ResoluteRaven
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ResoluteRaven
7d ago
I mean, there's still a significant fraction of Americans (maybe a third of the population and disproportionally older/rural) who always keep their shoes on indoors, and to people from certain other cultures this behavior really does feel like the equivalent of shaking someone's hand after sneezing in it or dipping it in mud, so it's not that surprising.
ResoluteRaven
8d ago
As far as I can tell, the rise in anti-Indian sentiment is a Canadian phenomenon (due to their own particular failures in immigration and housing policy) that has metastasized within the online right but not within the wider American public, which still has about the same opinion of Indians (tech nerds who smell funny) as it has for the past several decades. I've spent plenty of time around 1st and 2nd generation Indian immigrants and had very few bad experiences, at least of the sort worth generalizing. There are perhaps some ways in which they are less assimilated to American culture than other immigrant groups e.g. wedding traditions, but that's about it.
ResoluteRaven
8d ago
I prefer my kids will have good childhood at cost of some boredom as teenagers (boredom is supposedly good for intellectual growth anyway). Hopefully they are ready equipped to handle some adult excitement when they are adults.
In college I noticed that my classmates who had grown up in New York were generally more responsible and less likely to get into the sorts of trouble that a naive suburbanite would. Now, it certainly had more to do with parenting style than the nature of the built environment, but the latter sort of kid was notable for their paucity of life experience and inability to deal with interpersonal conflict. Personally, I went from living in a third world country to an American exurb at age 8 and the latter was so mind-numbingly boring that I have no memory of anything that happened in my life, good or bad, between then and high school.
ResoluteRaven
8d ago
The New Urbanists are having about as much success restricting single family development as Hamas is at destroying Israel.
ResoluteRaven
18d ago
I have the Orion Scenix 7x50 and they work pretty well for most uses I can think of. Nikon and Celestron are good brands as well. I also bought a pair of solar filters to look at the eclipse last year and they were a big hit at my watch party.
ResoluteRaven
19d ago
I found that a good pair of binoculars was a better entry point to amateur astronomy than a cheap telescope. They are more portable, you can still get nice views of things like Jupiter's moons or the Andromeda galaxy, and they are handy for other hobbies like birdwatching if you get bored and want a change.
ResoluteRaven
19d ago
I have relatives who speak three kinds of Chinese. Growing up, they spoke one only with family, another was the local vernacular, and they learned Mandarin at school. In all likelihood I will be the last person in the family to (barely) speak our ancestral tongue, but if I'm lucky one day I will have children who can deploy a few choice insults, like Sopranos characters spouting broken Sicilian phrases. Otherwise I appreciate the benefits of linguistic standardization, up to a point i.e. everyone being monolingual anglophones would be boring as hell to me.
This is for the most part true, however there's a small but growing cohort of younger supporters of unification, in part because they're envious of all the shiny new infrastructure on the mainland, but also because the main pro-independence, DPP-voting cohort has aged out of being the cool young rebels and become everyone's cringe parents or teachers who can be triggered by loudly claiming that you identify as Chinese. This group more or less occupies the same ideological niche that the dissident/extremely online right does in American political discourse these days.
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