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https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/south-korea-mourns-over-devastating-halloween-crowd-surge-that-killed-153-in-seoul/3407496/

Why celebrate Halloween this way? Does it have to be fanatic revelry?
Halloween was hardly ever mentioned in the Far East couple of decades ago, not until it's hyped up by the bar/booze districts, by special make-up cosmetic products, scary props and costumes etc. that's all part of the consumerism plot. 
And of course, Halloween is "Western", hence the attraction to "western bound hearts" and the multitudinous support for its celebration.....how appalling!   

Westerners persecute a good teacher:

https://us.yahoo.com/news/texas-teacher-faces-termination-video-173024320.html

A Texas schoolteacher is facing termination after a viral video was posted online showing her telling students to call **** "minor-attracted persons." But students have come to her defense.

In a unanimous vote on Tuesday by the El Paso ISD school board, Amber Parker, a former English teacher at Franklin High School, was terminated after an 18-second video was posted online in August, KFOXT14 reported.

"Stop calling them that. You're not allowed to label people like that. Stop it, Diego," the teacher can be heard saying in the video. "We are not going to call them that. We're going to call them MAPs. Minor Attracted Persons. So don't judge people just because they want to have sex with a 5-year-old."
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Last year, Allyn Walker, an assistant professor at Old Dominion University, resigned after they received backlash on their research on minor-attracted people in a book titled "A Long, Dark Shadow: Minor-Attracted People and Their Pursuit of Dignity," NBC reports.

In an interview with the Protasia Foundation, Walker defended their research by saying that they use the term "minor-attracted person" because of the negative stigma associated with the phrase "****."

Such stigma is Western:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/questions-debates/debate-with-the-progressives/msg15332/#msg15332

Meanwhile in non-Western countries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolicon#History

The image of the shōjo (young girl) became dominant in Japanese mass media by the 1970s as an idealization of cuteness, innocence, and an "idealized Eros", attributes which became attached to imagery of younger girls over time.[29] **** photographs of shōjo, conceived as fine art, gained popularity: a photo collection entitled Nymphet: The Myth of the 12-Year-Old [ja] was published in 1969, and in 1972 and 1973 there was an "Alice boom" in **** photos themed around Alice in Wonderland.[30]
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Iconic characters of the boom include Clarisse from the film Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro (1979) and Lana from the TV series Future Boy Conan (1978), both directed by Hayao Miyazaki.[56] Clarisse was especially popular, and inspired a series of articles discussing her appeal in the anime specialty magazines Gekkan Out [ja], Animec [ja], and Animage,[57] as well as a trend of fan works (dubbed "Clarisse magazines"[18]) that were not explicitly sexual, but instead "fairytale-esque" and "girly".[43]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E63eW8M_LvI

Lyrics:

Theme: Fire Treasure (Honoo no Takaramono)

I want to go and search for happiness
I want to go life's ways with you, just the two of us
Even on thorny paths, even through freezing nights

Who will embrace the wanderer's cold heart?
Who will make my dreams come true?

This love of mine, like a raging fire
Has me bound
Only for wanting to understand you

I want to give sleep
To you who wander in the wilderness
You are truly a shooting star

This love of mine, like a raging fire
Dispels too the mysterious fog
Only for wanting to understand you

Recall previous discussion on this topic:

http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/what-a-zionist-hatchet-job-looks-like/comment-page-1/#comment-173323

It's crazy how people can laugh at these situations and not come to the conclusion that the idea of gendered clothing itself is pointless and flawed. No one has ever laughed at a man for wearing unisex clothing, because if they did there would be nothing worth joking about in the first place. But we regularly get videos like these where men will wear the clothing of their daughters for an attempt at humor.

I never understood tipping:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/charge-unsavoury-row-over-forced-231629557.html

The tipping culture, he says, came to India from the West. Just as in 1960s America, employers could pay workers below minimum wages if they earned tips, in 1950s and 60s India - just years into the country's independence - "many standalone restaurants in Delhi's Connaught Place or Kolkata's Park Street or Mumbai's Churchgate Street did not pay their waiters salaries at all and expected them to get by with tips".
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Mr Sanghvi has, for years, argued that tips should be totally abolished because:

    it's intrinsically unfair toward waiters alone when many others contribute to the success of the meal

    it tyrannises guests who are never sure how much of a tip to leave

    and if we do not tip the stewardess after a good flight or a nurse who treated us well during a hospital stay, then why must we tip a waiter?

Background:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratuity#Etymology_and_history

The practice of tipping began in Tudor England.[14] In medieval times, tipping was a master-serf custom wherein a servant would receive extra money for having performed superbly well.[15] By the 17th century, it was expected that overnight guests to private homes would provide sums of money, known as vails, to the host's servants. Soon afterwards, customers began tipping in London coffeehouses and other commercial establishments".[14]
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Some have criticized the inherent "social awkwardness" in transactions that involve tipping, the inconsistency of tipping for some services but not similar ones, and the irrationality of basing tips on price, rather than the amount and quality of service (a customer pays a larger tip to a server bringing a lobster rather than a hamburger, for example).[129]
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Tipping might be discomforting to some people because it adds the necessity of figuring out the tip amount each time, which is made harder by the fact that the tip amount the service provider is hoping to receive, is in general unknown to the customer. As lack of, or too low, tip might offend the service provider this adds the discomfort of fear of creating an unpleasant social encounter to each service purchase transaction the customer suspects might involve the expectation of tipping.

Trivia:

Lynn's research also found that "blondes get better tips than brunettes. Slender women get better tips than heavier women. Large breasted women get better tips than smaller breasted women.”

The second one is actually justified (as less energy wasted = better service), but I would be more than willing to sacrifice it to get rid of the Eurocentrism and high sexual dimorphism favouritism.

Gravitas: Why Japan is obsessed with robots

Japan is often called the 'robot capital' of the world'. From security guards to doctors to therapy experts, Robots do all kinds of odd jobs. How big is Japan's robotics industry? How does it help the country's economy? Palki Sharma brings you a ground report.


#Robots #Japan #Gravitas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihkzZGqSyGc

Real answer: Westernization.

"learning to love someone that you were not initially attracted to can be a romantic undertaking as the only way to find something attractive about the arranged spouse would be for the other person to learn absolutely everything about them. "

This seems to be a form of adulteration. It reminds me of being forced to learn to play a musical instrument (that I had no interest in) by adults claiming I will learn to like it after I know it inside out. (In reality, it has only caused me to hate Western classical music.)

Romanticism celebrates love at first sight. This can occur within the setting of arranged meetings, just as it can occur when people meet each other by genuine coincidence (e.g. neighbours, colleagues, etc.). Where it cannot occur is when either person is trying to look for someone.

"I think the only way an arranged marriage between two noble persons could turn into a disaster is if both decide to dig in their heels and resist the arrangement purely on the grounds that it was an arranged match in the first place?"

Again, arranged does not mean compulsory. It simply means it can happen without either of the subjects taking any initiative:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/social-decolonization/msg12571/#msg12571

"the first thing most Westerners think about when it comes to romantic relationships is physical attraction and sexual intercourse."

The main problem is failure on the part of inferior people to distinguish genuine romantic love from mere lust. If you see someone and want to have sex with them, it is lust. If you see someone and want to prevent other people from having sex with them, it could be romantic love. There is a simple way to test what it really going on. You are given two choices:

a) You can have sex with that person, but so can others.
b) You can't have sex with that person, but neither can anyone else. 

Genuine romantic love will lead you to choose b) without hesitation.

"in an arranged marriage where two noble partners are not sexually attracted to each other, if sex is a must have for one of the people, or both, in the marriage they could seek it else where as long as they were honest and upfront about their intentions and reasoning with the other person in the arranged marriage?"

And as long as they admit they do not love each other. Because if they did, they would rather not have sex with others than hurt their spouse by doing so. Then, since they do not love each other, why marry each other? They should turn down the arranged marriage! Again, arranged does not mean compulsory.

Yeah, perhaps I should've worded it better. By "find" I mean cross paths with. Not necessarily to go actively looking for. I've read your position on dating apps and anything adjacent before, and it makes sense.

OK, I watched the full documentary, and encourage everyone here to do the same (and come back here to discuss it further if you want to). The trailer does not show the worst parts; you really need to see the whole thing. The following review contains a brief description of some of what is included:

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ascension-review-oscar-nominated-doc-221118370.html

from assembly lines where women prepare silicone sex dolls for demanding clients to private dining rooms where nouveau-riche elites learn how to eat a banana with fork and knife.
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The midsection of the film focuses on those enrolled in various seminars and coaching sessions to improve their standing. Women learn business etiquette, including when to hug and how to smile (pleasantly expose the upper eight teeth), while men study to become butlers or bodyguards.
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Finally, in the film’s last half-hour, Kingdon enters the realm of wealth and leisure, revealing how those with disposable income spend their free time — in video arcades and amusement parks, or educating themselves on fine European cuisine.

(I hardly need to say that the sex dolls are designed to look like "whites".)

This is what happens when improvement is equated with Westernization. I see it as both a lament to how China has utterly failed to avoid the trap of Westernization, and a warning to other formerly colonized countries - which still have a chance to choose - to not go down this same fallen path as China.

a galling late scene watches an oblivious influencer complaining of possible heat stroke while ignoring the gardener working just a few yards away.

The gardener with the straw hat, bent back, etc. visually looks just like how colonial-era Western propaganda used to stereotype Chinese peasants. Presumably this is the stereotype that the influencer wants (at least subconsciously) to distance herself as far away from as possible. Yet the scene is set up to leave no doubt that the gardener is the relatively more respectable individual (notwithstanding the indignity of having to work on a Western-style lawn:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/decolonized-housing-(america-edition)/msg5521/#msg5521

signifying the imprisonment within Western forms that even a (perhaps) internally non-Westernized Chinese must now endure.....).

Can China still extricate itself from all this? Possibly (I am not optimistic), but first it must vividly remember what it truly means to be Chinese as understood in ancient times (and re-expressed in Counterculture-era pop music):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsIBE8dBoZY