Xu was sued in 2019 for calling tai chi Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang a fraud, and the Chinese court ordered him to pay Chen approximately US$60,000 in damages and to apologize for seven consecutive days on social media. Having awkward meals with the silent disappointment-ridden father is universal to the Chinese experience, no matter what country. Omfg, I have lived that scene so many times. Pretty much the most universal thing that unites all Chinese diaspora is prolly the dinner scene with Tony Leung.
Heck the latest Fantastic Beasts movie places more appropriate reaction and function to the qilin compared to their presence in Shang-Chi (tho ngl, it’s weird there being a qilin at all in a Harry Potter film against the backdrop of wizard Nazis, but that's a whole other thing). So it comes across as just window dressing. I pointed out in a review post before that despite very culturally significant creatures being depicted, there’s no response to their significance by the cast themselves (I mean both in terms of no reaction to the CGI, and their importance to Chinese culture). That said, the Chinese culture depicted in Shang-Chi is still a funhouse version. It’s why Taiwan culture is more similar to the Southeast Asian Chinese culture, not only because of the same dialect groups in some cases, but because of the lack of the whole mess with Communism and attempts to wipe clean old traditions that only non-mainland Chinese populations didn’t go through. I had a blue passport in my white hand, and that apparently is enough to be left alone to sleep it off.įunfact, mainland China kinda divorced itself from the old mythical/mystical side of Chinese culture during the Cultural Revolution, to the point they had to reimport the traditions that they lost from the returning non-mainland Chinese population whose ancestors originally immigrated away prior to the Communist revolution, and had kept those traditions.
I remember everyone kind of looking around at each other and processing what we had just witnessed. They eventually moved on, apparently satisfied with everyone’s passports, but they left a whole train car of nervous, startled people behind. They were leaving all the white people alone and focussing only on the people of colour - and by focussing, I mean peppering those people with rapid fire German and the worried, confused looks on the faces of the people they were interrogating. It wasn’t until they stomped right past me and started getting agitated at someone in my car that I began processing what was happening. My German is bad - worse when I was just passed out drunk and startled awake - but I saw everyone digging out their passports, so I got mine out and proceeded to doze in and out while they made their way through the train car. I was drunk, waiting to depart and sleeping in my seat with a blanket when armed, militarized cops hopped on the train and made a lot of noise, which startled me awake. When i was working it was an unspoken rule that the white guy has to go deliver pizza to the armed fuckers because the security checks on my darker skinned coworkers took at least twice as long.Īfter Oktoberfest in Munich, I boarded a regional train at midnight heading to Frankfurt to avoid a very expensive hotel stay. When you delivered pizza there they looked into the boxes and thoroughly searched you. Within our delivery area was the German Federal Bank, a big building with guards armed with submachine guns and the like (not a typical sight in Germany). The delivery staff was basically an unending stream of 16-18 year old guys of middle eastern descent and me, a guy as white and german as possible. A long time ago i had a second job delivering pizza for Joeys Pizza in Germany (the national predecessor to Dominos). Stuff like this even happens within countries. It was a rule everyone was aware of and just kind of understood. I used to work for a medical consulting company and for any of our Muslim countries we never sent any Jews or gay people and for Japan we never sent any black people.
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