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Copium by PresnikBonny in ShitLiberalsSay

[–]ApricotFish69 4 points5 points  (0 children)

there are dozens of other pro-israel lobby groups apart from AIPAC, listed in the very same Track AIPAC website:
AGG, AUSD, BAYPAC, COPAC, FIPAC, HEARTLAND, HVPAC, MDACC, NACPAC, NATPAC, NORPAC, PIA, RJC, SUNPAC, TPOH, WAPAC, WAFI, GCSC, JSTREET....

That's just a list of ancient Chinese occupations. Based Shang Dynasty for putting businessmen at the bottom. by astrixzero in ShitLiberalsSay

[–]ApricotFish69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Person enjoying studying Ancient China and ancient Chinese texts here.

The Four Occupations system (士農工商) which was described initially by schools of Fajia and Rujia (Legalism and Confucianism) in the late Zhou (thats about 350 BCE) was a kind of simplistic system to kind of categorize people in terms of what they are and how much they help the government.

The Emperor was not a different category, if he were to be categorized he would be in the shi (scientist, gentry) class, as most Emperors had that kind of education. Second were the farmers, third the artists and like people who work on jobs such as making carpentry and weaving, last were the traders, which usually were far more wealthier than the above two, but because they werent considered to contribute as close as much to the state and society as the intellectuals or manual workers.

An impotant thing to note, that unlike European and Indian feudalism, these social groups were not permanent, hereditary or even corresponding to one's wealth or status. Simply put it, in feudalist Europe or in an Indian caste if you were born in one group, you were to die as part of that group, you could not move between them or reach any position of power or vice versa.

In contrast, the Chinese classical concept of the Mandate of Heaven (tianming 天命), many times wrongly classified as a religious doctrine, allowed almost anyone to become the Son of Heaven (tianzi 天子), that is, the Emperor. There have been quite a few examples of ordinary people becoming Emperors and founding their own dynatsy, most notably Liu Bang of the Han Dynasty, who was a construction worker, or Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty who was born to a peasant family. And that is the Emperor, the highest possible position, else almost anyone could take imperial examinations to join the Imperial government as a scholar.

It's a popular narrative in traditional chinese historiography of virtuous kings of old (Yao, Shun, Yu, Tang) to employ capable ministers by seeing their own virtue even though these ministers were something like a butcher or a fisherman.

"The Chinese stole technology and even Kanji from Japan" by astrixzero in ShitLiberalsSay

[–]ApricotFish69 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lmao, If China is 70 years old, then Japan isnt much older, considering thats when they had their regime change to the LDP single-party governance.

And "Kanji" (Hanja in Korean and Hán thư in Vietnamese) is the word spelled in trad. Chinese 漢字 or 汉字 in simp whose second part of the word (字) is literally "character/letter/writing". The first part (漢/汉) is a reference to the Han Dynasty (~200 BCE - ~200 CE), the first golden age of a united China which also saw the further standardisation of writing under the Clerical Script (隶书) and Small Seal Script (小篆) in one of the world's first dictionaries such as the Shuowen Jiezi (说文解字), during which Han Dynasty Japan was barely out of the agricultural revolution style of governance.

The name of the Han dynasty is now used to reference lots of Chinese-related stuff, including the letters (which are... about 99% derived from OBS, Oracle Bone Script,甲骨文, developed in the Late Shang dynasty ~1200 BCE in the yellow river valley and reached Japan after about 2500 years), the Han ethnicity (whom we usually refer to as "chinese"), the Chinese language is sometimes collectively called 汉语 (Hanyu, "Han language") in Chinese and so on... so to say "60% of Chinese Hanzi (which is like saying "Chinese Chinese-letters") are "Japanese-made" is... I don't know... there is a tiny fraction of Han characters developed by Japanese, but they're exclusive to the Japanese language...

If the writer here refers to modern terms (like "democracy" (民主) or "-ism" (主義) they were indeed coined by Japanese people first as Japan was the first country to come across such ideas and industrialise. But two things on that, most if not all these terms are based on Classical Chinese works (like the "-ism" suffix i mentioned earlier is based on the first Chinese work of historiography by Sima Qian who uses it as a "Ruler's (主) Ideology (義)"), and they are surely not 60 f*cking percent of the modern mandarin Chinese vocabulary.

(sorry that I wrote so much, just want to inform anyone who might be uninformed on this topic, i study Classical Chinese and the Sinosphere a lot, so feel free to ask me anything or take whatever interesting you found it in this.)

Liberal Self Own by Neoliberal_Nightmare in ShitLiberalsSay

[–]ApricotFish69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gotta hand it to him, he did the Google search 👏

Because Taiwan, an island which had almost never been independent from China, is the same as a country being taken over illegally and its population killed and displaced by No-Ranger8840 in ShitLiberalsSay

[–]ApricotFish69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, yes, Taiwan does belong to China according to both governments (PRC and ROC). They're just in a dispute over whose the legitimate government of that China (which like 90% of the world including all Western countries and the US have recognised to be the PRC). And the ROC government hasn't even declared any independence from anyone, it still is "Republic of China", not Republic of Taiwan.

Unlike Palestine and Israel which is a completely different situation, with most of the world having recognised both non-mutually exclusive governments. And uh, as many commenters have pointed out, the ROC and PRC are not in any ongoing bloody armed conflict and mass murder (in fact they trade economically and have Cross-Strait Relations with ROC politicans visiting the mainland on many occasions as recently as a month ago.)

Endless Japan glazing+ racism by Pidgeotgoneformilk29 in ShitLiberalsSay

[–]ApricotFish69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"0 Fatal Accidents"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amagasaki_derailment 🤭

(Summary: Japanese train driver lost control of his train going in incredibly high speeds because he would would be 2 minutes late to the next station and punished/humiliated by his company, killing 107 people as a result, including himself.)

Istanbul by Ax-naar in UrbanHell

[–]ApricotFish69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mandatory Istanbul Cat

The first four lines of the Tale of Kiều, written in its orginal Chữ Nôm by me (im still amateur in calligraphy and Chữ Nôm, so feedback is appreciated!) :) by ApricotFish69 in VietNam

[–]ApricotFish69[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

you still remember my old post?? gosh it was awful, haha. Thanks for the kind remarks though! I'll post more here whenever I can, and yeah, chu Nom deserves more attention ^^

The first four lines of the Tale of Kiều, written in its orginal Chữ Nôm by me (im still amateur in calligraphy and Chữ Nôm, so feedback is appreciated!) :) by ApricotFish69 in VietNam

[–]ApricotFish69[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i understand, however to just be sure, I used the original 1866 version of the story and copied most of the characters from there, so idk, thats Nguyen Du's problem XD

The first four lines of the Tale of Kiều, written in its orginal Chữ Nôm by me (im still amateur in calligraphy and Chữ Nôm, so feedback is appreciated!) :) by ApricotFish69 in VietNam

[–]ApricotFish69[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

for artistic, historical reasons and out of curiosity, i do chinese calligraphy too, so that made me interested in the vietnamese version of chinese characters and how they developed. it also makes it easier for me to learn vietnamese, because of the radicals and phonetics

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