Foreigners avoiding each other

[tempogain]

Sign language F?

Wait

[KongTaigi]

Let’s invert the sign to avoid alerting/confusing the locals, who may interpret it as ok or coin!

[the_bear]

Pretty sure this is it

Flight of the Conchords - Flipping the Bird

[junoreactor]

I usually nod, some ignore it but most give a nod back. Some even say hello.

We are humans not machines, some days you just don’t care.

[QuaSaShao]

@KongTaigi

Let’s create a gang sign for Forumosans. Subtle enough not to stand out awkwardly, but clear enough that others “in the know” could respond, if they wish.

Any suggestions?

“Yo, my cracker!”

[marasan]

Letter f in sign language.

Deleted. Suggested already.

[GooseEgg]

This brings me back…

Codeword: Forumosa

A couple of years ago, we played with the idea of having a secret code we could use to gauge whether or not that guy on the MRT is one of us. I think it had something to do with ice cream and bones. Why don’t we adopt some secret agent code thingy so we can drop it on that dude sitting next to you at the red light. Please add your suggestions: Secret Question: Does ice cream have bones? Secret Response: No, but Maoman does.

[TimesThree]

I think a lot of it is these guys style themselves “travelers in exotic Asia” or something like that. When they see other foreigners it shatters the illusion.

Either that or they’re just assholes and probably doing you a favor by avoiding you.

[eCanada]

@loser

The blacks and Latinos in Oakland don’t have the skills to get high paying jobs required to afford Oakland or the Bay Area and they’re on edge looking at extinction

This comment is in poor taste. Many would say the institutions prevent this from happening.

[eCanada]

@nz

One of my now closest friends is (had been) a random person who commented on something I was looking at in a market. Granted, this was an English-speaking foreigner and I’m also a white woman, but you never know.

So what happened? You guys struck up a conversation and became friends in the market? Or you met her at a later point?

[eCanada]

@tempogain

#99 Rangers sweater

FYI that’s cultural appropriation.
The great one is a Canadian national treasure.

[Rocket]

@eCanada

@tempogain

#99 Rangers sweater

FYI that’s cultural appropriation.
The great one is a Canadian national treasure.

List of National Hockey League retired numbers

|Wayne Gretzky|Edmonton Oilers|99|October 1, 1999|
|Wayne Gretzky|Los Angeles Kings|99|October 9, 2002|

(also retired league-wide)

[TT]

@eCanada

cultural appropriation

In my opinion this is a useless concept at best, and that’s when it is used correctly. If Americans enjoying Gretzky is cultural appropriation wouldn’t that mean that every single non-Taiwanese enjoying Taiwanese culture is similarly guilty? If expats in Taiwan spend much time worrying about cultural appropriation, I would avoid them.

If you take the views of the more extreme opponents of cultural appropriation to their logical conclusion, you will find similarities to their sworn enemies, believing as they do in the right to exclude others from their own fixed culture. No matter where my liberal sympathies lie, the threat of prescribed orthodoxy always lingers like a long shadow on the horizon. That’s more worrying than the tectonic plates of multiple cultures rubbing up against each other.

Cultural appropriation: everything is culture and it’s all appropriated

[tempogain]

99 actually played for the Rangers boys! We had him fair and square. Along with every other aging star around that time

[crusher]

@tempogain

Sign language F?

Wait

Friggin hilarious, especially from you

[eCanada]

Clearly you’re not familiar with Canadian sports. The day Peter Pocklington sold out Canada for 15 million is the saddest day in Canadian sports. A close second is Ben Johnson getting stripped of his gold medal in the 1988 olympics for doping.

[TT]

@eCanada

Clearly you’re not familiar with Canadian sports.

this is true; never been a sports fan, always been a reader

[tempogain]

Losing the Expos has to be up there!

[eCanada]

@tempogain

Losing the Expos has to be up there

Ah, I almost forgot.
Looks like they might get a team back, though. Florida can’t afford the rays.

Report: Rays owner says split-season plan with Montreal 'the only option'

[tommy525]

Think this need of acknowledgment is psychological
You don’t really want to interact with this stranger and yet you feel you need to nod? For what reason if it serves no useful purpose.

The purpose it serves is self driven

It makes us feel good

And we are disappointed if we get no affirmation back

Leading to doubts of self worth and introspection leading possibly to anger