Comments by "Angry Kittens" (@AngryKittens) on "Asian Boss"
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It has nothing to do with how old it was. It was because India (specifically the Dravidian-speaking southern India) was one of the very first people contacted by Austronesian sailors (which happened at around 1500 BC). They introduced coconuts, bananas, sugarcane, betel and areca nut, ginger, and so on to India. In turn, India influenced the closest Austronesian states, "Indianizing" the Malays, Javanese, Sundanese, Acehnese, and so on. The Philippines is a bit further from India, so the Indian influence is less strong, but it's still there, largely due to trade contacts with Indianized Malays. Still, like Bali, some states in the pre-colonial Philippines were Hindu-Buddhist. Most notably, the Rajahnate of Butuan.
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@marko3096 And your solution to that is to punish prostitutes, fine them, cast them out, beat them up, and/or jail them? Driving them even deeper into the underworld and criminal organizations to survive? THAT is the final nail on the coffin.
In countries where prostitution is legal, there are no human traffickers, no girls being forced, they can choose their customers, choose the location, their prices, and all in the safety of full legal protections including police who treat them as people, not as monsters.
Tell me a country where there is ZERO prostitution and I'll show you a magical unicorn who makes all your wishes come true.
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@sunen7129 Let me illustrate it this way: in my immediate circle of family, friends, and acquaintances. I know around 20+ women who married foreign men, including one of my older sisters who married an American.
Only around a third were by online dating. The rest met their husbands while they were working or living abroad. All of the men are either North American, European, or Australian, including an aunt who married a Black American while working as a teacher in the US (she was already a US citizen when they got married).
Most are from financially stable middle class families, half got married in their 20s, the rest when they were older (the oldest being in her 40s). 2 ended in divorce (all online daters), because they couldn't get along. The rest are still married, most with kids. Most married men of roughly the same age, with longest age gap being I think around 10.
I do not know anyone who married a South Korean or Japanese personally. I know a few from social media, but that's it.
Like how does this even fit with the narrative that they're just marrying for money or because of racism?
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Yes No North Korea has no slums. Are they a rich country? Nope. Their people are literally starving.
Slums are a natural part of the industrialization of densely populated countries. It's the result of internal migration. When the rural population starts moving en masse to cities in hopes of finding jobs. Especially in countries like the Philippines where the economic center is just one city. It's a problem virtually all cities face. They disappear naturally once a country catches up with social welfare and/or spreads out its economic centers to other areas of the country.
If you think only the Philippines has slums, think again. Most countries have slums (even highly developed ones like South Korea, the US, or China). They're just better at hiding it, and they sure as heck don't make videos of it. Bangkok has slums. Jakarta has slums. Paris has slums. Dubai has slums. Los Angeles has slums.
Authoritarian governments especially can demolish slums and force people to move with little or no consequences, hence why they seem "cleaner" and "richer" outwardly. China for example, does slum demolitions right up to this day. Their term for slums is 城中村 (chéngzhōngcūn, literally "rural villages in the city" - which is a very accurate name). It doesn't fix the poverty problem, but it sure makes them look like they don't have one. Another example is Kuala Lumpur, which used to have slums, before the government forced them to move to low-cost apartments on the outskirts of the city where you can't see them.
The Philippines is a democracy. Thus removing slums by force is not looked upon favorably, hence why we have more problems dealing with it, than countries which can just kick citizens out.
But yes, I know we have to help them. But not in the way that Mark is doing where he is selling our country's dignity, to the point that people like you look down on us like we're cockroaches. We need LONG-TERM solutions, like housing, long-distance public transport, jobs, and education. You don't solve poverty by giving 2 sacks of rice and making videos of poor people.
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@KIBRSIFR No. It's a different native language, one of the dozens in the Philippines. It's not even closely related to Malay. It belongs to the Borneo-Philippine branch of the Malayo-Polynesian languages, and is closely related to (like the original poster observed) Gorontaloan, Minahasan, Sangirese, etc. in Indonesia and Dayak, Dusun, Kadazan, Murut, etc. in Malaysia.
In contrast, Malay belongs to the Sunda-Sulawesi branch, along with Buginese, Javanese, Sundanese, Balinese, etc.
Malay to us Filipinos sound like a shortcut version of our languages. Especially since Malay does not have tenses. Your verbs look "frozen" to us.
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@L L Oh really? And which cultures would these be, pray tell? China? India? The Roman Empire? Mesopotamia? Ancient Greece? Fun fact: none of them have ever been monolingual and are still not monolingual, even to this day.
Moreover, half of the technologies China is claiming (like rice cultivation, jade carving, water buffalo and chicken domestication, etc.) are technically Southeast Asian, since the entire southern half of China were the homelands of the ancestral Southeast Asians (OUR ancestors) that the Chinese empire invaded about 2000 years ago. They assimilated those technologies, the Han didn't invent them.
And that, dear sir, is why it seems like major contributions all belong to large empires. It's not because they invented them. It's because they conquered, assimilated, and collected the various achievements of smaller ethnic groups. Achievements and discoveries that would not have been possible in the first place without the diversity that birthed them.
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@limbus_patrum "Psychological gratification is the usual motive for serial killing, and many serial murders involve sexual contact with the victim. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) states that the motives of serial killers can include anger, thrill-seeking, financial gain, and attention seeking, and killings may be executed as such. The victims may have something in common; for example, demographic profile, appearance, gender or race. Often the FBI will focus on a particular pattern serial killers follow. Based on this pattern, this will give key clues into finding the killer along with their motives"
MOTIVE is what differentiates a serial killer from a mass murderer or a spree killer. You don't call mass shooters "serial killers" even if they murder 3 or more people. do you?
Serial killers usually don't know their victims. They don't kill because they need money, or they had a fight, or they want revenge, or someone paid them to do it. They kill for personal gratification. And that motivation is simply rare to nonexistent in homicide cases in developing countries.
Note that I am not sugarcoating crime in developing countries. Homicide is still pretty common. The point is that most of it is motivated by something else.
Again, look at mass shootings. Why is it a quintessentially AMERICAN problem? A lot of developing countries have similar access to guns. Especially in Latin America. They have gun violence, a LOT of it (usually gang-related), but they don't have the random mass shootings like the US does.
The excuse that first world countries have better policing and investigative capabilities doesn't work for that as well.
The opposite is also true. Honor killings or clan wars do not exist in first world countries.
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@Cxs1a3 Also every single country in Asia is a developing country, with the only exceptions being Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea. "Developing" implies exactly what it means. Not what you THINK it means.
It's funny how you're so adamant in declaring us impoverished, as if you NEED someone to look down upon.
Yet you're talking to me right now. Do I sound impoverished to you? I come from the actual typical Filipino family. I'm from one of the other islands, a long way away from Manila. I'm a college graduate, I have a job, a car, a house. My parents are farmers with a family business. I have family members who emigrated abroad as well.
Read the other posts by the other Filipinos above. I'm willing to bet they too come from the same background as I do. As do almost everyone I know in real life.
The urban poverty in Manila has never been the "norm" for the vast majority of Filipinos. Yet so many of you who have never even visited the Philippines, think that's how all of us live.
And you act so threatened when we try and correct you.
I LIVE HERE. You don't. Learn to spell "Philippines" first.
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