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G. Willow WilsonAn update on that "suck my tongue" story regarding the Dalai Lama--a great example of the way rage-click farming and propaganda (Tibetans are united in their conviction that China is behind the uproar) overlap.
S. Suzuki@GWillow thank you for sharing this. I was wondering if there might have been something lost in translation with this interaction, but wasn’t sure.
Legion@uzisuzuki @GWillow Thank the gods someone is sharing this. I felt like I was screaming into a hurricane.
Steven Molnar@GWillow Much like the famous Nikita Khruschev statement "We will bury you", which was not meant as a threat, but as a statement that his society will still be around after ours ends, i.e., when you die, we will still be here to bury you.
Amygeek@GWillow @professorkiosk thanks for posting this. It was really upsetting & confusing to hear this. It makes way more sense that it was a cross cultural misunderstanding.
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SeaFury ALT@GWillow Being Tibetan, this was most distressing to me and led me to block some people on social media 😢
Melissa BearTrix 🏳️⚧️@GWillow still disgusting... Should not be done and always with an excuse, the Dalai Lama excuse book is always growing ... He is inappropriate, homophobic, woman hating, and an hypocrite
See the obvious is pointed out and still the cultural mirror gets in the way.
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ekesBlaming something or someone else for one's own wilful ignorance isn't exactly the way either. You're still rsponsible for your own actions and decisions even if you followed a mob or were misled by propaganda.
Someone who's conscious and considerate of the vast diversity of cultures anywhere you go doesn't just rush to conclusions or makes judgements solely based on their own perspective concerning something new and foreign.
ShachihokoThis is a really helpful collection of cultural insight and defusing propaganda. I had a feeling that there was something the Western world wasn't getting about that ...
Caddi@Shachihoko @GWillow And just to show how much this place is USA-centric, I had to search for the meaning of 'pop kiss' - maybe a particular air kiss that was particularly common in American pop music?
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Pie Pants@GWillow thanks for posting this. When I first saw the story, I thought something was off.
Super Sideshow podcast@GWillow I knew it! (People need to check their knee jerk reactions to things)
johnmastodon@GWillow haters will always hate, with a bit of a push from internet trolls. Good to know the words in context, and might this be a lesson about believing what's posted in the news.
DeusI had correlated this with how certain gestures like shaking your head left/right, right/left or up/down can mean different things in different cultures. I wasn’t wrong.
Terje Fjelde@GWillow Ah, of course...
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴Dalai Lama and the boy: Chinese propaganda or just lost in translation?
"#Tibetans Explain What ‘#SuckMyTongue’ Means. It’s Not What You Think...
...the meaning of this *common* expression used to tease and teach children is completely lost in cultural interpretation and its English translation...
“Then [the grandfather] says that I’ve given you everything so the only thing left is for you to eat my tongue,...”
MackajThanks for posting this. I didn't understand this and it's good to see it in the proper context.
RandomAnt@GWillow Even giving the Dalai Lama the benefit of the doubt and accepting all these well constructed explanations, the incident confirms to me he is no living embodiment of the Buddha, but just an old man making a wildly inappropriate comment. One we wouldn't appreciate if it involved our own child and, say, a stranger. Another good reason to be #agnostic
Umm Ismael Muslimah@GWillow People are quick to jump to conclusions & slow to get the point that they are not the only culture out there & that they don't know everything.
Dennis Fischman`@GWillow So is it like the "I've got your nose" game I've seen people play with kids in the U.S.?"
Sia Vogel@GWillow What an important piece. Thanks!
@GWillow China did not make him do that and idk what they say. China did not give me the visceral reaction I had to seeing that. If he is the spiritual leader of 6.7m people he should know how that translates around the world. He is arrogant and his hubris has harmed him like so many religious leaders. Ain’t buying it.
David Moles@melikhovo that’s just the Ritual of Chüd from IT, every kid knows that one
Claudia Miles@GWillow Thanks for posting that!