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I think /k/ are enforcing such stereotypes

Msian90 — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 20:24:38 +0800

http://listdose.com/top-10-common-asian-stereotypes/

Stereotypes are the beliefs and thoughts about a particular group of people , which may be factious or fictional. There are a lot of stereotypical views about Asian people . Here are a few most common as well as popular Asian stereotypes.

10. Asian males are Chauvinistic

Asian males are stereotyped as irrational and disrespectful towards women . The stereotypical view says that east Asian men are chauvinistic and that they despise women empowerment and liberation . They are often believed to be orthodox and biased when it comes to women rights . Moreover , these misogynistic Asian males are portrayed as a threat to white women , by American media . there are a lot of movies in which the Asian men , esp the Chinese guys are shown alike. The Asian men are also portrayed as less ‘manly’ in various movies The western males , on the other hand are labeled to be the most romantic and lovable men across the world who unlike Asians , respect women’s liberty and advancement .

9. Asian parents are conservative and strict

Asian parents are considered relatively strict , constantly nagging their children . Mommies are , in particular portrayed as complaining while fathers are believed to be the monopolist and dictator-like , whose will shall be final and binding. The Asian parents are not assumed to be liberal about letting their kids go partying with friends .Instead they would ask them ‘ Have you studied yet ?’ .Asian parents think that their kids should not date anyone until university and even thereafter its too early. Also , the parents tend to compare their children against others’. Further , the worst suffering of Asian kids is that their parents wake up the entire household with loud noises by turning the TV on or by sound of vaccuming .

8. Asians have bad English

This stereotype might be true for some Asians . Western people vouch that Asians , no matter how they learn , are not good at speaking and using English . They think that the Asian countrymen are incapable of handling the language in its prestige . When Asians use English , they do not use it in its pristine form . Instead, they fuse it with the local dialect and dip it in their local accent , thereby imparting a regional beat to the dialect of West – English .The Chinese , Japanese and the Koreans are pointed to speak the language using very unnecessarily short and soft words . The Western World believes that Asians miss the style of English speaking. The middle Eastern people are stereotyped as the ones who barely talk in English because they simply do not tend to know it well .The Indians especially the North Indians are universally famous for the way they use the language-with a tint of their local tone . Plus , they are notorious for talking very loudly .

7. Sikhs are same as Muslims

sikhs are same as muslims

The western people find it difficult to distinguish between Sikhs and Muslims , probably because both the religious groups do not shave the beard . The Sikhs who bear the buns are also confused with the Muslims who keep their head covered using a drape . This stereotype is a total fiction because the two religious groups are entirely different and have no such commonalities . further , the local clothing in Asian zone makes it further difficult for them to differentiate in the two groups .This typecast is particularly popular amongst English and Americans who try to trace similarities amongst all the Asians , which is in turn , also a Stereotypical Asian view towards the former.

6. Asians are bad at athletics

Asians are bad at athletics

This a highly notorious label for Asians that they are and can never be good athletes . Though Asians comprise 57% of the world’s population and are excellent at academics and in professional life , but when it comes to sports front , they suck ! Though this is not very true for all Asians (east Asians being the exception ) , but there is substantial support for the fact that Asians do not believe in taking sports that seriously as to make it profession .This classification arises from the fact that the Asians, genetically are not as tall and fit as the Americans , Europeans , Australians and Africans athletes and thus under represent and under perform in track and field events , football , basketball , soccer , tennis , boxing and the similar athletic stuff .But then , it is not true that Asians do not entirely play even a bit ! If East Asians master at badminton and table tennis , the south eastern subcontinent is a cricket-maniac .

5. Asians are mathematics brainpans

Asians are mathematics brainpans

Western countries perceive Asians as the mathematics whiz who can calculate and solve the mathematical and quantitative problems with the blink of the an eye . This is partially a fact , because Asians have superior mathematics than the non-Asians . But it does not necessarily mean that they a very good mathematical knowledge , on an absolute scale . The Asians , are cultured in a way that they are always made to stress more on studies and the traditional learning methods (Do -It-A-Thousand-Times-Until-It-Is-Done) help them score brilliantly . By this very way they can out stand the western traditional learning methods and so their students .

4. Most Asians are doctors or engineers

Most Asians are doctors or engineers

It is funny , but the facts support this pigeonhole ! Most of the Asians that have travelled and settled beyond Asia are Doctors or engineers and are earning richly, more than the native residents in some cases . A study by University of California, Berkeley, reported that 33% of the engineers working in the Silicon Valley are of Indian descent, while 7% of valley hi-tech firms are led by the Indian CEOs. Other Asians on the list comprise of Chinese , Hispanics , Japs , Koreans etc . The Asians occupying the higher posts in such professions had been a worldwide discussion. Further half of the % Asians in America hold bachelors degree in comparison with 30%of the natives .

3. Asians are poor except for Arabs

Asians are poor except for Arabs

To the west, the Arabs seems to be the only rich Asians. The Arabs are believed to be the billionaires, who own cars plated with gold and studded with diamonds , owning large oil refineries and massive land shares that have huge potential to be oil wells, and that’s all is the secret of their wealth . Arabs however are attacked with the worst stereotypes- bombers , belly dancers and terrorists .whereas , the south Asian continent is considered to be the poorest people in the world who are barely provided with basic amenities. The countries like Laos , Vietnam , India , Pakistan , Bangladesh are quoted as the homes of the poorest .

2. Asians have no fashion sense

Asian have no fashion sense

They think that Asian have no dressing sense . Especially the Asian females, who , they say have little curves to fancy . Asian women dress conservatively ,they always tie up their hair and dress like elderly and wouldn’t mind going to party wearing crocs – because they think ‘crocs’ are comfortable. They are often stereotyped as wearing non classy and informal clothing all the time .
But , fashion , in true sense is nothing but a perception and people have right to hold opinions . Asians , have their own variety of dressing and accessories to wear and carry , respectively and so do Non-Asians . Some Asians vouch that they wear what suits their body.

1. All Asians look alike

All Asians look alike

This sounds weird but it is a very common stereotypical thought about Asians that they all look alike . The hair color , the skin color and texture , the average man – woman height, etc. all are quite and closely similar that leads to this pigeonhole classification .Among all the Asians , the most difficult to differentiate are the East Asians ( namely Chinese , Koreans , Japanese and even some Indians ) particularly because of the type of eyes they have . Even some Asians, not only western people , are typical about this East – Asian stereotypes . Also , Asians are believed to have straight black hair , usually long . Not just do the Asians look similar , they have similar sort of names and have a little variety of surnames too .

Murica!

Msian90 — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 16:47:02 +0800

Snapchat hack affects 4.6 million users

Msian90 — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 20:00:12 +0800

he usernames and phone numbers for 4.6 million Snapchat accounts have been downloaded by hackers, who temporarily posted the data online.

A website called SnapchatDB released the data but censored the last two digits of the phone numbers.

It has since been taken offline but a cached version is still available.

The hack comes days after an Australian firm, Gibson Security, warned of vulnerabilities in Snapchat's app which it said could be exploited by hackers.

Gibson Security said it was not involved in the hack: "We know nothing about SnapchatDB, but it was a matter of time till something like that happened," the firm tweeted.

The hackers behind the website that published the data said they had exploited the security flaw highlighted by Gibson Security.

"We used a modified version of gibsonsec's exploit/method," they were quoted as saying by tech blog, Tech Crunch.

Stronger safeguards?
Snapchat has grown in popularity as an app that allows people to share pictures, safe in the knowledge they delete themselves after being viewed.

It has a feature called Find Friends, which allows users to upload their address book contacts to help find friends who are also using the service.

In its report published on 25 December, Gibson Security warned that a vulnerability on the Snapchat app could be used to reveal the phone numbers of users.

The firm said it had first warned Snapchat about this four months ago, adding that "nothing had been really been improved upon".

Vulnerability
Gibson claimed that it had been able to crunch through ten thousand phone numbers of Snapchat users "in approximately 7 minutes on a gigabit line on a virtual server".

In response to the Gibson report, Snapchat acknowledged a potential vulnerability but said it had taken measures to protect user data.

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Their latest changes are still not too hard to circumvent”

SnapchatDB
"Theoretically, if someone were able to upload a huge set of phone numbers, like every number in an area code, or every possible number in the US, they could create a database of the results and match usernames to phone numbers that way," it said in a blogpost last week.

"Over the past year we've implemented various safeguards to make it more difficult to do. We recently added additional counter-measures and continue to make improvements to combat spam and abuse."

However, the hackers behind the SnapchatDB, the site that published the phone numbers, said the measures were not strong enough.

"Even now the exploit persists. It is still possible to scrape this data on a large scale," they claimed.

"Their latest changes are still not too hard to circumvent."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25572661

Pope Francis, The People’s Pope

Msian90 — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 20:07:42 +0800

On the edge of Buenos Aires is a nothing little street called Pasaje C, a shot of dried mud leading into a slum from what passes for a main road, the garbage-strewn Mariano Acosta. There is a church, the Immaculate Virgin, toward the end of the pasaje—Spanish for passage—where, on one occasion, the local priest and a number of frightened residents took refuge deep in the sanctuary when rival drug gangs opened fire. Beyond the church, Pasaje C branches into the rest of the parish: more rutted mud and cracked concrete form Pasajes A to K. Brick chips from the hasty construction of squatter housing coagulate along what ought to be sidewalks. The word asesino—murderer—is scrawled in spray-paint on the sooty wall of a burned-out house, which was torched just days before in retaliation for yet another shooting. Packs of dogs sprawl beneath wrecked cars. Children wander heedless of traffic, because nothing can gather speed on these jagged roads. But even Pasaje C can lead to Rome.

As Cardinal and Archbishop of Buenos Aires, a metropolis of some 13.5 million souls, Jorge Mario Bergoglio made room in his schedule every year for a pastoral visit to this place of squalor and sorrow. He would walk to the subway station nearest to the Metropolitan Cathedral, whose pillars and dome fit easily into the center of Argentine power. Traveling alone, he would transfer onto a graffiti-blasted tram to Mariano Acosta, reaching where the subways do not go. He finished the journey on foot, moving heavily in his bulky black orthopedic shoes along Pasaje C. On other days, there were other journeys to barrios throughout the city—so many in need of so much, but none too poor or too filthy for a visit from this itinerant prince of the church. Reza por mí, he asked almost everyone he met. Pray for me.

When, on March 13, Bergoglio inherited the throne of St. Peter—keeper of the keys to the kingdom of heaven—he made the same request of the world. Pray for me. His letter of retirement, a requirement of all bishops 75 and older, was already on file in a Vatican office, awaiting approval. Friends in Argentina had perceived him to be slowing down, like a spent force. In an instant, he was a new man, calling himself Francis after the humble saint from Assisi. As Pope, he was suddenly the sovereign of Vatican City and head of an institution so sprawling—with about enough followers to populate China—so steeped in order, so snarled by bureaucracy, so vast in its charity, so weighted by its scandals, so polarizing to those who study its teachings, so mysterious to those who don’t, that the gap between him and the daily miseries of the world’s poor might finally have seemed unbridgeable. Until the 266th Supreme Pontiff walked off in those clunky shoes to pay his hotel bill.

The papacy is mysterious and magical: it turns a septuagenarian into a superstar while revealing almost nothing about the man himself. And it raises hopes in every corner of the world—hopes that can never be fulfilled, for they are irreconcilable. The elderly traditionalist who pines for the old Latin Mass and the devout young woman who wishes she could be a priest both have hopes. The ambitious monsignor in the Vatican Curia and the evangelizing deacon in a remote Filipino village both have hopes. No Pope can make them all happy at once.

(MORE: Behind the Pope Francis Cover)

But what makes this Pope so important is the speed with which he has captured the imaginations of millions who had given up on hoping for the church at all. People weary of the endless parsing of sexual ethics, the buck-passing infighting over lines of authority when all the while (to borrow from Milton), “the hungry Sheep look up, and are not fed.” In a matter of months, Francis has elevated the healing mission of the church—the church as servant and comforter of hurting people in an often harsh world—above the doctrinal police work so important to his recent predecessors. John Paul II and Benedict XVI were professors of theology. Francis is a former janitor, nightclub bouncer, chemical technician and literature teacher.

And behind his self-effacing facade, he is a very canny operator. He makes masterly use of 21st century tools to perform his 1st century office. He is photographed washing the feet of female convicts, posing for selfies with young visitors to the Vatican, embracing a man with a deformed face. He is quoted saying of women who consider abortion because of poverty or rape, “Who can remain unmoved before such painful situations?” Of gay people: “If a homosexual person is of good will and is in search of God, I am no one to judge.” To divorced and remarried Catholics who are, by rule, forbidden from taking Communion, he says that this crucial rite “is not a prize for the perfect but a powerful medicine and nourishment for the weak.”

Through these conscious and skillful evocations of moments in the ministry of Jesus, as recounted in the Gospels, this new Pope may have found a way out of the 20th century culture wars, which have left the church moribund in much of Western Europe and on the defensive from Dublin to Los Angeles. But the paradox of the papacy is that each new man’s success is burdened by the astonishing successes of Popes past. The weight of history, of doctrines and dogmas woven intricately century by century, genius by genius, is both the source and the limitation of papal power. It radiates from every statue, crypt and hand-painted vellum text in Rome—and in churches, libraries, hospitals, universities and museums around the globe. A Pope sets his own course only if he can conform it to paths already chosen.

And so Francis signals great change while giving the same answers to the uncomfortable questions. On the question of female priests: “We need to work harder to develop a profound theology of the woman.” Which means: no. No to abortion, because an individual life begins at conception. No to gay marriage, because the male-female bond is established by God. “The teaching of the church … is clear,” he has said, “and I am a son of the church, but”—and here he adds his prayer for himself—“it is not necessary to talk about those issues all the time.”

If that prayer should be answered, if somehow by his own vivid example Francis could bring the church into a new relationship with its critics and dissidents—agreeing to disagree about issues that divide them while cooperating in the urgent mission of spreading mercy—he might unleash untold good. “Argue less, accomplish more” could be a healing motto for our times. We have a glut of problems to tackle. Francis says by example, Stop bickering and roll up your sleeves. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good—an important thing for the world to hear, especially from a man who holds an office deemed infallible.

Read more: TIME's Person of the Year 2013 Pope Francis, The People's Pope | TIME.com http://poy.time.com/2013/12/11/person-of-t.../#ixzz2nGHkIO54

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Msian90 — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 22:45:42 +0800

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Booking agoda using PB day2day debit card

Msian90 — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 12:16:26 +0800

Can my PB day2day debit card be used as credit card to book hotel via agoda.com? I booked already but my public bank account haven't deduct yet, any idea?

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Msian90 — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 10:37:40 +0800

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3 years vs 4 years degree

Msian90 — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 09:42:25 +0800

If it's the same course?

Chinese pad

Msian90 — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 19:51:57 +0800

Anyone experience using chinese writing pad, need to teach someone who only know how to write in chinese? Any suggestion?

PTPTN convert second class upper and above

Msian90 — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 11:43:23 +0800

I REFER to the survey conducted by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak on what improvements Malaysians would like to see in the 2014 Budget.
The poll can be seen on the prime minister's official website at www.1malaysia.com.my/bajet2014.

I would like to propose that the government consider converting 30 per cent of the National Higher Education Fund (PTPTN) loan to scholarships for graduates in local universities who obtained a second class upper and above.

This would be in addition to the 20 per cent waiver to students who pay off their PTPTN loan in a lump sum.

This scholarship would be a recognition of a student's academic excellence.

Although the returns from this scholarship, which would require a substantial budget, cannot be quantified in monetary terms, the development of human capital is the most important sector in any developed country.

I believe this would be line with the 1Malaysia concept, which puts people first.

By Tan Keng Liang, Kedah Gerakan Youth chief

http://www.nst.com.my/opinion/letters-to-t...rships-1.344786