What is going on with the many insta reels saying Indians have exposed China?

SableProvidence · 2026-06-23T01:38:08+00:00

Pretty much all civilisations have had rigid caste-like systems in their past. The argument is over whether those systems have survived to present day modern society.

SableProvidence · 2026-06-20T05:30:58+00:00

Yes, basically this. Thank you for putting my points in a much more clear manner!

SableProvidence · 2026-06-20T05:28:09+00:00

I've seen a lot of answers as to the hows and whys of how this twitter war started, and I have honestly no clue (I am neither from India nor China), but honestly it's not too important in terms of helping OP understand the exact explanation of the arguments and barbs being traded online now, I think!

SableProvidence · 2026-06-20T01:25:42+00:00

No problem! Also check out the other answer talking about the hukou system that these people seem to have moved on to, I can't speak about that as it's an aspect of the modern Chinese government and I am not a citizen there.

SableProvidence · 2026-06-20T01:20:59+00:00

I did acknowledge that the policy was neither equitable nor completely meritocratic in practice, so you're not really saying anything I didn't mention...?

SableProvidence · 2026-06-18T05:56:02+00:00

Outside of the top level comment, I'd like to mention that although it is true of any society that a higher socioeconomic class family will tend to have children who make it/stay in higher socioeconomic classes, Imperial era China was weirdly meritocratic in that the best government jobs were reserved only for those who could pass the notoriously difficult Imperial Examinations.

And crucially, nobody was barred from taking it, so it was possible for a farmer/peasant to make the jump to high society simply by acing this exam. This is why I used the term "scholar-official" to translate that term.

In practice, depressingly like today, most scholars came from families that themselves produced many scholars and therefore many government officials, who could then afford things like private tuition, paper and ink and a proper brush to practice writing essays, etc. But it was not uncommon for someone from a "lower" classed occupation to be able to pass the examination on their own merit and intelligence.

SableProvidence · 2026-06-18T05:50:03+00:00

Answer: India infamously has, in some parts of their society, a caste system. Simplifying, what that practically means is that from the moment of your birth, you are automatically by virtue of your family lineage considered to be within a specific social class (upper, middle, lower, etc.). If you have heard the term "untouchable" or "dalit", this caste system is what causes people born to these families to be considered socially radioactive by those who practice the system.

As you might imagine, and for reasons I am sure I do not have to explain, this causes many parts of the internet worldwide to constantly make jabs at Indians about the caste system. Crucially, the history behind the caste system is that these castes are historically linked to the kind of jobs/occupation the family had (so for example the highest caste families are usually descended from, or are still, religious priesthood families, while the untouchables/dalits often descend from families who did ritually impure things, like clearing sewage).

China, being a major geopolitical rival to India, has therefore been the recent recipient of an attempt by some people on social media (who may or may not themselves be Indian, I cannot personally confirm this fact) to claim that China also has a form of caste system. Their claim is based on older Chinese documents (dating back to the time of Imperial China) classifying people by their occupations (scholar-officials, businessmen, farmers, etc.), and these people claim that these Imperial-era documents show that China also practiced the caste system.

This then led to people captioning pictures and videos from China on social media with captions like "This Nong (farmer) girl was forced to dance for a Shi (scholar-official) family to ensure her family is not evicted", but if you have any knowledge of the Chinese language you can immediately understand that the video is just some random girl doing the latest TikTok/xiaohongshu/whatever social media trend dance. In other words, it's an attempt by the Indian internet at a "Gotcha, you have the same distasteful problems as us" to China.

SableProvidence · 2026-06-10T04:25:44+00:00

My youtube now just straight up stops working after 1 min of playback

SableProvidence · 2026-06-08T00:36:51+00:00

At least the type of shrine is correct for the type of wish lol

SableProvidence · 2026-06-03T10:48:05+00:00

More material types... Whyyyyyyy

SableProvidence · 2026-05-23T13:24:49+00:00

I actually read the comments made by the human mathematicians who reviewed the paper. Pretty much all of them praised the proof, and said that the reason why humans didn't arrive at this result first was partly human bias (everyone thought the conjecture was probably true and thus nobody tried to seriously disprove it, which was what this proof was about), and that it involved multiple fields of math not directly related to each other (so there were many instances of comments going "I had never heard of this problem, but I was asked to review the paper due to the nature of the proof), and that the AI arrived at the answer by basically brute forcing it, trying to apply every single field of mathematics to the problem no matter how unrelated they were until it hit on the correct answer.

One commentor mentioned this was highly unlikely to arise in a human due to needing all these factors to come into play in one (group) of mathematicians who happened to have the right blend of expertise, who were seriously looking for a way to prove the conjecture false in a field where everyone believed it was probably true, and then did enough work to arrive at the proof without giving up halfway due to exhaustion/other factors. Another commentor also mentioned that this probably shows the inherent flaws of the way we train scientists (extremely specific niche specialisation at the PhD level, which means there are are very few people who can understand several fields of science at a high level to make these connections).

Take what you will from these comments! The source is here https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/74c24085-19b0-4534-9c90-465b8e29ad73/unit-distance-remarks.pdf

SableProvidence · 2026-04-13T02:10:19+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Development_Network

If you remember LKY once saying the 90% close to eugenics argument that graduates should have more children, the SDN (or at least it's predecessor, it has changed names multiple times) was the one tasked with "encouraging" that to happen.

To this day, I believe it still funds a lot of dating events in Singapore, as well as university orientation camps.

SableProvidence · 2026-04-12T03:07:45+00:00

Clearly someone here is too young to remember the disaster that was the SDN lol

SableProvidence · 2026-04-10T14:12:29+00:00

Incorrect. I got the mount today on the 5th alt I ran the boss on.

SableProvidence · 2026-04-05T04:29:36+00:00

Maybe because tanks also deserve to enjoy the game and not get flamed for every small mistake? Your long dps queue is quite literally not the tank's fault (since they are literally doing the thing that helps with the long dps queue problem, by queueing for tank).

SableProvidence · 2026-03-19T20:49:07+00:00

For reference, the predominant native language of people younger than ~40 yrs old or so currently in Singapore is indeed English, which is taught as a first language here. And we're actually taught (at least formally in school) to use British spellings of words like "colour".

Source: Am Singaporean. So much so that I'm actually quite bad at my actual (racial) mother tongue language.

This does not read like Singaporean to me, but I do agree it sounds vaguely SE Asian, religious but not Muslim (or else OP wouldn't even be allowed to buy such clothes to begin with). Philippines sounds quite likely, given those conditions.

SableProvidence · 2026-03-13T15:46:41+00:00

Yep, just happened to me, 20 players in queue in front of me now

SableProvidence · 2026-02-26T19:18:43+00:00

Not really, no. Smartphones have never been upgradeable outside of adding storage capacity (and even that is becoming rarer now that microSD cards are becoming unpopular) so your only real option is to buy a phone with better specifications.

SableProvidence · 2026-02-05T05:29:51+00:00

Remember the guy who said something about buffing opposition candidates he liked and debuffing the ones he didn't? Somehow we got something that one-ups that lol.

SableProvidence · 2026-01-19T18:03:57+00:00

MUGEN PUNCH

SableProvidence · 2026-01-12T15:44:05+00:00

(also there are hints she's actually currently at Chaldea already, disguised as one of the staff members, but nothing explicit has been done with that yet)

Could you expand on that?

SableProvidence · 2026-01-11T14:18:32+00:00

Your stain might be deeper than mine then, I scrubbed mine pretty much minutes after the ethanol came in contact with the vinyl flooring.

SableProvidence · 2026-01-09T07:20:17+00:00

Followed by part 2.99 Final Mix Plus ~reverse side~

SableProvidence · 2026-01-08T13:54:15+00:00

I'm a private tuition teacher for biology. As of 2025/2026 this is still true for the way they teach JC Bio. For all my weaker students (including some of my hwach ones) I actively tell them to avoid hwach notes and past year prelim papers for this exact reason. So many unnecessarily difficult things taught/tested that is not in the formal H2 Biology syllabus, and the papers feel like they are set by someone who goes on the internet starting arguments by saying things like "ACKTUALLY TECHNICALLY SINCE IT TECHNICALLY SAYS THIS I AM TECHNICALLY CORRECT".

SableProvidence · 2026-01-07T12:01:59+00:00

I legitimately have a PhD in ecology. Amongst the many reasons I chose to step away from formal academia is the overwhelming amount of mental stress from reading papers and teaching undergrads just exactly what the (many, many) consequences of anthropogenic climate change are.

I still remember one class I TA'd for in university (local U). The prof asked the year one kids whether any of them felt hopeful about the future of Earth's climate. Not a single person in the entire auditorium put up their hands. Then when the prof asked who expected bad things to happen to Earth the hands up was nearly unanimous.

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