I mean I kind of get it. I’m Asia-white country as a banana baby and what Tilda responds with is a different scenario. Asians (particularly Asian-white country actors) are the least commonly seen on the big screen and Tilda’s response is obviously stupid for this particular example. I get excited any time I see a…

To be fair, those girls knew how they were being marketed - they might not have known the specifics, or necessarily been super informed about whether they had any choice to say no but saying they had no idea is saying that 16 yr old Britney Spears didn’t know that her market hook was “sexy but virginal”. What happened…

I didn’t know this until I dated, and then married a American who would go off on a righteous american rant that things that do not have ground up meat (specifically beef or bison) are not burgers and are in fact, called “sandwiches” for things like fillet-o-fish or the chicken one. No other country is as specific…

This is the main reason why I don’t collect everything as I go - I collect when I run into wild pokemon and I might do a few battles when I rotate a new pokemon into my team (on average I went through about 12 constant pokemon until the elite four). I never lost a battle, but I was definitely challenged in a couple of…

I think mostly it is regular people watching it (mostly college / teen girls who are prime VS customers) and college dudes. No one who regularly runs columns on Chanel’s haute couture shows and the in-and-out of head designers for Lanvin is on the VS, Kendall tracking beat. No one in “FASHUN” takes it seriously - VS…

I don’t - for one thing english is my native tongue - I was born and raised in a western country, and for all intentional purposes I identify myself as such. I am not ashamed of my ancestry (I come from some tough motherfuckers), but I recognize that my values, my attitude about life has a distinctly western feel…

It’s kind of funny you mention not-wanting-to-have-a-accent as a reason for not learning a parent’s native tongue because I come from immigrant parents, one of which who’s native tongue is english so I learned english first and then picked up two chinese dialects that I more or less stumble upon with my mother and…

Yes! This is basically the point of all boarding school books - especially for kids with kind of conservative parents who don’t understand things like sleepovers, or curfews and also for socially awkward children a.k.a me who thought that all my social woes could be relatively solved if I had freedom away from my…

IT is! I am a fellow non-American who is in the process of becoming a American and this was one of the first weird difference I noticed. In NZ, our drugstores don’t really much else but drugs, they might have a small beauty section and you might be able to buy a small get better teddy and a chocolate bar at checkout…

Yeah - like underage photo exchanges? That is a thing that exists now because we have phones and computers and the internet but you bet your ass that teens (who used to be just young adults after age 14) have long been flashing their goods at people they have been interested in, receiving and writing bawdy poetry and…

I totally agree with everything you said...but we’re talking about a society that is far more conservative than the US. Singapore is a very diverse Asian country but still fairly conservative - it has a high population of Christians (due to previous western influence), a history of conservative family oriented East…

Remember Penelope guys? Although she was not even all that deformed but was treated as such in universe.

To make a difference? Look I get it - sacrifice is not everyone’s cup of tea and I am certainly not the kind person who would but it’s the same reason people go to volunteer in war zones and in terrible aftermaths of earthquakes, why doctors choose to work in rural areas with no real glory of discovery or the latest…

I can think of a few. Off the top of my head Justin Bieber - type: light skinned latina / vaguely ethnically ambiguous, long dark hair, butts over boobs.

In places where you can openly say cunt a lot (UK / AUS / NZ) it is just slang for fucking abrasive awful human being. It’s not like bitch which changes connotations based on which gender it’s aimed at.     

She’s in LA. If you’re around the area - particularly in the fancy celebs part plenty of mothers are dressed sexily. In suburbtown in the midwest, sure this might warrant some pearl clutching but literally no one will be giving her any side eyes for the cleavage.

When this reboot came out I thought it would be kind of neat (although I don’t think they would have the diversity of showrunners to do this) to tackle what was popular in different cultural groups / socioeconomic high schools. I thought that would be a interesting way to diversify (e.g. rich asian kids sent abroad…

The bachelor is full of meh (like many of our straight bachelors so I guess that’s kind of equality for you), but a few of the contestants have been great for TV.

Lol at the “air fist pump”, I guess as a kid no touching is probably a option but growing up (particularly in the US where adults handshake all the time) most people will have to learn a firm handshake. Before I moved here I had no idea people shook hands outside of a job interview or getting a award

I think that he though short women have the same short hang ups as men which is hilarious. A woman is far more likely to feel too tall than too short when it comes to dating.