Comments by "Angry Kittens" (@AngryKittens) on "Asian Boss"
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The main theme among some mainland Chinese commenters seems to be "everyone else borrows words, we're special, because we don't", while ignoring all the perfectly logical reasons why the Chinese language tends to be incompatible with other languages and their systems of writing, as well as the fact that it is extremely difficult to tell at first glance whether an (old) Chinese word is a loanword or not. Due to its monosyllabic nature, as well as the fact that the Chinese writing system is not phonetic.
I bet none of them even realize that the Chinese words for non-Han technologies that they later assimilated were all initially loanwords. Including the words for "rice cultivation", "chicken", and "elephant". All of which have been historically "Yue" (Austro-Tai, Hmong-Mien, and Mon-Khmer) technologies, from an area that is now the lower Yangtze to southern China (the Han are originally from the more northern region between the Wei and Yellow Rivers). Technologies that the Han acquired when they conquered the Yue.
For example: the Old Chinese word for "river" (specifically the Yangtze river) is *krong. It's derived from Proto-Mon-Khmer *rung (cognates include Proto-Viet *krong and Mon *krang). Modern derivatives in Chinese include Cantonese gong, Hakka kông, and Hokkien kang ; and it forms part of the name of the island of Hong Kong.
To a layperson, those words look totally Chinese today. But they're not. The native Old Chinese word for river is shuǐ (specifically the Yellow River, as opposed to the Yangtze; it also means "water").
Regardless of what their current government wants them to believe, China was never isolated. It absorbed words from other languages just as other languages absorbed words from Chinese. This isn't a competition on whose language is purer than anyone else's.
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@yellowbeez93 Are all the people punished by shariah rapists then? LOL. No. What's more hilarious is that in a lot of Muslim countries, including Indonesia, male rapists don't get punished. It is the female victims who get punished for "premarital sex". After all, the testimony of a man is worth more than the testimony of a woman in shariah.
Remember that woman in Aceh who was gang raped in 2014 by eight men, while her companion was tied up and beaten? Her rapists, her ACTUAL RAPISTS, as in the eight men who raped her, took her to the Shariah police (the Wilayatul Hisbah) and reported her for premarital sex.
Instead of being treated like victims, she and her companion were punished with nine lashes.
And what about that student who was raped by three Shariah police officers after she was caught riding on a motorcycle with her boyfriend? Also in Aceh.
I can give you hundreds more examples of rape being done in the name of shariah, or victims of rape being punished by shariah. A lot more. Including the 5,000 women who are killed through honor killings by their own fathers and brothers EACH YEAR, which are extremely common in the Middle East, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh.
Don't make me laugh with your moralizing. Rapists get punished in non-Muslim countries with secular laws just fine, you don't need shariah for that. Meanwhile, in shariah countries, the rape victims are the ones punished.
Under shariah, in your example, your daughter will get caned for premarital sex. While your mother and your wife will both be stoned to death for adultery. Don't worry though, you, as a man, and their rapists will probably not be punished at all.
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@hildegrade777 I repeat what I said earlier: "They controlled the people through local rulers they subjugated, not by controlling the people directly. They were viewed with hostility, not admiration." The European powers never directly controlled China, instead they forced China to give them trading cities using military threat. The same with Japan and Korea. So no they weren't "colonized" in the same way as the Philippines and certain parts of SE Asia like the White Rajahnate of Sarawak were.
The claim that colonialism had a huge impact on these countries and thus influenced their beauty standards therefore flies in the face of the fact that the natives in those countries never liked the colonial powers and never actually interacted with them much. Japan literally fought WW2 on the excuse of removing colonial powers from Asia. While China had the Opium Wars and the Boxer rebellion and finally the cultural revolution (which also erased thousands of years of their own culture). Korea, before it fell to Japanese control was isolationist like Japan. All of them persecuted European influence, including the spread of Christianity.
And I stress again, the Europeans in China, Japan, and Korea during the colonial period were ridiculously tiny in population in comparison to the countries they were trading with/controlling, and they were restricted to enclaves like Shanghai, Hong Kong, Macau, Dejima, Geomun, etc.
While they had a very large technological impact on these countries, the average citizens in these countries have never seen white people. So how exactly do European standards of beauty affect them when they've never seen them in the first place?
Heck. Europeans were seen as DEMONS, not people to be looked up to or worshiped. The words Gwailou, Gaijin, Guizi, etc. are all insults. Not words of praise.
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@theheavenlyoption Here. I'll give you a list answer that I've written in reply to another commenter. It should give you an idea of why Filipinos here are angry at the Philippine correspondent:
1. The rallyists were arrested for violating rules against congregating in public. They were putting themselves and others at risk. They were NOT arrested for asking for help or food. Seriously, we're in quarantine, and you organize a crowd and expect not be arrested?
2. ALL families are getting food rations. We just received ours a few days ago, and we're a middle class family.
3. Poor and middle class families are getting cash assistance.
4. Workers not being able to work are getting additional cash assistance from the labor department.
5. Cops will only arrest you if you violate curfew. You are allowed to go out and buy food and supplies.
6. The banning of public mass transport varies by city. Some areas have allowed certain transportation to continue operations to service people with no personal vehicles. There are also scheduled FREE transport for the elderly, minors, and health workers without personal vehicles in some cities.
7. Banks, supermarkets, wet markets, and other essential industries remain open.
8. Supply ships, planes, and trucks are allowed to pass through checkpoints.
9. People carrying humanitarian supplies are ALLOWED to pass through checkpoints.
10. The special powers Duterte has been granted is temporary. It is also not special, but is part of the emergency powers during a national crisis. The powers allow him to take over private hospitals, public utility businesses, and public transport, temporarily as needed. That's it. It doesn't allow him to "do everything" like the correspondent said. Not even shoot people, no matter what he says.
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