the Planet*

(US is not the only country is the world where people are suffering, less US-Centralism pls)

You can vote overseas…

Its actually ironic that people in Puerto Rico don’t even get representation but if you last lived in the 50 states and then go abroad, you can mail your vote.

Just use an app that force your screen to flip upside down (Android allows this)

Every time I hear the word “import” when referring to Human Beings, its always some far right xenophobic white dude complaining about “oMg tHeSe dIrTy iNdIaNs aRe tAkInG oVeR!”

“To to teach English”

Which is only possible because he happened to be born into the language

And English is only in demand because of British + American dominance in the world throught the past few hundred years

Most Chinese Citizens cannot enjoy the same lifestyle as him, WHICH IS WHY they want to learn English in the first place… so that they can find more opportunities in life

Like… this is not really “China good”, this is more like “English-Speaking white dude, who was lucky enough to grow up with the language, benefiting from Anglosphere dominance throught history”

LMFAO

My mom blamed us (me and my older brother) for “sitting too close to the TV”

She kept us mostly locked indoors in an apartment (besides going to school) from the beginning of my memory up till 8 years old.

Then we moved to the US and from 8 to 12 I was in school from morning (like 7 AM maybe? forgot the exact time) till like 6PM cuz she signed me up afterschool programs cuz she wanted to use it as free babysitting essentially so she can work longer…

And we cant go outside alone without adults.

In China it was “a lot of kidnappers on the street thay will traffic you and sell your organs”

In the US it was “if you go outside without an adult, CPS will take you away and you can’t see mama again” (idk why mom spoke in 3rd person sometimes lol)

Yay! so… from birth to 12 I was indoors, either in school or at home, most of the time…

outdoor time was rare and only when parents have a day off or like the 15 minutes of recess in school…

that’s basically our outside time…

In China we had maternal grandma that sometimes took us outside…

In the US, it was just mom, dad, older brother, and me (cuz grandma can’t come yet, no visa yet)… So we had even less outside time… like parenrs had to work all the time…

But of course its always “too much screens!” to be blamed lmao

From 8 to 12 was when my nearsightedness really developed a lot.

I didn’t understand why I had nearsigntedness at the time, but now looking back and analyzing my life, now it’s so obvious why lol…

My older brother has like -9.00 or -10.00 in the nearsightedness thing. Its funny my parents called it like 900 or 1000 “degrees”… like it sounds so much scarier when they drop the decimal point and literally say: “you’re about to have ONE THOUSAND DEGREES IN NEARSIGHTEDNESS! You’re gonna GO BLIND!”

I sometimes looked myself in the mirror… like I got so used to seeing my reflection in glasses, that if I ever like go without glasses… say if I get lasik, then I’d look so weird…

I literally had this thought earlier today… like… do people who get lasik still wear fake glasses so they look good aesthetically speaking? Or as you said, “to look smart”?

In the US, you go to a post office, and you have to hand over the physical, original copy of your proof of citizenship when apply for the first time so the postal worker can attach to the packet of stuff they send to the US Department of State… and they only give it back after they finished processing your passport application…

So while waiting… (takes a few weeks to process) you have:

-No Passport -No Certificate of Citizenship/Naturalization or Birth Certificate…

Meaning no proof of Citizenship…

Which means its kinda awkward if you get approached by government agents during this time… and have no proof of your claim to be a US Citizen…

Apparantly for people with birthright citizens, they can just get a birth certificate for like $10-$30, which I didn’t know before… TIL

But since I’m foreign-born and naturalized (or technically speaking, it’s Citizenship via Derivation under the Child Citizenship Act of 2000, but its too complicated and I don’t wanna write a paragraph on that), I would need to file a N-565 to get a replacement copy of my proof of citizenship…

And it’s $500 for the filing fee…

Yea I don’t think people are gonna really wanna spend $500 just for an extra “backup copy” they statiscally don’t need, unless it actually gets lost in the system and then they’d have no choice but to pay $500…

And that also takes time to process…

(And before you ask: Yes it is night time here, but I don’t really feel like sleeping right now lol)

If this was asked in China, I bet nobody would seriously say “I wanna live in the past”

(at least not in the context of traveling back to the 1950s or something like that…)

“Why would you light your passport on fire?”

-u/ripcord@lemmy.world

idk Gen Z slang has infected my brain…

(send help… I’m Gen Z 👀)

I’m not saying its an literal actual trap, its more of a colloquial/casual way of saying things that some people apparantly didn’t get… 🤷‍♂️

Its like you know people say “the cat showing the belly is a trap” thing? Even tho not every cat would scratch you.

Yeah, but they took the original copy to be mailed to the department of state, for Online Renewals it doesn’t need to leave your hands, but I’m not eligible for a renew cuz my last one was issued in 2016/2017 when I was under 16 (valid only for 5 years), and I don’t even have it anymore.

I have a printed-copy of the Certificate and digitized versions stored on my phone… but my point is, it feels “less legit” to present it compared to the physical original copy.

Your foreign birth certificate does not prove citizenship btw.

A replacement for Certificate of Naturalization/Certificate of Citizenship is $500

I have derivative citizenship…

N-565 costs $500 to file

not exactly cheap

Oh… I just googled it… didn’t even know birth certificated are that cheap…

Cuz people who do not have birthright citizenship have to pay $500 to file for a replacement Certificate of Naturalization or Certificate of Citizenship…

kinda expensive ngl

Every comment section is xenophobic

Every problem is the fault of “immigrants, democrats, black people”

Japan very civilized because… “it’s homogenous society, unlike the US”… 🧐

CCP Shills

Far-right falsely accusing all Chinese diaspora of being CCP Spies… 🙄

And mean like… you got both Tankies and Sinophobes on one platform… oh boy… 👀

I wonder what happens when you mix the two… oh, behold

The Sinophobic Tankie? (There are white male foreigners that shills for CCP while simultaneously has horrible Chinese language skills and looks down on the actual average Chinese people, especially that they look down on those that don’t speak English, and also has Asian fetish and are mysogynistic towards Chinese women… aka: the “sexpats”)

More like a c/NoStupidQuestions post than a YSK

Also: OP Username is literally a romanization of 李洪志 founder of Falun Gong (but with Lee instead of Li)

🤣

You know you can be against CCP without joining a weird “religious movement”

Alt Universe: “My name is Edward Snowden and oopsie I forgot to start the anonymization program and now CIA agents are waiting for me at the airport”

If you have no morals, and if you’re in USA, you can give them ads for your local gun shop 💀

(/joke, pls don’t do this lol)