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Good one!
You may have added to Carlie's catch phases.
"Blog my face!"
Do the drapes have to match the carpet?
Good one!
You may have added to Carlie's catch phases.
"Blog my face!"
I think the real issue here is that these UCLA white girls are pretty threatened with asian chix because asian chix are now more in demand by guys than these white girls...
and that fake blonde is pretty avg to be honest...fat arms, fat face,etc...
I must say if you have ever seen a porno with an Asian chick they do kick it up a notch.
almost like over acting.
eh its not asians and loudness that iritates me, its that students who happen to know another language feel the need to SPEAK IT ALL THE TIME when they are around me, so i have no ing idea whats going on. even the deaf girl in one of my classes signs to her friends and then they look at me and giggle.
they dont whisper it, they dont mix it with english, they full out throttle bar bar that nonstop. i consider it rude. i lived with several international students in high school, and one of my good korean friends said that his worst mistake in school was not speaking english 24/7 because thats what he came to the states to learn. he feels like he cheated himself out of the system.
idk, most of the time i feel like theyre talking . ive witnessed spanish, german, tagalog, redneck, korean, japanese, portuguese, jive, russian, mandarin, hindi, blonde talk and ASL all while riding the elevator just this past year. and they dont even adhere to standard elevator "shutthe up" protocol.
Last edited by The Reckoning; 03-14-2011 at 07:43 PM.
Paranoid much?
yeah pretty much, which is why im still alive today
Do you feel you are en led to everyone's idea like you are a part of a committee that approves everything? ..or do you just want to eavesdrop on other people's business all the time?
yeah pretty much. this is a public forum, but youre not supposed to post in tagalog. if you communicate in public to where nobody else but your intended target can understand you, it seems sketchy.
unless, of course you or your target are only capable of communicating that way.
i can assure you if i were studying in a foreign country, i would try to absorb as much language and culture as possible.
to me, theyre either being sketchy or lazy. most likely lazy.
Last edited by The Reckoning; 03-14-2011 at 09:37 PM.
needs to quit her whining and go down to the stacks if she wants quiet.
Non-issue, in my opinion. I'm part asian myself, and the biggest thing I've noticed is that asians tend to aggregate. All cultures seem to do that. Haven't really noticed asians talking loudly or any of that however. Then again, I don't really go to a school with a ton of asians, though there is a sizable spanish-speaking community at my school. I've heard gripes from friends about them hanging out in the library and talking very loudly in spanish.
As for the girl, she is stressed out during finals week at a tough school and political science is a tough major from what I've heard.
As for her giving permission for the large acceptance rate of asians, it seemed more to me that she was just protecting herself, as she doesn't want this issue to be race-carded. People shouldn't be talking on their cell phones in the library, just like they shouldn't talk on their phones during a movie.
Also, can her school really hand out punishments for something she did unrelated to school? It wasn't a project or anything like that. She made a semi-controversial video about a common gripe during her free time.
Last edited by v2freak; 03-14-2011 at 09:28 PM.
Really- from a girl who said ching chong ting tong!
Have another look. She had another blog where she talked about some miraculous push-up bra, which she apparently was wearing in the vid.
http://coedmagazine.com/2011/03/14/a...sian-racist-10
That's what it sounded like to her, presumably. When I hear Vietnamese people speak in their native language for example, it literally sounds to me like they are shouting at each other in dog noises. My apologies to the people who speak it; that's just what it sounds like to the untrained ear.
It's not laziness. I call it a break. You dont even know how hard it is to think about how you should construct the sentence you are about to say making sure the grammar, diction and even the accent is correct. - Keep in mind I am speaking about Filipinos because unfortunately, we tend to be really brutal to each other when it comes to foreign languages. I dont know how anal the nationalities are about their speaking though.
An c'mon man, cant you just leave us this power of language so we can talk to each other about how you should wear a deodorant specially if you take the elevators everyday because you stink up the place.
im trying not to be offensive like saying you make dog noises to each other. i find it fascinating that people who speak foreign languages tend to not care about speaking in a situation that most english speakers would not (presumably because other english speakers know what theyre talking about).
practice makes perfect. if you learn to think in english all the time when in an english-dominated area, its much easier to make that quick transition to english when you need to. , i would love to have that opportunity to take on the challenge, but unfortunately im not from a bilingual family or had the resources available to me.
in alot of other countries, its usually polite to open up a convo in the regional language then ask if they know english. its like a gesture of cultural acceptance.
Last edited by The Reckoning; 03-14-2011 at 11:35 PM.
Ah striking gently
If you lived in many places outside the U.S., it wouldn't be an issue...you would have the opportunity to realistically learn a foreign language. The problem with it here is they start teaching foreign languages in school way too late. Rarely do people actually continue learning a foreign language after their requirements are fulfilled, and even if they do continue, it's still much more difficult to perfect it and not speak with a terrible accent. Not even sure if I can call it an accent in most cases, just horrible and lazy pronunciation.
This is one thing I'd like to see change. I was lucky enough to learn 2 languages at the same time, and my cousins as well since in Argentina they had to. I'm still impressed with how good they can speak English even though they're never in real situations where they need it. Just a benefit of learning it in school at a very young age. If the U.S. doesn't do the same, it's just another way to keep people behind from their potential.
Not much we can do anyway no matter how much we talk about it.
I guess if we/they will talk using their native language then they are fair game to be made fun of. Side who gets offended first and goes on a rage will be youtubed anyway and will be another thread here in the club.
I agree with every point the reckoning has made, surprisingly.
This in the elevator of the parking garage the other day was just screaming on the phone in spanish with total disregard to the others around her. She also had this damn "I don't give a that I'm being loud" face on.. I might have just thought it was that face.. but I still wanted to tell her to STFU.
yeah i started spanish my junior year of high school...that was wayyy too late.
if i could go back, id learn spanish and an eastern language at a young age. turkish, mandarin, russian or japanese would have been cool. oh well...
We're at a HUGE geographic disadvantage when it comes to the rest of the world linguistically. In Europe you are neighbors with other countries that speak a variety of different languages. Here the majority of people haven't spoken any other language than English for generations.
People in Texas, Arizona, California, etc. are starting to pick up spanish because of an influx of mexicans in the south and that will happen more and more with time. But it just hasn't been of any use to learn anything other than english here because that's the only language most people speak.
My friends little nieces and nephews are already pretty damn good at spanish because they've been growing up with more people that speak the language. Schools (in my experience) have done just a horrific job at trying to teach students foreign languages.
That doesn't have to do with ....all kinds of lower class people act this way. You ever been to a walmart in a red neck area? I don't mean to pick on black people, but you never hear certain groups of black people being loud and obnoxious as ?
It comes off even worse when it's in a language that's not understandable by anyone else. If you're unaware of what someone is saying, you're going to be curious as to what they're saying.
Lol "certain groups of black people"
The age at which it'd be appropriate to start learning in order to actually become fluent is at an age where most kids would never be interested to do it on their own accord, or by choice. It has to be a requirement in school for it to work.yeah i started spanish my junior year of high school...that was wayyy too late.
if i could go back, id learn spanish and an eastern language at a young age. turkish, mandarin, russian or japanese would have been cool. oh well...
Would be cool if it could be implemented where the parents can decide on it...it may be too far to require all kids to learn a foreign language, but if the parents force them to do it at a public school, different story.
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