We’re going broad with this one given the population and the size.
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
Appreciate it mods. The other posts were also in good fun. Nothing outrageous.
There was one comment that was derogatory, but in hundreds, that’s pretty low
Why is any of it necessary tho? Reddit is over that way —>
Women are smart, capable, and equal.
Central and West Asians really aren’t ready to hear that.
neither are Yoon’s little fascist youth sadly
and apparently neither are the pissy korean american boys on Reddit too
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.
That covers the germs and steel. Where do the guns factor in?
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.
Can anyone name me a display of wealth, real or attempted, that isn’t just wasting resources?
In this case it inadvertently kept people alive
I haven’t heard of it, but I guess it makes sense. Like, it’s not uncommon in the US to drink hot coffee in the morning when it’s cold out if you’re camping or in an outdoors environment that’s hard to heat up. Delivers a big slug of heat directly to someone. But there’s no real reason that it has to contain caffeine.
I don’t know about Korea or other places, but Japan traditionally didn’t go in for house insulation, aimed to use the kotatsu rather than heating the living space as a whole.
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
Some people who like to drink tea after a meal are fine with just sipping hot water if tea isn’t available.
People in China drinking hot water in summer is equivalently weird to Americans drinking ice water in winter.
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.
Everything I’m finding on Google is saying Morocco, with scientists suggesting we probably evolved all over Africa.
What was more in central Europe?
The earliest record of humans, it was pretty recently discovered.
Do you mind providing a source ? I’ve been reading fascinating fiction on the subject of early humans (by Jean M Auel) and I’d love to know more
I might have misread it but I’d previously heard Africa and somewhere in the middle east (Ur, current day Iraq was a big city)
I’m gonna need a link for that cause that makes no sense at all I’m the context of all other finds.
AFAIK, the “out-of-africa” hypothesis isn’t so much based on skeleton findings.
It’s more based on some thoughts. One of them is that africa has a “high genetic variability” which they see as proof that humanity originated there, even though i doubt the soundness of that argument.
The second reason is some kind of racism: “if africans are really inferior beings, that must be because life originated there and emigrated and africans simply stayed behind in both space and development.” (not my thoughts)
Ironically in the 19th centuries Europeans were all clamouring to have definitive proof that Homo Sapiens evolved within their borders to prove that they were the greatest and most fully evolved humans.
Out of Africa had to work pretty hard to become accepted.
And is very much based on skeletal records.
Nice down vote, you can go find it yourself now (or remain ignorant, I don’t really care if you learn anything new or not).
That’s unfortunate, since many of would find that fascinating reading. I remember reading something similar but more like: there was a wave of migration to central Europe much earlier than expected
Everything I just looked at still puts Affrica as origin
Although I don’t remember reading …. Each wave of migration out of Africa was different hominids. They all coexisted for a long time but eventually the hominids from the last wave succeeded and the others died out
Looks like it might have just been a poorly written headline but the earliest stuff I’ve heard in the past was either Africa or Middle East:
China: Stop trying to make the mandate of heaven happen. It’s not going to happen.
Japan: If you’re worried about population decline, maybe you should be less shitty to foreigners who want to live there.
Korea: Your music industry is uncomfortably close to slavery. And despite America’s best efforts, you still have the closest thing to a government owned by corporations.
Southeast Asia in general: I am sorry you are stuck being the Middle East of the Far East.
Addition to the above, since someone pointed out that my Korea comment appears to assume a South Korean default:
Best Korea: Your
musicindustry is uncomfortably close to slavery. And despite America’s best efforts, you still havethe closest thing toa governmentowned by corporations.
It’s OK to run a fan at night
Nice try Big Fan.
corn does NOT belong on pizza
and corn isn’t street food
fuck corn
It is when it’s elote.
Corn on those Asian buns though.
Hard disagree. Pizza can have whatever you want. And corn is delicious it all forms.
and corn isn’t street food
I disagree. Corn in Mexico definitely works as a street food. Also, I just realized this, but I wonder why corn didn’t pick up as street food in Chicago and Indianapolis.
I’ve definitely had street corn in Chicago.
Same shit I’d tell Americans: Germany is more than beer, lederhosen und nazi history
I agree, it’s unacceptable to forget Bavarian dresses.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mechanically separated meat is sold and served in Europe and Asia.
Biggest cope in the past 10 years, here …hahaha
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
Subway in Europe does the veggie pattie and that is fire. Can’t find that automatically in non-Europe Subways.
Idk about Asia, but I’ve been to McDonald’s in Germany and it tasted exactly the same as home.
When I briefly lived in China one of the first things expats would ask is if you’ve tried KFC yet. I don’t eat meat but almost every Westerner I met raved about how much better fast food is in china.
I used to get fast food fries occasionally in Australia, then stopped when I moved to the US cause the quality was much worse. I started again Taiwan.
Translation: Post stuff you hate about Asians, but it’s not prejudice.
China is the USA of Asia.
This is supposed to be a burn against asian countries as an American in devastated 😭😭😭
Western is not better, don’t leave Asia
i would say neither better nor worse, just different
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.
About South Korea and bigotry - is it really worse than Japan?
y’all racist as fuck!
