#seasian — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #seasian, aggregated by home.social.
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Met a #SEAsian in Japan who uses an abbreviation to mask their clearly Islamic name.
I certainly know Indians who hide their family names to avoid caste discrimination (or, in some cases, to hide their association as an upper-caste).
I know that #Japanese people don't perceive Islam as positively as many do Hinduism, unfortunately, and perhaps, they had good reasons to change their name here.
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Some fascinating data on #tourism in #Japan
Only 1-2% of #US, #Europe and #Australia visitors stay outside major metro areas (#Kyoto, #Osaka and #Tokyo)
For Asian (#Taiwan, #Korea, #HongKong #SEAsian tourists? 20-40%.
Interesting, according to this data, #Chinese tourists act more like #westerners than Asians.
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The worst type of #tourist in #Japan are the westerners who complain about #Chinese tourists (quite often, actually #Taiwanese, #Korean or #SEAsian but they don't know or care to tell the difference) and don't realize that it's actually them who are the most annoying.
I see way more bad or stupid behavior, especially in #Kyoto, from western tourists than Asian tourists.
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Here are the details on another amazing #BigBadOnline2024 panel with @tanshaohan and @curiouschimeras!
Join them as they we provide some #SEAsian perspective that aren't the "Western" experiences of culture! #RepresentationMatters
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Euphemisms in a #climate talk - in one #SEAsian country, "anti-corruption" drive is creating "policy uncertainty" that harms progress on the #energytransition.
Of course, the "anti-corruption" drive they are referring to is the arbitrary arrest of environmentalist and human right defenders by an increasingly #authoritarian government.
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Observations on food in #Taiwan.
- So many great vegetarian options compared to Japan.
- At the same time. nearly no #Indian/South Asian restaurants - whereas so many in #Japan. Why is that? Lack of diaspora or lack of interest?
- Despite the large #SEAsian diaspora, very few #Indonesian/#Vietnamese restaurants outside migrant neighborhoods.
- #Japanese is definitely the most popular foreign cuisine in Taiwan.