TargaryenTKE
@TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 4 days ago:
I feel you, I still feel like I barely know how to speak English 🙃
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 5 days ago:
I definitely should’ve worded the post better but yeah I didn’t mean to imply that it’s never taught in the states. Just that my personal experience in the system (also southern but urban) didn’t really give me any chances 😕 But honestly a large reason for that probably just came from my particular setting (I’m NOT typing that whole thing out again but in one of my reply threads I go into more detail on the weird things I grew up learning)
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 5 days ago:
Ahhh I get it now. Thank you for clarifying 🙂
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 5 days ago:
Damn, I like your reply
Gee, thanks buddy 😁 As for the subconsciousness peeking through and being taken as conviction… yeah, there are pris and cons to either method. Overall though, to me, life is too short to worry about it too much. I hope you have a fantastic rest of your week 🙂
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 5 days ago:
Fair enough. Also thanks for not being one of the comments saying ‘they definitely exist in America how dare you’ 🙄 I could’ve worded it better but the goal of the post was to find edicational systems different than the one I personally went through, not to try to define all of America’s system in a few sentences. I put a fairly detailed description of that in one of my other replies if you’re curious but regardless, thanks for your time 🙂
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 5 days ago:
Follow-up question: business schools? As in, specialization before high school graduation? I know there are a handful of ‘premier’ schools here in the states but most of them are expensive, exclusionary, and focused on simply getting INTO a better university (prep schools). Most of us just go through general public education which can vary wildly and you definitely do not (in most cases) get to choose between the “business” branch or the “engineering” branch
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 5 days ago:
I mean, it felt pretty natural to me. None of that synthetic THC-A nonsense. I’m willing to admit it wasn’t my most intelligent moment though 🤣
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 5 days ago:
Idk that’s just, like, my opinion, man… But I think it opens up lots of possibilities for humanity long-term. But yeah no, I’m not AI, just awkward and forward
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 6 days ago:
Fair enough. Thanks for the input buddy 😁
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 6 days ago:
Yeah, a lot of these comments seem to think I meant “Mandarin isn’t taught anywhere in the US” when really my point was that the particular schools I attended did not have it available. But that’s on me as OP. Thanks for your input 😁
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 6 days ago:
Yeah, my main lesson I’ve learned here is to type the draft while high, but only press Send after I’ve come down 😅 I don’t think it is now or will be in our lifetimes, BUT I do think that if a universal human language were possible, it would be more beneficial to base it on a Tonal system than an Atonal one (sorry Esperanto). But that is just my opinion, feel free to disagree, and thank you for your input 😁
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 6 days ago:
Not gonna lie, I can understand the Mandarin since you are geographically neighborly, but the German is surprising. Was that just your high school?
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 6 days ago:
Valid points, I appreciate that 🙏 Most of your question can be answered by the fact that I was high when I wrote the post and am just tired of using my filter in real life and I feel safe here on Lemmy.
And honestly, my specific Elementary school was very… unique. Looked them up a few months ago and they’re a few degrees of separation from Reformed Calvinists. Like, more than half of the faculty come from 2 small Evangelical universities in the middle of the Great Plains. They taught some usual stuff like math and spelling, but then there was also lots of time dedicated to studying the Bible, learned two different songs to memorize the order of the books, we had a “Bring your Priest to School Day,” yeah it was just a liiiiiiitle off.
I see your point in my (unintentional) divide into “christian/religios vs chinese” and nowadays I would never try to imply anything resembling that. Now that you mention it though, I do remember one day in 1st(?) grade where they had all the students come and listen to a sermon by a guest preacher (this was fairly common) and somehow the topic of ‘Chinese water torture’ came up? (I don’t remember anything more specific than that, I was very young, but I think a connection was made that shouldn’t have been)
As for the paranoia (besides the above annecdote), that was also unintentional. I wish I understood more about
non-Americanculture and as an avid lover of history, I know a lot of times influence is not merely who won which battle and was curious to see if anyone else had more tangible examples than just theories or video game-logic.Overall, the whole point of this was just to talk to somebody so thank you for that 🥰
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 6 days ago:
Danke schön. This was basically the ‘format’ of answers I was expecting. I believe some language options existed earlier than this for my situation, but it was never a requirement until high school, and even then, a lot of students (around me/from my perspective) didn’t care about it all that much
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 6 days ago:
As OP, I have no problem with your critiques. And I wasn’t saying I think it will be like that at any point during OUR lifetimes. Like the post said, I was just curious because in my childhood (30 years ago), I knew more about the solar system than I did about China ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 6 days ago:
Whoa whoa whoa, I’m no AI troll, I was just high when I made it 🤪
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 6 days ago:
Whoa whoa whoa, I’m no AI troll, I was just high when I made it 🤪
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 6 days ago:
Never said they were perfect. And you’re right, they were wrong in their beliefs about a sun god thirsting for blood. But me personally, I would rather be a warrior in their Flower Wars with at least a CHANCE to make my way in the world instead of the capitalist hellscape of the modern era where every path just leads to more suffering
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- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 1 week ago:
America has always been a place where transactions matter more than people. At least, it has been that way ever since European discovery. Native Americans were nowhere near this inhumane
- Comment on Mammal 1 week ago:
There it is!
- Comment on Read what you preach, jackass 1 week ago:
Phlegmwads?
- Comment on Friendly reminder 1 week ago:
Mites gotta mate
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 1 week ago:
Chapter Master: Adeptus Dominus
Essentially a free, fan-made 40k game originally made like 20 years ago by one guy who has since moved on. Now it’s a small team who drop semi-regular updates on github. Also, it runs on Linux
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 4 weeks ago:
You’ve given me a fair bit to think about, but looking at your responses to most of the other comments in this thread, it seems like you’re just out for a good argument. I have no problem with that (within reason) but I’ll be honest, I just don’t have the energy to engage with it today.
Again, you have given me a good amount to ponder, I hope there are no hard feelings. My apologies if I insulted or upset you in any way. I hope you have a good day
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 4 weeks ago:
1-You had to actually watch the full movie to get any of that context
2-It’s still Cruise’s face front and center on every piece of promotional art
3-As much as I hate that this is true, the vast majority of people who saw that movie did not do so because they heard Ken Watanabe was in it
- Comment on 4 fundamental forces 1 month ago:
I do
- Comment on ‘Royal Pains’ Reboot Starring Mark Feuerstein In Works At NBC 1 month ago:
Oh goodie, ANOTHER piece of media to show off how the wealthy get to break all the rules with practically no consequences
- Comment on Fable delayed to 2026 2 months ago:
Oh no. Anyway
- Comment on American Dad!’s Future TBD as TBS’ Run of Originals Nears Its End 2 months ago:
As it should be