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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAsian girl is a wonderful "home maker" (wink) Share something positive about Asia or Asians
A whole channel of unique "off grid" builds by a young woman with just survivalist tools.
Such an industrious young person, so much knowledge and tenacity.
Just WOW!
https://www.youtube.com/c/PrimitiveSurvivalLife/featured
IF so many creepers are going to hate on our Asian brothers and sisters, let DU show some love here.
TigressDem
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(5,125 posts)She MADE a bed for the house out of bamboo
TigressDem
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(5,125 posts)leftyladyfrommo
(18,872 posts)TigressDem
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(5,125 posts)I will check tomorrow for any feedback and to see what others see as beautiful, positive or inspiring examples of our Asian brothers and sisters.
Because WE ARE ONE RACE - THE HUMAN RACE.
Disrespect one and you disrespect all.
THE TIME FOR HATE IS SO OVER.
Haters just don't know it yet.
Preaching to the choir, I know.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Amazing!
I love the Asian collectivist perspective, their food, & medical approach!
Remember when covid was first rampant in NY & an Asian female healthcare worker was questioned about why she was wearing a mask? Covidiots could not wrap their egocentric minds around the fact that she was masking to protect others.
Speaks volumes to me!
TigressDem
(5,125 posts)Cov-idiots.... love that.
People who can't see the good in the world are the ones that are broken, not people who want to be kind and cooperative.
Ya' know, "Love your neighbor" kind of thing.... but not the way creepy Matt loves his neighbor's kids. EWWW.
2naSalit
(86,798 posts)It might just be me but whenever I meet someone who is from a different culture, this includes lifelong Americans, I become curious about them and their culture. I have enough sense to be respectful of whatever differences there may be to avoid making them uncomfortable. It's just that I have always been exposed to a variety of cultures and it amazes me to see what other parts of the world have going on in their past and present.
TigressDem
(5,125 posts)She grew up in Taos, NM near an Indian Reservation and when she got mad at stuff going on at home she sometimes ran away and stayed with people on the Res.
She got raped by family members, beaten and treated like an idiot even though at 13 she could have gone to college according to the school she attended. Her Mom left him, but that left her as a single Mom in the 40's and 50's raising 5 kids alone.
But whatever culture she found herself drawn to and hanging out with treated her special because she took interest and was open and genuine. Later in life she suffered from depression and watched too much PTL and changed. But I felt that wasn't the REAL person I knew.... just like my son. Sucking up the propaganda and living in an alternate reality.
Son is trying to convince me that the "RECOUNT" in Mariacopa County is the REAL DEAL and Trump REALLY WON why are DEMs blocking the recount..... UM because Electoral College results? UM because there have already BEEN 2 full recounts that found NO FRAUD?
HOW AM I IN THE GENERATION BOOK ENDED BY POLITICAL INSANITY of people who STARTED OUT so kind and good?
WHAT makes people drink the KOOLAID?
NNadir
(33,561 posts)...by his soothing and fatherly spoken preface at Joe's inauguration literally moved me to tears.
TigressDem
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(5,125 posts)NNadir
(33,561 posts)The last concert I saw, by the way, before the Covid closures, was Yuja Wang, now in her thirties.
It was unforgettable.
TigressDem
(5,125 posts)niyad
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(5,125 posts)sarchasm
(1,012 posts)It would do a lot for close-minded Americans to travel, and listen.
TigressDem
(5,125 posts)Took forever to get back to this thread
Stinky The Clown
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(5,125 posts)NNadir
(33,561 posts)That woman is an outstanding artist/engineer.
TigressDem
(5,125 posts)Is your icon, the author of "The Moral Basis of Democracy" Eleanor Roosevelt?
NNadir
(33,561 posts)TigressDem
(5,125 posts)Lin Siniang
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TigressDem
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