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Aw. That’s completely fair, Yi. I see a lot of…

It just shows how bad the basic education is in the US (unless it’s for rich ppl I guess). Those basic math were taught and imprinted during our time in elementary school. I’m not even talking about the more difficult shits, just basic +-*/ you actually use and is actually useful in daily life.

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Saw this at work. Will remind self to do it after I went back home!!

It’s Sunday so i’ll answer all of them 8D

1. favourite place in your country?

My favourite place that I’ve been to is the Green Island. It’s a tiny island (only 6.2 square mile) on the south east side of Taiwan.
It used to be the prison that held political prisoners but now it’s opened to the public.

You can rent a scooter to ride around the island’s only road and just chill and enjoy the view.

4. favourite dish specific for your country?

Taiwan is an immigrant country, so majority of our food are brought here from China. I’ve never had genuine native Taiwanese dishes (most of their dishes were changed to fit the Han-style), but there’s one dish I like that’s specific to Taiwan:

The beef noodle soup was brought to and re-invented in Taiwan by the soldiers retreated from China during the Chinese Civil War.  The soup is traditionally made from beef bone, soy sauce, and fermented bean paste, and the beef is pre-stewed in soy sauce and spice herbs before being added to the soup.

5. favourite song in your native language?

I don’t really listen to mandarin song but this one is a good one:

This Taiwanese singer was having a writer’s block while doing a music project in Beijing. He was in a bad mood and thought “why am I in Beijing?. In Taiwanese dialect, it sounds like “one night in Beijing”, so he got the inspiration and wrote a song of the same title. It’s a song about travelers, love, and the singer incorporate elements of the Chinses Opera in it so it has a great sense of nostalgia in it.

Here’s the english translation of this song: https://chinesesongs.livejournal.com/85546.html

7. three words from your native language that you like the most?

肏你媽 Fuck your mom

It’s an universal curse phrase. I think it’s far more satisfying than “fuck” or “fuck you”. Bus leaving in front of you? 肏你媽. Game RNG is bad? 肏你媽. Pokemon runs away? 肏你媽. You can curse everything with this line.

13. does your country (or family) have any specific superstitions or traditions that might seem strange to outsiders?

I think 冥婚/ghost marriage would be seemed as the most creepy one?

The tradition is really rooted from misogyny (like most of the so called tradition). So, traditionally in chinese culture, we worship our ancestors and believed that the dead spirits “live” on the worship offering from their offspring. Usually, a family will set up a small shrine in their house for the purpose. But traditionally, a woman only have a place in the shrine once she’s married into another family. If a woman dies unmarried, she’s not allowed to be in her own family shrine. It means she has no offerings from no one and it means she’ll suffer from hunger and poverty after death.

To solve this, comes along the tradition of ghost marriage. The family with a dead unmarried woman will put the dead woman’s birth date and some money in a red envelop, put the red envelop outside, and the man who picks it up will have to marry her (the tradition believes that the woman will pick her husband, so only the mr. right will see and pick up the red envelop). 

Even though the man with a ghost wife can still marry a living woman (he has to ask approval from his ghost wife first), but it’s a weird tradition and is really sexist if you think about it. I think at leas my generation of people don’t believe it that much? And some people are fighting the tradition of not allowing women to be in their own family shrine… but my family doesn’t do things like that at all so I guess I’ll just let the tradition die in my family anyway. 

15. a saying, joke, or hermetic meme that only people from your country will get?

I honestly can’t think of one????

20. which sport is The Sport in your country?

Baseball. But I have no interest in it at all.

23. which alcoholic beverage is the favoured one in your country?

People here drink whatever the fuck that’s in trend and can show of how rich they are. We have no real taste in alcohol what so ever. But we do make our own whiskey and it won several world whiskey competitions?

25. would you like to come from another place, be born in another country?

Well, Taiwan is an interesting shit hole in Asia so that’s nice I guess? You don’t usually get a place that’s literally a
Schrödinger’s

Country, is technically still in a civil war, but is still (currently) relatively stable.

27. favourite national celebrity?

Most of them are stupid and annoying, I can’t even recognize most of their faces lmao.

30. do you have people of different nationalities in your family?

I think my mother side of grandmother has a sister from the same father who’s in China and she has a son, so he’s like… my half uncle?

Listen my guy, take one look at the episode they’re actually in together and tell me Lyste isn’t furiously congratulating himself for tapping that.

Both is good.

He’s as eager as TK-421 which is hilarious because you know Agent Sideburn’s heart is with the purple hairball

Nah seriously. Like. If this were one of those games with a lot of punching or whatever I’d be here with a book, frantically trying to dodge as you unlock some mega move that turns you into a giant robot and fires legendary Pokémon out of your arm cannons. You can see it on your face. I swear.

you forgot that i can also use a lightsaber too 😉

My own roommate has told me my sister looks like the full size hero and I look like I’m trailing after as the kind of midget sidekick.

You are not the sidekick.

I am the smol loner wandering the field looking for trouble

You’re going to tell a Lasat to FACE YOU and he’s going to shit himself and drop his bo-rifle with a whimper.

All hail the legend.

Then I’ll date the Lasat ;)))

*Swoon* I am super flattered 8DDDDDD