Meme & Quote Thread

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1) experts are not gods

2) ignorance is not as good as expertise

3) doing one's own research is to be encouraged

4) doing one's own research on the internet should not be confused for being an expert

5) everyone is entitled to their opinion, but we should be careful about how much weight to attach to various people's opinions

Happy Father's Day to all the fathers out there!
 
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Those are brutal. Went to read the rest of their 'oppressive language list' out of curiosity.

Apparently 'long time no see' is mocking broken English from Asians. The term 'spirit animal' is cultural appropriation. The term 'abusive relationship' should instead be framed as 'relationship with an abuser' because the relationship doesn't abuse, the person does. The term 'victim' should be replaced with 'person who has experienced' to consider the person first.

I know the rule of thumb is not to take a shot at Brandeis, but it seems that they've gone off the reservation.
 
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btw chop suey is an American dish and chicken tikka masala is english.

they were developed by Chinese and South Asians in the hopes they would appeal to people in their new countries

the idea of appropriation and misappropriation is bizarre...if someone else borrows one of my ideas or recipes i would consider that to be a compliment
 
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During his travels in the United States, Liang Qichao, a Guangdong (Canton) native, wrote in 1903 that there existed in the United States a food item called chop suey which was popularly served by Chinese restaurateurs, but which local Chinese people do not eat, because the cooking technique is "really awful".

from humble origins...

btw American Chinese cuisine is now considered a respectable regional genre along with Sichuan, etc

The Chinese Exclusion Act allowed merchants to enter the country, and in 1915, restaurant owners became eligible for merchant visas. This fueled the opening of Chinese restaurants as an immigration vehicle. Pekin Noodle Parlor (in Butte, Montana!), established in 1911, is the oldest operating Chinese restaurant in the country. As of 2015, the United States had 46,700 Chinese restaurants.

Along the way, cooks adapted southern Chinese dishes such as chop suey and developed a style of Chinese food not found in China. Restaurants (along with Chinese laundries) provided an ethnic niche for small businesses at a time when Chinese people were excluded from most jobs in the wage economy by ethnic discrimination or lack of language fluency. By the 1920s, this cuisine, particularly chop suey, became popular among middle-class Americans. However, after World War II it began to be dismissed for not being "authentic".
 
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Fact: The last colder-than-average month globally, compared to the 20th century average, was February 1985. Each of the past three decades has been hotter than the one before it.
 
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