Re:Death by Bureaucracy
by mise_en_place on Sunday October 31, 2021 @03:35AM
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Whenever I read articles like this one, I try extremely hard not to view it through an Orientalist lens. But sometimes it's extremely hard to do. I was born in the US, but whenever I'd visit Asia or relatives in India, I couldn't help but notice there is something "broken" about the psyche of Asians. The upper echeleons of society are typically the most degenerate, at least from what I've observed. They like to drink, gamble, do drugs, etc...but God forbid if the lower classes even do a fraction of what they do. They will thrown down the hammer of social and moral superiority. The modern Asian is still chained by the shackles of colonialism.
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> They like to drink, gamble, do drugs, etc..
Westerners do all of that. Otherwise major sports teams, at least in Europe, wouldn't have as sponsors betting companies, drugs wouldn't be a multi billion dollar industry and drinking wouldn't be more widespread than anywhere in the world. Maybe Westerners don't flaunt it as much.
And the solution to this is executing mentally impaired poor buggers fir caring 50 grams of dope? Not even Russia does that today, they just throw you in jail for 10 years.
Re:Death by Bureaucracy
by dustintrex on Sunday October 31, 2021 @05:19AM
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Singapore inherits its penal code from the British, and most locals find drugs abhorrent because they're acutely aware of both the Opium Wars in China, and the former extent of drug addiction and gang violence in Singapore itself.
Capital punishment was abolished in Britain in the 1960s.
[edit] with some exceptions for which no one was ever executed (eg piracy). Finally sorted out in 1998
I have seen same from my relatives who went/born in the us. They think the rest of the family is beneath them. I guess its a human thing and not Asian issue.
Re:Death by Bureaucracy
by zaptheimpaler on Sunday October 31, 2021 @04:12AM
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The boomer Western is still chained by the shackles of stereotyping. You see a pattern and fit it to one dimension (race/nationality) but miss that the pattern may be better explained along other dimensions (rich kids gambling and drinking in any culture maybe?). You take a week/month long tourist trip in a country and presume this tiny sliver of experience represents an entire culture.