haha - eat your heart out TO :)

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are there even any bikes there? does any one even ride?
 
Good luck navigating all the Asian driver's on your bike.

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I bet it's already raining there again.
 
Dresden said:
Good luck navigating all the Asian driver's on your bike.

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I am Asian...and I approve of educating the immigrants from China to learn English and use their signals! (And to stop inflating our property prices).
 
I'm old enough that when I was a kid Oriental was perfectly acceptable as a descriptor term. It means a native or resident or person from the Eastern countries. Orient is an old word.

I find it more accurate than the current politically correct term Asian and don't see what is so bad about it. The obverse is Occidental.

Vladimir Putin is an Asian.

So is Gandhi.

And Jackie Chan too.

All brothers from another mother.

Don't you want to reclaim your unique identity as being from fabled Cathay rather than just Asian?
 
Yeh!!! A dry day!!!


Congrats!!!! Wooot Woot!!!!!
 
rye said:
I bet it's already raining there again.
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sorry you would be wrong. Its not the weekend. You are implying it rains alot here?
It only rains once a year, Starts in October and ends in April.
 
Sunspark said:
I'm old enough that when I was a kid Oriental was perfectly acceptable as a descriptor term. It means a native or resident or person from the Eastern countries. Orient is an old word.

I find it more accurate than the current politically correct term Asian and don't see what is so bad about it. The obverse is Occidental.

Vladimir Putin is an Asian.

So is Gandhi.

And Jackie Chan too.

All brothers from another mother.

Don't you want to reclaim your unique identity as being from fabled Cathay rather than just Asian?
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By no means am I trying to attack you, but perhaps you will understand the change after reading or at least being aware of Edward Said's work in his book "Orientalism."
 
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I considered moving to Vancouver for work (transfer opportunity, basically). I thought it would be awesome to escape the snow of Toronto, but on further research, Vancouver has cloud cover 90% of days outside of July-August, and that just doesn't work for me. I'd rather sunny and some snow than gloomy and rain all year.
 
Vancouver is depressing, both the city and its weather.

I'm sure it's fun if you're a granola hiker type.
 
I don't see anything demeaning about Oriental
 
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