I would also like to add that as far as the colonialism/racism aspect of it goes, I don't think being educated enough to just say "chai" has any impact at all on anything and white people who clearly think it does annoy me *more* than other white people YMMVhttps://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1331127083796336641 …
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The white people who've made me the most viscerally uncomfortable and aware of "Orientalism" as a concept have been people like the white guy from Pittsburgh who always said "Beijing" tonally (Běijīng) and always had a different younger Asian girlfriend every couple years
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Lol I mean my dad is the least "PC" person in the world - he's a Catholic Republican who hates the SJWs and the commies - but he actually warned me before college not to make friends with "white people who like Chinese culture too much"
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"I had a professor like that back when I was in graduate school She was very kind, she meant well, but it was very strange and unhealthy If you spend too much time around those people you'll end up feeling really bad about yourself"
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You know what I mean, the hunger for authenticity, this sort of aggressive hunger to be cooler and realer and more with it than anyone else You think you're not being a tourist - desperate not to be one - but you are, you're being a worse tourist
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Like I'm not pissed at white people who like Chinese food or artwork or language or whatever But if someone is, because of the legacy of colonialism, well that's their prerogative And you can't like earn your way out of it by accumulating cred
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The whole thing about this is that as languages go, English is very unusually accommodating In modern English it is surprisingly easy and common to drop in a word from another language with the "rules" attached to it mostly intact and just go ahead and use it
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Because English is an uninflected language based on word order Because it's a "world language" This fact is not really a demonstration that the Anglosphere is the most humble and self-effacing linguistic community in the world The opposite, that it's the most rapacious empire
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That is part of it; like I said in another branch of the thread, the other part is that English was born out of Norman colonization of England; this is why we eat beef but raise cows, while Germans eat Rindflesch, the Flesch of Rinden.
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Yeah I know all that and I don't consider it particularly relevant
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It's probably orthogonal to the discussion, but it is why English was primed to take in the vocabulary of the people they subjugated in a way that French did not.
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