You certainly have one of the strangest takes I've ever seen a person make.

I'm literally from Northeastern China and my grandfather lived in an ethnic Korean village when he was younger

Don't pass off your granddad's lived experience off as your own lol. It doesn't do anything to strengthen your argument besides making you look cringe in an effort to look authentic.

By your standards, Shogatsu is a different festival now that the date changed from the lunisolar calendar to the Gregorian. Obviously it's the same holiday tradition that is celebrated on a different date! I don't see how you're being so obstinate when it is crystal clear. People are not celebrating some calendar date, they are celebrating their traditional new year celebration that has been practiced for more than a millenia.

Japan's never been a vassal but you can correct me if I'm wrong on that part.

You're so used to seeing it through the eyes of a statist that you can't even fathom that people celebrating their new year comes before some Chinese officials compiled the calendar. Is the event in question the calendar or the celebration? You're purposefully misconstruing the argument as if it's about the calendar, not the celebration that indigenous people do in Asia as you are so removed from the people that you cannot even see this point.

Ethnic Koreans in China would probably be offended if you told them that they're actually celebrating a different New Years than everyone else.

Through personal relations to ethnically Yanbian Korean Chinese people, I can tell you that it is false. You keep talking about some calendar system as if that is what marks holidays, and you're so far as to gone to claim now that Koreans celebrate Chinese new year and that Vietnamese Tet has origins in different system of calendar measurement instead of people celebrating their new year the way they always did. Are you even listening to yourself? So by your standards, if Occupied Korea measures their own calendar, it's suddenly a different holiday? You're talking nonsense.

You do realize that China as a multiethnic state celebrates minority cultures like those of Tibetan, Mongolian, Korean, etc. (Even Vietnamese although they are a much smaller ethnic group) A guy who puts as his username the American state Oregon talking about Chinese culture. What a joke. When your first thought is Occupied Korea and how they measure the lunar year instead of Koreans in Yanbian, you need to fuck off and educate yourself.

Point out where I said that we should call it "lunar new year" or that they do so in Asia. You can't. You're so wrapped up in your head that you're not even reading what I wrote and responding instead of shadowboxing an imaginary construct that you think you read.

I think you need to understand what I'm trying to say here. People on this website's so America-brained that they don't see the distinction between American politicians saying "Lunar New Year" on purpose to erase Chinese heritage of the tradition in America, and local people in Asia saying that they celebrate their variant of new year instead of celebrating Chinese cultural new year, which is literally cultural appropriation against Chinese people.

That is why there wasn't a pushback against your comment when I read it, yet there is one against oregoncom

Vietnamese, Mongolian, and Korean new years all fall under the same day generally. They'll have to start saying that they celebrate Chinese New Year under your standards then.

It is the only good thing that France has ever produced aside from the Paris Commune and yet he is trying to erase it.

Macron must hate France.

Cool with whites and asians mostly.

Latinos and middle easterners receive a very different reception.

Undergrad education used to be free, but Milei announced that they're going to start charging tuition so no backdated jubilee. As for mortgage, almost every single country outside of the USA use variable interest rates or shorter term fixed rates.

Amazingly, Argentina dodged every single individual benefit of higher inflation. They might even be doing a better job of destroying a nation than the IMF.

Argentina’s annual inflation soared to 211.4% in 2023, the highest rate in 32 years and highest in the world, surpassing Venezuela, according to figures released Thursday by the government’s INDEC statistics agency.

The annual inflation compared with about 95% in 2022. The country’s monthly inflation stood at 25.5% in December, up from 12.8% in November, but slightly below the 30% the government had forecast.

Milei had said in an interview with a Buenos Aires radio station before the figures were released that if the monthly inflation rate came in below the forecast, that would be an accomplishment.

“If the number is closer to 25%, it means that the success was tremendous,” Milei said.

In his inauguration speech, Milei announced a painful adjustment plan aimed at staving off hyperinflation and warned that the measures would initially have a “negative impact on the level of activity, employment, real wages, and the number of poor and indigent people.” It is estimated that around 40% of the population live in poverty.

To fight hyperinflation, hyperinflation is necessary. As the inflation is higher than ever before, it is a tremendous success.

It was a bit

Three months ago, I was sitting in a toilet stall in Target. Through the giant gaping hole under the stall, I saw a man crack open a fresh bottle of iced tea, pour it on the floor, and then do it again since he deemed that he didn't pour it enough the first time around.

Gringos are not okay.