Asian Culture Discussion Thread

[wj4]

Americans know how to "leverage" workers. We are not the brightest but we think outside the box. Not until recently, the thought of entrepreneurship in Asia countries weren't really well perceived as risk is involved and failure is unwelcome where as in the USA failing is ok.

My step sister is in high school. She was born and lived in Thailand. Moved to Australia several years ago to become fluent in English. Now she's trilingual, Chinese being the third one. My younger sibling, step brother, is the same. They don't want the kids to have too much free time.

Job competition is fierce. You need a college degree just to work at a mall job. I see this is where this country is going since even admin jobs now require a bachelors.

The biggest gripe I have with countries that thrive on tourism is that a lot of the expats coming in feel like they're above everyone else. And the locals put up with it. Last time I went home in 2011 or so, a British cat bumped into me and tried to square up and was yaking at the mouth thinking I didn't know English and would just take it. He apologized when he found out otherwise.

 

[EddieDoyers]

it's crazy out there.

when i would visit during the summer on my break when i was a kid, there aint no such thing as summer vacation.

kids getting tutored til like 7-8 pm every day.

Dawg most of my summers from 6th to 11th grade I went to a tutoring center or SAT boot camp for at least 2-3 days a week
And this was in SGV

 

[QU!K]

Shoutouts to Chinese school, extra math equations, and tae kwon do

 

[wj4]

Shoutouts to Chinese school, extra math equations, and tae kwon do

Our newest intern is in the 11th grade from Arcadia high school in the 626

 

[EddieDoyers]

Our newest intern is in the 11th grade from Arcadia high school in the 626

I was working at 99 ranch market in 12th grade
Talk about overachieving

 

[shogun]

This high school kid was interning at my brother's job. He was the son of an employee. He gave no dambs about the work experience, his intentions were to take pictures of yet to be revealed Star Wars characters in the art department when no one was looking and post them on reddit. His dad was fired the next day and the company got an angry call from the Star Wars / Disney people.

 

[EddieDoyers]

This high school kid was interning at my brother's job. He was the son of an employee. He gave no dambs about the work experience, his intentions were to take pictures of yet to be revealed Star Wars characters in the art department when no one was looking and post them on reddit. His dad was fired the next day and the company got an angry call from the Star Wars / Disney people.

I bet that kid got whipped by the bamboo stick once he got his dad fired

Unless the kid was white

 

[QU!K]

Shoutout to

 

[shogun]

I usually got hit with slippers and belts.

Since there was math talk earlier, I remember trying to do math homework in grade school and my dad yelling at me until I cried because I couldn't get the right answers to some of the problems.

 

[sunshineblotters]

Yup totally agree
Kids are only taught how to take tests, not tools that matter in the future.
My aunt sent her kids to a private school because of public school's lack in actual teaching.

Not to mention participation trophies :x

If my kid brings home one of those, it's going straight in the garbage.

 

[EddieDoyers]

Not to mention participation trophies :x

If my kid brings home one of those, it's going straight in the garbage.

Wait...they have those now?

 

[sunshineblotters]

Yup and James Harrison has the right idea about them

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/1...ids-participation-trophies-says-awards-earned

 

[unkn0wn]

 
The American education system is a joke in general.

My parents were telling me about kids learning Calculus in 6th grade in the home country. Kids over here in 6th grade struggling with multiplication and using their fingers to add.

Aced all my college math courses and I still use my fingers brah 

 

[DCAllAfrican]

Question about food. It seems many East Asian cultures eat a lot of pig and cow. Is chicken not eaten like that? Why is that? No disrespect

 

[luckyluchiano]

Question about food. It seems many East Asian cultures eat a lot of pig and cow. Is chicken not eaten like that? Why is that? No disrespect

I would think their ancestors ate what was availible to them.

 

[JPS]

I would think their ancestors ate what was availible to them.

this. In the PI, pork and fish are actually the main source of animal protein.

chickens and cows were brought to the PI by spaniards.

we have carabao, a type of buffalo.

 

[shogun]

My aunt wrote about how they had chickens in their backyard when she was young. For dinner she's the one who had to grab one of them and kill it then prepare it.

 

[JPS]

My aunt wrote about how they had chickens in their backyard when she was young. For dinner she's the one who had to grab one of them and kill it then prepare it.

lol yea man. you always see what u are gonna eat. really makes you appreciative of the food.

 

[QU!K]

I dunno what y'all talking about, i can name like a thousand chicken dishes

 

[JPS]

I dunno what y'all talking about, i can name like a thousand chicken dishes

ok name them since you're so smart.

we are talking about what indigenous. DC asked a valid question.

dude tombout a thousand chicken dishes 

 

[Nawzlew]

i ate a lot of chicken dishes growing up.

 

[JPS]

i ate a lot of chicken dishes growing up.

u guys talk to your parents about the food culture growing up?

its crazy how canned food plays an integral role for filipinos... all the jokes about spam.

really humbling to hear.

 

[frink85]

I'm living in the PI, and it's mostly chicken, fish and pork. Every part of it. The blood the intestines errrythang.

From what I've heard/been told, beef isn't as abundant because of space. It's sounds silly but cows are big and take up a lot of farm space. All of the decent cuts of beef you see in the market or restaurants are imported from Australia.

 

[JPS]

I'm living in the PI, and it's mostly chicken, fish and pork. Every part of it. The blood the intestines errrythang.

From what I've heard/been told, beef isn't as abundant because of space. It's sounds silly but cows are big and take up a lot of farm space. All of the decent cuts of beef you see in the market or restaurants are imported from Australia.

what part of PI u from bro?

 

[frink85]

what part of PI u from bro?

I'm from SoCal but I live in Manila