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Chinese Personality...

Harmony (one's inner peace of mind, interpersonal harmony, etc.)
Ren Qing (relationship orientation, which covers adherence to cultural norms of interaction such as those based on reciprocity)
Modernization (contrasted with attitudes toward traditional Chinese beliefs)
Thrift vs. Extravagance
Ah-Q Mentality (defensiveness, externalization of blame)
Face (social behaviors done in order to enhance or avoid damaging one's reputation and honor)...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits_and_culture

In medicine and medical anthropology, a culture-bound syndrome, culture-specific syndrome, or folk illness is a combination of psychiatric and somatic symptoms that are considered to be a recognizable disease only within a specific society or culture. There are no known objective biochemical or structural alterations of body organs or functions, and the disease is not recognized in other cultures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture-bound_syndrome

Cross-cultural psychiatry (also known as ethnopsychiatry or transcultural psychiatry or cultural psychiatry) is a branch of psychiatry concerned with the cultural context of mental disorders and the challenges of addressing ethnic diversity in psychiatric services

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-cultural_psychiatry

challenges of addressing ethnic diversity in psychiatric services

Corinne Engber for JewishBoston
Why All Cats Are Jewish
Jews and cats get along surprisingly well as their similarities shine through.

https://www.jewishboston.com/read/why-all-cats-are-jewish/

Archived

https://web.archive.org/web/20250805005633/https://www.jewishboston.com/read/why-all-cats-are-jewish/

"They’re often dismissed as cold or even heartless, ready to eat their owner as soon as acknowledge them"

Americans think that they are rebels because they are immoral and have tattoos, but maybe the elites want Americans to be immoral since immoral people are easier to blackmail and control.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6397310495112

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/florida-cops-are-quietly-using-meta-smart-glasses-40573513/

...so as to have an alibi for their unkempt beard?

"Habibi, I'm not lazy, the neckbeard is so I look like the Prophet's Companions!"

@RodrickSage Still wont help them escape India.

Incels should just convert to Islam.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/woman-films-camera-she-says-113100409.html

"‘I thought gender surgery would make me feel better. I was misled’

"A growing number of ‘detransitioners’ are suing hospitals and doctors in the US, saying they were not warned about the health implications"
https://x.com/TonyDowson5/status/2086165840789959094

Why farmers are spreading crushed glass on their crops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UhdnlZ5Us8

‘F**k this’: Uni’s controversial new degree
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/experts-and-influencers-divided-over-new-university-degree/news-story/8752bd3d71953447d5796b08826ab395

On patrol with the Taliban’s virtue and vice police.
https://www.facebook.com/timesandsundaytimes/posts/under-questioning-the-20-year-old-woman-admits-that-she-is-not-the-wife-of-the-d/1505479974942727/

@Tfmonkey What if, they knew they would lose in Iran so they used it to cut all relations with them, and now with Venezuela, Force Europe to buy Venezuelan oil?

not letting go of the empire but, shifting it, changing the logistic?

@Tfmonkey I remember you guy talking how the US and Europe were giving Ukraine old equipment to take it out of inventory and destroy it.

What if the US is actually destroying their old equipment?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UhdnlZ5Us8

Supposedly glass meant to be recycled is being turned into a powder to provide nutrients for crops including the periodic table of the elements metal Silicon or Silica not Silicone used in cookware and fake breasts

are there non gmo pink pineapples

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=are+there+non+gmo+pink+pineapples&ia=web

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No, all pink pineapples available on the market are genetically modified. The pink pineapple, known as Pinkglow, was developed by Del Monte through genetic engineering to achieve its unique color and sweetness.

Americans shrug if Americans say the largest city in the USA is Omaha, but Americans will vehemently attack a newspaper that reports that Americans sometimes think that the biggest city in the US is Omaha.