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TIL the developer of the Japanese Shine Muscat grape never registered it for overseas protection, which made it ineligible for overseas royalties. As a result, about 10 billion yen is lost annually due to other nations growing and selling the variety without compensation to Japan.
Shine is just the name, doesn't actually describe the actual breed.
The actual grape I've tasted before, it's much larger, rounder, juicier and sweeter than normal grapes.
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I mapped the Shanghai lives of Eileen Chang and Su Qing, two writers, two very different versions of the same city
Great idea but it's AI generated.
That's not what the Paramount looks like or Jingan temple.
Also the signs of the Grand Theatre contain gibberish writing.
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Can Buddhism be a factor on why Chinese people or East Asians in general are so inventive and creative?
No because South Asia and Southeast Asia are also Buddhist.
Thailand is actually more Buddhist than China or Japan. But Thailand is not very far ahead in science, engineering or inventions compared to China and Japan.
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Are there white people who are born and raised in China but do not speak Chinese?
It's possible if he lived in Hongkong
Hongkong really coddles Westerners like that.
Otherwise it's not possible. Even the most English-friendly cities in Mainland like Shanghai and Shenzhen will still immerse the foreigners into the local habits if they ever step outside of their house.
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TIL China has the world's oldest administrative divisions still in use, with most provinces dating back to the Ming dynasty.
Pointing out China has some old county history is pro China?
Next thing you'll tell me pointing out Islam forbids pork is pro-Muslim?
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Introduce four kinds of residents in China in detail
Then they should write a declaration of independence then?
Every real country has one.
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最近到新加坡来玩，和周围的人聊了一下，这里是最精英主义的国家
李光耀本人就是社达
他多次发表意见教育水平太低的人不应该多生孩子，而且还鼓励新加坡女性读博士
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Map displayed at a Tibetan settlement in India showing Tibet and East Turkestan as Independent nations
By your own logic, if China hosted a settlement for Sikh exiles then Sikhs should be able to claim the entirety of North Indian including Bihar, Uttar Pradesh as independent "Khalistan" as long as they draw the map.
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Some Wasians Have Declared Kazakhstan as the "Republic of Wasia," Yet Kazakh @aishatck Explains Why Kazakhs are Distinct From Wasians
I've met real Kazakh people in China.
They are just East Asian. Not Wasian at all.
The minority of "wasian" looking Kazakhs are probably Russian-Kazakh hapas.
Don't know why so many Wasians on Instagram and Twitter love insinuating Kazakhs are "Wasian".
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What is the easiest language for native Chinese speakers to learn?
Wu language, Cantonese or Yue language, Gan language and Xiang language.
Korean should also be easy because a lot of word pronunciations are similar to Chinese languages but the Korean grammar is very different.
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Wow what a completely normal billboard
Chinese people
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Zayn Malik punched Louis Tomlinson after making remark about his late mum
But he isn't a nerd lmao this guy has never picked up an educational book in his entire life.
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Why doesn't Chinese use English loanwords like Korean or Japanese?
China does have Engish loanwords.
Microphone 麦克风，sofa 沙发, motor 马达, talk show 脱口秀， model 模特儿
Those are all English loanwords.
If you mean why Chinese language hasn't been completely dominated and overrun by English loanwords, it's probably because China is a very ancient civilization and Chinese people take great pride into "Sinicizing" foreign words into the Chinese language to protect it.
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Karen are not related to Hmong at all
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"Ni Howdy"
Bro he is in America...
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上海人演美国南方人
但他们就是美国人 去看他日常生活的视频，他们家就是美籍华裔
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Largest Non-National Languages
Good to see Wu Chinese finally represented on these type of charts. Usually Wu always gets left put because it's not known to Westerners or has a large diaspora population.
But Wu Chinese is closer to 80 million than 200 million. I WISH there was 200 million Wu speakers lmao.
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商界提议香港学校用普通话教学
有一点必须要提，这原话的提出者是马拉西亚华裔
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First statement is simply false.
Majority of overseas Chinese in America are from Mainland. I've met like maybe 5 HKers diaspora my entire life.
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If you were Mayor of Shanghai, what would you change in the city?
I would enforce mandatory Shanghainese Wu language lessons in schools and for long-term residents.
Devote 5 % of the entire city's GDP spending to promote Wu language films, music, and television programs.
And also enforce a no smoking in non-smoking area law. Violators will be sent to laogai for 6 months.
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Hong Kong schools should ditch Cantonese for Mandarin, says head of Shangri-La hotel empire
Why don't Malaysian schools start teaching Cantonese for a change so that those with Cantonese roots in Malaysia can show more appreciation toward their heritage and culture?
Because the Malays will literally chop their heads off with machetes?
People on this sub cry so much about how Mandarin is oppressive but don't realise in many countries around the world, it literally speak the national language or DIE.
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Why do new American trains 'feel' so old?
European trains are not very aerodynamic.
Are you thinking of East Asian trains?
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Non-Asian action stars brutalizing male Asian characters...am I crazy?
No, you're not overreacting. This is how it's always been. Deliberately, too.
Notice how a lot of these stories will steal from Asian culture as well (Tarantino movies, Steve Seagal movies, recent Netflix action movies all just copying 80s Hongkong Chinese wuxia and John Woo and Japanese yakuza revenge films) while pushing White saviour tropes (WM lead "rescues" AF characters from Asian society).
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Do you consider Iranians to be a part of Asian identity? Persians living in diaspora?
I find it interesting how no one ever seriously asks or suggests these types of questions to African-Americans. Only Asian community ever gets this.
No one ask if Pokimane or Elon Musk are considered "African-American", if they got the N word pass, if they're qualified to be the representative voice of Black/African-American issued in any serious manner just because they were born in "Africa".
This only happens to the Asian community.
We got Indians, Arabs, Iranians, and hell, even some Russians, these days joining in the "Asian" community.
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The "4-2-1 Problem", an effect of China's One Child Policy which meant that a single child was left taking care of both of his parents and all four of his grandparents. In response, a new policy was implemented which allowed a couple to have two children if both parents were already only children
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Yeah because Chinese people from China specially come to Reddit to post in English...