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> I was born in China Did you earn your red scarf?

FooBarWidget 7y ago
Yes I did. Not even kidding. You get it when you generally behave like a good student at school. Maybe you associate it with something else (probably Mao mass murdering or w/e) but most Chinese see it as a pretty normal school thing.
- philliphaydon 7y ago
  Correct, you get it when you show loyalty to ccp.
  - tly_alex 7y ago
    Stereotypes like this is just unbelievable in this days and in HN.
    - dang 7y ago
      I understand the feeling. Unfortunately it's inevitable that stereotypes etc. end up on HN, simply because HN is millions of people. At any moment, some population sample is getting activated by something that appears here and someone will get triggered into commenting. It's important not to generalize from posts like that to the entire community, because if you do it will feel like you're surrounded by enemies, when the opposite is true. I sometimes find it helpful to replace "HN" with "large statistical distribution" in a sentence. It's usually true and makes things less dismaying.
ubermon 7y ago
I am quite surprised to see those stereotypes on hacker news . Looking at all the accounts with names like systemxxx and throwawayxxx, I feel conspiracy theory is no joke
- dang 7y ago
  Unfortunately, this kind of thing makes it on to HN. That's inevitable when a forum has millions of users, anonymity is ok, and the topic is divisive. We do what we can to try to convince people to follow the rules (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), and we ban accounts that violate them repeatedly. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20nationalis&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
dang 7y ago
Slurs like this will get you banned here. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22827309 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22827309 also. People have been hounded off this site because of their national origin. I'm sure you'll agree that that's utterly shameful. Unfortunately it's what we end up with when people allow baser instincts to drive their posts. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Yes I did. Not even kidding. You get it when you generally behave like a good student at school. Maybe you associate it with something else (probably Mao mass murdering or w/e) but most Chinese see it as a pretty normal school thing.

philliphaydon 7y ago
Correct, you get it when you show loyalty to ccp.
- tly_alex 7y ago
  Stereotypes like this is just unbelievable in this days and in HN.
  - dang 7y ago
    I understand the feeling. Unfortunately it's inevitable that stereotypes etc. end up on HN, simply because HN is millions of people. At any moment, some population sample is getting activated by something that appears here and someone will get triggered into commenting. It's important not to generalize from posts like that to the entire community, because if you do it will feel like you're surrounded by enemies, when the opposite is true. I sometimes find it helpful to replace "HN" with "large statistical distribution" in a sentence. It's usually true and makes things less dismaying.

ubermon 7y ago

I am quite surprised to see those stereotypes on hacker news . Looking at all the accounts with names like systemxxx and throwawayxxx, I feel conspiracy theory is no joke

dang 7y ago
Unfortunately, this kind of thing makes it on to HN. That's inevitable when a forum has millions of users, anonymity is ok, and the topic is divisive. We do what we can to try to convince people to follow the rules (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), and we ban accounts that violate them repeatedly. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20nationalis&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

dang 7y ago

Slurs like this will get you banned here. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22827309 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22827309 also. People have been hounded off this site because of their national origin. I'm sure you'll agree that that's utterly shameful. Unfortunately it's what we end up with when people allow baser instincts to drive their posts. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html