One of the research centres in my field released a survey research recruitment advertisement targeting Chinese Australians and it was emblazoned with the words 'ni hao.'
I reposted it on FB with the words 'ni hao is essentially a racist slur' and they were stung and retracted it instantly.
It is FREQUENTLY used by people who know only those two words in Chinese, who say it mockingly and assume all Asian people are Chinese.
It also screams 'too cheap to pay for a translator.'
I mostly stopped because although I'm pretty good at distinguishing between Chinese and people from other Asian countries, I'm not good at distinguishing between northern Chinese and Cantonese speakers from southern areas who tend not to appreciate being greeted in Mandarin. Especially those from HK, which I can totally understand.
@engagedpractx
> they were stung and retracted it instantly
I'm not surprised. If I set out to include Chinese Australians in social research, and got accused by another researcher on social media of using a "racist slur" for saying hello in Mandarin in my copy, I'd be making it vanish quicksmart too. Before the dogpile arrived to do a Justine Saccos on my pasty arse.
Do you find public shaming to be an effective way to educate people about the nuances of inter-cultural communication?
Ugh. I opened an incognito window to search for a medical symptom I don't want ad networks knowing about, because we know that life insurers buy data from them. Nekminnit, there are products for it advertised in my FB feed. We already knew incognito doesn't keep your data out of Google's hands but the networks have clearly worked out how to reidentify users from their browser characteristics alone.
Oh dear, my Dad is letting people in a Facebook bird photography group know he is not happy with people nicking his shots and it's going about as well as that time Josh fronted the press corps with a secret plan to fight inflation.
LAPD Foundation sends a DMCA takedown to an indie artist selling 'Fuck the LAPD' t-shirts. He promptly engages a lawyer and things escalate rapidly from there.
The Apple M1 processor remains a beast. I have a complex edit rendering in AviDemux and I'm doing real time editing in Premiere Rush and it hasn't dropped a frame. Meanwhile my GDrive backup is running in Forklift and it's finally hit 1Mbps.
In case this is of use to you, I developed a very simple free training module on the skills older people can use to connect with others via Zoom calls/meetings.
Feedback is most welcome! (But I am aiming for 80-20, brief instructions only.)
Making my favourite dish for dinner with a friend tomorrow โ lamb shanks very slowly cooked in tomato and stock with preserved lemon, green olives, garlic and harissa. I actually don't slow cook a lot as I find it often results in a same-y caramelised sweetness but you don't get that with this dish, not at all.
My PhD is on nodal governance, a proudly neo-Hayekian research framework and governance agenda. I use the framework โ Hayek's analysis of market signalling is basically sound โ but I heavily question the agenda, e.g. devolution of peace-making to grassroots initiatives.
I just caught up on the "tech Zionism" thing. It's... not good:
Lehrmann and BRS are two sides of the same coin and the currency is toxic masculinity. On one side, traditional hard masculinity and its power over life and death, and on the other side, 'soft' masculinity, driven by careerism and sexual entitlement. Neither could face the prospect of backing down even though not doing so meant almost-certain ruin.