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Musings of an idiot 20-something. Posts do not reflect any actual beliefs, but are rather meant to incite and be insightful at times. Or it's comic book postings.

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White Student Union (Vice Documentary)

I watched almost all of this until the video messed up. I strongly recommend it!

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There's also the Salon article from one of his professors.

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[gailsimone]

What the hell IS this?

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Dropping American Polandball comics for Memorial day.

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who is this person and where can i hero-worship her

[meredithyang-blog]

Pardon me for interrupting, but why would you “hero-worship her”??

I am Chinese, I grew up in Guangdong and now live in Beijing. My surname is Yang (杨/楊 in simplified/traditional Chinese characters). And allow me, a born-and-raised-and-live-in-China Chinese, not so humbly inform you: Both Cho and Chang ARE Chinese words pronounced in the Cantonese dialect (the major dialect spoken in Guangdong and Hong Kong), and they are written as 秋 (or any homophones) and 张/張 in Chinese characters. Ask any Cantonese-speaking Chinese, and they’ll tell you this. And SURPRISE: both Cho and Chang can be used as first name AND last name in Chinese.

To sum it up: The girl speaking in this gifset clearly has NO knowledge at all of Chinese language, and is acting very presumptuous about it. And to me, that is a case of racism.

EDIT: Quoting from wikipedia, “Chang is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname 常 (Cháng). It was listed 80th among the Song-era Hundred Family Surnames” and “is also the Wade-Giles romanization of two Chinese surnames written Zhang in pinyin: one extremely common and written 張 in traditional characters and 张 in simplified characters and another quite rare and written as 章 in both systems.