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[-] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 25 points 18 hours ago

I’m not saying she was right, but I will say, if I was flying from the United States to Mexico, I would be very confused if the flight crew only spoke Chinese.

[-] Redvenom@retrolemmy.com 39 points 21 hours ago

The 'everyone should adapt to my needs' shit needs to end for all countries

[-] Siegfried@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Si, me tienen las pelotas re contra llenas

[-] smeenz@lemmy.nz 2 points 19 hours ago

Lo siento. Toma esta pelota.

[-] ichwillhierraus@feddit.org 1 points 18 hours ago

Havent seem the video, but in dpanair they do speak spainidh and i do not accept they cant.

[-] lobut@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 day ago

People being surprised that bad people can come from other countries is a weird take on US exceptionalism that I didn't expect.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

Lots of countries have their own exceptionalism going on. Especially in the demographics that can afford to travel.

[-] ech@lemmy.ca 20 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Really? I see it every time. Bad thing happens in US: "Of course it did. Where else could it?" Bad thing happens outside of US: "Wow. [Other Place] really acting like the US here." Apparently racism, violence, and most other human sins only exist in the US to some people. It's weird.

[-] Soulg@ani.social 11 points 21 hours ago

This, but especially since Trump was elected again it's been notched up to 11,000. It's quite annoying actually

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[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Didn't expect a Chinese Karen on my timeline this morning.

[-] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 5 points 19 hours ago

This makes me wonder: what is the Mandarin-language equivalent of the American "Karen?"

[-] BurnedDonutHole@ani.social 91 points 1 day ago

Unless you experienced Asian racism you didn't experience racism fully. They don't like anyone, even their own people. I've witness people being racist because someone is from another village let alone a city or country. I wonder if they also hate themselves as well.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 7 hours ago

seems like classist/elitist, than racism.

[-] rozodru@piefed.world 34 points 1 day ago

I play EVE Online which has a decently sized Chinese playerbase and my god those racist fucks would give racists in the west a run for their money. See it daily of "small brained whites" or "The whites are here" or "white pig" or "sleepy whites".

But as soon as you joke and say "man it looks like the Tianamen Square Massacre of 1989 in here" in local chat they all collectively freak out on you.

[-] Siegfried@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Well man, they just are being mean and you suddenly drop a -100k social credit account bomb with area of effect.

[-] NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.net 5 points 19 hours ago

I mean, people in a town I lived in were upset because kids from the next town over were using the public swimming pool. This was in northern Virginia, so not liking people from another village anywhere in the world hardly seems strange.

[-] zeejoo@thelemmy.club 49 points 1 day ago

Wouldn't hating someone from another village just be like generic Xenophobia? I can't imagine two villagers from the same Asian country but two different villages are genetically distinct enough to count as different "races". Or are we just using "racist" to mean "bigoted"

[-] Klear@quokk.au 33 points 1 day ago

Race is a social construct, not genetic.

[-] srecko@lemmy.zip 9 points 23 hours ago

I agree, but that construct has a specific meaning, we don't consider a random person from nearby village to be a different race.

[-] ech@lemmy.ca 8 points 22 hours ago

"We" isn't as universal as you are suggesting here.

[-] srecko@lemmy.zip 2 points 18 hours ago

Tuk me a while but you are right. Didn't think about it enough.

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Depends. Many Asian countries consists of many different ethnic groups. So they do see each other as different races.

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[-] setsubyou@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago

I've witness people being racist because someone is from another village

We have this in Germany too. Traditionally, the area where I live hates the area where I was born. These two places are maybe an hour apart and in the same state. All because they were governed by different nobles ages ago who had different ideas about Christianity. Tbh though it was much more of a thing in my parents’ generation.

[-] mech@feddit.org 47 points 1 day ago

In Germany, hating others based on where they were born becomes more socially accepted the closer the "other" gets.
Hating people from other countries is bad, hating people from East Germany is problematic, hating people from the neighboring German state is OK and hating people from the neighboring village is funny.

[-] nysqin@feddit.org 10 points 1 day ago

Damn, that's surprisingly apt.

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[-] tal@lemmy.today 110 points 1 day ago

A Kuala Lumpur-bound AirAsia flight

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

AirAsia X Berhad (MYX: 5238), operating as AirAsia, is a Malaysian multinational low-cost airline headquartered near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

I mean, you're on a budget Malaysian airline flying to Malaysia.

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

National language (official): Malay[a][b][c]
Recognised languages: English[c]

[-] hr_@lemmy.world 46 points 1 day ago

Don't get me wrong, this woman is a Karen and actually quite typical of the mainland China entitlement and behavior. BUT there's a massive amount of mandarin speaking people in Malaysia to the point where it's a destination for mainland Chinese. Not excusing her ridiculous behavior but providing context here.

[-] bearboiblake@pawb.social 36 points 1 day ago

I wonder what the Chinese equivalent of a Karen is...

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