Why I moved from China to the US for university

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• qevlarr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Me learning Mandarin for now fucking reason whatsoever:

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• Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t like travelling, so I chose to develop an attachment to the Indigenous country whose stolen land I live on. That way I can learn their culture and language from home.

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• StillAlive@piefed.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Me and pre-2016 USA fr.

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  • MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Really? Because even before Trump, things were sliding into authoritarianism around here pretty quick. Maybe pre-9/11 USA? But honestly, that was our biggest period of economic exploitation of developing countries. As long as I’ve been alive, I cannot think of a single time my home country has been a good guy on the international stage.

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    • PapstJL4U@lemmy.world [bot] ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The US has amazing nature. I wanted to do the Appalachian trail, but current visa reqs stop me from ever going to the USA. :(

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    • Sabin10@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, as a Canadian I’m pretty glad I don’t live south of the border. Things are a little better up here but the cost of living to income ratio is worse so the US does have that going for them.

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• WoodScientist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And not just the real famous ones! I want to see a white guy in the US just completely obsessed and fanboying over the Gambia.

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  • DillDough@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    White guy in the US here, I’m obsessed with Suriname. Most people I mention it to don’t even know it exists, and like half of them will still walk away from the conversation thinking I’m talking about either Africa or Asia even after I explicitly mention the continent and population.

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• Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Taiwan my beloved.

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• medem@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Why is this true? Any psychologist here that could briefly explain this effect/phenomenon/watchacallit?

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  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Paris Syndrome.

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    • medem@lemmy.wtf ⁨48⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Doesn’t look like it’s the same thing tbh.

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• KraeuterRoy@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve reached the point in this cycle where I begin to realize that I should never go there - lest my dreams are crushed by the awful reality we live in rn.

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• yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hiroshi Suzuki has entered the chat

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