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Re:2023 Letter by corethree on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @11:07PM (#39126099)
It's hard for humans to be unbiased. Part of the reason is he seems to be an ABC.

ABCs are attached to both worlds, and thus are likely to feel pride and shame for both countries. Sometimes they will feel more loyalty towards one world over the other and sometimes the loyalties cancel out where you're left with a rare person who can look at the situation completely impartially.

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Re:2023 Letter by seanmcdirmid on Thursday January 25, 2024 @01:56AM (#39126957)
A lot of ABCs have more of a chip on their shoulder about China, or for that matter immigrants from China itself. Every Saturday, a bunch of falun dafa protesters are out in downtown Seattle protesting against the CCP, most of them just Chinese Ayis (middle aged women).

Gordon Chang “china will implode” articles are a popular straw man whenever any news articles mentions China possibly going into recession.

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Re:2023 Letter by corethree on Thursday January 25, 2024 @04:30AM (#39127748)
It's a whole spectrum. But almost everyone on the face of the earth has some bias towards their own country.

The percentage of impartiality among ethnic minorities born in the US like ABCs have a tendency to be much higher then normal. I wouldn't say it's the majority but it's definitely much higher then normal.

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Re:2023 Letter by leosanchez on Thursday January 25, 2024 @05:05AM (#39127940)
ABC = American born Chinese?
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Re:2023 Letter by mangamadaiyan on Thursday January 25, 2024 @07:57AM (#39129077)
Likely. Not to be confused with ABCD.
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Re:2023 Letter by sycamoretrees on Thursday January 25, 2024 @08:57AM (#39129583)
American born Chinese dumplings.
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Re:2023 Letter by mangamadaiyan on Thursday January 25, 2024 @09:19AM (#39129795)
No, ABCD is a pejorative term referring to US born people of Indian origin - American Born Confused Desi.
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Re:2023 Letter by sycamoretrees on Thursday January 25, 2024 @08:03PM (#39137687)
Oh… my bad. Didn’t know that was a term. Sorry
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Re:2023 Letter by mangamadaiyan on Thursday January 25, 2024 @08:45PM (#39137984)
No worries :) I didn't know about ABC either - so we're both part of the lucky 10000 today.

Ref: https://xkcd.com/1053/

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Re:2023 Letter by sycamoretrees on Saturday January 27, 2024 @02:53AM (#39153559)
Haha, thanks for the insightful comic
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