u/Effective_Space2277

Currently, I live in Asia but will relocate to Vancouver as a permanent resident next month.

I’ve lived in different countries and speak 4 languages. Unfortunately, I don’t know how to ride a bike…I always feel bad when I have to say no to cycling dates.

I have an MBA from a university in the United States but decided to leave when Trump won. I’m learning German so I’m thinking about going there to study in a couple of years. But I’ll eventually return to Canada as I’m required to live there for certain amount of time.

I like reading, swimming, and watching movies. I have to admit that there’re many books that I’ve bought but haven’t read in my house🤣 I’m still pondering whether I should bring them with me to Canada.

While I can talk about new product development and business strategy, I can also be very goofy. My favorite day of the year is April Fool, because I can prank people without consequences…

I’m looking for someone educated and witty with a good sense of humor. I tend to fill my schedule with a lot of work or projects, so I would like to meet someone who can make me smile and relax at the end of the day.

If you’re interested, please send me a DM and introduce yourself.

My dad used to say not to feed the squirrels and I quickly found out why… but I love all the little critters and creatures in my backyard and I’m thankful I can feed them all!!! Just wanted to share this silly picture.

So dude was getting sexual services from a minor and killed her. He then hid her body in a suitcase and tried to escape the country.

I don’t care that she was a sex worker, no one deserves to die like this. And dude knows that if he tries to do anything sexual with a minor in Australia, he’d be in big trouble.

As someone from a hot country, I feel like we’re very used to heat and sunlight. People here will just carry an umbrella and drink water as much as they can.

But I wonder how people in the colder parts of the world survive this?

Fat fuck shamelessly begs a gullible human for food.

I didn’t use dating apps for many years. But during a recent trip abroad, I decided to download one of them after having some wine.

As soon as the guys learned that I was from Thailand, they’d start asking if I was a ladyboy. Fortunately, everyone was very polite about it…

And no, I’m not a ladyboy🤣

The author of this story, a Western woman, worked in the palace as an English teacher.

While there’re fictional characters, the main reason that this book, as well as any film stemming from it, is banned in Thailand, is because it might tarnish the monarchy’s image.

He’s not a fan of his diet unfortunately

Long-tailed macaques in Lopburi are known for being aggressive and fearless. They can and will attack the locals for food.

As a result, kids have to carry air guns just to go to school.

For some reason, this one is quite popular with older women. Both ladies are teachers.

The facade of 'not all men' and 'false cases' has finally, irrevocably shattered. If you want to know the soul of a culture, look at what it laughs at. Look at what it rewards with a microphone and a cash prize.

Context - For the uninitiated, or for those who willfully blocked it out to preserve their sanity, here is what happened. A 23 yr old web developer stands up at a stand-up comedy show in Gurgaon. He gets the mic. He decides to share a 'hilarious' anecdote about a date.

He bought a woman chicken biryani. It cost him ₹370 (that's about $3.8). When she asked to be dropped home, he decided that a plate of rice entitled him to her body.

He said - "Maine kaha 370 rupay lage hain, main wasool toh karunga." (TR : I said I've spent 370 rupees, I will definitely recover it.)

Let that sink in. (Yes, read that AGAIN.)

He then proceeded to describe, to a room full of laughing, cheering peers, how he wore down her defenses. How he ignored her 'No.' How he pushed past her visible hesitation, dragged her into a dark park, and forcefully put his hand inside her clothes.

He didn't confess this in a dark interrogation room. He confessed it on a stage, under bright lights, into a microphone. And what did he get? Laughter. Applause. The comedian hosting the show literally handed him a cash prize.

This is the rape mentality in its purest, most casual form: The belief that a woman is a transaction, and her consent is a commodity that can be bought for the price of a plate of rice.

We are tired of the gaslighting. We are tired of being told that India’s rape crisis is a poverty/rural issue. This happened in Gurgaon, a corporate hub, involving an educated web developer and a room full of middle-class youth who found the description of sexual coercion hilarious.

They’ll tell you it’s a joke. They’ll tell you men are the real victims of a changing social landscape. But when the lights go down and the camera is rolling, they aren't afraid. They aren't victims. They are predators who feel so safe in their entitlement that they will confess to a crime for a laugh.

Gurgaon man fired after viral ₹370 biryani remark

The aftermath of the video followed the exact, predictable script of modern accountability. The internet outraged. The man’s employer promptly fired him (while claiming that he's a perfectly well behaved individual) to protect their brand image. The comedian issued a hollow apology and deactivated his Instagram.

(Corporate PR cleanup crews working overtime?)

But firing one man doesn't cure the disease. This wasn't one bad apple. This was a room full of middle-class, educated, upwardly mobile youth acting as a mirror to society. The audience laughed because the premise made sense to them. The idea that a woman becomes a financial transaction the moment a man pays for dinner is a widely accepted social contract in the dark corners of the collective psyche.

No one in that room stood up. NO ONE stopped the mic. No one said, 'Hey man, you're describing a crime, you sexually assaulted someone!.'

No, SYBAU about fake cases, it's not a rural issue, we're not overreacting, it's not just a joke!

To every woman reading this who feels sick to their stomach: Your anger is correct. Your hyper-vigilance is justified. Do not let them tell you that you are overreacting.

We are living in a reality where our safety, our dignity, and our consent are treated as commodities with a depreciating value. If a plate of biryani is enough to justify stripping away a woman's right to say no, then ZERO women are safe.

The facade is broken. We see you. We see what you laugh at when you think we aren't looking. And we are absolutely done being polite about it.

Recently, I met a Thai woman of Indian descent. Her great-grandparents moved here almost a hundred years ago, but she said she still got sent to a boarding school in India as a child to learn about the culture.

According to her, many families of Indian descent still have strong ties to India. For instance, kids will get enrolled in boarding schools in India, and they still have arrange marriages (that was how she got married to her husband too).

I also have a client of Indian descent. His family immigrated here before WW2, so he speaks perfect Thai. But because he got sent to India for schooling, he couldn’t write in Thai. He also mentioned a story from Mahabharata in our conversation. Both of them have Indian names. The lady still visits her friends and family in India.

My family immigrated from China after WW2 as well. However, I have to say that most people of Chinese descent here don’t feel Chinese at all. I can’t speak a single word in Chinese and have never visited my grandparents’ families in China. I don’t know much about the Lunar New Year except that we wear red clothes and kids get money in red envelopes.

I’ve read somewhere that an immigrant family will be completely assimilated by the 3rd generation (and that’s literally happened to my family),so this is such an interesting phenomenon to me.

My middle school had this virtue camp where we would have to spend a couple nights at school and learn how to behave from monks.

No, it wasn’t a regular lesson about Buddhism. In fact, the tactics were manipulative and abusive. For instance, they’d show us a video of a pig getting slaughtered before meal so that we’d be more appreciative of our food. Or, worse, they’d show us a video of a woman giving birth to instill the notion that we owe our parents and they can’t do no wrong.

A friend of mine had wanted to study medicine. But because of the birth scene, she became so traumatized that she decided to choose another profession.

In hindsight, it was just a way to control and morph us into obedient and meek kids. Unfortunately, many parents supported this hellish camp because…well…Asian parents.