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People don’t appreciate what a lovely language Cantonese is.

For ex, the word for “happy” (hoi1 sum1) means “to open the heart”. That’s beautiful! ❤️
Also “careful” is “siu2 sum1,” or “little heart”.

Those small dishes you eat in Chinatown, “dim2 sum1” means “to touch the heart”
"Worried" is "daam1 sum1" or "to carry the heart"

"Sad" is "soeng1 sum1" or "to hurt the heart"
As others have pointed out, these translations are also the same in Mandarin :)
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Lmao the US media propaganda machine churned all these out in the last week or so, what stage of coping is this
This is in addition to these over the last few months. Central to all of pieces is that they never ask you to question these politically vacuous terms like “democracy” or “authoritarianism.”

One is always synonymous with the West, the other China.
I’ve read so many of these articles, and they’re pretty much indistinguishable from one another.

For instance, you can always count on them to fall back on the lazy orientalist “collectivism (East) vs. individualism (West)” argument.
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US media follows orientalist tradition of not defining China as it actually is, but rather in its perceived relation to the West, so that China never fully exists on its own terms, but is instead held up as a foil to Western civilizational superiority 1/
This orientalist representation operates on two axes, the political & the cultural:

political: as a gov’t, China is imagined as an authoritarian regime, a human rights disaster, lying/deceitful, a political crisis to be solved thru implementation of West. liberal democracy 2/
Cultural: as a people, China is imagined as morally inferior, a “backwards” civilization, barbaric, filthy, diseased, so cruel that they will eat anything that moves 3/
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Why are we blaming China for this outbreak in the US when we should be blaming rich people from NYC
Here's something to fuel your rage

“Why not both” is not analysis. This virus has been politicized from the very beginning and blaming China serves a particular political function.
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