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Timeless

“I have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is done, to do the timeless doing.” ― Jack Kerouac

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That amber glow.

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Olympics! オリンピック！

It’s nearly time for the Olympics! Here’s a list of vocab. Click here for furigana.

第３１回オリンピック競技大会 - the 31st Olympic Games

五輪 or オリンピック - Olympics

夏季オリンピック - summer Olympics

冬季オリンピック - winter Olympics

オリンピック競技 - Olympic sports

競技場 - stadium

オリンピック聖火 - Olympic flame

聖火トーチ - Olympic torch

聖火リレー - Olympic torch relay

聖火台 - Olympic cauldron

開会式 - opening ceremony

閉会式 - closing ceremony

You can see all the current sports here and read about them as well. If you want furigana, click here instead.

If you’re on instagram, why not follow Team Nippon?

gooニュース have set up a page for Olympic news here.

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family reunion 年夜饭 nián yè fàn

China nation has a strong family concept and always have family reunion in some important days. Family Reunion Dinner is an essential custom on New Year’s Eve. They usually enjoy a big feast this day. And dumpling and fish are must during the Family Reunion Dinner on New Year’s Eve. Some people will put a coin inside one dumpling. The people who eat this dumpling will be to thought be a lucky guy. The fish could not be eaten out because the fish means extra things by partial tone. And it represents the wish for a prosperous year with abundant and even extra wealth and luck.

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Arabica Saturday started! (via junichi_yamaguchi)

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Traditional Chinese fashion. 霓裳 by illustrator KUZI

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“ Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts ” - Sigmund Freud © niknyllenne

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3Ikebukuro150831099 by Morihiro MATSUSHIRO

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Dragana @lolypopp3.

Happy Sunday!

The City in the Sea

LO! Death has reared himself a throne In a strange city lying alone Far down within the dim West, Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best Have gone to their eternal rest. There shrines and palaces and towers (Time-eaten towers that tremble not) Resemble nothing that is ours. Around, by lifting winds forgot, Resignedly beneath the sky The melancholy waters lie.

No rays from the holy heaven come down On the long night-time of that town; But light from out the lurid sea Streams up the turrets silently, Gleams up the pinnacles far and free: Up domes, up spires, up kingly halls, Up fanes, up Babylon-like walls, Up shadowy long-forgotten bowers Of sculptured ivy and stone flowers, Up many and many a marvellous shrine Whose wreathëd friezes intertwine The viol, the violet, and the vine.

Resignedly beneath the sky The melancholy waters lie. So blend the turrets and shadows there That all seem pendulous in air, While from a proud tower in the town Death looks gigantically down.

There open fanes and gaping graves Yawn level with the luminous waves; But not the riches there that lie In each idol’s diamond eye,— Not the gayly-jewelled dead, Tempt the waters from their bed; For no ripples curl, alas, Along that wilderness of glass; No swellings tell that winds may be Upon some far-off happier sea; No heavings hint that winds have been On seas less hideously serene!

But lo, a stir is in the air! The wave—there is a movement there! As if the towers had thrust aside, In slightly sinking, the dull tide; As if their tops had feebly given A void within the filmy Heaven! The waves have now a redder glow, The hours are breathing faint and low; And when, amid no earthly moans, Down, down that town shall settle hence, Hell, rising from a thousand thrones, Shall do it reverence.

Edgar Allan Poe

#poe #edgar allan poe #the city in the sea #poem #poetry

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This is a map of Asia. North Americans, you may notice this map is not solely comprised of Japan, Korea, China and Thailand. People in the UK, you may notice India is not a continent. That is, if those of you who generalize entire continents can even pinpoint India on a map. Indians are Asian, gasp! And not all brown skinned people are Indian, also, gasp! There are an alarming amount of people, of all ages, from all backgrounds, who seem to be unable to process this.

I’m ethnically Asian. Since Asia is an extremely large continent, I could be from any number of countries. I am neither from India, China, Korea, Japan or Pakistan, yet not so surprisingly, I am still Asian.

Yes, there are commonalities across regions, through the conflation of cultures, colonialism, globalization, transnationalism and movement of diasporas. Sometimes these are all the same thing. Rickshaws, rice and curry can be found across the continent. But let’s not overgeneralize. You can also find Buddhists, Catholics, Muslims and Hindus across Asia. Cantonese Speaking Chinese Muslims! English Speaking Indian Jews!

No, we are not all the same. Orientalism? (Please look up Edward Said for basic concepts) No thank you.

Geography, people. It’s important.

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This pops up on my dash every so often. I reblog it again, not just because I wrote it, but because nothing has changed since I first posted this.

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What’s cool about Iran is that it falls in 3 different regions of Asia so depending on what part of Iran you’re in, you can kind of get culture shocked a bit. The central and western part of the country is West Asia, the north east is Central Asia, and the southeast is in South Asia.

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To the folks wondering about Russia being included, I want to mention that the cultural debates and angst about that has been going on for CENTURIES. While France has been pretty fetishized all the way back from Peter the Great, there is no question that we are not Europe, even with that influence showing really obviously in historical seats of power like St. Petersburg. Nonetheless, the whole country was under control of the Mongols (The Golden Horde) from roughly 1242 to 1480, and that left an enormous Mongolian and Tatar heritage that remains to this day. The ancient Scythians are huge in the cultural imagination as well. And besides… look at the Russians who are outside the standard “Kievan Rus” phenotype (which most folks assume is how all Russians look.)

Here are three of the 30 distinct ethnic groups in Siberia alone:

Buryat grandfather, photo by Alexander Newby

Evenk children, photo by Evgenia Arbugaeva

Young Yakut couple, photographer unknown

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AS SOMEONE WITH NORTHERN IRANIAN (AZERBAIJANI)/RUSSIAN/ HAZARA-PERSIAN/ UYGHUR-CHINESE ANCESTRY THIS IS SUCH A BEAUTIFUL POST

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And that’s why sometimes you’ll see a person with curly black hair, pale skin, and hazel-green eyes (my grand-father’s sister) who turn out to be Chinese. Mad recessive genes game at play, I swear. Mongols, they really got around.

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I will reblog this post whenever I’ll see it. Like, as yakutian person I thank you for including Yakuts, man!

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“This is a map of Asia. North Americans, you may notice this map is not solely comprised of Japan, Korea, China and Thailand.”

//snots and laughs a bit

…I’ll consider that day extremely lucky if I find someone who has no idea how many countries there are in Asia but kindly includes Thailand among the Eastern Asia countries…

……wait, or maybe they confuse us with Taiwan again??

#asia #map #map of asia #world