Those who live outside Asia. What are things Asians are not ready to hear.

Women are smart, capable, and equal.

Central and West Asians really aren't ready to hear that.
- I live in west Asia and I agree :3

It's OK to run a fan at night

Nice try Big Fan.

My hot take: saving face and thinking that winning by cheating is the same as winning are toxic culture traits

Clarify please
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_(sociological_concept)
  Keeping up appearances at all costs accumulates moral debt and leads to monumental failures down the line. Everyone knows the senile boss is about to make another mistake, but the nail that sticks out gets hammered down, so everyone shuts up until bankruptcy and suicides.

BREAD DOESN'T NEED TO BE SWEET. Please. Especially not cheese toast.

Asian here, I came in thinking there was nothing I could read that would hurt. Then, first comment.
I want sweet bread, what is it called 🥺
- Cake
- It's just called bread.
Live in Japan and seconded. It can be sweet, but making it all sweet is just missing out on so much.

You folks are just as racist, sexist, and bigoted as Oklahoma.

You work too much. Your work quality suffers because of it. Studies have shown the optimum amount of time to do serious mental work in a day is less than half of how much you all work since childhood cram schools.

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2023/10/surprising-benefits-four-day-week/

Y'all migrated out of Africa like the rest of us.

~~Turns out it was more in central Europe according to the latest discovery~~, but we are all human regardless of where we started.
Edit: Never mind, it was only 1.4 million years ago: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/ancient-stone-tools-found-in-ukraine-may-have-been-used-by-early-humans-over-1-million-years-ago
The second part still stands though.
- What was more in central Europe?
- Everything I'm finding on Google is saying Morocco, with scientists suggesting we probably evolved all over Africa.

Your curry sucks.

No, not that other Asian country's curry. That one is really good.

YOUR curry sucks.

Why is it like that and way different from that other Asian country that tastes way better?

You may enjoy Japanology Plus - Curry.
- I went for the pictures of Japanese curry but spent most of the video thinking the narrator had an unexpected accent ….. eventually, shit, that might be an American accent to her English

Flash-news.

Plastic is not biodegradable.

McDonald's and fast food restaurants are looked down on in many western countries. Flexing you're eating at McDonalds to westerners is like saying you don't know what quality looks like.

McDonald's only uses pink slime in the US. Other countries health standards require real food to be served. So that flex is actually understandable. Their McDonald's is actually good and relatively healthy all things considered. I can't imagine eating McDonald's over there your entire life only to realize one vacation that your country has the superior fast food.
- I can assure you is that all of the fast foods ive been to in europe, all tasted like shit. except for kfc and taco bell. Subway is the most egregious offender, 9 euro for a 15 cm sandwich is straight up theft. It wasnt even good, just the most mid turky sandwich ever
- Mechanically separated meat is sold and served in Europe and Asia.
the mcdonalds here in hong kong are fuckin sick compared to the ones i've been to in the US and Canada.
some of the juiciest fried chicken i've ever had, and the seasonal shaker fries are hella rad.

In a world where we think of climate change and national debt as Western worries, Asia's dirtiness is enough of an absolute eco-hazard to warrant its own kind of debt if the rest of us thought the same way.

The same rivers Rama and Krishna bathed in could today kill you, and China has enough air pollution that the smog from Los Angeles blows over from there, more or less the same way sand from the Sahara fertilizes the Amazon.

China has enough air pollution that the smog from Los Angeles blows over from there
I think you meant to say:
"China has enough air pollution that the smog from there blows over to Los Angeles"
- Yes, sorry. Said that in reverse.

I have never met someone raised outside of Asia that has ordered a glass of hot water to drink as-is. I have no idea why this habit is so wide spread among people raised in Asia and it baffles me.

Hold on for some Jared Diamond-ass reasoning.
Before sanitation rules, very broadly: Europe made alcohol to make potable water whereas Asia boiled it and made tea. When there’s no tea available or fitting your tastes, the water still needs to be purified, so drinking hot water was still a common practice which has stayed around as an aspect of culture.
- Minor addition:
  In Europe, to make drinks like beer you had to boil the mash, which unknown to them sterilized the water, which made beer generally safe to drink.
  In east asia, as you mentioned tea was a common drink. But before that there were numerous herbal remedies that had to be boiled and served hot as well. People who drank the herbal remedies got better (mainly because hydration and clean drinking water are important factors for well being). Other than attributing the recovery to just the herbs, they also attributed it to the temperature.
  So lacking tea or herbal drinks, the ancient chinese believed drinking hot water was somehow beneficial to the body. Add that to the fact that many who drank cold untreated water fell sick, you can easily see how the myth developed.
  Another side note. Hot water is expensive (fuel wise) so drinking hot water was a sign your family was comparatively well to do and something a lot of villagers emulated in an attempt to show that the family was well off.
- That covers the germs and steel. Where do the guns factor in?
I think it's rooted in a belief that consuming something so cold is bad for the body somehow. Meanwhile I'm sure they eat frozen desserts.
- I know of two ways it can be. You know how the body fights infection with a fever - well I have some chronic inflammation in the gut that is exacerbated by cold exposure, and the gut becomes more leaky after going out in the winter. Tyramine from aged foods leaks into the bloodstream, causing various symptoms. I drink hot water now.
  The other is
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiopathic_cold_hemagglutinin_syndrome
- Yes, body dampness. It's old Chinese medicine and it's believed cupping helps draw out body dampness. Among other things.
People in China drinking hot water in summer is equivalently weird to Americans drinking ice water in winter.

Some of ya'll are the most racist people and China is, like, the Texas of Asia. I think of people living in China the same way I think of people living in North Korea: How horrific, I wish them luck.

Also, WTF South Korea. All I hear is how sexist and fucked up you are. I don't hear anything good about living there, and the fact that some of those cheabols haven't been assassinated yet is beyond me.

Improving your driving license quality would save so much money by reducing worker deaths.

y'all racist as fuck!

Mod Comment: Fair's fair. The Americans copped it sweet, so it seems like it's someone else's turn. Just keep it within the rules, especially rule 1.

Did someone report this? Figured since we did Americans and Europeans, Asians were fair game too.
- Yep

Same shit I'd tell Americans: Germany is more than beer, lederhosen und nazi history

Experiencing the world through a camera lens is not how it's meant to be

Western is not better, don't leave Asia

i would say neither better nor worse, just different

This time you eat paper, next time you'll eat glass. And boards not hit back. You're not a Tanaka and kiss my converse.