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Teaching in Japan: My Daily life

Please check out my new video on my youtube channel. I talk about my job and everything that I have to do in my daily schedule. This will help you get an idea of what I do in Japan.

#black in japan #japan #working in japan #osaka #travel

gahdamnpunk

The name took me out 😭😭 Also peep how they didn’t need to wear blackface

yesdarinaus

tohaveandhavenot86

felderwin

my favorite thing i’ve learned in college is that way back in ancient china there was this poet/philosopher guy who wrote this whole pretentious poem about how enlightened he was that was like “the eight winds cannot move me” blahblahblah and he was really proud of it so he sent it to his friend who lived across the lake and then his friend sends it back and just writes “FART” (or the ancient Chinese equivalent) on it and he was SO MAD he travels across the lake to chew his friend out and when he gets there his friend says “wow. the eight winds cannot move you, but one fart sends you across the lake”

agnesmontague

i googled this bc i desperately wanted this to be real, and guess what…it is.

the dude’s name was su dongpo (also known as su shi). his original poem went like this:

稽首天中天，

毫光照大千，

八風吹不動，

端坐紫金蓮

(Humbly bowed my head below all skies Minutest lights shine through my deepest bounds Immovable by strong winds from eight sides Upon purplish gold lotus I seated straightly by the low mound) (x)

on which his friend wrote “放屁” (fart, literally), and you know the rest.

(here’s a chinese source for the skeptics)

hexmaniacmareen

can you imagine having your brutal murder described in detail to future generations

lizawithazed

this is my new favourite story from history

thacmis

Just an addition: “fart” also is slang for “bullshit” in Chinese, so his friend was basically writing “BS” on the dude’s ego poem

tracing-rivers

Since I was told this was way too hard to read, I’m putting it here again in another format.

So again, short introduction to one of my favorite historical figures, Wu Zetian.

And again, credits to French artist Pénélope Bagieu (I only translated)

Take a look at those about Mae Jemison or N’Zinga!

fuckyeahchinesefashion

Moon cake by Mocarlo·Ark

alexander

“They’ll understand me in Japan”

dressesofchina

Cartoon drawings of Tang-dynasty paintings and figurines by 焦响乐

dressesofchina

Papercutting stopmotion animation of a fairy in hanfu

ziseviolet

The Golden Conch/金色的海螺 is a 1963 animated film produced by Shanghai Animation Film Studio. It tells the story of a sea conch fairy named Hailuo who falls in love with a poor fisherman named Aniu, in spite of her mother (the sea queen)’s wrath. The story is adapted from the Chinese folktale “The Snail Girl”, in which a river snail girl falls for a farmer. The animation style is based on traditional Chinese shadow puppets and papercutting art.

npr

Aretha Franklin, the “Queen of Soul,” died Thursday in her home city of Detroit after battling pancreatic cancer. Her death was confirmed by her publicist, Gwendolyn Quinn. She was 76.

Franklin sold more than 75 million records during her life, making her one of the best-selling artists of all time. She took soul to a new level and inspired generations of singers who came after her.

No one’s life can be condensed to one word — but Aretha Franklin came close when she sang one word: “respect.”

“Respect” was written by the great Otis Redding. In his version, a man is pleading, offering his woman anything she wants in exchange for her respect. He sang: “Hey little girl, you’re sweeter than honey / And I’m about to give you all of my money / But all I want you to do / Is just give it, give it / Respect when I come home …”

Aretha changed those lyrics to demand parity. “Oooh, your kisses,” she sang, “Sweeter than honey / And guess what? / So is my money …” In her hands, “Respect” became an empowering song — for black women and for all women. It was a No. 1 hit in 1967, and it became her signature song.

Franklin was 25 years old when “Respect” was released. But she had been singing since she was a small child in her father’s New Bethel Baptist Church.

Aretha Franklin, The ‘Queen Of Soul,’ Dies At 76

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