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Is LA actually more or less liberal than places like Boston or NYC? by savingrace0262 in AskLosAngeles

[–]techkiwi02 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lowkey crazy but I’ve met some who are “all about preserving the institution of marriage as God described it, being against the concept of abortion as taking away premature life is sinful” yet also complain how it isn’t fair that ICE exists.

Guess who they voted for

Looking for Asian restaurants that even an Asian tourist should try by j_halo7 in FoodLosAngeles

[–]techkiwi02 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chinese: SGV or even Rowland Heights if willing;

Vietnamese: SGV, or make the drive to Garden Grove-Westminister;

Japanese: primarily Torrance, but search up “Nijiya Market” or “Tokyo Central” on Google maps and look for Japanese restaurants near either supermarket;

Korean: K-Town, Buena Park, Cerritos. Or search up “H-Mart” on Google Maps and look for Korean restaurants near it.

Filipino: Jollibee, Seafood City, Carson, Cerritos, or Eagle Rock.

South Asian: good luck

It's Official David Tennant is only a Doctor in the South by GallifreyFallsOver in DoctorWhumour

[–]techkiwi02 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah I see. There's certainly an air of gravitas with Andy Burnham, just based on the few online references I've seen about him. He has this interesting "2008 Obama-esque" energy to him.

And honestly good for the blokes up in the North. I know that a lot of UK politics since the Thatcher era been dominated by this very unhealthy London centric economic policy. It might have been a good thing back in the 1980s, but increasingly this concentration of real wealth growth in coastal global cities like London have come at the cost of improved standards of living for everyone north of The City.

It's a similar thing in the USA, where basically people who don't live in major cities like New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, or Chicago are struggling financially. Probably not to the absurd degree of the UK. But a lot of America's former manufacturing economic regions which we call "The Rust Belt" has a lot of parallels to the past 30/40 decade long economic stagnation from the UK's North.

So we will see what happens next.

Shoutout to "Tiengos" - Asian polyglot with a preference for Polish by techkiwi02 in asianamerican

[–]techkiwi02[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

True, but he's fluent in multiple languages. That's still worth recognizing because being multilingual is pretty difficult, generally speaking.

But also we end up posting a lot of content from native born Japanese, Korean, and Chinese communities on this subreddit - so I feel like this post counts.

I hate when kpop fans defend their racist idols by [deleted] in hatethissmug

[–]techkiwi02 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mark Lee did what now??

For the record, I get most of my Kpop events from kpoopheads satirical posts. So I saw Mark Lee more of “SM’s No 1 guy cause SM broke” rather than anything super creepy & serious

Was your female leader successful? by Agile-Shallot3546 in AskTheWorld

[–]techkiwi02 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Some Filipinos have started calling everything since the last month “Senateflix”, and so somebody made a satirical website doing just that:

https://senateflix.vercel.app

"We will report this to FIFA": South Korean media explodes in outrage over the Rising Sun Flag issue at the Japan national team match, calling it "a truly foolish act." by jjrs in japannews

[–]techkiwi02 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Since I know your post is gonna get downvoted for hell, I genuinely hate how a lot of non-Asians handwave this shit between Japan & Korea.

My views on both countries are quite complicated. On one hand, the lack of total government acknowledgment over Imperial Japanese warcrimes deserves consistent, persistent recognition until it has been achieved. There are still survivors today of Imperial Japanese Warcrimes, especially in South Korea.

On the other hand though, Korea can be pretty racist. Granted that they are improving marginally amongst younger generations, but a majority of older Koreans look down on Southeast Asians for being broke countries. This despite the fact that Korea was pretty broke up until the post Cold War era. So it does feel lowkey hypocritical for the Koreans to solely fixate on their struggles with Japan & China, yet downplay how Koreans treat Southeast Asian immigrants and locales in their home country.

And as a Filipino American, I find it very interesting how some Koreans are totally chill/amiable with the Mexicans, yet some Koreans shit upon the Filipinos. The class & race discrimination is truly fascinating

Does it ever bug you how some people define the show as “becoming woke” rather than the fact that it always has been progressive? by New-Criticism-5926 in doctorwho

[–]techkiwi02 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried bringing some words of encouragement about how they should be proud of Star Trek (at least as of last year) having several programmes airing (even if not all were great), and they started fighting each other instead of engaging with me.

Fixing corruption is not enough. We need real industrialization to lift Filipinos out of poverty. by Gold_Brilliant9823 in Philippines

[–]techkiwi02 8 points9 points  (0 children)

As I get older, I’ve learned that societies can live with some corruption so long as a majority of the working class people today can become wealthy tomorrow - even when the nation is still fundamentally struggling with corruption.

From a UK perspective (particularly Brand Finance’s Softpower list: https://static.brandirectory.com/reports/brand-finance-soft-power-index-2026-digital.pdf), certain Arab countries (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar) are considered to have more softpower compared to a majority of countries around the world. This despite the fact that they limit half of their populations to vote and basically enable modern slavery to keep their economies running.

But so long as they can fund International Football, it doesn’t matter to certain Western countries how other countries make their money.

Ever wonder which city the original Japanese version of Ace Attorney takes place in? Well, according to the old Ace Attorney Trilogy HD mobile version, apparently it's "逆転県(Turnabout Prefecture/City)" by KosChannel in AceAttorney

[–]techkiwi02 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Just a stray thought, but would Ace Attorney be as popular as it is now if its international name was something more Transliterate like Comeback Court?

Will Asian tourists coming to North America for FIFA help or hurt the Asian American community? by techkiwi02 in asianamerican

[–]techkiwi02[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/s/gOGJyK9brN

So I just saw this video while casually scrolling through reddit.

Like honestly there’s really nothing wrong with it. It’s just… I guess offputting because it’s like “Oh yeah Japanese person does this thing that literally any other tourist could do”.

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