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Munrock
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Comrade, that amount of humidity is normal in many parts of the world.
The British have colonized parts of the world where people work in these conditions on the daily, but they didn't take any knowledge of how to live and work comfortably in this kind of heat back home with them because the British solution was "make the locals do it", hence the Schadenfreude.
The US has already done so much harm to my family in the Philippines by propping up Marcos Sr., and now this.
They are monsters.
If anyone watching that decides to check out the books or the Tencent version then it's a win.
Everything the Netflix show does to reinforce inherent Sinophobia is just a drop in the bucket compared to what Westerners get in their daily diet already. If libs choose between 100 different kinds of garbage when they watch Netflix I'd prefer them watching the kind that will see some of them picking up a Liu Cixin book.
They get turned into AI art
Honestly it wouldn't surprise me. I'm pretty sure Washington's current string of geopolitical strategic blunders and failures is a result of their fellating themselves with their echo chamber media so much that they started swallowing their own bullshit.
Soviet Designer: I'd lose my job if I designed something that would break within 2 years.
Capitalist Designer: I'd lose my job if I designed something that didn't need to be replaced in 2 years.
Firstly, while i am no expert on the subject, it appears to me that this is a clear legacy of colonialism. Secondly, judging by how many modifications the Vietnamese alphabet has, all the various diacritics and tone indicators that are necessary to make it work, this would suggest to me that the Latin alphabet is just not a good fit for the specific phonology and tonal nature of the Vietnamese language.
This is correct. France's particular style of colonialism was particularly aggressive about erasing native languages and forcing them to adopt French. Do an image search for a map of Francophone countries and you can see the scar they left across West Africa, for example. In Vietnam, they were starting to use Latin alphabet as an alternative to using Chinese characters before the French came, but the French pushed them towards exclusively using the Latin alphabet as part of their process of converting them to Francophones.
There's not really a historical writing system to re-adopt - the Chinese character system and its derivatives are just as 'imported' as Latin, and I think if you go back earlier than that there's multiple cultures and ethnic groups and not really a unifying language on the peninsula.
I'm not sure why the Vietnamese haven't created a new writing system, but I know they've considered it multiple times and chose to stick to what they have. Completely switching the writing system is a lot of work. Shifting the infrastructure and education systems and planning a transitional phase where both systems are used is a huge effort on top of everything else the new government had on its plate.
The second last paragraph in the article is lowkey saying China is stealing Uyghur's Sun! They just can't resist the urge to editorialize.
"You keep saying how we're all one big family, so give me a share of the business ownership and add my name to your will."
It depends on my mood.
Black coffee when I'm about to start something I enjoy.
Latté when I've just finished something I don't enjoy.