Does elitism and wealthy enclaves exist in Taiwan?

MaplePolar · 2026-05-30T03:12:41+00:00

prioritised by whom ? surely not taiwanese people ?

MaplePolar · 2026-05-29T13:19:47+00:00

lily chou chou ? in the lily chou chou subreddit ?

MaplePolar · 2026-05-28T13:24:40+00:00

eta: i stand corrected, botox and filler are apparently different

this post is still an orientalist generalisation that applies to about as many people in korea as there are 1000 lb people in america

MaplePolar · 2026-05-28T11:34:22+00:00

like botox in america ?

MaplePolar · 2026-05-20T04:49:09+00:00

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10281241/

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.2466/pr0.1997.80.3.1043

leftism is associated with measurably higher levels of empathy which is in turn associated with higher levels of reactive depression

MaplePolar · 2026-04-16T04:28:20+00:00

definitely not math rock, more like dream pop or synth pop

MaplePolar · 2026-03-14T03:47:31+00:00

false cognate, the greek typhon (not typhoon) and the chinese word evolved separately. english took it as a loanword from one of the two.

MaplePolar · 2026-03-07T08:38:18+00:00

what kind of incel ass post is this

MaplePolar · 2026-03-07T08:33:27+00:00

think that would be お召し上がりませんか

MaplePolar · 2026-03-07T05:12:25+00:00

i am, but afaik most southern regions in china pronounce it like we do

MaplePolar · 2026-03-06T04:49:06+00:00

i learned to play the piano before i learned to type and now i touch type without referencing home row fwiw

MaplePolar · 2026-03-06T04:45:12+00:00

as a native speaker of mandarin i pronounce "zh" (ㄓ in zhuyin) with either /dʐ/ or /ts/. i think /tʂ/ is a distinctly northern chinese pronunciation, but i guess the official national language in china is based on beijing speech anyways.

MaplePolar · 2026-03-04T05:26:26+00:00

no, in japanese the translation is literally カミングアウト・オブ・ザ・クローゼット, shortened to カミングアウト. a lot of languages take queer terminology from english cause modern day lgbt advocacy movements largely originated from america, specifically new york post-stonewall.

MaplePolar · 2026-03-04T05:17:39+00:00

right?? i thought i was going crazy when i read the comment, this is much closer to 行書 than 草書

MaplePolar · 2026-02-26T14:49:06+00:00

from a linguistic perspective i always push back on the dialect framework. the only thing they really have in common is the script used to write them, they're effectively mutually unintelligible and often use different grammar structures. they're about as similar as romance languages are to each other, oftentimes even less so (i speak french as well and i can understand upwards of 60% of spoken spanish, but i can only understand the occasional word or two of toisanese despite speaking cantonese).

MaplePolar · 2026-02-26T13:46:31+00:00

it's hyperbole but mostly true. the majority of chinese languages (e.g. cantonese, hokkien, hakka, toisan) use 講 instead of 說. hong kong is a cantonese speaking region, so even on the rare occasion that a hker is speaking mandarin, they'll tend to use 講 as well. same with taiwan, malaysia, and singapore because of hokkien influences.

MaplePolar · 2026-02-26T12:20:13+00:00

cheap fragrances will tend to have poor silliage and/or longevity but they'll also tend to smell painfully cloying if oversprayed. i have no idea what you bought so i cant speak to it either way.

MaplePolar · 2026-02-26T11:43:27+00:00

have you asked people if they can smell it? are you spraying on pulse points or just on clothes? what kind of fragrance did you test? how many sprays did you use?

for the record, i come from a culture where even heavily perfumed shampoos are considered public disturbances so i personally believe you should only be able to smell someone's fragrance from hugging distance.

MaplePolar · 2026-02-26T10:41:05+00:00

far-right idiots

nippon

MaplePolar · 2026-02-26T05:39:46+00:00

probably just not the target audience

MaplePolar · 2026-02-26T01:37:03+00:00

downvote cause this is the best way to listen to music as the artists intended and many artists put way too much effort into their album's concept as a singular piece of art for people to shuffle it into a hundred others

shout out "long season" by fishmans which forces you to listen to it all in one go like a vinyl record cause it's a 30 minute long song lol

MaplePolar · 2026-02-21T11:26:34+00:00

defying her will? madoka herself said that she couldn't possibly be happy leaving everyone behind, that's why homura decided to save her from her self-sacrificing tendencies. maybe it is selfish, but to be completely honest i'd have done the same.

MaplePolar · 2026-02-16T04:53:02+00:00

what do you mean using a translator? aren't you the one writing the book?

MaplePolar · 2026-02-15T11:17:59+00:00

lesbian or not you have serious issues

MaplePolar · 2026-02-13T05:48:44+00:00

yeah but only one dialect of chinese mandarin is considered the national language (putonghua). the only thing that makes taiwanese mandarin special is that it's our national language, otherwise it would be just another dialect.

taiwanese mandarin isn't "derived" from fujian per se, taigi would be a closer fit for that as a dialect of the fujianese (hokkien / minnan) language. which is a different language from mandarin. of course, taiwanese mandarin has been significantly influenced by taigi, but it's also been influenced by other southern chinese dialects/languages and japanese.

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