On topic of questionable family relations and since this is the derail thread:

My dad always gifts me wine
I don't drink wine
I gift my mom the wine

My dad and mom are divorced Keepo

Darkass plot twist, he poisons the wine knowing you will give it to your mom

Starvation culture. Same reason why Cantonese will eat anything with 4 legs that's not a table.

Strange though since all the major historical famines happen in Northern China in more arid climates. Maybe Southerners saw that shit too often and said nuh uh ain't gonna happen to me.

Could very well be… Also the food is way better in the south. People are like let’s go eat shanghainese food. I’m like fuck you go die. My food is garbage compared to the stuff you guys make down south.

Also same thing with a lot of Viet people cuz they swam here with nothing but water on their backs and all the wars. They just spend while they still can cuz you never know when the gov is gonna take it. But then the cad gov does take all they can with taxes.

Might have found it if you had been checking the dog's poop the past 10 years.

With Cantonese culture, it stems from ww2 when the Japanese invaded China. Ask any old Canto speaking Auntie/Uncle in their 80's or even older ones that experienced as children. Without warning, doors were kicked in and everyone ushered outside facing Japanese soldiers. Shot on the spot, if you're lucky enough to flee and not get shot in the back. No mercy was ever shown from the Japanese army. So this hoarding and such is pretty much PTSD till this day.

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I was talking to my mom a few months ago and she mentioned how my great-grandparents were well off and owned a bunch of land in China.

Then the Japanese came and started fucking shit up.

My great-grandparents had the idea to hide the land title/deeds somewhere. After the war, they tried to go back to find them and couldn't.

There's a good chance that my mom could've grew up well instead of having to work as a child in HK.

Iono man, I've heard "blame the Japanese" explanation too. But then I also heard the "blame Mao's Great Leap Forward" explanation too. Still doesn't explain why in particular the Cantonese are the way they are like Badhobz says. If you look at a map of the Japanese occupation zones they actually occupied most of Northern China, leaving the South relatively unscathed. And Mao really messed with the whole country but it was the North and Central regions that got really fucked up

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...tion_-_Map.jpg

Totally uneducated guess but what I do think is that the ones who were lucky enough to escape to HK made it out and were able to pass the knowledge of atrocities to the outside world, whereas the Northern Chinese that stayed put died out early and got replaced by those with no memory of the horrors. Basically survivorship bias.

Yes that hatred is real. So much so that they still give me shit for buying Japanese cars.

The hatred is fanned and manufactured by the CCP though, so I find it quite pointless.

Ask a Chinese dude about Sora Aoi / Yua Mikami / etc., and I bet they'd all love to... well... you know... :ifyouknow:

Racism is put aside when D cups are involved.

What ever happened to the TWONGER thread, or whatever it was called. Some quality stuff in there

Japan building better Asian relations, one AV at a time

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The same goes for my family. Great-grandfather (supposed filmmaker) left everything behind deeds included. When the war was over, everything unclaimed expropriated back to the Chinese government. That piece of land is now supposed to be a museum or something like that. I have a great cousin who works for the Chinese government who told us if we're able to backtrack documents to prove it belong to our ancestors we can claim it back. We lol'd...good luck with that. Same goes with the "village" my dad's family was from, we have an unclaimed property, however, something about us not allowed to sell it, and we'd have to move to China to live in only.

I think it's the basis of passing down their experience/knowledge. My parents always said, you never know when a war will start, or even bombings. I used to work with a couple Armenians who had to pass through Iraq and shit, telling me about hearing bombs in the background at night and walking to work seeing dead bodies all over. So I guess what the older generation told us is quite possibly true to an extent

Butt fuck their censorship lawls. :suspicious:

AI can fix that now :ifyouknow:

My mom told me they arrived into the village and her family offered them dinner. They ate then broke all the dishes inside the house and pissed all over them. Told them they're lucky they won't shoot them :ilied:

Idk if it's true but these stories seem to resonate a lot with the old peeps.

https://metrovancouver.org/about-us/...arge-revisions

If this proposal goes through new development costs will become more expensive again.

https://imgur.com/a/N3j3wnQ

Lol was out with a close friend's grandparents recently, he suggested a Japanese restaurant for dinner and the rest of the evening was non stop talk about radioactive Fukushima water (never mind we're in Toronto and all the fish is probably Atlantic) and the atrocities committed by the Japanese...

What choice does the governments have? They don't know how to budget properly, so the only way for them to pay for more stuff is to raise taxes/fees on everything.

It's f*cked up when government departments "have" to spend money on random sh*t just so they have the budget for the next year, how messed up is that? If they don't blow through their allocated funds, they won't get the funds next year.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-water-release

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15013444

I remember telling my mom about this and she was acting the same way like your friend's grandparents.

That's just how it goes

Towards the end of every year we get calls from the city asking to burn their 10-100k on whatever we suggest, because they haven't used it up

We actually use carry forwards in the fed system now... so if you have extra you can carry forward to the next fiscal year and not just blow it on stuff.

If anyone on the fed side is doing that, they're jut being a lazy manager/ahole.