Welp its kinda awkward for a days old post to finally show up in Piefed instances as “3 Hours Ago”… 😶‍🌫️

Yea this isn’t the first time with sh.itjust.works and lemmy.world federation issues…

Honestly I feel like it the universe’s sign to me that: it’s time for migration to Piefed… 🤷‍♂️

Why not?

Don’t people casually talk about:

“eww I hate my new boss”

“fuck, why do I have to scan a qr code at a restaurant?”

“wtf my TV is filled with ads”

“why do phones always break so quickly, ugh, now I have to waste $1000 on a new one”

This feels like the same type of thing… no?

We have a comm for Asian Diaspora here and have only like single digits of people actually of Asian descent lol…

and its so dead…

I don’t think a Chinese comm would even have anyone…

Suspiciously high number of murdered police for a peaceful protest, eh?

Oh tankies are pro-cop now?

Instructions Unclear: Tried this at a funeral, now their family won’t talk to me anymore.

Mamdani is a “nazi” according to tankies

Mamdani is a “communist that wants to turn America into a dictatorship and implement sharia law” according to the far-right

🤦‍♂️

I was born in China…

A N-565, to request a replacement for the Certificate of Citizenship (citizenship obtained via derivation under the Child Citizenship Act of 2000 via my mom’s naturalization), costs like $500 to file…

💸💸💸 (yes that feels like money literally growing wings and flying away… or as my parents say, throwing money into the ocean)

I’m sure it’ll be fine… what are the odds of ICE come knocking like right now this moment, these few weeks, after I didn’t even see an ICE agent (as in IRL, with my own eyes) for like the 16 years I’ve been here.

I have a scanned version on my phone bia the printer, a photo taken with phone camera, and also a paper-copy in black and white (no color ink at home 🤷‍♂️)

Idk feel so weird that the house is much quieter…

My mom and older brother went to visit China…

The house now has a sort of vibe that kinda feels uncanny

Sorry I have lol-syndome

lol

xD

lmao

omfg

rofl

(sorry lol 😅)

Okay I know this is c/greentext and its not a serious comm, still just wanna infodump lol:

So… in 1st grade I was in China…

I remember them doing National Anthem… very similar to the US lol (as in the ritual, not the melody lol)

They use rulers to hit kids lol… 😭

I lucked out because my family emigrated…

Forgot if I ever got hit by a teacher… if I did, I must’ve deleted that memory since it sounds kinda traumatizing…

And they made us RECITE AN ENTIRE STORY! (Children’s story, but still) They made us stay afterschool for that 😭

I STILL REMEMBER the 9x9 times table “poem” thingy from first grade, it’s forever burned into my head (okay this might be 2nd grade tbf, forgot when I learned it exactly)

Article I found: https://yoyochinese.com/blog/Learn-Chinese-Multiplication-Rhyme-Time-Tables)

Oh yes I can sing the Chinese national anthem¹ + the American one too…

they played it too much the melody is forever stored in my hippocampus

(¹Okay I might have looked up the exact lyrics later on as a teen…)

And if I sing both, I get both sides to hate me… xD

I feel like that kindergarden, 1st, 2nd grade… just those few years of school there makes me very distinct from ABCs (American-Born Chinese).

xD

I use Lemmy as main so it doesn’t show…

Maybe I should switch to piefed as main acc honestly…

But anyways… I jokingly said “feel free to ask to ask me anything, but not my bank info, cuz that’s a secret 😉”

Still no reply… hours later…

Damn, please dont leave me, Mr. Nigerian Prince… I need your company…

UN sucks ass.

Lets make a new thing…

Let’s call it…

Nations United!

😁

I was originally from Mainland China and immigrated to the US as a kid, my English is native-level.

Feel free to DM, as long as it doesn’t get too weird… 👀

(I’m not gonna make outside accounts so just use the Fediverse messaging thing built-in to the platform)

Idk why but in my parent’s social circle… everyone seem to be some type of successful small bussiness owner and own several rentals or a bunch of stocks or like doing international trade or whatever…

Like one of my aunts owns a 4 family home in Brooklyn and lease two of them out and combined two units on the 1st floor into 1… her husband is a college professor and has a real estate license… and also a bunch of trade licenses…

(this is not the “married at 21 and have kids” story, its a different story)

they have so much video game consoles at home…

Their kids constantly go to some PAID afterschool thing and weekend school… (from what I heard)

And I assume they also had to go to Chinese school since I’ve been told they learned Chinese? (lolol I didn’t have to cuz I actually went to 2nd grade in China so I already knew how to read)

Like… literally the stereotypical Asian family… BUT THEY HAVE VIDEO GAME CONSOLES AND I DIDNT EVEN GET ANY WTF MOM?

So I was told this cousin, around my age, apparantly went to go on to do international bussiness and “made millions of dollars” like early 20s…

Nah I think they’re exaggerating…

Their mom and dad (the mom is my aunt, who is my dad’s sister) owns real estate I think…

I mean they used to have one in Philly and they asked my dad and mom to do property management for them… but later they sold it cuz its was too far and too much of a hassle…

And my mom also have another friend (old classmate? or like and old teacher she used to have?) in Philly that owns like 5 rentals…

Like my parents social circle is so weird…

like everyone is just “middle class” and if you are just living paycheck to paycheck, you lose “face”…

Like I think the vast majority of Chinese immigrants own their homes…

So not owning a home is actually considered a failure lol…

Her generation…

Well I mean…

Mao’s little red books intensifies

(okay jokes aside, I was told my generation was “supposed” to have it better than theirs… in terms of like them growing up in Mainland China 60s/70s vs me having the opportunity to emigrate during childhood… but maybe I just got very bad luck and mom got extremely lucky in terms of “being successful in life”)

Mom: “I grew up with nothing, your grandparents didn’t give us anything, yet look at how much I’ve built [they have like a few hundred thousand to possibly 1 mill USD in assets], why can’t you do the same?”

And funny thing is she also admitted that luck is part of the equation, but then still shamed us anyways…

Like she often points to my cousin around my age that apprantly is doing some bussiness stuff overseas and made millions in profits…

And like

Oh this is funny:

“Look at NYC! An IMMIGRANT BECAME MAYOR! [she’s talking about Mamdani] You came here at 8 years old, why can’t you be just like him?”

😭

Idk mom, Mamdani’s mom seems nicer than you… maybe that’s why… lmfao

My older brother is 28 and still with us… 🤷‍♂️

My mom said shit like: “[some random friend/relative] is only 21 and already graduated college and gotten married and have a kid (which means presumably they have their own separate house), why are y’all [directed at me and my older brother] such failures?”

(I’m Chinese American btw)

u didnt do the canvas thing before? its just a bot that pms you the link lol

whatevs lol