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Re:Adapting to American culture as a Chinese student by peteretep on Sunday November 27, 2016 @11:20AM (#13049891)
Let's use the equally arbitrary "Finnish Litmus Test": In the group text they joked that I would go out and play ice hockey all day, only listen to death metal, eat exclusively pickled fish...

Just sounds funny to me. Almost like a history of oppression is an integral factor in this, and joking about the diligence and work ethic of a group that's found huge success via those is different from joking about a group that's been literally enslaved, marginalised, and overtly oppressed by the group the jokers belong to.

Re:Adapting to American culture as a Chinese student by mdpye on Sunday November 27, 2016 @02:46PM (#13051033)
Just sounds dumb to me.

I don't really understand how reducing any population of millions to two or three characteristics qualifies as humour. We can do much better!