Happy Lunar New Year 2022

[TronRP]

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Tuesday, February 1
Lunar New Year 2022

[Scary Guy]

I'm glad people are calling it the lunar new year instead of the Chinese new year.  Not happy with China lately at all with their tons and tons of bullshit that they do:

 

The treatment of the Uygers (sorry if that's spelled wrong.)

Occupation of Taiwan, Tibet, and Hong Kong

Other various human rights violations

Disinformation campaigns

Social credit scores

etc...

I'm not really one of those "buy American" assholes, but I am one of those "buy anything other than China" assholes.  The less we tie to them the better.  Cultural appropriation for the good of humanity because they seriously don't need the publicity.

Even if the holiday still has negatives because people tie in astrology to it which is a junk science not based in reality (or based on superstitions from thousands of years ago because the stars change position over time.)

[TronRP]

1 hour ago, Scary Guy said:

I'm glad people are calling it the lunar new year instead of the Chinese new year.  Not happy with China lately at all with their tons and tons of bullshit that they do:

 

The treatment of the Uygers (sorry if that's spelled wrong.)

Occupation of Taiwan, Tibet, and Hong Kong

Other various human rights violations

Disinformation campaigns

Social credit scores

etc...

I'm not really one of those "buy American" assholes, but I am one of those "buy anything other than China" assholes.  The less we tie to them the better.  Cultural appropriation for the good of humanity because they seriously don't need the publicity.

Even if the holiday still has negatives because people tie in astrology to it which is a junk science not based in reality (or based on superstitions from thousands of years ago because the stars change position over time.)

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The misinformation is that people think the Lunar calendar is specific to China, but it is not.  It is celebrated by many Asian Countries.

 

Particularly in the west, whenever we hear something related to Asian culture, the first country that comes to mind is China and everyone else is overlooked.

 

I celebrated the Lunar New Year in Japan and even the American students I was there with thought the Lunar New Year was the Chinese New Year and thought that the Japanese instructors had it wrong...because as you know, we Americans know everything.

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