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Relating to the Japanese kimono issue, a surprisingly thorny topic is Chinese traditional dress from Qing dynasty (1644-1912).

This is the most recent “old China” costume available, and is seen in many iconic movies and TV dramas. But occasionally people object to it being worn in public, eg. for ceremonial purposes, due to all the awkward associations it has.

Firstly, the Qing dynasty was Manchu, not Han. This really should not matter, as in theory China includes dozens of distinct ethnic groups, and anyway Manchu is practically indistinguishable from Han at this point. But still, Qing is a foreign dynasty, much like Yuan (Mongols), and insufficiently Chinese.

Secondly, the later Qing dynasty was an era of humiliation for China, when the weakened empire was carved up by European empires and Japan, losing a lot of wars and signing a lot of unequal treaties under duress. So it’s a historical period that does not appeal to many nationalists.

Thirdly, the Qing dynasty is “old China”, feudalism, the bad old days, everything that new China got away from. There can’t be anything good about it, otherwise what would that say about new China. The younger generation might not feel this message as strongly, but it’s instructive to look at the opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympics, which featured a historical retrospective which jumped from the Ming Dynasty to the 1990s, consigning the Qing, Nationalists, and Mao all to the memory hole.

So what is a nationalist cosplayer to do? Revive Hanfu, of course!

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the-grey-tribe
A necessary departure point for such an examination is to apply a historical lens in order to construct a teleology whose endpoint is the emergence of neoliberalism. Subsequently, it will be shown here how WoW exists as a mechanism by which the neoliberal subject is interpellated (following Louis Althusser’s formulation) and thereafter recognizes itself as enfolded within the neoliberal schema. One can imagine this as the gamic process by which an individual creates a character, enters Azeroth (the world in which WoW is set) and brings themselves to the market, as represented by WoW’s auction house, ‘AH’ (a centralized location for players to buy and sell items). The character is subject to the rules of the game in a way that mirrors the player’s subjection to the neoliberal mode. Consequently, the player fully identifies with the on screen character such that the former derives pleasure from the latter’s actions and accomplishments. WoW conflates the on-screen avatar, the player and the neoliberal subject for ideological ends, as shall now be elucidated further.
Neoliberal cyborg Science: World of Warcraft as gamic vehicle - 3:AM Magazine (via the-grey-tribe)

Who gets paid for this stuff? And who pays them?

Source: 3ammagazine.com
aeondeug

It is a well-documented fact that by the age of 5 monolingual White children will have heard 30 million fewer words in languages other than English than bilingual children of color. In addition, they will have had a complete lack of exposure to the richness of non-standardized varieties of English that characterize the homes of many children of color. This language gap increases the longer these children are in school. The question is what causes this language gap and what can be done to address it?

The major cause of this language gap is the failure of monolingual White communities to successfully assimilate into the multilingual and multidialectal mainstream. The continued existence of White ethnic enclaves persists despite concerted efforts to integrate White communities into the multiracial mainstream since the 1960s. In these linguistically isolated enclaves it is possible to go for days without interacting with anybody who does not speak Standardized American English providing little incentive for their inhabitants to adapt to the multilingual and multidialectal nature of  US society.

This linguistic isolation has a detrimental effect on the cognitive development of monolingual White children. This is because linguistically isolated households lack the rich translanguaging practices that are found in bilingual households and the elaborate style-shifting that occurs in bidialectal households. This leaves monolingual White children without a strong metalinguistic basis for language learning. As a result, many of these monolingual White children lack the school-readiness skills needed for foreign language learning and graduate from school having mastered nothing but Standardized American English leaving them ill-equipped to engage in intercultural communication.

What if we talked about monolingual White children the way we talk about low-income children of color?

Excerpt from a satirical blog post from The Educational Linguist that makes a good point about which language skills we value as a society and the problems with talking about a “language gap”. 

(via lingrix)

[someone linked this to me]

Suppose we took this seriously - that we decided monolingual white children weren’t gaining a sufficient intuitive understanding of language as a generalized concept, because their households were too monolingual.

What, then, could be done about it?

Children across America are made to learn foreign languages throughout their schooling, but it rarely sticks.  Why?

Insufficient density.

Quite simply, there just aren’t enough speakers of the language per population in a given area to support conversing with it regularly.  It becomes useless, and the brain does what it always does with information that doesn’t get used - purge it.

Any response focused on a great diversity of languages, then, would be ineffective.  There are simply too many different languages.  If we limit instruction to only those languages with at least one million speakers, and keep children in school eight hours per day, each language will have just over one minute of instruction devoted to it.

To truly grasp the idea of language on a deeper conceptual level, fluency and depth of understanding would be required.

To create the number of speakers required to sustain fluency, then, we must pick one second language per geographic area, then make it mandatory in school.

I propose this be done at the regional level.

Mandarin Chinese or Japanese for the West Coast.  German for the Midwest.  French for the East Coast and New England.  Spanish for the South and Southwest.

Not only will this bring about regional cultural differentiation which will increase the cultural diversity of America and support for later Regional Federalism (instrumental for unification with Canada and Mexico to form the North American Union and ensure continued dominance into the late 21st century), but it will add truly exciting new slang to the language.

Yes, the resulting drift will make old documents harder to understand, but the insistent descriptivists have already thrown that out the window as unimportant, so why stop there?

Source: allthingslinguistic politics policy like half shtpost maybe for bonus points use Cherokee instead of spanish
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davidsevera

Often (Rarely) my heart (brain) is filled with love (certain neurotransmitters) for everyone (a group smaller than my Dunbar number) and everything (the set of objects and ideas I actually like). I want (say that I want in order to score social points) nothing more than (along with many other things) happiness in the world (for those people who will thereby make me happy). I don’t know what the meaning of life is (strongly suspect life is meaningless) but if it isn’t based in universal compassion I don’t need it (cling to the possibility I’m wrong).

argumate

So, is this a new filter that we can apply to all Tumblr posts?

mitigatedchaos

You don’t already have it on?  What’s wrong with you??

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Male-dominated video games become spectator e-sports for predominantly male viewers because they sustain a different project than celebrating physical excellence. They don’t showcase a specific form of male-bodied performance so much as support a specific sort of male spectator: a straight middle-class boy full of resentment and patriarchal rage. This is and has been the sports fan par excellence.

http://reallifemag.com/jocks-without-borders/

hooo brother.

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why do they always write about white men like bad fantasy books talk about orcs? I mean, ‘full of patriarchal rage’?

(via 1nsomnizac)

now remember that most of these straight middle-class boys are Korean, even in the linked article, and scratch your head.

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no patriarchy like Korean patriarchy

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Koreans are the whitest boys of all.

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Anonymous asked:

Can you write a prompt based on love, Prompt Guy?

writing-prompt-s answered:

You fall in love with a snail. Write about your sex life.

mitigatedchaos

“Ugggh, you’re not getting it.  Adam and I are in love-”

“But he looks like a snail!  Why can’t you go back to dating that nice man with the horns?  At least he had arms and legs.  I’m not against this cyborg thing, but-”

“Mom, no ‘buts’, it’s my life, and if I want to date a gastropodoid then I will.  Why are you judging me?  Why are you like this?”

“Well, it’s just so unnatural-”

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