Nationalism-fueled history

[Tee Kay]

edit: never mind

 

[Virote_Considon]

and meetings where everyone else is taught that the Chinese invented everything.

I see you've never been acquainted with Zheng He.

 

[cybrxkhan]

...Chinese Checkers...

What's wrong with that?

Unless if it's Asian-only, of course.

 

[Terrance888]

I'm Chinese. I shun the Chinese-Superiority movement.

BTW, every East Asian nationality is allowed to hide in the CSM's shadow; Koreans, Vietnamese ect. However, the Japanese are never allowed to participate with the other 'Asian' groups.

EDIT: They claimed that the Chinese Empire not only spanned the entire world with some dude name Zhang He's voyage of tribute collection, but also the moon.
Zhang is an enuch. He sailed the Indian Ocean instead of using middlemen. Nice accomplishment.

 

[aronnax]

Chinese checkers aren't even chinese... It was a German invention...

Just curious, Terrance888, can these Chinese club members even speak Chinese?

 

[Terrance888]

About half of the ethnically chinese. Heck, I probably spent more time in China than all of them combined. Their Chinese is ok, but it is almost perfect mandarin; sorta like how the Chinese news-people speak it. I speak it well enough without sounding like a robot.

Right now, my agent/friend just posted/called me about their latest plans to buy treasury notes and then give them to china, so that China somehow owns the government. Our local chapter is also trying to blackmail our principal into making them a club with funding by hacking him.
I loled. (Even now, a majority of American debt is still "american" or "domestic") and (I bet the Japanese will counterhack them just out of spite). They get hyped, use all their supposed hyper-intelligence. Life goes on.

The half which are actually American Citizens and are in the club vow to join the Chinese Army if they ever knock.


The only reason Revere is safe so far is because actually smart chinese-americans like me don't try to sell that. What my friends and I buy is none of anyone's business, but we don't sell the fact that China once and will soon own all everything. Also, a bunch of the hyper-active club members are seniors, so hopefully that will take some wind out. We can accomplish so much more for the world without stupidly-hyper-nationalism.

 

[CELTICEMPIRE]

The Welsh invented chariots, Metal-working, and a host of other military technologies, the Romans and other Civilizations stole these technologies, though.

 

[aronnax]

About half of the ethnically chinese. Heck, I probably spent more time in China than all of them combined. Their Chinese is ok, but it is almost perfect mandarin; sorta like how the Chinese news-people speak it. I speak it well enough without sounding like a robot.

On a different ask-an-Overseas-Chinese note.
How is Chinese culture and festivals represented/celebrated in America?
The major holidays like the New Year, Mid Autumn Festival, Qingming Jie?
What about Chinese foods and snacks like mooncake, juehua tea, Rou-gan, shark fin, steamed dumplings etc?
Does the community descend more from Northern China or Southern China?
Eating with chopsticks? Rice almost everyday? Hongbaos? Reunion dinners? Oral traditions like the Zodiac race to the Jade Emperor, the Night of Sevens, the origins of Dragonboating Festival, Chinese Creation Myth, Chinese mythology - Su Lu Kong - Sima Guang, Three Kingdoms etc.
How are they represented?

 

[Terrance888]

Sure. I was born in the states though.

1) Generally, only major, traditional holidays are celebrated by a community. I.e. not much of that Chinese Communist "Unification" week celebrations going on last week on the mainland. In America, we usually invite each other into our houses. The parents talk about their kids disrespecting their culture while the kids do a mixture of playing video games or surfing the TV, with those bringing their own games being surrounded by followers.
2) For New Years, most still try to make time to watch the official Festival. It is like the American New Years show, except there are a lot more Joke-skits, American Idol Judged-style mass performances, and propaganda. I remember in New York and, lately, in Cleveland the Chinese make a traditional parade down the main street of "Asian/Chinese Town" with the lions, wushu dancers and stuff. As for Mid Autumn, it is a lesser version of New Years except we all buy each other boxes of expensive mooncakes while apologizing for accepting expensive mooncakes from our friends. I am not very well aqainted with Qingming Jie, although it probably came up in some reason or another for visiting or hosting parties.
3) Generally, most of us (As in parents and those who were brought up to at lest 3 without fast food) consider restaurant food "Americanized" and would eat them, but while constantly (sometimes silently, you can see it in their eyes) complaining about how it tastes wrong. However, if it gets dressed as a buffet, or Asian in general, they don't care. As for those who do cook at home, it is a mix of traditional stuff they try to remember, and the same stuff from the restaurant except "it's cooked right now".
Mooncake-Doughy rice outer covering with firm filling. Contrasting with hard, glazed ones with really soft filling. Generally eaten sliced.
juehua tea- Not Sure. If you are talking about the tea with flowers (never really figured out which flowers are in there) then yes, it's here.
rou-gan- Yea, not surea bout this one.
Shark Fin- Nope. I can't find that even when looking at the hard-core section of the chinese grocers my Parents go to every month or so. We have to drive between 30min-hour depending on conditions.
steamed dumplings- My parents make them, some dimsum has them, but most make the less tempermental potsticklers. I love the soup
3) Like me, the 'community' comes from all over China. It's more of a loose connection where Parents constantly get invited to meet new friends while slowly forgetting old ones, while the kids get used to just calling each other "Hey" when they first meet, since they don't know how often they will get to see each other.
4) Yup, according to my Mom and the Fascist-Chinese Kids, the use of chopsticks show a superior mind.
Yes, Rice is served nearly every day. Although it isn't boring because the dishes (and their sauce!) is different. The sauce is really important in the flavor of steamed rice.
Hongbaos have turned into excuses for kids to ask for a third present holiday (birthday+christmas+chinese new years) while parents just calculates the dollar amount from the grades of the kid in question; which is usually very high.
As for Oral Traditions, generally the Parents try to get us young with poems and stuff, and tell about the different histories of china. 12-years of Euro-centric education really does leach that out of you, although I can probably understand most of the "4-word Proverbs" being thrown around the adult table. Not that I really want to hear what they are talking about after sedating us kids with videogames, movies, and companionship.

 

[cybrxkhan]

Does the community descend more from Northern China or Southern China?

From what I know many of the earlier waves of Chinese immigrants were Southern Chinese (i.e. in the 1800s or early 1900s). There were quite a number of Taiwanese in the mid to later 1900s, although I don't know if they were more or less than the amount from the mainland, and since the 1990s many of the immigrants were middle-to-upper class, well-educated people from all over the country.

 

[Graceheart the Leopard]

meetings where everyone else is taught that the Chinese invented everything.

THIS IS RIDICULOUS! Everyone knows that everything was invented in Korea, da-ze!

 

[Danielion]

Here's a great satire on such nationalism.