differences and migration patterns. That's why censuses in these countries classifies Asians (South and Southeast Asians and East Asians as well) separately from the Arabs. In the rest of Asia, however, "Asian" refers to all ethnic groups native to Asia and the way the term is used in Asia is closest to the dictionary definition. I hope you learned something.
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  4936.  @petepetersen5418  Well I'm not talking about the Middle East am I? I said I'm talking asbout East, South and Southeast Asia (the regions of Asia that possess the Sino-Indic (Dharmic-Taoic) heritage. In other words, this part of Asia is also known as "Monsoon Asia".
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  4937.  @yasmin2648  Don't worry, Steve Beineke isn't even Asian. He's some white man who married a Korean woman and thinks he has the right to speak about Asian people when he's not even Asian. I've seen him lurking around before on Asian websites dedicated to reporting on East Asian, South Asian and Southeast Asian content.
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  4938. Who asked?
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  4939. Just a minor correction, Sri Lankans and Palestinians, most definitely, are not Indians. Pakistanis are not Indians either. Singaporean-Indians are mostly Tamil followed by Malayalis and there are Sikhs too. There are Singaporean-Sri Lankans (Ceylonese) and while their long history in Singapore has made them become absorbed into the Singaporean-Indian population, along with the fact that most of them are Ceylonese Tamils, they are differentiated at times in society (e.g. Lee Kuan Yew spoke about them as a separate group to the Singaporean-Indians).
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  4940.  @pangkursinom9880  Rohingyas are literally a mix of Benagli-related DNA and Tibeto-Burman from mainland Southeast Asia. They are NATIVE Southeast Asians. Plenty of other groups like them in western Myanmar who practice other religions without any issue.
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  4941.  @pangkursinom9880  Rohingyas have mixed Bengali-related DNA with Tibeto-Burman. They're not Bengalis.
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  4942. Then there's China constantly supporting evil regimes. Support for the Tatmadaw and support for the Taliban. It never ends. They truly are evil. Evil regime supporting evil regime and they tell the world that it's a "peaceful rise" and they're doing nothing wrong. Laughable. They are repulsive and so are the ultranationalists that flood the internet using VPNs and breaking the law of the very regime they are infatuated with and pledge allegiance to.
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  4943. What happened to free speech? Y'all the ones that constantly cry about cancel culture and yet it's always you lot who are crying BAHAHAHAHAHA
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  4944. 17.4% of Australians are of Asian origin, I'm one of them.
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  4945.  @Homer-OJ-Simpson  OP is clearly from India and so I highly doubt he was paid by the CCP.
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  4946.  @Homer-OJ-Simpson  Australia has racism, as do all nations, but at least in Australia, race isn't something that is thought about on a regular basis. The government doesn't even gather statistics on "race" for the census. Only reason we know 17.4% of Australians have ancestry from somewhere in Asia, for example, is because people have the ability to list down their ethnic origin when completing the census form. There are no "racial" categories to choose from.
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  4947. Agreed.
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  4948. South Korea's Miracle on the Han River (Korean economic miracle) began under the dictatorship of Park Chung-hee. Asia's economic success stories begin under totalitarianism or authoritarian-leaning figures. Developing democratic Asian countries don't succeed. This is why India is lagging behind.
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  4949. Agreed. So embarrassing.
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  4950.  @god_slayer-restart  You must be Muslim
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  4951.  @Shukra9665  Ridiculous. Why is it that Indians always belittle other countries? How is Ho Chi Minh City or any other city different to any city in India? Size has NOTHING to do with anything if the cities of India still look the same. Keep up.
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  4952.  @Shukra9665  The size of the task is not big when other countries, big and small, have managed to develop their cities. The national government of India and its state governments seem to be incompetent.
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  4953.  @shalabhpradhan529  It was a tributary state, not a vassal state. It meant that the king of the Kotte kingdom in Sri Lanka had to pay tribute to the Ming Emperor. This was the result of the Ming-Kotte War.
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  4954.  @shalabhpradhan529  You can use Google, there are plenty of sources if you search "Ming-Kotte War"
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  4955.  @shalabhpradhan529  Google "Ming-Kotte War", there are plenty of sources.
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  4956.  @shalabhpradhan529  "Ming-Kotte War", Google it.
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  4957.  @shalabhpradhan529  Yeah plenty, Google it.
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  4958.  @shalabhpradhan529  It's not a claim. Use Google if you don't believe me.
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  4959.  @santhoshv3028  Sri Lanka is an Indosphere nation, nobody is denying that but the language used here to claim Sri Lanka has to only listen to India, that it's an appendage of India is not nice.
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  4960.  @shalabhpradhan529  Yeah because you can easily Google "Ming-Kotte War". I'm not your Ai assistant.
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  4961.  @shalabhpradhan529  I'm not an AI assistant. "Ming-Kotte War", search it up!
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  4962.  @shalabhpradhan529  "Ming-Kotte War", all that has to be done is to search that up
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  4963. ​ @santhoshv3028  This is why I continue to say that India is a threat to stability in Asia, even though I don't want to. They can't handle the fact that another country is independent!
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  4964.  @santhoshv3028  Well isn't it good that the leaders of India don't think this way? Yeah cry about it hahahahahaha
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  4965.  @santhoshv3028  Sri Lanka is composed of Sinhalese, Tamils, Moors, Malays, Burghers, Veddas, Bohras, Chinese, Chetties and Memons. There are so many different ethnic groups in Sri Lanka. EDUCATE YOURSELF.
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  4966.  @santhoshv3028  Nah, Sinhalese aren't Indians by blood, culture or anything else. I had no idea sambol and lamprais was Indian. Indians claiming Asia as their own example #162737362636366363635535525552266263663
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  4967.  @santhoshv3028  It was never my country and all I'm saying is they can do whatever they want. If they want to succeed, they should choose China. India has too many problems.
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  4968.  @santhoshv3028  Not my country + cry harder. India always expects things in return and then claim to be better people. That's why the whole of South Asia is turning towards China lol
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  4969.  @santhoshv3028  I know geopolitics very well and I know that working with India means that India wants something in return. Look at the way India nationalists speak of other countries, they always want to control other countries and get upset when other South Asian nations work with China. India claims to be better than China and yet in Australia (the country where I was born), a group of Indian spies were expelled from the nation. Yes, Indian spies are spying on Australia just like what Chinese spies have been doing for the past decade.
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  4970.  @santhoshv3028  I know geopolitics very well and I know that working with India means that India wants something in return. Look at the way India nationalists speak of other countries, they always want to control other countries and get upset when other South Asian nations work with China. India claims to be better than China and yet in Australia (the country where I was born), a group of Indian spies were expelled from the nation. Indian spies are spying on Australia just like what Chinese spies have been doing for the past decade.
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  4971.  @santhoshv3028  I know geopolitics very well and I know that working with India means that India wants something in return. Look at the way India nationalists speak of other countries, they always want to control other countries and get upset when other South Asian nations work with China.
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  4972. ​ @santhoshv3028  India claims to be better than China and yet in Australia (the country where I was born), a group of Indian spies were expelled from the nation. Yes, Indian spies are spying on Australia just like what Chinese spies have been doing for the past decade.
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  4973. Cry Godi
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  4974. India is so artificial. It could be broken up into hundreds of different countries but the truth is most of them (especially those in parts of north and northeast India) will end up becoming failed states, basket cases or civil war-riddled states relying on foreign aid.
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  4975. You know a country (meaning India) is a complete failure when its own people believe the US restricting immigration is a negative for the citizens of India. Shouldn't that be a good thing???
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  4976. Colorism isn't about race though
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  4977.  @claesvanoldenphatt9972  It was anti-Christian as well
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  4978.  @asdg199  The dominant form of Buddhism practiced in India is Vajrayana Buddhism which is derived from Mahayana Buddhism (the form of Buddhism that is dominant among Buddhists in most of China). Vajrayana Buddhism itself is practiced in China by the Tibetic and Mongolic peoples of western and northern China.
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  4979.  @albinosquirlz  The disrespect you have for the victims is palpable. Oh bad karma will treat you well.
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  4980. I believe the Maldives is going to graduate into a developed high income nation soon. The national income for the Maldives has continued to grow over the past few years.
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  4981.  @lostlegend9015  No they do not.
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  4982. @IndianStreetShittersPajeet You have a pretty sad life if this is how you're spending it. Jobless man. I want to watch videos about Taylor Swift, not to see a jobless man in his 40s posting random comments under videos about Taylor Swift. 💀
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  4983. @IndianStreetShittersPajeet The bot is triggered bahahahahaha
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  4984.  @rickjames18  Everybody is quiet because only 10% of Sri Lanka's debt is actually owed to China.
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  4985.  @JR-vc4gm  At the end of the day, the Chinese government and the Indian goverments are being complicit in what is happening and I don't care what you think or say, so keep on bickering because that's all you're good at but everybody knows the truth. You people are so obsessed with fighting with India and the Indian nationalists are obsessed with fighting with China. You're both wrong, understand this information. Your country's reputation was halfway down the drain last year and this year, it's almost gone.
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  4986. No, they never have been good. They are responsible for so many bad things in the country.
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  4987. That's what happens when religion influences everything in your worldview.
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  4988.  @Abdullahsalakyum  India has always been located in Asia so they're Asian. The fact that they contributed so much to other Asian cultures feels strange at the most basic level to leave them out.
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  4989.  @Syiepherze  That makes no sense, I'm sorry. SEA is nowhere near America so regardless of the map, it's not going to change its location
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  4990.  @Brave_Pirate  The way people are trying to justify this is concerning. Singapore is a neutral nation unlike his nation of Japan which is literally a US ally.
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  4991.  @Brave_Pirate  No it is not common worldwide and that man is Japanese, he should be knowledgeable about Asia at the least. Singapore is well known as the "Switzerland of Asia" because it has pursued geopolitical neutrality since its independence. It is not an ally of the US.
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  4992.  @Brave_Pirate  It's very concerning that that Japanese male thought Singapore, a well known Asian nation, is located near the US, a non-Asian nation. Singapore and the US couldn't be more different from one another. The only thing they have in common is that they both speak English as a first language and both are democracies, the similarities end there.
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  4993.  @jonsmith4970  being white is very different to being a foreign Asian in South Korea
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  4994. It's actually correct
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  4995. The victims were non-white
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  4996. Yeah it's sad but we technically always were an American state because the politicians always follow what the Americans do, it's really pathetic.
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  4997. So in other words you can't think for yourselves because you're still mentally colonised? You can't accept the fact that LGBT have lived in peace in Southeast Asia and should continue to do so without letting your anti-Western thoughts cloud your judgement.
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  4998.  @lastrationalist7890  I agree.
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  4999. That's not something to be proud about, I say this as an Australian
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  5000.  @iezioaudi22  typical...
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  5001. They already have below replacement fertility, what they need is to stop their brain drain so that educated Indians don't continue leaving that country.
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  5002.  @blackbull2561  Nobody cares
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  5003.  @87lenn  You should have been protesting in support of them since you actually live in India.
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  5004.  @lambdaa-te5jk  It's not a competition! Indians speak three different languages because the British colonised the nation and grouped together very diverse ethnic groups into one nation. That is not comparable at all to Sri Lanka where assimilation was far more common and so people mostly speak a local language (Sinhalese, Tamil, Sri Lankan Malay) + English.
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  5005.  Mr Wonder  No it's a fact. You're just refusing to accept this part of history.
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  5006.  Sameet Pattnaik  No. Hindu beliefs were absorbed in Buddhism in Cambodia.
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  5007.  Sameet Pattnaik  It's NOT nonsense. Learn about Cambodian history and culture before speaking about Cambodia!
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  5008.  Sameet Pattnaik  Are you aware that Hindu gods are a very big part of Khmer Cambodian culture? You're trying to make a scene out of nothing. Please read about Cambodia.
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  5009.  @eugenedebbs2189  Sinhalese are Buddhists and Christians. Tamils are Hindus and Christians. The leader of the Tamil Tigers was a Christian, not a Hindu. Buddhist temples in Sri Lanka feature Hindu statues like Vishnu, Brahma and Ganesha just like in the rest of Buddhist Asia (from Japan to Thailand). After the 1983 pogroms, the war did not affect southern Sri Lanka where Sinhalese and Tamils lived with no issue particularly in areas in the north-west and central parts of the country. This is purely due to ethnicity, not religion. Google is right there, use it. Don't twist historical facts to fit these agendas. Unlike what many Indian Hindus like to this, the world is not out to get them.
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  5010.  @eugenedebbs2189  It has nothing to do with religion. Stop making everything about religion! You are making stuff up and picking and choosing things to try and turn this into a religious issue. The whole thing started because of ethnicity. Stop spreading misinformation to inflate your fantasies Eugene.
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  5011.  @eugenedebbs2189  This idea that Hindus are under attack by everybody is why India is failing to move forward today. Imagine spreading lies because you identify so strongly with a religion, something you weren't even born with, something you can literally give up in a second. Religious people...
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  5012.  @eugenedebbs2189  There no element of religion in any of this. You can continue to twist facts to fit your narrative but that's not the case at all. It's really amusing to me to see someone from India try to turn this into a Buddhist vs Hindu thing, fuelling their fantasies that the world is out to get them when Buddhism as practiced in Sri Lanka and all other Asian countries has absorbed so much Hindu influence due to log lasting Indian cultural influence. The fact that the Sinhalese Buddhists and Hindu Tamils both worship the same Hindu god and congregate at the same Hindu temple to celebrate the festival devoted to this Hindu god but you're here claiming it's due to religion.
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  5013.  @eugenedebbs2189  Yes India is failing to move forward. The country can't even produce enough jobs for its people. China and India were at the same rate of development in 1990 but now China is about to graduate to high income status but India is still at lower middle income status. Why? It's because the government cares more about religion and demonising minorities than creating meaningful change.
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  5014.  @eugenedebbs2189  So many educated Indians continue to leave the country for good, in large numbers too. At this rate, India will suffer from a brain drain. How can a country develop if its educated population continues to decline? This national victim mentality, that the "boogeyman" is out to get you, which has persisted since 1948 is preventing India from rapidly developing. This is why in 2022, India is still a protectionist country because its market is not developed enough to compete internationally. With a brain drain, India will lose its window of opportunity and India will become another Malaysia (a country that is losing its educated population at such a fast rate that the World Bank warned that Malaysia risks remaining a developing country forever).
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  5015.  @eugenedebbs2189  But you know, keep creating these fantasies and focusing on the wrong things, that is what the Indian government is doing at the moment anyway. So much potential going to waste. That country could have been at the top with China in 2022. Such a disappointment.
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  5016. ​ @chiranjibisahoo5408  I don't actually live in Sri Lanka. I really don't know why you're so triggered by my YouTube comments. Some people care way too much about what random people online have to say, this is why educated Indians keep leaving and why India is still 20 years behind China. In due time, they'll be suffering from a brain drain which will be sad to see because India has so much potential.
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  5017.  @AdwinLauYuTan  The Buddha was born 500 years before Jesus Christ was born. The Buddha was not a Christian saint. Christianity came long after Buddhism had emerged and spread across Asia.
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  5018.  @AdwinLauYuTan  The Buddha was born a high caste Hindu but he did not agree with the Hindu teachings so he became a sramana (a wandering ascetic who took part in meditation to understand life)
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  5019.  @HistorySurge  All Indians have at least partial East Eurasian (AASI) ancestry. AASI is one of the main East Eurasian lineages.
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  5020. You should move to one of those countries. 🥰
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  5021.  @owo4470  Thank you for explaining that
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  5022.  @grouchypatch9185  The same in every way possible
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  5023. ​ @JyotiRatrer404  She's literally based in South Korea and she makes videos about crimes in Asian countries only.
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  5024.  @JyotiRatrer404  I can't believe you're directing anger towards her instead of the men in India who do this sort of thing???? Literally insane. I only support Indian women now.
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  5025. Exactly, some people don't understand this though.
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  5026. Ronnie is Malaysian, it was a joke. Malaysians are of Malay, Chinese, Indian and Orang Asli descent. Why would he think Indians are not Asians when Indians are one the main groups that contributed to the formation of Malaysian culture? Malaysia is after all known as "mini Asia" as a result of this. Also, East Asians don't think Indians are not Asian. In Hong Kong, there is a large community of Indian that settled there during the colonial era and they're known by the Cantonese equivalent of "South Asian". India also culturally influenced large parts of Asia. South Asia and most of Southeast Asia is part of the Indian Cultural Sphere. In the UK and countries in the Gulf and East African nations, "Asian" means Indian. The term is subjective but all of these groups are Asians. BTW, in Chinese, "Asian" is known as "亞洲人" and refers to everybody from Asia (Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Kazakh etc.) but the word "黄种人" means "East Asian race" and is not the same as "亞洲人". If you use, "黄种人" then you are referring to Chinese, Japanese, Koreans etc. (i.e. East Asian people) but if you use "亞洲人" then you are referring to all Asians (i.e. the native ethnic groups of Asia). "黄种人" is racial and "亞洲人" is geographical.
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  5027.  @Pusphabala  Yes they're Indians of ethnic Chinese origin.
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  5028. They owe money to the IMF. The EU and US have nothing to gain so they won't help. India, China, Bangladesh and Japan are the countries who are helping Sri Lanka. Traditionally speaking, India, China and Japan are the countries with economic influence in Sri Lanka. The US and EU have never had any significant influence in the country.
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  5029.  @terriesmith2616  I think most people in Asia today prefer China over the US.
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  5030. The Burmese military committed the genocide and they're the ones in power still killing people.
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  5031. Mahatma Gandhi was racist but so are all of you, what's the difference?
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  5032. Sri Lanka lost everything ever since its government decided that it was going to homogenise the country and refuse to accept that it's ethnically diverse. That decision led to a civil war. This is a country that has a highly literate population since the colonial days. They could have easily made use of that but they didn't because ethnic supremacy was what was on the mind of the government. Alienating minorities is never going to do good to a nation. Everything bad that has happened to Sri Lanka is because of one decision known as the Sinhala Only Act.
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  5033.  @willdehne1  Yeah sorry what I mean is that the government was at an advantage, compared to many other ex-colonies in other parts of Asia and Africa, Sri Lanka had a highly literate population (still does) but instead of taking advantage of that, they decided to go down the route of ethnic division by trying to right the "wrongs" of the past. So instead of maintaining English as the lingua franca of the country, they made Sinhalese the official language (a language that wasn't spoken by everyone in the nation). That set the country back by years. 25% of the country's population had to learn a new language. A complete waste of time and also just ended up alienating the minorities because it gives them the impression that they and their language and cultures are lesser than the ethnic majority. To think that at one point there were Sinhalese, Tamils, Burghers (Eurasians) all in high positions in Sri Lankan society working together speaking English until the ethnic supremacists took office and changed that forever and consequently ruining their chances of becoming a developed nation is a grave mistake in my opinion. That's why so many Eurasians from Sri Lanka moved to Australia in the 1970s (Eurasians still are one of the main Sri Lankan groups in Australia today) and eventually a civil war would erupt between the Sinhalese and Tamils in the 1980s.
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  5034.  @willdehne1  This is why the late Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore always lamented on Sri Lanka's demise and failure. He always said Sri Lanka had the right ingredients to become another Asian Tiger economy and he used to say this even before Sri Lanka collapsed into ethnic strife in the 1970s. He was very disappointed in that country and very critical of those that changed that country (he's spoken about it in interviews and in the books he's written). This is why Singaporean students are taught about Sri Lanka as an example of what happens when a country discriminates against minorities. Singapore is multiethnic too made up of 4 main ethnic groups: Chinese, Malays, Indians (Tamils) and Eurasians and is one of the most advanced nations on earth. It uses English as the lingua franca so as to give an equal standing for all ethnic groups and makes sure all ethnic groups learn their native languages to keep in touch with their ethnic identities. Sri Lanka could have done the same thing. It has 5 main ethnic groups (Sinhalese, Tamils, Moors, Malays and Burghers/Eurasians), a nation where English was once widely taught and a literate population, it could have easily followed a similar path to Singapore by acknowledging its ethnic diversity but instead it followed the path of ethnic division and eventually set itself on fire. It still pays the price today and continues to suffer a brain drain. Not to mention, this is a developing country with a rapidly aging population and low fertility rate. They're in a such a bad position that had begun hiring foreign workers from India, Bangladesh and Myanmar to fill gaps in their job market. A developing country should not be relying on foreign labour but because of its literate population it was inevitable that the country's fertility would decline and living standards would rise. Too bad that the country is across the board still poor and does not have money to actually support its growing elderly population. They really shot themselves in the foot. I feel sorry for all of the innocent civilians, the elites really destroyed their country. I can see why the late Lee Kuan Yew was so repulsed at what had happened to that country.
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  5035.  @BHTQ18  North Korea and China are controlled by communist governments that are atheist. Japan's war crimes in WW2 was done with Shintoism as the state religion, not Buddhism. Please use Google to learn a more about East Asian history and society.
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  5036.  @MinThant-w2u  Thank you for your comment. I really hope things get better for all Burmese people and the NUG comes back to power. I have forever been on the side of all Burmese ethnic groups - Bamar and all the ethnic minorities in and outside of the country.
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  5037.  @dreamsalamander  Your explanation was perfect, I actually agree with it but yeah to add more context, it's more the result of ethnic nationalism. For Bamar identity, Bamar culture and Buddhism are intertwined, so in a way to be Bamar is to be Buddhist, if that makes sense. Bamar nationalists say that Myanmar is only home to Bamar people (which is true) so they fear that they will be wiped out by bigger ethnic groups, religions and countries and this has always been a thing since Myanmar became independent. A Burmese leader once infamously expressed fear on behalf of Myanmar, Sri Lanka and other southern Asian countries about the fear of being absorbed into the spheres of India or China. So it's very much about protection of their identity and that mean Bamar Buddhist identity. Having said that, it's also very ethnocentric and discriminatory because Bamar nationalists believe everybody in Myanmar must adhere to Bamar culture so that's why other minority groups besides Rohingyas face discrimination too like the Shan and Kachin (both of whom also follow Buddhism). It's also why Bamar Muslims have never faced extreme hate because despite being Muslims, culturally they are the same as Bamar Buddhists in terms of the way they dress, their food and their language. Their mosques also harbour a lot of Burmese Buddhist influenced architecture.
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  5038.  @Seevawonderloaf  Except this isn't to do with religion unless you're talking about something else I said.
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  5039.  @SiGa-i1r  This shows that you have a superficial understanding of that concept and what exactly has that got to do with anything here??? Why do non-Asians pretend to care about Asian issues without actually taking the time to understand what's going on?
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  5040.  @SiGa-i1r  Without proof? I literally explained the reason, it's Bamar nationalism. Go read my other comments before arguing with me!
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  5041.  @SiGa-i1r  What you're doing is creating false conclusions to justify what you're seeing even though I fully explained what has happened. You don't even understand the concept of reincarnation in Buddhism and you're coming to these conclusions and trying to claim the reason why Rohingyas are being persecuted is because of reincarnation. Are you serious rn????
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  5042.  @SiGa-i1r  Here is your reply. READ. Bamar nationalism is the root cause of this issue. Tatmadaw believes that all ethnic groups in Myanmar must be Burmanised and assimilated into Bamar identity or adjacency to Bamar culture. This is why so many minority groups face persecution in Myanmar, NOT just Rohingyas but also the Shan and Karen, both of whom practice Buddhism. In addition to multiple other groups along the frontier regions of Myanmar. (Part 1/2)
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  5043.  @randomix4023  The way Singapore is nowhere even close to China...
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  5044. Like what? Can you name some points please?
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  5045. Excuses, excuses, excuses
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  5046.  loudaroundtown  You have zero respect for the victims
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  5047. Cringe. How much am I even going to bet that you're not even Indian?
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  5048.  @wakhansharma8225  Aren't you Indian?
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  5049.  @Radee1989  What are you talking about? Go look at the ethnic groups that form the Sikkimese population, all of these ethnic groups are also found in Nepal and Bhutan. Do some research before spreading lies.
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  5050.  @Radee1989  I know but that doesn't change the fact that all of the ethnic groups in Sikkim are also found in Nepal and Bhutan
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  5051.  @RoseRose-gk6ku  You need to do a lot more research.
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  5052.  @artificialanimeuniverse  This is only affecting North India and Pakistan. This is their issue.
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  5053.  @Justin_Why  Yes I know that.
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  5054.  @himanshisharma487  No we don't what?
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  5055.  @Justin_Why  I know you have so many different features, I never said that Indians have the same look. I'm just talking about the majority.
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  5056. History will remember that Qatar and India denied permission for the boat to unload its chemical containers in the countries after it caught fire. We all know Qatar has no morals, so no surprise there, but India? Just when you thought the Indian authorities couldn't stoop to a lower level after COVID-19, they just did.
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  5057.  @mysterioanonymous3206  The thing is that's not happening in India. India's largest cities are worse than the countryside.
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  5058. That will never change in a country that practices extreme endogamy all because of a caste system.
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  5059. Guess you haven't heard of military dictatorships if you think the military is always one the civilians' side.
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  5060.  1 YankeeSays  Don't call me stupid when you're the one who displays this attitude that you think that the whole world revolves around the US. I don't care if you're old enough to know that it was called "Burma" before. If you actually knew Burmese history you'd know that "Burma" is nothing but a colonial-origin name. You're the one who knows nothing. If the US can influence any part of the world, why on earth was the US talking to India and Japan to find ways of making both countries put pressure on the Burmese military just two weeks ago? Why can't the US do it by itself? ...because it can't. You don't know anything. The US has NO leverage in Myanmar. There is a reason why China, India and Japan are the only countries who can put pressure on Myanmar. The US can't do anything but put sanctions that don't even work. If the US can do anything then the military wouldn't even be in power but low and behold the military is in power once again. Why? It's because China, India and Japan allow it. Their influence in the country means the military still has foreign suppliers and proponents that can keep the military running. Stop being an ignorant American and don't talk about things that you don't understand.
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  5061.  1 YankeeSays  I'm not from Myanmar. More sanctions against Myanmar and what's that going to do? The US has imposed sanctions on the country in the past and that has done absolutely nothing. So what makes you think anything's going to change? China, India and Japan are the key to putting pressure on the Burmese military, the US can't do anything without these three countries. Get it?
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  5062.  @hello64879  The US doesn't care at all about Myanmar. They aren't part of this.
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  5063.  @matthewanderson5329  You may not hear the term but the concept exists. It exists when you see people like that journalist at Teen Vogue who said that all men should do jailtime for r*pe accusations for the progression of the Me Too movement, even if they didn't do it. It exists in the form of radical feminists online that spread hatred against men and support misandry. Toxicity exists on both sides. Radical feminism is the reason why we are in this dire crisis where young men are becoming far right conservatives.
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  5064. It is paradise, if you go to the Himalayas.
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  5065.  @deepakthakur1610  No the Kra canal should not be built because it will completely ruin the economy of Singapore which plays a huge role in facilitating trade that passes through the Strait of Malacca. There is opposition in Singapore and Malaysia to the Kra canal because of the damage it could do the economies of both nations.
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  5066.  @deepakthakur1610  Yeah but then all of the trade will pass through the Kra canal. Nobody will ever want to traverse the seas of the Strait of Malacca and go to Singapore. At the end of the day, the number of ships that dock in Singapore will diminish. It'll be so much easier and less time consuming to go straight through the Kra canal and directly into the Gulf of Thailand and then into the South China Sa. Right now, all ships dock in Singapore and move through the Natuna Sea and into the South China Sea when they travel upwards to East Asia. The Kra canal will also turn the entire Malay peninsula (of which half of Malaysia lies on) into an island as it will be cut off completely from the Asian mainland. There is opposition to that.
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  5067. Hi Fiona, you mad that everybody doesn't believe you?
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  5068.  Ri Bos  Taiwan is one of the richest countries in the world, it has a Buddhist majority. Japan never gave up Buddhism either.
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  5069. No, not at all
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  5070.  @gautamssinha9000  Send them back! You already send thousands of Burmese back so why aren't you sending them back? India doesn't have its priorities straight.
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  5071.  @Avantika005  This is so embarrassing. Why can't Indians in India be like Singaporean-Indians or Fijian-Indians or Indo-Caribbeans? The bad rep Indians get is because of Indians from India. I said what I said.
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  5072.  @nishantdwivedi6805  This is the hard pill to swallow, you don't actually care what happens to them, this is just an attempt to rile up the Muslim communities and upset countries like Pakistan and the like. If you truly cared about women, then you'd be advocating for the end of femicide in India. From "Incredible India" to "r*pe capital of the world". Do you not see the damage that this has caused to India's reputation? I used to see ads for Incredible India growing up but I don't see anything anymore, in fact my country issues a travel warning to India. I want to believe in this country but every day I am disappointed and I'm losing faith in it. It feels like I'm the only one left defending India on Western social media because I see more Western people praise Pakistan, which is just a shock to me considering it's basically a failed state... no offence to PK. Had Indians in India been like Singaporean-Indians, India would be such a different country.
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  5073.  @nishantdwivedi6805  This is the hard pill to swallow, you don't actually care what happens to them, this is just an attempt to rile up the Muslim communities and upset countries like Pakistan and the like. If you truly cared about women, then you'd be advocating for the end of femicide in India. From "Incredible India" to "r*pe capital of the world". Do you not see the damage that this has caused to India's reputation? I used to see ads for Incredible India growing up but I don't see anything anymore, in fact my country issues a travel warning to India. I want to believe in this country but every day I am disappointed and I'm losing faith in it. It feels like I'm the only one left defending India on Western social media because I see more Western people praise Pakistan, which is just a shock to me considering it's basically a failed state... no offence to PK. Had Indians in India been like Singaporean-Indians, India would be such a different country.
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  5074.  @nishantdwivedi6805  This is the hard pill to swallow, you don't actually care what happens to them, this is just an attempt to rile up the Muslim communities and upset countries like Pakistan and the like. If you truly cared about women, then you'd be advocating for the end of femicide in India. From "Incredible India" to "r*pe capital of the world". Do you not see the damage that this has caused to India's reputation?
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  5075. ​ @nishantdwivedi6805  I used to see ads for Incredible India growing up but I don't see anything anymore, in fact my country issues a travel warning to India. I want to believe in this country but every day I am disappointed and I'm losing faith in it. It feels like I'm the only one left defending India on Western social media because I see more Western people praise Pakistan, which is just a shock to me considering it's basically a failed state... no offence to PK. Had Indians in India been like Singaporean-Indians, India would be such a different country.
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  5076.  @nishantdwivedi6805  This is the hard pill to swallow, you don't actually care what happens to them, this is just an attempt to rile up the Muslim communities and upset countries like Pakistan and the like. If you truly cared about women, then you'd be advocating for the end of femicide in India.
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  5077.  @gautamssinha9000  I'm Australian. 💀
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  5078.  @formanga8871  Except I do know what's going on, hence the comments
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  5079.  @nikhilreddy8550  How did I expose myself?
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  5080.  @nikhilreddy8550  They praise it for the bare minimum. A Spanish woman was r***d in India a couple of weeks ago and it was reported she had been in Pakistan before and people were saying, "I can't believe I'm saying this but Pakistan is better"
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  5081.  @nikhilreddy8550  You should know that hate against India is very normalised now. Please, for crying out loud, end extreme poverty in India, make the country clean, make India ODF and create a safer environment for women. For a country with such a beautiful heritage, it frustrates me to see people hate on it.
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  5082.  @DipanshuKumarShetty007  A Spanish woman was r***d in India couple of weeks ago and she was in Pakistan and there were people saying, "I can't believe I'm saying this but Pakistan is better"
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  5083.  @DipanshuKumarShetty007  but most of the time, Westerners now say Indians and Pakistanis are the same and they always bring up cases of grooming gangs in the UK to support their point.
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  5084. @icouldntthinkofabettername... Palestine is not my issue and they want their land back, not to move to another country
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  5085.  @formanga8871  The point is that people used to say India was better but now people say India, Pakistan are the same and that the immigrants from both countries are the same.
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  5086.  @nikhilreddy8550  I find it so sad that you can't fathom to realise the reality of the situation. TikTok is banned in India, so you have no idea what people say on that app. Hate against Indians is very normalised these days. What part of that do you now understand?
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  5087.  @nikhilreddy8550  A Spanish woman was raped in India, before that she was in the failed state of Pakistan and yet nothing happened to her. Do you see how people can come to such conclusions?
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  5088.  @nikhilreddy8550  The fact that you call me a troll is so sad. Why can't Indians from India be like Singaporean-Indians? Had India been controlled by Singaporean-Indians, India would be a very rich and safe country.
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  5089. ​ @nikhilreddy8550  It's time to realise that there are people that are now comparing Indian immigrants to Pakistani immigrants and saying they are the same. People bring up the cases of grooming gangs in the UK to clam that both immigrant groups are not good...
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  5090.  @nikhilreddy8550  Every day someone posts a video about India regarding its street food, its cleanliness, safety of women or men asking for "bobs and vagene". There are Indian students that have been murdered this year in the US as anti-Indian sentiment and Hinduphobia rise and yet there is NO realisation within India that their actions are having consequences on Indians overseas. When is this going to end??? FIX THAT COUNTRY
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  5091.  @nikhilreddy8550  No, it's NOTHING like Israel's hate. It's so severe that nobody takes India seriously. There are so many racist AI-generated images of Indian men that circulate on Twitter and people use anti-Indian slurs and even when India successfully landed on the moon, there were people making racist jokes about them and saying they faked it. It's horrible.
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  5092.  @nikhilreddy8550  Well I've tried to educate them but people always call me Indian slurs and when I tell them I'm not Indian, they say, "only Indians defend India". In fact, someone made a TikTok about this last year about how they'd call out racism against Indians online but people always assumed you were Indian. I'm sorry but I tried defending y'all for years as the hate rose but it's just impossible now.
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  5093.  @kumarsaurabh9216  because both can't be done and the CAA is only a way to rile up the Muslim groups in India. A divided population will never succeed.
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  5094.  @Alex-pq9ip  What I said is the truth, you're just coping hard.
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  5095.  @Inner_Issin  He's not Burmese.
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  5096. I agree but this has nothing to do with education. Most Sri Lankans are literate so they know who they are voting for. The problem is that most people have been brainwashed into believing in ethnic and religious division over so many decades and so it's no surprise a politician with and who comes from a family who profess in ethnic supremacist beliefs came to power.
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  5097.  @meganoob12  Okay firstly, calm down. I don't why y'all get so defensive. Secondly, did you watch the video? It may help if you look at things from other perspectives instead of your own. 💀
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  5098.  @MORE_BEANS_PLZ  Wake up and realise that Ukraine is merely a pawn between Russia and the US. Do thy care about the innocent people of Ukraine? No they absolutely do not. They only care about power.
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  5099.  @MORE_BEANS_PLZ  Doesn't change the fact that Ukraine is a pawn. The US isn't even physically fighting in the war, I think that says enough. 💀
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  5100.  @MORE_BEANS_PLZ  The US is using Ukraine as a pawn in their broader struggle to maintain world superpower status, how is that not clear to see? The US is doing the exact same thing in the Asia-Pacific by competing with China. Ukraine having the freedom to choose has nothing to do with this when the US is interested in making sure the world stands by the US. If they don't choose the US, then it's a problem. That's why the US was unhappy when the Solomon Islands chose to sign a deal with China last month and why the US is now scrutinising India on their human rights because India chose to be neutral in the Ukraine war. (FYI, the US never cared to criticise India on their human rights issues in the past but that changed when the Indians decided to be neutral and not choose the US). One has to be a fierce American nationalist or pro-American to not be able to see that this is all about self interest and self preservation. 💀
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  5101. Nepal, Mauritius and Bali are Hindu-majority and they don't have this problem.
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  5102.  @doit2810  Exactly, I've seen so many Chinese on Douyin who can speak about India without making racist remarks. I'd also say that many Asian groups in Asia are more empathetic to Indians than people outside of Asia because I see plenty of racism peddled by people from outside of Asia on social media towards Indians. One of the reasons I say this is because there are ethnic Indians/pop culture who are popular or have gone viral in other Asian countries besides India. For example, an Indian Kpop idol went viral in China, South Korea and across Southeast Asia for the way she looks and for being Indian last year and she gained so many fans as a result. Additionally, there is a Malaysian singer who is of Indian descent that sings in Mandarin that is popular in China and won one of the Chinese TV singing competitions. An Indian movie, I can't remember the name, became really popular on Netflix in other Asian countries besides India, including Thailand and South Korea a few years ago and sparked a makeup trend. It was a Malay woman that started the San Sanana trend that went viral on TikTok and then eventually on Douyin. For people outside of Asia, there is very little Indian representation in pop culture so their hate is way worse compared to other Asians hating on Indians.
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  5103.  @doit2810  Exactly, I've seen so many Chinese on Douyin who can speak about India without making prejudicial remarks. I'd also say that many Asian groups in Asia are more empathetic to Indians than people outside of Asia because I see a lot of racism peddled by people from outside of Asia on social media towards Indians. One of the reasons I say this is because there are ethnic Indians/pop culture who are popular or have gone viral in other Asian countries besides India. For example, an Indian Kpop idol went viral in China, South Korea and Southeast Asia for the way she looks and for being Indian last year and she gained so many fans as a result. Additionally, there is a Malaysian singer of Indian descent that sings in Mandarin that is popular in China and won one of the Chinese TV singing competitions. An Indian movie, I can't remember the name, became really popular on Netflix in other Asian countries besides India, including Thailand and South Korea and sparked a makeup trend. It was a Malay woman that started the San Sanana trend that went viral on TikTok this year. For people outside of Asia, there is very little Indian representation in pop culture so their hate is way worse compared to other Asians hating on Indians.
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  5104.  @doubtingthomas9612  Myanmar need to fix itself and take back the Rohingyas because the Rohingyas want to live on their own land. That's why they don't migrate to the West, they flee in boats to other Asian nations. There are Rohingyas in Australia, if you go to Springvale in Melbourne, you will find plenty. Springvale is a Southeast Asian and Chinese-majority suburb so the Rohingyas feel at home. You will find Rohingyas running Burmese shops and restaurants, bubble tea shops and working in Asian supermarkets in Springvale. The Vietnamese residents of the neighbourhood also sell Burmese hijabs for the Rohingya women in their clothing stores.
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  5105. Let's not forget the fact that your country broke apart because of religion. The Muslims did not want to live with the non-Muslims of India and demanded their own nation. To think that there would be no issues is naive because modern India still has to deal with Hindu-Muslims tensions even though Pakistan was literally created for Muslims of India. Also, Muslims would be the largest religious group in India (if it never divided, owing to their naturally high fertility rate) and I don't think they'd be happy with having a Hindu-dominated government like Modi in power.
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  5106. @ I mean that Sri Lankan Muslims don't impose their beliefs on others and aren't fanatical or anything like that. They're tolerant of other beliefs and people even if it doesn't align with traditional Islamic beliefs. They can co-exist with other groups. Sri Lankan Muslims are like SEA Muslims. SEA Muslims are also generally very tolerant like the ones in Myanmar, Singapore, Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand and so on.
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  5107.  @dasalekhya  Well to be fair, they don't have to either way. If you look at Chinese or Indian TV and billboards, you'll be able to see White men and women. I remember hearing that there's an English woman starring in Indian movies. In South Korea, variety shows have allowed Western singers who sing in English to perform but in 2019 they didn't allow for a Kpop-inspired girl group based in South Korea and composed of members who come from the Philippines, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Japan and Vietnam to appear on their show because they sang songs in English and not Korean.
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  5108. The way you have zero respect for the family...
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  5109. Not just the US, elsewhere as well. They don't have the opportunities in their own country. India has a job crisis, not enough jobs for their university graduates so all they all leave.
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  5110. The Muslim solidarity is very visible. Wonderful people.
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  5111.  @Fallen608  We are so far away from the Middle East and Africa, the migrant crisis in Europe would not have affected us in any shape or form.
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  5112.  @Fallen608  No, no it would have not. The refugee crisis in Europe was so catastrophic because people moved by foot over land. You can't just compare Australia accepting refugees to what Europe experienced which is an uncontrolled inundation of humans due to geographical proximity. People moved by foot or boat not by air travel. The exact same thing happened in Asia in 2017 when more than 1 million Rohingyas moved by foot or by boat to Bangladesh, India, Thailand, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Indonesia (aka countries that are in close proximity to Myanmar). The only close countries they could no get to was Singapore because of its hard border policy on refugees and China (again because it's not willing to accept uncontrolled flows of refugees unless it has something to gain from them, like the Assamese insurgents who are fighting the Indian government).
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  5113. The weeb has spoken
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  5114. They mean reaching high income status
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  5115. No because only 10% of Sri Lanka's debt is owed to China.
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  5116.  @garrydean8670  It's not a main reason though. Everybody is talking about China when Sri Lanka owes 10% of its debt to Japan too. Why is everybody talking about China but not Japan, when Sri Lanka owes the same amount to both countries? Western media keeps mentioning China because of Sinophobia. There is a fear of China these days and it's so detrimental to international relations and even ordinary citizens. Firstly, China is an Asian country, outside forces should not drive a wedge between it and other Asian or Pacific countries (like Australia, which is where I'm from). We are all neighbours, we need to learn to live in peace with each other regardless of what we feel for each other. Secondly, I am not fond of the CCP and what it does but blaming China for everything makes no sense. It serves no purpose and only causes harm in the form of strained relations, power struggles between bigger countries over smaller countries (etc. Sri Lanka, Myanmar) and spreading of misinformation on social media (which is a huge issue in some Asian countries like Sri Lanka and Myanmar), which can lead to social unrest (e.g. this has happened in Sri Lanka before). It's also gotten to this point where China is blamed for everything that it's now affecting random Chinese people and even other Asian people who could be mistaken as Chinese in other parts of the world. For example, an elderly Sri Lankan man with light skin and Southeast Asian features was brutally bashed on a train in New York last year in a COVID-19 related racist attack. All those anti-Asian attacks in the US last year really opened my eyes up to the issue of Sinophobia.
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  5117.  @vectorsahel5420  Only to those who can't read a map
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  5118.  @vectorsahel5420  Me when I didn't pay attention in geography class
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  5119.  @kimeli  Yeah it means they aren't scared of India
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  5120.  @Mclovin96X  A normal traveller is not going to visit a slum...
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  5121.  @dianbb  I feel the same way actually but there are other areas of that country that have a better standard of living like Sikkim and Kerala but it's probably better to wait until it develops more, which is what I'm doing.
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  5122.  @tarunika983  Y'all need to get the BJP or something to put pressure on Big Tech and stop allowing them to boost anti-India posts online on Western social media. The damage those posts have done is tragic because I've seen other videos from India like some of the new smart cities in Gujarat and Noida and the southern states that look really amazing also all of your metro train stations and trains but people always see poor regions in Uttar Pradesh or something and think that's how the whole of India looks like. I think India is a beautiful country, please just do something. Y'all deserve so much better.
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  5123. Sri Lanka is not India and that's not an Indian accent. Sri Lankans and Indians are completely different. These are Sri Lankan Malays. They have nothing to do with India.
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  5124. Firstly, how is any of that mansplaining? This is not a woman's issue to suggest mansplaining is going on. Secondly, those men have differing views which is why you're upset at them. That's all there is to it.
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  5125.  @falpflap892  I don't need to pay attention to chronically online people like yourself that feel the need to be triggered over everything. Mansplaining??? Nothing in this mansplaining. Stop getting triggered at everything because you want to be a victim so bad. This is why the USA is a declining power while Asian nations reach the top. Have fun on the ride down falp flap, I'll be laughing at the top.
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  5126. ​ @rogeliorosas3068  How many accounts do you own?? Rich of you to talk about sensitivity when you made this into a gender issue, when it's not. Americans and their obsession with making themselves victims all the time. The world is tired. Sorry but you're NOT a victim. You want to know who the real victims are, go listen to the women that have to deal with rising misogynistic men's right movement in Asian countries like India and South Korea. Go listen to the poor women and girls that have to suffer in South Korea at the hands of men that engage in semen terrorism. Go listen to the Asian women that are trafficked as mail order brides to China and South Korea because there are too many men and not enough women.
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  5127.  @rogeliorosas3068  The only sensitive and hurt person here is you. One has to be chronically online and yearn to be a victim if they are claiming this video involves mansplaining, when it doesn't. Always trying to find something to get triggered about. Clear signs of a decaying civilisation.
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  5128.  @dystopiadaze  Stop logging into your 50 YouTube accounts to throw a tantrum because you're tiggered.😂 You're the same person pretending to be multiple people. These people always need to find something to get upset about. They want to be a victim so bad. They ought to be grateful for where they live.
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  5129.  @dystopiadaze  You have nothing substantial to say to counter what I have said, so you continue to repeat the same thing over and over. Typical. Now I want you to do exactly what I tell you to do. Use that YouTube account of yours and reply to me again.
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  5130.  @dystopiadaze  Omg congratulations you did exactly what I said. If I had gold stars, I'd give one to you. BTW, I already figured out you have multiple accounts. I acknowledged this days ago. You want it look like so many people are arguing with me when it's just one radical feminist behind a screen throwing a tantrum.
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  5131.  @dystopiadaze  You're running out things to say and it's ironic how you talk about "basic English" and "democracy", the racism really jumped out. Well I'm from an English-speaking country so you don't need to worry about that but it's ironic to see how you want to fight for your rights but are also racist at the same time. It doesn't make sense but those radical White American feminists are known for being misandrist and racist. I shouldn't be surprised.
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  5132.  @dystopiadaze  Nobody takes that group of people seriously, because all they do is complain about non-existent things. You're NOT a victim. That group of people should be grateful that they live in a country where they actually have rights. Stop complaining and actually contribute to society. Don't think America is going to pander to these people screaming 24/7 behind a computer screen. You're NOT suffering like the poor women who are incredibly brave and highly intelligent fighting so hard for their rights in Iran or those women and girls in Afghanistan who have been barred from getting an education and seeking medical help. You should be grateful that you live in a country where you actually have the freedom to do things.
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  5133.  @dystopiadaze  It's "you're" not "your". Get it right. Radical and unable to speak English properly despite being a White American woman and yet yesterday you claimed I couldn't speak English properly because you thought I was from a non-English speaking country. You called me a "creature", lmaooo it's triggered. My work here is done. Seethe, cry and cope.
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  5134.  @dystopiadaze  You don't know anything about me lmao. You're just a triggered white American feminist woman who is very upset with what I said so you're clutching at straws in an attempt to find some flaw you can call me out on. Nothing you have said is right. Seethe, cry and cope.
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  5135.  @VeganSoyLatteFrappuccino  You're triggered and you don't know what to say, so you're saying all these things using your 50 accounts in hope you trigger me. Embarrassing.
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  5136.  @VeganSoyLatteFrappuccino  I highly recommend you stepping outside and touching some grass.
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  5137.  @VeganSoyLatteFrappuccino  What makes you think I'm trying to see your validation lmaoooooo??? I've been calling you out this wholetime and you think I'm seeking YOUR validation??
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  5138.  @VeganSoyLatteFrappuccino  I'd never seek validation from something like that, just saying.
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  5139.  @VeganSoyLatteFrappuccino  Stop thinking everybody in American lmaoooooo. I'm not from the US. You're just a triggered White American radical feminist woman who runs an account called "Lucas" (a male name). Embarrassing.
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  5140.  @VeganSoyLatteFrappuccino  is*
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  5141.  @VeganSoyLatteFrappuccino  Pipe down Lucas, sorry but nobody's interested.
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  5142.  @VeganSoyLatteFrappuccino  I'm not a conservative lmaoooooo
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  5143.  @VeganSoyLatteFrappuccino  It must make you sad that nobody takes those chronically online White American radical feminists seriously. We don't live our lives online to constantly get offended at things. Y'all are the reason why there is growing backlash to feminism by conservative men. Y'all take things way too far with your chronically online think pieces. This is why everybody online is calling out chronically online White American women even though they have so much privilege and agency compared to non-white American women.
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  5144.  @VeganSoyLatteFrappuccino  All you know how to do is to throw insults in hope you trigger the person you're arguing with. I really couldn't care less what a radical White American feminist has to say but keep replying. I want you to keep replying.
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  5145.  @HumanoidKoala  Oh you're so triggered lmaoooooooooo
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  5146.  @HumanoidKoala  I'm not the one crying because of made up chronically online buzz words.
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  5147. ​ @HumanoidKoala  FYI, you cry too much about make believe issues
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  5148. He clearly said that Asia overall has low crime rates but then said he's focusing on East Asia
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  5149.  @Nathan-jh1ho  It does but in this video, he very clearly was referring to the whole continent but then said very clearly he is focusing on East Asia. So I have no idea why people are complaining about the title of the video, it's actually correct.
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  5150.  @vchabetterthankatseye  Imagine creating an account with a account name like that. Peak joblessness.
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  5151. It's really important to undertake independent research by looking at different sources instead of relying on mainstream Indian media outlets like WION. Maybe then, you won't be so surprised why Sri Lanka is a lot better than India in terms of everything.
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  5152.  @lello5100  I point out an issue within the South Asian American community and you make this about White American men by claiming Nepalese Americans are more racist to each other than White men. Huh??? This video was created by Asian Americans with Asian American people. OP's comment and my comment address a particular issue within Asian American discourse. You did not get my point and probably never will because for something about Asian Americans and the issues within that community (created by that community) you just had to make it about White American men (of which they have no connection to the issue) because you're offended by what I said. 💀
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  5153.  @brendalynjones4576  "India countries"? You mean South Asian countries, the Muslim countries located in southern Asia.
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  5154.  @nativeb.9718  You clearly have a very negative view of Asian countries and obviously don't know anything about them.
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  5155.  @mandogaming1313  Japan is the most "Western" country in Asia. It was the first Asian country to Westernise itself in order to escape Western imperialism and did everything it could to adopt Western mannerisms and be accepted by the West. It was also the first and currently only Asian country in the modern era to adopt Western imperialistic tactics and create its own empire whilst allying itself with certain Western countries that believed in its irredentist ideology. The country does everything to please the West, so it's no surprise that the country prefers to associate itself with Western countries post WW2 because there is a constant need to be accepted by the West. It also explains why there is a deep admiration, infatuation and fetishisation of Japan by Westerners and vice versa. So much to the point that you have White supremacists that idolise Japan, the only non-Western country they admire. So it really is no surprise.
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  5156. Malaysia and Singapore will never support such an idea and they will protest it if it were to happen.
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  5157.  @nietzchan  India won't do anything of the sort, they are neutral.
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  5158.  @nietzchan  China and India haven't fought in Kashmir in any recent years.
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  5159.  @nietzchan  The Indians will only defend their territory, they aren't going to follow the US and blockade the Malacca Strait when they have no jurisdiction over the waters in that area. Only Malaysia and Indonesia can do that.
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  5160.  @ronraji  There are no "Aryans" from North India in Sri Lanka.
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  5161.  @tim.noonan  The propaganda is working because the Euros really think BRICS was formed out of hate. Embarrassing.
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  5162.  @Ghettofinger  They're slowly shifting away and rightfully so. The West is so racist to them
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  5163.  @TreXsJournal-Coming-Soon  They're right though
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  5164.  @RiteMoEquations  They're right though. The West wants to keep China and India at odds with each other. If China and India work together, the US and the West will be upset.
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  5165.  @Ceiteach.O.Dubhuir  Two countries that have a border dispute can still work together. The only reason why this is even a thing is because the West keeps driving a wedge between the two nations.
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  5166.  @RiteMoEquations  The UK is the sole reason why there is even a border dispute between India and China today. Prior to that, there was no problem. There are sacred Hindu sites located in modern China today (and India doesn't claim any of those areas). Both nations are two sides of the same coin.
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  5167.  @toragodzen  Do you think BRICS was formed in 2024?
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  5168.  @TejashPatel-z2r  The Americans are already going after India by charging Adani for a crime he allegedly committed in India, not the US, but India.
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  5169. This is Sri Lanka, not India. Americans... What's common sense for the rest of the world is a struggle for Americans.
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  5170.  @PakistanChinaFriendship  Indians and Pakistanis
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  5171.  @ChopperMXgaming  That's why China is pushing for multipolarity, same with other Global South nations like India. They know multipolarity is the only way to protect themselves
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  5172. Oh Sri Lanka, the country that Singapore's own Lee Kuan Yew marvelled at for its potential and strong foundations for future success but just simply could never truly overcome the destruction from its era of systematic ethnic violence. Mr Lee was right to lament at the destruction of Sri Lanka and what it could have been in one of his final books before his timely death.
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  5173.  @nunyabiznes33  They're a distinct group known as Sri Lankan Moors. They claim mixed Arab and Sri Lankan ancestry but only a small portion have Arab ancestry. There is a portion of the population who have some Malay ancestry due to intermarriage with the Sri Lankan Malays.
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  5174.  @ayaankhan-eh1xy  Where's the Maldives?
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  5175.  @ayaankhan-eh1xy  Papua New Guinea is not an Asian country
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  5176.  @ayaankhan-eh1xy  I think there's a lot for you to learn because why would Brunei, a high income developed nation with the second highest standard of living in Southeast Asia and one of the highest in Asia, be ranked below countries like Uzbekistan, Jordan, Mongolia, Indonesia, Bhutan, Philippines, Vietnam, Armenia, China, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Thailand, Oman, Russia and Kazakhstan?
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  5177.  @lougerone  Oh my days, the territory is disputed. The map depicts the territory that India control and the territory China controls. Stop torturing us with your "use correct map" nonsense. The map is CORRECT
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  5178.  @mrrasig1000  Are you trolling?
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  5179.  @bg53rockylayek4  What is your Indian ethnic group?
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  5180.  @chathurakapuge  Yes they have. There are books about it. There were Christian and Hindu Ambonese and Balinese that married Sinhalese and Tamils because they weren't Muslims. I did a DNA test and part of my DNA came back as Sri Lankan Malay and I'm Sinhalese.
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  5181.  @chathurakapuge  There were also Malays that settled in Sri Lanka in the ancient times like the time when Chandrabhanu tried to conquer Sri Lanka. He was a Malay. That's why there are some Sinhalese who have Malay-like features.
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  5182. The Buddha was born in Lumbini, in what is now modern Nepal. It was part of the Shakya Janapada (Shakya Republic) at the time, which is now part of modern India and Nepal. There is a mythological story that the Buddha visited Sri Lanka but there is no credibly evidence for it. The depiction of the Buddha with blue eyes is an art style only common in Himalayan regions like Nepal and Tibet and associated with the mythical 32 marks of a great man.
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  5183.  @k.k.c8670  The difference is that the current party in power now views Taiwan as a merely being an island and Taiwan recognises the Mongolian passport. If Taiwan still laid undying claim to Mongolia it would refuse to recognise its passport. Officially speaking, Taiwan claims all of PRC and surrounding land and waters belonging to other Asian countries and it is known as the Republic of China (ROC) because it claims to be the legitimate "China" while the PRC recognises itself as the legitimate "China". However, this is only still practiced because if Taiwan (ROC) were to ever officially recede claims to all of those areas it would give the message to the PRC that Taiwan is relinquishing its claims to the title of the "legitimate China" and so it would officially be seen as a sign that Taiwan (the island) is a "breakaway state" within the PRC (because the PRC claims the island of Taiwan and that because Taiwan has its own government). That would give the PRC the right to invade Taiwan in order to maintain territorial integrity and no other country in the world will be able to say anything because Taiwan is a part of China as the ROC would no longer exist. Be grateful that you can argue with while living in SEA because if you were living up north, you'd be having to use a VPN (which the government is cracking down on).
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  5184. From what? 💀
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  5185. No he's not Russian
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  5186. No wonder the native Malays call you "pendatang". Day by day, your allegiance and fondness grows for China and not for Malaysia. How can you blame them for their concern when many of you will support China if things get heated in the South China Sea between Malaysia and China?
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  5187.  @robezy0  You can't exploit Buddhism when the very First Precept in Buddhism is "don't harm any living creature, human or animal". These are simply ultranationalists who have joined the global bandwagon of Islamophobia and are using history to justify their actions. They're basically saying, "Islam is a threat to South and Southeast Asian culture, so that's why we are doing this".
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  5188.  @Badassdadaji  They are peaceful.
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  5189.  @knightofceylon-ms1us  Okay "Knight of Ceylon". Maybe if the Sinhalese elites were forward thinking, they would've created a country that was stable and not discriminated against the ethnic minorities and destabilised the nation. Y'all are at fault here. I blame you people. Return to Sri Lanka, Ceylonese male
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  5190.  @prityable  Have you thought that maybe she never actually had full control? Look what happened to her on February 1st. There is a reason why she was called the "de facto" leader of Myanmar not the "de jure" leader of Myanmar.
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  5191.  @prityable  Well it didn't happen. Are we able to go back in time and hope that she would? No we can't. There is no point focusing on the past when we're in the present. The very fact that Rohingyas are showing support for the pro-democracy protestors in Myanmar and by extension Aung San Suu Kyi, shows just how emotionally strong they are despite everything they have gone through. Also, a lot of Burmese people (especially young generation) are realising that that they were wrong and should have supported the Rohingyas. The unprecedented ethnic unity is something to celebrate.
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  5192. Absolutely not.
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  5193. Well did you think about the fact that Pakistan did not exist at the time? That country came into existence in 1948. So why would they say "Pakistan"?
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  5194. That's not a solution. Taking over countries is not the solution and why India? The richest country in South Asia is the Maldives which is also a neighbour of Sri Lanka.
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  5195. I agree. My friend is Balinese and she has dark brown skin (like dark brown skin of some Indians) but her facial structure is more typically Southeast Asian with rounder eyes. Everybody knows she's Southeast Asian but nobody would ever mistake her for East Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean).
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  5196.  @shruthysharma3181  There's nothing wrong with that. I think Assamese and Bengali culture are very beautiful.
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  5197.  @ED-fu5lz  Stop screaming Islamophobia when you can't even take care of your Muslim cousins.
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  5198. How is this related to Hinduism?? The island is home to a church and the people who visit it from India are Christians. Adam Muk flop. 💀
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  5199.  @jameshowlett3758  The day everybody learns that all these countries just want power, is the day we'll know peace. The US and India are no different to China.
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  5200.  @pangkursinom9880  No, many Rohingya look very similar to Acehnese people. There was a video of Rohingyas and Acehnese and I couldn't tell who was the local and refugee.
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  5201.  @royanjunior9782  No, Rohingyas actually look more similar to Acehnese people than Malay or Javanese and Rohingyas are landing in Aceh mind you
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  5202.  @pangkursinom9880  Except they don't. There are many Malaysians Indians and they look nothing like Rohingyas. Rohingyas actually look more similar to Bangladesh and some of those groups in Myanmar like Kaman. Many Acehnese look similar to Rohingyas. That's the truth.
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  5203.  @pangkursinom9880  I never said that Rohingyas have part Bengali DNA, I said they have part Bengali-RELATED DNA. It is related, not the same. Most Rohingyas and most Indians may look similar but they are not the same. What's not clicking? So why do you keep saying they are the same? Stop saying "ask Malaysians" as if Malaysian Indians (Tamils) don't exist. My point is that there are Acehnese who look more similar to most Rohingyas just like how there are many Acehnese who look more similar to typical Malay. I am not saying they are the same, I am merely pointing out the fact that there are Acehnese who similar to most Rohingyas.
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  5204.  @Exodus26.13Pi  Don't listen to that person, they're just being racist
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  5205.  @sonofsomerset1695  The fertility rate in Sri Lanka is 1.9. The average woman in Sri Lanka is having less children to maintain replacement level. People don't have huge families in Sri Lanka. Ignorant much?
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  5206.  @planetmikusha5898  Positive because Sri Lanka got rid of him and also because he still faces charges filed in the US against him. If someone outside of his circle finally get their hands on him, he won't be able to run anymore. He will probably be charged for all of the crimes against humanity he committed.
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  5207.  @planetmikusha5898  The chances would be 0 because he comes from a political family who have always been pro-China and drifted very far away from India. He spoke initially about balancing relations between China and India but he ended up just drifting towards China so the chances would be 0. Traditionally speaking, the Sinhalese Buddhist majority have been pro-Chinese and to an extent anti-Indian since the 1980s. The Tamil minority, who are predominantly Hindu, on the other hand have traditionally looked towards India for guidance and support, due to their strong cultural and ethnic tries with India, but there have also been hiccups along the way. The president is from the majority ethnic group. Obviously today with everything that has happened, attitudes have changed drastically. The idea that any foreign country would offer him assistance is 0, even China won't help him. China, India and Japan are Sri Lanka's three historic allies so all three countries will find ways to maintain their economic, political and social influence over the island nation regardless of who is in power.
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  5208.  @planetmikusha5898  I hope I was able to answer your question.
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  5209.  @druegnor1703  Buddhist fanatics? They were murdered by the Tatmadaw (Burmese military). This has nothing to do with religion. Tatmadaw is murdering other ethnic minorities in Myanmar too, including those who practice Buddhism. The fake news has gotten a hold of a lot of people...
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  5210.  @Dhruv-Kumar  Malaysia just wants to use people, if they get nothing in return then they complain. This is why they have racist policies in place and look where it has gotten them today?
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  5211.  @tayronrenkanyanunggun2961  My children? I don't have kids and most people my age, don't. I'm from Generation Z.
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  5212.  @tayronrenkanyanunggun2961  Respect others to be racist? Yeah sorry I don't tolerate racism and I had no idea how severe systematic racism was destroying the Malaysian economy until a few years ago. Worrying about harassing Rohingyas while their own citizens leave in droves due to systematic racism.
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  5213. No they didn't replace them, they mixed with them. Indus Valley ancestry is the dominant genetic component of most South Asian populations.
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  5214.  @fr9714  South Asians all carry Indus Valley ancestry. That Indus Valley ancestry contributed partially to the formation of the two main genetic components of most South Asians today (Ancestral North India and Ancestral South Indian).
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  5215. ...and it is. This doesn't negate the fact that Singapore is still a very advanced nation in terms of wealth, technology and multiethnic harmony. Obviously every country has issues that may go against the common belief a nation exhibits. Hopefully FGM will end across the world with more education.
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  5216.  @vlanor6048  The Kafala system doesn't exist across the whole world. Qatar and the rest of the Gulf were built by foreigners (including white collar workers) and most of the locals don't work. Remove the foreigners (blue and white collar workers) and those countries will collapse overnight because there will ne no workforce to hold these countries up.
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  5217.  @historyandstuff16  They just brought every single person in and are facing the consequences, if they were smart they would've been like Australia or New Zealand.
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  5218. Highly doubt this will happen but if it does, TikTok will become a horrible app just like X. There will be so much unchecked hate on that app. Everything that thing touches that he didn't build ends up burning.
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  5219. So triggered you had to be racist. Seek help.
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  5220. That's because the monks are suffering too.
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  5221. They live in Sri Lanka so they’re Sri Lankans. They don’t look Indian. 💀 Some of them look more like Sri Lankan moors who are Sri Lankans not Indians but there are many other Sri Lankan Malays who look more like typical Malays.
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  5222. I’ve seen so many Malays in Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand that have more Indian-like features.
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  5223. Are you from India?
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  5224.  @alive9386  This is why India needs to stop fighting with China and just accept Chinese cooperation. Chinese government and Chinese state media are literally extending a hand to India and y'all keep refusing it. Look at how these outsiders keep trying to divide up Asia without knowing anything about us, just like they did during the colonial days. China is literally the future for this region's stability. Accept it like the rest of us have.
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  5225.  @kakashihatake1113  You don't know what type of problems lay ahead of India as a result of this. India's brain drain is going to be like Malaysia's brain drain.
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  5226.  @kakashihatake1113  It's going to be extremely catastrophic. Do you know Malaysia is suffering from a such a severe brain drain that the country's own politicians express regret and anger at all of the educated people that leave their country? The World Bank even issued a warning to Malaysia about how Malaysia's brain drain is now preventing the country from becoming high income.
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  5227.  @kakashihatake1113  The British did unite India. India was a collection of kingdoms until the British unified everything from Baluchistan to Assam. Bangladesh and Pakistan becoming countries happened, a lot, lot later.
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  5228.  @kakashihatake1113  I don't need to go and do any homework, I know what I am talking about. Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel became deputy prime minister of India in 1947, after India gained independence. Nagaland, Andaman Islands, Lakshadweep etc. became part of India because of the British, that is a fact.
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  5229.  @kakashihatake1113  The way you just look past my attempts at instilling unity in the Asia-Pacific region because of nationalism is a disgrace. ...even when one is trying to be positive and encourage unity, there will always be someone there to say "no" and be antagonistic smh
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  5230.  @kakashihatake1113  Where do you think the concept of the Princely State emerged from? It's a concept that emerged in British India. Those princely states were under the suzerainty of the British. In other words, it's because of the British.
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  5231.  @LisaCutie409  You Indians and Pakistanis continuously fight over the most trivial of things. I'm not interested in any of that. Thank you, next.
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  5232.  @HoodQueen258  and what am I supposed to do with that information? Is it related to what I am talking about? No. Sorry but I'm not interested in this war that y'all have. You Indians and Pakistanis are always fighting. Don't drag me into your conflict please.
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  5233.  @lilywu6208  No it's "Asian"! Stop thinking "Asian" means proximity to China. It doesn't. Stop gatekeeping that term. India is in Asia and I was talking about several more Asian nations, so I said "Asian". Get over it and no you're wrong. India is not more like African cultures or people. Do some reading ASAP I'm not even from India and yet I know enough to tell you that you're wrong.. These Americans and their dilapidated education system.
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  5234.  @lilywu6208  You said the same thing last time too, bombarding my mentions with the same comment. No, you're incredibly wrong. I don't know why these Americans struggle so much with geography.
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  5235.  @lilywu6208  No it's "Asian". Stop thinking "Asian" means proximity to China. It doesn't. It's just a name of a continent. So stop gatekeeping that term. India is in Asia and I was talking about several more Asian nations/groups, so I said "Asian".
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  5236.  @lilywu6208  Also, you're wrong. India is not more like African cultures or people. Do some reading ASAP, I'm not even from India and yet I know enough to tell you that you're wrong. A grown adult woman and still struggling with basic human geography. Good grief...
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  5237.  @ArmageddonIsHere  India has a job crisis. Whatever talent remains in that country will be lost if they don't solve that issue.
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  5238.  @ArmageddonIsHere  No they did because there are areas in modern India that would separate countries or part of another country had they never colonised India. So no, that's not a lie. Sorry.
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  5239.  @hohoho6338  India needs to develop, it needs its educated people
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  5240.  @hohoho6338  There aren't though, they are in the minority. There are more Modi Hindutva there than educated people
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  5241.  @hohoho6338  Which is so embarrassing
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  5242.  @pradhansenapatiratne712  Who created that rumour and why is that circulating in Sri Lanka?
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  5243.  @santhoshv3028  No it absolutely was not. A Google search will tell you that it was under the jurisdiction of Ceylon. It was never controlled by India.
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  5244.  @santhoshv3028  That's because it was never ceded, India relinquished its claims. Learn the difference
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  5245.  @santhoshv3028  Indian kings? India is an entity created by the British. Delulu, go use Google and stop coping so hard
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  5246.  @santhoshv3028  The island was ruled as a part of Sri Lanka since 1921. Just accept it.
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  5247.  @santhoshv3028  How can it cede anything when it wasn't ruling it in 1974? 💀
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  5248.  @jancyvargheese5351  Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives were never a part of no Gupta, Mughal, Maratha or other empire. Learn history instead of Akhand Bharat propaganda
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  5249.  @jancyvargheese5351  Indian is a nationality, not a race. Nepalese, Sri Lankans, Maldivians and Bhutanese are NOT Indians.
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  5250.  @jancyvargheese5351  Sri Lanka has absolutely nothing in common with North India. Its "Indian" cultural influences from South India and it has considerable Malay influence too, especially evident in the cuisine.
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  5251.  @jancyvargheese5351  Nepal and Bhutan are a mix of Indic influence and Tibetan influences. The Maldives has influence from Arabs, Sinhalese, Tamils and Malays. Pack it up and stop thinking these countries are appendages of India. They are not.
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  5252.  @santhoshv3028  What part of "relinquish" do you not understand? The Indian nationalist cope is insane.
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  5253.  @santhoshv3028  Also, I'm not from Sri Lanka.
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  5254.  @santhoshv3028  India did NOT own the island from 1921 onwards. India did not give anything up because it had nothing to give up, it only relinquished its claim. Look up the definition of relinquish.
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  5255.  @santhoshv3028  It was ruled as a part of Ceylon since 1921. India simply only claimed it. Use Google and learn please.
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  5256.  @carolrader9911  Most don't, only a minority do
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  5257.  @failtolawl  They are citizens of Myanmar. Many ethnic minority groups in Myanamr are recognised as natives and citizens of the country. Myanmar has 135 recognised ethnic groups. Most of the minority groups in Myanmar who are not citizens/not officially recognised are non-indigenous like the Burmese Chinese and Burmese Indians. Burmese Chinese, Burmese Indians and many Burmese Muslims (even native ones) are viewed as "mixed blood" and face greater scrutiny when it comes to acquiring citizenship even though they have lived in Myanmar for hundreds of years compared to other Burmese groups who are indigenous.
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  5258. We can respect non-European nations like India deciding to remain neutral and go about their business but what we are not going to do is pretend like Putin is the good guy here, he's not and never was. The truth of the matter is that the elites of the US and Russia are using Ukraine as a pawn to further their own agendas. It's always about self preservation, Ukraine was never at peace with warmongering Putin on its doorstep.
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  5259.  @richard-gn3es  Calm down lmao. This is Hong Kong, very different to what you are talking about. There have been minorities in Hong Kong for many generations. Newer immigrants have come from other parts of Asia. I know you're trying to make a point about Islam but Hong Kong has a Pakistani community dating back to colonial times. You can stop the pearl clutching.
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  5260.  @nc1975  cause Americans are NOT Asians and this is about low waged workers from Asia
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  5261. You should agree that India should be broken up into 28 different nations.
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  5262.  @user-pt2pc5uf1g  How can Pakistan dump India when the British ruled all of that land and called it "India"? The only reason why Pakistan exists today is because the Indian Muslims didn't want to live with the non-Muslim Indians so the British were forced to create a new nation called "Pakistan".
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  5263. Nobody wants to hear about that
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  5264.  @Jambudvipa-ug6yg  YES THEY ARE
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  5265.  @YoniBaruch-y3m  Plenty of press at the start back in 2017 but completely forgotten after that. Are y'all even aware of what has happened since then? No.
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  5266.  @savannahmitchum1187  How do LGBT people existing affect the way y'all live? It doesn't.
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  5267.  @konroh2  Imagine saying all this while LGBT people would be demonised under a Christian government, where are their individual rights? Imagine saying this while highly advanced South Korea with its huge Christian population has a well known history of Christian fundamentalism that targets Buddhism (one of the two main religions of traditional Korean culture), where Buddhist temples have been destroyed and attacked. Imagine saying this while forced Christian conversions are a daily occurrence in South Korea. Imagine saying this while Christian sects have created severe damage to Korean society, even resulting in a political crisis in 2016 where the president was impeached. There are countless examples from other parts of the world including Vietnam, Poland, Russia and the United States that I could bring up.
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  5268.  @oceanbluetv4007  It's not a laughing matter. 💀 They disrespect them all the time, their mere existence is offensive to them. That's why whenever a country or region tries to make changes to give rights to LGBT people (like decriminalisation), there are always Christians protesting and demanding they don't be given rights. It happens everywhere, even in places where Christians are a minority they're the ones protesting. Singapore decriminalised homosexuality and it was Christians, a minority group in Singapore, that were protesting while the Buddhist and atheist majority had no issue whatsoever.
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  5269.  @Kay_La_Soul  You should learn how to respect others
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  5270.  @Bunnyhop21  um... yes. Absolutely. Christianity is widespread across the world because of colonisation. It was spread through control and is still being spread by preying on vulnerable people in the form of missionaries and cults. There is a famous saying from an African figure, "when the Europeans came to our land, they had the bible and we had the land. When we closed our eyes and opened them, they had the land and we had the bible". Christianity is widespread across Africa, which are home to some of the poorest nations on earth. Be serious. Developed nations are developed not because of Christianity. You know that that is not true at all when some of the most advanced nations on earth aren't even Christian-majority and there are so many non-religious people in a lot of developed nations. What I said is the truth and you know it.
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  5271. Well maybe it's correlated to caste in India but the whole of South Asia doesn't believe in caste.
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  5272.  @brentsaddress  The hate is real
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  5273. They don't? Guess you've never heard an Australian accent before.
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  5274.  @SaviorCydelor  They're talking about the Tatmadaw's actions
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  5275. Wasn't Adani the one that was trying to develop India by investing in stuff?
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  5276. @Taharqa idk what happened to your comment but I don't think you've seen Levantine Arab people if you think the average Levantine Arab looks like a mixed race half black and half white man.
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  5277.  @Momoa786  Ohhhhh stop getting triggered by everything 💀
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  5278.  @Momoa786  I never said all Europeans look the same. I said that there are Arabs and Europeans who look similar and that is the truth. Stop creating fake drama out of nothing. Touch grass ASAP.
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  5279.  @Momoa786  Stop making everything about yourself. Stop trying to find things to get triggered about. I literally said that there are Arabs and Europeans who look very similar, that is the truth. I never said anything about Europeans all looking the same. My gosh, why are people so sensitive these days? ...chronically online behaviour 💀
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  5280.  @Momoa786  ...and Arabs don't stand out in southern Europe. I'm from Australia. There are a lot of Australians of Levantine Arab origin and they look like southern Europeans.
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  5281.  @Momoa786  In Latin America, Arabs are classified as and seen as "white" due to being white passing and predominantly Christian. There have been many Latin American presidents who are of Arab origin.
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  5282.  @Momoa786  Gigi and Bella Hadid's father is Mohamed Hadid, he looks white and will pass as European in Sweden, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands.
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  5283.  @Momoa786  None of this is surprising. Arabs and Europeans are of basal West Eurasian origin and closely related to each other in comparison to other world populations. One of the main ancestral components of Europeans are the Anatolian hunter-gatherers (who originated in the Middle East).
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  5284.  @iscifion7122  What is "brown"? Jews are not brown, they have fair skin and look very similar to Europeans. This whole "Asia = brown" idea is incorrect. So many people in Western Asia are white passing.
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  5285.  @Momoa786  Portugal doesn't even border the Mediterranean...
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  5286.  @Momoa786  Have you seen the blonde haired Syrians and Lebanese? Myriam Klink is Lebanese and has blonde hair and blue eyes. She can easily pass in Estonia and Denmark and every other part of Europe you want separated from southern Europe.
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  5287.  @Momoa786  Not everybody in Scandinavia has blonde hair either, many have brown (which is the dominant hair colour in the rest of Europe).
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  5288.  @Momoa786  Many Arabs and other related groups can pass in northern Europe with ease. Josef Johansson, a Swedish singer of Tunisian descent can easily pass in Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia and other parts of northern Europe. His name is also Swedish which makes him even more indistinguishable from the native Swedish population.
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  5289. ​ @Momoa786  You know Mohamed Hadid can pass anywhere across Europe. Zinedine Zidane, John Elway, Doug Flutie, Brian Habib, Jeff George, Jillian Michaels (half Arab, half Jew - full Middle Eastern), Djamel Mesbah, Kerim Frei, Josef Boumedienne, Adam El-Abd and Amal Clooney are of Arab/Middle Eastern descent. They can pass in Sweden, Germany, France, UK, Estonia, Netherlands and every other part of Europe you want to distance from southern Europe.😁
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  5290. Was she speaking in Nepali or was it Hindi?
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  5291.  @MrinangoCHAKRABORTY9103  What does that mean? So do Sikkimese people speak Hindi too?
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  5292.  @MrinangoCHAKRABORTY9103  Thanks for answering.
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  5293. That's what they believe in Indonesia too
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  5294.  @basedtruther1020  Gay/lesbian has nothing to do with gender. 💀
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  5295.  @thelayoffm965  Do you think everybody online is an Indian? I don't know anything about what you have mentioned nor does it have any connection to what I am talking about. Stick to the topic and stop making everything about India!
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  5296.  @Meowie765  Are you Asian? Cause if you are, you'd know that Buddhism is deeply intertwined with Hinduism because Hinduism was the religion that was practiced by many Asian cultures before the emergence of Buddhism. After Buddhism became the dominant faith, people blended Hindu god worship with Buddhist practices. So people identify as Buddhists but sometimes they worship a Hindu god because it's just part of the culture.
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  5297.  @udaikumar1782  How is this funny Kumar?
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  5298.  @Jtnn713  Where are you from?? Eat Asian success has nothing to do with race, maybe if you actually understood the cultural values that make a person a person, you'd understand this but I can't expect much from a raging incel that hates Indian men and thinks that Indian men speak about Chindian marriages to make themselves feel better. Oh my days, Western incel detected.
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  5299.  @Jtnn713  No race has NOTHING to do with it! You just mentioned a set of factors that correlate to culture, not race. Oh my days, these incels need to get educated ASAP
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  5300. @ It's actually you sounds that way. This man said race is the defining factor and yet it mentioned a bunch of aspects that are correlated to culture (something anybody can adopt) rather than race. No, nothing you said is correct. You're a Westerner probably of East Asian descent. F off
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  5301.  @Jtnn713  No it doesn't! Everything you mentioned is determined by culture, not race. Gosh, these people are so...
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  5302. @ The man doesn't know the difference between race and culture, everything that was mentioned is correlated to culture not race. Must be a white person
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  5303.  @Jtnn713  Don't you dare call me dumb when you don't even know the difference between culture and "race"
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  5304.  @user-yc9vx3nz5z  No it's not
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  5305.  @Sedna063  The US started devastating wars too. No wonder the entirety of the Global South is turning their backs on the US. Selective outrage.
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  5306.  @Sedna063  No it doesn't. You seem to be very fond of rich people getting richer, so much to the point that you're making up fictional scenarios because you don't like the idea of India and China producing vaccines to be given out to developing countries. You seem to be more interested in prolonging a global pandemic and hoping for the emergence of new variants so that rich people can get richer and the sad thing about all of this is that you're most likely just an average human from a lower middle income household, like most of us in the world bending your back over for rich people. The whole world is suffering but you're here wanting rich people to get richer without just ending this pandemic. As I said before, it is in the interest of the entire world of ending this pandemic. You need to understand the fact that the ultra-rich are in a better position to most people on this planet, that is how things work. At the end of the day, you're the one who will be affected first when things go south, not them. BTW, China is making an mRNA vaccine at this moment that has now been sent for trial testing so I have no idea what you're talking about.
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  5307. W R O N G
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  5308. Yep and China wants control over all of those regions and they've done a lot to cement their position as one of the main powers.
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  5309. You watched the video about a terrible conflict and this is what you focus on??
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  5310. Y'all really want our region to be destroyed, don't you?
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  5311.  @jerryn9690  Right?? Idek why they said that LOL
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  5312.  @watch1981  I'm not actually Singaporean, so joke's on you
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  5313.  @NewmaticKe  These non-Asians come here and start calling Singapore a dictatorship, I'd love to hear what they call civil war-riddled Myanmar led by Min Aung Hlaing if they think Lee Hsien Loong is a dictator
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  5314. Crazy how people are being racist even after literal children died. Satan is warming up hell for you.
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  5315. It's because unlike other Indian communities in other Asian countries, these Indians are seen as a relic of British Hong Kong. Most of them came to Hong Kong during the colonial era (along with other South Asians - Nepalese and Pakistani). When Hong Kong went back to China, many Indians did not change with the times. Many continued to speak English and did not learn Cantonese preventing their ability from moving forward. They are a reminder of British Hong Kong. It's very different to ethnic Indians in places like Singapore or Malaysia who settled in those areas many centuries ago and went on to become a dominant aspect in the formation of the cultures of those areas unlike in Hong Kong. The Indians of Hong Kong are much more similar to the Chinese and Koreans of Japan, invisible minority groups who also face discrimination and resentment for historical reasons.
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  5316. He also described the AASI hunter-gatherers as "Aboriginal Australian Hunter-Gatherers", which is wrong and also shaded the whole of Southeast Asia claiming it is inhabited by Aboriginal Australians, which is wrong too.
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  5317. English is one of the languages spoken there and is recognised in their constitution as the binding language of Sri Lankans because Sri Lanka is an ethnically diverse country.
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  5318.  @illliiiiillliii6265  None of that is true. Global South is a synonym for the developing world (middle income and low income nations). China, India, Russia have all used the term to describe it.
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  5319.  @dahut_  Plenty of nations in the Global South are civilised. None of you actually understand the term. In the world, there are three different economic brackets for nations: high income, middle income and low income. "Global South" is a term to describe middle income and low income nations, whilst Global North is a term to describe high income nations.
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  5320.  @MattSinz  It's just a term to describe middle income and low income nations. Many nations in the Global South are newly industrialised.
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  5321. weeb
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  5322.  @greenisland2441  They didn't. Hindu Rohingyas were displaced and crossed over into Bangladesh due to violence between ARSA and the Tatmadaw, now they want to go back.
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  5323.  @3haAD900  Are you Hindu Rohingya? Anyway, either way Hindu or Muslim, I really hope things get better for your entire community. I really respect all Rohingyas. Despite all of the persecution you have faced and the genocide, you still want to go back to your homeland and still identify as Burmese and still don't hold malice towards other ethnic groups in Rakhine or Bamar. It's just amazing to me because there are other persecuted groups in the world who refuse to identify with their homelands because of what has happened to their communities and some of these communities resort to violence but for Rohingyas, it's so different. I heard that most Rohingyas in the camps don't even support ARSA. So yeah I really hope things get better. My family donated money to one of the charities in my country to help Rohingyas back in 2017 when the genocide was happening. I hope things get better for Myanmar an the Tatmadaw are defeated. I hope you'll all get your citizenship back one day and you will be re-recognised as one of the native groups of Myanmar.
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  5324.  @3haAD900  There's a suburb in a city in my country which has a lot of Chinese and Southeast Asian people (including Rohingyas) and I visited one of the Burmese restaurants in the area and it was owned by Rohingyas. They were so nice. I ate mohinga.
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  5325.  @saransh10  They need to close off India to the rest of the world atp
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  5326.  @baneofbanes  Nixon supported the genocide of Bangladeshis and gave full support to Pakistan.
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  5327.  @Ucandoit_  It's the truth
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  5328.  @David-lu4th  "Sure Jan"
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  5329. Poaching is not what you need to worry about. What you need to worry about is the lack of kind strangers who always leave food out for the birds, stray dogs and other animals who will now get nothing because there's no more food left.
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  5330. ??
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  5331. You're an American larping as an Indian so people hate on them. India pick China and move forward
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  5332. It's not an accusation, it's the truth. The UN investigation also revealed the Burmese military has committed genocide towards other ethnic minorities in the country.
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  5333.  @ashutoshsaraswat2138  ????? Myanmar was never asked to join India. It was ruled as a separate colony after it was separated from British India.
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  5334.  @opensprings  Only part of Russia is in Asia and that's Siberia. Siberians look like East Asians (Chinese, Koreans) and Central Asians (Kazakhs). Slavic Russians, who look White, are not Asians because they're not from Asia. Indians are Asians because they're native to Asia. You need to stop thinking "Asian" means Chinese looking people. That way of thinking does not apply to the rest of the world. In the UK (where this documentary is from), Indian-looking people are called "Asians" and in Asia, all people from Asia are considered Asians. White Russians, on the other hand, are not Asians, will never be considered Asian and they don't even consider themselves to be Asians.
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  5335. Shikwambi Aksel India is in Asia, have you not looked at an atlas before? Talk about ignorance, the irony of all this.
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  5336.  @opensprings  ...and just so you know, many ethnic groups in eastern India share genetic ties to East Asia and Southeast Asia? India is extremely diverse, just like Russia. Also, Indians are culturally related to East Asians. East, South and Southeast Asia all share a common cultural heritage rooted in the Indic and Sinic cultural traditions. I think it's also worth pointing out that Middle Easterners are genetically related to Europeans. Both Europeans and Middle Easterners belong to the West Eurasian lineage and both groups share an overlapping history. Indians are different as they are a mix of South Eurasian, West Eurasian-related and East Eurasian DNA. Indians are basically "mixed race". Yes Russia is one landmass but Slavic Russians are not Asians and don't identify as Asians (Slavic Russians have literally said this). Slavic Russians colonised Siberia. Siberia (Asian Russia) was never part of Russia to begin with. The native people of Siberia are genetically related to East Asians and Central Asians and practice shamanist beliefs similar to shamanist beliefs in Korea and Japan or practice Vajrayana Buddhism, which is practiced in Mongolia, Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan and parts of Northern India. In other words, the native Siberians are genetically and culturally Asians. Slavic Russians are genetically and culturally European. Their history is tied to Europe, not Asia. Also, just so you know, because of the pandemic Central Asians have experienced racism in European Russia, simply because they're from Asia. Most Central Asians don't even look Chinese. Central Asian-looking people have also faced racism in the areas of Russia in which Central Asian-looking people are native to like Tatarstan due to the pandemic. So while Russia is one continous landmass, a single country, the difference between "Asian" Russia and "European" Russia are very clear when people focus on appearance, culture and religion.
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  5337. No, only other Asian countries.
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  5338.  @paolamaria1992  The West became better because it industrialised. It has NOTHING to do with Christianity. Stop being delulu.
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  5339.  @paolamaria1992  Civilisations rise and fall. It happens to every civilisation, understand this. Asia's civilisations were once at their peak but declined but now they're once again rising which is why we call it the Asian Century. Why would a German, Dutch or Italian need to go to Pakistan or Sri Lanka? Stop being obtuse and understand the fact that Christianity has NOTHING to do with development, in fact Christianity is what causes a country to not develop. There are plenty of White people that have retired and live in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Bali and Cambodia because cost of living is cheaper but also because these countries/regions are tropical and safe.
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  5340.  @paolamaria1992  Most Asians in the world live in Asia, it has a population of 4 billion. What on earth are you talking about??? Most Asians don't live in Asia?? What on earth are you saying?? Get educated! What is your obsession with Pakistan and Sri Lanka and since when do they equal the whole of Asia???? Understand the fact that Christianity has NOTHING to do with development. Get off the high horse because there is absolutely NOTHING appealing about Christianity. Believing in a gigantic man in the sky, forcing people to convert to that religion, discrimination of people who don't believe in Christian practices. Christianity hinders development, y'all don't hold a flame to any of the Eastern religions. Got it??
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  5341.  @paolamaria1992  Get off the high horse because there is absolutely NOTHING appealing about Christianity. Believing in a gigantic man in the sky, forcing people to convert to that religion, discrimination of people who don't believe in Christian practices. Christianity hinders development, it doesn't hold a flame to any of the Eastern religions. Got it??
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  5342.  @paolamaria1992  Most Asians in the world live in Asia, it has a population of 4 billion. What on earth are you talking about??? Most Asians don't live in Asia?? What on earth are you saying?? Get educated! What is your obsession with Pakistan and Sri Lanka and since when do they equal the whole of Asia???? Understand the fact that Christianity has NOTHING to do with development. Get off the high horse because there is absolutely NOTHING appealing about Christianity. Believing in a gigantic man in the sky, forcing people to convert to that religion, discrimination of people who don't believe in Christian practices. Christianity hinders development, y'all don't hold a flame to any of the Eastern religions.
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  5343.  @paolamaria1992  Christianity has NOTHING to do with industrialisation. That's not ignorance, it's a fact. Cry harder. States succeed when they are secular, when they abide by religious rules they collapse and wither. No country is successful when they combine religion, especially Abrahamic religions, with government. Take your Christian tears elsewhere, nobody gaf about that.
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  5344.  @paolamaria1992  A country that combines religion, especially Abrahamic religions, with government never succeeds. Secular nations thrive, not religious theocracies dictated by an imaginary huge bearded man living in the sky. Cry harder.
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  5345.  @paolamaria1992  A country that combines religion, especially Abrahamic religions, with government never succeeds. Secular nations thrive, not religious theocracies dictated by an imaginary huge bearded man living in the sky
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  5346.  @paolamaria1992  A country that combines religion, especially Abrahamic religions, with government never succeeds. Secular nations thrive, not religious theocracies dictated by a huge bearded man living in the sky
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  5347.  @paolamaria1992  Why is it under every religion video, I always see Christians coping hard and forcing their beliefs onto other people???
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  5348.  @paolamaria1992  A country that combines religion, especially Abrahamic religions, with government never succeeds. Secular nations thrive, not religious theocracies dictated by an imaginary huge bearded man living in the sky
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  5349.  @paolamaria1992  Why do Christians constantly belittle other beliefs? This video is about Buddhism but this Christian woman is here arguing and saying her religion is the best. Learn to respect other beliefs and other people. There's a reason why so many people in the West mock Christianity cause of people like you.
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  5350.  @paolamaria1992  Not all African countries have Muslim communities and why are you blaming Muslims? Christians control all of the African countries that I am talking about. You can't argue any further because you've been proven wrong. Christianity drastically affects the way a society behaves. We can see how Christianity persecutes non-Christians, as was the case in South Vietnam and we can see how its has strong influence on the way people must live their lives. It changes society completely and has nothing to do with development. There is a reason why the so-called Bible Belt in the US is among the poorest regions in America. Accept these facts.
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  5351.  @paolamaria1992  Not all African countries have Muslim communities and why are you blaming Muslims? Christians control all of the African countries that I am talking about. You can't argue any further because you've been proven wrong. Christianity drastically affects the way a society behaves.
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  5352.  @paolamaria1992  Not all African countries have Muslim communities and why are you blaming Muslims? Christians control all of the African countries that I am talking about. You can't argue any further because you've been proven wrong. Christianity drastically affects the way a society behaves. We can see how Christianity persecutes non-Christians, as was the case in South Vietnam and we can see how its has strong influence on the way people must live their lives. It changes society completely and has nothing to do with development. There is a reason why the so-called Bible Belt in the US is among the poorest regions in America.
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  5353.  @paolamaria1992  Not all African countries have Muslim communities and why are you blaming Muslims? Christians control all of the African countries that I am talking about. You can't argue any further because you've been proven wrong. Christianity drastically affects the way a society behaves. We can see how Christianity persecutes non-Christians, as was the case in South Vietnam and we can see how its has strong influence on the way people must live their lives. It changes society completely and has nothing to do with development. There is a reason why the so-called Bible Belt in the US is among the poorest regions in America. Accept these facts.
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  5354.  @battlerushiromiya651  That has nothing to do with Buddhism. You need to do some research on Asian history
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  5355.  @battlerushiromiya651  They became Christian during colonisation though.
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  5356.  @battlerushiromiya651  Sectarianism in Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Thailand has nothing to do with religion. Idk why you'd even mention them.
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  5357.  @battlerushiromiya651  Singapore has a Buddhist majority. Most Japanese identify as atheist because they don't believe in organised religion. Shinto-Buddhism is not organised religion, it's a cultural system. Don't conflate your Western understanding of religion on Asian societies.
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  5358.  @battlerushiromiya651  Wrong. That had nothing to do with it.
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  5359.  @battlerushiromiya651  Why do Christians come to other religion videos and always proclaim how great they are? If y'all are so great then why are y'all constantly having to say it?
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  5360.  @battlerushiromiya651  You trying to make issues in Sri Lanka, Thailand and Myanmar (and Cambodia which I literally have no idea why you even mentioned that country) is so funny. Not everything is about religion. There is a world outside of it and you coming here and trying to simplify issues, particularly ones that emerged during colonisation, as religious-based is such an asinine thing to do. So-called Asian Century and still people don't know what's going on in Asia.
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  5361.  @battlerushiromiya651  Where in Buddhism does it say that genocide is allowed or that there is a god telling them what to do? Maybe stop conflating religion with ethnic politics because Lhotshampa Buddhists, Shan/Rakhine/Karen Buddhists and Sri Lankan Tamil Buddhists were not spared the violence they have faced.
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  5362.  @battlerushiromiya651  A few times a year? This is what I am talking about. You're imposing your Western worldview on an Asian setting. People in Japan don't become Shinto or Buddhist a few times a year, being Shinto-Buddhist is a simple part of the traditional Japanese culture. Its the same reason why North Korea is lenient towards Buddhism than other religions and has even designated Vesak a public holiday at times in the past because they view Buddhism as an integral part of Korean culture. So don't conflate ethnic nationalism in parts of S/SE Asia with religion.
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  5363.  @battlerushiromiya651  They don't justify their actions by using Buddhism. It's ethnic nationalism. You're going to have to do some thorough research on Eastern mindsets to understand what I am saying or we're going to keep going round and round in circles. There is no principle in Buddhism that encourages such behaviour. You can keep trying to conflate things but the fact is that you don't actually understand what you're talking about.
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  5364.  @battlerushiromiya651  and that's their opinion and you got mad.
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  5365.  @battlerushiromiya651  You saying these things is because you think religion dictates everything. Saying things like Christian countries" and "Buddhist countries" makes no sense when you actually think about it.
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  5366.  @battlerushiromiya651  Where in Asia? A Christian-majority country or is it an Islamic-majority nation cause you most definitely are not from a Buddhist-majority one or any East Asian one for that matter.
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  5367.  @battlerushiromiya651  and the Buddhist Crisis in Vietnam started because of Christian persecution.
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  5368.  @battlerushiromiya651  Buddhism is not a culture. It's a belief system. You're talking about Sinhalese Buddhist culture, Bamar Buddhist culture, Thai Buddhist culture etc.
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  5369.  @battlerushiromiya651  I'm not saying Christianity is the reason for any bad things. I was merely trying to point out to that Christian woman how her view was wrong because it made no sense.
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  5370.  @battlerushiromiya651  Really? If that's the case then why were Lhotshampa Buddhists expelled and Shan, Rakhine and Karen Buddhists genocided? You won't be able to answer that.
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  5371. Objectively speaking, left wing terrorists exist. It's not just right wing terrorists. If one looks at the whole world, one will be able to see that there are left wing threats and right wing threats. In India, for example, Maoists (far left communists) have waged violence in rural areas of the country since the late 1960s following a method known as a people's war (first developed in China). Their whole violent campaign is officially known as Left Wing Extremism (LWE). I should also add that there have been many leftist/communist-driven acts of violence in various other parts of Asia (not just India) and parts of Latin America too. Both left and right wing terrorism exist.
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  5372.  @chillkid1465  She's literally famous on TikTok, especially in Asian countries. They're not running up to her because she has dark brown skin. Stop being so silly.
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  5373.  @chillkid1465  You're writing up these think pieces all because you can't fathom the fact that a dark skinned girl is popular in Japan and South Korea.
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  5374.  @chillkid1465  Yep people are running up to her because she's famous, that's all there is to it. People aren't running up to her cause they don't know who she is.
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  5375. It's not a debt trap. Idk why everybody talks about Hambantota Port. The previous Sri Lankan government offered to hand the port over to China under a lease. They chose to do it. China didn't force them. It's not a trap because most of their debt isn't even owed to China.
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  5376.  @wlee9888  I agree
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  5377. It's not part of India. I can't believe this is what India is focusing on. How is this country going to develop if this is what they're focusing on?
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  5378. Unemployment is an issue and Nikhil Raj here is more worried about a tiny uninhabited island becoming a part of India. If India was run by Singaporean-Tamils, India would be a highly developed nation today.
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  5379.  @MMX-fh5tn  Indian civilisation has collapsed. Just because Indians still exist doesn't mean it's thriving, cause it's not. India thrived from the ancient days to the days of the Mughals. It's nothing like what it used to be.
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  5380.  @MMX-fh5tn  Indian civilisation has collapsed. Be serious
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  5381.  @Cigaweed75-z2n  Only begun? Well in the Global South, it looks like China is winning.
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  5382.  @florianlion8215  Societal collapse is inevitable. It happens to every civilisation for different reasons. The industrialised world of our time was never going to remain industrialised forever. As humans develop, new things will develop. Slow growth, lack of adoption of new technology, changes to demography and so on will lead to stagnation and eventual decline. So yes, it's not just the US it's also various parts of Europe and Japan. What has happened to Japan since the 1990s is on another level. Japan's economic decline is what could happen to other industrialised nations.
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  5383.  @jamesclarkmaxwell-v2n  Who said they'll leave?
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  5384.  @queefmicester1189  Survive does not mean thrive. All civilisations rise and fall. Muslim is a religious group made up of diverse groups. Afghans, Syrians, Sudanese, Somalis etc. are not thriving. China declined and is once again rising. India declined and is once again rising.
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  5385.  @MMX-fh5tn  When I speak of delusions, this is what I mean. India declined and it is rising again. It was never continuous. No civilisation is.
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  5386. @ Survive does not mean thrive. All civilisations rise and fall. Muslim is a religious group made up of diverse groups. Afghans, Syrians, Sudanese, Somalis etc. are not thriving. China declined and is once again rising. India declined and is once again rising.
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  5387.  @AngkatanNamwaran  China declined. All civilisations decline. Just because humanity remains doesn't mean China never declined. China went through the Century of Humiliation, during that period it was at its lowest. Once again, it is rising again. All civilisations rise and fall.
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  5388.  @stephenjenkins7971  It's still rising. When you visit China you will see how much they have risen.
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  5389.  @calidawg111  No it's not. It's declining and China is filling the void. If you live outside of the US, you will know how different things are. I see more people who are pro-China than pro-US.
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  5390. @ Still standing doesn't mean not declining. It's declining.
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  5391.  @Thecoolestnumberone  They can't though, history shows that that is not possible
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  5392.  @Thecoolestnumberone  Yeah an empire never lasts forever. The US will never remain at the top forever, it's a normal part of human development.
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  5393. @ and this is the crux of why the US is declining. It is only thriving because it thrives on war.
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  5394.  @stevencooke6451  and the average people always suffer
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  5395.  @Thecoolestnumberone  Quality of life in the US is decreasing, its life expectancy has dropped. The country was unable to manage the COVID-19 pandemic during the first wave while much of Asia (including developing Asian nations) were able to. The nation is severely divided and there is anti-government sentiment across the country, n matter who is in power, anti-corporate sentiment is rising and the entire Global South is re-aligning in a way that hasn't been seen since the end of WW2. It's very clearly declining.
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  5396.  @kansashoneybadger7899  The world is completely US-oriented and it's clear that the rest of the world (especially the Global South) is getting tired of it. China now publishes more scientific papers than the US or any other nation in the world. It now accounts for 23% of the world's research output. Patenting in the US is not the defining factor of a nation's success. US life expectancy has been declining since it peaked in 2014 and its decline was exacerbated with COVID-19. It has yet to rebound. When a nation's quality of life continues to decrease, it's clear a nation is slowly falling.
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  5397.  @Thecoolestnumberone  What you spoke about was an exception. Life expectancy is the predicted life span that the average baby is expected to live in a certain area like a country. Bringing up examples of people who live to 100 is not the norm and it's not he standard. The fact is that the average American is expected to live until 76. Key word, "average".
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  5398.  @Thecoolestnumberone  but it did. Living in denial when access to Google is free is crazy
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  5399.  @kansashoneybadger7899  So China is actually rising one again. There is widespread backlash to immigrants in the US nowadays, especially towards Indians who enter on a H-1b visa. Silicon Valley and the US innovator list of 2023 featured many East Asian and Indian names but I don't think that will be the case forever. AI adoption is slower in the US than it is in Asia. Singapore tops the list and support for AI is greater in Asia than the US. There is actually fear and backlash towards AI in the US unlike in Asia where local news broadcasts now use AI news anchors. So many people fail to understand what civilisation collapse means and so they keep talking about humanity surviving, this is now what this is about. It's about a civilisation being at the top and then declining, humanity surviving does not mean a civilisation has not collapsed. To continue talking about innovations and what not does not make sense because the average American isn't benefitting from any of that. Th rich are thriving but the average middle Americans aren't. US life expectancy continues to decrease and it's the middle class and lower class that will suffer.
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  5400.  @Thecoolestnumberone  2014?? It decreased greatly after 2020 due to COVID-19. Try using Google
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  5401. @ It literally decreased greatly after 2020 due to COVID-19. Do your research properly.
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  5402. @ So China is actually rising one again. There is widespread backlash to immigrants in the US nowadays, especially towards Indians who enter on a H-1b visa. Silicon Valley and the US innovator list of 2023 featured many East Asian and Indian names but I don't think that will be the case forever. AI adoption is slower in the US than it is in Asia. Singapore tops the list and support for AI is greater in Asia than the US. There is actually fear and backlash towards AI in the US unlike in Asia where local news broadcasts now use AI news anchors.
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  5403. @ So China is actually rising one again. There is widespread backlash to immigrants in the US nowadays, especially towards Indians who enter on a H-1b visa. Silicon Valley and the US innovator list of 2023 featured many East Asian and Indian names but I don't think that will be the case forever. AI adoption is slower in the US than it is in Asia. Singapore tops the list and support for AI is greater in Asia than the US. There is actually fear and backlash towards AI in the US unlike in Asia where local news broadcasts now use AI news anchors.
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  5404. @ Many people fail to understand what civilisation collapse means and so they keep talking about humanity surviving, this is now what this is about. It's about a civilisation being at the top and then declining, humanity surviving does not mean a civilisation has not collapsed. To continue talking about innovations and what not does not make sense because the average American isn't benefitting from any of that.
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  5405.  @juanmccoy3066  Well I'm not an American for starters and secondly, I was way too young to remember 9/11. A lot of us at that time were babies or toddlers. Your experience is valuable because you know more than I do.
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  5406.  @nnf9431  They literally went through what they called a Century of Humiliation. It declined. Y'all don't know what civilisation means in this context even after the video clearly explains it omd
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  5407. No they do not lmfao
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  5408.  @raiderwarrior2725  The top 10% of India's population holds 70% of the country's wealth... idk why they brag about things like that when they aren't even the ones who hold the country's wealth.
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  5409.  @gslayer69  Are you talking about his space programs or something else?
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  5410. China and India abstaining is due to very simple reasons. Here's the run down: 1. India abstained because India and Russia have what they call a "special relationship". They have been close since India's independence. 2. China abstained because China is an ally of Russia This is the reality not about Western countries and their hegemonic capabilities because if that was the case, why would India be part of the US-led Quad (an organisation attempting to contain China within Asia through US help)?
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  5411.  @roh-mj6em  Actually maybe it's India schools that refuses to acknowledge the impact of East and Southeast Asia on India but they had some impact too. While rice was cultivated in the IVC as recent studies show, widespread rice farming (particularly of the aus-type variety) in India came to the country through the spread of Austroasiatic farmers from Southeast Asia. These people today are known as the Munda groups, SEA-related male farmers who had intermixed with predominantly AASI-rich women to create groups like the Munda, Santhal and Ho that exist across central, eastern and sub-Himalayan South Asia today (all Austroasiatic-speaking peoples). East Asia's impact came through Chinese immigration to India (especially Kolkata), birthing the cuisine known as Indo-Chinese cuisine as well as the introduction of East Asian architectural elements and garment styles that exist in various parts of the Himalayas like in parts of Himachal Pradesh (e.g. the Kinnaur people, Kinnaur architecture - even their language is a Sino-Tibetan language related to Mandarin).
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  5412.  @आयुष_पराशर  You're joking right?
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  5413.  @आयुष_पराशर  Tell me you are joking
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  5414.  @आयुष_पराशर  No it's not
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  5415.  @WastedBananas  Since when are all Indians North Indians?
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  5416.  @WastedBananas  Stop liking your comments, there is no way anybody liked that comment in 43 seconds
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  5417.  @WastedBananas  More influenced by Muslims??? Where on earth did you get this information from?? Most Indians are Hindus 💀
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  5418. Exactly, Asia is just a continent. People are making Asian into a descriptive term to describe East Asian-type features when nobody in Asia sees it that way.
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  5419.  @surojsarkar6054  No
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  5420.  @Jambudvipa-ug6yg  Cringe American Bangla
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  5421. India is in Asia! Look at a map!
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  5422. Indian people in Arunachal Pradesh along the India-China border were saying they are proud Indians but they feel sad that their region is not developed because they can see Tibetan towns across the border and see that they have been developed while they're still living in villages. I'm sad that India doesn't develop the country rapidly. I really want to visit the country but the viral videos on TikTok last year tell me it's not safe to visit.
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  5423.  @Sumitkalra93728  Okay and what has any of that got to do with what I'm talking about? Also, it's spelled "Buddha", not "Budha".
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  5424.  @laveniaghosh8303  cause North Indians always say "justice for Uyghurs" and "free Tibet" and yet the regions where Uyghurs and Tibetans live in China are fully developed and yet the regions in India are still undeveloped.
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  5425. Send them back to where they came from. Something, many in the UK would be familiar with.
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  5426. Indians, Filipinos and Taiwanese are still at the top
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  5427. It's quite horrific the way the Indians want to send their most talented to the US. India will never get close to what China has achieved.
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  5428. I hope all of these Asian nations can develop so their people don't need to migrate to other nations to make a living.
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  5429.  @juliaxiao5320  ...because nobody else in the world cares about that stuff apart from China.
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  5430.  @ashtondolce4446  Yes I agree with your comment, well said. Also, Vox could have also included how Hong Kong had to remove memorials of the Tiananmen Square Massacre that the CCP committed against pro-democracy Chinese students in 1989.
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  5431. Me when I don't understand basic fact checking
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  5432. There are many Indians who eat beef. They have their own traditional dishes that are made using beef.
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  5433. 💀
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  5434.  @_Mohit_Joshi  Indo-Pacific and Asia-Pacific basically mean the same thing. The terminology really doesn't matter.
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  5435.  @shanep.7184  Yeah but there are downsides to democracy in a developing nation. India is developing at a much much slower pace than China because it's a democracy. Democracy simply doesn't work for developing Asian countries, it works best in developed Asian nations like Taiwan and South Korea.
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  5436.  @eugene9661  Remove China and Russia from the UN Security Council. Justice can never be brought to Myanmar because everytime someone tries to do something, China and Russia veto it.
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  5437.  @durgeshsss  Only 10% of Sri Lanka's debt is owed to China.
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  5438. China has been helping Sri Lanka for the past 15 years or so.
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  5439.  @honkhonk8009  Are you talking about the Hambantota Port? I'm asking because if you're talking about the Colombo Port City then that's not connected to the CCP. A Chinese company funded it and the whole thing is being led by a Sri Lankan team (CHEC Port City Colombo). I think the mainstream media has misled a lot of people and people are confusing the Port City (which is not a port) to the Hambantota Port (which is a port built through a Chinese loan). Most of Sri Lanka's debt isn't even owed to China, contrary to what the media likes to say.
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  5440. Myanmar and Northeast India are not going to join China. 💀
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  5441.  @starrynight43451  Yeah I stand corrected. I've done more research since then. Though most came during the Dutch rule.
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  5442. Yep you're right because if immigration were to cease, the local-born Australian population would eventually decline because the nation's fertility rate as a whole is below replacement level. The fertility rate for local-born Australians is probably even lower.
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  5443.  @jaibholenath6900  Righting the wrongs of the past was certainly incorrect. Yes, Sinhalese were unfavoured by the British during the colonial era over the Tamils but you move on from that, you don't try to right those wrongs and take your country backwards. When Sri Lanka implemented thee Sinhala Only Act, the country was using English as its lingua franca and the government instructed all books to be translated to Sinhalese so when they finally finishing translating textbooks, encyclopaedias etc. to Sinhalese, they were outdated because a new English version had been released. It was a disaster.
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  5444.  @jaibholenath6900  India's enemy may be China but it certainly is not one of Sri Lanka's enemies. India must realise that "my enemy could be somebody else's friend". Sri Lanka knows its friends and that includes both India and China. China has been an ally of Sri Lanka for a long time since the 1950s, long before the Rajapaksas even came to power. This is why China, India and Japan are described as "historic allies" in Sri Lankan politics.
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  5445.  @QuintusGaius  Aw cry
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  5446. Of course a white man is obsessing over ethnic homogeneity, how does that relate to the issue of mistreatment of women in South Korea?
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  5447. The most reasonable comment I have seen so far. Maybe if everybody was like you, things would've been better.
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  5448. Japan literally has thousands and thousands of other Asian migrants from Vietnam, Philippines, Nepal and so on
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  5449.  @MarcoCholo-iz9js  Australia is NOT a white native nation. Japanese are actually native to Japan and can do whatever they want.
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  5450.  @yerri5567  Comparing two people marrying to m*rder?? Omfl this person...
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  5451.  @yerri5567  This thing just compared SSM to m****r 💀
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  5452.  @yerri5567  Your rights should be stripped away + stop liking your own comments
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  5453.  @yerri5567  This thing is doubling down on what it said. It compared SSM to m*****. It's rights should be stripped away.
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  5454.  @yerri5567  It compared SSM to m*****, where is the brain???
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  5455.  @yerri5567  It compared SSM to m*****, nothing upstairs
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  5456.  @yerri5567  Imagine caring about something that doesn't even affect you. Embarrassing.
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  5457.  @yerri5567  Why does two people marrying make you so upset? 💀
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  5458. Blame it on American identity politics, they're the one that created this whole "Asian" identity.
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  5459. You shouldn't help others and expect things in return, that's not helping. That's you asking for something in return, you're looking for a transaction. So in other words, where's the help?
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  5460.  @existing6881  So then that's not "helping"
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  5461.  @existing6881  Friends do favours and expect nothing in return. If you're expecting something in return, you're not a friend but merely a business partner
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  5462.  @AdamAdamHDL  Nobody practices caste among the Sinhalese population. The so-called highest caste in Sri Lanka is traditionally considered a farmer caste. That literally means nothing today.
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  5463.  @hanzoII963  That's like saying Vietnamese are descendants of Chinese. Sinhalese people formed in Sri Lanka from an East Indian-related lineage that mixed with the ancient indigenous groups in addition to additional admixture from other groups like the Malays. Sinhalese have their own culture, even Sri Lankan amils have their own qualities specific to Sri Lanka.
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  5464.  @hanzoII963  No they aren't. Japanese themselves descend partially from the Jomon, who originated in the Himalayas. Sinhalese are not Indians. The average genetic makeup of Sinhalese is AASI + Neolithic Farmer + a small amount of Southeast Asian. So the same?? Yeah... definitely not.
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  5465.  @hanzoII963  No, the genetic variance between Marathi and Sinhalese is absolutely not the same and we're not Hindus. I did a 23andMe genetic test and it came back as mostly native Sri Lankan (represented by Sinhalese and Sri Lankan Tamil) and the rest was Southeast Asian (represented by Thai, Indonesian, Cambodian and Burmese). So no, we are NOT the same and we are not Marathi or Hindu. What a thing to say.
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  5466.  @hanzoII963  North Indian men always coping and claiming other South Asians are the same as them. No, I am not the same as you. Try learning about Sri Lankans. Marathi? Another Hindu ethnicity? My gosh.... delusional.
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  5467.  @hanzoII963  North Indian men constantly claiming other South Asians are the same as them. Get educated on Sri Lankans!
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  5468.  @hanzoII963  North Indian Gangetic men constantly claiming South Asians are all the same. No we are not the same and never will be. Just accept it.
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  5469.  @hanzoII963  Indian male, listen! Japanese people are descended from Yayoi and Jomon. Use Google properly
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  5470.  @hanzoII963  Japanese are literally descended from Yayoi and Jomon. Use Google properly!
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  5471. It has nothing to do with China...
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  5472. All of the pearl clutching right wing Westerners do whenever Japan and South Korea hire foreign workers is so nauseating. They fetishise Japanese and South Koreans and believe they should be allowed into Japan and South Korea but not other Asians. Wrong. There is a reason why East Asian nations prefer other Asian nationalities because even though they are different, they are the most similar in comparison to people from outside of Asia. South Korea has been hiring foreign workers from China and Southeast, South and Central Asian nations since the 1990s. This has been a thing for decades. It's not new. Also, the workers in this video are women which is actually a good thing. These workers are also temporary workers, they are not permanent immigrants and will NEVER be allowed to permanently settle in South Korea. So stop saying "RIP South Korea".
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  5473. If anything, Sri Lanka should be occupied by 3 or more nations in a vaguely similar essence to the occupation of Japan and Germany after WW2. In this case, not as a punishment, but as observers to guide the reconstruction of the country. India, China and Japan are Sri Lanka's three main historic allies, it may be good if all three countries could work together as observers in Sri Lanka. It will also help diffuse tension that India/Japan have with China.
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  5474.  @AdamSmith-gs2dv  Sri Lanka has plenty of natural resources.
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  5475.  @AdamSmith-gs2dv  If anything, the millions of Akhand Bharat nationalists who are supporters of Modi will be cheering because they believe the whole of South Asia, Myanmar, Tibet and Qinghai provinces of China belong to India. They believe southern Asia needs to be colonised by India.
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  5476.  @liricalicmusiclist4970  It's tomorrow now, where's the everything that you're speaking about?
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  5477.  @desmond3828  I know
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  5478. @ Why do I need professional help? Professional help for knowing the difference? How funny
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  5479. @ Not what I am talking about
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  5480.  @burgermariechan  That's not what I am talking about. Shocking how so many don't understand what I am saying.
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  5481. Oh so when the Tatmadaw had the upper hand, they used violence and killed innocent civilians - including children but now that they're losing they want the rebel groups to solve the problems "politically". The Tatmadaw needs to GO!
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  5482.  @antrondon3654  It's within Guyanese jurisdiction, they can do whatever they want.
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  5483. The US authorities clearly don't feel that way though because there are still a large number of US troops stationed in the country, particularly in Okinawa.
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  5484. Are you using a VPN or living in another country?
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  5485.  @davidbowie5023  No it absolutely does not. You're trying so hard to make this into a religious sect issue when that is NOT the case. Your whole argument is flawed but the fact that you spoke about Pol Pot, the leader of a communist regime and somehow tied his violent behaviour to Theravada Buddhism is truly absurd, no offence. Also, no person in Myanmar claimed they were fighting for Theravada. 💀 Do you think I was born yesterday?
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  5486.  @davidbowie5023  How can you literally spread misinformation? You do NOT care one bit about the atrocities in Myanmar because if you did, you wouldn't be here sitting behind a screen spreading misinformation. By spreading this misinformation you're negating the reality that minority groups like the Shan, Karen and Rakhine have faced for decades and you know what?? They're all THERAVADA Buddhists. So if you say the Tatmadaw is fighting for Theravada Buddhism, why on earth are Shan villages being burned to the ground? Why are there thousands of Shan people living in refugee camps in Thailand? Why has the Tatmadaw increased their violence towards Rakhine people? Why are Karen people facing GENOCIDE?
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  5487.  @davidbowie5023  Instead of peddling misinformation, learn about the atrocities in Myanmar and other Southeast and South Asian countries if you truly care. Don't sit behind a screen with your David Bowie fan account whilst you live a life of privilege truly unaware of what people in Myanmar are facing. You will NEVER face the type of pain, fear and destruction that Shan, Karen or Rakhine people are facing and plenty of others in Myanmar face. You weaponise the heinous genocide against the Rohingyas to spread your agenda but you DON'T care one bit about what the Rohingyas have faced at the hands of the Tatmadaw and what they currently face at the hands of cruel people in Indonesia and Malaysia. Do better!
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  5488.  @davidbowie5023  I can tell you aren't an Asian Buddhist cause your infatuation with Buddhist sects is very telling. No lay person who is a Buddhist cares this much about sects because at the end of the day, the core teachings are the same. I hadn't even though about the sects of Buddhism in a long time until I saw your comment. Mahayana was once widespread across Asia before Theravada became popular and yet despite that, Mahayana beliefs still persist in all of the countries where Theravada Buddhism is dominant. Additionally, Buddhist temples are not segregated along sect lines. In countries like Singapore and Malaysia, where there are people who practice Mahayana and Theravada Buddhism exist, you will find so many different cultures that practice different sects at the same temple listening to Dharma talks and partaking in guided meditation. Your obsession with Buddhist sects is extremely peculiar and I just know for a fact that you're a Western person.
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  5489.  @davidbowie5023  So not only are you speaking about something you don't understand, you're also finding ways to attack me personally. You're doing a great job showing me the type of person you are. What radical sects? The fact that you're talking about Islam and Christianity here really shows me that you're way out of line to be talking about Buddhism in Asia. Why are you trying to put two and two together in order to peddle a false narrative? Your hate is extremely palpable. The Sri Lankan Civil War has NOTHING to do with Theravada Buddhism and if you actually took the time to understand the conflict, you'd realise it stems from linguistic and ethnic differences. You'd also realise that it stems from Sinhalese supremacy, a concept that includes people of different religions that are ethnically Sinhalese. Nobody went to any Sangha to receive blessings because to inflict violence, don't spread lies because per your logic, the same could be said about Prabhakaran who was a practising Christian. Thaificiation is not connected to Theravada Buddhism lmfao. Are you aware of the fact that many aspects of traditional Thai culture are Hindu in origin? Your obsession with sects is so insane because in Asia, syncretism is a huge thing and the differences between sects are not felt because local religions like Buddhism are syncretised with native or other local beliefs like Hinduism or folk religion. Why are you doing this??? Don't use the Southern Thailand insurgency to push your agenda please. The issue in the deep south is between Malay separatists who want independence from Thailand and the conflict between the Thai government and the Malay separatists. You still don't get it do you? If this is all about Theravada Buddhism, why on earth is the Tatmadaw persecuting the Shan, Rakhine, Karen etc. all of whom practice Theravada Buddhism???? You can't find a single answer to this so your next form of attack is to criticise me and use ad hominems to put me down. Lmfaoooo I actually can't believe this. You are a Western person with an East Asian fetish. I cannot believe you just made this about the economic standing of South/Southeast Asia and East Asia, which has NOTHING to do with Buddhism. Buddhism is not the state religion of any of these countries and your logic makes absolutely no sense because Bhutan practices a different form of Buddhism, that can be classified as Mahayana, to Sri Lanka or Thailand and yet both countries are more socially and economically well off than Bhutan. Only a Western person obsessed with identity politics would say such things and not realise how funny it sounds. There are millions of Theravada Buddhists ethnic groups in southern China and the Chinese government is literally atheist and yet you're making this about sects in Buddhism. You're so interested in making this about sects that you don't even care to learn that Mahayana beliefs are still practiced in Thailand, Sri Lanka, Myanmar etc. etc. like the worship of Guanyin. You also don't realise that there is a sangha in East Asian countries like Taiwan. Here's a word of advice, don't speak on Asian issues if you don't actually understand what's going on in Asia.
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  5490.  @davidbowie5023  The nerve, the audacity, the belief that you have a right to spread divisive divide and conquer beliefs that your ancestors were famed for in Asia in the 18th century. I actually cannot believe you just made this about sects and also said it's "more strict". It's more strict for the monks. What's not clicking? Don't go to Google and think you know everything from top to bottom when you don't. Why are all weebs like this?
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  5491.  @davidbowie5023  Lmfaoooo at this weeb saying it's because of Theravada Buddhism. So if that's the case, why on earth is the Tatmadaw persecuting Shan, Karen, Rakhine etc. etc. all of whom practice Theravada Buddhism???? Logic left the chat. Stop obsessing over Asians please.
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  5492.  @ValAllOver  You're a European. This is an Asian issue, let us Asians deal with this. You have done enough divide and conquering already.
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  5493.  @irs4486  and you're an American male inserting himself into Asian people's business. Singapore is a multiethnic and tolerant nation made up of Chinese, Malays and Indians unlike anything found in Europe/North America
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  5494.  @ValAllOver  Why are Europeans always trying to create division between Asians?
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  5495.  @irs4486  Singaporeans are of Chinese, Malay, Indian and Eurasian descent. Don't talk about Asians
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  5496. @ only asians know asians the best
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  5497.  @khantzawhtet6896  Just because China calls everybody that criticises the Chinese government, "racist" doesn't mean it's racism. It's not. China is causing too much destruction in the Asian and Pacific regions, they need to be called out.
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  5498. Yeah cause the women and children were totally doing that right?? Shameful comment
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  5499. Their men are online spreading hate, not the women or children.
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  5500.  Make Ray  Extreme nationalism doesn't get anybody anywhere.
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  5501. Bangladesh??? This is Sri Lanka, an island nation located next to the Maldives
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  5502. They may follow Singapore and try to attract ethnic Koreans from China and Central Asia to permanently settle in the nation. South Korea once did that in the 1990s but idk if anybody would go. It's like Germany asking all German Americans to migrate to Germany, would any German Americans want to do that?
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  5503.  @carkawalakhatulistiwa  I was just thinking because they've accepted ethnic Koreans from China in the past, they were quite prominent in the past. There are ethnic Koreans in Central Asia and there's a community of them in South Korea.
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  5504.  @msrahman5736  The military committed the genocide against the Rohingyas. If you don't know, the military staged a coup in the nation two weeks ago.
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  5505.  @nenekcantik6839  Actually many times to avoid persecution
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  5506.  @nenekcantik6839  I'm talking about history and even present day, there are people who don't want to be Muslim (like Malaysian Malay law) but they have to pretend to be Muslim because it's illegal to change their religion. Indonesia also forces everybody to practice a religion, so people who don't want to practice Islam legally still claim to be Muslim.
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  5507.  @nenekcantik6839  You can deny this all you want but it's the truth and everybody knows it 😍😍
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  5508.  @nenekcantik6839  What's amusing to me is that people are doing all this for a belief system that is not even traditionally part of their culture. Embarrassing 😍😍
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  5509.  @nenekcantik6839  This is why that belief system or whatever it is is so problematic 💀
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  5510. Ignoring all of the "India" and "China" bots that exist in the SCMP comment section which, let's face it, all come from the Muslim nations of Asia (excluding Malaysia, Maldives, Indonesia, Iran and Tajikistan), this border deal between China and India will be beneficial for the rest of Asia too as it will weaken one of the fronts the US is trying to ignite to maintain its influence in Asia. I really do think that China's original 1960 border resolution package is the way to go but it is up to the Indians to agree to it.
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  5511.  @xijinpig8982  The person who commented that isn't even from Sri Lanka, you patriotic Indian male
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  5512. As the other user said, they believe in reincarnation and this is based on your karma. All part of samsara (cycle of life).
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  5513.  @crumcon  Palki keeps falling for it
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  5514.  @Husky89-w1q  India and China are improving their relations, now what?
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  5515.  @CentristDad155  It hasn't been created yet???
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  5516.  @CentristDad155  No they didn't. They wanted to work on one.
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  5517. Where?
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  5518.  @growKnee857  cause y'all are openly pro-Muslim
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  5519.  @Lightscribe225  The British never tried to erase India's heritage. I never understand this argument that y'all make. If that were the case, India would be like the Philippines where its entire indigenous heritage has been almost wiped out and people have no idea of their country's past. The Spanish did that, not the British. I think it's time India looks at places like Goa, Pondicherry and Singapore and see how they've accepted their past without the need to make drastic changes.
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  5520.  @Lightscribe225  Yeah that's what I'm saying. The British never tried to erase India's heritage but for some reason people want to erase their colonial heritage instead of just accepting it for what it is and moving on like Pondicherry, Goa, Macau or Singapore.
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  5521. Hard to feel safe in a community in which your own people are not accepted because of an ideology. You can't compare that to Black churches. All those interracial couples, mixed people and other non-White people must feel very unwelcomed knowing those people are in their town. This is after all happening in a country which has always been centred around race. You don't hear this type of stuff happen in other countries like Australia or New Zealand, it's always in the US or South Africa (countries that traditionally severely discriminated against non-White people in order for their countries to function).
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  5522.  @Gop101  Actually most of Sri Lanka's debt is owed to Western institutions. There are Western media outlets (even The New York Times surprisingly but via a guest writer) that are now reporting on this.
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  5523.  @Sumi_S  Are you aware that Europe once had fertility rates of 5? Why do you think populations in the Americas were able to boom after settlement? I'm not misunderstanding and I'm purely looking at this from a factual point of view.
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  5524. Grow up
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  5525.  @ariapinandita9240  💀
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  5526. Well I read a few months ago that people in the majority ethnic group of Sri Lanka recognised that politicians were using race to divide people up and get people to vote and there were signs held by Sinhalese people talking about how there was always someone who could have spoken up for the minority Tamils and Muslims (that someone being a Sinhalese person) but now that they are suffering too, there is no one to speak up for them. The young generation who started the peaceful protests earlier in the year were very adamant in overhauling the system and creating a system where race is not the basis on how to run things.
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  5527. A similar thing happened in Myanmar last year. The majority Bamar began speaking up for the minorities, including the Rohingyas after they experienced a coup. Sometimes when a group of people who have oppressed others or been complicit in it face trauma, they finally wake up and realise what is going on. That is what has happened in Sri Lanka and Myanmar.
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  5528. It also happened in Hong Kong during the protests in 2019 when the majority Hong Kong Chinese population began supporting the minority Hong Kong population of South Asian and Southeast Asian descent who have faced racism and disenfranchisement since the handover to China (particularly the South Asians who trace their heritage back several generations to migrants that came from British India and Nepal and faced disenfranchisement as they're seen as remnants of British Hong Kong). Hong Kong Chinese people began treating them as Hong Kongers and saw them as aspects of Hong Kong identity that make the city different to mainland China. The xenophobia that came with the pandemic kind of undid everything in Hong Kong as well Hong Kong's increasing integration into the mainland but the signs show that attitudes have changed for the better in Sri Lanka and Myanmar.
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  5529. This has NOTHING to do with Europe. This is about Asian countries. I don't like Europe. Just stop talking about us Asian and go!
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  5530. Heartless
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  5531. Gen Z is in their 20s
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  5532. Indians will see this, the poll where 40,000 people voted to keep illegal immigrants from Mexico rather than legal immigrants from India, JD Vance calling Elez's anti-India comments as a "mistake" and Trump preventing India from working with Iran on that port and will still believe the US is their friend and worship Trump, go to some visa shrine and pray toa god to get them US visas and think China is the enemy. I just know the people who think like this are at least 80% North Indian.
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  5533. Kind of, people outside of Asia like in the US view "Asian" in terms of ethnicity/appearance and not continental.
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  5534.  @user-wr4yl7tx3w  No, they belong to the Cambodians. Idk why you want to claim their heritage so badly when it wasn't your people that created it. Crazy how people support theft.
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  5535.  @user-wr4yl7tx3w  I don't need to re-read anything because you don't have a single point. Stop trying to claim another culture's heritage, it's not yours!
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  5536.  @user-wr4yl7tx3w  I want the Eiffel Tower to be given to the Japanese. I want the Statue of Liberty to be given to the Brazilians. I want the Hollywood sign to be given to the Indians. I want Big Ben to be given to the Cambodians. I want the Empire State Building to be given to the Chinese. According to this person, it's okay to claim other nations' heritage so let's give this heritage to other nationalities.
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  5537. She's literally of Bangladeshi descent. Hijra is part of her heritage.
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  5538. India consistently disappoints me and Modi is the worst thing to happen to India. You'd think that amid all of the hate Indians are facing, the Indian government would forge their own path but no, they want to suck up to Trump and the US instead of just shaking up the world order and the Indian public just accepts it. You Indians have no idea what is going on outside of your nation so let me spell it out for you, there is a TikTok video going viral atm about the impending asteroid that will strike somewhere on earth and the top comment is from a Western boy that reads "pls India" and the comment has 100K likes. 100,000 people want your nation to be destroyed by an asteroid. I have never seen a nation get this much hate before. Embarrassing af
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  5539. They've been saying that since the 1980s but since the Maldives keeps getting richer, they're able to invest in infrastructure that will help their country.
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  5540. Interesting point is that the Maldives is on track to becoming a high income developed nation due to its rising national income, the result of its tourism and fishery industries.
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  5541. That's because they're Rohingyas and native to the Rakhine region which is shared with other groups including the dominant Rakhine people. Rohingyas are not Bangladeshis.
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  5542.  @Rickonytube  No, the truth is that the developing world has always had close ties with Russia. Russia has been the only country that has supported a lot of these developing countries. The US/West on the other hand have not done that and have done the opposite (colonisation, invading countries in the modern era - see Iraq, expulsion of indigenous people to create US military bases - see Chagos Archipelago, demanding countries sign SOFAs to allow US military presence in their countries and getting away with murder due to the SOFA - see death of British woman in Okinawa, funding problematic groups in countries dealing with conflicts, funding and supporting genocide - see 1971 Bangladeshi genocide, including the racist comments made by the US president, American intelligence agencies bribing political leaders to remain quiet about problematic things they do - see Singaporean prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew exposing the CIA in 1960 and the list goes on). You can't honestly think one side is good and the other side is bad when both sides have done bad things. Russia is a friend of the developing world so why would they criticise their friend when they know that Russia is the only country that will support hem in their own personal struggles? The US/West is not going to help them.
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  5543.  @CitsVariants  That's what Americans want y'all to believe
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  5544.  @Kalausz  These are educated and trained people. Do you really think poor people are moving all the way to Europe which is so far away? Think about it for a second. Anyway, it's best if the educated remain because only the educated can solve the crisis.
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  5545. So a country choosing to not violently murder and erase a group of people is a bad thing??????
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  5546. Myanmar is in Southeast Asia and having a high economic growth rate means nothing if the quality of life and infrastructure doesn't improve. Out of the entirety of South Asia, if I had to pick, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Maldives are the only nations that are actually worth living in.
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  5547.  @ikeshkumar9246  Sri Lanka traditionally held close ties to Myanmar and Thailand and Myanmar still remains one of Sri Lanka's closest connections. There was intermarriage between Sri Lankan and Burmese royalty in the past so the spread of Theravada Buddhism from Sri Lanka to mainland Southeast Asia was inevitable.
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  5548. In Asia, people don't view Asian as just East Asian only. There is actually a greater understanding that "Asian" is much more than just phenotype. This predicament only exists outside of Asia and is trivial.
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  5549.  @deusmachinima1189  Yeah I agree but I feel like that's more of a US issue regarding East Asian Americans. In the context of Asia, China's economic rise is also connected with the rise of other Asian countries.
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  5550. ​ @iskhrm1688  Not from Goa, the term "nona" is Portuguese but the Portuguese ruled Sri Lanka too and "nona" is a word that has been adopted into the Sinhalese language to mean "wife".
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  5551.  @EB-jf5oi  cause y'all got lazy
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  5552.  @Pixeelated  They're talking about the Hambantota Port, not the Port City that is owned by the Sri Lankan government
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  5553.  @mahmudulhasanshihab3382  Are you aware of the fact that there are other Muslim groups in Myanmar besides the Rohingyas? No you aren't. There are other groups like Bamar Muslims and Kaman who don't face the same type of abuse Rohingyas face. The Rohingya issue has nothing to do with religion. The military targeted them because since WWII, they were seen as traitors and in the 1970s they were stripped off citizenship. Also, many young Burmese and now even the Burmese government-in-exile is supportive of the Rohingyas and regret not speaking up. The Burmese government-in-exile said they want to reintegrate Rohingyas back into Myanmar's society and a #/Black4Rohingya campaign to show support for Rohingyas went viral in Myanmar last year. Many Bamar people are now supportive of Rohingyas. They were brainwashed by the military into thinking the Rohingyas were a threat.
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  5554. Interesting that you mention that because Sri Lanka has one of the fastest growing aging populations in Asia, so that's another thing that adds to their failure. They got old before they got rich.
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  5555.  @skinzy7099  Yes it's a pressing issue in Asian countries too. A lot of workforces in these countries are shrinking quite rapidly as more elderly people retire and so a lot of aging countries in the region, including developing ones, rely heavily on temporary migrant labour from other Asian countries to fill gaps in their workforces. Additionally, local governments or marriage agencies in China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Singapore now import migrant brides from Central, South and Southeast Asian countries as a form of matchmaking to pear them up with single men in these countries in hope that they will start families that will take care of domestic life, including taking care of the man's elderly parents.
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  5556.  @welfareleech1525  That's cause you're White and teach English. You are a white collar professional. This is about low wage workers from other Asian nations who are blue collar workers. Blue collar workers usually don't get the same level of respect and also they are from other Asian nations. Koreans have a slur used to describe Southeast Asians (which is sometimes also used to describe any brown skinned Asian, not just people from SEA). It's basically a combination of the word "s~~~" and "Asian" put together. A Korean man explained that Koreans look down on other Asian nations because they are developing and so view themselves as being better.
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  5557. That's cause you're White and teach English. You are a white collar professional. This is about low wage workers from other Asian nations who are blue collar workers. Blue collar workers usually don't get the same level of respect and also they are from other Asian nations.
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  5558. Koreans have a slur used to describe Southeast Asians (which is sometimes also used to describe any brown skinned Asian, not just people from SEA). It's basically a combination of the word "s~~~" and "Asian" put together. A Korean man explained that Koreans look down on other Asian nations because they are developing and so view themselves as being better.
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  5559. Yeah and despite that, their national incomes and quality of life is a lot better than India. Try to keep up.
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  5560. India has an infant mortality rate of 27.695 deaths per 1000 live births. Sri Lanka's is 6.282 deaths per 1000 live births and Lebanon's is 8.913 deaths per 1000 live births. India's life expectancy is 70, Sri Lanka's is 76 and Lebanon's is 77. India's HDI in 2024 stands at 0.66, Sri Lanka's at 0.79 and Lebanon's at 0.74 and for some reason you think India is a lot better than both of these countries? Something is not clicking here.
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  5561. They have below replacement level fertility, their urban fertility stands at 1.6.
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  5562.  @Jambudvipa-ug6yg  Incorrect
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  5563.  @jackytang3683  Talk about delusion
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  5564.  @ritemolawbks8012  To be fair, the European Union is Western and thus culturally similar to the US. The EU is also not a country and many European nations are part of NATO. Russia was ideologically/culturally different to the US and Japan was culturally different to the US despite being a democratic nation. The idea that India challenging the economic position of the US in the future won't lead to a confrontation between the two countries doesn't sound very plausible in my opinion. The talk of the Asian Century (especially in regards to the rise of China and India) has drawn out negative commentary in the US and the fact that Indian and Chinese IT workers were threatened with violence in Texas because of the belief that Indians and Chinese are taking all of the IT jobs is a testament to what could happen. It's just like what happened to Japanese/East Asian workers in the US when they were targeted during the 1980s. I hope this won't be the case but it's kind of hard to tell, especially with how things are in the world today.
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  5565.  @ritemolawbks8012  Modi and Trump were close so I would say that's the reason why. Also, many Indian Americans are of North Indian origin. However, I don't think many Indians (outside of North India) actually like him. I have Indian friends who come from South India and they said that Modi is not popular at all in the southern states. This is because Modi is more of a Hindu nationalist and Hindu nationalism isn't a thing in South India. Nobody in South India also speaks Hindi so they feel really disconnected culturally and politically from Modi and the North Indian Modi supporters. Yeah I agree, the relationship between the two countries would have to be equal. Also, I agree with your points on the UN Security Council. The UN Security Council is severely outdated. France shouldn't even be there anymore. The idea that Western Europe is still important in geopolitics today is incorrect in my opinion. The international geopolitical landscape has shifted significantly to Asia and the emerging economies in Asia, Africa and Latin America are the ones that are experiencing the highest economic growth in the world. These economies will eventually take a seat at the table and I think the UN Security Council needs to change. The veto rule is also very problematic in my opinion.
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  5566.  @ritemolawbks8012  Yeah you're right. The veto rule basically protects all those on the UN Security Council. No, I'm not in India, I'm actually not of Indian descent but I like to read about and keep up with Asian and Pacific geopolitics because I live in Australia.
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  5567.  @gambigambigambi  Buddhism is 100% East Asian, Southeast Asian and South Asian culture. I should say Dharmic and Taoic are.
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  5568.  @Knowledgeandententertainment  That was the Burmese military who did that, they are also genociding Shan Buddhists in eastern Myanmar using the same tactics they used against the Rohingyas.
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  5569.  @MickeyPickney-dc6tj  Thailand already accepts migrant workers from Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos. It's been a thing for a while now.
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  5570.  @mcbchannel7173  Indonesian Muslims have committed several Islamic terror attacks and Malay Muslims discriminate against Malaysian Chinese and Malaysian Indians, is that the kindness and hospitality you're talking about? The only hospitality I see are from the Balinese people who are not Muslim and really ought to be a different country because I hate how non-Asian people associate them with the Islamic extremism and conservatism found in western Indonesia. Also, what do you mean "same race"? I can't believe you're making this about something so superficial as "race". Are you aware that Rohingya also carry Tibeto-Burman ancestry too? There are Rohingyas that look more like typical Bamar of Myanmar like Wai Wai Nu, even Bangladeshis are mixed.
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  5571.  @shizuka_0584  They're not from Bangladesh.
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  5572.  @ThrdWrldGrl  You have no respect for the victims
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  5573.  @NP1066  OP mentioned a bunch of other countries and so I mentioned them, don't ignore that when it's literally there in OP's comment and don't say "whatever", we are in 2023 and Pakistan and Bangladesh are independent countries. They are NOT part of India anymore. Just accept it.
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  5574.  @NP1066  Yeah I ignored them because Pakistan and Bangladesh were once part of India up until 1947. So yeah ignored it. Technicalities mean nothing here when they're all independent countries. What's with this constant need to say this type of stuff? We're not living in 1946, we're living in 2023. Always about numbers and competing with China, nobody cares if India is the most populous country on earth, that's not something to be proud about anyway. So saying "oh technically India surpassed China long ago" is not something worthy to bring up.
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  5575.  @NP1066  Then don't bother replying to me if logic isn't part of the picture. Not interested in communicating with nationalists only interested in looking at things from their perspective.
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  5576.  @TaylorCrane1312  You just proved them right by saying that ijbol
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  5577. I agree. I'd go as far as to say they're not even really Asian because they don't live in Asia. Asian means you're from Asia. The white people born and raised in Asia like the Slavic Russians in China are more "Asian" than any of them.
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  5578. Stop crying
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  5579.  @tasha3757  Nothing is going on here.
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  5580. Not everybody believes in Islam. You really need to learn how to respect other people's beliefs.
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  5581. I thought India was a better country that respected other nations...
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  5582.  @idontcarei  Well clearly not if this is how modern India is behaving. Why are you yelling?
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  5583. India becoming CCP ruled China.
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  5584. Yes what's the issue??? It's affecting India and Pakistan, so South Asia
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  5585.  @quackersna  Overpopulation? Maybe think about the fact that Asians didn't colonise the globe to allow for mass emigration of Asians out of that circle. If Europe never colonised the world, there would be around an additional ~900-1 billion European-descended people living in Europe on top of the population living there today. European-descended people make up the majority of North America and many parts of Latin America as well as Australia and New Zealand with large minorities in southern Africa and part European people all across Asia and the Pacific. Compare that to the around ~20 million Asian diaspora and you can see why there are more people within that circle today. Additionally, what's wrong with rice and dried fish? You are just not used to that diet.
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  5586. ​ @quackersna  These areas happen to have had successful civilisations that have allowed the continued survival of the human race.
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  5587. Gosh, some people really have no idea of what they're talking about and will say anything without any self awareness. Firstly, the Rohingya issue is a Burmese issue not Chinese. Secondly, the Rohingya issue dates back to WWII and literally has nothing to do with religion. Learn about Asian history.
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  5588.  @cryogenic5456  That makes literally no sense. The Rohingya issue is a Burmese issue and has nothing to do with religion. Rohingya issue dates back to WWII. The army general of the Burmese Army even said this. You will all just say anything without double checking, won't you?
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  5589.  @cryogenic5456  Well China isn't the only country to vote against a Myanmar resolution at the UN, India, Vietnam and Russia have done so too. All of these countries have economic interests in Myanmar. The Rohingya issue is purely a Burmese issue that started during WWII when Myanmar was under colonial rule.
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  5590.  @cryogenic5456  Yeah but China is not the one ethnically cleansing the Rohingyas. The Burmese military needs to be held responsible for genocide and for all of the other human rights issues they have committed. Yes, China is basically a supporter of the Burmese military but the Rohingya issue is purely a Burmese issue, it has nothing to do with China.
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  5591. Oh stop it
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  5592. Buddhism isn't actually heavily influenced by Chinese folk religion. There are different branches of Buddhism and it differs on location as it merged with local beliefs. In Chinese culture, Buddhism is practiced alongside Chinese folk religion but the root of Buddhism is very much "Indian" in terms of rituals, imagery and traditions. Some of these traditions/rituals have merged with the local cultures where Buddhism spread. For example, the Hungry Ghost festival is a major Chinese festival but its roots lie in India (where it's practiced by the Hindus). The Hungry Ghost festival tradition made its way to China through the spread of Buddhism and was merged with Taoist traditions to create the form of the Hungry Ghost festival that is now celebrated in Han Chinese culture. In Japan, the festival is only Buddhist in nature, same applies to South Korea, Cambodia etc.
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  5593.  @jayantkamble6082  You're speaking about Chinese Buddhism but this is only for China and for Chinese communities. In other parts of Asia, Buddhism is reflective of the local cultures.
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  5594.  @sidkings  No, not anymore. They are now classified as a lower middle income nation. The effects of the Easter Sunday bombings and global pandemic prevented them from climbing the ladder of upper middle income nations in 2020. The current economic crisis probably made things even worse. We'll find out where they stand in the middle of the year when the updated rankings are released.
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  5595.  @sidkings  Sri Lanka becoming an upper middle income nation in 2019 was the cherry on top for them. People had this idea that everything was good, so good that an official document about how Sri Lanka can become a high income developed nation by 2030 was given to the new Sri Lankan government at the end of 2019. Then the pandemic happened and the economic crisis started, ruining any chance they had.
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  5596. Not comparable at all and you know it.
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  5597.  @sor3999  That's radical feminism. Real feminism is not misandrist, it's about establishing equality.
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  5598.  @Jtnn713  Make themselves feel better??? What incel stuff did I just read? You are an incel
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  5599. @ The couple is correct and nobody says that to make themselves feel better. What type of incel BS did I just read?
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  5600.  @Jtnn713  We just came across a raging Chinese supremacist that hates Indians and Malays.
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  5601. @P M I can tell that you're a BJP supporter.
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  5602. @P M Of course you are, I can tell by your comments.
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  5603. A country that was once an upper middle income nation with good living standards for a developing country. So what were you saying again? Also, this has nothing to do with China. It's always using that word to describe other countries you know nothing about and blaming China for everything.
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  5604. The US is coercing Australia to fight a war. Australia's leaders are very blind so they always do what America tells them to do.
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  5605. Since forever
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  5606. Asia was never about race or phenotype anyway and actually they do have things in common but many outside of Asia are unaware of that.
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  5607. Nobody wants to go there
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  5608.  @JigsawVsChucky  The term "Asian" in a UK context means "South Asian". Like the British media when they describe an Indian person or somebody who looks "Indian", they will say "Asian". In the US, it's the opposite.
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  5609.  @user-bj6zf9yv7k  No they aren't. The term "Caucasoid" is an outdated term and nobody in the scientific community or those that understand human genetics use the term "Caucasoid" in such a way. The genetic make-up of Indians proves why such terms mean nothing today. Indians are basically "mixed race" and Indians are not "Caucasoid". You can't determine the genetic makeup of an individual by looking at their skull shape. We use "Caucasian" in vernacular English to refer to Europeans and also to refer to the native inhabitants of the Caucasus mountains, not Indians.
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  5610.  @benjia7906  Not all Southeast Asians look East Asian though. Most Southeast Asians don't look East Asian. The reason why East Asian slurs are also used against Southeast Asians is because it's used against Southeast Asians with East Asian features. Most Southeast Asians in the US and many other Western countries are of ethnic Chinese origin. You aren't going to see a dark skinned Southeast Asian person called the c word for example.
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  5611.  @deeksha2964  Asians have labels but those labels aren't based on skin tone. Nobody in Asia goes around calling all South Asians "brown" like Americans or Canadians do. I've seen light skinned Nepalese (including those with East Asian features and fair skin) in North America describe themselves as "brown" because that term seems to indicate South Asian people, culture etc. in general regardless of your skin tone (you can see that a lot on TikTok). In English language contexts in Asia, people will use "brown" or "black" simply to describe the colour of someone's skin in a derogatory manner but nobody classifies entire groups of people as "brown" or "yellow" or "black" in Asia. English is not the lingua franca in Asian countries except for Singapore and in Singapore, colour terminology is not used to define the local Chinese, Malays and Indians. Young Singaporeans and Malaysians in informal contexts, especially online, may use "brown Asian" to describe the local Indians and Malays but that's the result of Western influence. In everyday Singaporean and Malaysian society, in English language contexts, people will use "Indian" and "Malay".
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  5612.  @deeksha2964  East Asian hostility towards South Asians isn't just due to colorism, it's also due to stereotypes and other factors. Yes, brown skin plays a role but in an East Asian country like South Korea, light skinned South Asians also face discrimination. South Korea is home to a lot of South Asian migrant workers, students and migrant brides and most of them historically have come from Nepal and Sri Lanka and in more recent years, from Bangladesh. Many of the Nepalese in Korea have light skin and many have East Asian features but they still face discrimination and stereotypes as a result of their South Asian origins. Same thing applies to Vietnamese migrant workers and migrant brides in Korea, who look East Asian and culturally connected to East Asians. There are historical and preconceived notions and stereotypes of South Asians and Southeast Asians in Korea. Same thing applies in other East Asian societies like Japan.
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  5613.  @deeksha2964  Also, as you said, Asians discriminate against their own. People talk of East Asian hostility towards South Asians but it also goes the other way. India has a huge problem with its treatment of Northeast Indians who look East Asian and broader discrimination against other Indians who have East or Southeast Asian like features who come from other parts of India. Not to mention other forms of discrimination against the varied ethnic groups of India like Biharis and Tamils, in addition to racism directed at neighbouring nations like Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and the Rohingyas of Myanmar. Same thing in Southeast Asia, Thai vs Burmese, Cambodian vs Vietnamese, Malaysian vs Singaporean, Thai vs Thai Malay, Bamar vs all other ethnic groups in Myanmar and so on.
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  5614.  @apidas  Why are you so salty? I've noticed whenever something good is mentioned about another South Asian country, y'all in everybody's notifications being bitter. 💀
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  5615.  @is17a985  Cry harder. Their marriage or love has no effect on you and yet it's triggering you so much lmfaooooooooooooooooooo
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  5616.  @Indiscreetmess  Did we all forget the Bali bombings?
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  5617. Agreed and all of the China and India people on YouTube don't realise this and continue to argue and hate each other without realising so many other Asian countries hate both countries.
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  5618.  @schrutebuck88  It would be possible to remain on the sidelines because Taiwan has nothing to do with Australia and neither does Korea. Most Asia-Pacific countries are politically neutral (except for South Korea and Japan, the rest of the region is non-aligned and that includes major economies like New Zealand, India, Indonesia and Singapore). If Australia wants to be a valid member of the region it needs to adopt the mentality that is expressed across the region rather than becoming mouthpieces of the US. Singapore and New Zealand are neutral and doing just fine. The issue is when a country can't stand on its own two feet and becomes caught in-between two countries like China and the US. That's what Australia is, a country that can't stand on its own and needs to hold the hand of the US whilst also needing China to hold up its economy. Why can't we be our own country? Why can't we be like New Zealand?
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  5619.  @raibhansjadhavrsj6352  Um no, it's associated with South Asians too. You talking publicly about the size of yours doesn't change the stereotype... There is something called an exception
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  5620.  @raibhansjadhavrsj6352  Also, let me just add these are stereotypes, it doesn't mean it applies to everybody. It's a generalisation. Additionally, if a certain stereotype doesn't apply to you why do you care? Live your life instead of letting historical events and stereotypes to cloud your way of life. Clearly these stereotypes don't affect you, so you don't need to worry about them because you know who you are.
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  5621.  @raibhansjadhavrsj6352  I'll also tell you this, the American education system basically ranks last in the world among developed nations. It's no surprise that Americans are going to call a Hindu a "terrorist" because they think all Pakistanis, Indian Hindus etc. etc. are the same. This doesn't happen elsewhere in the West where people are far more educated.
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  5622.  @WastedBananas  Do Punjabis represent all South Asians? No.
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  5623.  @Womendeservebetter1  No, not at all. That stereotype is always applied to Indian men as well. I live in a Western country, I know.
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  5624.  @WastedBananas  Bengali men were emasculated and described as feminine by British colonisers. Now what?
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  5625. What did I just read?
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  5626.  @elliottfunkhouser4486  You're not "dying for people" and yiur comment depicts the typical ignorance of the US. If you think the US actually invades countries to make them better then you have no idea of what the reality is. Wake up and stop living in your bubble.
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  5627.  @elliottfunkhouser4486  If your ancestors came from Europe, your ethnicity is not native to the US. Are you going to call the Portuguese community of Macau, "Asians"? No you won't.
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  5628.  @elliottfunkhouser4486  Yeah I can see who you replied to. Do you know where they are from? Also are you able to discern what sarcasm is? This is why I said the US is known for being ignorant because outside of the US, people always make a mockery of the US invasions of other countries. OP's comment was nothing more than just sarcasm, calling out the history of US invasions.
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  5629. ​ @elliottfunkhouser4486  I can see who your initial reply was directed to. I did not make any mistake in regards to that. As for the other one, yes I recognise my error now and I apologise and retract what I stated in my initial comment. I have deleted the comment for prevent any further confusion. Just one thing though, there is a difference between being born somewhere and tracing your autosomal DNA to your ancestral homeland. You werre born and raised in the US so you're an American but your ethnicity is native to England and Wales. For example, ethnic Chinese and ethnic Indians of Singapore (who in part developed Singapore into what it is today) don't declare that they are native to Singapore. Singapore recognises the native Malays, recognises Malay as the national language and one of the official languages of the country and they actually sing the Singaporean national anthem in Malay. So they're all Singaporeans (having lived there for hundreds of years) but ethnically speaking their ancestry traces back to East Asia and South Asia.
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  5630.  @mysticcove3392  I realised the error in my comment. However, it is true that Native Alaskans are the only ethnic groups native to Alaska. That's what I'm talking about, nothing else so I'm not sure why you're bringing up other information.
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  5631.  @mysticcove3392  Why would I think all Americans of European descent are bad? Is that what you got from my comment? Please, I'm not one of those people that just assumes every White American is bad. It would be very unfair to White Americans to think that way. Yep, wish you the same.
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  5632.  @sanukumar752  The US can't do anything. The only countries that can actually influence the way things work in Myanmar are China, India, Japan and certain Southeast Asian nations - countries that do business with the Burmese military. That's why the US wants to use India and Japan as a way to fix the issue. The thing is neither India and Japan want to ge directly involved because those two countries and most other Asian countries are countries that stand by the non-alignment policy.
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  5633. It's a neo-Nazi organisation. Go look at the things they have done.
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  5634. @Nox’s Milkers Check the dislikes of the video and the comments.
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  5635. @Nox’s Milkers Well for starters, you're one of those upset people because you're calling it "garbage". Secondly, there are so many people in this comment section who are actually upset by the video engaging in whataboutism and lamenting about how virgin men are being targeted. Finally, the video has thousands dislikes. Dislikes from thousands of incels. No matter what you say, thousands of incels are upset at this video. If they weren't upset they wouldn't be here.
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  5636.  @dermonch7959  Imagine getting rejected by a woman and then going on a rampage and killing other men who were with women simply because you can't communicate with a woman properly. They need to go to a therapist not some sleazy online forum with toxic people. I can't believe you can all sit here defending violence, the creation of manifestos encouraging violence and the discrimination of women. Lashing out because of dating failures. Wow there clearly aren't screws working up there if they lash out over such things.
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  5637.  @dermonch7959  Incels create manifesto online encouraging violence against women (even some men). Jihadists create manifestos online encouraging violence aginst anybody who doesn't believe in their ideology. Neonazis create manifestos online encouraging violence aginst non-European people. All of them use their manifestos to prey on people who feel that the universe has treated then unfairly. All of them have caused violence and destruction at varying degrees. A virgin and an incel are not the same, the latter identifies as an incel and has created a whole identity revolving around their virginity and inability to talk to women. It's a subculture. Being a virgin is not a subculture. You can't compare a group of men sharing a common identity and coining sexist terms like "Noodlew****" and "curryw****" to describe Southeast and South Asian women respectively and claiming those women only find White men attractive to someone who is simply a virgin. Incels have an entire structure to their subculture, they have terms to describe themselves (for example East Asian incels call themselves "ricels" and South Asian incels call themselves "currycels"). They also have terms like "Chad", "Tyrone" and "Chang" to describe White, Black and Asian men that any woman would find attractive. Do virgins have that? No. Do virgins create manifestos online detailing their hatred online and encouraging violence? No. Sorry but incels are on a whole other level and when you have authorities breaking down doors and arresting young male incels for threats of mass violence against women in the same manner that jihadists are captured.
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  5638. @Nyx So now you want to force women to change who they are attracted to because of incels complaining? You speak as if this is some sort of political or human crisis like food being unequally distributed. You can't change the law of attraction. People are attracted to people they are attracted to. FYI, men in the Western world generally have 1 woman and there is a slightly higher ratio of women to men meaning there is slightly more women than men in many Western countries such as the US.
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  5639. @Nyx What makes you think I'll be defending the idea that halfof "the male population is dying miserable and alone"? Only incels think this way and blame their misfortune on women. So I have no idea what you're talking about, sorry.
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  5640. @Nyx Incels are the only people who blame their misfortune on women. It comes from a place of misogyny.
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  5641. @Nyx So you want women to change who they are attracted to?
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  5642. It wants to be isolated
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  5643. Yeah this is why foreigners only love Balinese people.
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  5644.  @tdonovan4735  The Asians sent their profits back to their families in India? I know that this right here is a lie. That's not the truth. The reason why I say this is because those Asians had been living in Uganda for multiple generations. Why do you think they were more accepting of going to the UK than going to India after they were expelled? India was just as foreign to them as the UK was, but the Ugandan Asians were educated in English and had no understanding of the cultural psyche of the land that their ancestors left. The Asians were building up the Ugandan economy, after the Asians left the Ugandan econony growth trajectory crashed and it had the lowest growth rate in the whole of Africa. It was so bad that in 1986 the new president of Uganda invited the Asians to go back to Uganda to revive the economy. Idi Amin didn't give the Asians an ultimatum, he expelled them giving them 90 days to leave the country. He didn't want any Asians in the country, he even put the Ugandan Asian citizens on the list to be expelled. He didn't ask them to be citizens. Why would you misconstrue the truth like this? You're not changing history by publishing an incorrect version of historical events. It's crazy how much people will twist facts to push a narrative.
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  5645. This couple went through Pakistan without any issue.
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  5646. He never created Buddhism. The term Buddhism came about to describe the teachings or Dharma that the Buddha taught his followers during the time he was alive.
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  5647.  @unstable_7071  If most Indians looked East Asian or Southeast Asian, none of y'all would single them out like y'all always do cause the reality is that they culturally influenced other parts of Asia, especially Southeast Asia, so their cultural similarities are very visible to anybody that is well versed in Asian cultures.
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  5648.  @OrlyYahalom  They have similarities, you should need to look for them instead of thinking they're completely different just cause most of them don't look East Asian. Why do people always determine what is "Asian" based on proximity to East Asian. Stop using it to describe appearance or race!
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  5649.  @ha-kj2ex  No it absolutely is not lmfao. There are entire regions in South Asia where people speak Sino-Tibetan languages, look East Asian, have the same ethnic groups common in Tibet and related cultural practices. Be serious for a second.
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  5650.  @asdfasdf6271  The Japanese included India in their "Great East Asia" plans during WW2.
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  5651.  @asdfasdf6271  Firstly, why are you correlating India with South Asia? South Asia does not just consist of India. Secondly, Tibeto-Burman groups don't just live in Northeast India. What do you mean by the "core of India"? Are you trying to tell me that brown skinned Indians who speak Hindi and other languages are the "real Indians" and everybody is negligible? Really annoying when people do that.
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  5652.  @asdfasdf6271  It's not about agreeing, it's about you being wrong.
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  5653.  @asdfasdf6271  Here's dome advice, don't talk about things you don't understand. You want to talk about Asia, then learn about the entire continent not just East Asia, which you fetishise.
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  5654.  @asdfasdf6271  Imperial Japan tried to colonise India and the rest of South Asia during WW2 due to the fact that they have similarities with other parts of Asia. Time to use Google
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  5655.  @asdfasdf6271  Since when does the majority of Indians equals the whole of India? Stop thinking they are the crux of what India is a if everybody else is negligible. This is the second time you have done this. 💀💀
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  5656.  @gappleofdiscord9752  Don't worry about that other user, everything you said was correct and there shouldn't be a need for you to justify anything cause what you said makes sense.
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  5657. The comedian is from Malaysia. He knows that Indians are Asian as Malaysia is known as "Malaysia Truly Asia", it's home to Malays, Chinese and Indians. He's just making a joke about the way non-Asians view Asian as a descriptive term for appearance, when it's not.
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  5658. lol
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  5659.  @ShashakaArchana-lu6ys  Indian Vijaya? Never heard of such a thing.
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  5660.  @krishnanunnimadathil8142  Oh here we have the Indian who is so insecure he has to claim Sri Lankans are Indians
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  5661. 💀
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  5662.  @jiafeibitch4190  Singapore and China aren't even close to one another and they're two separate countries. That's like saying when you think of Germany you think of the United States.
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  5663. @ Territorial disputes don't define the relations of entire nations. Fact of the matter is that Vietnam and the Philippines are both Asian nations and have a lot in common with China (especially Vietnam). More people in Asia want to cooperate with other Asians and US democracy is no longer seen as a model. Asia for Asians
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  5664.  @nenekcantik6839  People need to learn how to co-exist.
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  5665.  @ysf-d9i  White people with darker skin? The most Chinese American or rather American thing to say
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  5666.  @incumbentvinyl9291  Indians are a mix of West Eurasian and East Eurasian (what some people may call Asiatic) ancestry. The East Eurasian ancestry in India is found highest among the tribals as well as among eastern and southern Indians.
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  5667.  @incumbentvinyl9291  The only East Eurasian (what you call Asiatic) components in Europe are found among Finns at low levels and Turkish people. Aboriginal Australians are the most "Asiatic" group outside of Asia.
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  5668.  @Pmc987  Indians culturally influenced other parts of Asia, especially Southeast Asia. South Asia, including India, and Southeast Asia are part of the Indosphere. The scripts used to write Southeast Asian languages are Brahmic and related to the scripts used in India. The traditional clothing of SEA countries like the sabai of Thailand is related to Indian traditional clothing.
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  5669.  @Pmc987  Korea, Chinese, Japanese and Vietnamese are related culturally and are part of the Sinosphere, the rest of Asia is different
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  5670.  @Pmc987  Modern Indian culture is still related to other Asian cultures. What aspects of modern Indian culture do you think are so "dissimilar" to other Asian cultures?
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  5671.  @williamecrowe  Both of you don't understand the cultural similarities between Asian nations and think Asian only means East Asian
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  5672.  @Pmc987  Indian cultural influence in SEA is one of the main roots of SEA culture. What do you mean by "how long ago was that?". SEA culture is still practiced in SEA. So yeah the cultures are still very similar because people are still practicing SEA culture. If they weren't, then nobody would be celebrating Indian-influenced festivals like Solar New Year or Loy Krathong or speaking the languages that they speak which are all Sanskrit influenced.
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  5673.  @Pmc987  Yeah they're White South Africans, I'm not missing the point. Comparing them to Indians is insane. Indians are literally native to India and y; all are claiming they are immigrants comparable to the Boer.
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  5674.  @Pmc987  Asian in the context of culture?? Yeah that makes ZERO sense when most of Southeast Asia (which Americans consider to be Asian) is culturally related to South Asia (e.g. India). You don't even know what you're talking about
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  5675.  @k1r4z.  All Indians carry East Eurasian ancestry. Yes, most North Indians mostly carry West Eurasian but they have around 20-30% East Eurasian ancestry too. Eastern and southern Indians carry more East Eurasian ancestry and it's the tribal adivasi that have around 90% East Eurasian ancestry (mostly AASI ancestry). Himalayan natives are not Sino-Tibetan
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  5676.  @yaldabaoth2  There is literally nothing democratic about the UNSC. Be serious 💀
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  5677.  @inthevoidreality  Won't be long if the BJP continues to present this idea that Katchatheevu belongs to India. It's going to be Russia 2.0 and China 2.0 because both of those countries are using the same tactics of claiming pieces of land and claiming it was theirs "since ancient times".
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  5678. I'm so confused rn. Was he being serious that the US is not facing decline? I stopped at 57 seconds after he said the US is still at the top without any sort of problems. Don't know if it's worth watching the rest of the video if he truly believes the US is still some sort of utopia, if it ever was.
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  5679.  @Blackadder75  He said that it is at the top and hasn't experienced any wavering, that's what I am confused about because in reality that is not true. US life expectancy for example declined as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and China and India have a higher economic growth rate than the US but he said the US is outstripping them all in that regard. Honestly, idk how much truth there is to his videos. Not everything appears to be true. I had a look at some of his other videos after this one and there was one about Southeast Asia and he said that Australian Aboriginals were residing in Southeast Asia and India and that Australian Aboriginals mixed with other migrants to create the populations we see in Southeast Asia and India today. I'm from Australia and Australian Aboriginals only live in Australia, not in Asia.
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  5680. So the other side is blatant misinformation and hate?
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  5681.  @nextentrepreneur9288  Me when I think the whole world revolves around the US
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  5682.  @superpowerdragon  You make a valid point and I am well aware that East Asia and South Asia have cultural and genetic differences but the cultural differences aren't stark in the way that you're describing if I am not mistaken. It's not like comparing the cultures of Europe to East Asia. I'm South Asian and a Buddhist so I really do notice the similarities between the regions in a broader sense owing to the cultural impact of India and Buddhism. Yes at the base level, East Asia is Sinic and South Asia is Indic but the two cultural spheres came in contact with each other and influenced one another to a great degree. For example, the Five Precepts of Daoism are the exact same as the Five Precepts of Buddhism, the important ritual and holiday of the Hungry Ghost festival and one of the most popular deities in Asia, including in East Asia, Guanyin is of Indian origin and the pagoda style used across Asia is of Nepalese origin. This is why the Indic and Sinic cultural heritage of most of Asia is compared to the Greco-Roman heritage of Europe. It is also why concepts like Sangoku emerged in ancient Asia because the cultural division isn't as stark as you're making it out to be. The Sinosphere and Indosphere are distinct but came in considerable contact with each other and we can see the cultural elements that emerged from this contact in various parts of the continent, particularly in Southeast Asia.
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  5683.  @superpowerdragon  Culturally speaking, Asia and Europe can be divided. The only Asian region that would fall within the European side would be West Asia due to its historical connections to Mediterranean Europe and being the birthplace of Abrahamic religions. Genetically speaking, the concepts of Asia and Europe make no sense hence why "Eurasia" is used in genetics because Eurasia is made up of two broad genetic components, West Eurasian and East Eurasian. West Eurasian is the dominant and native component of Europe and West Asia and East Eurasian is the dominant component of North, East and Southeast Asia. Central Asia and South Asia are a mix of West and East Eurasian DNA and are a bridge between the western and eastern regions of Eurasia. I assume you already knew this because you seem to be knowledgeable on this subject.
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  5684.  @superpowerdragon  I brought up the CCP because the CCP is echoing the pan-Asian views of Imperial Japan. The CCP is using common Eastern cultural heritage to gain a foothold in various Asian countries whilst propagating anti-Western sentiment - a very similar strategy to Imperial Japan. For example, the CCP has engaged in something that has come to be known as "Buddhist diplomacy" in various countries like Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand and is successfully broadcasting Chinese culture and ideas through TV dramas and radio broadcasts in countries like the Philippines - capitalising on the already big obsession with Asian (Korean, Thai, Japanese) TV dramas in the Philippines.
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  5685.  @BizQAC  Her parents are part of the old generation of immigrants from India that settled in the US and were hardworking people. She is of Indian descent but don't think for one second that Indian Americans are the same as Indians from India. Indian Americans are wonderful and hardworking people while a lot of Indians from India are running scam call centres and misbehaving in Canada and completely ruining the image of Indians.
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  5686.  @BizQAC  Apologies, I couldn't see your pfp, I thought you were from India and under the impression that there was no difference between Indian Americans and Indians from India.
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  5687.  @spidy9883  You know what I mean.
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  5688.  @Hindu.NATIONALIST  Jealous of what? Your YouTube display name is why people are mocking Hinduism online even though Hinduism is a beautiful religion. Indian Hindu nationalists bringing a bad name to everybody.
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  5689.  @HARD2GIVEUP  They're obviously referring to the two Uyghur suspects
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  5690. The migrant workers are the real reason for the success of Dubai and all of those other Middle Eastern Gulf areas.
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  5691. There are many Burmese people of ethnic Chinese descent (and also many Burmese of Indian descent). They're all Burmanised now with Burmese names and practice Burmese culture. Both groups have historically faced discrimination and General Ne Win dictatorship was particularly brutal towards Burmese people of Chinese and Indian descent because they are not native to Myanmar and were generally economically superior to native Burmese.
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  5692.  @henryhuang8779  To safeguard their interests and I'm speaking broadly in regards to all of their claims. Like I said the KMT is the party that established these claims and understandably so. The DDP is the one who is currently in power in Taiwan, not the KMT. Like I said, officially speaking Mongolia is recognised as a part of Taiwan and yet despite that, Taiwan still allows Mongolians to enter the country.
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  5693. China, India and Africa are not homogenous ijbol
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  5694. People are racist to Indians and Indians will respond with "but we're racist too". Gosh, can we shut down the internet in India please? Can't even defend these people without them attacking us for defending them
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  5695. Yeah, just like Myanmar
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  5696. They couldn't grow anything because they didn't have fertilisers after the government prematurely banned it. That's why their crops died leaving them nothing for mid 2022.
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  5697.  @spicyjicken  Do you say the same thing to Singaporean-Indians or is this just something you say to Malaysian-Indians?
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  5698. Where did you read this? I'm just asking because when the Portuguese travelled to Japan with an Indian crew and introduced Christianity to Japan, the local Japanese thought that Christianity was a "new Indian faith" due to the long history of Japan absorbing Indian religious beliefs and ideas via China and the fact that the crew on the ship were Indians.
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  5699.  @goblinsdammit  Yes you're right but Buddhism emerged before Christianity did. According to the ancient text, Book of Liang, it's said that Buddhism reached Japan in 465, with the official introduction of Buddhism in Japan (as per Nihon Shoki) set at 552. Nestorian Christianity, began spreading in East and South Asia after the mid 600s. You did say it was a theory but yeah personally I'm not too sure. In fact, this is the first time I have heard of this.
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  5700. That's why India is already doing and the world will remember what India did.
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  5701.  @lostlegend9015  They're anti-Inia because Indians believe that these small neighbouring countries are "India's backyard". It's degrading language so no wonder they're anti-India. It may be hard for you to see but the rest of the world can see that these smaller nations hate being controlled by bigger nations. These are sovereign nations, they can do whatever they want.
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  5702.  @lostlegend9015  The Indian media did.
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  5703. Did you not see the Tamil woman suffering in the video?
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  5704. With the way they're going, they're probably going to get stuck in the middle income trap. They care way too much about the wrong things. Their market is not competitive enough and they're continuously failing to close the gap between rich and poor. The top 10% of India's population holds 77% of the country's wealth. That's proof that the country will never get anywhere unless they change things. They don't want to hear this though.
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  5705.  @dragonfire3727  Getting stuck as a middle income nation is not a good thing. South Africa is stuck, Brazil is stuck... both of these countries are not model nations. If people have the chance, they will leave. Malaysia is a middle income nation, close to becoming a high income nation in the next couple of years but they have issues that need to be addressed before they can pass the threshold. If they don't address these things they risk getting stuck in the middle income trap and educated people don't want to live in a middle income country. So people will leave which is what is happening to Malaysia and the World Bank issued a warning to Malaysia that they will fail to reach high income status if they don't stop the brain drain.
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  5706.  @dragonfire3727  Thailand is another country described as being stuck in the middle income trap. A middle income nation is not rich and Thailand is struggling today with low fertility, a shrinking workforce and aging population. These are things developed countries face, not a middle income nation. You can't survive these things as a middle income nation.
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  5707.  @dragonfire3727  Upper middle income countries are still poor, they just don't have large populations of poor people. Thailand still has poor people and so does Malaysia. These countries struggle to take care of their growing elderly populations and shrinking workforces because they are not rich. The goal of every country should be to reach high income status.
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  5708.  @balajeepratham8200  India is already a middle income country, just a lower middle income country but it's nowhere near reaching upper middle income status.
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  5709. The irony is that the person running this account is a Desi like from Bangladesh or something.
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  5710. Pipe dream
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  5711. He was radicalised in New Zealand by his Iraqi and Syrian neighbours.
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  5712. Not usually, they aren't point blank considered Singaporeans because they're not citizens of the country.
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  5713.  Siyovaxsh En-sipad-zid-ana  Yeah it's because of colonialism and missionary work.
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  5714.  @Banom7a  True but most of the people in Mauritius are ethnic Indians.
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  5715. Oh stop reading so much into things ffs
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  5716. There is just no way to please you 💀💀
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  5717. Is there a reason why you think he won't?
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  5718.  @UnimportantAcc  India is the largest nation in South Asia and it's Asian. Just because you don't consider it Asian, doesn't mean others don't either. In the UK, "Asian" means Indian and in Asian countries, everybody knows India is in Asia. The racism against Indians is so extreme that you have people trying to say they're not Asians.
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  5719.  @UnimportantAcc  The Indian people are temporary migrants who are white collar workers. Stop being paranoid racist
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  5720.  @UnimportantAcc  What's disingenuous is a white person trying to tell Asians that Indians aren't Asians. They are Asians whether you like it or not. Apart from the fact, that they played a significant role culturally influencing other Asian nations they also have a lot of Tianyuan-related East Eurasian ancestry. So they're Asians. Cry about it.
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  5721.  @UnimportantAcc  Replied twice cause I wanted to show how wrong you are and I did. My work is done here.
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  5722. What do you feel is not true about it?
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  5723. Pakistan has been allied with the West (specifically the US) since independence. It pretended to be a partner in the War of Terror, hid the world's most wanted man Osama Bin Laden, gave rise to the Taliban and is linked to various terrorist groups. What exactly has it done to benefit the West?
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  5724.  hiooxkrmagkis9323  Do you think all Muslims are the same? Indonesians and Southeast Asian Muslims are different to other Muslim groups. Stop homogenising.
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  5725.  @Kuihkoswi  Malay Muslims in Malaysia completely adopted Islamic culture. Indonesian Muslims still retain their Hindu-Buddhist heritage despite being Muslims. Hindu-Buddhist was dominant which why it influenced a lot of aspects of the culture. Malay Muslims are different, they are also undergoing Arabisation.
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  5726.  @yodaeee  That's so embarrassing. Why do Muslims want to be Arab so much?
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  5727.  @yodaeee  That's so embarrassing. Why do Muslims try to be Arab?
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  5728.  @yodaeee  That's so embarrassing and not something to be proud about
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  5729.  @majid7925  As I should
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  5730. No
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  5731.  @jamese5936  and they end up adopting the hate those men espouse and we get nowhere.
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  5732.  @hannesRSA  So yes as Christina said, there is a bias towards Eurasian features at pageants in some parts of Asia due to ideas that have developed over a few centuries of contact with the West which has created an idea that looking Eurasian is considered beautiful. It wasn't always the case, there was a time when Eurasian people were looked down upon in Asia starting first with the colonial era and then when Amerasian people emerged in Southeast Asia, Japan and Korea. Vietnam, in particular, had a long history of looking down on Eurasian people. Things only started to change at the start of this century in the early 2000s when Eurasian people suddenly became the poster child of modern Asia spearheaded by things like MTV Asia which featured Eurasian VJs. Suddenly looking Eurasian became the trend in parts of Asia.
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  5733.  @kingafendikingafendi8897  No, that's not correct at all. This is not about wiping out Indian influences. Buddhism has been absorbed into Chinese culture and has developed its own characteristics within Chinese culture. The CCP destroying all of these statues and closing temples is basically China wiping out its own culture. A big part of Chinese culture is the Three Teachings (Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism).
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  5734. Their Japanese friend was trying to stop them. So much misinformation.
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  5735.  @Ian_Paing  Myanmar and Sri Lanka are always compared with each other (ethnic nationalism to geopolitics to culture). There was an article from early 2021 talking about how Sri Lanka could end up like Myanmar and in 2022, that's exactly what happened.
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  5736.  @sahilsingh6048  South Asia is a huge place so it would not be possible for starters. Secondly, the Buddha has no direct living descendants and as to what happened to those of the Shakya clan are unknown. People to claim to be their descendants, including entire ethnic groups in Nepal like Tharu people but there is actually no confirmation to these claims. I'm not surprised, I'm merely being pragmatic. I'm a South Asian Buddhist, I know how people love to claim association with him but care very little for his teachings.
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  5737.  @sahilsingh6048  The Shakya clan does not exist anymore. Please be serious for a second and read about the Buddha's life and his family.
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  5738. That makes absolutely no sense. Gfy
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  5739. Okay and who asked? Nobody asked nor do we care.
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  5740. The fertility rates of most countries in that circle of Asia are below replacement level or close to replacement level... so what birth control when the region is experiencing impending population decline?
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  5741.  @inquisitorsteele8397  I think that will continue. Chinese political and economic influence is much greater in Asia now so now there are a lot of Chinese immigrants in Thailand, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines and Indonesia. Have the Chinese immigrants that moved into your neighbourhood integrated?
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  5742. @Darkest_templar That's the fault of the Tatmadaw, they have discriminated against minorities for so long that people are tired.
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  5743.  @Anup_sk23  It's not though. My friend is a proud Indian but she recognises the fact that she's quite different to other Indian ethnic groups from areas outside of south India and believes a lot of problems could be solved if there was division. I know this is hard for many Indian nationalists to hear but there are Indians living in other countries who are reasonable in their thinking and are not scared to be critical of India.
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  5744.  @Deepak_Dhakad  Yeah but that's what she was saying. India is more like a continent made up of different countries. Each state is like a country with a different ethnic group, language and culture. She still identifies as Indian but she just recognises the fact that there are many differences and it's true. Her people wear saris but their hair is uncovered but I see many North Indian Hindu women use the end of their saris to cover their hair like a Muslim woman. I remember as a kid seeing things about India on TV and sometimes they'd show women in Rajasthan and when the camera pointed at them, they'd use their sari to cover their face immediately. I eventually learned from a book I borrowed from the library that it's called purdah and many Hindu women in north India practice it since the Mughal era. Idk if that's still the case but this book was kind of old, dating back to the late 1990s.
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  5745.  @Deepak_Dhakad  Idk maybe those in the deep south feel really detached and maybe don't feel represented. Just a guess. I've watched Bollywood thriller films before and I've never actually seen anybody who looks like my friend in any of those films (which is a shame because Bollywood would be 100 times better if they had more diverse Indian representation). All the stars have pale skin and sharp features. My Tamil friend, on the other hand, has a round face, small nose - quite neotenous features and my Malayali friend has similar features and dark brown skin. My Malayali friend still identifies as Indian, you don't have to be upset but she just recognises the differences in her country of birth.
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  5746.  @Anup_sk23  Sorry but I'm not reading all of that. I'll just ask you what part of India are you from?
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  5747.  @Anup_sk23  Okay good to know, thanks for that.
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  5748.  @Anup_sk23  Okay all good, sorry it's just that I'm not in the mood in reading huge comments at the moment.
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  5749.  @EliasRoy  I'm not a troll 😐
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  5750. Why do people say "brown people"? Just say dark skinned Asian cause we all know the ones facing the hate are from other Asian nations
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  5751. I wonder why India doesn't focus on the important issues like building up its manufacturing, creating better infrastructure and striving towards becoming a high income developed nation. I used to have so much faith in India but now it's almost gone. I want to visit India but how come the entire cow belt looks like it's still in the 1940s and the rest of India still is very rural? I'm appalled and can't believe I dedicated an entire project in school discussing why the "Rise of India" was an important development for the world.
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  5752.  @tanmayadas68  How does that change anything when only the middle class and upper class benefit from India's growth? Be serious and think about the poor people that are still living in extreme poverty. India has the second largest number of people living in extreme poverty in the world. Rattling on about some stats means nothing when Uttar Pradesh still looks like it's stuck in the 1940s. 💀
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  5753.  @joepcarspots8321  and the Japanese also deal with male perverts taking photos of girls on the train, they have to have separate carriages for women and their phones need to have the shutter sound on so people know that someone is taking a photo because of all of the perverted behaviour from men. Singapore being ranked #1 makes sense. Westerners believe Singapore is a dictatorship but it's not and it's actually because Singapore has a traditional Asian cultural mentality with Western influences. The country, after all, was built on something that Lee Kuan Yew called "Asian values".
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  5754.  @jko1854  She's a girl
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  5755.  @mondaysinsanity8193  It was compatible. Why is it that Buddhism is only practiced in the Indosphere and Sinosphere? If you say it's about conquering and conversion, why is Buddhism not practiced in West Asia, or Africa or Europe? Why is it that Buddhism is still only practiced in the Indosphere and Sinosphere or what the Imperial Japanese in WW2 called "Greater East Asia" or "Sangoku"?
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  5756. It's culturally related to Nepal and Bhutan too.
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  5757. The US will probably do the same thing to India as they are currently doing with China (it kind of is happening already). China is set to reach number 1 by 2030 and India will be 3. So after falling from number 1, the US isn't going to just give the number 2 position away to India just like that. There'll be competition.
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  5758.  @johney3734  Uh no it's not. They haven't been able to stop anything.
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  5759. Indians are Asians because they're from Asia.
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  5760.  @user-3g7c6  Indians are from Asia, so they're Asians. It's not that hard to understand.
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  5761. Sri Lanka has three historic allies: India, China and Japan. In the modern era, all three of these countries wield economic, political and cultural influence over Sri Lanka. It is these three countries that have invested in the country and provided loans to the country among other things. However the economic crisis in Sri Lanka is not connected to these three countries, it's the result of the Rajapaksas and their economic mismanagement and for stealing so much money from the people.
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  5762. Beautiful singer with beautiful songs.
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  5763. What? India is literally a peninsula in southern Asia. How is that an incorrect statement?
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  5764. Australia's conservative government, in power for 9 years was voted out by the majority. People had had enough of a religious conservative leading the country.
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  5765.  @trowawayacc  Agreed, I don't even call it Twitter anymore because Twitter was far better than X
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  5766. The whole thing makes no sense because "Asian" is not even about appearance, it's just geography. The comedian is from Malaysia. He knows that mainland Indians are Asian as Malaysia is known as "Malaysia Truly Asia", it's home to Malays, Chinese and South Indians. He's just making a joke about the way non-Asians in the US and UK view Asian as a descriptive term for appearance, when it's not.
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  5767.  @LUKAS3675  The joke flew straight over your head. OP was mocking the West's constant interference in other nations' affairs.
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  5768. and she's right
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  5769. ​ @peterpaullee9952  Yes, you're right and it's terrible. An entire rewiring of the brain needs to occur to understand that the Rohingyas deserve respect. There are Burmese people who have done so much to bring awareness to the plight of the Rohingyas though. Maung Zarni is an example. He has for years been an activist for Rohingyas and has been vocal and critical of Myanmar's historical and current treatment of Rohingyas. There were also the two Burmese Reuters reporters who put their lives on the line to report on the genocide that was occurring against the Rohingyas.
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  5770. On X, there were European-American people being racist to him by saying he's not an American. Imagine saying that when this child will do more for the US than any of those people on X
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  5771. Firstly, Islam is a religion not a race. Secondly, yes it was an Islamist terrorist attack and the first to ever happen there. ISIS-inspired terrorists bombed churches, a zoo and luxury hotels across Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday.
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  5772.  @jayaratnam599  That's not correct lol
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  5773. The crisis has nothing to do with China Jemima. Why do you think this is the result of China?
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  5774.  @plusultra7258  It was part of Sri Lanka. Tamil Nadu shouldn't even be a part of India. Totally different to the Hindi Cow Belt.
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  5775.  @tarunkumarsingh8063  No it's a Sri Lankan island. Can't believe this is what y'all are worried about. Had India been controlled by Singaporean-Tamils, India would be a high income developed nation today.
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  5776.  @plusultra7258  Can't even spell the name correctly ijbol. Katchatheevu was part of Sri Lanka and even under British rule was governed by British Ceylon. It was ruled by Sri Lanka but disputed by India. Can't believe this is what y'all are worried about. India is becoming China 2.0.
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  5777.  @JyotiAgarwalofficial  It was ruled as a part of Sri Lanka even during the era of the British. India is becoming 2.0 trying to take over other countries.
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  5778.  @JyotiAgarwalofficial  Had India been ruled by Singaporean-Tamils instead of Hindi Cow Belt people, India would be a high income developed nation today.
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  5779.  @plusultra7258  India would be an advanced nation had the Singaporean-Tamils ruled India. Hindi Cow Belt people are more worried over a tiny uninhabited island that has always been a part of Sri Lanka instead of real issues like unemployment, Manipur crisis and so on. Nobody lives on Katchatheevu and yet you're still worried about this tiny island
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  5780. Are you ok?
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  5781.  @officialnyiyanmoehtet  I think you're a little obsessed, don't you think?
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  5782. A NATO-style Asian alliance will never happen and not a single Asian leader will speak about it. Anybody with an understanding of post-WW2 Asia would know that an alliance would go against the pacifist neutrality that most Asian countries have pursued since the end of WW2. The idea of Asian countries siding with China is more believable than Asian countries forming an alliance against China.
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  5783. I think the focus was more on Asian Americans/immigrants towards the latter end of the discussion
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  5784.  @ss-ib8gm  Newar Buddhists of Nepal celebrate it as do Sikhs and Jains.
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  5785.  @neeldani7450  cause they're all Indians while Sri Lankan Tamils are Sri Lankans. What's not clicking???
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  5786.  @neeldani7450  Indo-Guyanese and other Indian communities outside of India are of ethnic Indian descent. Are you going to tell me that the CEOs of those big tech companies are no longer ethnic Indian?
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  5787.  @neeldani7450  Yes lmao. Sri Lankan Tamils are native to northern Sri Lanka, hence they're called SRI LANKAN Tamils.
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  5788.  @neeldani7450  and we all came from Africa, does that mean we're all Africans??? The concept of India didn't even exist back then. Sri Lankan Tamils are from Sri Lanka. Sinhalese are from Sri Lanka and they didn't even migrate from Orissa. Why do Indians keep saying this? Sinhalese formed from an Orissa-related lineage that intermixed with the indigenous groups on the island like the Yakshas and all that. Make sure you know what you're talking about. Not everybody on earth is an Indian.
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  5789.  @neeldani7450  Yeah it did, it was called British India which is why they're still all called Indians in Kenya, South Africa, Caribbean and Myanmar. Sri Lankan Tamils on the other hand didn't come from a country called India, South Asia was just a bunch of kingdoms when they settled in Sri Lanka. They are Sri Lankans.
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  5790.  @neeldani7450  British India was a Crown Colony of the British Empire. The area that the British colonised was known as India or Bharat. All of those people are Indians. Sri Lanka, on the other hand, was a separate Crown Colony of the UK and before that was never a part of India. Sri Lankans are NOT Indians.
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  5791.  @user-wl3dh5nq7c  Sinhalese are NOT Indians. Sinhalese formed from an East Indian-related lineage that mixed with indigenous groups on the island. I have n idea why Indians are so obsessed with claiming the whole of South Asia as Indian. Istg India is the biggest threat to Asia.
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  5792.  @user-wl3dh5nq7c  Are you going to say Koreans are Chinese? What about Vietnamese people? Are they Chinese? If you say Sinhalese and other Sri Lankans are Indians then all of those groups are Chinese. In fact, we're all Africans then. Grow up and get yourself educated.
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  5793.  @user-wl3dh5nq7c  Sinhalese are NOT Indians. Sinhalese formed from an East Indian-related lineage that mixed with indigenous groups on the island. I have no idea why Indians are so obsessed with claiming the whole of South Asia as Indian. Istg India is the biggest threat to Asia.
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  5794.  @user-wl3dh5nq7c  Sinhalese are NOT Indians. Sinhalese formed from an East Indian-related lineage that mixed with indigenous groups on the island. I have no idea why Indians are so obsessed with claiming the whole of South Asia as Indian.
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  5795.  @user-wl3dh5nq7c  Sinhalese are NOT Indians. Sinhalese formed from an East Indian-related lineage that mixed with indigenous groups on the island. Indians stop claiming other South Asians are Indians challenge impossible
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  5796.  @neeldani7450  Before that, Sri Lanka was NEVER a part of India. Do some research, Indian female.
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  5797.  @user-wl3dh5nq7c  You literally said that Sinhalese or Sri Lankans are Indians. No, you're wrong. South and Southeast Asia are part of the Indosphere. Sri Lanka also absorbed influences from Southeast Asians like the Peranakan Chinese who settled in Sri Lanka and became the Sri Lankan Malays during the Dutch period. So saying it's all Indian is incorrect.
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  5798.  @neeldani7450  Yeah because Sri Lankan Tamils are from Sri Lanka while Burmese Tamils came from India.
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  5799.  @neeldani7450  I'm not a Sri Lankan Tamil and Sri Lankan Tamils are not ethnically Malayali. You need to do some more research.
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  5800.  @straightouttacornwall  Okay so my next question is why do you think the Panama Canal should be under US control again?
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  5801. and the population is literally decreasing with a rapidly aging population and a low fertility rate. Sri Lanka's population is a little smaller than Taiwan's which is of a similar land size.
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  5802. @ No it literally has a rapidly aging population. It has one of the fastest aging populations in Asia and the highest proportion of elderly people in South Asia. The Economist boldly predicted in 2023 that Sri Lanka will officially become old before it becomes rich as a result of its aging crisis. You need to educate yourself on other parts of Asia. Taiwan, South Korea are of similar size to Sri Lanka and have more people. So what's the issue?
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  5803.  @xtc2v  What's wrong is you refusing to use Google and educating yourself. It has a rapidly aging population because people are living longer there, so the population continues to grow older. There are more people reaching elderly age than there are young people. So the population is rapidly aging. On top of that, a low fertility rate has meant there are not as many children being born compared to 15 years ago and that's why they had to bring in construction and hospitality workers from India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Myanmar to fill the gaps in their workforce which is actually shrinking. How about doing some research on what's going on in the developing nations in tropical Asia like Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam? The Economist published two articles about this, you can start there.
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  5804. @ It has a rapidly aging population because people are living longer there, so the population continues to grow older. There are more people reaching elderly age than there are young people. So the population is rapidly aging. On top of that, a low fertility rate has meant there are not as many children being born compared to 15 years ago and that's why they had to bring in construction and hospitality workers from India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Myanmar to fill the gaps in their workforce which is actually shrinking. How about doing some research on what's going on in the developing nations in tropical Asia like Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam? The Economist published two articles about this, you can start there.
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  5805. You have no respect for the victims
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  5806.  @ThatCarGuy1983  Diversity doesn't work because of white supremacists like thatcarguy6190
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  5807. Don't lie, you never liked it in the first place regardless of how much you knew about it.
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  5808.  @larssrensen4353  Caucasian is an outdated racial term from the 19th century. Indians/Pakistanis aren't Caucasian. Caucasian described skull shape, nobody in the scientific community uses that term. You can't determine ethnicity by skull shape, only a genetic test can reveal that. South Asians are mostly a mix of Ancestral North Indian (ANI) and Ancestral South Indian (ASI) components. That's why even in the 19th century, Indians/South Asians were sometimes classified as "mixed" or "unclassified" by anthropologists like Carleton S. Coon because South Asians are so diverse and modern science has shown us why South Asians were so hard to classify back in the 19th century.
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  5809.  @larssrensen4353  Did you watch the video properly and have you watched Masaman's other videos? He clearly said that Caucasian is an outdated racial term and that we don't use those terms anymore. If you actually follow his content, then you'll know that it's an outdated term and he actually created the video to illustrate the historical terminology and the modern terminology we now use which include terms like "West Eurasian" and "East Eurasian".
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  5810.  @664theneighbor5  Depends on context. . In the UK, for example, "Asian" means "South Asian" and in Asia, "Asian" refers to all Asian groups. In Singapore, for example, all Singaporeans of Chinese, Malay and Indian descent are considered "Asian".
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  5811.  @illustryfe5354  Firstly, Mongoloid is outdated racial term from the 19th century referring to the shape of people's skulls. You can't determine race based on skull shape. Mongoloid and other racial terms are outdated and no longer used in the scientific community today. Brown is also not a racial term. So many diverse groups are "brown skinned" but that doesn't mean they're the same race. Secondly, it depends on context. In the US, the first wave of Asian immigrants were from East Asia and in the UK, the first wave of Asian immigrants were from South Asia. So in US English, "Asian" refers to East Asian and in British English, "Asian" refers to South Asians. Officially on government documents, both East Asians and South Asians as well as Southeast Asians are classified as "Asians" regardless of how the term is used in colloquial language. In Asia, "Asian" refers to everybody from Asia. In Singapore, for example, all Singaporeans of Indian, Malay and Chinese descent are considered as "Asians". This is because Singapore is an Asian country and the definition in Singapore and other parts of Asia is most similar to the dictionary definition of "Asian". So it depends on context but at the end of day, everybody from one of the native ethnic groups of Asia is Asian. Finally, some Indian groups like Bengalis and various Northeast Indian groups have East Asian admixture which is why some of them look Thai or Chinese.
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  5812.  @basedabdu8653  No that's wrong. Caucasian is an outdated racial term from the 19th century. Indians/Pakistanis aren't Caucasian. Caucasian described skull shape, nobody in the scientific community uses that term. You can't determine ethnicity by skull shape, only a genetic test can reveal that. South Asians are mostly a mix of Ancestral North Indian (ANI) and Ancestral South Indian (ASI) components. That's why even in the 19th century, Indians/South Asians were sometimes classified as "mixed" or "unclassified" by anthropologists like Carleton S. Coon because South Asians are so diverse and modern science has shown us why South Asians were so hard to classify back in the 19th centur
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  5813.  @bonappetit7522  No that's wrong. Caucasian is an outdated racial term from the 19th century. Indians/Pakistanis aren't Caucasian. Caucasian described skull shape, nobody in the scientific community uses that term. You can't determine ethnicity by skull shape, only a genetic test can reveal that. South Asians are mostly a mix of Ancestral North Indian (ANI) and Ancestral South Indian (ASI) components. That's why even in the 19th century, Indians/South Asians were sometimes classified as "mixed" or "unclassified" by anthropologists like Carleton S. Coon because South Asians are so diverse and modern science has shown us why South Asians were so hard to classify back in the 19th centur
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  5814.  @AyanAli-py7ci  "Caucasian" is an outdated racial term like I said in my other comments. The term is "West Eurasian". Pakistanis have more West Eurasian admixture and yes those western Pakistani groups are genetically and culturally related to Iranians and other Middle Eastern groups and not to South Asians.
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  5815.  Shazzad Amin  See my other comment that I posted.
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  5816. Tamils are still suffering today, your point?
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  5817.  @JohnBrembo90  Okay but Sri Lankan Malays came from all over Indonesia and developed their own language called Sri Lankan Malay or Bahasa Melayu Sri Lanka, it’s a Malay creole langusge
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  5818. FYI, most of Southeast Asia is culturally related to South Asia
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  5819. ...because it's not a right wing insurrection. It's an insurrection or rebellion but it's not right wing. These are people who are taking their country back from the president that stole of their money and ruined turned their lives upside down.
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  5820.  @paidinfull3244  Tell me you're joking. Imagine making everything into left wing and right wing politics even when it has no correlation to the topic at hand.
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  5821.  @paidinfull3244  Shilling for the government? Which government am I "shilling" for? Also, what are you even talking about "green hair" and "counter culture"? What? I'm not even from the US.
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  5822. South America???? South America is NOT Asian. Indians are at least Asian and most of them that go to Japan are actually white collar workers who aren't even represented in crime statistics compared to other foreign nationalities, including Brazilians and Peruvians that live in Japan. All this boogeyman talk about Indians is so strange, if the men are not wanted, then get their women who cause no problems. In fact, they should just bring in foreign women at a much greater rate as temporary migrants. Most migrants to Japan are from other Asian countries, leave it at that.
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  5823. They pioneered suicide bombing
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  5824. Why are you mad?
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  5825. @Vidya CK It truly is a shame to see where India is heading. I really like Indian culture and society but the way your Modi government is treating sensitive topics like religion and the complete mishandling of COVID-19 and the ultranationalist rhetoric from North Indian Hindu Modi supporters is just sad to see. I expected so much more from India and your comment proves to me why India is changing and no longer the country it used to be. Hmm maybe they were right to say that India would have done so much better had it been under the control of an authoritarian leadership.
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  5826.  Raghav Ron  Sorry but Bangladesh is doing great. Their economic growth rate is quite high and their economy has diversified to include textiles and production of electronics. They are following the Tiger economy model, that's why they've gained a lot in a short amount of time. Same thing applies to Vietnam, they're using the same economic model too.
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  5827.  Raghav Ron  Why do you hate Bangladesh so much? Why don't you kindly stop hating on every single one of your neighbours and just accept the fact that Bangladesh is thriving? In the 1970s they were deemed a basket case but look at them now. I'm not reading biased news articles, I'm looking at raw data and listening to the economists. Facts over feelings. Thanks 😊
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  5828.  Raghav Ron  Wow your words. Sorry but nothing I have "spouted" is nonsense. No, I will not be reading anything else about Modi or the BJP because there is no need to. Modi is a terrible leader and is the reason why India's international reputation is going down the drain right as we speak. I kindly suggest you go to basic international social media spaces and look at the things people are saying about India these days since Modi turned into an ultranationlist in 2019. Thanks. 😊
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  5829.  Raghav Ron  What I've stated is the truth. Facts over feelings. 😊
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  5830.  Raghav Ron  In my opinion, Modi is a terrible leader. Look at what has happened to India because of his negligence and his incompetent government.
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  5831.  Raghav Ron  Kindly respect other people's opinions. I think Modi and his government is terrible. India's economy is still stuck in the 1990s without any ability of opening it up like other Asian countries. Now look at what has happened with the COVID-19 crisis. No wonder people want him to resign.
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  5832.  @chinaisresponsibleforcoron6382  1. I'm not Bengali/Bangladeshi 2. Funny you call Bengali/Bangladeshi "black" when nobody outside of India/Bangladesh can tell the difference between you two. You all look the same to non-Indians/Bangladeshis. Keep crying though. Your racism is showing.
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  5833.  @chinaisresponsibleforcoron6382  Keep telling yourself that.
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  5834.  @chinaisresponsibleforcoron6382  The superiority complex is real yet it's the South Indians who are the most successful in India and the Bengalis who are stereotyped as the intellectuals. Hmm interesting.
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  5835.  @nebuchednezzargilgamesh1853  No you don't. Like I said, history will remember. You can't change that. What happens is always remembered.
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  5836.  @syhuhjk  ...and the world will remember.
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  5837.  @Jambudvipa-ug6yg  Yes they are
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  5838.  @chucky2316  Asians are always more friendlier
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  5839. He existed. The Buddha was never seen as a legendary figure with supernatural powers or god-given powers, nor did he intend to create a religion. He was just like the other sramana men who wandered ancient South Asia and engaged in meditation. There are many other sramana men in ancient India like Mahavira. None of these sramana men were seen as supreme beings. The West is only aware of the Buddha (when it comes to ancient Indian teachers, philosophers, gurus and sramana men) and thus conflate him with Abrahamic religious founders as if he is similar. The thing is he is not, the Buddha came from a very different cultural context and lived hundreds of years before Jesus or Muhammed.
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  5840. I should also add that the Buddha was merely a prince who decided to give up his royal title and become an ascetic (sramana man).
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  5841.  @Naruto-u2k3n  Nobody in Thailand or Indonesia is protesting in the street attacking Russians, spreading misinformation and racist rhetoric towards them online unlike Europeans who do it all the time online, especially on Twitter and YouTube. Chinese tourists are tourists, they are not immigrants. Nobody in Asia is angry at new Chinese immigrants.
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  5842.  @Naruto-u2k3n  Chinese tourists are not locals, so bringing them up makes absolutely no sense
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  5843.  @casioak1683  People in Europe and Canada will belittle you for how you look, degrade your skin colour, generalise your community or group you with others, say racist things about you online but act nice to your face.
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  5844.  @casioak1683  This isn't just about migrant workers, it's about people in general. Europe is not a good place to go to for work anymore because the people there are very, very, very racist. I see it on Twitter all the time.
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  5845.  @casioak1683  There are so many non-Chinese people living in China like the Africans in Guangzhou. Where in China have there been violent protests against them the way we saw violent protests against non-white people in the UK? Two Southeast Asian nurses were attacked in the UK simply because they were non-white.
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  5846.  @casioak1683  That's not the point. There is a backlash towards non-White people in Europe. I'd feel safer in China than I would in the UK or anywhere in Western Europe.
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  5847.  @wheatstonebridge  God needs to be thanked for making it decline too
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  5848.  @noeminoemi1350  Some of the South Asian ones are too
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  5849. So the Itaewon stampede was also because of people being uncivilised? 🤡
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  5850.  @nanaholic01  Yeah but if China were to block the Strait of Malacca they're going to have to get past Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and India (countries that have EEZ overlapping or in close proximity to the Strait of Malacca and/or rely on it).
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  5851.  @nanaholic01  Yeah you're right. I think most countries in the region, including Australia, want to get along with China without fully siding with the US. Australia is still very much on the US side but it recognises it needs to co-exist with China. Malaysia, Indonesia, India and Singapore don't recognise the Nine Dash Line and Malaysia claims islands and surrounding sea in the SCS and Indonesia claims the surrounding waters of Natuna Islands in SCS. So they won't do anything for China in recognition of the Nine Dash Line. However, I wouldn't be surprised if one day all of those countries I mentioned (except for Singapore) were to fall to the Chinese side. Right now, the only major thing stopping Malaysia, Indonesia and India from becoming blatantly pro-Chinese are territorial disputes. Though, all of those countries, including Singapore, could remain neutral if something like this were to occur, which is more believable to me. The belief of neutrality is so entrenched in much of Asia since the end of WW2 that I wouldn't be surprised if they all turned a blind eye and remained neutral for their own protection.
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  5852.  Joe Xavier  True, India's ruling party and its supporters don't represent democracy.
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  5853.  @Panini_Edirisinhe  Stop acting like this! This is now how Sri Lankan people behave.
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  5854. We only acknowledge Argentina and most of the nations that competed, not Qatar though. Migrant workers are the reason why that country was able to host it. Without foreigners, none of that would be possible.
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  5855.  @cleopatra667  I have checked all of my facts. Hassan al-Thawadi, the secretary-general of Qatar’s Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy literally said, "The estimate is around 400, between 400 and 500" on national TV when asked about how many died during the preparations of the World Cup which began in 2011. Don't lie and tell me "3 people died".
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  5856.  @cleopatra667  Just because most people in Qatar and its foreign supporters don't care about migrant workers doesn't mean everybody in that country is heartless and okay with the mistreatment of migrant workers.
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  5857. India's fertility rate is already below replacement level. You should use Google.
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  5858. How were they supposed to know that these people would be corrupt?
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  5859. Don't they realise they brought shame to India and Indian people by becoming illegal immigrants in the US?
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  5860.  @giliganbrown6962  Why on earth did you call me "Abdul"? Wth?
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  5861.  @giliganbrown6962  Why on earth did you call me "Abdul"? Is everything working alright upstairs Giligan?
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  5862. Sri Lankan Tamils are suffering at this moment, probably even worse than all of the other ethnic groups on the island and you say that?
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  5863. Why do y'all always make everything about physical appearance?
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  5864. X is notorious for this because Musky pays people for tweeting. So these right wingers repost with sensationalised headlines to get more views and thus more dollars.
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  5865.  @M0neyMan  Middle East is a transcontinental region, it includes Egypt which is part of Africa. In this context, since they mentioned Africa, naming Middle East could have been left out.
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  5866. Are you aware news organisations have international correspondents? The racism is insane
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  5867.  @renjithlal9404  The fact of the matter is that that there is nowhere in India that is like Sri Lanka and the fact that you just said that India is just an amalgamation of different cultures further proves my strong belief that India is an artificial country and should be broken up into at least 50 different nations. The fact that Indian culture = diverse and nothing else clearly shows me how fake that country is.
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  5868.  @renjithlal9404  Sri Lanka was a separate nation because the people of Sri Lanka didn't view themselves as a part of India. Maybe BIMARU Indians need to start learning how to respect other people.
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  5869.  @renjithlal9404  The fact of the matter is that that there is nowhere in India that is like Sri Lanka and the fact that you just said that India is just an amalgamation of different cultures further proves my strong belief that India is an artificial country and should be broken up into at least 50 different nations.
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  5870.  @renjithlal9404  The fact that Indian culture = diverse and nothing else clearly shows me how fake that country is. If India's only unity is that it's "diverse", how is that a country? It's not. Learn about Sri Lankan culture.
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  5871. The way he says "Asian countries" and then "Taipei" 😭😭
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  5872.  @VeganSanatani  We don't worship Hindu gods. Nobody worships Hindu gods to gain something. It's a form of paying respect. There are statues of Hindu gods in Buddhist temples because of the influence of Hinduism on many South and Southeast Asian cultures. Go to Mongolia or Kalmykia in Russia which wasn't influenced by Hinduism and you won't see those types of Hindu gods in the temples or monasteries because they weren't influenced by Hinduism.
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  5873.  @VeganSanatani  No, what they're saying is right. Buddhism is a Dharmic religion like Hinduism but it's not the same. The very reason Buddhism exists is because the Buddha didn't agree with the primary practices taught in the Vedas.
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  5874.  @VeganSanatani  Nah, I do understand it. Buddhism is not Hinduism and we don't call ourselves Sanatanis - like I said, never even heard of it. Sorry but this is the truth.
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  5875.  @VeganSanatani  What are you talking about?? I'm talking about Buddhism not Jains. Why would I be talking about Jains? I'm not a Jain.
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  5876. ​ @VeganSanatani  Please don't lie. We all know you've never stepped foot in Mongolia. I never faulted Tantra Buddhism, I'm talking about basic teachings that the Buddha taught in his days. I'm not crying, it's actually you who is doing exactly that. Idk why Indian male Hindu nationalists are like this. Y'all are the reason why there is so much hate towards Hinduism now. I'm sickened.
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  5877.  @VeganSanatani  YouTube, Twitter and Instagram should be banned in India, so we're free from all of this. TikTok is gone, we need those three gone too.
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  5878.  @dharshinijayatilake7922  I'm really sorry for what you experienced.
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  5879.  @dm.b7560  Singapore's borders are open to foreigners, it's just that it's really hard to get PR in Singapore. Singapore also prefers other Asians (like Japan and SK). The top immigrant group in Singapore are Malaysians, who are ethnically and culturally virtually the same as Singaporeans (Chinese, Malay and Tamil), followed by people from China, Indonesia and India
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  5880. Japan, South Korea and Singapore are at the top.
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  5881.  @RedHanded1969  Calling Singapore and Hong Kong "Western Asian countries" is far from reality. Hong Kong's medium of instruction and lingua franca is Cantonese. If you want an English language education, you need to go to an international school. Everything in Hong Kong society is in Cantonese, that's why the new Asian immigrants to Hong Kong really struggle to make it in Hong Kong because many of them are relying on English and are consequently falling behind the local born Hong Kong people (including the non-Chinese Hong Kongers like the colonial-era Indians and Nepalese) who all speak Cantonese.
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  5882.  @RedHanded1969  I'm guessing you haven't been to these cities before because while Singapore has absorbed a lot of Western influence, that doesn't change anything that I stated in my previous comment. Singapore is a bona fide Eastern society. The entire country is built upon something the founding father of Singapore called "Asian values", a type of ideological system created to unite the Chinese, Malays and Indian communities of Singapore (three different types of Asians) and derived from the Chinese philosophy known as Confucianism. The country's values and mentality are all Eastern. The type of child rearing you see practiced by Asian Americans is practiced by all parents in Singapore, there is an emphasis on "kiasu" (saving face) and not bringing shame to the family by failing and there is a heavy emphasis on academically succeeding. So severe are Singapore's values on achievement and "kiasu" that the government had to announce to students that exams aren't everything in life. Singapore dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic using Eastern values. Why do you think people were willing to wear face masks and obey the rule of law unlike in the US? That's because Singapore is an Eastern society, it's underpinned by collectivism (a concept shared across Asia).
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  5883.  @RedHanded1969  So yeah no, Singapore and Hong Kong are bona fide Eastern societies. Go there and you'll experience cultural shock if you're expecting a society that mirrors Western values and pattens of behaviour.
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  5884.  @RedHanded1969  Well then we can add North Korea to the list too
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  5885.  @skysadness  The OP doesn't live in New Zealand **** **
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  5886.  @meharoofryanmarakkar4515  of course you don't see it
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  5887. Myanmar's "friends" either support the Burmese military (e.g. China supports the military) or they turn a blind eye and claim that it's an internal issue (Japan, India and the rest of Asia).
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  5888. No let them have their South Asian double eyelids (that's how they were born) and anyway, if you really want to see North Indian girls with monolids you can find them if you go north.
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  5889.  @officialnyiyanmoehtet  Okay if you say so
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  5890. It's not a full blown genocide, the word is being thrown around very loosely. It seems to be more like a cultural genocide. IT must be pointed out that the most popular actress in China right now is a Uyghur woman.
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  5891.  @proximacentauri3627  Why would our navy need to fight anything if we simply minded our own business?
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  5892.  @giliganbrown6962  In what way?
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  5893.  @giliganbrown6962  Stop discriminating Asian Australians
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  5894.  @SoCalFreelance  More like the government stealing everybody's money. The pandemic and the tourism drought only revealed what was going on behind the scenes. The Sri Lankan people had no idea the president and his family had been stealing so much money until the pandemic began to draw out. In 2020, nobody could really tell what was happening. The Sri Lankan government had successfully controlled the spread of COVID-19 using contact tracing - everybody thought everything was fine but it in 2021 that the cracks began to show when virulent strains began to emerge in the world and Sri Lanka remained closed to the world. That's when people began to realise what was going on.
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  5895.  @TheSwissChalet  cause it literally is! Imagine not being able to criticise civic issues in India without expressing hate for an entire group of people. There are regions in India that are actually clean because they have a different culture to the majority. Not my problem you're deeply uneducated and waycist.
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  5896.  @TheSwissChalet  cause it literally is! Imagine not being able to criticise civic issues in India without expressing hate for an entire group of people.
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  5897.  @TheSwissChalet  There are regions in India that are actually clean because they have a different culture to the majority. Not my problem you're deeply uneducated and waycist.
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  5898. ​ @TheSwissChalet  There are regions in India that are actually clean because they have a different culture to the majority. Not my problem you're deeply waycist and uneducated.
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  5899.  @TheSwissChalet  There are regions in India that are actually clean because they have a different culture to the majority. Not my problem you're waycist.
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  5900.  @juraganfarms  T=Firstly, they have gone to multiple non-Muslim areas like India and even Nepal. They are also in Thailand too. Secondly, Bangladeshis are completely different and have nothing to do with Rohingyas. Finally, Balinese and non-Muslim Indonesians are of interest to me. Idgaf about any of the others. You are not Balinese or Thai or non-Muslim. Don't speak.
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  5901.  @juraganfarms  You claim to be Hindu-Buddhist but your behaviour is not reflective of the core teachings emphasises in Hinduism or Buddhism. Shameful.
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  5902.  @juraganfarms  Nobody is asking them to settle in Bali but the racism and disregard for them is the complete opposite of Hindu-Buddhist, especially Buddhist, teachings. Not surprised many have no understanding of the Buddha's teachings these days, instead going to the temple and lighting an incense and thinking they're doing something. Very embarrassing. No wonder still third world.
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  5903. Bifurcated?? Sri Lanka and Bhutan are doing fine on their own. Just because Sri Lanka is facing an economic crisis, doesn't mean they have lost anything. Their living standard is still much better than the rest of South Asia.
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  5904. Idk why Indians think they own the whole of South Asia and Myanmar. No those are separate countries. They'd lose a lot if they became a part of India.
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  5905.  @tjs4859  Yes Arab Americans, not Middle Eastern Arabs but Middle Eastern Arab nations don't even care about Palestinians
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  5906. You have zero respect for the victims
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  5907.  @GirlBehindACamera  You have zero respect for the victims, oh bad karma will treat you well
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  5908.  @realrhetoric  The right thing to do would be to let the past be the past. By trying to "right" the "wrongs" of the past, they ruined the peaceful race relations that existed during the ancient times. This is why Sri Lanka failed at becoming another Asian Tiger economy because it failed to manage its ethnic diversity properly. Same thing happened to Malaysia, the Malay leaders wanted to "right" the "wrongs" because the Chinese and Tamils were privileged in colonial Malaya. The difference is that Malaysia has made significant strides after seeing its southern neighbour become developed.
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  5909.  @realrhetoric  The Malay-dominated government of Malaysia expelled Singapore from the country due to severely strained relations between the Malays and Chinese in 1965. Singapore never wanted to gain independence but due to their expulsion, the Singaporeans put aside their differences and created an equal nation for Chinese, Malays and Tamils. Yes Bandaranaike is the root of the problem and did not think of the future. What would have been the right thing to do would have been to cultivate a shared identity as Sri Lankans, made English the lingua franca of the country in order to allow every group to be on the same page. Making minorities learn Sinhalese is unfair to the minorities because the Sinhalese already have an advantage. You can already see how mixed Sri Lankan culture is at a basic level whether that's in the capital or in the towns and rural areas. I've heard stories of Muslims cleaning and taking care of Buddhist roadside shrines and there are Sinhalese in Hambantota who speak in Malay with the Sri Lankan Malays due to the Malay impact in that region.
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  5910.  @realrhetoric  I respectfully disagree. There's no truce in Singapore. The country is the most successful multi-ethnic country in Asia. The four founding fathers of modern Singapore are all ethnically diverse, comprising people of Chinese, Peranakan and Tamil descent. It was a Tamil man that created the framework for Singapore's modern policies surrounding ethnic equality. If anything, it is the Malays that are disadvantaged in comparison to the Chinese and Indians and the government is aware of this. The Chinese and Tamils on the other hand have had it better and traditionally speaking they are the ones that have been in control of the Singaporean government even before Singapore gained independence from Malaysia. A major survey in 2018 in Singapore revealed most people believe that income inequality/class position is the most likely cause for discrimination in the country and not race or religion, illustrating how attitudes of the general public had changed in the past 53 years.
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  5911. Why is it always Indian men saying this sort of stuff? No wonder why y'all get so much hate.
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  5912. Australia has donated money to Sri Lanka. Trust me, other Asia-Pacific countries are helping Sri Lanka. We are taking care of our region.
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  5913. Correct
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  5914.  @tombo416  Nobody in East Asia is going to work in Japan, what are you talking about? The vast majority of migrant workers in Japan come from Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia, Nepal and Myanmar.
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  5915.  @tombo416  Why do people keep saying East Asians?? Japan is not going to be accepting people from East Asia. Nobody in other parts of East Asia want to go to Japan or need to go there, most of East Asia is developed. The people that will go to Japan are from various parts of South and Southeast Asia like Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia, Nepal and Myanmar.
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  5916. Why would you even talk about this on a video where some thing was arrested for being an East Asian supremacist and wanting to target other Asians?
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  5917.  @gcinizwidlamini406  We're waiting
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  5918.  @OkikiolaDavid-u9s  Is that racism? No
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  5919.  @hyuxion  Nobody in their right mind wants India to dominate the Indian Ocean. I don't think India wants that either.
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  5920.  @ashaypallav4158  No in the US, Chinese people may identify as "Asian" because they're Asian.
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  5921. Firstly, that's a lie and you know it and secondly, you know why it's a lie? It's cause you can't even spell properly. How did you get into college when your grammar is worse than a 5 year old?
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  5922. Tbh I think Japan should adopt a policy similar to the one Thailand used in the past in which it demanded its ethnic Chinese minority integrate into society by adopting Thai culture and letting go of Chinese culture. Now Thai and Thai-Chinese are one to the point that nobody will differentiate between the two in a way you see in other countries. I say this because unlike Singapore which has mostly accepted Malaysians who are ethnically and culturally virtually the same as Singaporeans, in addition to Chinese, Indians and Indonesians, Japan doesn't have a source country that is basically a mirror image of Japan in terms of culture and ethnicity. Japan is mostly accepting migrant workers, skilled workers and students from an array of other Asian countries because they are the most similar to Japan in terms of culture but that doesn't mean the same. So if ever Japan has to turn towards permanent immigration and some of these skilled workers and students do get to remain permanently in the country, they should ordered to be Japanised to the point that they have no connection with the culture they were born in. It sounds crazy but real world examples exist like Thailand that prove it can be successful.
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  5923.  @MiguelDLewis  In regards to Thailand, the assimilation process of the Chinese happened hundreds of years ago when ethnic Chinese were migrating to Thailand. This happened a long time ago, sorry I should've been more clearer. It's not a modern example. Thailand also has a declining fertility rate, in fact it's lower than Japan's fertility rate and stands at 1.16, making it the second lowest fertility rate in Southeast Asia after Singapore's 0.97 fertility rate. Singapore's case isn't actually about integrating multiple Asian ethnicities. Singaporeans are mostly of Chinese, Malay and Indian descent so as a result, the Singaporean government accepts immigrants from Malaysia, China, Indonesia and India. Most of them are from Malaysia who are just like Singaporeans and mostly of Chinese, Malay and Indian descent and culturally very similar as they were once part of the same country. The case of Singapore is that it is very strict in who is allowed in but being ethnically Chinese, Malay, Indian and from Malaysia puts you at a much, much higher advantage than every other nationality because Singapore strives hard to maintain the demographics of the country which are 74% Chinese, 14% Malay, 9% Indian and 3% Others (mostly Eurasians). These have been the demographics of the country for hundreds of years. So the government wants to keep it the same to maintain stability, to make sure the Malay and Indian minorities don't get drowned out by immigrants and to make sure the Chinese know that they aren't shrinking in size.
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  5924.  @MiguelDLewis  True but I don't think Chinese people will be moving to Japan. When Chinese people move, they move to developing Asian countries where life is cheaper or to Singapore or Malaysia due to cultural reasons. Hmm I don't think that's true. Singapore chose non-alignment to protect itself from the issues of the world as it was a newly independent nation that feared its destruction if it angered its neighbours or got caught up in world issues. This is why Singapore developed its military to become what it called a "poisonous shrimp". So it's actually not related to the ethnic diversity of the nation. I do understand what you're saying here but India's main language of business is English and its language of governance and the majority language is Hindi. Tamil is a minority language in India. In fact, Singapore gives more credit and recognition for Tamil than India does for Tamil.
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  5925.  @MiguelDLewis  I'm not putting words into your mouth, it's just that it seems like you're conflating the two and suggesting it helps Singapore's standing on the international stage, it doesn't.
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  5926.  @digbyjones4203  Goes to show that you know nothing about the Eastern world and the inventions and foundations for further innovations that emerged across Asia from Mesopotamia to India to China. Do some research.
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  5927.  @digbyjones4203  You claim to be superior yet it's an Asian nation (Singapore, with its multiethnic population of Chinese, Indians and Malays) that tops the international literacy, numeracy and science rankings each year. You claim to be superior yet it's the diasporic Asians in the US, UK and other Western countries that are the most educated group. You claim to be superior, yet the Asian Americans (Indians, Taiwanese, Chinese, Filipinos) have the highest household median income in the US. You claim to be superior yet it's Asians who dominate Ivy league schools so much to the point that there's an "Asian quota" to reduce the number of East Asian and South Asian students getting into each school. News flash, nobody is superior. Its people qualities that define who they are, not their ethnicity.
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  5928.  @digbyjones4203  Singapore was an undeveloped poor nation with a high illiteracy rate, suffering from race riots and high poverty when it gained independence from the British. The British did NOTHING to develop Singapore into what it is today. Singapore is developed today because of Singaporean people!! GET EDUCATED!!
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  5929.  @digbyjones4203  What is not clicking? Are you trying to tell me that the academic superiority of Singaporeans today is because of the British? Get real. Singapore is what it is today because of Singaporeans. The British left Singapore has a racially divided and poor island at independence. It was the Singaporeans who picked up the pieces and transformed the nation. The highly intelligent, Lee Kuan Yew and his three political partners are the reason why Singapore is what it is today. Singapore could have still been a poor nation today had the locals not risen up. The reason why Singaporeans top the academic rankings each year is because of their intelligence. That has NOTHING to do with the British.
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  5930. The Maldives is in South Asia, you'll survive. Just depends where.
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  5931. Lmfaoooo what???
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  5932.  @ariapinandita9240  Um...
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  5933.  @jxyeee6525  Cancel culture?? No. Cancel culture has no existence outside of the United States. This has nothing to do with cancel culture.
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  5934.  @raghavnamasivayam8706  No, there are Indian tourists and then there are Indian foreign workers in Maldives.
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  5935.  @hockchweeong9883  Most foreign workers in the Maldives are Bangladeshis (57%), the second largest group are the Indians (24%), the third are the Sri Lankans (11%) and the rest are Chinese, Filipinos, Indonesians and Nepalese (8%).
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  5936. Why do Indians always want to swallow up other countries? Like geez, calm down.
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  5937. Exactly, India and China are the mothers of pan-Asian civilisation.
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  5938.  @rollinghippo2940  Man detected
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  5939. cause they're not far right unlike the UK people. What's not clicking????
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  5940.  @pokemonsr9  LGBT is a minority community. People are born LGB, it's not a movement. Whoever is LGB may likely never have children so what on earth makes you think that LGB is contributing to fertility decline? They were never a part of the equation. You speak as if people become LGB and that LGB makes up 50% of the population or something.
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  5941.  @Prettyking99  Sri Lankans are NOT basically Indians. Idk why people are so prejudicial and racist.
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  5942. William Gibson is the man who said that and William Gibson is an American. Last time I checked, the US has the death penalty and yet Americans love to point fingers at other nations and claim they are morally better. I think for a nation where people are high on drugs, where mass shootings are a daily occurrence, where racism is normalised, where being uneducated is a flex and violence is part and parcel of society, the US has no right to be pointing fingers at anybody and yes Singapore is indeed a utopian society in Asia.
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  5943. because Trump's usage of "Indo-Pacific" became mainstream and now Asian leaders use the term too. Before Trump, we called Indo-Pacific, Asia-Pacific but doesn't matter, it's the same thing.
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  5944. It's not. Look up Western media reports pre-2022 and you will find everything you need about these Ukrainian neo-Nazis. You'll also learn about the White supremacist who committed a terror attack in Christchurch, New Zealand and how he travelled to Ukraine and how the Ukrainian authorities raided the homes of neo-Nazis following the terror attack.
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  5945. When they begin to threaten US economic hegemony, in the way China is doing now, is when India will become a threat.
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  5946. He probably doesn't want to go back because he's from the LTTE, that's the only explanation, not because he's gay because there are plenty of gay people in Sri Lanka
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  5947.  @LollipopLop  It's a troll
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  5948.  @robertconklin3850  Repeating the same thing over and over. How is any of that related to the topic in question? If the US enforces tariffs on BRICS what in the US will replace what BRICS produce? It's not like the US economy is a BRICS-like economy where it can manufacture just like that, like turning on a light switch
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  5949.  @Ghost-sy6gd  No it's racist
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  5950. Sri Lanka only has a population of 21 million people, they have below replacement level of fertility and their population is set to peak in the next 15 years and begin declining afterwards. You clearly think it's like India... but you're so wrong.
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  5951. In what universe are Indians the majority in Canada?
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  5952.  @FahTheSkyLovesPeace  The perpetrators are Uyghurs, not Thai Malays.
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  5953.  @zainzoala1083  He didn't do it in the name of Christianity or atheism though. He did it in the name of White supremacy. This terrorist committed this attack in the name of you know what, no amount of denying it is going to change reality.
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  5954.  @hellgorama  Joining India is not the solution to escape from this predicament. You speak as if India is a highly developed nation with a high national income. Sri Lanka has a higher HDI and higher national income than India. What makes you think Sri Lanka is going to be saved by joining India? The only thing that will happen is that there will be an influx of Hindi-speaking North Indians that settle in Sri Lanka, just like what is happening elsewhere in non-Hindi speaking parts of India. India still has separatist movements, what makes you think the Sri Lankans will want to join India? India is not even rich, joining a country with 1.4 billion people with large numbers of people living in poverty is not the answer. Now if India was rich and developed like China, such a proposal as outlandish as it still sounds, wouldn't be as shocking because it's rich but India is not rich and far from it.
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  5955.  @hellgorama  A working monorail and MRT mean nothing when overall infrastructure is still poor. Bangladesh is in a much better position than India is. Bangladesh is now considered one of the new Asian Tiger economies and has social indicators that are better than India's social indicators. Bangladesh with its booming economy and robust garment and tech manufacturing industries now has a plan to become a high income developed nation by 2041. Does India have any such plans? No. They're busy riling up minorities with their Hindutva and RSS people. Good grief, India is a terrible situation because they seem to care more about dividing people instead of working together. Have you seen the state of Mumbai and Delhi at ground level? From a distance, Mumbai looks like some amazing Cyberpunk-esque city with its neon lit skyscrapers and digital holograms plastered on building facades but at ground level, the city is chaos with poor infrastructure, sprawling slums and completely overcrowded and zero planning.
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  5956.  @000n6  There is a general standard Malaysian accent. You get a Malaysian Indian to speak English and get an Indian to speak English and you'll notice the difference straight away.
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  5957. They're literally described as as a "new Asian Tiger economy" and have a goal of becoming a high income developed country by 2041.
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  5958.  @tommyh4116  There are plenty of beautiful Indian women in Malaysia and Singapore like model Shareeta Selvaraj. Shareeta is married to a white man. In fact, there is a large number of Malaysian/Singaporean-Indian women with White men in Malaysia/Singapore. Their half white kids are famous actors and models in SE Asia.
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  5959.  @Highskill3r  They're trying to militarise the Indo-Pacific region, something that nobody wants.
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  5960.  @Highskill3r  The US
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  5961. More people need to learn Cantonese, it's the only way people will be able to move up the social ladder. Use of English in Hong Kong prevents people from moving upwards because the territory is no longer a British colony.
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  5962. You're just a racist.
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  5963. Did you even watch the video? Sri Lanka was never ruled as a part of India when the British were ruling it.
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  5964.  @HelloimthisguyYT  Indian is not an ethnicity and Sri Lankans are NOT Indians. What a racist thing to say.
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  5965.  @HelloimthisguyYT  What context???? Sri Lankans are Sinhalese, Tamils, Moors, Malays and Burghers. How on earth are these ethnic groups "Indians"???? Stop being racist.
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  5966.  @cafe1925  Okay but the fact is that Sri Lanka was NOT a princely state, it was a Crown colony.
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  5967. The amount of lies that are spread on X is insane (I used to call it Twitter even after it became X but seeing the state of that app now I refuse to correlate it with Twitter, which was actually a good app before that Musky thing took it over). Thank goodness there is credible media like France 24 that will factcheck content on that hellish X platform.
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  5968. I don't think anybody believes that except for Indians, especially those from Manipur.
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  5969. The Indian immigrants in the UK outperform the native British.
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  5970. If it belongs to India, it wouldn't be controlled by Pakistan would it?
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  5971. Well India culturally influenced much of Asia. Most of South Asia (India, Nepal etc.) and Southeast Asia (Thailand, Indonesia etc.) are part of the Indian Cultural Sphere. So where does that fit in? The term "Asia" is just geography, nothing else.
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  5972.  @jameschristophercirujano6650  Many of the Chinese communities in places like Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Indonesia assimilated into the local culture which is Indianised. Thai Chinese use Sanskrit names instead of Chinese and Shenism (traditional Chinese folk religion) has absorbed Hindu influences as a result of interaction with Southeast Asian cultures. Cult of Brahma (Thai: Phra Phrom) is widely popular among ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia (and Hong Kong). So the Chinese have assimilated aspects of Chinese culture with the local SEA cultures.
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  5973.  @jameschristophercirujano6650  The only area of Southeast Asia that is part of the East Asian Cultural Sphere is Vietnam (Kinh Vietnamese). It's only the southern tribal peoples of Vietnam like the Cham and some Montagnard groups that were Indianised.
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  5974.  @anisi.n  People ask for too much. I'd expect certain people in Sri Lanka to understand that emerging from an economic crisis is more important than solving deep seated racial issues. Once a country is stable, only then can people work on trying to mend the racial divide. It's high time Asian people look at Singapore as an example of overcoming ethnic division through development.
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  5975. Why does everybody think "South Asian" means Indian only? They're not synonymous. Americans and their obsession with race...
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  5976.  @physetermacrocephalus2209  Pakistan isn't in the Middle East...
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  5977.  @Strongpoint100  Most Brazilians are of colonial European origin and are the ones who hold power in the country. Slavic Russians are of European origin. China has wielded control and restricted its control to East Asia and is not comparable to European imperialism. I don't agree with OP's statement about the West because we are not living in colonial times anymore but singling out Brazil and Russia as examples doesn't actually make sense.
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  5978. Good
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  5979. India is located in Asia meaning Indians are Asians. You need to stop thinking that the colloquial US definition of "Asian" is used everywhere else in the world, it's not, and it's certainly not used like that in Asian countries like India and China.
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  5980. I don't think they have an issue but even if they did, there's nothing they can do about it. The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are part of India and the surrounding waters are part of India's EEZ.
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  5981.  @winstonsmith1271  I don't think there are any diplomatic tools to hinder the project. I don't think they have anything because it's all within India's EEZ so legally India can do anything they want because the islands are under their jurisdiction and the Convention of the Law of the Sea allows this. Myanmar is also close to both India and China and India and China are some of the largest foreign suppliers for the Tatmadaw (the military that is controlling Myanmar). You may recall the Rohingya genocide in late 2017. The reason why Myanmar still manages to stand today without any embarrassment or remorse, despite backlash from the international community, is because India and China turned a blind eye to what was happening back then. Both countries have significant influence in the country. That's why back then, Western powers said that for anything to change in Myanmar you need to get India and China on board. As for Thailand, both India and Thailand perform maritime drills using their navies together in the Andaman Sea.
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  5982.  @Calibre336  Yeah but they study STEM subjects, that's what the OP is saying. In my country (Australia), the Indian immigrants here are mostly STEM graduates. So what's the problem?
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  5983. The two people arrested are Uyghurs. Did you miss that part?
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  5984. @xlonshirash Sri Lankan Moors (the other Muslims) are not Bangladeshis. They are descendants of Tamils or of Tamils who married Arabs who developed their own identity. The Bohras and Memons are originally from India. Where is Bangladesh in all of this?
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  5985. @xlonshirash Moors are not descendants of Sinhalese who married Arabs. Moors are descendants of Tamils who married Arabs hence why they speak Tamil and their culture has more Indian influence. Arwi is a script used to write an Arabic-based dialect of Tamil. There is nothing Sinhalese about Moors, otherwise there would've been Sinhalese elements in the culture, DNA and language of the Moors. Macanese people of Macau in part descend from Sinhalese women who married Portuguese men and that's why the Macanese culture still has Sinhalese elements and why Macanese patua is based in part on Sinhalese. If Moors were descendants of Sinhalese, why are there no Sinhalese elements whatsoever in Moor culture and DNA? That's because they don't have any Sinhalese ancestry. Indo-European is also a language family, not a race. Sinhalese formed from West Eurasian and East Eurasian components, only part of the Sinhalese genetic makeup is from the "Aryans". Bangladeshis are completely different and have nothing to do with either Moors or Malays.
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  5986.  @jasondevon481  Are you aware that there are Christians in Bangladesh, Malaysia and Indonesia? Maybe learn when to stop.
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  5987.  @jasondevon481  I respectfully say this but you don't understand the situation. Why should Saudi Arabia help? The Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh, India, Thailand and other parts of Asia all wish they could go back to Myanmar, not to permanently settle in another country. This is why there are some supporters of Aung San Suu Kyi among the Rohingya refugees. The Burmese government-in-exile (who was ousted from power in a coup and now live in exile) said they want to reintegrate Rohingyas back into Burmese society and re-recognise them as one of the 136 native groups of the nation. This is what Rohingyas want, not go to to another country. These are people, who despite everything they have face, still choose to identify as Burmese. Look at these Rohingya children born in a refugee camp learning the Burmese language and Myanmar national anthem.
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  5988.  @TravelT3  No, they're Christians originally. That's why Christian and Hindu Rohingyas in the refugee camps were saying they want to go back to Myanmar amid harassment from ARSA. There are a lot of Christian converts in Myanmar's border regions, some ethnic groups converted entirely, others only a small portion did.
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  5989. West Asia is considered a separate geopolitical region in geopolitics. Indo-Pacific or what it was called before Asia-Pacific, only extends to South Asia. Indo-Pacific is typified by China vs US, West Asia isn't influenced by the China vs US issue.
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  5990.  @whoisitbaby  I'm not a Hindu, so I can't properly explain that.
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  5991.  @whoisitbaby  One of the most basic teachings of the Buddha is that worshipping gods does not help one. Additionally, living is suffering and to free yourself from suffering you have to escape the cycle of reincarnation (samsara). Now are you going to tell me that these three teachings are exactly the same in Hinduism?
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  5992. ​ @Erdwick  I said before that they share similarities but that doesn't mean Buddhism is the exact same as Hinduism or is some part of Hinduism, like some people in this comment section are you trying to claim.
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  5993.  @Erdwick  Yes because that's exactly what the Buddha said. Mahayana Buddhism is not close to the original form of the Buddha's teachings. Yes there are people who worship Bodhisattvas across the Buddhist world but that's not what the Buddha asked people to do. Buddhism mixed with a lot of local religions and customs from other traditions like Hinduism were blended into Buddhist practices. Worshipping gods provides people nothing that is what the Buddha taught. That's because he said it was a form of suffering because you're consistently attached to something, consistently wanting something (you only worship gods because you want something, to protect you from something). The Buddha said the only way to free yourself is to let go of everything.
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  5994.  @Erdwick  No I do NOT have an agenda. I literally said that Buddhism and Hinduism share similarities and you're telling me I have an agenda? It is you and many other Indian Hindu men in this comment section that are undermining Buddhism, claiming it is part of Hinduism, that it is no different to Hinduism and so on. Rich of you to claim I have an agenda when I have stated nothing but facts. Seems like a lot of people here are very insecure about their own religion and beliefs because every time Buddhism is mentioned there are now Indian Hindu men in the comment section undermining it.
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  5995.  @Erdwick  I thought Buddhism and Hinduism are close with no problems and yet I see more and more Indian Hindu men saying ill things about the Buddha's teachings. Just a few days ago I saw an Indian Hindu man posted a tweet shaming Buddhism whilst talking about being pro-Hindu and criticising "anti-Hindu media". The tweet went viral and received thousands of likes. I have no idea what is happening in that country of India these days.
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  5996.  @Erdwick  Where are you from? Nepal? The core teachings of Buddhism are indeed secular, people who say otherwise do not understand the basics of Buddhism. There is a difference between cultural Buddhism and basic Buddhism. The Buddha never intended on creating a religion. The very basics of Buddhism, the secular aspects of Buddhism can be understood through the Five Precepts as written in the Pali Canon. The cosmology of Buddhism has been influenced by Hinduism and the other thought processes in ancient India at the time. There is a clear divide where one can simply practice philosophical Buddhism and one who wants to practice cultural Buddhism or one who wants to practice both.
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  5997.  @Erdwick  So you are a Japanese person who converted to Hinduism? Correct? I'm not talking about schools, I'm talking about the most basic element of Buddhism which is the Five Precepts, that is secular. There are people who follow the Five Precepts and don't even identify as Buddhists. There are people who partake in mindfulness but don't identify as Buddhists. There are people who visit a Buddhist temple to partake in guided meditation sessions who don't identify as Buddhists. All of that is secular. That is what I talk about when I speak about "secular Buddhism". The idea of "secular Buddhism" is significant in the West compared to Asia (where it does not exist).
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  5998.  @precise-w3y  Hinduism isn't an organised belief system. So he can't leave anything. He just simply wanted to understand the world beyond the worldview presented to him through the varna system.
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  5999.  @fx125320  Crimea was annexed in 2014, it was then made a province of Russia and has been so since 2014. So I suppose it's because it's older.
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  6000. They're so embarrassing lololol
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  6001.  @kohljackal  Yeah you're right, fair skin was also once prized in Europe too.
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  6002. Your friend and his gf are both White Canadians and thus do not understand Japan or Asian countries. Japan isn't going to lose anything because these aren't permanent immigrants, they're temporary workers and the reality is that Japan will become something like Singapore or Malaysia which imports labour from other parts of Asia like other parts of Southeast Asia, India, Bangladesh, Nepal and China at a greater rate. Japan wants to stay Asian so they will bring in migrants from other parts of Asia. They don't want Europeans and others who do not understand Asian values. The fact of the matter is that despite everything, Japan will always prefer other Asians hence why the largest groups in Japan are all Asians (Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, Nepalese)
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  6003. Interesting all of those populations share a very distant genetic connection to each other because they are civilisations that descend fully or partially (in the case of the Indus Valley) from a very early ancient population of humans known as Eastern Non-African or deep East Eurasians that moved into Asia from eastern Africa. Source: A genetic history of migration, diversification, and admixture in Asia - Melinda A. Yang, 2022
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  6004. "sure jan"
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  6005.  @Sundream_65  and what will India achieve??? A bunch of tariffs, empty promises and Modi's inflated ego. India should be broken up into several different nations cause I feel bad for Himalayan and South Indian people.
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  6006.  @Sundream_65  and what will India achieve??? A bunch of tariffs, empty promises and Modi's inflated ego just like last time. Mind you there is no difference between India of 2016 and India of 2024
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  6007.  @Sundream_65  and that will not benefit India at all. So embarrassing
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  6008.  @Sundream_65  A bunch of tariffs, empty promises and Modi's inflated ego
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  6009.  @Sundream_65  I hate India so much because they can never ever do anything correctly
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  6010.  @Sundream_65  India got closer to Trump in 2016 and what did India achieve? Nothing. India in 2024 is worse off than where it was in 2016. The most embarrassing nation in Asia.
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  6011.  @Sundream_65  India getting closer to the US will never result in India developing.
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  6012.  @garyish  Lol it's only numbers and gloating with you lot. Take a look around Kolkata, Delhi, Mumbai, Lucknow any of the BIMARU states, the jobless youth. Does it look different? No it looks the same. Still the same that people around the world are mocking it only a daily basis on Twitter and TikTok.
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  6013.  @garyish  Have you seen what Delhi and Mumbai look like? Why do they still look like that? Delhi looks so 4th world, it's actually crazy to think that's a place on earth. Compare them to the cities in Southeast Asia like Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Phnom Penh, Vientiane, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang, Bangkok, Phuket and maritime South Asia like Colombo and Male. It's no wonder there are Indians on Twitter who say they want their cities to look like the ones I mentioned. India is so rich in GDP and yet its capital city looks like a dystopian nightmare.
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  6014.  @garyish  Jobless youth are not found on the streets of China. Chinese youth are also not fleeing to the West to find work. Indian youth on the other hand are fleeing to the West for work and unfortunately some of them scam the system which is giving a bad name to those hardworking Indian immigrants that came in the 1990s and 2000s. India really needs to work with China, it's the only way. I want all the Asian nations to prosper.
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  6015. ​ @omkarpawar5762  New Delhi isn't all that. Honestly speaking the small city of Puducherry in southern India is so much more cleaner and calmer than a lot of Indian cities.
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  6016.  @omkarpawar5762  and more than 96,917 Indian immigrants were arrested at the US border between October 2023 and September 2024. Don't engage in whataboutism.
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  6017.  @omkarpawar5762  All of those Southeast Asian cities look better than India's major cities. A city is attractive when foreigners believe it's a good place to live. India has a long way to go.
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  6018. All of those Southeast Asian cities look better than India's major cities. A city is attractive when foreigners believe it's a good place to live. India has a long way to go.
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  6019.  @omkarpawar5762  Those Southeast Asian cities are more developed than India's major cities. A city is attractive when foreigners believe it's a good place to live. India has a long way to go.
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  6020.  @omkarpawar5762  Southeast Asian cities are way more developed. Please be serious
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  6021.  @omkarpawar5762  A city is attractive when foreigners want to reside there, India has a long way to go
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  6022.  @omkarpawar5762  More than 90,000 Indians tried to illegally enter the US this year
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  6023.  @omkarpawar5762  The culture and people of Sikkim are not connected whatsoever to the people of the BIMARU region. They were a separate nation at one point too.
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  6024.  @omkarpawar5762  Firstly, liking your own comments is embarrassing. Secondly, y'all always talk about size and yet China has succeeded. So what's the difference? Is it because India and its culture is simply not capable? Is that what you're saying, cause it sure looks like it. All Asian countries should work together but for some reason the North Indian doesn't want to work with China. Maybe this is why South India is more developed because they are open minded.
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  6025.  @omkarpawar5762  There are more people from the West and Europe in general who are moving to other areas in Asia.
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  6026.  @omkarpawar5762  Didn't get your other comments, only this one but let me say this. South India as a whole is lot more developed because they are socially more progressive. North India could be more developed too if they become socially progressive. This is why I am saying India must work with China but you keep arguing with me.
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  6027.  @omkarpawar5762  All I said is that India should work with China and you're here getting mad at me. India as a democracy has resulted in no development. New Delhi is supposedly "new" and yet it looks so 4th world. Insane. Travel the world and you'll see how far North India needs to catch up with the rest of the world
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  6028.  @omkarpawar5762  I literally want India to develop and you're here treating me like an enemy. The difference between the rest of Asia and India is that everybody else can take criticism but yóu can't
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  6029.  @omkarpawar5762  but then you and that other user came here and started berating me after I said China and India should work together. Did you forget that part?
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  6030.  @omkarpawar5762  Indore is extremely undeveloped. I watched a walking tour video of that city and it looked very brown and there were only men on the street. Does not look inviting at all.
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  6031.  @omkarpawar5762  Having good infrastructure, clean streets, people with civic sense, people knowing how to drive, a good ratio of men to women and so on.
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  6032.  @omkarpawar5762  Having better infrastructure, clean streets, practicing civic sense are some of these qualities
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  6033.  @omkarpawar5762  Have some geography knowledge? That's not even grammatically correct. It has nothing to do with geography, it's because they're not clean.
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  6034.  @omkarpawar5762  Yeah they're not clean. Take a look at them. Gosh, this is why India is not changing because of the North Indians. I'm sick of it. Why can't y'all ever just accept the fact that there are things that must change to make India better?
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  6035.  @omkarpawar5762  I wish Indians would just accept that there are things to fix instead of arguing with strangers online. If y'all put this amount of effort into actually fixing things as you do arguing, India would be a lovely place.
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  6036.  @omkarpawar5762  If y'all spent spent this amount of time on fixing these issues as you do arguing with me, then India would be better, just saying
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  6037. Yeah but your impoverished states of UP and Bihar are making sure that fertility rate still stands at 2. They're bringing your entire country down and don't actually provide anything of worth to your nation except poverty and misfortune, just saying.
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  6038. Apparently he's lived in the US for 25 years and yet struggles to communicate in English properly. 💀
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  6039.  @Valerie-jw8gv  Rohingya have always been on the side of the rest of the Burmese people. They never wanted to leave their nation but the Myanmar military genocided them. Often when a minority group faces brutal repression at the hands of a government or powerful entity, they end up taking up arms and fighting back and distancing themselves from the nation they belong to but it's the complete opposite for Rohingyas. Despite everything they have been through, they still identify as "Burmese" and the refugees in the Kutapalong refugee camp in Bangladesh want to go back to Myanmar. I have a lot of respect for them.
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  6040. Of course you are from India. It always is someone from India, more specifically North India, saying things like this. Here's some information. Burmese people have now accepted Rohingyas and continue to show support to them. The Burmese government-in-exile even said they want to recognise Rohingyas as one of the official ethnic groups of the country. They announced this last year. BTW, there are Rohingyas who are Hindus.
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  6041. You're blaming a whole minority group for the actions of a few.
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  6042. Are you East Asian or Southeast Asian by any chance?
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  6043.  @marcobelli6856  Singapore has no monarchy. Singapore is a republic in which the people are of Chinese, Malay and Indian descent.
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  6044.  @lifeisgood2542  The difference is that the Indians are not foreigners, they are locals. They are Singaporean-Indians.
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  6045.  @michaeldorimon3377  They're migrating to other countries and they always seem to do well for themselves because of their work ethic. That's why Chinese, Indians and Filipinos are at the top in the US.
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  6046. US influence has diminished considerably in Myanmar. It no longer has leverage in the nation. That's why the US wants to partner with India and Japan to help resolve the crisis because the US needs Asian assistance.
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  6047. Not a nice thing to say at all. Didn't your parents teach you that if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it?
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  6048. Who here is talking about India???
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  6049. Don't tell me you thought the girl in the video is Indian (she's not).
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  6050. No.
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  6051.  @fortpark-wd9sx  I really have no idea where to start. Your heart seems to be full of hatred for them. So according to you just because you hadn't heard of the term "Rohingya" before Obama in 2012 (which I have no idea what is so significant about that because we're talking about an Asian issue here), it means that the term does not exist?
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  6052.  @fortpark-wd9sx  The native people of South and Southeast Asia are the AASI and Hoabinhian, they are both of East Eurasian origin. Later, Austroasiatic and Tibeto-Burman speakers migrated into eastern South Asia and Southeast Asia where they mixed with the natives. These two linages are also of East Eurasian origin and thus distantly related to the AASI and Hoabinhian. West Eurasian Neolithic Farmers and Steppe pastoralists (associated with Indo-Aryan languages) made their way into South Asia and into western Myanmar where they also mixed with the natives. Those eye shapes and nose shapes you talk about are present among so many ethnic groups in South and Southeast Asia that carry predominantly East Eurasian ancestry, including tribal Indian Adivasi groups that carry mostly AASI ancestry in addition to the dark skinned Maniq, Semang and Aeta in Southeast Asia. Those same features are also present among many Bangladeshis because yes, that's right, they carry a lot of AASI, Austroasiatic and Tibeto-Burman ancestry - just like the Rohingyas. You're trying so hard to divide up people based on appearance (it's giving Nazi/Hitler) but it's so bizarre to me when we're literally talking about Myanmar and Bangladesh, the area of Asia where Tibeto-Burman, Austroasiatic, AASI and Indo-Aryan merge. I can't believe your theory is that Bangladeshi-looking Rohingyas are fake and Bamar-looking Rohingyas are real. I've never heard of such a thing until I saw your comment.
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  6053.  @fortpark-wd9sx  There is a native Muslim group who are classified as Rakhine nation called Kaman Muslims and they look just like Rohingyas but with lighter skin. So are they Bangladeshis too? It's so surreal for me to see someone claim that real Rohingyas are those who look Bamar and fake Rohingyas are those who look like typical Bangladeshis. What part of "Rohingyas are a mix of Indo-Aryan and Tibeto-Burman and AASI components" do you not understand?
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  6054. ​ @fortpark-wd9sx  All this talk about MSM, what about listening to Burmese people and those of the region and read Burmese publications like Frontier Myanmar and learn about Burmese society? Why create these out of this world claims about the MSM and try to divide up Rohingyas into those who look more like typical Bangladeshis and those who look more like typical Bamars? That is the most bizarre thing. Wai Wai Nu's parents look like typical Bangladeshis and yet she looks more like typical Bamar? How do you explain that?
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  6055.  @fortpark-wd9sx  You say you've read so much about Myanmar and yet I don't know how it is possible for you to make so many errors. Rakhine people (once known as Arakanese) are completely different to Rohingyas. Nobody is going to confuse the two. Literally NOBODY. Arakanese Muslims is an archaic term to describe the Muslim groups of Arakan: two main groups Kaman and Rohingyas. Prime Minister U Nu of Myanmar used the term "Rohingyas" all the way back in the late 1940s and you're here trying to tell that nobody used that term until 2012??????
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  6056.  @fortpark-wd9sx  You pretend to know so much but can't even be convincing in your arguments. You say the "MSM is confusing Arakanese, including Arakanese Muslims, with Bangladeshis" and "it's aLl bAseD oN aPpEarAnCE". If you're going to go down this path, at least be accurate. Kaman Muslims are a separate ethnic group but nationally represented as part of the Rakhine Nation, they literally look like Rohingyas but their culture and language are closer to Bamar. So are they Bangladeshis too?? About the Bamar names, Rohingyas have either Arabic names or they Bamar names or they have an Arabic/Islamic name and a Bamar name. So when you say, "they have Bamar style names", that's cause that's their name and I seriously cannot believe you're associating name with appearance. So tell me why does Tatmadaw general So Naing Oo look more closer to Bangladeshis but have a Bamar name and is of Bamar descent???
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  6057.  @fortpark-wd9sx  I seriously cannot believe this White person is trying to tell me that real Rohingyas look like typical Bamar and fake Rohingyas look like typical Rohingyas and yet tells me that it knows all about Burmese history. So if it does, then why on earth is it making this about appearance and literally pushing the most bizarre Hitlerian-level claims ever? Why can't it answer to any of the other points I've made about other Burmese people who look more like Bangladeshis but are native to Myanmar and to the very fact that the entire eastern South Asia/western Southeast Asia region is a mix of several different components?
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  6058.  @fortpark-wd9sx  Bangladesh keeps quiet? Where have you been? 💀💀They have been so loud ever since the genocide, first they reluctnantly accepted them as did many other neighbouring nations in the region like Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. The Bangladeshis put them in Kutupalong refugee camp, then we heard the Bangladeshi people were getting tired of them because the Bangladeshi government tried to move them to an uninhabited island while they held talks with the Tatmadaw and now they're once again leaving Bangladesh to get to other countries in the region and you're here telling me Bangladesh has kept silent? Why are you lying? You say you know what you're talking about but you DON'T. The only thing you're doing here is making the most bizarre claims about appearance as a way to divide people of the same ethnic group and this bizarre claim about the MSM. MSM? Go read Burmese publications, go watch Burmese news (even if you can't understand Burmese), stop talking about the MSM and creating bizarre Hitlerian claims about a country that is suffering purely because of the British and what they did when Myanmar was invaded by the Japanese.
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  6059.  @fortpark-wd9sx  Since you're so hung up on appearance, a testament to those Hitlerian tendencies, tell me are the "real Bengalis" the ones that look more like typical Bengalis and the Bengalis who look more like Bamar "fake Bengalis" from Myanmar? Let's do this with the Bamar too. So are the Tatmadaw generals that look different to the typical Bamar like Major General Soe Naing Oo from Bangladesh? What about Heinn Thit or May Myatt Noe, both famous Bamar actors? They must be Bangladeshi mix breed, right? Should we talk about Thai? There can be physical differences between Southern Thai, Central Thai and Northern Thai. What about Newar from Nepal? Acehnese from Indonesia? Hmm, Khmer from Cambodia is a notable one. You going to answer these questions or pretend you can't see what I've sent?
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  6060.  @fortpark-wd9sx  How can I write shorter sentences when I have to make corrections on what you're saying? Your worldview is based on biases and fails to recognise that there is a lot of diversity in these countries. You have a stereotypical view of how people from these countries look so anything you're not used to, you think they're foreigners. Living among Bangladeshis and seeing Bamar or Thai people does not make you an expert if you don't even know about the wide variety of ethnic groups and/or phenotypes present among these groups. Miss Chai Nat 2023, Alisa Arunahiran who was a Miss Universe Thailand contestant does not look like typical Thai but she is 100% Thai. If you saw her on the street, you're going to think she was a foreigner because she doesn't fit your idea of what Thai people look like even though she is literally ethnically Thai. Do you see how strange that sounds? You think Rohingya who don't look Bamar are foreigners from Bangladesh. The reality is not a single Rohingya can pass as Bamar, some of them have physical traits similar to Bamar but no Bamar person will mistake them for Bamar.
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  6061.  @fortpark-wd9sx  Rohingyas literally look like typical Bangladeshi so how can you question their origins? You keep saying this but you can't even ANSWER any of my other points! Thank you for mentioning Soe Naing Oo?? What about him? He's literally Bamar, are you going to say his origins are up for question? What about Hugo Naing? May Myat Noe? What about the Maramagyi Buddhists, they literally can pass as typical Bangladeshi. Are they foreigners? What about Kaman, are they foreigners too? WHY CAN'T YOU ANSWER ANY OF THESE QUESTIONS?
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  6062.  @fortpark-wd9sx  All this talk about the MSM and not a single interest in actually listening to Burmese outlets. Where are you from? The Western MSM has spoken about Bangladesh and the Rohingyas for years. Where have you been?? The MSM doesn't talk about the people? Huh?? How many times do I need to tell you that Burmese people are a mixture of many different ancestral components: Tibeto-Burman, which came from East Asia, Austroasiatic, AASI and Indo-Aryan both of which came from South Asia and Kra-Dai which came from southern China. So of course Burmese people will look diverse, there are so many different ethnic groups in the country. Stop talking about the MSM and creating non-existent issues. Rohingyas are Rohingyas, Bamar are Bamar. Per your logic, you're going to tell me that my family are two different races because some people in my family have features more similar to typical Southeast Asians and others with features more similar to typical South Asians. Is that the case? Are we two different races now? Is one of us fake and the other not? My friend's dad is full Bamar but looks more Indian and her mum is not much different with typical SEA traits but my friend looks more closer to East Asian but with more Bamar/SEA eyes. They're Bamar with some Mon, in other words they are 100% Southeast Asian. Is her family also composed of "fake people" and "real people"? I'm genuinely asking you to answer these questions because I still don't understand how you can say such things.
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  6063.  @fortpark-wd9sx  Why do you keep talking about the MSM? You do know you're creating conspiracy theories right? Also, the Western MSM have spoken about Bangladesh and the Rohingya refugees in their country for years. Where have you been?? Why should the MSM speak about who Burmese people are? How many times do I need to tell you that Burmese people are diverse and thus genetically diverse. There are multiple different ancestral components in the genetic makeup of Burmese people including Tibeto-Burman, which came from East Asia, AASI and Indo-Aryan which came from South Asia, Kra-Dai which came from Yunnan, China and Austroasiatic. So of course Burmese people will be diverse. Per your logic, you're going to tell me my family is composed of real people and fake people because some members of my family have features more similar to typical Southeast Asians while others have features more similar to typical South Asians. Is that the case? Are we two different races now? My friend's dad is Bamar but looks Indian while her mum is not much different with looks that are closer to SEA traits. My friend, however, has pale skin with typical SEA/Bamar eyes. They are 100% Bamar. Is her family also composed of fake and real people?
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  6064.  @fortpark-wd9sx  Why do you keep talking about the MSM? You do know you're creating conspiracy theories right? Also, the Western MSM have spoken about Bangladesh and the Rohingya refugees in their country for years. Where have you been??
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  6065.  @fortpark-wd9sx  I've already explained this to you. Burmese people are diverse and thus genetically diverse. There are multiple different ancestral components in the genetic makeup of Burmese people including Tibeto-Burman, which came from East Asia, AASI and Indo-Aryan which came from South Asia, Kra-Dai which came from Yunnan, China and Austroasiatic. So of course Burmese people will be diverse. Are you going to tell me my family is composed of real people and fake people because some members of my family have features more similar to typical Southeast Asians while others have features more similar to typical South Asians. Is that the case? Are we two different races now? My friend's dad is Bamar but looks Indian while her mum is not much different with looks that are closer to SEA traits. My friend, however, has pale skin with typical SEA/Bamar eyes. They are 100% Bamar. Are you going to classify her the same way?
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  6066.  @fortpark-wd9sx  The MSM absolutely does NOT do that. You appear to be very confused. You must be mistaking Rakhine people with Rohingyas and thinking they are the same lmfao. The vast majority of Rohingyas look like typical Bangladeshis. Rakhine people look more like Bamar and their names and culture are related to Bamar. Nobody is going to mistake Rohingyas for Rakhine.
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  6067.  @fortpark-wd9sx  No, what you're doing here is that you're trying to divide people up based on appearance even when they're from the same ethnic group. Why do you conveniently ignore my points about Bamar people? Why have you refused to acknowledge my point about Soe Naing Oo, Tatamadaw general that looks different to the majority of Bamar even though he is 100% BAMAR?
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  6068.  @fortpark-wd9sx  The reality is that you have been sorely mistaken. You say their "names are featured". How can that be when they are literally refugees? They are nameless. There are only a few famous Rohingyas in Myanmar today and none of them are refugees. The people you are talking about Rakhine people, a completely different ethnic group to Rohingyas. Most Rohingyas look like typical Bangladeshi and they are native to northern Rakhine State in Myanmar. Nobody is going to mistake Rohingya for Bamar or Rakhine because they look completely different. A small amount of Rohingyas have physical traits similar to Bamar or Rakhine but still they look NOTHING like Bamar or Rakhine. I hope this finally makes sense for you.
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  6069.  @fortpark-wd9sx  There is a word (ကုလားဆင်) in the Burmese language to describe Burmese people with "Indian features" - features that resemble Indian features. You say Bangladeshi but I guess we can say "Indian" too because Bengali people live in India too. Like I said before, Burmese people are diverse.
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  6070.  @steve9310  YOU don't say it! There's a difference. ☠
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  6071.  @steve9310  Asking me where I got that word from when it literally exists.
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  6072.  @rodrozil6544  Maybe take a look at the comments you're liking. 💀 You're literally agreeing with somebody that thinks there are "real Rohingyas" who look Bamar and "fake Rohingyas" who look Bangladeshi. Everybody knows that Rohingyas cannot be mistaken for Bamar and even those with Bamar-like features like Wai Wai Nu can still not be mistaken for typical Bamar.
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  6073.  @steve9310  It's NOT been pulled randomly from the internet and it most certainly is NOT misinformation. I literally cannot believe you're even saying this. Defs Western
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  6074.  @steve9310  How on earth could I make up a word? Think about that for a second? My source are real humans. Idk why you're arguing with me over this thing. It's the most trivial thing. 💀
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  6075.  @fortpark-wd9sx  With so many facts presented to you that actually refute the things you're saying and blatant realities visible to the naked eye that go against your conspiracy theories, you still refuse to accept the reality of the situation. It shocks me at how someone can be like this, even when they live on the other side of the world. 💀
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  6076.  @fortpark-wd9sx  Us speaking English has NOTHING to do with the MSM. It's due to British influence as they were the only country to be able to colonised most countries in the world. It became the lingua franca of the world. There could be some overlapping? There is OVERLAPPING. I already told you that Myanmar is a region where Tibeto-Burman, Indo-Aryan, AASI, Austroasiatic and Kra-Dai intersect. So of course people in Myanmar look diverse, that includes Rohingyas.
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  6077.  @fortpark-wd9sx  Rohingyas literally look like typical Bangladeshis. NOT a single Rohingya can pass as Bamar. Why is this so hard for you to understand? Rohingyas are native to northern Rakhine State, it borders Bangladesh. Why on earth do you think borders immediately determine how people look? Of course people in northern Rakhine will look like Bangladeshis cause they're right next door. What's not clicking??
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  6078.  @fortpark-wd9sx  They have NO connection to Bangladesh, that's why! Are you going to tell me Kaman and Maramagyi are also connected to Bangladesh? They all look like typical Bangladeshis but they are native to Rakhine State. What do you have to say about that? Burmese Indians equals Bangladeshis per your logic due to geographical proximity? The fact that you said this without realising that we're talking about pre-1947 shows me that you're using Google right now to try argue with me. There was NO Bangladesh back then. It was all British India and the British were known to use Indians and Chinese in Myanmar because they favoured them, just like they favoured them everywhere else in their empire like Malaya, Sri Lanka, Fiji, Kenya, Caribbean etc. etc. Burmese Indians are NOT Rohingyas though. They're completely different.
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  6079.  @fortpark-wd9sx  You're literally a Westerner and you're here trying to tell me about an issue that is happening in my own backyard. Very disrespectful I must say.
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  6080.  @fortpark-wd9sx  I have come to the conclusion that you hold severe hatred for brown skin Indian/Bangladeshi-looking people which is why you're very reluctant to speak about Maramagyi or Kaman who look more similar to typical Indian/Bangladeshi despite being native Burmese and saying things like "there could be overlap". It's also why you're saying Rohingyas are from Bangladesh and going so far as to say Rakhine Buddhist people are the "real Rohingyas". Idk what happened for you to despise brown skin Indian/Bangladeshi-looking people but bad karma will come knocking on your door cause there is no justification in the world for you to generalise and hold such views.
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  6081.  @rodrozil6544  There are plenty of Burmese Indians who still live in Myanmar, what are you talking about? They aren't staying there illegally, they are more like native Burmese now. Practice Bamar culture and Buddhist influence is very significant on their culture which makes them quite different to the India Indian Hindus.
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  6082.  @MegaLeoben  Bahahahahaha it's so funny to see how mad MAGA is
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  6083.  @MegaLeoben  They're from Europe.
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  6084. Stop being racist to Malaysians and Indians!
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  6085. I want to know why Indonesians are like this. Atp I only like the Balinese and eastern Indonesians cause the Muslim ones keep being racist
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  6086. Stop being racist, Indonesian
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  6087. Malaysia is more developed than Indonesia ever will be. Free Bali and east Indonesia
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  6088. Indonesian 🫵
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  6089. The blatant racism towards Indians and Malays is concerning
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  6090. The blatant hate towards Indians and Malays is concerning
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  6091. Indonesians (except Balinese and eastern Indonesian) are a very hateful nationality. Idk why they think it's okay to post comments like this. Nasty Chindo
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  6092.  @robertmitchell8630  Go troll somewhere else
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  6093.  @robertmitchell8630  India produces the second largest amount of STEM graduates after China. Use Google
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  6094. 💀
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  6095.  @shougeirin4849  Yeah that's right, it's because outside of Asia people view "Asian" in terms of appearance. It's all subjective. That's why I just say "East Asian", "South Asian" etc. and when talking about continental/geographical terms I just say "Asian" (e.g. Asian geopolitics).
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  6096.  @timsonins  No because the first civilisations outside of Africa were all in Asia (Fertile Crescent in Iraq, Indus Valley in India and Yangtze River in China). The first humans into Europe came from the Middle East, who were already civilised. One of the earliest waves of humans to leave Africa was the wave of humans that settled in India and everything east of it. The Sentinelese (the people in this video) are descendants of that early wave of humans. They remained isolated and did not develop with the rest of Asia.
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  6097. I knew someone who is Thai who had a problem with this. Their physical appearance was nothing like East Asians and Americans would think he was Indian, Latino or Native American and with the ones more educated on Southeast Asia, would say Southeast Asian.
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  6098. No stay back and fix your country. Stop running away! I only support Indian women leaving because they're trapped in a femicide and misogynistic hell hole where the patriarchal system never supports them.
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  6099. When Indians and other South Asians find the most palest skinned people (as white as paper) to feature on TV, in films and runways, you can't expect South Asian people any shade darker than pale white to speak up on this issue.
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  6100. and Nepal too.
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  6101.  @user-gf5dr5nq6l  Also, I do agree that India is an artificial country. What exactly does a Tamil have in common with a Punjabi? What does a Sikkimese person have in common with an Andamanese? An Assamese is completely different to a Rajasthani. Each state in that country has its own ethnic group, culture and language. They hate each other, even people in the same state can't get along (look at Manipur). There is literally ethnic violence towards people from different states. The people in the south are angry that people from the north are moving to their states, cause they're more wealthy. Yeah it's an artificial country. Now do you have anything else to say to me or are we ending this discussion?
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  6102. It's correct
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  6103.  @rohitpatil3531  It is correct.
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  6104. The comments are the complete opposite of what I have seen other right wingers say about her being non-white like that man on X who went viral for saying that the future will be White American men marrying "AAPI women" and having Eurasian kids whilst pretending to care about White American needs.
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  6105. Uh what does that have to do with the video? I'm from another Asian background and yes I've seen racist comments Indians make against people from my culture and yes I see the racist comments they make against Northeast Indians but what has that go to do with this video? Also, let's not forget that racism goes both ways. Inter-Asian racism and rivalry is a real thing. Indians vs Chinese, Chinese vs Japanese, Malaysian vs Singaporean, Cambodian vs Thai, Indian vs Nepalese and the list goes on. Are you forgetting that? I've done research into racism in India and there is racism towards each other, against Northeast Indians, against South Indians, against Biharis and even against North Indians. It's a two way street. If you think it's one-sided, it's not. All this finger pointing is why India has so many problems and is constantly at war with its own people, I mean look at the way you had to bring that up here when it has no relevance to the video. So negative and for what? Not to mention the Indians in the comment section who are upset that she's debuting in Korea. Y'all are always bringing each other down and constantly dividing each other up. Embarrassing. If you still haven't realised, look at a mirror.
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  6106.  @madikiestherkhiangte9884  Girl, I know you read it. Just take your negativity elsewhere. Y'all are always bickering in the comments, Give the rest us who are not Indian, a break.
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  6107. @ There are common threads that hold the East together the same way the West is held together by certain common cultural threads. That does not change the fact that all of these cultures are diverse.
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  6108.  @8August1988  Common threads in that sense that these cultures all believe in filial piety, collectivism and so on! Get yourself educated and read the books and watch the interviews of Lee Kuan Yew and Kishore Mahbubani, both Singaporean political figures who belong to Singapore, a pan-Asan nation made up of Chinese, Malays and Indians. You want to learn about these common threads then visit Singapore. Why on earth did you put "South Asia" in quotation marks??? South Asia is South Asia. Don't you dare put it in quotation marks.
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  6109. Tell me that this is a joke.
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  6110. This is what happened with the Rajapaksas and everybody else that came afterwards. It's no wonder Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore continuously expressed deep regret at what happened to Sri Lanka.
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  6111.  @pridefall3304  Also a lot of Nepalese too, basically mostly Asian countries.
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  6112.  @waitwhat612  Tell me you know nothing about Myanmar without telling me you know nothing about Myanmar. The issue in Myanmar is not religious-based violence. You need to learn about Burmese history and understand what is happening. You claim "Myanmar Buddhist" when minority Shan Buddhists are being murdered by these same people. Google is right there, use it.
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  6113.  @sublimefermion2205  ...and Sinhalese are NOT of Indian origin. Just because Sinhalese people share genetic ties to eastern Indian does not mean they are of Indian origin. Are you going to call yourself African? All humans came from eastern Africa so you must be of African origin too. Sinhalese is not merely an identity. An Indian speaking Sinhalese can't claim to be Sinhalese. You think an Indian born in Delhi can move to Sri Lanka and learn Sinhalese and start calling themselves "Sinhalese"? You do a DNA and it'll come back as genetically North Indian. A Sinhalese person doing a genetic test will come back as Sinhalese. Now, don't try to dispute this because I'm of Sinhalese descent. BTW, stop liking your own comments. 🙃
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  6114. Vin Martolia Sinhalese are NOT Indians. Idk why so many Indian men online like to claim other South Asians as Indians. Does it give you an ego boost or something? You're really out here saying all that stuff and then deleting your comment so nobody knows what you said. Typical...
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  6115.  @malithaw  No we are not of Indian descent. Will you say Koreans are of Chinese descent? Think about it.
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  6116.  @malithaw  So if India did not exist until the modern age, why are you referring to yourself as "Indian"? The logic is not there lmao.
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  6117.  @himanshukhichar4185  "Aryans" are not native to India
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  6118.  @malithaw  Also Sinhalese mostly related to Gujaratis lol? Sinhalese are most closely related to the Tamils and Bengalis. Most Sinhalese are pitch brown skinned people who look Tamil, even feature wise. Why are so many Sinhalese in Sri Lanka so adamant in claiming proximity to North Indians? Embarrassing behaviour
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  6119. Singapore is a multi-ethnic nation made up of Chinese, Malays, Indians and Eurasians and it stands by that. Why would it give priority to Chinse people? It literally goes against its values on multiracialism and meritocracy.
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  6120. What???
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  6121. Absolutely not, they're their own people with their own history and own culture.
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  6122. It's actually Vietnam. There are 6 other countries below Japan - all developing Asian countries.
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  6123. So what about the Buddhist-influenced Asian countries? Shouldn't they be allowed to keep their heritage safe? Buddhism is an Asian religion after all. Japan, China, Sri Lanka and India all offered to purchase the Buddha statues from the Taliban, even offered ways to conceal them. In fact, Japan, China and Sri Lanka were the most strident advocates in protecting the statues, not the West.
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  6124. Also, let me add that it was the Shia Muslim Hazaras of Afghanistan that were looking after the Buddha statues before the Taliban came to power.
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  6125. She's not Indian or Pakistani but Joy Crookes is British and was born to an Irish father and a Bangladeshi mother. Bangladeshis tend to have more East Eurasian ancestry (AASI and Ancient Southern East Asian/ASEA). Joy Crookes has more of the East Eurasian ("Asiatic") features like neotenous features and epicanthic folds that come from her mum. I've noticed that the WM that go for AW from India/Bangladesh tend to have the more neotenous features as opposed to those with more "Caucasoid" features.
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  6126.  @turtlesoup8134  Most of Asia btw was culturally influenced by China and India and can be divided into the Sinosphere and Indosphere. Genetically speaking, Asia is split between West Eurasian-derived groups (e.g. Arabs), West Eurasian and East Eurasian mixed groups (e.g. Indians, Central Asians) and East Eurasian-derived groups (e.g. Chinese, Indonesians).
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  6127.  @turtlesoup8134  Most Asians belong to an Indic or Sinic culture, there are enough similarities to justify the usage of the term to describe at least the East, South and Southeast Asians. Imperial Japan literally fought to unite these three regions after all in WW2. Africans do classify Indians and Chinese as Asians. In Asia, we consider both groups as Asians. Y'all constantly complain about this term cause y'all are using it describe phenotype and all sorts of things. Stop doing that! Stop saying "Asian" when you're only describing Chinese or Japanese people. The whole issue is that y'all refuse to use East Asian and instead want to use "Asian" to describe only three ethnic groups in Asia.
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  6128.  @WastedBananas  In the US and Europe but not in Asia. In Singapore and Malaysia, for example there are way more Indian women with White men than Indian men with White women. Their mixed race kids end up becoming famous actresses and singers in Southeast Asia. Singaporean/Malaysian Indian women tend to be predominantly genetically East Eurasian (AASI) origin and thus look more neotenous like Shareeta Selvaraj (who is married to a White man) and Eswari Gunasagar compared to the North Indian women that migrate to the West who have Caucasoid-like (West Eurasian) features. Men seem to prefer women with neotenous features. Indian women with neotenous features look very pretty and feminine in my opinion.
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  6129.  @turtlesoup8134  Asian means from Asia, so both of y'all are Asians. Do you seriously identify as Asian 24/7 and make it your personality to claim that both of y'all are not Asians? Indic and Sinic civilisations have overlapped with one another. It's not about comparing China and India. It's about Sinic and Indic culture. There is overlap through Buddhism, Taoism and the festivals and traditions that have emerged from both. Hungry Ghost Festival is a festival celebrated by so many different Asian cultures. Southeast Asia is the intersection of Sinic and Indic culture. Those terms exist to describe the subregions of Asia but y'all don't use them! Start using them instead of saying Asia needs to be divided up cause it doesn't.
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  6130.  @WastedBananas  I'm talking about Singapore and Malaysia so yes they do. No amount of denying this is going to change reality. Understand the context. Also, statistically speaking Indian men and Indian women date outside of their community at around the same rate in the US.
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  6131.  @WastedBananas  You keep talking about stats but not once have you brought up a stat that proves that Indian date more outside of their race. The stats are available out there. Someone posted these stats on Quora years ago, so it's out there. You seem upset that people seem to prefer Indian women more than Indian men in some countries.
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  6132.  @gatorcroco4904  Aung San Suu Kyi's NUG has a Rohingya minister in her government and her government has said they want to reintegrate Rohingyas back into Burmese society once they take back control from the Tatmadaw. In 2021, Burmese people held solidarity protests for Rohingyas and publicly apologised on the street and on social media. They also created a social media campaign to support Rohingyas called #Black4Rohingya. So if there is any Burmese person that still doesn't support them or believe they are foreigners, they simply despise them cause most of the country has moved on.
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  6133.  @yx3472  I will never understand people like you. You people are just negative. Get a grip. Also it's "Nepali", not "Nepal". Nobody ever says "I'm a Nepal". 💀
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  6134.  @xandercorp6175  The term Indian subcontinent was coined by the British to describe India's diversity. The Indians did not create that term. Indians view themselves as Asians.
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  6135.  @sageo7618  They're all Asians. Non-Asians trying to divide up Asia again.
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  6136.  @rheincunanan6011  They're all Asians.
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  6137.  @qranked  It's not true. Stop being racist
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  6138.  @isabella.5568  of course you are, weeb
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  6139.  @isabella.5568  Bad karma will come knocking on that door for being racist towards South Asians
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  6140.  @merc9nine  They're all Asians. Are you fr rn?
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  6141.  @merc9nine  Asian is NOT a race, even if it was South Asians would be part "Asian" because they have 40% East Eurasian ancestry
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  6142.  @c0olducky514  Asians are better than non-Asians
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  6143.  @c0olducky514  All Asians are better. Scram Westoid
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  6144.  @xandercorp6175  Indians consider themselves Asians. Stop larping as an INdian
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  6145.  @whateverwhatever4026  Failing?? The point is that they are all Asians. What's not clicking?????
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  6146.  @xandercorp6175  What? I have read your comments properly!! GO BACK AND READ IF YOU CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT YOU HAVE POSTED! You said Indians identify separately and that's why the term "Indian subcontinent", that is NOT true.
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  6147. ​ @xandercorp6175  Not my problem this Westoid can't remember what he said. Loves to pretend like it didn't say what it said
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  6148.  @xandercorp6175  Notice how all you can do it attack me without actually addressing the points that I'm making? The blatant deflection and ad hominem attacks, inferring I'm uneducated and can't keep track of the conversation, all because you can't handle the fact that someone is calling you out on your anti-Indian racism. I'm keeping track of everything and I know what I'm talking about. Don't insert yourself into Asian people's business. Stay in your lane.
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  6149.  @xandercorp6175  I haven't assumed anything about you either. I'm merely basing it off what you have said. Really funny how you make me out to be the villain even though you were the one claiming to be Indian, when you're not and claiming Indians identify separately. Very cunning, playing victim after what you said about me and about their community.
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  6150.  @chocopie7890  I agree, the military used Aung San Suu Kyi as a puppet to please the international community and make it seem like things are "getting better" but it wasn't and that was made clear with what happened.
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  6151. It wasn't part of India though. It was part of Sri Lanka but claimed by India.
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  6152.  @Voltaicz  It's nobody's backyard. It's insulting for another nation to be described as another country's backyard.
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  6153.  @Voltaicz  Okay and??? How does that make it okay? Stop claiming other nations as your own backyard. It's rude.
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  6154.  @TheOne_12  He's actually from Singapore
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  6155.  @TheOne_12  I think you are an Indian national living in Singapore, not Singaporean.
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  6156.  @TheOne_12  You're not a local Singaporean-Indians descended from the Pioneer Generation I believe. Not a single Singaporean-Indians goes around identifying with Indian politics and calling Maldives evil or anything like that. You are probably an Indian immigrant that acquired Singaporean citizenship with continued interest in all things India-related.
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  6157.  @TheOne_12  Oh I know but the fact of the matter is that you are not a descendant of the Pioneer Generation. Pioneer Generation-descended Singaporeans are not this invested in issues regarding India or China or whatnot because their ancestors left those places many centuries ago. You are an immigrant in Singapore or at least descended from one because the only reason you don't like the Maldives and think it's corrupt is because they chose China instead of India. Stop trying to pretend you are anything but an immigrant in Singapore who has acquired Singaporean citizenship that still feels closer to his country of origin than the country that has given him a new life.
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  6158.  @TheOne_12  Singaporeans also don't go around calling other people "Pakistani" just because they say something they don't like about India.
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  6159.  @mensrea1251  Nah it's you that doesn't because you basically inferred that all high income nations have the same culture. 💀
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  6160.  @mensrea1251  Your comment infers that economics is a single entity.
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  6161. She's American, her parents are from India. Why on earth would she marry someone from India?
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  6162.  @martingregory6993  Are you talking about the migrant workers from other African countries in South Africa?
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  6163.  @Josepaesto  LOLOLOLOL an American woman in another comment said that he's an illegal immigrant.
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  6164.  @incurableromantic4006  Comments like yours prove how funny the American right is. He didn't move to any country. He was born in the US. For someone fighting so hard to protect you White Americans, you really still treat him with disrespect bahahahaha
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  6165. no
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  6166.  @rebeccamorris5668  It was a land colonised and used to send English criminals who committed petty crimes. You can go on and on about your desire for a "White Australia" but it's never going to happen.
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  6167.  @rebeccamorris5668  It was a land colonised and used to send English criminals who committed petty crimes. You can go on and on about your desire for a "White Australia" but it's never going to happen.
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  6168.  @00calvinlee00  Nobody wants the US in Asia
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  6169.  @K.J.Cyriac  They were never a part of India.
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  6170. Say that again without crying
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  6171.  @gre894  The Myanmar conflict actually has ramifications for Asia but since everything is US/Euro-centric, issues that don't concern the US or Europe are ignored and are not of interest to people from those areas. They believe their own issues are more important and so will say "Ukraine is a major global war" and demand Asian nations like China and India to get involved even though they have their own issues to deal with and should just remain neutral and not join a European war.
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  6172.  @gre894  The only time they will get interested in a conflict happening outside of the US/Euro sphere is when it affects their interests. None of them cared about the South China Sea, Himalayan conflict or Taiwan but now that China is incredibly powerful and jeopardising American hegemony, they all have their eyes on these three hotspots in Asia. 10 years ago, none of them even knew about the South China Sea conflict but now they do because the US is inserting itself into it.
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  6173.  @gre894  It actually doesn't but ok
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  6174.  @gre894  Yep and that's the reason why there's so much instability all over the world because certain countries are inserting themselves into issues that don't concern them.
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  6175.  @gre894  You really didn't understand any of the points I was making. The world doesn't revolve around you, end of
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  6176.  @gre894  I actually do
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  6177. The West doesn't have anything to gain in Myanmar and its influence is basically non-existent. China, India, Japan, Singapore - they're the main players in Myanmar.
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  6178.  @ad_astra468  The US doesn't care because there is nothing to gain in Myanmar. That's why they've never said a thing regarding the conflict. If Myanmar's conflict gets to the point where the country ends up breaking apart and new nations form (like the military warned last week) and those new nations fall within the sphere of China and will give the chance for China to continue to pursue its Bay of Bengal plan, the US will become interested. Until such a thing happens, the US will never get involved even if the wars in Ukraine and Israel weren't happening.
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  6179.  @lvjinbin28  No the US doesn't care because the US has no leverage in Myanmar. China is not the problem. China supports whatever works in its interests and so China is currently supporting the anti-junta groups(the side that deserves support). The US could easily support the anti-junta groups too (who are oppressed by the Tatmadaw) but they don't because there is nothing to gain in Myanmar. Myanmar was closed off from the rest of the world for so long and only fully opened up again in 2011, only for it to be shut back up in 2021. The US lost the influence it once had in the country.
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  6180.  @jacksmith-mu3ee  They mean the cultural region known as the Western world.
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  6181.  @302yt  Afro-Jamaican
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  6182. They don't want to become a part of India!
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  6183.  @thekrakenrises9040  Yes South Asia ends at Bangladesh. Myanmar is the beginning of Southeast Asia and ends with the Philippines.
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  6184.  @yellow13foxtwo  They're all the same. Cancel those visas ASAP!
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  6185. Not unless everybody learns to get along.
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  6186.  @Johannesai1  Exactly but Modi and the Indian public don't know this so India will never change. I'm done believing in that country. I hope they will change for the better but they never do.
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  6187. @SeahawkGaming-xp7bl ...even if that were to happen, it wouldn't change anything because at the end of the day, it comes down to culture. If the cultural attitude stays the same then how on earth do you expect anything to change? We can use recent Indian immigrants to nations in the West as well as to Singapore as case studies of what happens when the mentality is not changed despite a new environment.
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  6188.  @ajinjoyacdc  I was hoping India would become a high income country but I don't think that will happen anymore.
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  6189.  @bryanhiebert1  It's not socialist
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  6190.  @MilitaryMarvels467  Okay and? North Korea is literally called The Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Is North Korea democratic??
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  6191.  @surojeetchatterjee  Myanmar was not part of India.
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  6192.  @pranavingale6850  Sri Lanka can do whatever they want.
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  6193.  @surojeetchatterjee  It was part of British India. That is NOT the same as your Akhand Bharat wet dream.
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  6194.  @surojeetchatterjee  Myanmar was NOT part of India. What's not clicking? India as a concept was formed when the British took over. Tamils are completely different and the Chola Empire is not something for you to claim. If India were to break up into 28 states, Tamil Nadu would be one nation and you would have no relationship to them whatsoever. The only relationship you have with them today is that they are part of India. The similarities end there. They have more in common genetically, culturally and linguistically with Sri Lankan Tamils over in Sri Lanka than they do with you. Tamil heritage is Tamil heritage, stop claiming their heritage as "Indian" just because you want to claim the whole of Asia as a part of India.
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  6195.  @surojeetchatterjee  Nothing I said is gibberish Chatterjee. Yes there absolutely is. You're not a Tamil, so you don't have anything in common with them. A Sinhalese person from Sri Lanka has more in common culturally and genetically with an Indian Tamil than a Bengali. Cry harder. You're not a Tamil to be claiming Tamil culture and history as your own and using that as a way to claim Myanmar as a part of India. Cope harder.
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  6196. ​ @surojeetchatterjee  Being influenced by Sanskrit literally means nothing. Be serious. So many other Asian languages have been influenced by Sanskrit. Are they all Indian now??? Tamil is a Dravidian language, Bengali is an Indo-European language. The Sinhalese language of Sri Lanka has more in common with the Tamil language than Bengali does. Stop claiming Tamil culture and heritage as your own in order to justify your claims over Myanmar. Always the North Indians pushing their Akhand Bharat nationalist ideology. I never see South Indians, West Indians or Northeast Indians do this.
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  6197.  @surojeetchatterjee  Go connect with your Bangladeshi roots.
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  6198.  @AkilaRampatidewage  Yes
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  6199. and this is why you're not a scientist...
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  6200.  @ShitSkinsIndian  The way you speak sounds like a Bangladeshi or Indian
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  6201. @ cause only they care so much about themselves. Everybody now knows that it's y'all who are running these types of accounts.
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  6202. @ The way you communicate is that of an Indian man, just saying and a look at your bio screams Indian cause half of the stuff on that list of yours I, nor anybody who isn't from the Desistan, know about. So calling me that is ironic, it's self projection at its finest cause I'm not the Indian here.
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  6203. The proof is how you type and the fact that you can't even tell me what your nationality is. If it's not Indian, then what is it?
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  6204.  @ShitSkinsIndian  Um... what is he talking about? Bait you into what? All I asked is what your nationality is, there is no bait in that. If you're not Indian then you should be able to ell me what your nationality is but you can't do that. What you can do is engage in ad hominem attacks and deflect. The third world jumped out.
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  6205. Um... what is he talking about? Bait you into what? All I asked is what your nationality is, there is no bait in that. If you're not Indian then you should be able to ell me what your nationality is but you can't do that. What you can do is engage in ad hominem attacks and deflect. The third world jumped out.
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  6206. Um... what is he talking about? Bait you into what? All I asked is what your nationality is, there is no bait in that. If you're not Indian then you should be able to ell me what your nationality is but you can't do that. What you can do is engage in ad hominem attacks and deflect.
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  6207.  @ShitSkinsIndian  I think you're Indian but you keep saying you're not, so what do you expect me to do? That's why I asked you what your nationality is but you can't answer that question. All I see is more deflection
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  6208. cause you are Indian. The way you respond tells me everything I need to know. Honest about what? Maybe you should get a job because nothing is going to change the fact that you're Indian and Muslim.
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  6209. Okay let's get this straight. I never explicitly said, "I have proof". Don't put words into my mouth please. You are an Indian and you are a Muslim. If you weren't, you'd tell me what you are. It's as simple as that.
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  6210.  @balajeepratham8200  Yes but India suffers from extreme wealth disparity in comparison to most other countries in the world. It ranks number 3 in terms of wealth inequality.
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  6211.  @balajeepratham8200  The average Indian is not benefiting from India's economic growth.
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  6212.  @k7lu4  5 million out of 1.4 billion people of which the IT industry is centred around the south of the country and not anywhere in the north, which is where most of the poor people live. India's rise is uneven... it only benefits a small portion of the country.
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  6213.  @k7lu4  Those aren't the centres for the IT industry in India, you know exactly what I meant.
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  6214.  @misterbig9025  Anybody that has been around the SCMP comment section long enough will know every person who claims to be Indian is actually Chinese or some other non-Indian and every person who claims to be Chinese/Hong Konger is Indian or some other non-Chinese person. Pack it up
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  6215.  @AnartaRoy-j7v  I am referring to that other user as well as those other people like "Ahmet", they all pretend to be Indian or Chinese and continuously compare China and India with one another.
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  6216.  @AnartaRoy-j7v  What on earth are you talking about?? Middle Eastern people??? My first comment was never directed at you. It was directed at the other person. I never replied to you but you started replying to me. Why?
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  6217.  @riteshvizz9786  We don't believe in a caste system though.
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  6218. Well when India's top 10% own most of the country's wealth, that's not very surprising.
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  6219.  @reddragon100  It's not though. India places at 3
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  6220.  @rishabbhattachaya6676  Indian men stop getting mad that people are talking about non-Hindu issues challenge: impossible 💀
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  6221.  @rishabbhattachaya6676 This is why YT needs to be banned in India
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  6222.  @abhishekkj9664  That's not an answer. Singapore is home to Buddhists, Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs and atheists among others but the country is stable. If you have one leader who only cares about their own kind, there will never be peace. New Zealand, Singapore and Mauritius - all three ethnically and religiously diverse but are very stable and successful nations.
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  6223.  @DaVen999  Oh come on, stop using that frivolous excuse of "oh they're small countries". That's not an excuse. India is just run by incompetent people who are voted into government by incompetent people. This is why India is constantly grappling with this issue and has no ability to move forward without angering minorities groups and riling up religious and ethnic nationalists. If India treated its population equally and looked to the future, it wouldn't be suffering like this all the time.
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  6224.  @DaVen999  It's strange because they will say "oh India is a united country and always has been" but reality says the opposite is true. They say that but in the same breath will say, "India is a large country so it's hard to manage religious and ethnic diversity". So which one is it? Is it united or is it divided? The truth of the matter is India was only ever fully united under the rule of the British. Not a single Indian empire was ever able to control the southern tip of India or Northeast India. This is why every state in that country has its own ethnic group and language. It's also why there is so much friction between the different ethnic groups Tamils vs North Indian, Northeast Indian vs North Indian, Bihari vs Hindi speaker, Bengali Muslim vs North Indian Hindu, Assamese vs Bengali and so on. Each of India's states act more like nations than states.
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  6225.  @rejuvenatingsoul3498  Bigger than Singapore smaller than New Zealand but still undeveloped. Nothing to gloat about.
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  6226.  @DaVen999  Rajendra Chola never colonised the entirety of India. He only managed to conquer southern and eastern India, everything else he conquered was outside of India. Vikramaditya's existence has been disputed and thus he is described as a "legendary king" because there is no solid evidence to his existence. I repeat, India was never fully unified until the British came. If it was one country, there wouldn't be so many separatist movements in India demanding they gain independence.
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  6227.  @DaVen999  Is this a joke? Brazil is larger than the whole of India and you think India has a state that is larger than the whole of Brazil? Oh I'd be so embarrassed if I said such a thing. 💀💀
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  6228.  @DaVen999  Google is right there and this nationalist thinks an Indian state is bigger than Brazil. Let me laugh. No wonder China has surpassed India in every measure possible and no wonder so many educated Indians continue to leave India.
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  6229.  @DaVen999  Then say that! You didn't say you were talking about population, did you? You just said "bigger". Also, you should just give up on this excuse of "oh the population is too large to manage" because China has a bigger population than India but the country's urban centres and the entire eastern coastline are fully developed. China is also ethnically diverse and there are provinces in China like Yunnan which is home to many different ethnic groups (including ethnic groups that are Indianised with cultural ties to Thais and Burmese) who live in harmony without any sort of issue.
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  6230.  @DaVen999  So you're ranting on about something else to deflect from the words I said aka the truth. Am I surprised? No.
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  6231.  @DaVen999  You were just ranting...smh
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  6232. Gay people are normal. Cry.
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  6233. The West won't but China and India right there so...
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  6234. Australia is not part of Asia. It's part of the Oceania and despite its location, it's still a Western country. The concept of the West has nothing to do with geography anymore, it's a cultural term. Australia is however also an Asia-Pacific country due to its location.
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  6235.  @davu5637  No, check your facts. The Aboriginal Australians emerged from an ancient East Eurasian lineage and are closely related to Melanesians of the Pacific Islands. They also have some South Asian genetic drift - owing to that ancient East Eurasian lineage.
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  6236.  @davu5637  Yeah I know Australia is part of the Asia-Pacific, I said it in my previous comment. Also, just because a population has certain ties to a particular group in another continent doesn't make it part of that continent/culture. Native Americans originally came from North Asia, culturally they are completely different and belong to a separate continent. Same with Pacific Islanders who share links to other Austronesian-speaking peoples of Southeast Asia. Native Americans, East Asians, Southeast Asians, Polynesians, Melanesians, Micronesians, Australian Aboriginals and indigenous South Asian ancestry all come from the same genetic lineage dating back thousands and thousands of years ago to the Pleistocene and it's known as East Eurasian lineage (as in native to the eastern part of Asia). They all split from each other over time and created new genetic branches and so those ancestry components are all distantly related to one another but they're found on so many different continents.
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  6237.  @brettcantrell8650  Indian men larping as a white man with the name "brett"
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  6238.  @rahulvats95  India once was big, especially in the 1970s. Bollywood films were the trends in Southeast Asian countries like Thailand and Cambodia at the time but trends change and nobody now cares about Bollywood anymore except for the one film that transcends Indian demographics and becomes popular like that Gangubai film and Dilwale. Also, Bollywood actors and actresses look really whitewashed and different, nothing like the stars from pre-2000s (especially 1970s where people had more tanned skin). Thai actors in the 1970s used to look like Bollywood actors and many of them came from southern Thailand where people have quite tan and sharper features but that was then in the 1970s when Bollywood looked really different and more relatable to other Asians. These days nobody cares and nobody in Thailand or anywhere in Southeast Asia is trying to look like the white skinned Punjabi Bollywood actors you see today. The themes have changed and the films are described as being more sexual. It's not relatable anymore it seems to a lot of people, even Indians.
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  6239. You're definitely an Arab or Afghan or some type of Middle Eastern
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  6240. China and the US need to work together.
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  6241. It's funny how people call Singapore's government a dictatorship, it shows that they don't know what an actual dictatorship is.
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  6242. Why are you everywhere repeating the same thing and wanting to be a victim? Please stop.
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  6243.  @matthewmann8969  1. Stop liking your own comment. 2. You're an Indian. My gosh, I can't believe you're larping as a Latino.
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  6244.  @matthewmann8969  Stop liking your own comment + you're Indian. I've seen you on YouTube and Quora before. Lmfaoo stop lying.
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  6245.  @matthewmann8969  You're literally an Indian, stop liking your own comments
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  6246.  @matthewmann8969  I can't believe this Indian man just lied and said he's Hispanic and liked his own comment.
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  6247. You're literally an Indian, not a Hispanic person. Acting like I've never seen him before on YouTube and Quora. Stop lying and stop liking your own comments.
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  6248. You're literally an Indian. Stop lying and liking your own comments.
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  6249.  @matthewmann8969  an indian pretending to be hispanic lol
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  6250. Matthew Mann is an Indian larping as a Mexican
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  6251. Indian man
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  6252. An Indian man pretending to be mexican lol
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  6253.  @matthewmann8969  My gosh pretending to be Hispanic???? Lol
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  6254. Until China has complete jurisdiction over Taiwan, it doesn't. Period!
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  6255.  @lonelypeopleruglydeformedc8139  Eastern religions" means religions developed in South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia and are based on the concepts of Dharma and Tao. Eastern religions can be divided into two separate categories: Dharmic religions which originated in India and Taoic religions which originated in East Asia. Both of these subgroups interacted with each other heavily through syncretism so they are collectively described as Eastern religions.
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  6256.  @lonelypeopleruglydeformedc8139  Islam is a Western religion or more specifically an Abrahamic religion, it is fundamentally different to the beliefs of Eastern (Dharmic and Taoic) religions.
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  6257.  @lonelypeopleruglydeformedc8139  Yes West Asian cultures were heavily orientalised and still are.
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  6258. Imagine being triggered by something that doesn't affect you LOL
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  6259.  @FayIsa-g1h  That's not an infection, my gosh
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  6260.  @Vancqa  Let me guess, you're from India
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  6261.  @ishmamahmed9306  Their fertility rate has always been low.
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  6262. Not an East Asian nation but Singapore's fertility rate of 0.97 is now lower than all East Asian nations except for South Korea.
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  6263. ​ @Admiral-General_Aladeen  The total Latin America fertility rate is now below 2. India's dipped below 2 in 2022 if I remember correctly and their urban fertility (which is where the majority of the educated people of India live) stands at 1.6. The reality is the more educated one is, plus the greater the quality of life and female liberation means that fertility will naturally decline. Fertility rates, today, only exist at high rates among the poor and the ultrareligious.
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  6264.  @Leechenghee  The other two main ethnic groups in Singapore: Malays and Indians have below level fertility too. The Indians have a 0.97 fertility rate. Do a little research.
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  6265. There is a lot wrong with this because it's proof that India feels so inferior that he needs to claim Americans to make itself feel good
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  6266. *it
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  6267.  @Doyourbest4245  and who are these "people who are like me" you speak of?
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  6268. They weren't even considered humans. They were classed as "flora and fauna"
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  6269. Yeah you're right, Ronny is kidding because he's Malaysian (10% of Malaysians have ancestry from present-day India). He's just making a joke about how Americans think Asian only means Chinese-looking people and British people think Asian only means Indian-looking people. Only native Siberians are Asians, not Slavic Russians a they come from eastern Europe. Most Israelis are in fact descendants of the Jewish diaspora in Europe. In Israel, they seem to use "Asian" to refer to countries east of them so I don't think Israelis view themselves as Asians.
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  6270.  @yehezkielnainggolan8403  Yes everybody native to Asia is Asian but I guess it depends on the individual due to subjectivity.
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  6271.  @theisheep2676  Sinhalese do not have East Indian DNA. Sinhalese and Sri Lankan Tamils are NOT Indians.
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  6272.  @ashelythas7017  I'm Sinhalese, I did a DNA test and didn't get South Indian DNA. Sinhalese are not from India. The concept of India didn't even exist back then. Sinhalese are a mix of multiple different ethnic groups and Sinhalese are genetically closely related to Sri Lankan Tamils, who are distinct in their own way. I agree however that the Sri Lankan Tamils were more educated which is comparable to the way the Malays treated the Chinese and Tamils because they were more educated too.
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  6273. That was ARSA, not average Rohingya civilians. Most of these Rohingya refugees are women and children and FYI, Rohingya Hindus exist.
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  6274. Providing widespread internet access to some of these countries like Pakistan was a HUGE mistake for humanity. This is what these people do online. They're consistently spreading misinformation about someone or something. Half of the hate and misinformation that you see peddled on Twitter can be traced back to accounts based in Pakistan. It's people in Pakistan that are igniting the flames and then other people from elsewhere in the world sees it and then they in turn spread the misinformation and hate. It's beyond ridiculous now. I also blame Elon Musk.
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  6275.  @charithreddy6517  He's not Indian from India. He's Malaysian Tamil and no "Dravidians" are not "black". Dark skin that can almost be considered "black" yes, but racially no.
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  6276.  @kingjacob1492  Indians aren't Black Africans. He's a Malaysian Tamil and Tamils are most definitely not Black Africans. So strange how you claim every dark skinned person as your own.
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  6277.  @syahmellow5114  No he's not Black. He's a Malaysian Tamil.
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  6278.  @adnan2030  The elephants found in India are known as Asian elephants and they are physically smaller than African elephants. Asian elephants are also found in other parts of Asia. India also has Asiatic lions which are different to African lions. Indians aren't Black Africans.
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  6279.  @kingjacob1492  He's not a Black African. People in Asia don't use colours like Americans do. Nobody goes around calling people "brown", "yellow", "black" in Asian countries. That's just weird and very strange. That type of mentality emerged in the United States and is most definitely not used anywhere else on such as a scale outside of North America.
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  6280.  @adnan2030  ...and your point? Humans did not exist when the supercontinent of Gondwanaland was in existence.
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  6281.  @kingjacob1492  1. All humans migrated out of Africa so if you're stating that the that's true. 2. If you're claiming his ancestors are of recent African that is absoliutely INCORRECT. His ancestors emerged from East Asian-related and West Eurasian humans that emerged during the Pleistonce (both groups emerged in Asia). He's is not an African. Stop claiming him. 3. I'm not European. 4. Neandethals were prevalent across the whole of Europe and Asia. Your attempt at degradation didn't work and makes zero sense. 5. Stop claiming Asian people as your own 6. Cry about it
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  6282. You don't know what you're talking about. Don't talk about things you don't understand and also educate yourself on the historical values of Southeast Asian nations before the arrivial of Abarahmic religions.
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  6283.  @SherrieAnne  No it's religion
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  6284.  @SherrieAnne  Where is the correlation? his issue has everything to do with religion. Stop with the whataboutism.
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  6285.  @mupsccccvvvv  Exactly. They don't want to accept this but religion is the problem. Had Indonesia, Bangladesh, Rohingyas all practiced Hindu-Buddhist-animist-folk beliefs like their ancestors did, this would not be an issue.
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  6286.  @mupsccccvvvv  Call me a hater but the reason why we see these issues is because of that particular religion. South and Southeast Asia would be 100% peaceful had it remained 100% Hindu-Buddhist-animist-folk.
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  6287.  @dedswift  Jews are from Israel which is located in the Middle East. Lack of melanin??? Cringe statement. Have you seen Palestinians before? Most of them have olive or white skin and look just like Jews. Most Arabs are not "brown skinned". Don't play this game. That religion is always causing problems and South and Southeast Asia would be 100% peaceful had it remained a 100% Hindu-Buddhist-animist.
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  6288.  @josejoseph7896  What that person said is incorrect. Tatmadaw don't like Rohingyas. Ordinary Burmese Buddhists have no issue with Rohingyas. There is a Rohingya minister in the Burmese government-in-exile and Wai Wai Nu is a Rohingya who is one of the most vocal and well known pro-democracy activists in Myanmar today.
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  6289.  @smilekelp  Wrong!!!
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  6290.  @waleed8530  As an Australia, I finally realised the truth last year and agree with you.
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  6291. Where's the correlation??
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  6292. It's China that never agreed with the British borders. Do some research or maybe watch the video. 💀
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  6293. This is why people need to stick to what they know best. Stick to your computer games and let the grown ups speak Chakri.
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  6294.  @iROChakri  First, learn how to spell "grown" before speaking.
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  6295. well Asian and Mongoloid are not the same thing
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  6296. The dragon is called a druk, it's NOT Chinese.
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  6297.  @PomegranateChocolate  Nothing Chinese about it Cope.
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  6298.  @qabeelbinadam  Balkanisation
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  6299. You think a Neolithic-era hunter-gatherer population has the cure for different types of cancer?
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  6300.  @Devakiinable  That wouldn't be the case because that island was once connected to the rest of the Andaman archipelago when sea levels were lower. When they rose, the land was split by water creating several islands in the same area. The flora and fauna of North Sentinel Island (owing to how small the island is) would have the same flora and fauna of the neighbouring, much larger, islands.
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  6301.  @mysterioanonymous3206  Agreed the whole world's fertility rates are declining but the difference is that most of Africa still has well above replacement levels. They don't face the risk that current developing Asian nations face because places like Niger still have fertility rates standing at 6.75 and the continent's most populated nation, Nigeria still has a fertility rate of 5.14. They still have room to fix this issue and develop because their fertility rate is higher and their living standards are lower but improving. A developing nation in Asia with a fertility rate of 1, on the other hand, doesn't.
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  6302. @ Agreed the whole world's fertility rates are declining but the difference is that most of Africa still has well above replacement levels. They don't face the risk that current developing Asian nations face because places like Niger still have fertility rates standing at 6.75 and the continent's most populated nation, Nigeria still has a fertility rate of 5.14. They still have room to fix this issue and develop because their fertility rate is higher and their living standards are lower but improving. A developing nation in Asia with a fertility rate of 1, on the other hand, doesn't.
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  6303. How?
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  6304. Are we surprised by that? India was named the most racist country in the world so...
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  6305.  @PomegranateChocolate  You're so mad
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  6306. Malaysia is literally a Muslim MAJORITY COUNTRY. Dio you people not do your research?
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  6307.  @czv5983  I'm not Malaysian...
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  6308.  @czv5983  NO HOW ABOUT YOU GET EDUCATED AND UNDERSTAND WHAT IS BEING DISCUSSED HERE? OP is talking about Muslim countries taking Rohingya refugees and I told the OP that Malaysia is a Muslim country and they house Rohingya refugees. SO GET EDUCATED AND MAKE SURE YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT!!
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  6309.  @czv5983  1. Doesn't change the fact that they have housed them for so long. 2. ...and how do you know that?? I see so many people speak say the same thing under every video. This person has no clue that Malaysia has a Muslim majority population. To them, Muslim countries means Middle Eastern countries. So move along...
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  6310.  @czv5983  Literally no words.
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  6311.  @czv5983  Don't flatter yourself
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  6312.  @czv5983  I know
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  6313. Huh? Modi's been in power for 10 years and hasn't done a thing to fix India.
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  6314. Maybe a regime change is actually needed
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  6315.  @AbhishekSingh-zv2tn  So yeah a regime change is needed because the global reputation of India and its people is at an all time low.
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  6316.  @AbhishekSingh-zv2tn  Always the North Indian nationalists
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  6317.  @AbhishekSingh-zv2tn  and they're all from the north
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  6318.  @TheHOruS55  Ukraine is a developing third world nation too. So what now?
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  6319.  @TheHOruS55  The journalists are suggesting developing countries are "uncivilised" without realising that Ukraine is a developing country too. That is why I mentioned Ukraine. The video is about this.
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  6320.  @etas1c  The Arab states are rich because of oil. They are minorities in their own country, they rely on blue collar foreign workers and white collar expats from other parts of the world, especially South Asia.
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  6321. A girl goes missing and this is your response? Racism? Oh it's a Ukrainian no wonder
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  6322. A girl goes missing and this is the response? Racism? Oh it's a Ukrainian no wonder
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  6323.  @Anonymous-fm5wm  Well the RSS wants to make Akhand Bharat and the nationalists believe so too, so part of the population does. In a 2012 interview, Modi mentioned the term "Akhand Bharat" speaking of cultural unity. Very disturbing to hear if you ask me.
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  6324.  @deusmachinima1189  Firstly, none of those countries formed one single country at one point in time. That is an Indian nationalist belief and one that the RSS believes. The only South Asian countries that were part of ancient India at one point were Pakistan and Bangladesh.
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  6325.  @deusmachinima1189  So you can't say they were all one country at one point in time because they were not. The Sri Lankan historical texts describe their country as a separate nation as does the Ramayana, the same thing applies to Afghanistan, Myanmar (again described as a separate nation in Indian and Burmese texts) and Nepal.
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  6326.  @deusmachinima1189  Secondly, the RSS also believes Tibet, Qinghai and parts of Yunnan, Gansu and Sichuan belong to India. You can have a look at the official maps published by the RSS that show the territory India "lost". These maps are published in different Indian languages including Tamil and one I found in English. They use Sanskrit names to describe each of these regions.
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  6327.  @deusmachinima1189  Thirdly, the Mughals never conquered places like Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Maldives and Myanmar. They were independent countries and had nothing to do with India. The British conquered Sri Lanka, Myanmar and the Maldives separately. Myanmar was integrated into British India later but it has always been separate.
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  6328.  @deusmachinima1189  I don't know if you support the RSS or Akhand Bharat belief but I just want to let you know that the things you said in your comment are the things the RSS teaches people.
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  6329.  @deusmachinima1189  Firstly, the Mauryan Empire did not include Myanmar. Secondly, the Mongol Empire controlled he entirety of China so does that mean China is a part of Mongolia? No. Spain was conquered by the Moors during the spread of Islam does that mean Spain is part of Saudi Arabia? No.
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  6330.  @deusmachinima1189  Secondly, Sri Lanka sharing cultural similarities with India does not make it a part of India. All neighbouring countries share cultural similarities with their neighbours. Sri Lanka also has a lot of Malay influence too. The cuisine of Sri Lanka is heavily influenced by the Sri Lankan Malay community, many of the dishes eaten by all Sri Lankans (including Sinhalese) are of Malay origin such as sambal.
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  6331.  @deusmachinima1189  Thirdly, a country sharing cultural ties with another country does not mean it is part of that country. Is Korea part of China? Is Japan part of China? Is Ireland part of the UK? Is Austria part of Germany? Is Malta part of Italy? None of those countries were ever a part of India.
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  6332.  @deusmachinima1189  Finally, you can't find Sinhalese people in India, you can't find Dhivehi people in India, you can't find Ngalop or Sharchop people in India, I could go on. None of those countries were part of India and language family has nothing to do with this. English people speak an Indo-European language, does that mean England is part of India? Sorry but to claim all those countries as Indian territory is wrong and you're refusing to understand the historical facts outside of an Indocentric view, particularly in regards to the countries I am talking about.
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  6333.  @deusmachinima1189  So you agree with the RSS because they believe in Akhand Bharat and no Akhand Bharat is not the truth.
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  6334.  @deusmachinima1189  See now why did you infer that you don't support the RSS views when you actually support their views?
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  6335.  @deusmachinima1189  You don't think that but millions of other Indians do. You can go have a look at the maps that show the entirety of the Tibetan cultural region as a part of India with a huge image of Durga.
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  6336.  @deusmachinima1189  The term "Indian subcontinent" was coined by the British to describe British India (India, Pakistan and Bangladesh). From the very start it has not been synonymous with "South Asia". Also, Mainland Southeast Asia is not called Sino-India peninsula, it's called Indo-China and that has nothing to do with claims that they were part of India. Sorry to say.
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  6337.  @deusmachinima1189  The belief of Akhand Bharat is deadly and this is why I see India has being no different to China. They are very adamant in calling out China for encroaching into their territory but believe a very huge part of Asia belongs to India. India is no different to China and I will keep repeating this because I can see India is a potential threat.
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  6338.  @deusmachinima1189  In due time, India will begin throwing its weight around in a more aggressive manner that is reminiscent of China. Both nations have histories where they feel they have been wronged and humiliated and so these ideas of a "bigger India" and "bigger China" are beliefs developed to heal their wounded national identities.
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  6339.  @deusmachinima1189  Asia and the Pacific need to be wary of both the Indian and Chinese governments and I'm glad to see people like Hugh White becoming vocal about the threat of both China and India.
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  6340.  @deusmachinima1189  Myanmar and Sri Lanka were never a part of the Mughal Empire...
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  6341.  @deusmachinima1189  So now you're saying Indonesia and Thailand are part of India too? 💀
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  6342.  @deusmachinima1189  People must understand that cultural influences and cultural ties does not mean a country belongs to the country that culturally influenced them.
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  6343.  @deusmachinima1189  I'm not using a strawman argument. I'm telling you that these countries have cultural connections with other regions and nowhere did I mention Spanish influence. I think you just find it upsetting to learn that these countries have cultural heritages that aren't connected to India.
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  6344.  @deusmachinima1189  The historical evidence from Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Afghanistan and Nepal say they weren't part of India. The Indian Ramayana treats Sri Lanka as a separate nation. None of those countries were part of India.
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  6345.  @deusmachinima1189  Can't believe you're just ignoring the histories and heritages of these countries because you want to believe they are all Indian territory. Terrible.
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  6346.  @deusmachinima1189  The two faced nature of India is why there is so much negativity towards India online. The fact that Indian nationalists can get so upset at Chinese expansionism but also believe the whole of South Asia belongs to India is very ironic and hypocritical.
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  6347. Are you serious because you seriously can't believe a man with 10 heads was real?
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  6348.  @DS-ux9ld  Do you think calling me name in your language means anything to me? Also no, Ravana was not a real person.
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  6349.  @crooked52h  Do you seriously think Vietnamese, Filipinos, Nepalese and Bhutanese are comparable to Scots, Brits and Irish? Filipinos are probably the most removed among these four groups in that they practice Christianity and much of their pre-colonial heritage is gone. Vietnamese are a Sinic-influenced people and culturally the closest to the Japanese. Nepalese and Bhutanese, on the other hand, are culturally closest to Indians and Tibetans. Just because they're all Asians, doesn't mean they are the same.
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  6350. They are being used as human shields by the Tatmadaw. How are they supposed to fight?
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  6351. It is propaganda
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  6352. They've been talking about the Asian Century for a long time and I think the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine really laid down the foundation for the political landscape of the Asian Century. It's a world that is now "Western" (US and NATO and its allies) and "Eastern" (led by China, India and Russia with its partners).
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  6353.  @ariapinandita9240  That's because this has NOTHING to do with ethnicity. Rohingyas are Rohingyas, not Indians or Bangladeshi. Your entire cultural heritage comes from INDIA. All the names you used are literally of Indian origin. "Aji Saka/Ajiwaka/Ajivaka", that's literally all Sanskrit, a language from India. Bumi Mandala?? That's literally another Sanskrit word and a concept that derives from Hinduism and Buddhism. "Saka-Yavana-Daha-Kediri", all of that is Sanskrit. "Malaya-Kamboja-Champa", Sanskrit again. NO AMOUNT OF COPING IS GOING TO CHANGE THE FACT THAT YOUR CULTURE COMES FROM INDIA and all of y'all have some Indian ancestry too. Cry.
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  6354.  @ariapinandita9240  You: We have cultural differences with India Proceeds to list so many cultural traditions, words and concepts that came from India So embarrassing BAHAHAHAHAHA 😂
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  6355.  @ariapinandita9240  I hope you know Pinandita is a Sanskrit name too. This is so embarrassing. Akhand Bharat? That's some concept created by Indian nationalists that claim the whole of South Asia + Tibet + Myanmar as part of India and that is NOT true. All of South Asia and most of Southeast Asia is part of the Indosphere, I have never seen someone cope this hard and say they aren't related to Indian culture after listing all these concepts and words that came from Indian culture. 😂
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  6356.  @ariapinandita9240  You are Muslim and Rohingyas are Muslims too. Sorry but you have more in common with each other than a Hindu Indian, Tamil etc. person has with Rohingya Muslims. Face the truth instead of coping so hard. 💀
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  6357.  @ariapinandita9240  The cope is truly insane. Everything you stated comes from India, that is the truth. Cry.
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  6358.  @ariapinandita9240  What has any of that got to do with what we're talking about? I'm not talking about geopolitics.
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  6359.  @ariapinandita9240  The base of Indonesian culture is Indic (Indian). That is the truth, everything you have spoken about is literally of Indian origin. Modern Indonesians carry Indian genetic admixture dating back to the ancient era, Acehnese carry the most of this Indian ancestry which is why so many of them look so Indian. Most Indonesians today are Muslims and most Indians are Hindus and yet despite that, the cultural base of both countries is related to one another. You can deny it all you want but that is the truth.
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  6360.  @ariapinandita9240  Don't glorify my nation? I'm not Indian lmfao. In fact, I have partial Indonesian ancestry (not related to the Muslims though). I have family who are 100% of Indonesian descent. So what now?
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  6361.  @horrrortv  Jut looking at them, you can tell that they're Indic derived.
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  6362.  @ariapinandita9240  I'm literally a Buddhist, I know all of these things. Stop being so condescending. Talk all you want but every single term you're using and the concepts you speak about are all of Indian origin. You're just going to have to deal with that.
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  6363.  @ariapinandita9240  Idk why on earth you think I don't know these things but I do. The cope is truly insane because regardless of what you say all of these things are of Indian origin and/or tied to Indian mythology. Aji Saka is quite literally related to the Indic cultural influences in Javanese culture. It's all INDIC in origin, just accept it.
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  6364. I was just thinking about this today, Asia has phenotypes that exist all over the world.
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  6365.  @MiguelDLewis  That's okay, I saw your latest reply. :)
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  6366.  @jaydel3  It's always like this and it's almost always White men who do it. Someone on Twitter made a tweet about this a little while back. Such a bizarre phenomenon.
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  6367.  @ARX689  BRICS will become weak and Westerners will once again highlight the fact that India is a "loose cannon" and that BRICS is nothing. Unfortunately for some, ego stroking is better than actual development.
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  6368.  @benjamingriswold2564  Not the same, at all. In Sri Lanka, people's money was stolen by the government and so ran out of fuel, couldn't grow food (including the staple crop: rice) and people had to start skipping meals. Their electricity was cut off while the lights were left on in the homes of the president and his family. The government imposed curfews to stop people's movements, shut down schools and universities (preventing students from learning) and what was once the country with the highest living standard in South Asia that had graduated to upper middle income nation in 2019 collapsed economically, had to start accepting donations from countries like Bangladesh (which is a lot poorer than Sri Lanka).
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  6369.  @benjamingriswold2564  In the US, people who voted for Trump stormed the Capitol because they couldn't accept the results of the 2020 US election.
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  6370.  @SweetMattieG  It's not a debt trap. They only owe 10% of their debt to China. They owe the same amount of debt to Japan so is Sri Lanka under a Japanese debt trap? People are so brainwashed by anti-China reports in the mainstream media that everything involving China is somehow seen as negative.
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  6371.  @SweetMattieG  China only has 3 military bases in the world and none of them are in Sri Lanka. Sorry but you have no idea what you're talking about. The MSM has misled you severely.
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  6372. NATO deserves part of the blame. They are jeopardising the world's stability with their war games and obsession with being the "hero". Russia and NATO are both to blame.
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  6373.  @brudd9573  Why are you immediately thinking that I support Russia? What Russia is doing is abhorrent but stop refusing to accept the fact that NATO is in part to blame for this. How do you not see that Ukraine is nothing but a pawn in a new Cold War? The US/Biden is literally thinking of sanctioning India because they aren't siding with the US. That's a tellall sign that this is a new Cold War and other countries are getting dragged into the mess that NATO and Russia created, Ukraine is the first victim.
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  6374.  @brudd9573  I think you misunderstood me, nobody's saying they can't do what they want, they can. They're sovereign nations and they have every right to join NATO because they see NATO as protection from Russian aggression. Well some American media outlets such as CNN have spoken about India and why they are neutral. That's how I learned about that. Nobody should be blaming smaller European countries. They aren't to blame. The whole situation is sticky and what this video has shown is that there is another side to this but that doesn't negate the fact that Russia is the one who started the war and Russia/Putin is the one that is jeopardising Europe's stability and the broader world. Russia is the sole reason for this war and what has happened since the 2010s. However, if we look back (as this video has done) and view it objectively (disregarding our own views), we can learn that there are other pieces that form the broader picture. To the Russians, NATO is the threat and to NATO, the Russians are the threat. Thank you for that, I really do appreciate you saying that. I'd also like to thank you for responding in a civil manner and using facts to make your points. It makes it easier to understand your view points and I agree with parts of your rationale. I guess, I'm looking at it differently and it may give off a different impression. I'm glad you posted that final sentence. It's really nice how even though you don't agree with me, you're still willing to listen and have a peaceful discussion.
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  6375. Be serious right now. Those Asian countries developed because of traditional Confucian or in some cases broader pan-Asian values. Now tell me is Confucianism a Western ideology? No, it's Chinese.
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  6376. Not all Rohingyas are Muslims
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  6377.  @anitagorse9204  It is safe for tourists. Have you ever visited?
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  6378.  @zoho6992  Yes you're right. I know Indians have a different culture between them. India is very diverse. I'm just saying that this man is Singaporean Indian. Singaporean Indian culture is mostly influenced by Tamil culture (there isn't actually any sizeable Hindi speaking community in Singapore) with influences from the Chinese and Malays. It's quite distinct to the cultures of India. Singaporean Indian culture is more like Malaysian Indian culture of Malaysia.
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  6379. The person who created this video is literally Asian. He's from an Asian country (Azerbaijan).
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  6380.  @hijazlander  So? What has that got to do with what is being discussed here?
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  6381.  @hijazlander  The OP spoke about Europeans and lacking knowledge on Asia and yet the person who created the video is from an Asian country, not a European country. That's why I posted my comment, read the OP's comment. Also, everything he said appears to be true or are you telling me that Pakistan is not suffering?
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  6382. It's more like "third gender".
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  6383. Also Bali and Hikkaduwa and Unawatuna in Sri Lanka, the latter two are nicknamed "Little Russia" and "Little Moscow" respectively.
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  6384.  @matgranger5061  THEY HAPPEN MORE IN INDIA, YOU INDIAN MALE RAPE APOLOGIST
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  6385.  @matgranger5061  They happen more in India, you r-ist apologist!
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  6386.  @matgranger5061  Their behaviour is nothing like the behaviour of Indian men. CHANGE IT!!!!
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  6387.  @呵呵-g1g  20K would have impact in the city of Kolkata and they did, that's why Chinese temples, Indo-Chinese cuisine and an entire Chinatown exist there.
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  6388. Sri Lanka is not India. Just because the majority of people there look "Indian" doesn't mean it's another India. Most people are Buddhist and the country is culturally tied to both India and to Southeast Asia and the Maldives as well. Before the crisis, the country has traditionally been better than India in terms of social indicators. They had a better quality of life than the average Indian, had a higher national income than India, with a longer life expectancy many Sri Lankans began living longer which has now led to an increasingly rapidly aging population. Their low population growth eventually in resulted in them hiring Indians, Bangladeshis, Nepalese and Burmese to fill up vacant positions in their job market and their good education and healthcare systems allowed them to control the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 bringing cases down to 0. They peaked as an upper middle income nation in 2019 before they descended into this crisis in the 2020s.
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  6389. India is in Asia and scammers can be found in other parts of Asia and other parts of the world too
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  6390.  @syedrafi2258  It has decreased but it's still very high, it's the only nation in South Asia with a fertility rate well above replacement level.
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  6391.  @syedrafi2258  No, South America's fertility rate is below replacement level.
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  6392. The fact that only 40% of Australians now view the US favourably is a huge blow to US soft power in the country and the wider Asia-Pacific region. For the longest time, the Americans have used the Australians as cannon fodder to represent American interests in Asia but the tides are changing. In the end, Australia's closest geographical neighbours are Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Indonesia - Asia-Pacific nations. The US is far away.
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  6393.  @Jambudvipa-ug6yg  Yes they are
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  6394. You have zero respect for the victims
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  6395.  @carloszepeda8960  Watch, it'll happen because it just sent a message to the rest of the world that the US wants to control the rest of the world and will do anything to make sure the rest of the world is under its control.
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  6396. The NUG (Burmese government in exile and Aung San Suu Kyi's party) wants a Myanmar where all ethnicities are equal. The NUG even has a Rohingya politician that they have elected.
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  6397.  @melody964  You need to understand that despite the fact that deities exist and are sentient beings in Buddhist cosmology, traditionally speaking, Buddhists don't worship these deities. The Buddha said that these deities are just like everybody else, they are trapped in the cycle of reincarnation. Asking for salvation from them isn't going to do anything, that's what the Buddha said. It is a fact that we don't worship deities as per basic Buddhism.
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  6398.  @JarJarBong  Being extremely hateful is one thing. I'm so glad the Indians chose China. Karma really works. These past two years of anti-India hate on social media that has affected everybody from Indians to people who look Indian that aren't even Asian like that poor Venezuelan girl that was blasted by Europeans on TikTok who mistook her as an Indian has been pure hell. I'm so glad India woke up and chose China. Asia on top.
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  6399.  @xi1864  Firstly, I'm not from India. Secondly, I'm merely explaining their perspective. The one thing Chinese and Indian nationalists have in common is that they can never understand what someone is actually saying because they think everybody is out to get them. Asia-Pacific needs to be free of Chinese and Indian nationalism and irredentism.
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  6400.  @mackythekingsthought9843  You have been mistaken. These comments of mine don't condone India interfering in Sri Lanka's sovereignty. I fully support Sri Lanka making its own decisions and they have every right to allow that ship to dock in their country. India should not be telling them what to do.
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  6401. Why would there be camera footage. Do you know what the purpose of a moon landing is?
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  6402.  @Kurdish20226  They're literally part West Eurasian, so yes at least partially
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  6403. It was against Sri Lankan Tamils, not South Indians...
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  6404. Learn the difference racist, they were Nepalese. Indians aren't even a large group in Japan.
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  6405. "Race" is a social construct. How can you say Sri Lanka is made up of one race and just ignore the issue is about ethnic differences in the country? Concepts like "race" don't exist in such broad terms in Asian countries.
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  6406.  @welwitschia3756  Maybe in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan but not the case in Sri Lanka or even other smaller nations in the region like Nepal and Bhutan. For example, Moors and Tamils speak Tamil in Sri Lanka but they are separate groups. There are also Malays who speak Sinhalese, Tamil or Sri Lankan Malay depending on where they live and the Burghers/Eurasians who speak Sinhalese, Tamil and/or English. There are also the indigenous Vedda who speak Sinhalese or Tamil and the ethnic Chinese who settled in Sri Lanka in the 19th century and now only speak Sinhalese. There are Tamils who speak Sinhalese and there are some Sinhalese who can speak Tamil too. In Hambantota, you will also be able to find Sinhalese who speak Sri Lankan Malay due to the large Malay community.
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  6407. I've been hoping for this day to come and it finally came
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  6408. @ Sinhalese didn't come from Northern India. That's like saying Koreans are from China.
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  6409.  @IK_MK  The blatant racism
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  6410. 😂
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  6411. Kerala? That state is generally a lot better and should be a separate country in my opinion. Why do you say Kerala?
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  6412. No. Vesak is completely unrelated to Vaisakhi. They just have similar names because their names both derive from the Indian lunar month of Vaisakha. Buddhism itself emerged long before Sikhism did and the calendrical system of the Buddhist lunar calendar is based on the Hindu one. So the name "Vesak" was coined as a result of the month of Vaisakha, which is the month the holiday is celebrated. Also, Vesak and Vaisakhi are not celebrated on the same day. Per the Gregorian calendar, Vesak is celebrated somewhere in mid-May whilst Vaisakhi is celebrated on April 14 and lines up with the other South and Southeast Asian New Year festivals which are not correlated to religion.
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  6413.  @uditmishra-kg4nv  Stop getting offended at everything. China and India should work together
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  6414. Exactly, transgender women in Asia will live better lives in Thailand or the Philippines. People are for more accepting in those two countries unlike in Malaysia.
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  6415. Don't cry
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  6416.  @PunkDogCreations  They are and you are too
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  6417.  @Windswept7  No, they're just remaining neutral and have every right to do so. I really wish people knew more about why most Asian and African nations are neutral in West-related wars and understood things from their pov. I'll give a brief rundown, Asian and African nations have often been used as bases for Western powers to fight their wars (physical wars of the Cold War were often played out in the Global South). In the case of India, they faced aggression from Pakistan during the Bangladeshi Genocide. The US (Nixon) was anti-India at the time and supported Pakistan and encouraged the movement of weapons from the Middle East into Pakistan to be used against the Bangladeshis (who were once part of Pakistan). To this day, the US continues to maintain strong ties to Pakistan despite the fact that the country has harboured Osama Bin Laden, allows Jihaids to reside in the country, created the Taliban and responsible for India's own 9/11 known as 26/11. If I was from India, I would totally be weary of the US because they have always supported Pakistan (India's enemy). The cold hard truth is that Russia has traditionally been supportive of developing Asian and African countries, while the US has been against them. This is why Asia and Africa created the Non-Aligned Movement. At the end of the day, they always suffer in Western-related power struggles.
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  6418.  @uwet.8826  Okay and who cares? If somebody has that big of a problem with LGBT then it's then their issue. Why are you getting so worked up over LGBT when it doesn't even affect you? If you simply can't accept that someone can be homosexual or bisexual then you clearly can't accept reality because normal people don't care about this stuff. Stop bringing up unrelated topics up.
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  6419.  @blardymunggas6884  Yeah that's because the US is only interested in leverage. Once Sri Lanka declined signing a SOFA in 2019 that would have resulted in the stationing of American troops on Sri Lankan soil to spy on what China is doing in southern Asia, Sri Lanka left the radar of the US. The US is interested in maintaining influence.
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  6420.  @mrtt_awakeandreadytofight  There is concern because: 1. This is the Delta variant and it is more contagious and the effects of it are more severe compared to the original strain, hence the reason why people who are not elderly are now increasingly ending up in ICU. Just look at Asia, many countries were able to control the virus last year but now all of a sudden these countries are having record breaking numbers of daily cases and deaths continue to rise. In Thailand, for example, they were once having 0 cases per day but now they're having 20,000 cases a day due to the Delta variant. Japan is now experiencing 25,000 cases a day. China has once again resorted to locking infected people up in their homes as cases of the Delta variant spread rapidly across the country. 2. More and more studies are revealing the long term effects of COVID-19. Data has shown, for example, a decrease in IQ for those who contracted COVID-19 compared to those who didn't. In the US, a case of a 15 year old boy revealed that he was a high achieving student pre-COVID-19 but after contracting a mild version of the virus, 6 months later he began to feel lethargic and was unable to complete his maths homework (something that he has studied for) and ultimately failed to complete his maths test after experiencing a meltdown in which he feared that he "may never be a good student again".
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  6421.  @mrtt_awakeandreadytofight  Is cancer contagious? Is diabetes contagious? Are heart attacks contagious? The answer is no so why are you talking about those conditions? Did you read a single thing that I posted?
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  6422.  @mrtt_awakeandreadytofight  I already explained to you that there are long term effects of COVID-19. This is a new virus that is being studied, who knows what type of damage this virus will have on people in the long run. It's already proven from a study in the UK that your IQ decreases depending on how severe your case of the virus is. It is still unknown how this virus emerged and you're insisting that it's nothing. What these immature protestors should do is stay inside and stop ruining other people's lives. What do these people think they are going to achieve? Protesting does nothing. They need to stop being selfish and stay inside because every single time they step outside and risk contracting and spreading the virus, the lockdown is extended. This is such a basic thing to understand yet these people can't understand it. They're just selfish and deluded people who only care about themselves. If they cared about others they wouldn't be doing this type of thing. Their immature behaviour has ruined it for everybody and still there are people here online who will support these crazy antics while other countries like Singapore are thriving after quelling Delta variant outbreaks.
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  6423.  @TaylorRobinson93  Let me guess, you're an anti-vaxxer, is that right?
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  6424.  @divineflu34567  Not all of South Asia was colonised though but light skin is the preferred ideal across the region. If it was due to British colonisation, then other parts of South Asia that ere not colonised would no consider fair skin to be the ideal. Fair skin has always been associated with the wealthy and dark skin with those that toil in the sun. It has never been racial because this system was imposed within the same ethnic group.
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  6425.  @johnvonshepard9373  Not at its root
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  6426. What country were you born in and when did you move to Australia?
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  6427. They have dry earwax so no. Take a shower.
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  6428. Imagine trying to be racist but not even doing it properly BAHAHAHAHAHA. They're not Indians!
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  6429. Myanmar was like that and then it became a full blown military dictatorship again.
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  6430. The difference is in the fact that these are people who had lost everything while the president continued to live comfortably. What happened in the US on January 6 involved people who couldn't accept the results of a democratic election. Notice the difference?
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  6431.  @clinteasthoood2  East Asian men stop being messengers for White supremacy challenge impossible.
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  6432.  @goeast12  You are correct and I see the point you are making, especially when the whole "Asian Values" ideology was taught in Singaporean schools in order to cultivate a national identity. It only worked because everybody was from some Asian culture. Having said that, I think New Zealand is exemplary of successful multiculturalism. Not only does it have a mix of people of different European, Asian and Pacific origin with smaller numbers of people from the "Middle Eastern, Latin American or African (MELAA)" category, its indigenous population (Maori) are well represented members of New Zealand identity. The predominantly dual mix of European + Maori cultures as the foundation of New Zealand identity is probably part of the reason why it has been successful.
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  6433. @@Ramblestroll Singapore was not part of British India
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  6434. He's racist too
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  6435. Rohingyas are Southeast Asians
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  6436. A new dash was added and the Russian territory was reclaimed.
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  6437.  @nix-be9rj  The number of dashes have changed over time. Before it was 11, then it became 9 and now it has become 10.
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  6438.  @nix-be9rj  The map has changed and so these changes generate discussion in Asia and Western media. They have claimed Russian territory now, even though it was resolved. Next year, they're probably going to depict the Humla district of Nepal as Chinese territory considering the fact that they are building stuff in the area.
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  6439.  @nix-be9rj  Except it literally has changed. Go back to 2014 and have a look at the China map that was released in mid 2014. Does it include Russian territory? No it does not. That same map caused a stir in parts of Asia in the same year and now in 2023, the official map of China includes Russian territory. So no your point makes no sense because the reality nullifies it.
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  6440.  @nix-be9rj  The reality is that you don't realise the map has changed. You're basing everything on a map from the early 2000s you supposedly have and somehow telling me I'm wrong when the national map published in 2014 included no Russian territory. I literally went and looked at the national map of 2014 last night and confirm that I am correct. You're coping hard instead of just accepting that you're wrong.
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  6441.  @nix-be9rj  Yeah idk why you keep saying any of that as if it changes anything. Go back to 2014 and tell me what you see. The information is right there and you continue to argue with me.
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  6442.  @nix-be9rj  I also really don't know why you're going so hard to defend the CCP even when the reality says otherwise, you must be from that country.
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  6443.  @mortisdeus  and that includes Indians. What do you think "Asian" means?
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  6444. Are you trying to tell me that Asian Americans are not Americans? The perpetual foreigner trope used to target Asian Americans is well and alive
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  6445.  @jackyu2819  East Asian American spotted
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  6446.  @GirlBehindACamera  Be respectful to the victims
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  6447.  @nezzy70  Sri Lanka is completely different. Use Google and learn the difference. This type of crime is very rare there.
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  6448.  @nezzy70  Why are you racist?
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  6449. Why do Americans pronounce "Malays" like "Mei-lays"?
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  6450.  @jackmyers1037  What are you talking about? Please don't talk about things you don't understand. Idi Amin expelling Asians from Uganda was worldwide news at the time.
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  6451.  @jackmyers1037  Yes they did, there were protests when Idi Amin put the 23,000 or so Ugandan citizens of Asian descent on the list of people to be expelled. People did care, especially in places like the UK which had colonial ties to Uganda. I don't know how much the US cared though.
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  6452. ​ @jackmyers1037  I find it strange that you're focusing on this rather than focusing on the damage Idin Amin did to his own country because he expelled the Asians, who were the backbone of the Ugandan economy. The Ugandan economy basically crashed overnight because the Asians all left.
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  6453.  @dr.batman2530  China and India both agreed that they need to act as leaders for the Global South to distribute vaccines to the Global South. They were two of the most prominent nations to demand wavering of IP in 2021. Chinese state media reported jovially about India's decision to remain neutral in the Ukraine War, even commending the country in a rare statement. A lot of focus on these skirmishes of 2020 but no focus on the fact that many times, China and India also fall on the same page and they fall on the same page when it comes to Global South issues. You can never tell which side India will be on. China is one of India's largest foreign investors and China is India's second largest trading partner. The only thing stopping them from becoming allies are the border disputes and many seem to be waking up to that. Let's not forget that the two countries had deep cultural exchange before the arrival of the Europeans and the only reason the countries have a disputed border today is because of British colonisation.
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  6454.  @dr.batman2530  You can see the concern India had with Nepal signing the MCC (which could result in the placement of US troops in Nepal) as well as the USA's failed 2019 attempt at getting Sri Lanka to sign a SOFA and MCC to establish a permanent US military presence on the island nation in order to surround China. So we can't tell because it's so unpredictable.
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  6455.  @psy_inamorato5703  I think India will care when they increasingly become "China 2.0" in the eyes of the US. When you have American CEOs like Aaron Levie saying things like "China and India will become significant threats to the US if we don't create an environment where you can build massive [tech] companies", you know India is becoming no different to Japan and China.
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  6456.  @psy_inamorato5703  Just look at modern American cyberpunk fiction which is all about a technologically advanced dystopian future that is dominated by Asian nations and rooted in the fear of Asian dominance. In the 1980s, cyberpunk was all about the fear of Japanese domination and Japanese influence was abundant and then beginning in the 2010s and into today, cyberpunk now also features so much Chinese and Indian influence like Mandarin and Hindi signage. Now why would that be the case? Pretty self explanatory isn't it? You should read about techno-orientalism and how they view India. India is just another Japan and China waiting to happen, even in my country a very famous and respected political scientist said that we must treat India as a friend and as a possible future threat. Just a few months ago, an American professor controversially said that the US faces a threat from an "Asian elite" and spoke of derision towards educated Indian immigrants who she says "hate America" and are "anti-American". She was allowed to say all of this on primetime TV in the US on Fox News. You have to take those rose coloured glasses off. At the end of the day, we're all looking out for ourselves, If that means India becomes an enemy then that's what's going to happen.
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  6457.  @ashaypallav4158  I didn't speak about Indonesia
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  6458.  @ashaypallav4158  I'm talking about India. Stop talking about Indonesia.
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  6459.  @ABO-Destiny  Omg that's so sad. I have a positive view of Hinduism as a Buddhist but I must say all that Hindutva/Hindu nationalism stuff is not nice to see. I always think of Hinduism as a way of life but the nationalists make it sound so rigid and strict.
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  6460.  @ABO-Destiny  He was critical of it which is why he became an ascetic. That is the truth. Buddhism would've never formed had he never disagreed with casteism.
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  6461.  @ABO-Destiny  He didn't agree with casteism and wanted to understand the meaning of life after seeing the reality of the world outside of the palace that belonged to his father.
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  6462. Not the same because China isn't trying to colonise other Asian or Oceanian countries like Japan did.
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  6463.  @naveen_editz_kushwaha  Akhand Bharat is not a real thing. It's just an irredentist movement that believes that the whole of South Asia + Tibet + Myanmar belong to India.
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  6464.  @thejoyfuljello2404  That was such a peculiar thing for him to say. I'm not surprised with the lashings he received.
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  6465.  @Leprechaunmonkey101  Who said that? The most popular actress in China right now is a Uyghur actress, Dilireba. Despite being Uyghur, she is cast as a Han Chinese woman in the Chinese dramas she stars in. Uyghur features are considered a beauty standard among Han Chinese people, so what are these camps you speak of?
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  6466.  @Stories4TheDead  What I stated is the truth and irdgaf if you're mad.
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  6467. You don't know what you're talking about and it shows.
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  6468. I just know the South Indian states are mad because they're having to deal with below replacement level fertility and an imminent aging population crisis while the North Indian states are still contributing to India's population growth. So resources are being directed towards North Indian states (where the Indian government is located) and the South Indian states are suffering quietly because the rest of the country hasn't caught up to their level of success. I can see why my Indian friend told me that, as crazy as it sounds, it would make a lot of sense for India to be broken up into several countries, that it is the logical thing to do and I agree with her.
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  6469. Except for China (Myanmar's other neighbour). That's because China is pulling the strings and supporting the Burmese military. That's why Karen people are now being targeted and crossing over into Thailand.
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  6470. The people in Asia that can blend in Japan are mostly Chinese, Koreans, Vietnamese, ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia and East Asian-passing Nepalese, that's it. Most of these migrant workers in Japan come from South and Southeast Asia and most of them do not look Japanese. This is why Japan selects specific nationalities who are culturally the most similar with similar beliefs like Buddhism to make it easier to assimilate.
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  6471.  Dragon Force  The Indians in Hong Kong, have lived there before the Republic of India was created in 1947...
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  6472.  Dragon Force  ...because they've lived there for multiple generations? That's like asking Chinese people in various parts of Southeast Asia to go back to China after they've lived there for multiple generations.
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  6473.  Dragon Force  Do you say these things to their faces in real life or do you just rant about this to random strangers on the internet? While I was reading the comments, I saw you had posted probably 100 comments expressing your hatred for them.
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  6474. I want to visit it too but don't have the funds or the time rn, hopefully in the near future I will be able to visit it.
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  6475.  @Indian_Tovarisch  Of course not, they aren't even represented in crime statistics. I don't understand why these people are so mad about them. They don't cause problems.
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  6476.  @CunnyRape  You know nothing about Burmese affairs and it shows.
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  6477.  @CunnyRape  Men in dresses? What? Where?
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  6478.  @rayh.9130  The Singaporean government has been controlled by Chinese and Indians (especially Tamils) since before the country gained independence from Malaysia. One of the four founding fathers of Singapore, who is responsible for being the architect of ethnic harmony in Singapore, is a Ceylonese Tamil.
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  6479.  @King_Neptune  Sorry, that's not an excuse. Sri Lanka is in this state because of ethnic supremacy. Imagine continuing to make excuses in 2022 after everything that has happened. You ought to realise that there is a lot more ethnic harmony in Sri Lanka atm because of what is happening. Seeing Sinhalese, Tamils, Moors, Burghers, Malays, Buddhists, Christians, Muslims and Hindus supporting each other is so beautiful to see. Such a shame that you're still living in the past.
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  6480.  @tamilianboys6664  The Tamils are suffering at the moment. So what karma? 💀
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  6481.  @randominus2641  Yeah but that doesn't mean much. They banned the national anthem being sung in Tamil and promoted the use of Sinhalese among all ethnic groups. That has never happened in Singapore. Singapore specifically made English the language of governance and education in order to make sure everybody is equal and does not have an advantage over another. Tamil, Mandarin and Malay are taught in schools as a second language.
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  6482.  @randominus2641  Not when the minorities have their own language. India has 22 official languages and people in states like Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Assam don't speak Hindi, they speak their own native languages. So making Sinhalese the only official language is wrong and only promotes this idea that the other Sri Lankan ethnic groups are not "Sri Lankan enough" because it promotes this idea that Sri Lankan = Sinhalese.
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  6483.  @randominus2641  Tamil being an official language doesn't change the fact that Tamil people have faced discrimination in Sri Lanka. That's my point.
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  6484. This is why the West has been called out across the non-Western world in what people now call "Western hypocrisy". They always talk about China but my goodness has this war revealed the toxic nature of the US/EU in such potency that most of the world has refused to sanction Russia. The US/NATO is so two faced. It's always been about themselves. That's why they're okay with supporting and funding Azov Battalion, a neo-Nazi organisation that has inflicted violent racism towards minority groups in Ukraine like the Romani. Not to mention that this ripple effect has also cost the lives of two Ukrainians of Greek descent since the war began. Like what the US and its allies did in Iraq, Russia and NATO are sewing the seeds for another major change in the global order and it's not for the better.
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  6485. What everybody is thinking across Asia and the Pacific is if the US will actually support any nation that is attacked by China. The Trump presidency initiated the so called "US retreat" after failing to take any interest in any major Asia-Pacific summit. Under Biden, Afghanistan happened. The disaster of Afghanistan was a reminder to the rest of Asia of what also happened in Vietnam. Two major failures in Asia. The disaster of Afghanistan reinforced views across the region that the US is likely not going to be there to provide any support. I've seen your view espoused by other Americans but not a single person in Asia and the Pacific has expressed the same thing because the cold truth is that many in the region now believe that they can't rely on the US anymore. The viral news reports of American double standards in how they treated the Afghanis and groups from the Global South has also generated discussion of "Western hypocrisy" in Asia.
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  6486.  @BodohYono  Bangladesh is not Indian.
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  6487. Did you not hear the accent? She's Indian.
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  6488.  @cambodianpleasuresquad1753  What Dravidian speakers? Dravidian speakers in India are genetically a mix of AASI and Neolithic Farmer ancestry. With your entire race and phenotype obsession, how on earth do you not know this? India belongs to everybody that lives there and if anything, it is the Adivasi groups with high AASI ancestry that have the most right to the land if we were to entertain your statement.
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  6489.  @cambodianpleasuresquad1753  and what do you mean "us Austroasiatics, we introduced rice farming"? You are from Cambodia. If anybody should be saying that it should be me considering I actually have Austroasiatic ancestry that is tied to mainland South Asia. It is my ancestors that introduced rice farming to eastern South Asia after they left southern China, your ancestors went to Southeast Asia. Sorry but I'm not going to entertain these nationalistic viewpoints that you have.
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  6490.  @cambodianpleasuresquad1753  Adivasis speak Dravidian and Austroasiatic languages. Eastern Eurasian admixture? AASI is quite literally East Eurasian. What are you talking about? Adivasi tribes are majority East Eurasian and are of AASI descent and/or Austroasiatic descent. Of course Austroasiatic speakers in India have the right to the land, they are indigenous to India. There is a reason why they are classified as "adivasi". India is originally an East Eurasian nation, where most people were genetically East Eurasian (either AASI or Austroasiatic). Its demography changed after the expansion of West Eurasian people.
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  6491.  @cambodianpleasuresquad1753 Today, the dominance of East Eurasian ancestry in India is now centred around the east and south of the country with pockets in the central parts of the country as well as parts of the Himalayan foothills. The original native people of India are genetically East Eurasian and if there wasn't a wave of West Eurasian groups into India today, genetically speaking the majority of its people would've been comparatively genetically closer to Southeast Asians and Australasians.
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  6492.  @cambodianpleasuresquad1753  and yet they are considered Southeast Asians. Now what? Subcontinentals? What on earth even is that? Say that again because the Malaysian-Indians and Singaporean-Indian I know identify as "Southeast Asian". You're coping incredibly hard for someone living in a developing nation.
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  6493.  @cambodianpleasuresquad1753  Then stop using the word "East Eurasian" because it covers a much larger group of people within the East Eurasian phylogenetic tree. I know what the Y-DNA haplogroups are of Austroasiatic speakers, you don't have to tell me. I carry the same Y-DNA as Austroasiatic speakers in Southeast Asia and also various Kra-Dai speakers as well. Also, Austroasiatic speakers came from southern China. My Y-DNA lineage came from Yunnan, not northern Southeast Asia. There are Chinese genetic studies on this. China is basically the cradle of East Asian-related Y-DNA lineages.
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  6494.  @cambodianpleasuresquad1753  They're not native Southeast Asian but they are Southeast Asian by national identity. They are Malaysians and Singaporeans. Are you trying to tell me that Malays and Orang Asli are the only Southeast Asians of Malaysia and Singapore?
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  6495. I agree, the hate for South Asians is unreal. Idk why OP said such a horrible thing.
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  6496.  @williamjeferson3202  It's a Muslim majority country and it's not culturally related to East Asian countries.
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  6497.  @hectorjovetic8048  What are you talking about? Indians and English people are completely different. I'm also NOT Indian, Muslim person.
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  6498.  @hectorjovetic8048  Rohingyas are already accepted as Southeast Asian. There is a Rohingya minister in Aung San Suu Kyi's political party and one of the prominent pro-democracy activists in Myanmar is a Rohingya woman called Wai Wai Nu. They are 100% Southeast Asian. Just accept it.
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  6499.  @hectorjovetic8048  What caused trouble in Manipur? It's Kuki-Chin and Meitei people fighting. It's an ethnic clash over tribal status. The problems in Manipur are due to politics and fear of Meitei claiming Kuki-Chin land if they gain tribal status while Meitei and other neighbouring groups claim Kuki-Chin are from Myanmar and are trying to take over Manipur. Manipur has NOTHING to do with the Rohingya issue.
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  6500. ​ @hectorjovetic8048  Rohingyas are very much within the fold of Burmese culture (a Southeast Asian country). There are so many Rohingya people in my country (Australia) and the suburb they are commonly found in is a Southeast Asian-majority suburb with Vietnamese and Cambodians. The Rohingyas own and run Burmese restaurants as well as Thai and Malaysian restaurants. They also run bubble tea shops and their presence is felt throughout the suburb. The Vietnamese clothing vendors have dedicated sections selling Burmese-style hijabs for the Rohingya women and the Asian supermarkets selling produce for Southeast, South and East Asian customers employ Rohingya women. They are 100% Southeast Asian.
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  6501.  @hectorjovetic8048  Us Asian Buddhists are much more sympathetic towards Rohingyas. Many Muslims, on the other hand, are not. Why is it that Indonesian Buddhist organisations expressed sympathy for Rohingyas while Indonesian Muslims are being xenophobic and racist to them?
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  6502.  @suryandii  No their land is within Arakan Kingdom, which is part of Myanmar NOT Bengal! Rohingyas were known as Arakanese Muslims. Maybe there were some Bengali migrants that adopted Rohingya culture and claimed to be Rohingya too but Rohingyas have always existed in the region of Arakan (modern Rakine). What you are saying is repeating the words of the Tatmadaw.
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  6503.  @hectorjovetic8048  Those are not proper Buddhist monks. They don't understand the Buddha's teachings, they are ethnic nationalists who believe in Bamar Buddhist nationalism and have ties to the Sinhalese Buddhist nationalists in Sri Lanka. All of those "monks" (along with some in Thailand) think that that the Asian Buddhist population is under threat from non-Asiatic religions. They always speak about how Buddhist women in Asia have a very low fertility rate and how the fertility rates among Buddhist women in Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Thailand continue to rapidly decrease compared to other religions and that South and Southeast Asia was once Buddhist (and Hindu) but many parts of it are now Muslim. All of the Asian countries with Buddhist majorities except for Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos and Bhutan have rapidly aging populations and have or will have very large elderly populations with very little young people. They are right wing conservatives like the white supremacists in the West. They are not real monks.
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  6504.  @suryandii  No it is part of Rakhine State which is part of Myanmar, not Bengal! Islam in South and Southeast Asia is a recent thing. All of that land was part of different indigenous Bengali and Burmese Buddhist/Hindu empires. That is NOT part of Bengal Sultanate, it was part of the Arakan Kingdom.
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  6505.  @hectorjovetic8048  Again, I'm not wrong. Native Southeast Asian religion? If you actually understand Southeast Asian society and Dharmic religions in general, you'd know that people have syncretised Dharmic religions with local beliefs throughout Southeast Asia (as well as South Asia and East Asia)and that is evident in Burmese Buddhist society where people syncretise Buddhist beliefs with nat worship.
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  6506.  @hectorjovetic8048  and NO, those are not Buddhist monks. They are right wing conservative ethnonationalists. You want to find a real Buddhist monk, go to the forest temples and monasteries, that is where you will find the real monks.
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  6507.  @hectorjovetic8048  What are you talking about? Rohingyas are SOUTHEAST ASIAN and there is NOTHING you can do about it. There is a Rohingya minister in Aung San Suu Kyi's political party and Aung San Suu Kyi wants to reintegrate Rohingyas back into Burmese society.
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  6508.  @hectorjovetic8048  Native blood? They are native to Southeast Asia and so they are Southeast Asian! Whether they are illegal immigrants or not, they are Southeast Asians. Stop denying this basic fact! Support Aceh, it's a third world location whose people look more Bangladeshi than actual Rohingyas.
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  6509.  @hectorjovetic8048  In my opinion, none of this would be happening had the Acehnese and other Indonesians as well as Bangladeshis and Rohingyas practiced Hindu-Buddhist-animist beliefs. If South and southeast Asia remained 100% Hindu-Buddhist + folk beliefs, this issue would not even exist. Everybody as living in peace until outside elements destroyed the safe framework of South and Southeast asian societies. Now tell me Hector Jovetic, tell me where are you from?
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  6510. Genuinely asking but do you think the 2020 US election was rigged and that the current president of the US stole the election? I'm not from the US btw.
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  6511. That circle of nations need to get along for the peace and prosperity of the Asia-Pacific.
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  6512.  @Voltaicz  I'm not even from China, now what?
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  6513.  @Voltaicz  China claims those regions because it was part of the Qing Empire. Southeast Asia, Tibet and some other South Asian places were never a part of India and yet you're here claiming them.
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  6514.  @Voltaicz  Those were separate empires. The Chola Empire never controlled the entirety of India. Modern India is an entity that the British created. So how on earth can you say that it would all still be a part of India when those empires and rose and fell and never controlled the entire region? Stop claiming the whole of Asia for goodness sake.
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  6515.  @Voltaicz  I'm really trying to support the Asian nations but it's really hard when there are people out there that conflict with what is deemed to be fair. Nobody should be claiming anybody's territory, that includes China and India.
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  6516. Nobody in Australia wants war, the US is coercing us to fight a war with China though.
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  6517. Why?
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  6518.  @newtonranaweera  Sri Lanka was never part of the Mauryan Empire, who said it was? Sorry, I'm confused now
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  6519.  @newtonranaweera  "almost Sri Lanka", do you know what "almost" means?
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  6520.  @newtonranaweera  They don't, you're reading way too much into things. Historians also said the Ottoman Empire almost reached Vienna in Austria, doesn't mean it's part of Vienna. She didn't say anything akin to the whole Akhand Bharat thing. It's okay.
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  6521. It's correct
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  6522. Twitter being the "town square" is hilarious, for young people the "social media town square" is TikTok and clearly Elon thinks so too since he created his own abhorrent "for you" page on Twitter.
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  6523. That has nothing to do with the video. Move on. That was 2 years ago or something.
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  6524.  @cenationofjnu  India gave a bailout in 2022. This is 2025, this video is about what has happened since 2022. Not everything is about India.
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  6525.  @xijinpig8982  Okay that happened but this video is about what happened afterwards. Is it that hard to accept not everything needs to be centred around India?
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  6526.  @DavidHalko  You must be running some Christian church or school or something because trust me, average people don't care.
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  6527.  @DavidHalko  So all Christians, got it
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  6528.  @DavidHalko  So in other words Christians and Muslims, so believers in Abrahamic faiths which are incredibly restrictive, got it. As I said before, the average person in the West does not care. They are Muslims/Christians with hard-line views so I'm not surprised they feel that way - it's expected. Nobody in the West wants to go back in time, if you truly believe they are going to be implementing Abarahmic faith laws in the West you are living in an alternate universe and you appear to care too much about things that don't concern you but maybe you too are a believer in an Abarahmic faith which will explain why you keep using the term, "wicked behaviour" all the time. The East (which I am going to narrow down simply to the Sinic and Indic-influenced areas of Asia for the purpose of my argument) are most definitely not appealing to the type of refugees/immigrants you speak of. These areas of Asia are in fact more Western influenced and mentally are very different to the countries you speak of. Take a look at the type of people that countries like Singapore, Japan and South Korea take in as migrant workers. None of them come from the countries you have listed. In fact, the last time refugees from that region of the world you speak of made their way to the "East", it sparked mass protests in South Korea where people demanded they leave the country. So the East more appealing to those refugees? No, I don't think so.
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  6529. There are other areas in South Asia that are not like this
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  6530.  @Synclon  Be serious
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  6531.  @Synclon  the countries you mentioned, they are not the greatest. Like I said, be serious
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  6532.  @Jambudvipa-ug6yg  They're Asians
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  6533.  @29pcs  The term is South Asia, cry harder. Stop making everything about India.
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  6534. The monks didn't kill Rohingyas, Goes to show you actually know nothing about the Rohingya issue. Monks can't physically kill people. If you commit violence you're de-robed. The military committed the genocide.
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  6535.  Karma Nightmare  No they don't. You need to do more research on what's happening in Myanmar instead of focusing on changing your display name from "Abdul Qadir" to "Karma Nightmare".
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  6536. There are sanctions against Myanmar imposed by Western nations
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  6537. He clearly said that Asia overall has low crime rates but then said he's focusing on East Asia
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  6538. I think the US wants to hep but traditionally speaking, Sri Lanka falls under the influence of India, China and Japan. Early on during the crisis, long before the storming of the palace, India, China, Japan and Bangladesh provided financial assistance.
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  6539. Yeah that's why missionaries focus on converting impoverished people because it's easier to convince a poor person of a higher power than can save them from their misery.
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  6540. India is in South Asia, so they're South Asians!
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  6541.  @sandeeprevoju8169  and yet Sri Lanka looks so much more developed than India. Being rich means nothing when the top 10% hold most of the wealth.
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  6542. Competitors over what? Who said that China and India want to be #1? #1 in what?
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  6543. I have read about how ethnic Assamese nationalists have issues with all outsiders, including mainland Indians. They prefer other Northeast Indians only.
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  6544.  @lifePaultheball  So you have no idea who Paresh Baruah is? You have no idea who the ULFA is? Idk who you think you're fooling but inter-communal racism exists across India. Indian ethnic groups being racist to other Indian ethnic groups is an issue in the country. Passing judgement on Northeast Indians? Oh please don't pull that card on me when the whole world knows about the racism Northeast Indians face in mainland India. Sorry but let's not do this.
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  6545.  @rahuldahoob4513  Your way of saying you don't know what to say lmao
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  6546.  @ishanbajpai6940  Cham are a minority group in Vietnam and are not the same as Kinh Vietnamese (who are the culturally dominant people in Vietnam). Vietnam is a Sinic-influenced country.
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  6547. There are common traits of "Buddhist architecture" like the stupa and pagoda but the architecture of each Buddhist-practicing culture is different and even the style of a stupa and a pagoda differ depending on culture. Anyway, there are mosques found in Indonesia, Thailand and Sri Lanka that are based on local architectural styles and not Arab-style.
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  6548. One of the best, if not the best, video I have ever seen regarding the collapse of Sri Lanka.
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  6549.  @klm2639  Singapore is a democracy. Just because the majority of Singaporean people prefer to vote in the same government each year doesn't make it any less of a democracy.
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  6550. China? It was the US
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  6551.  @Phtthnku34567  What he means is Irish American, not Irish from Ireland or Northern Ireland.
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  6552.  @Phtthnku34567  Just because his ancestors were from Ireland and he was born in the US doesn't make him not Irish. He does a genetic test, it'll come up with Irish ancestry.
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  6553.  @indiasuperclean6969  We don't care! Stop constantly spamming the replies, we know you're not Indian but a Pakistani.
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  6554.  @YashSharma-iv7ok  Australia, why?
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  6555. Imagine being triggered by males wearing makeup. I'd never let something that doesn't affect me hurt me so bad unlike some people.
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  6556.  @davidford3115  You're such an East Asian fetishiser lol
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  6557.  @davidford3115  Well at least you admit to it unlike others who pretend they don't have a fetish. Anyway, yeah I also think cross-cultural connections are nice and that it's nice for cultures to mix. All that cultural appropriation rhetoric you see these days is not it and I don't see why people should gatekeep aspects of one culture from another culture. People have been sharing their cultures with one another for centuries. Also yes, East and the West have always had a fascination with each other ever since they first came in contact with each other like Marco Polo's trip to China and the blending of Buddhist and Greek culture and architecture in India during the time of Alexander the Great's conquests. Also, the way the West is fascinated by Kpop, Japanese culture, Buddhism, yoga, Bali and East Asian martial arts among other things. It's quite nice to see the way East and West blend with each other.
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  6558. Correlation?
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  6559. Why do I bother defending y'all?
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  6560. This isn't about the US.
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  6561.  @Jambudvipa-ug6yg  Yes they are
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  6562. No
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  6563. The Tatmadaw and their supporters as well as the Arakan Army is the reason why Myanmar is a failed state. Neighbouring Asian countries have their own issues but Myanmar is the only one where there is a full blown war comparable to what you see in the Middle East. Do people not realise the security risks that are there if this is not solved quickly???
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  6564.  @CosmosChill7649  Supremacist religions? Hindus and Buddhists are not supremacists. You ned to understand the root cause of problems in certain South and Southeast Asian countries. You're focusing on their religion and claiming their religions are "supremacist religions" and failing to understand that this is actually an identity politics issue. If your claims are true then why aren't the Hindus of Indonesia or the Cham Hindus of Vietnam professing the same views as the Hindutva of India or why aren't the Buddhists of Cambodia, Nepal or Taiwan professing the same views as the Sinhalese and Bamar Buddhist nationalists in Sri Lanka and Myanmar? There is a big reason for why these ideas proliferate in India, Sri Lanka and Myanmar and not elsewhere.
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  6565.  @CosmosChill7649  In Sri Lanka and Myanmar, right wing nationalists fear their identity as "Sinhalese Buddhist" and "Bamar Buddhist" are under threat. There are multiple reasons why they believe in this and it's all powered by Islamophobia. The Sinhalese and Bamar nationalists believe that "Buddhist identity" (as in simply identifying oneself as "Buddhist") is under threat in Asian countries. That's why supremacist groups in Sri Lanka and Myanmar have joined ties in order to "protect their identity in Asia". They focus heavily on stats like the high fertility rate of Muslim women while the fertility rate for Buddhist women is low, how the percentage of Muslims will continue to increase this century but the percentage of Buddhists will decrease because most Buddhists live in countries that have low fertility rates and/or are currently experiencing population decline, will experience population decline or will peak in population in the next 15 years (Japan, China, South Korea, Thailand, Sri Lanka). They focus on historical incidents to justify their Islamophobia by talking about how a lot of South and Southeast Asian countries like Indonesia, Bangladesh etc. were Buddhist at one point but are now Muslim. It's all about identity to them, the identity of being "Asian Buddhist" but the thing they don't realise is that there are many people who follow the Buddha's teachings around Asia and the world but don't identify as "Buddhist".
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  6566.  @CosmosChill7649  So you're out here calling all Hindus and Buddhists supremacists but let me guess, you won't call believers of your religion "supremacists" and "radicals"? I'm not the one that needs to get their facts straight, it's you. You clearly hold biases if you're calling all Hindus and Buddhists supremacists, not to mention that we are talking about the indigenous people who are living on their lands. If one does not understand what they are talking about then they should not say anything at all.
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  6567. @K Y Well to be fair, I'm not talking about India (which is much larger and very different and diverse) but about Sri Lanka and yes, Sri Lanka originally had the opportunity to follow a similar path to Singapore. Sri Lanka is composed of 5 main ethnic groups (Sinhalese, Tamils, Moors, Malays and Burghers/Eurasians), which can be narrowed down to 3 main ones (Sinhalese Tamils and Moors). Singapore is composed of 3 main ethnic groups (Chinese, Malays, Indians), with Eurasians as the fourth largest group. Singapore's main language is English with Mandarin, Malay and Tamil constitute the other official languages of the country and taught as second mother tongue languages in school. Sri Lanka should have made English the sole official language as a way to unite all ethnic groups instead of pushing the Sinhala Only Act and disenfranchising the Tamils, Moors and Burghers who are not native Sinhalese speakers. Sri Lanka should have promoted the teaching of Sinhalese and Tamil as mother tongue languages so that the Sinhalese, Tamils and Moors are still able to converse in their native languages in addition to speaking English.
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  6568. @K Y Sri Lanka should have followed Singapore's path and created a "Sri Lankan Sri Lanka" (which exists at a basic level when it comes to culture and cuisine, but not a government level - where it is Sinhalese dominated). Sri Lankan culture is a mix of Sinhalese, Tamil, Moor, Malay and Eurasian influences, what the government should have done was to promote these cultural elements that make up Sri Lankan identity. Neighbourhoods in the capital of Colombo that are dominated by particular ethnic groups should have been revitalised into cultural (and tourist) sites that promote the history of particular ethnic groups in the country. For example, Pettah should have been promoted as a Moor cultural district and Slave Island should have been promoted as a Malay district as they are home to large Moor an Malay communities respectively. Singapore revitalised its ethnic neighbourhoods of Chinatown, Kampong Glam and Little India into areas of Singapore that promote the cultural identity of the Chinese, Malays and Indians. This is what should have happened in Sri Lanka's capital of Colombo which is very multi-ethnic and it would be a constant reminder that Sri Lanka is a multi-ethnic country.
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  6569. @K Y Sri Lanka had a great opportunity to create an ethnic harmonious society. At the time of its independence in 1948, the country had a very high literacy rate. The government should have made use of that and promoted multi-racialism to its population. Most people can read and write, so the government should have promoted the idea of multi-racialism, allowed the educated Tamils and Burghers into the government so they can contribute and refrain from playing identity politics and believing they (Sinhalese) are a wounded people who need to be given justice for what happened during the colonial era.
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  6570. @K Y This blurring of ethnic lines in Sri Lanka is very similar to Singapore where there is overlap in culture and cuisine and where you can find communities in Singapore like the Straits Chinese and the Chitty who have adopted or mixed elements of Chinese, Malay and Tamil culture or how you can find Chinese using their right hand to eat Tamil dishes or Malays and Indians using chopsticks to consume Chinese noodle dishes. Sri Lanka could have easily followed Singapore's multiracial policies if it never gave into ethnic minority and linguistic discrimination.
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  6571. @K Y I fully understand what you mean because people vote based on ethnicity but what I'm trying to say is that Sri Lanka once had an opportunity to naturally unite everybody in the country. They could have easily been something else if the government chose differently. I don't know if that makes sense but I guess that's what I'm trying to say.
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  6572. @K Y Yeah they enacted the bumiputera policy and that's part of the reason why many Chinese and Indians continue to leave the country and migrate to Singapore or Australia. It's interesting to note that the Malaysian Australian community is disproportionately represented by the Chinese with also a significant number of Indians. You will most often see Malaysian culture represented in Australia by people of Chinese or Indian origin rather than Malay because there are less Malays.
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  6573. Nobody considers the Buddha to be a god...
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  6574. ...because of China and Russia. They veto everything the UN tries to do.
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  6575.  @Vandelberger  2 is the standard though. There's absolutely nothing strange about having 2 kids, that's the actual number of kids a couple should be having: one to replace the mother and one to replace the father.
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  6576.  @Vandelberger  but you inferred that having 2 kids as a poor person is a lot, that's not true. It's not just Western and "Far Eastern" countries anymore, this a phenomenon in most countries around the world except for most of Africa and parts of the Middle East, most people have kids later and most will only have 1.
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  6577. JD Vance is promoting hate against Indians abroad
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  6578.  @Hindu9054  Sri Lanka has NEVER been a part of India. What is this? Y'all get mad at China but then claim Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Nepal, Bhutan etc. etc. as "always part of India". India pretending to be orally superior when they're no different to the CCP, at least the CCP is public about its claims. India loves to pretend it's benevolent when in reality it's not.
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  6579.  @krishnanunnimadathil8142  It's a Tamil name and not "Indian". Reality is that India is an artificial nation that could easily be broken up into 28 different nations. Each state has its own ethnic group and culture. What does a Hindi person have in common with a Tamil or an Assamese? Nothing.
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  6580.  @krishnanunnimadathil8142  He's not "culturally Indian" lmfao. He's culturally Singaporean. If he was culturally Indian, his mannerisms and mentality would be completely different. He's 100% culturally Singaporean because Singaporean Tamils are culturally Singaporean. A Singaporean Tamil has in fact more in common culturally with a Malaysian Chinese than they do with an Indian from India. You're just going to have to accept that, sorry.
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  6581.  @krishnanunnimadathil8142  Good way to tell me that you accept that I'm right.
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  6582.  @krishnanunnimadathil8142  Except I am. In what universe is a Singaporean "culturally Indian"? 💀 This delusional thinking is why India is the way that it is, no offence.
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  6583. Hope under Trump, China-India relations reach new heights
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  6584.  @idontcarei  Not by nationality
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  6585. That's what he meant because it's connected to other islands by roads.
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  6586. What's your country? Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Bangladesh classified as Middle Eastern? 💀 I'm of Sri Lankan descent, most of us are Buddhist. The Middle East is totally different in appearance and culture, even Pakistan (which is South Asian) is still somewhat foreign to me.
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  6587.  @maxim_077  No there wouldn't because other Muslim-majority nations don't care if Maldivians are allowed to visit Israel or not.
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  6588.  @aurora6920  Yep, I agree
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  6589.  @Hey_puppets  The Indians in the UK are actually considered a model minority, don't group them with the types found in India.
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  6590.  @richardkent2014  No it absolutely was not lmfaoooo. Half of the issues that India deals with is because the British colonised it! Had the British not been obsessed with colonising it, India would not even be a country. There would at least be 25 different countries in what is called "India" because they were all separate entities until the British came and grouped them all together resulting in so many issues that plague that nation in terms of demography as well as the border dispute with China that is a constant threat that hangs over the heads of all Asian nations, not just China and India.
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  6591.  @richardkent2014  The British colonised India and created British India. How can British India be formed if it wasn't colonised? Modern India is a direct descendant of British India as it gained independence from the UK in 1947.
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  6592.  @richardkent2014  I'm not Indian. The point is that the British loved to colonise everything and never actually cared about the significant demographic changes they caused as a result of the merging of several different regions. Last year, two Kuki-Chin women were brutally graped in the Indian state of Manipur by Meitei men. The reason? An ethnic war between Sino-Tibetan-speaking Meitei who claim the Kuki-Chin are invaders from Myanmar. The Kuki-Chin are found in both India and Myanmar but when the British decided to separate Myanmar from British India, they drew a random border separating so many of the same ethnic groups from each other resulting in so many villages becoming part of two different nations. Now, people claim certain groups belong to one side of the border and others belong to the other side. The British brought good things but they also brought bad things, there was good and bad. That cannot be denied.
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  6593.  @richardkent2014  Not in Asia
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  6594.  @richardkent2014  India should be a name to describe the historical region that gave the world things like yoga, Buddhism, meditation and other Eastern practices. In what is now modern India, there should be several different nations. The British should have governed them separately the way the British governed Ceylon, Maldives, Singapore and Malaya separately but alas fate decided that huge nation called "INDIA" should be formed and now look at the sickness it has unleashed on its own people, more particularly its female babies, girls and women.
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  6595.  @richardkent2014  Modern India was created by the Brits after the Muslims decided they wanted a separate nation for themselves. That's why Pakistan and Bangladesh were formed. So the Muslim-majority areas became West Pakistan and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), while the rest of British India became "India" for the non-Muslim Indians. Sir Cyril Radcliffe was given the job of drawing modern India's borders and this became known as the Partition of India. That's how modern India was created.
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  6596.  @richardkent2014  Sir Cyril Radcliffe was given the job of drawing modern India's borders and this became known as the Partition of India. That's how modern India was created.
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  6597.  @richardkent2014  The Ottoman Empire never got close to India.
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  6598.  @Indiasuperpower2024  We all know you're from Pakistan or the Middle East
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  6599. @@user-ny5hn1wc6k China isn't mono-ethnic.
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  6600.  @renzeusoya5828  Rohingyas were not imported by British people
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  6601.  @renzeusoya5828  This is true but Rohingyas were not brought in by the British, they were already there. The British favoured minorities in all of their colonies. Myanmar was no different.
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  6602.  @davidbenyehuda7618  The Buddha wasn't a Black African. That's just an Afrocentric theory and an attempt to claim Asian culture, people and history. The Buddha was a South Asian, he was born in present-day Nepal and lived in present-day eastern India.
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  6603.  @davidbenyehuda7618  Dark skinned Asians aren't black. If you're trying to tell me that darker skinned Indians are "black" then sorry but you're mistaken. Everybody knows that Africa is the starting place for human civilisation but you're literally trying to claim that the Buddha was a Black African and that's not true. The claim that the Buddha was a Black African is an Afrocentrist theory that also includes claims that other Asians like South Indians, Chinese and Khmer are "Black Africans" and that Native Americans are "black Africans" among other claims. Also, there is no such group as "Indo-Europeans". That's a language family and anything else is nothing by a hypothetical construct.
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  6604.  @bryanhiebert1941  Why should people in Asia be hooked on race and racism from White people? They don't live in the US. Like I said, nobody cares about race like they do in the US.
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  6605.  @cn4s490  Well "race" is a social construct so I'm going to take it that you mean phenotype so yes there are multiracial Asian countries like Singapore, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh (all composed of different Asian groups with varying genetic differences and phenotypes).
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  6606.  @jame5game5  Nepalese culture is actually very beautiful. Guess you haven't seen that part of Nepal.
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  6607.  @jame5game5  With education people's mentality will change but we are talking about a developing country that is still quite poor in comparison to other developing countries. They don't have the resources so it's not surprising that this would happen.
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  6608. Like the rest of those areas??? The West hasn't helped a single developing Asian country! The only countries that are helping these countries are other Asian countries (China, India and Japan). Westerners start learning about the world challenge impossible
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  6609. The West hasn't helped a single developing Asian country. The only countries that are helping these countries are other Asian countries (China, India and Japan).
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  6610. The only countries that are helping these countries are other Asian countries (China, India and Japan). The West does nothing
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  6611. They don't beg the West for anything. You can't even locate this country on a map
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  6612. None of those areas beg for anything and they don't receive aid. The West does NOTHING
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  6613. The entirety of India is within PLA missile range, not just the naval bases on the Andaman Islands
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  6614.  @itsgreat7150  One of the few prominent people support your outlandish conspiracy theories and other far right beliefs and you still find a way to degrade him BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. The American right and far right are such a joke. Vivek, you and everybody else in this comment thread BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
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  6615.  @itsgreat7150  You didn't ask me that question and I don't care about the question! I'm talking about your comment and relating it to how ridiculous the American right and far right are!
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  6616. It's disputed and claimed by China, they are merely indicating that.
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  6617. ​ @PomegranateChocolate  Yellows?? Browns???? Nobody in Asia thinks like that. BTW, there are millions of East Asian-passing people in northern India and millions of brown-skinned-looking NE Indians like the Assamese. The leader of the separatist group that is fighting for Northeast Indian states to gain independence and is being sheltered by China atm literally looks no different to someone from mainland India.
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  6618. NO they're based on culture
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  6619. No, they're based on culture
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  6620. Bangladesh, Gangetic India, Pakistan = the shame of South Asia
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  6621. Bangladesh + BIMARU India + Pakistan = the shame of South Asia
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  6622. Baruas and Chakmas should have their own nation
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  6623. Where are you Bengali Muslim?? Don't you want to come out and play??
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  6624.  @zyanego3170  Singapore was NOT a marvellous colony lmao. It was an incredibly poor racially segregated (at the hands of the British) colony with high poverty and illiteracy and incredibly weak. Singapore is marvellous today because Singaporeans overcame their racially divided past, united and worked on becoming a developed nation. Now they are one of the most advanced nations on earth, a lot more advance than the UK.
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  6625. Did you just use AI to create this? Who asked for this????
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  6626. Nobody said this applies to the whole world. It's Jubilee, an American channel, so of course it's based on American standards.
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  6627.  @close_all_tabs  The Westerner is mad that other Asian nationalities want Chinese video games lol
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  6628.  @aadu.thoma44  You're literally an Indian Tamil, Aadu Thoma.
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  6629. ​ @jdmytho9599  You're so wrong lmao. In the UK, '"Asian" means Indian. In Australia, even though "Asian" means "East Asian" people still know India is part of Asia. In the US, Indians are legally classified as Asians and educated Americans know that Indians are Asians. In African countries like Kanya and South Africa, "Asian" means Indian. There is a whole community of Indians in Kenya known officially as "Kenyan Asians". In the Gulf nations of the Middle East, "Asian" means Indian. Qatar built a whole complex called Asian Town and it's full of Indian/South Asian shops. In Southeast Asia, "Indians are always considered Asian. You really thought you could get away with that one. Many Malaysians, Singaporeans, Burmese have Indian ancestry and Southeast Asia is culturally influenced by India. Everything from the language scripts to write Thai, Khmer, Burmese, Javanese, to religion (Buddhism and Hinduism), to attire (e.g. Thai sabai, Cambodian sampot and Burmese longyi) to architecture (e.g. Angkor Wat) to traditional greetings (e.g. Thai wai, Cambodian sampeah and Balinese Om Swastiastu) to traditional Southeast Asian food (Thai, Burmese, Cambodian, Malaysian, Indonesian, Vietnamese curries and cooking techniques) are all of Indian/South Asian origin. Next time, don't lie to an Asian person and tell us who we consider who is Asian and who is not. India (and China) are the mothers of Eastern culture. So don't even try to say Indians are not Asians. BTW, stop liking your own comments. Also, funny you keep calling them "East Indians". Do you know why they're called that? The "East" in "East Indian" refers to their Asian origin (as in coming from the Eastern world). Smh...
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  6630.  @markjulianoriginalhooli2217  Judeo-Christian is just another way of excluding Islam even though Christianity, Judaism and Islam are all Abrahamic religions and are intrinsically related to one another.
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  6631.  @kaze6979  The "Western" element in creating this balance is not "Judeo-Christian beliefs". If most Asian parents forced their children to read and study religious texts, go to a religious institution every Sunday and continuously pray every single day, Asian students wouldn't be succeeding. Christianity is not a traditional belief of the East and South Asian cultures that dominate these conversations about Asian academic excellence. The traditional beliefs of these cultures occurs in the background and is nothing to tend to on a regular basis (unlike devout Christianity) which means plenty of time is available to let their children focus on important things like academics.
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  6632.  @markjulianoriginalhooli2217  What does Christianity have to do with printing ballots in 20 different languages? Anyway, to answer your question, no it should be printed in one language only and that's the lingua franca of the country meaning English. It should only be printed in English.
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  6633.  @markjulianoriginalhooli2217  Unrelated to Christianity
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  6634. "The US and Britian did not claim countries for themselves, but gave them their own country" This has got to be a joke 😐
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  6635. So you expect them to spend a few more years under that man even though he has stolen everybody's money, brought the living standard down to a level never seen since the colonial era with people struggling to purchase food, children unable to go to school because the government shut the schools and no electricity so people are using firewood to cook food while the president lives comfortably in the presidential palace probably stealing all of the monetary donations provided by other Asian countries? They did the right thing, they need to change the system and get rid of all of the toxic elements that have continuously prevented Sri Lanka from moving forward. You know things are horrendous when all Buddhist monks are protesting in the street.
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  6636.  THANOS. 🏳️‍🌈⃠  That does not exist.
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  6637.  @harshavandu  Akhand Bharat is akin to China's belief in expansionism and acquiring territory linked to the Qing dynasty (aka "Greater China"). It is not the same as the Indosphere which is the Indic equivalent to the Sinosphere (Chinese cultural sphere), the later of which is not connected to "Greater China". The rise in believers of Akhand Bharat are dangerous to India's reputation and I will be frank, India's reputation isn't the best overseas. While many like to believe India is the benevolent opposite to expansionist China, there are also many who are weary of what India may become in the future as it gets more powerful. A respected former diplomat in Australia (my country) published a book a few years ago about the Asian Century and he suggested that India, as it becomes more powerful, may begin to exert influence in southern Asia and the Indian Ocean. Last year, an article published in The Diplomat also spoke about the threat of "Akhand Bharat" and the rise of the RSS. It may not seem so plausible today but those young men online who believe in Akhand Bharat will eventually come to power, we don't know what will happen then. Now I honestly believe the only way India is going to be able to gain the respect of the world is to get the world to fear it (at least per current standards), that or some well thought out form of soft power that changes international public opinion (like what the Korean Wave has done for South Korea). However going down the route of Akhand Bharat is not the way to go and I asked these questions because a recent video on TikTok quoted a bunch of tweets made by Indian nationalists that touched upon this topic (though was not the topic of the video) and a few days ago, someone on another YT video told me that countries like Nepal and Sri Lanka are "Indian states". So I had to ask, if that makes sense.
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  6638.  @abhinaysingh8306  Sorry but open borders, same currency? For what? It's not beneficial when some countries in South Asia are very small and with small populations. They'll lose their identities and be absorbed into the more populated groups in the region. I know you're trying to mean well but I can't see it.
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  6639.  @manjupradhan7159  I didn't twist anybody's words
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  6640.  @danceoffAsh  Thank you for giving me an explanation, unfortunate to think that there is a minority of you that realise the truth. I noticed Indian men on Quora are very open-minded and educated and sometimes I find similar men on YouTube like yourself. India would've been a better society if there were more men like you.
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  6641. Wasians and their superiority complex. Thank goodness most of Asia has moved past its obsession with Wasians and yeah many people did think that this would be the case eventually. They are using a service-based foundation so don't write them off so quickly.
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  6642. ?
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  6643.  @seanbrummfield448  Do you actually think Western-led interventions were conducted for the purpose of saving these countries they intervened in? If you think that then you actually don't understand the reality of the situation. Easy to say that when the US is currently asking small Asian countries to sign SOFAs and MCCs for the purpose of increasing a US military presence in the Asian region.
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  6644.  @agonnoga6100  Thai people were culturally influenced by Khmer people. Most of the Indian cultural influence in Thai culture comes from the Khmer who were the first inhabitants of the region to adopt Indic culture. The South Indians played a crucial role in transporting Indian culture to the Khmer. We can see this in the names of Khmer kings like King Suryavarman and the use of Tamil (along with Sanskrit and Pali) on monuments in the Pre-Angkor and Angkor eras.
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  6645.  @agonnoga6100  You are also ignoring the fact that all of these scripts (Thai, Khmer, Javanese, Malay, Balinese, Baybayin of Philippines, Burmese, Lao etc.) are all related to the Pallava script of South India, not North Indian scripts of which Bengali is a part of.
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  6646.  @agonnoga6100  The first inhabitants of Southeast Asia are the Hoabinhian hunter-gatherers who are a dark skinned East Asian-related people they share distant genetic affinity to the AASI hunter-gatherers of India. Lighter skinned East Asian farmers with epicanthic folds moved south and intermixed with the dark skinned hunter-gatherers to create Southeast Asians but all of these populations are all East Asian-related or have basal East Asian ancestry. The dark skinned inhabitants of ancient Southeast Asia are still an East Asian-related people even though they did not have epicanthic folds and light skin.
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  6647.  @agonnoga6100  No, Bengalis were the same as they were 1000 years ago. Sorry but this idea that they weren't different is an attempt to erase their heritage. The Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Austro-Asiatic and Tibeto-Burman all settled in Bengal forming the Bengali population. This would explain why traces of East Asian ancestry exist in the Sinhalese population, it came from the Bengalis and I'm not talking about the Malay invasions of Sri Lanka that came long afterwards (who are actually Southeast Asians).
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  6648.  @agonnoga6100  The Singaporean and Malaysian Tamils are the creators of roti canai and roti prata. Southeast Asians are not Chinese. Thai and Vietnamese are not Dai Chinese? Lmao what? Thai are of the Tai ethnolinguistic group. Vietnamese are of Kinh descent and totally different to Thai people. Burmese people are predominantly Bamar, there is no such thing called "Bamar Chinese". Indonesians are diverse and most belong to the Javanese group. Do you think anybody with epicanthic folds is Chinese or something because that's what it looks like?
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  6649.  @agonnoga6100  Thai curries are like South Indian/Goan curries because coconut milk is the base for Thai curries. North Indian curries are completely different to South Indian, Goan, Sri Lankan and Southeast Asian curries. North Indian curries use a yoghurt base, whereas South Indian, Goan, Sri Lankan and Southeast Asian curries all use a coconut base.
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  6650.  @agonnoga6100  Indo-Aryan and Dravidian are language families. The truth of the matter is that North and South Indians are genetically 100% the same as they are descendants of the exact same components (AASI, Iranian Neolithic Farmer and Steppe pastoralist). The only difference is that South Indians have more AASI and North Indians have more Steppe.
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  6651.  @agonnoga6100  The Gopura is a feature used in certain traditional architectural styles in parts of Southeast Asia such as in Angkot Wat. Tamils, Khmer, Sinhalese and Thai all celebrate the Ploughing Festival. Burmese people used to celebrate this festival too during the Pagan era. The Thai, Khmer, Lao, Burmese, Balinese, Baybayin, Javanese, Sundanese, Cham, Dai and Mon scripts all descend from the Pallava script which is a South Indian script. No such thing called pure "Indo-Aryan". I know you look down on South Indians but there is no such thing. Y'all are genetically of the same stock, just speak different languages and have different cultures.
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  6652.  @agonnoga6100  There were because Southeast Asian and Sri Lankan historical texts speak of these people with separate identities and they all had their own kingdoms. Bengal was like that right from the start. The first people of Bengal are the AASI, then came the Austroasiatic, then came the Steppe pastoralists and the Tibeto-Burmans. Bengalis formed from all of those people. To say Bengalis were the exact same copy as those who speak Hindi is to erase their identity and history. Sorry but that is not the case, they are their own people and have their own culture, history, language, heritage and their own physical features which make them look different to Hindi-speaking people.
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  6653.  @agonnoga6100  Malays don't look Chinese. Most Malays are dark skinned people who look like other Southeast Asian natives. There are plenty of genetic studies about Malays and we know about their origin and yes they are one of the indigenous people of Malaysia. They are not Chinese.
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  6654.  @dore3faso6sido  It's not related at all with anything I have spoken about but thanks for the information.
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  6655.  @agonnoga6100  Ulli Theeyal, Meen Murringakka, Erissery, Kori Gassi and Chicken Chettinad are examples of South Indian curries that use coconut. Idk why you're asking this question from me though. Aren't you Indian, shouldn't you know that South Indian curries use coconut?
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  6656.  @agonnoga6100  They're called epicanthic folds. I have epicanthic folds too. There are many different types of epicanthic folds. Maybe epicanthic folds with monolid originated in the colder areas of Northeast Asia but if you look at the dark skinned tribals of Southeast Asia like Semang and even the Adivasi groups of India like the Dongria Kondh, they have epicanthic folds with eyelid crease (which is what I have). Many populations have epicanthic folds. Many Sub-Saharan African people have epicanthic folds with eyelid crease that are similar to the ones tribals have in South and Southeast Asia. The epicanthic fold with eyelid crease clearly originated in Africa with the birth of humans. Epicanthic folds with monolids (which is what Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Mongolian, Bhutanese etc. have) would have originated in Northeast Asia.
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  6657.  @raghavrathi6591 Yeah ban it so we don't need to deal with nationalists. TikTok is so peaceful now that they're not there.
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  6658. Y'all love bringing this up. Nobody cares.
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  6659.  @Ccb88888  No it absolutely was not. In 1965, Singapore had a GDP per capita of around US$500. It was a part of Malaysia throughout the first half of the 1960s before being expelled in August 1965 and becoming an independent nation against its will. Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's first prime minister and the lead architect for Singapore's transformation from developing to developed, cried on national TV out of an extreme fear that Singapore will not survive on its own. Singapore had been plagued by racial tensions, high illiteracy and high poverty. The country was bona fide poor and Singapore was a fishing village, it was a fishing village back in the time of the Sultante of Johore. When people say Singapore was a fishing village they are referring to the period just before it was colonised.
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  6660.  @Ccb88888  Compare Singapore's 1965 US$494 to South Sudan's 2023 US$467, will you say South Sudan is a well off nation with wealthy people? South Sudan ranks among the poorest nations in Africa in 2023. Just because Singapore was higher in Asia, does not mean it was well off with wealthy people. It was "richer" than most of Asia but it wasn't rich. It was incredibly poor and being ethnically diverse like neighbouring Malaysia, its cosmopolitan population of Chinese, Malays, Indians and Eurasians spoke a creole-like language called Singlish and an Asian language, it had become racially divided as a result of the British colonial segregation policy and the effects of its union with Malaysia and its inhabitants were largely of a lower class. It also had no natural resources. It had nothing going for it.
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  6661.  @Ccb88888  "In Singapore's case, the British colonial authorities were not doing their job properly" Sorry but why are you talking about the British colonial authorities? Singapore was not under full British rule for at least 10 years before it became the Republic of Singapore in 1965. It was partially self governing from 1955 until 1959 when it became fully self governing, then in 1963 it joined what is now Malaysia before being expelled from the union in 1965. Singapore was nothing but a low income nation in Southeast Asia, surrounded by other low income nations. Lee Kuan Yew marvelled at Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka), particularly of its capital of Colombo. At that time, Ceylon was considered a model ex-British Crown colony and on times that Lee would visit Ceylon, he would make remarks at wanting to create a "Garden City" like what Colombo had become. If Singapore was a middle income nation with good things going for it, Lee would not need to look at Ceylon for inspiration. However, Singapore had nothing and being so small it has no natural resources. Singapore turned itself around due to the sheer need of survival. It is why it is described as one of, if not, the greatest economic miracle of the 20th century.
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  6662.  @YaSunny0409  Except it's not. What Xi meant was a direct jab at the US for their interest in the Asian region. It was his way of trying to gag the US by saying it's not an Asian nation and thus should not be involved in Asian affairs. China isn't trying to create a pan-Asian empire like Japan did
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  6663.  @YaSunny0409  Not true
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  6664.  @Bitcoin8594  ...because the Western media has brainwashed everybody into thinking any financial crisis in Asia or the Pacific is the result of China.
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  6665. Your ancestors did things to indigenous people
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  6666.  @rawjusticeman3128  The US can't do anything because they have very limited influence in the country. It has been an accepted fact since the 2010s, that only China, India, Japan and some other Asian countries have the most impact on Myanmar to be able to orchestrate change since they are close business partners with the Burmese military. The last time the US had influence in Myanmar was in the 1990s when it was able to successfully sanction the country and have an impact. At the UN, China and Russia are protecting the Burmese military. What the US has to do is put pressure on these countries with influence.
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  6667.  @humnnn  No, the Indo-European Steppe ancestral component is not the dominant component of Indians or Europeans. Europeans are closer to Middle Easterners than they are to Indians as they descend mostly from farming societies that developed in the Fertile Crescent and moved west through Anatolia into Europe (known as Anatolian Neolithic Farmers).
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  6668.  @humnnn  The dominant ancestral component of Indians is not Steppe ancestry. The dominant ancestral component of Indians is IVC ancestry (mix between Neolithic Iranian and AASI-related hunter-gatherer ancestry).
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  6669.  @humnnn  I'm using actual scientific terms. There were four main migrations into India: AASI hunter-gatherers, Neolithic Iranian Farmers, Austroasiatic Farmers, Western Steppe pastoralists and Tibeto-Burman farmers.
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  6670. Yeah it's Western because in the West "Asian" is understood in terms of facial features whereas in Asia, "Asian" is just understood as geography and is an afterthought.
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  6671. Rohingyas didn't attack Buddhism. Indonesia is a Muslim country, they need to accept them.
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  6672.  @thayaneethanmailvaganam328  What????
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  6673. Western countries = US, Canada and Europe only
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  6674.  @filippocardella7739  You need to educate yourself on Burmese affairs before speaking about them.
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  6675. You need to understand that Myanmar was under the clutches of the military and still is. Many were brainwashed at the time into thinking the Rohingyas were a threat to Myanmar. People's eyes opened to the truth when the military staged a coup on February 1, 2021. That's when people realised the real enemy is the Burmese military and not the Rohingyas, since then there is a lot of growing support for the Rohingyas.
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  6676.  @newtonmin3174  I am aware that Myanmar has been under military rule for a very long time. The thing that is missing is that Myanmar was cut off from the rest of the world for half a century. It was not until the early 2010s that Myanmar got full access to the internet and with that, it was still limited. Burmese people had no idea that the military had been targeting Rohingyas at a great scale until the early 2010s. For many Burmese, at the time, the internet was "Facebook" and you might be aware of the fact that a lot of fake news was spread on Facebook by the military claiming Rohingyas were killing Rakhine people and that ultimately led to the 2012 race riots in Rakhine State. The military continued to spread fake news on Facebook (which Facebook did not remove) throughout the 2010s and that brainwashed Burmese (especially Bamar people) into thinking Rohingyas were a threat. Everybody thought the Rohingyas were illegal immigrants from Myanmar but if you look closely at pre-2012 life in Rakhine State, the state where Rohingyas live, Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims lived peacefully with each other until the military brainwashed the Rakhine into thinking Rohingyas were targeting Rakhine people. The Rakhine people were the first to realise that the Rohingyas were never a threat when the Burmese military began attacking Rakhine people in 2019. Eventually, the rest of Myanmar (especially Bamar) woke up in 2021 when the coup happened.
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  6677.  @newtonmin3174  Islamophobia is not the roose cause of the Rohingya genocide. The Rohingyas have been targets of violence since Burmese independence. General Min Aung Hlaing of the Burmese military even said that the Rohingyas are being targeted in order to "complete unfinished business from WWII". That "unfinished business" traces back to when the Japanese invaded Myanmar during WWII. At the time, the Japanese had convinced Asian people that Japan was freeing South and Southeast Asia from the Europeans. Naturally, most Burmese sided with the Japanese believing the Japanese were going to kick out the British and give the Burmese people independence. The British told the Rohingyas that they would get their own separate state if they allied with the British, the Rohingyas did that (obviously they were lied to by the British because they got nothing) and from that day on, the Rohingyas were seen as traitors and outsiders. Pre-colonial times show that Rohingyas (Arakanese Muslims as they were known back then) lived peacefully with the Rakhine Buddhists in the Arakan Kingdom until the Bamar took over the Arakan Kingdom and then the British colonised the country. You need to understand that there are many other Burmese Muslim groups in Myanmar. One of Aung San Suu Kyi's closest political allies was a Muslim. Yes Islamophobia has risen in Myanmar but that's not the root cause for the Rohingya genocide.
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  6678.  @newtonmin3174  The Rohingya crisis in Myanmar is also a very ethnocentric issue. That's why, prior to the 2021 coup, other Burmese Muslim groups such as the Kaman Muslims were against the Rohingyas. The Kaman Muslims are a much smaller minority in Rakhine State compared to the Rohingyas. Kaman are Muslims, they look similar to Rohingyas (but many seem to have lighter skin compared to most Rohingyas) and live in the same area as the Rohingyas. The Kaman however are culturally more similar to the Rakhine Buddhists and speak a Sino-Tibetan language called Arakanese. There was a time in the early 2010s where the government had been giving citizenship to Rohingyas and labelling them as "Kaman" and that created a lot of anger among Kaman. Additionally, claims from Kaman that they were targeted by Rohingyas created friction in the state. Anyway, things have changed considerably since then. There is much more support for Rohingyas these days and the Rohingyas have now sued Facebook because Facebook played a big role in their genocide. Facebook, at the time, refused to delete fake news spread by the military.
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  6679.  @newtonmin3174  One of Myanmar's prominent pro-democracy activists today is a Rohingya woman. Her name is Wai Wai Nu and her father was also voted into the government in 1990 before the military refused to recognise the results.
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  6680.  @newtonmin3174  Yeah but some of your points are not correct. Not all Rohingyas are Muslims, there are Hindu and Christian Rohingyas too and while the Hindu and Christian Rohingyas are treated better than their Muslim counterparts, they too were driven out of their homes and now live in refugee camps in Bangladesh. Yes Islamophobia exacerbated the situation but that is not the root cause of the problem. The Rohingyas have been "othered" first due to their decision to side with the British in the 1940s, the second for their attempt to gain independence after Myanmar became a country, the third when they were stripped off citizenship in the 1970s and finally when the military brainwashed the Bamar into thinking the Rohingyas were illegal immigrants from Bangladesh during the 2010s. It's very easy to claim that it's all due to religion but it's far more complex than religion. Burmese military has a tight control on information so it's unsurprising that the Bamar, who live far away from Rakhine State, would fall for military propaganda. Most of them have never been to Rakhine State and most of them know very little about Rakhine State. Those who are Islamophobic are the ultranationalists and their Islamophobia is no different to the Islamophobia in other parts of Southeast and South Asia. In fact, the Burmese ultranationalists who are Islamophobic see themselves as part of a network with other ultranationalists, such as those from Sri Lanka and they've also inspired the ultranationalists in India and share similarities to their counterparts in Thailand. To them, they claim they all face extinction in South and Southeast Asia because of their communities' low fertility rates compared to Muslims. The Burmese ultranationalists played a role in brainwashing Bamar people but they are not the roose cause of the situation. Also, when you say "Burmese" you mean "Bamar" because it is Bamar that accepted the Islamophobic and illegal immigrant propaganda. The ethnic groups in Rakhine State, on the other hand, have lived with Rohingyas for centuries and had no issue until the Bamar took over and the British colonised the area. The important thing is that many Bamar are now supportive of Rohingyas and this support has been accepted by many Rohingyas in Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh. People are finally realising they were wrong and are now expressing regret for their silence.
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  6681.  @newtonmin3174  Yes Rakhine were killing Rohingyas. That violence started in 2012 when a Rakhine woman was gang raped by Rohingyas. That started the whole destruction between the two groups. However, before 2012 things were good between rakhine and Rohingyas. Both groups lived with each other peacefully, went to the same schools and frequented shops owned by Rohingyas and Rakhine. You should read the testimonies from people that lived in this area before the 2012 violence. How am I saying Islamophobia is only centred in Rakhine State? I have been talking about the Bamar the whole time and Islamophobia among Bamar and Bamar don't live in Rakhine State. What makes you think I'm only talking about Rakhine? Muslims? Before the military took over, there were Muslims in the Burmese government. I don't know why you think all Muslims are facing the same turmoil in Myanmar like the Rohingyas. Not all Muslims in Myanmar are Rohingyas. Yes Islamophobia exists but that doesn't extend to all Muslims, some Muslims in Myanmar (e.g. Rohingyas) face more discrimination in Myanmar than others. There is a long history of Bamar Muslim politicians in the Burmese government. Most are actually supporting the Rohingyas now. If the Burmese government-in-exile is now supportive of Rohingyas why would you say only some are supportive. You need to read about the Burmese government-in-exile and read what they are saying. You;ll see attitudes are changing. I said earlier on there was also a viral campaign in Myanmar to show support for Rohingyas. It went viral in Myanmar. Things don't go viral if most people aren't aware of something. Attitudes are changing and many Rohingyas are very welcoming of this. It has to start somewhere. The fact that people are finally waking up is a really good thing. I didn't think this day would ever come but it did.
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  6682. How?
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  6683.  @刘卫皇-v2j  They do but someone in the comments said they are happy being part of India even though I personally wish (for vanity reasons) the Himalayan region of South Asia had one more Himalayan state called Sikkim
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  6684.  @mangopudding5979  Intelligent people aren't going t believe a gigantic man with 10 heads exists.
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  6685.  @korrzia  How is that a lie? Didn't y'all learn about the Umayyad Caliphate?
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  6686. Does the world see how much power the US holds over us? If we don't do what they say, they will punish us. They threaten us and think that's okay. How is that fair? Call it for what it is, neo-colonisation. This country is trying so hard to cling onto its fading hegemony and we're supposed to accept it. This is a message to the whole world, non-western or western because the US will always view itself as supreme and do anything it takes to keep other nations below it. The ongoing realignment of the world is going to be the biggest blunder the Americans have made since the Vietnam War.
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  6687.  @fernbedek6302  They literally said Asia. Japan is part of Asia. They're focusing on the reactions from other Asian countries. Understand now?
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  6688.  @fernbedek6302  Tell me you don't know anything about Asian geopolitics without telling me you don't know anything about Asian geopolitics.
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  6689.  @xinyiquan666  That's not a Western narrative, it's a fact. Everything that you disagree with is not a "Western narrative" of "conspiracy" and at the same time you think everything China does is perfect, for the betterment of humanity and all this stuff. Well that's wrong. Japan has invested in many countries in the Asia-Pacific, it's an existing alternative.
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  6690.  @hanzocloud  China was not the regional superpower of Southeast Asia.
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  6691.  @Dash101  Actually he's not. Japan has invested large amounts of money into Afghanistan and thus the Taliban rise affects its interests in the country and threatens its regional powerplay in the wider Asian region as it competes with China.
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  6692.  @ab6565  I don't live in a BRICS nation. The point is there is nothing the US makes that is of value for them.
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  6693.  @elpenprice679  The US manufactures and sells so many weapons and military equipment to the world. How are they going to do that with no war?
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  6694.  @orientalguy9462  So??? Most South Asians celebrate it so yeah saying South Asians celebrate it is correct. Dharmic people? Seriously?? In what universe do Sri Lankan, Thai, Cambodian, Burmese, Lao, Malaysian, Chinese, Japanese, Taiwanese, Bhutanese and Korean Buddhists celebrate Diwali? Balinese don't celebrate Diwali.
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  6695.  @orientalguy9462  It's SOUTH ASIAN, get over it
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  6696.  @AS_41  Diwali has different meaning to the Newar Buddhists, Jains and Sikhs. Get yourself educated! It's SOUTH ASIAN. Cry about it, Indian
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  6697.  @orientalguy9462  South Asians celebrate Diwali. I really don't gaf what some Indian male has to say. Cry harder. It's South Asian, NOT Indian and that's what people think in the West. CRY CRY CRY
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  6698.  @SuryaJinping  Who here is talking about Muslims???
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  6699.  @SuryaJinping  Sikhs celebrate Diwali which they call Bandi Chhorr Divas
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  6700.  @rairadiobangla  Afghanistan is not part of South Asia and Kashmir is not a country. The majority of people in Pakistan and Bangladesh practice non-indigenous religions and cultural practices that are incompatible with Eastern philosophy. I don't consider the bulk of their cultures to be South Asian. Chakma, Barua, Bengali Buddhists and Hindus are culturally related to the other Indosphere cultures of South and Southeast Asia though.
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  6701. ...and the military? The military is the one who actually committed the genocide. They're still in power and none of them have been brought to justice. In fact, they just staged a coup and have taken over the country and once again have complete control of the nation.
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  6702. Do you know how diverse South Asia is? Maldives is in South Asia and they're on track to becoming a high income developed nation by the end of this decade. Stop being racist!
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  6703. That's because Native Americans also have southern East Eurasian ancestry, which is closer to basal East Eurasian groups like AASI which lived in India. The majority of Indians (average) only have around 30% of this ancestry.
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  6704. They don't! They have a fertility rate of 2.0 and an urban fertility rate of 1.6. My gosh, use Google.
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  6705. At this point they need to create a safe, government-controlled official tour of India like what they have in North Korea. That means there is a government-authorised tour guide that takes tourists to a specific or specific parts of India only. That country is too unsafe for women, both local or foreign. I feel terrible for Indian girls and women who have to live there and consistently face this threat. Gosh, I hope one day they become free from this nightmare.
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  6706. No countries will be lifted up until Western institutions like IMF are dismantled. This is why non-Euro-American countries are pushing towards de-dollarisation, using their own currencies to make international transactions, finding ways to peg currency to gold and completely detach from Euro-America.
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  6707. I totally understand what you're saying though, it's a reasonable and valid argument to make and yes there is a counterweight but there's a lot more to it.
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  6708. You can support two things at the same time, you do know that right?
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  6709. Most of these videos are literal lies, they were fact checked with community notes.
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  6710.  @srimanjha5112  They wouldn't want to join you anyway
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  6711.  @juanaabad7315  I understand what you're saying but I don't mean that there are no cultural differences between different races within the US or any other country. What I mean is that there is a national culture that all citizens of a particular country share. Americans citizens all share common American cultural customs regardless of race. A White American will find more in common with a Black American person than with a White German person in Germany despite both of them being racially White/European. That's because they are American and thus will have things that they have in common with other Americans (e.g. speaking American English, experiences from school whether that's the culture of American school cafeterias or the things they were taught in school, holidays like Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, Halloween, American-style christmas, American food such as pecan pie and its variations). So if we look at the case of the OP, them dating an Indian international student is going to be very different to them dating an American guy of Indian descent. The American guy of Indian descent will still be culturally Indian but they will also be culturally American. The Indian international student is from India and thus is culturally Indian and culturally Eastern. Their mentality, outlook etc. is going to be very different to the American guy of Indian descent who grew up in a Western country and is thus part of the broader culturally Western mentality.
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  6712.  @itr8247  Rohingya refugees in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh have distanced themselves from ARSA. ARSA were trying to recruit Rohingya refugees and there was fierce backlash and the Hindu and Christian Rohingyas have been against ARSA from day one.
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  6713.  @itr8247  There is also a huge difference, Rohingyas are not trying to gain independence from Myanmar. They still identify as "Burmese" and want to go back to Myanmar, the only thing stopping them is that the Burmese military is back in power while the Burmese government-in-exile (which supports Rohingya rights) is not.
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  6714.  @itr8247  Innocent Tamil civilians should not be conflated with Tamil Tigers and their supporters.
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  6715. The brown people in the UK are mostly Indians from what I know and they, along with the Chinese, actually outperform ethnic English people. Cry
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  6716.  @malinasworld  Well they're from Singapore and they're Indian. The reality is that they have nothing to do with modern India cause they don't even know where their ancestors are from.
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  6717.  @schrodinger_kot  Well for starters, they're Singaporeans of Indian descent. They're not India Indians. It's very easy these days for people to discriminate against Indians including in your country of Indonesia. That's why people feel it's okay to say that about them and generalise them. If it was any other group, people would be upset. The most hated group is 🇮🇳
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  6718.  @schrodinger_kot  Had the perpetrator been an Indonesian, nobody in the comments would be saying these things about Indonesians.
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  6719.  @FizZ2864  South Asians are only part West Eurasian.
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  6720. Well imo, communism simply doesn't work in real life. It could work in a village of 50 people.
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  6721. Heartless
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  6722. You're advocating for people to perish. Sickening.
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  6723. You better be careful with what you say, what goes around comes around. Karma will come knocking at your door.
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  6724. You don't like DW yet you're here on their YouTube channel questioning what's happening in Myanmar. If you actually genuinely wanted to know what was happening in Myanmar you would do your research and understand that it is true. Nobody is making this up. No need to question, when independent Burmese media and Asian media in general is reporting about it.
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  6725. That's cause they don't care about Southeast Asian Muslims.
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  6726. Nobody in Australia wants war, only the politicians do.
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  6727. The victims were migrants too
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  6728.  @blank.9301  Well it's not about race. Idk why y'all think it's about race. Colorism is about skin colour and it's about people within the same community discriminating against each other.
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  6729.  @C.Fecteau-AU-MJ13  They're sarcastic, do you seriously think they're actually being serious?
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  6730. You sound like the Indian men that get mad triggered when people bring up the issues regarding women in India. These men in these countries only care about their reputation, not the actual women that suffer.
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  6731.  @MrMannyhw  Islands don't prevent a country from becoming industralised. So many countries are industralised island nations (Singapore, Japan, Australia, the UK, New Zealand, Iceland, Taiwan etc.). The only reason Sri Lanka failed is because of corruption and their decision to discriminate against minorities.
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  6732. All countries do this, not just them. A camera is not a necessary element to be attached to a lander. These moon missions are not for entertainment, they're for scientific research. They're not supposed to be sending you live footage of it landing on the moon. Their purpose is to gather information about the moon's surface and send that information back to scientists on earth before they "expire" in around 2 weeks or however long the lander has been programmed to function. The lander has to be designed within strict weight and performance limits so if camera footage is not necessary for the mission, then it will not be included. You're sending an object out into space to gather data, the law of physics as understood on earth doesn't apply outside of earth. So you have to design in a way to make sure that a lander will be able to survive. Moon landings aren't an easy thing to do, Russia failed last year. A lot of time, effort and testing is done to make sure these objects can survive and do what they're supposed to do, gather information and send it back to earth before expiry.
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  6733. Tammy, no country is going to accept Trump's threats. It'll only exacerbate it
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  6734. Good job showing you how little you care for women's safety. Of course you're a man.
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  6735.  @ibrahimahmed8631  Yeah it originated in Pakistan but it's not done in Sri Lanka though.
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  6736. How is this supposed to be a drag against Indonesia???
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  6737. They're trying to hide his religion, that's why.
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  6738. Well kind of, the dark skinned Veddoid (South Asian-type) hunter gatherers lived in South and Southeast Asia during the Pleistocene. Then, lighter skinned East Asian farmers settled in Southeast Asia mixing with the locals to create modern-day Southeast Asians.
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  6739.  @life_is_a_myth  Also, how India and China both culturally influenced Southeast Asia from ancient times through to 19th century migration. It's actually quite interesting thinking about it all. It's like Southeast Asia is the baby of India and China. 😂
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  6740.  @GovindaDevDas-Vision-Darshana  Please respect other countries' sovereignty
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  6741. Not everybody in Malaysia is a homophobic Muslim.
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  6742. The comments are radically different to the ones found on TikTok. On TikTok, European Americans and Europeans from Europe are posting very disrespectful comments.
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  6743.  @PhilWilliam-hx6xh  TikTok is no more bad than any other social media platform (except for X which is just terrible). It just depends on what type of content you see and what you interact with. This video went viral on TikTok and so everybody had seen it. Had it not caught the attention of Euro-Americans, the comments would've been like the ones found here on YouTube.
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  6744.  @montaser9985  ...and that's why Malaysia hasn't progressed.
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  6745.  @montaser9985  Clearly not when it keeps on failing to hit its targets. Isn't Malaysia supposed to be a developed country now? It's 2021. It failed to become a high income developed nation in 2020, its original target. Malaysia is actually going backwards, that's why people continue to leave that country and move overseas, particularly to Singapore and Australia.
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  6746.  @montaser9985  When ultraconservative religious teachings dictate how nations are run then talking about religion is relevant. It can't be denied that ultraconservative religious teachings are increasingly influencing the way Malaysian society behaves.
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  6747. ​ @montaser9985  I'm speaking about ultraconservative branches of the religion imported from the Middle East that have changed people's way of thinking in Malaysia. The truth is every high high income ultraconservative Muslim-majority nation that has become a high income economy is due to exploitation of migrant workers and/or oil. You can't compare the success of UAE, Qatar, Kuwait or Bahrain to the success of Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan or Japan when the former nations have developed through oil harvesting and exploitation of migrant workers. In fact, the majority of people who live in those countries are not even local citizens but foreigners (mostly from South and Southeast Asia). The locals also do not work, that's why white collar workers are also employed in large numbers to work in these countries. In other words, foreigners are the ones that have propped up those economies. Same thing applies to places like Saudi Arabia, they all rely heavily on foreigners to keep them afloat. Their failure to control COVID-19 really showed how much they rely on foreigners. Brunei is kind of an exception. They became rich through oil harvesting but they also rely on foreign workers too, not to the extent that exists in the Gulf nations though. Another reason for why Gulf nations have succeeded apart from what I already stated is because ultraconservative Islam is native to the Arab world. It is part of the local's cultural psyche and is very different to Malaysia or anywhere else outside of the Arab world. Ultraconservative Islam is not native to Malaysia. In fact, it's supplanting the original strand of Islam practiced in Malaysia before people started adopting Arab cultural practices.
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  6748.  @montaser9985  Regressive laws in the name of conservative religious ideas permeate Malaysian governening system. Malays can only be identified as "Malay Muslim" is one such example. Malays who don't practice actively practice Islam (e.g. going to the mosque each week) or convert to another religion or become atheist can't be identified as such under law and thus are subjected to the same laws that Malaysian Muslims abide by. Bumiputera laws claim to uplift the indigenous ethnic groups but Malaysian Indian Muslims and Malaysian Chinese Muslims are classified as "bumiputera" because they practice Islam and apparently practice Malay culture and thus are "Malay" because "being Muslim and practicing Malay culture equals Malay" in Malaysian society.
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  6749.  @minegamer5680  That's why the UN Security Council needs to be dismantled
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  6750.  @christianevanherck6023  You're right but in the eyes of the US, it's irrelevant because they don't get their oil from Myanmar. Aung Dharma made a remark that suggested that the US would be interested in getting involved in Myanmar's crisis if it had an abundance of oil in light of the US military's history in the Middle East but because the US purchases oil from the Middle East, Canada, Russia and Latin America the user inferred that this is why the US won't get involved because they have nothing to gain. Honestly, in my opinion, the US won't get involved because of their history in Southeast Asia (Vietnam War) and also because China (and Russia) would most likely declare war on the US if they entered Myanmar.
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  6751.  @christianevanherck6023  I said that to @little patience who attempted to ignore China's crimkes against humanity. Now my tweet is in response to you and and I'm speaking within the context of Aung Dharma's tweet who mentioned the US. Two different contexts! Read! Stop comparing them and calm down!
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  6752.  @christianevanherck6023  ...because you literally became antagonistic for no reason? You became triggered for no reason and you're asking me why I'm triggered? I thought we were having a sensible discussion but then you started yelling at me and taking my comments out of context. Btw, they're not excuses.
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  6753.  @christianevanherck6023  Seriously what happened? Your whole attitude changed. I said nothing wrong and but you started attacking me unprovoked. Calm down, it's just a YouTube comment. If you can't stop getting upset, then don't bother replying. Talk about being triggered. Only one person here is triggered and it's not me.
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  6754.  @christianevanherck6023  Go read Aung Dharma's comment again instead of harassing me because clearly you have forgotten the context. 💀
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  6755.  @christianevanherck6023  How am I hypocrite? 💀 You're so triggered for no reason lmao
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  6756. How?? The Burmese military is literally in power right now murdering more people. So how???
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  6757.  @no5829  I'm talking to the OP, sorry their name didn't show up.
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  6758.  @no5829  I'm sorry but why? I already know that the military is the one who committed the genocide. The OP is claiming the military is paying for what they have done but that's not the case, the military is still in power and the Rohingyas have still not been allowed to go back to their homes.
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  6759.  @no5829  Hmm but that's not true. It was the military that did that. The "Burmese government" never had full control of the country, even though Myanmar had "democracy" for 10 years, the military still held seats in the government and thus were able to control the situation in the country. The military has always targeted Rohingyas since Myanmar gained independence. General Min Aung Hlaing is the one who ordered the genocide of Rohingyas.
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  6760. Yeah racism against Indians is very normalised now. Idk why Indians keep kowtowing to Westerners, y'all should've just buddied up with China and called it a day 10 years ago. America would be crying.
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  6761. @XENENEX What promise did Sri Lanka give to India? Did they promise that they are going to abide by everything India does and allow India to take control of their foreign policy? I'm asking because I don't remember any such promise.
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  6762. @XENENEX No, they delayed it and had further discussion to see what the ship was arriving.
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  6763. @XENENEX Indian and American ships dock all the time in Sri Lanka so I don't know why you're upset that a Chinese ship did the same. They didn't promise anything though.
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  6764. @XENENEX The Sri Lankan government offered the Hambantota Port on a 99 year lease to a Chinese company. It wasn't China that asked them to do this.
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  6765. @XENENEX Our Indian subcontinent? Indian subcontinent is a word of colonial origin to refer to British India (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh). That word should never be used synonymously with South Asia.
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  6766. @XENENEX Except it's not a sovereign threat, that's just an assumption. That ship is leaving tomorrow.
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  6767. @XENENEX There was no promise.
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  6768.  @jw999  You clearly do since you clicked on this video and commented on it. Say that again without crying
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  6769. You're joking right?
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  6770.  @GraniteInTheFace  I hope you know that this is how crops of this sort are harvested in many developing Asian countries.
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  6771.  @GraniteInTheFace  It's not touching the man's foot
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  6772. Palki is doing a huge disservice to the public image of India. She just can't accept reality, constantly pining after the US and being the most submissive and yet ineffectual lapdog. Stop your crying Palki.
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  6773. 1. Aung San Suu Kyi is not to blame 2. The Burmese military committed a genocide. If you think it's not a genocide then you don't know what a genocide is and you obviously support what has happened to the Rohingyas.
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  6774.  @toobalkain  1. Per the legal definition of the term? So to you what constitutes a genocide? If you think the stripping off citizenship of the Rohingyas, the burning of Rohingya villages, the testimonies from the Burmese soldiers who turned themselves and revealed that they were asked to shoot every Rohingya person they saw, man, woman, child doesn't matter as well and the destruction of any evidence that Rohingyas are people who live in Myanmar, both on the ground and at a national level, doesn't constitute genocide what constitutes genocide to you? 2. The persecution of the Tamils wasn't a genocide because there wasn't a systematic attempt to wipe out Tamil existence in Sri Lanka. Yes, Tamils were heavily perseucted (still are) and the end of the war resulted in grave human rights abuses against Tamil people but it wasn't a genocide because there are Tamils in other parts of Sri Lanka who weren't targeted. The violence in Sri Lanka was directed at the Tamil people who lived in the north of the country and to those in the capital. The Rohingya situation is different. Every Rohingya person was a target and the government didn't want their existence in the country.
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  6775. South Asia is not just North India and Pakistan There are other areas in South Asia that don't suffer from this issue.
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  6776. LOL
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  6777. The cheap labour is in Asia
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  6778. Well
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  6779. Cry harder
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  6780. You clearly have no idea what is going on in Malaysia and western Indonesia.
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  6781.  @samehalaa1348  Gulf Arab countries are rich because of oil and the foreigners that work there, not comparable at all to Malaysia or Indonesia that have risen up on their own.
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  6782.  @samehalaa1348  The Gulf sponsors terrorism activities and wahhabism in other parts of the world. So not even comparable.
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  6783. Not problematic he says as if the Bali bombings did not happen...
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  6784.  @ajarofmayonnaise3250  India is one of the biggest arms suppliers of the Burmese military.
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  6785. Maybe stop being dramatic. These men cherry picked examples, some of which are from years ago, to make it seem like things are going down hill but the fact is that most of the people in Japan are not immigrants at all but temporary migrants and most of them are from other Asian countries.
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  6786.  @SurajSingh-xo4gi  No because not all countries are interested in swallowing up and controlling other countries. 💀 Only power hungry countries do such things. India cries about China's expansionism but they're claiming the whole of South Asia belongs to India and have already encroached into Nepalese territory in recent years. They want to make the whole world believe they are the victim but they're doing the exact same thing. Nuts.
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  6787.  @JUSTFORFUN-cd5dd  The whole of South Asia does not belong to India. India gets upsets that China is encroaching into Indian territory but then they do the exact same to other South Asian nations. I'm not from Pakistan, maybe understand the fact that India has a very negative perception around the world and do you know why that's the case? 1. the significant gender imbalance which results in more men and women (we constantly hear of gang rapes and violence against women in India committed by men and 2. the nationalism that engulfs the country, like what's going on here). I really like India and its culture but my gosh, the nationalism from the men can be so suffocating that even I develop an aversion to it at times. Do better.
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  6788. ​ @charvaka5705  It does not.
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  6789.  @vaisakhvij9601  It is definitely called "South Asia". It most definitely is not called "Akhand Bharat" though. Stop thinking the whole of South Asia belongs to India. You get upset with China but then do the exact same thing! How ironic is that? How hypocritical is that? I'm an Australian with a colonial attitude? My family originates in South Asia. I have every right to talk about this issue because my ancestry is tied to Asia. 17% of this country's population is of Asian origin, we have been here since the colonial times. Go read about the Asian immigrants that came here to work as pearl divers, traders and gold miners. Asian origin people have been in this country for centuries. Stop making this about "white/western". For once in your life, stop using the race card to undermine people's opinions and blame White people. While China is leaping ahead, you're here still blaming the White man. Pick yourself off the ground and change your destiny instead of constantly blaming others. We don't live in colonial time anymore, why are you constantly blaming White people for everything as if they're holding you on the ground? They're not. Cry.
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  6790.  @vaisakhvij9601  No it doesn't. Calling out irredentism is not the result of Western mentality lol
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  6791.  @vaisakhvij9601  How are you going to sit here and claim they're all part of India but then get upset when China claims parts of India belong to China? Make it make sense.
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  6792.  @b11-x3o  I'm not of Bangladeshi descent 😐
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  6793.  @b11-x3o  I'm not of Bangladeshi descent 😐
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  6794.  @vaisakhvij9601  No, you're claiming they're all Indian and belong to "Akhand Bharat" which means "undivided India". Cultural similarities are not what you are talking about. That's why you refuse to use the term "South Asia" because you believe in Akhand Bharat, Indian irredentism and Indocentrism. It's the exact same belief the CCP believes in.
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  6795.  @b11-x3o  East Asian economic model (led by Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore - even though that is actually a Southeast Asian nation). The economic model was adopted by Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and now Bangladesh. India seemed to be on that track too in the 1990s but they're too protectionist.
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  6796.  @b11-x3o  Well they're developing, that's for sure. After facing genocide, becoming an independent nation and then becoming what was known as a "basket case", they've managed to develop rapidly in the decades since 1971. They have a thriving garments industry that has allowed for women to enter the workforce and finally have a place in a male-dominated society. They have an emerging electronics industry and have capital that they can use to invest in the infrastructure of their nation. They're called a new "Asian Tiger" for a reason. This is the same economic model that East Asian nations and Singapore used and one that is currently being used in parts of Southeast Asia. It's development through cheap labour in manufacturing that services the world, primarily developed world. You start off with cheap goods like textiles (e.g. fast fashion) and as you get richer, you move into electronics manufacturing (which are more expensive, e.g. chips and smartphones) and as you progress you move into high end sectors as the demand for cheap labour decreases because your population is primarily middle class and do not want to work in low paid jobs anymore. That's why Bangladesh has achieved so much in a short amount of time. They understand what works for them. Maybe if you stopped hating on your own neighbours, you wouldn't have to ask such questions.
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  6797.  @vaisakhvij9601  Okay so now I understand that you don't feel that way (and at least those around you don't feel that way) but that doesn't mean there aren't people in India who do feel like a very large part of Asia belongs to them. The RSS is one example. They publish maps showing South Asia + Tibet + Myanmar as parts of India. I have also seen people use that Akhand Bharat map in their pfps so people like that do exist, even if they don't form the majority. It is those people I speak about in regards to all of my comments and not about you or anybody else who know what ancient India (Bharat) actually is.
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  6798.  @aparichitthestranger7907  So in other words you're telling me you're upset at what I said? Okay got it
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  6799. 121 replies in 6 days? A lot of triggered people it seems.
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  6800.  @hemalbhatt4055  There are by those who believe in Akhand Bharat.
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  6801.  @hemalbhatt4055  I agree with this. China and India have shown restraint and I actually hope one day they can work together for the sake of stability in the Asia-Pacific. I also hope India always remains neutral and does not side with the US in regards to war-related matters.
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  6802. @Handsome ladka You using your Indian slurs against me aren't going to mean anything to me FYI. I don't speak your language but I know what means because my Indian friends use it against each other so joke's on you. Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka having been under the rule of Indian empires does NOT mean they are part of India. They are their own entities. Russia was under the rule of the Mongols does that mean Russia is now part of Mongolia? South Asia is South Asia. stop claiming other countries as your own.
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  6803. ​@Handsome ladka Yeah because they were never part of India! STOP claiming other South Asian countries as your own! The only areas in South Asia that were once part of India are Pakistan and Bangladesh but they are independent nations. Respect the sovereignty and the identities of South Asian countries. I really don't get it, y'all scream about China but then do the exact same things that they do! What is the meaning of this?
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  6804.  @sportsunplugged009  Firstly, speaking to me in Hindi means nothing to me if I can't understand. Secondly, you're so triggered that you called me a mosquito. Angry Indian nationalist, what's new? Thank you, next!
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  6805. @Handsome ladka I'm not Bangladeshi, so you wasted all that time typing all of that out. I didn't even read it FYI.
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  6806. @Handsome ladka The term "Indian subcontinent" was coined by the British to describe British India (India+Pakistan+Bangladesh). It did not ever include Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Myanmar etc. Thailand, Indonesia etc. are all culturally influenced by India. Are they part of the Indian subcontinent too? Be serious. It has nothing to do with tectonic plates...
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  6807. @Handsome ladka There was a word for Bhutan back then (it's of Tibetan origin). So stop claiming them. They're NOT Indians.
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  6808. I don't think China and India are silly enough to start a war.
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  6809.  @daicekube  The idea that China and India are going to war doesn't seem to be true, at least not atm. That's my point.
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  6810.  @sahilsingh6048  The Buddhist calendar is not the Vikram Smvat calendar, that's what they're saying.
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  6811. No they won't. The Burmese government-in-exile led by Aung San Suu Kyi is the only political entity in Myanmar that actually supports giving citizenship back to Rohingyas.
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  6812.  @raitc8661  India is not a developed country...
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  6813.  @raitc8661  You inferred it when you responded to Carnival Beast's comment
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  6814.  @raitc8661  It makes sense. Your comment is the one that doesn't make sense. If you know India is not a developed country then you wouldn't have spoken about it.
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  6815.  @raitc8661  Read the OP's comment. They want a developed nation to invade Sri Lanka. India is not developed so why would India invade Sri Lanka? That's not what the OP wants.
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  6816.  @raitc8661  Doesn't change the fact that India is not a developed country and in all honesty, even though I don't like the CCP, China can't be compared to India. The Chinese obviously have an advantage due to their rapid economic development.
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  6817.  @This_tub  cause these are Americans
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  6818. and how is that supposed to achieve anything?
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  6819.  @blueizumi  Right? The men in both India and South Korea have similar mentalities, these Korean men like user 이대녀 act like they're innocent when they're literally mistreating women. Istg women in some of these Asian countries need to be freed from these men. SAVE ASIAN WOMEN.
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  6820. That's very true
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  6821. You have to took at it from the perspective of these countries though. Large parts of Asia, especially coastal areas, face threats from climate change so sustainability is very important to the people of these countries. The issue with Sri Lanka's fertiliser ban is that the government banned it without any warning to farmers and did not import the necessary ingredients to produce organic fertiliser within the country. So after there were protests from the farmers, the government revoked the ban but farmers had lost money and could not acquire chemical fertilisers destroying the crops they had grown.
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  6822. The ban on chemical fertilisers would've worked if the government genuinely cared about the environment and its people. They should have phased out chemical fertilisers like you would do with anything else but the government banned it in one go which is an incredibly detrimental thing to do.
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  6823. India claiming that its neighbours are part of India is exactly what China is doing (but not nearly as severe because they aren't claiming entire countries). You know, people who live in glass houses should not throw stones...
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  6824.  @Cha4k  No, they're not part of this.
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  6825. What's the difference though? India's fertility rate is already below replacement level as of 2021 (2.0) and in the urban areas, which is where most of the educated live, their fertility rate is 1.6. So the average Indian woman is not having enough babies so there is no harm done in encouraging all women to enter the workforce. They don't have much time left anyway with their shocking demographic projections and brain drain.
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  6826. Except DNA is not the same. Kabul is a totally different area, they're Central Asian in genetics not South Asian.
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  6827.  @charlesharris9965  They're actually neo-Nazis, not nationalists. There is a big difference. They are officially part of the Ukrainian army and have inflicted violent racism towards various groups in Ukraine such as the Romani. The White supremacist that committed a terrorist attack in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2019 spent time in Ukraine due to the wide influence of the neo-Nazis in the country. Ukraine raided the homes of neo-Nazis following the terror attack in New Zealand and discovered guns, explosives and ammunition. American media reported on all of this until 2022 when the war began. Then the media refused to speak about it because it goes against their personal beliefs.
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  6828.  @robertconklin3850  Negotiating about what? To accept American hegemony and threats? The US needs access to all of these markets and put 100% tariffs on goods coming from China and the US is going to struggle big time. Have fun trying to buy the latest iPhone, TV, computer, laptop, tablet, clothing etc.
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  6829. Their government stole their money, it's not because of China lmfao
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  6830.  @zchris87v80  What has any of that go to do with sexuality? What you're talking about are pronouns which are related to gender.
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  6831.  @rcane6842  Good
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  6832.  @TheZodiacz  None of those nations are in East Asia
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  6833.  @VanceKarpenter  Slavic Russia is not Asian
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  6834.  @Interknetz  Well they're right to be saying all of that cause of what y'all did.
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  6835.  @Interknetz  You think any of this would have happened had y'all just minded y'all's business??
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  6836.  @tidedetergentyummy  Jungle
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  6837.  @Interknetz  Go back and read what you said
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  6838.  @randombaddie1767  It really applies to most Muslim populations in South and Southeast Asia. The only ones that are somewhat devoid of this Arabic influence are those in Myanmar and maybe Nepal.
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  6839.  @prisciliamellark95  I think you are offended
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  6840.  @littleboss2006  They have a point. Many Muslims in South and Southeast Asia believe to be Muslim you have to become Arab. That's why they also love to claim they're Arab descendants and forgo the traditional South/Southeast Asian interpretation of Islam (influenced by Sufism) with Arabic-style Wahhabism.
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  6841.  @freydy4598  They aren't going to disappear because some Genshin fan used a hashtag💀
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  6842.  @freydy4598  They have been here longer than Islam has been in existence
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  6843.  @MissOmomomomo  Ethnic slurs? shame on you and the fact that you opened this account in 2009 proves you're old af. Grow up and stop being racist!
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  6844.  @Luca-nq4gy Oh cry harder.
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  6845. Indians always engaging in whataboutism
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  6846.  @skipper2594  Those 800,000 "Indians" are people brought by the British, they are just as much Sri Lankan as the Ceylonese who live in Singapore and I know Sri Lanka is more developed, that's why it's in this position unlike other South Asian nations.
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  6847.  @Pike737  The Tamils in the US are not Sri Lankans, they're Indians.
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  6848.  @mklmo831  Remittance to India for their extended families??? Malaysian Indians have been living in Malaysia since at least the 18th/19th centuries. The country of India didn't even exist when they settled in Malaysia. They don't have any familiy members there. Don't just make up nonsense. You sound so xenophobic. It's this way of thinking that proves why Malaysia is so backward. You're a racist and xenophobe so much to the point that you'd make up lies about your country's citizens. I'm not one to say this type of stuff but your language has made me decide that it needs to be said. Give it up. The whole world knows how you people treat the Malaysian Chinese and Malaysian Indians, who let's face it, are more successful than the Malays. There's a reason why the Chinese and Indians of Singapore played a leading role in transforming Singapore. Just look at the founding fathers of Singapore, they were all Chinese/Peranakan or Tamil.
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  6849.  @mklmo831  Remember that the most successful nation in Southeast Asia is a country where Chinese and Indians/Tamils have dominated the government since independence. The Malay representation in the Singaporean government is so poor they had to appoint a Malay presidenta few years ago. When Singapore was transforming in the 1960s the government literally had to aid the Malays to get out of poverty because they couldn't keep up with the Chinese and Indians, who were far more successful. The founding political fathers of Singapore, the four men who are responsible for Singapore being a developed nation, are of Chinese/Peranakan and Tamil descent. Think about that. Be humble because anybody that has done research on Malaysia and Singapore knows this. We all know what academics have said about this.
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  6850.  @sps6  China's economic rise
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  6851.  @sps6  China's economic rise
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  6852.  @sps6  Economic rise
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  6853. Exactly, the reason he doesn't want to go back is because he's probably from the LTTE (which is a defunct terrorist group)
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  6854. He waived his rights to anything when he did those things. He needs to stop disgracing beautiful Sri Lankan people and return home. There are so many gay people in Sri Lanka and literally gay tourists travelling around Sri Lanka without any issue.
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  6855. Why should Sri Lanka join India? Why do some people think the answer to solving problems is for a big country to take over a small country? That is not how you solve thing. Aren't you the ones decrying the invasion of Ukraine by Russia but now you're asking for a big country to take over a small country? 🤦‍♂
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  6856.  @artus198  Indian subcontinent is a name of colonial origin and only a few hundreds years old and never described the entirety of South Asia! Indian hegemony, no wonder anti-Indian sentiment is rising across South Asia and Myanmar. Y'all believe the whole of Asia belongs to India. The whole of South Asia is not India, understand that. Nobody calls it Indian subcontinent unless you're a Hindutva believer.
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  6857.  @artus198  I do understand what Hinduism and I merely stated the word "Hindutva" and you're throwing a tantrum. I literally said "Hindutva believers", nothing negative but you're here throwing a tantrum. Like I said, nobody goes around calling it Indian subcontinent except for Hindutva people.
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  6858.  @artus198  Did you read my reply? I said "Hindutva believers", I said nothing else so I don't know why you're obsessing over that word. If you're this pressed over my using that word then obviously I've hit a nerve. Like I said before, Hindutva people are the only people who think India owns the whole of South and Southeast Asia.
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  6859.  @artus198  Like I said before, the Indian subcontinent is a term only used by Hindutva because they want to make everything about India.
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  6860.  @artus198  So you're cussing me out in your language because I spoke the truth. Go cry.
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  6861.  @royjacobs1204  Those are punishments. They're being punished because the decisions they made as sovereign nations were not accepted by the Global North. That's what happened to Bangladesh. Bangladesh abstained at the UN due to its close relationship with Russia and it was punished for it by Lithuania. Lithuania announced it had stopped the shipment of COVID-19 vaccines to Bangladesh because Bangladesh has decided to abstain. Apart from the fact that it's really wrong to politicise humanitarian assistance in the middle of a pandemic of all things and for Bangladesh deciding to abstain, it was also wrong to punish Bangladesh because the reason it abstained is because the Soviets had supported Bangladesh in its war of independence and had provided assistance to the country in the aftermath of the Bangladeshi genocide (which the US was shockingly actively supporting and encouraging because the US and Pakistan are allies). By punishing Global South nations it gives an image that their lives are not worthy, that they're expendable and recent events seem to prove that. They have every right to remain neutral and not be targeted by the Global North for their right to decide for themselves. They shouldn't be bullied or coerced into picking sides and following the rules of other nations. This tactic that has been employed forever is the reason why alliances break and why the global order is changing as we speak. The Global South is not a league of poor recently independent post-colonial nations, they now have China leading them with all of the BRI projects and trade that occurs as well as the vocal power of China, not to mention the roles of India and the BRICS in general (e.g. the deep economic impact of China and India on Africa).
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  6862.  @royjacobs1204  "And other individual nations or alliances have every right to judge those decisions and react accordingly as they see fit" Then they prove that they are just as bad as the country that they are fighting or competing against. The issue is that China does not portray itself as a "good country". It is very much aware that the country has committed crimes against humanity (which the world knows about) and thus is in a position where it does not judge other countries for the things they have done (which is why China is able to to business with every country, including other countries that have committed crimes against humanity). The US and the rest of the West on the other hand are not like that. Despite the shocking things they have done (including crimes against humanity), they present themselves as keepers of morality and goodness and that what they do is for the benefit of others (which is extremely US-centric) but in the same breath will punish countries that don't agree with them but you're okay with that to the point that you call it "guilt tripping". This type of attitude is why the global order is changing and the US is in part to blame for everything that is happening. You believe it's okay to punish other nations for remaining neutral and obviously this attitude is pervasive at the highest level in parts of the West but that attitude does nothing but bring more harm and unwanted change. If a country wants to remain neutral and refrain from getting involved in a conflict happening on the other side of the world, they should be allowed to do that not be punished.
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  6863.  @royjacobs1204  Criticised, judged doesn't have an effect on a humanitarian scale. It's when punishments are enforced like refusing to send a donation of COVID-19 vaccines which is wrong. Chinese friends? You're telling me that the CCP are my friends even though I told you earlier that I do not support the CCP? I'm speaking with logic and refusing to pick sides right now because I'm looking at it from all angles. I can see what's wrong on all sides.
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  6864.  @sebtonz1  Actually China is not new to this "wealth and power" idea. Before the Age of Exploration and European colonisation, China and India were the richest states in the world and China had a very vast tributary system (almost the entirety of Asia was once part of China's tributary system). The wealth of the Chinese and Indians is why the Europeans like Columbus went looking for "the East". What China is trying to do with its 21st century wealth and power is to recreate Imperial China's glory (e.g China's territorial disputes and get justice for China's "Century of Humiliation") as well as ramping up its pro-Asian and anti-American rhetoric in order to cultivate sympathisers across Asia who believe in Asian integration and feel wronged for the actions committed by outside powers.
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  6865.  @royjacobs1204  Firstly, Bangladesh abstained, meaning they are neutral and in no way are supporting anybody. They abstained. Abstain is not showing support. Secondly, your contempt for the lives of the Global South is paramount. You talk of "jeopardising" the way of life of Europeans and Americans, but are indifferent to the destruction the US/UK/EU has caused to the Global South. So it's okay that 3 million Bangladeshis were murdered and faced genocidal rape by Pakistanis with strong support from the US or the thousands of Korean, Sri Lankan, Nepalese, Filipino and other Southeast Asian women trafficked into working as sex slaves on US military bases in Korea in the 1990s but when destruction happens in a part of Europe (excluding the Balkans because the rest of Europe and the US simply do not care about that region either) you want the whole world to fight your war. That doesn't sound fair. Thirdly, we are in a global pandemic. You really think preventing shipments of COVID-19 vaccines is only going to hurt the Bangladeshis? It's going to hurt the whole world because this pandemic will continue to be prolonged and more variants will emerge and more destruction to the entire world. It's in the interest of the world to end this pandemic not politicise it because a distant Asian country decided to remain neutral. This type of behaviour only sends these countries into the arms of the CCP. You know, I shouldn't be surprised by these statements. The true feelings of the US and UK/EU have come forward (and I make a clear point to exclude Australia and NZ because even though they are Western, they are not part of this global power struggle) through their response to Ukraine and the mainstream US/UK/EU mainstream media. While China and India asked to temporarily waive IP so that they could make Pfizer and Modern vaccines to give out for free to developing countries, the US and the pharmaceutical companies said "no". It's so clear to see.
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  6866.  @royjacobs1204  Thirdly, we are in a global pandemic. You really think preventing shipments of COVID-19 vaccines is only going to hurt the Bangladeshis? It's going to hurt the whole world because this pandemic will continue to be prolonged and more variants will emerge and more destruction to the entire world. It's in the interest of the world to end this pandemic not politicise it because a distant Asian country decided to remain neutral. This type of behaviour only sends these countries into the arms of the CCP.
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  6867.  @royjacobs1204  You know, I shouldn't be surprised by these statements. The true feelings of the US and UK/EU have come forward (and I make a clear point to exclude Australia and NZ because even though they are Western, they are not part of this global power struggle) through their response to Ukraine and the mainstream US/UK/EU mainstream media. While China and India asked to temporarily waive IP so that they could make Pfizer and Modern vaccines to give out for free to developing countries, the US and the pharmaceutical companies said "no". It's so clear to see.
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  6868.  @royjacobs1204  Thirdly, we are in a global pandemic. You really think preventing shipments of COVID-19 vaccines is only going to hurt the Bangladeshis? It's going to hurt the whole world. It's in the interest of the world to end this pandemic not politicise it because a distant Asian country decided to remain neutral.
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  6869.  @royjacobs1204  The true feelings of the US and UK/EU have come forward (and I make a clear point to exclude Australia and NZ because even though they are Western, they are not part of this global power struggle) through their response to Ukraine and the mainstream US/UK/EU mainstream media.
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  6870.  @royjacobs1204  The true feelings of the US and UK/EU have come forward (and I make a clear point to exclude Australia and NZ because they are not part of this global power struggle) since the Ukraine War began.
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  6871.  @TheGreenZone4  It's true though. Look at the stats.
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  6872. Asia is the face of three major demographic decline crises. The first being the rapid fertility decline across parts of the region, especially in East Asia, Singapore and Thailand, the second being the rapid aging crisis which is affecting East Asia, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam and Sri Lanka and the "get old before they get rich" crisis that is affecting certain middle income developing nations in South and Southeast Asia like Thailand, Sri Lanka and Vietnam as explained by The Economist last year.
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  6873.  @amalksuresh2538  Well I haven't, could please send it to me? Phenotype is not how you define whether a group if related or not. This isn't the 1940s.
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  6874.  @Sigma3095  Sinhalese formed in Sri Lanka from an East Indian-related lineage that intermixed with the ancient indigenous groups of Sri Lanka. Saying Sinhalese are from India is like saying Vietnamese are from China or that we're all Africans. Indian is a nationality, it's not an ethnic group.
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  6875. No surprise that you support the Burmese military
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  6876. Nepal and Sri Lanka were never a part of India, remember that. Respect their sovereignty and heritage please.
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  6877.  @Internetspider  They were not separated from India. They have always been separate. They've never been a part of India. India is India because the British colonised the entire area. The Tamils of Sri Lanka are not Indians. They are indigenous to northern Sri Lanka and have their own culture and language. Sri Lankan Tamils are distinct to the Indian Tamils that were brought by the British to work on tea plantations.
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  6878. The Nazis liked the Japanese, which is one of the East Asian groups that this 18 year old believed to be superior
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  6879. @ Are Chinese in mosques in Malaysia? No. The victims would be Malays.
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  6880. A UFO stands for unidentified flying object. Why are you immediately equating that with aliens?
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  6881.  @ShieldStun  I'm simply stating how it is officially identified. They don't know what it is so it's literally an UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT. So instead of calling us names, calm down and understand things at the most basic level for crying out loud.
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  6882. ​ @ShieldStun  Calm down. I can't believe you're unleashing your anger on me because I merely stated what UFO stands for. Insulting my intelligence, claiming I have low IQ and all sorts of things. What is wrong with you? Do you suffer from anger management issues or something? Calm down, it's not that deep. With all of the problems in the world, you're attacking me because I simply defined what "UFO" stands for. Talk about having an IQ of 5. Not to mention you misspelling "acronym". The joke's really do write themselves. Do you scream and insult strangers like this in real life? Normal people don't start hollering and screaming at people because someone simply defined a word. I was part of the school debate club and no matter how contentious the topic was, nobody behaved like you. Pick up a dictionary and learn the meaning of "civility". Come back to me when you know how to convey that.
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  6883.  @AbuHajarAlBugatti  Still waiting for the day that Singapore has its own Korean Wave, Taiwanese Wave or Hong Kong martial arts film/Cantopop trend. It's the only Asian Tiger economy without any significant pop culture influence. They should've done better to capitalise on "Crazy Rich Asians" back in the 2010s or they should partner with South Korea and create Singaporean girl groups that sing in English in the Kpop style, like that Japanese girl group that debuted (can't remember their name). Thailand's doing so much better in the pop culture department than Singapore, they even have girls from South Korea, China, India and all across Southeast Asia, including Singapore, competing in reality shows trying to debut in an Asian girl group that's based in Thailand and what does Singapore have? Nothing.
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  6884.  @AbuHajarAlBugatti  English is the main language of Singapore, it's also the unifying language of Singaporean people who are mostly of Chinese, Malay and Indian descent. They aren't going to lose anything if they followed the Kpop formula and also, Singapore is a country that is known as "east meets west" city because it is a mix of Asian and Western influences. Kpop is also not completely Western, they sing in Korean and their aesthetic is clearly based off of Korean ideals. Also, cultures develop. You can't expect a culture to remain the same for 3000 years.
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  6885.  @AbuHajarAlBugatti  Also, I brought that up because there is, once again, growing interest in Asian singers that perform in English. So Singapore has everything if they want to boost their cultural influence.
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  6886.  @masterkraft4746  Don't conflate matriarchy with toxic femininity espoused in the West, they're not the same.
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  6887. Watch the video again.
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  6888. I'm guessing you haven't said a single thing about what's currently happening to the Rohingyas. Probably don't even know what's happening.
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  6889. Now why would you spread lies?
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  6890.  @gentleboyier4518  I don't know what you think you're achieving by trolling.
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  6891. You put "America bad" in quotation marks as if it's a lie when in reality, it's the truth. There is no "good" and "bad" in all of this. Everybody is to some degree good and bad. I think you're also severely underestimating China. I live in the Asia-Pacific and let me tell you, Chinese influence is everywhere. China is so influential that they are influencing institutions like universities and governments in countries like Australia and Thailand.
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  6892. Is Christianity a traditional part of Chinese culture? No. It's foreign and has no place in Chinese society.
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  6893.  @clairee4939  There are three main beliefs in classical Chinese culture: Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism. They are referred to as the Three Teachings and are all compatible with each other.
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  6894. No, mainstream media exposure will increase this ideology.
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  6895.  @pluto8404  Try using Google next time. Sri Lanka only has a population of 22 million while Canada has 40.1 million people. That is almost double Sri Lanka's population. Sri Lanka also has the lowest fertility rate in Sri Lanka predicted to stand at 1.4 and a rapidly aging population. Sri Lanka's population is set to begin facing population decline in the next 12 years. Overpopulation? In what universe??? Taiwan has a similar population to Sri Lanka and is of similar size.
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  6896. @ They see India and think every single nation in South Asia is overpopulated
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  6897. @ No it's not overpopulated in terms of wealth distribution. Wealth distribution is simply poor and there are a lot of other factors involved as to why the country is poor, one reason being the extreme ethnic issues ruined cross-ethnic relations leading to people in the north being poorer than the ones in the south. Taiwan has 23 million people and of similar land size, it's not overpopulated.
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  6898.  @jatingodhwani1916  The caste system is keeping India down, Jatin
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  6899.  @dangychoice7800  I feel bad for Indians like you that want India to develop but the people around you don't have the same mentality and outlook like you. It must be very frustrating
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  6900. The way this agreement is merely symbolic and actually means nothing in practical terms. This just reminds me of the USA's history of empty gestures and options put forward to counter China, they're just words or symbolic gestures like the IPEF - they don't mean anything.
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  6901.  @grindcorizer6818  Are you aware that there are Christian Rohingyas who have been attacked and now live in refugee camps too? This is due to historical reasons dating back to WW2. Imagine blindly supporting the Tatmadaw who are murdering children, including innocent children playing in the street in the capital Yangon.
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  6902.  @anupamsatpathi2071  Why are you upset?
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  6903.  @jirachi-wishmaker9242  The Burmese people want Asia to stop recognising the legitimacy of the Tatmadaw regime.
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  6904.  @jirachi-wishmaker9242  People want other Asian countries to support the general public, help them bring down the Tatmadaw.
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  6905. The West doesn't want India and China to become partners because if they did, it would be complete catastrophe for them. The West already knows that China has significant and economic influence and for India to choose China would bring an end to a lot of things that the West hopes to achieve with India. It may also send a message to the rest of the Asian region that hedging between powers is no longer needed if the two most populated nations in the region have decided to work with each other.
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  6906.  @TamascalPyro  India has always been non-aligned. They aren't just going to join a US-led military campaign.
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  6907.  @oatlylatte9  They are neutral. They play all sides and that's why they're fearful that one day they will be asked to choose a side: US or China because they fear for the survival of their nation. It's a very potent issue in the country and K. Shanmugam, Singapore's Minister of Home Affairs said a year ago, "Singapore must not let other countries dictate what it does".
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  6908.  @hsk5828  Let me guess you're White
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  6909. Why are you talking about the US??? This is about Asia. Stop making everything about the US . We are not talking about the US, we are talking about China. China is the bully of Asia. Don't say otherwise when those of us that live in the Asia-Pacific are fully aware of everything the Chinese government does every year.
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  6910. Look at the rest of her face, it looks like hyperpigmentation.
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  6911.  @rodrozil6544  Many other ethnic groups in Myanmar like Shan, Kachin and Karen have faced persecution too. Maybe stop making this about genetics and appearance (an extremely Nazi Hitler thing to do) and learn about the history of Myanmar!
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  6912. With all due respect, no it can't because it would mean Sri Lanka and the Maldives would have to rank a lot higher but the positions they received in this video makes sense.
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  6913.  @ayaankhan-eh1xy  Where do you think it should be placed?
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  6914. No Rohingyas are Burmese. There was no issue with Rohingyas people until the British invaded Myanmar and bribed the Rohingyas to fight alongside the British instead of letting the Rohingyas side with the other Burmese during the Japanese invasion. That was the starting point and Rohingyas were always seen as traitors by a section of the Burmese community. You should read about the divide and conquer strategy that European colonists used. That's why most of Myanmar's ethnic minorities are fighting with the military and why ethnic minorities continue to be persecuted by the military. Same thing that happened to the Rohingyas is also happening to the Shan, Karen, Kachin and so on.
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  6915.  @_gho0sty_  It's a hate crime
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  6916. Transgender people in Malaysia face so many hardships. Acting like Malaysia is some peaceful nation like Thailand or the Philippines for trans people.
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  6917. In Asia, broadly speaking, it's pan-Asian features. Eurasians seem to have these features at a higher rate but plenty of full Asians with predominantly East Eurasian ancestry have these features too. This is why certain Asian people like Dilireba, Chinese actress of Uyghur descent and Aria, Indian Kpop idol have gained popularity or gone viral purely for their "pan-Asian" features. There were two mixed Indian-Japanese women that went viral on TikTok recently and people from around Asia were saying they could become popular actresses in Asia because of their pan-Asian features.
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  6918.  @olasek7972  No they're quite literally correct. Asian countries thrive under authoritarian regimes, Sri Lanka was once thriving under an authoritarian regime in the early 2010s but the effects of the ethnic civil war were still evident. All of the developed Asian countries have emerged under authoritarian regimes. Western democracy does not work in developing Asian countries, only developed ones.
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  6919.  @brentsaddress  and there you go again
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  6920. The term "third world" arose during the Cold War that remained non-aligned. Don't know why anybody would still use it.
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  6921.  @Xfishf00D  What does NATO have to do with Southeast Asia? NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, it applies to the countries of North America and Europe.
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  6922. Muslims have been a facet in Thai society for hundreds of years. They are Thai Muslims and there is no problem with them,.
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  6923.  @morganjonasson2947  ...because Thailand is not Sweden. There is no desire or need to learn English in Thailand. What is there to achieve by learning English in Thailand unless you plan on going to Singapore or Australia to study? it doesn't make sense to me to compare Sweden or other Scandinavian countries (where there is a popular desire and drive to learn English) to Thailand (which is not a Western country either). At least since last decade, Mandarin became the most popular foreign language to learn in Thailand. Mandarin is actually quite popular in a lot of Asian countries (Philippines, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Cambodia etc.) - it makes sense as China is a very influential nation in Asia these days and will continue to do so this century. Ethnic Thai aren't the only people who live in Thailand, there are many Thai Malays too and ethnic Chinese were assimilated into Thai society and learned to speak Thai per government orders. Thai is the lingua franca of the nation and an emblem of a unified Thai culture.
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  6924. @KrO Well to be fair this video does talk about Asian Americans and that includes more groups beyond East Asians.
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  6925.  @Nielson941  BTW, taxi drivers are not high earners. I think you're relying on stereotypes here because it's obviously those in white collar industries like STEM fields that are the reason for their high median household income. IQ is not something you ought to bring up because if you know what the Flynn Effect is and if you compare the performance of ethnic Indians to places outside of India, you'll understand that IQ is not something that is fixed.
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  6926. Yeah and the comedian made a joke too. He's Malaysian and one of the main groups of Malaysia are ethnic Indians. Malaysia is a mix of Malays, Chinese, Indians and Orang Asli groups and is known as "mini Asia" or "Malaysia Truly Asia" because Malaysians are descendants of people from different parts of Asia.
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  6927. Oh Malaysia, you could have had it all. You've made great strides since the 1990s but you're still not a high income developed nation. Plug that brain drain and stop yourself from falling into the middle income trap.
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  6928.  @adamdaniel8909  Singapore was expelled from Malaysia in 1965 and at the time there was a need to show its neighbours that it wasn't a country worth invading.
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  6929.  @adamdaniel8909  Idk why you think in 2024 Singapore is trying to defend itself from Malaysia. 💀
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  6930.  @adamdaniel8909  So no, it's not "one word: Malaysia". Go read Lee Kuan Yew's book and learn.
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  6931. if you're indocentric that is
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  6932.  @oskarjung6738  I didn't think much of it until I saw your comment but now I'm honestly trying to figure out why he didn't talk about Indians and why they may not suit his "agenda" because he did mention Vietnamese and Nepalese as migrant groups that succeed in the West.
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  6933. no
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  6934. What exactly are you winning? I think it's time you take off those rose coloured lenses and look at the way the world sees you. Nobody takes y'all seriously, even when India achieves something good like its moon mission or its mars mission, it's met with ridicule and revulsion. Viral videos on the state of India's development ranging from its street food, to the treatment of women, girls and female babies to the issue of open defecation and cleanliness go viral on a daily basis on international social media. In 1 year, India's international image has been ruined simply by a plethora of horrific viral videos of street food in India on TikTok (the most used international social media app). Racism against Indians is now normalised to such an extreme extent that it has entered the mainstream internationally. Pakistan has a better international reputation than India now. Sorry but you're not winning anything Vishesh.
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  6935. Don't forget average US citizens have said so many hateful things about y'all on TikTok. They're even creating fake accounts on TikTok pretending to be men from India to increase hate against y'all by saying creepy things to women.
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  6936. and here we have another example of a non-Asian American who is expressing fear at the success of an American with Asian origins. You're like Amy Wax who peddles the "Asian elite are a threat to the US" agenda.
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  6937.  @johnji3537  The Burmese government in exile wants to reintegrate Rohingyas into the Burmese nation. This year, there was a viral internet movement called Black4Rohingya where Burmese people showed support for Rohingyas. The attitudes of many, particular young Burmese people, has changed towards the Rohingyas. They were fed lies by the Tatmadaw but realise they were lied to when the coup took place.
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  6938.  @indiannation2117  Not true, sorry
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  6939.  @halffolk21  The US has never been an ally of India. They have been allied with Pakistan and supported Pakistan in the 1971 war Pakistan fought against India. Be serious
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  6940. Myanmar was never a pure democratic nation. If you think Aung San Suu Kyi being elected proved pure democracy was in the countyr, then you're mistaken. Myanmar was only a partial democracy. The military still held power and their influence was pervasive during that period despite "partial democracy" claims.
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  6941. Yes there is, it's a mix of Chinese, Malay and Indian influences. There are dishes in Singapore (and Malaysia) that you can't find anywhere else like curry mee and mee goreng mamak.
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  6942. Muslims live in large numbers across South, Central and Southeast Asia and western China. Did you know that? So why is this a surprise?
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  6943.  @CalvinLimuel  It's because most of their ancestry is associated with a Basal East Asian (Tianyuan-related) lineage which derives from the broader East Eurasian lineage that covers all of Asia, except the Middle East, and Oceania.
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  6944.  @JohnnyChau-w7q  Mexicans carry significant levels of East Eurasian ancestry which is found in most Asian populations, including Indians and Vietnamese, as well as European ancestry. The mix of European and East Eurasian ancestry makes them look like they could be from other countries.
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  6945.  @torleah  What was helpful about what he did?
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  6946. Aww we spotted the racist who will never hold a candle to this boy. That boy has more success in his pinky than you x100. He's not even ethnically Indian. Imagine trying to be racist but not doing it properly lmfaooo.
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  6947.  @UnimportantAcc  and what's the problem with that? A white collar Indian doctor is better than a white man weeb refugee.
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