I actually know the differences between Asian languages just so that I can be better at racism.
I take it very seriously.
Ahh, the counterpart to casual racism: ranked competitive racism
So, basically the Republican party.
there's a lot of people who are racers, but this man is the racIST
Now everyone can click it.
I knew what this would be and still clicked on it. I'll always watch that clip.
I can definitely tell the difference when I hear most of them; but I'd not be able to identify most of them specifically. Then again, I'm not racist and am fascinated by a lot of Asian culture so I am exposed to a wide range of languages from that part of the world. 🤷🏻♂️
I'll be honest, I doubt racists can differentiate between Spanish and any Asian Language
Your comment reminded me of this gem of a candidate. Some of y'all gotta remember--the 2010 candidate for Nevada's Senate seat who thought a reasonable alternative to Obamacare was bartering chickens and the like.
Oh god I remember this....
Did he just not know that healthcare bills cost in the thousands and the only thing people have that would equal that in value would be their house or car? Or was he being facetious and just coming up with excuses? I can't tell the difference between "stupid" and "evil" anymore.
That poor reporter's last name is Condom in Spanish
Wait the northern border??
Isn't that one of the main jokes in the Borat movies? When the characters are yelling at each other in Kazakh it's all a mixture of Hebrew, Bulgarian, polish, Armenian, Romanian, and a ton of other phrases and sayings?
How ridiculous! Next thing that dude is going to tell me, Asia is not a country!
Everyone knows Asia is a band from the 80's!
Someone created a system with the acronym ASIA here at work, and every time someone says it, I hear "It was the heat of the moment..." in my head.
I mean I can't and I'm not racist.
Til Thai is also a tonal language. It has 5 tones.
Most Sino-Tibetan languages (including most modern Chinese, Tibetan, and Burmese varieties), all Kra-Dai languages (including Thai and Lao), all Hmong-Mien languages, and a few other languages near the region (specifically, Vietnamese and Tsat) have tones. Japonic and Koreanic languages both have tones, but historically they've been very simplistic with only 2 tones (pitch accent) although Middle Korean developed 3 tones which then went back to 2. Pitch accent is entirely eliminated in Seoul Korean though. Hmong-Mien languages are the most tonal languages in the world, with up to 12 tones in some languages.
Tones generally seem to be a highly contagious areal feature, interestingly enough. At least in southeast Asian languages, an important shared feature between them was the reduction or loss of final consonants which usually ended up in a tonal system.
That's not what the thing says.
Well, I don't like your tone, so change it.
Well if you speak Tagalog, they'll hate you for being Mexican.
Growing up in the rural south, you can be doing much less than just speaking Tagalog for a Filipino to be confused for a Mexican 😂 I'm half, but my full brother and mother always got confused for Mexican for sure just because they're brown with some cheek bones
Why is that Mexican eating chicken and pasgetti?!
Goddamn ancient Mexicans
This one is really making the c/whitepeopletwitter community title seems extra ridiculous.
Oh, there's noticeable differences but the people who care don't know and and the people who know don't care.
This reminds me of some racists that shot up a Sikh temple to own the Muslims.
https://theweek.com/articles/473339/sikh-temple-shooting-mistaken-antimuslim-terrorism
Thai language originated in China, and was displaced by the Han people.
yeah and every racist definitely knows that
Definitely. I'm very confident they would even be able to point out that area on a world map.
Having watched that one clip of amphibia where Polly claims to have learned fluent Thai by watching rom coms, Thai sounds VERY different from Mandarin.
That being said, I think even this guy is being a bit naïve, the racists aren't mad you're speaking an Asian language, they aren't busting out a phrase book to check and make sure those tones are Punjabi and not Tibetan or whatever. They're mad you're speaking any language they can't understand at all. Why?
Because every last one of these redcaps has an incurable complex surrounding being incensed by the idea of having a fast one pulled on them or their property or their beliefs. They're dead against emergency exemptions for abortion bans and even treating women who miscarry more sympathetically than "with complete and absolute contempt" because they're living in a nightmarish hellscape where literally every woman is already plotting to use those claims to sneak an "unneeded" abortion past them.
They don't see speaking a different language as you just talking, they see it as you talking shit about them because the world revolves around them and why else would you "go out of your way" to avoid them being able to
eeves dropoverhear if you're saying something untoward? I could be speaking french with my teacher over a culture lesson and these people would only skip the racism to instead accuse me of spying on them and talking shit in front of their faces to rub in that they can't understand what I'm saying.I have gotten dirty looks for talking to my dog in gaelic(she understood commands in both english and gaelic). The US really isn't friendly to any other languages at all. I'm also in a blue state.
It's gotta be WAY worse for POC. Like... scary worse...especially for folks stuck in red states. There are some cultural aspects of the US that really need updating. Like the rampant xenophobia.
Even if they can tell the difference why would they care? Let's say I hate white people..do I care about where they are from?? Canada? Australia? I would hate you just the same. 🥰
Just in case, make sure to bring a Canadian flag pin if you go backpacking.
"Hey ya'll, ahm frum Canadia! Ya'll got inny collurd greens?!"
Canada America's mask!
sa wa de ka
Sabaidee mai krup
Sadwk sbay
Thuk khn samarth heyiyd cheux chati di
Shenzhi zhongguo ren
That one is so old.
However, calling it racist bein unable to differentiate between Asian languages is a bit farfetched. I mean I am a European and I can't distinguish most European languages, simply because I don't know them.
I don't think he is saying that an inability to differentiate between foreign languages is racist, but rather that given a random shithead who holds truly racist beliefs, it is unlikely they will be able to recognize differences between Asian languages.
To put it more generically, most people in Set A exhibit Trait B, but having Trait B alone does not mean you are a member of Set A.
He probably meant that her mother thought if they spoke thai instead of mandarin, racists wouldn't think about their "every asians speak chinese" stereotypes.
