Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, and help governments and healthcare figure out ‘how do we know when AI is wrong?’
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Last Notes npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan When I was younger, I became quite known in my country for being an avid backpacker. I was sometimes in the newspapers, with pictures of me on camels or in auto rickshaws. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I think the people who have the best jobs are the ones who have to sneak around to weigh baby albatross chicks and kākāpō chicks when their parents are out npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Homeless people don’t have homes. Apparently charging them with a felony so they can’t have homes again is the solution? npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan First meal in Geneva: someone really wanted me to try this Somalian ginger hibiscus lime juice! It’s amazing npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Why aren’t more people on Mastodon? npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I read someone say they were interested in coming to San Francisco to go swimming in the ocean.. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Woman gets hantavirus, told by doctors it's probably anxiety npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Black woman: Black people don’t feel comfortable on Mastodon and Bluesky!! npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan ‘Make a decal of American stereotypes on the side of a truck’ npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan The languages are from entirely different language trees. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan In many Chinese families it’s pretty common for people to talk to each other in completely different languages. My New York speaks to me in Mandarin / Hokkien. She speaks to her husband in Toishanese. They speak Cantonese to other people. We all sort of understand each other when we are speaking different languages, but respond in our own language. From time to time we might dip into about language to illustrate a point. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Hanging out with the Ethics Watchdog npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan If a young person were to ask me ‘what’s the most important thing you’ve learned’ I’m going to say, ‘whenever you feel you have to pee, go.’ npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan “Follow me”, said the cat. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Scientists documented whales in a group assisting in the birth npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Monk seals sometimes get eels stuck up their nose. We still don’t know why npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Sunset in little Tokyo, Los Angeles. Next to the metro station there. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan It’s almost impossible to book any local camping spots because all of your competition has built or set up some kind of scraper to do it for them. (This was happening even before Open Claw and stuff) npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan 2. MacArthur BART station has a bunch of free shuttle buses. The one I use most is the EmeryGoRound, primarily to the Amtrak station in Emeryville. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Taking a series of trains, buses and fun facts about them npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan @nprofile…ru8t yep npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I hope everyone who works on data analysis for dynamic pricing for anything gets bed bugs. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan At the shop they haven’t gone fully dynamic price tags so there was still the physical price tag to refer to. Online, the price had changed and you wouldn’t know it. Anyway, I am sitting here waiting for a manager to decide if he will honor a physical price tag. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Dynamic pricing is such a scam. I was at Best Buy looking at something and in 10 min it jumped $200. lol npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I miss waking up to this face npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan @nprofile…l7em USA public sector budgets are huge and software projects massive and convoluted.. other types of problems npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I also generally feel like when someone says ‘American immigration is awful and inhumane’ the vast majority of Americans are like yep absolutely I hate it and I’m sorry npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan This article talks about them using a spreadsheet-based decision-making tool that doesn’t look much different from Excel. It looks extremely basic and not very good and I’m willing to bet it’s responsible for a lot of pain in the system. Most immigration governments have much more advanced software for their specialized use case. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Canadian immigration appears less evil to me but also a heck lot more incompetent and confusing to deal with npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan There’s a Korean tea my wife likes. In Korean it says ‘tea for men’. In English it says ‘oriental raisin tea’. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Indonesia has so many excellent female music groups that it seems pointless to even call them a female music group npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I’ve been thinking a lot about work, energy, moderation. As a person with ADHD I find it challenging to get a true sense of what I’m really feeling; until it’s too late. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I met a friend yesterday who remembers hanging out with Cookie. He said ‘she only had two modes: I love Adri!! And what can I eat??’ npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan “Opportunity for Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to carry out research in the areas of peace and conflict studies, political violence or state repression at the University of Mannheim, Germany.” npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan i have incorporated a PBC... (a public benefit company..) npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan one of the nice things about working for yourself is, you can simply choose not to use any microsoft products npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan If you want to use #Ghost and you want to support a European small business hosting service that hosts Ghost and has excellent support, Magic Pages has launched a new lifetime hosting plan. For $460 (not sure about EUR price) you get a Ghost site hosted forever. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan When playing trivia I get all the American questions terribly wrong and almost all the world questions right npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan The thing about corruption in San Francisco: people keep doing crimes for a fraction of their annual salary npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan My mom sent me a list of what she is planning to eat, and what transit she will utilize to get to those places, on a specific date in April in a country she doesn’t live in. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan 13 months ago, I printed and dropped off a dossier. It weighed about 6 pounds (I weighed it). npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan The term for ‘road’ in most forms of Chinese is still ‘the horse path’ npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I met someone recently who fosters squirrels as a wildlife org volunteer. They had 16. Eventually they clarified not all at once, but I was imagining life in a home with 16 squirrels and that would be terrifying and awesome npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Baby manatees drink milk from their mother’s armpits npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan The first things I learned when I woke up today: npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I am ‘my body hurts for no reason, including my butt’ years old npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan My cat Mila used to be called Princess Mia. At the shelter. We changed her name, and it’ll always amuse me that mi4 la4 (蜜辣) also means sweet and spicy. She was exactly that. It’s also a brand of dumplings. She was also one. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I’ve been riveted by this story of a man who posted ‘’my gf left me over a cheese wheel’ npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I’m going to learn Spanish. I don’t think it’s possible to live where I live, in this time, without participating in a world that is rich, vibrant, joyful, Indigenous, wonderful and welcoming. All of my favorite parts of living in California have been centered on what little I have experienced of Mexican, Salvadoran, Honduran and other cultures. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Posting a story about mushroom poisoning is just like posting a story about scams. Everybody thinks it won’t happen to them, they’re so smart, unlike all the victims npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Norwegian crown prince says they support their step-son, who has been accused of raping four women. And his wife is in the Epstein files. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Some dudes would rather clean up documentation for AI agents than make documentation easier to read for everyone, such as people npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I don’t need ChatGPT. I just have to post on Mastodon ‘I don’t know this thing’ and all of my autistic acquaintances converge here to explain things to me npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan From a 2023 story about immigration detention in Denmark: npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan i read a western buddhist chide another western buddhist, that race isn't really a thing in asia npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Principal who was fired for reading a book called ‘I Need a New Butt’ can get his job back. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Surprised that no one’s done a time travel cooking show where going back in time with your spice rack items makes you the richest person in the world npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I’ve been trying to understand the love of In N Out for a while. The best I can do is: someone explained it as ‘the best CA burger you get for five bucks without leaving your car’ and I guess that’s right. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Some days I feel fully integrated as a Californian. Other days I am almost run over by cars slamming it to try to get the most aggressively mid burgers run by evangelicals npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I was happy to be able to help these incredible journalists doing amazing work at the border, move from Substack to Ghost. They relaunched today and it’s easier than ever to give them money to help support the essential work that they do. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan A parrot living in SoCal with its British owner went missing, and showed up 4 years later speaking Spanish instead npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Had a hilarious moment with my LA rideshare driver. We drove past Jollibee. I was commenting on how great Jollibee was, and sharing a factoid with my wife ‘in Malaysia, Church’s chicken is Texas chicken, coz church, haha’ and the driver was like OMG YOU SOLVED A MYSTERY FOR ME npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Maybe I don’t want to move to New York anymore (coz this is a SoCal winter) npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan It’s amazing that I live in a time when I can have many tacos npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan The Coast Starlight is the train I’ve taken the most, followed by the California Zephyr. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan As a Singaporean who has only known Singapore with a good subway system, I didn’t know much about the times before. I can’t conceive of a Singapore without the MRT. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Train journey! (Coast Starlight going south) npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I’ve given up trying to understand billboards in this city npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I saw a video about ‘Singaporean chefs working in top S.F restaurants’ and one of them says ‘there are too many labor laws in California’ npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Marine mammal naturalist program for adults. Held over 4 weeks in Santa Cruz npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Can #Auckland folks recommend good restaurants to @nprofile…dugw?? And also just cool things to see npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan First day without Mila. Feels weird. Losing Cookie was like losing a phantom limb. Losing Mila is like.. everything feels quiet. She was a highly interactive cat who made her presence felt in every room. I miss her so terribly npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Went to pick up mail and found a little tortoiseshell cat who came to give me kisses npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Saying bye to our princess tomorrow. She has a new mass in her lung right next to her heart, and a potential carcinoma in her GI. That’s 2 big things on top of her chronic other 10 things we’ve been managing for the last 8 years. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan New fantasy book idea: vampire who can’t die, studies for multiple PhDs through eternity npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Goals npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan AI Metrology (measurement science of ai) is a rapidly developing field and here is an interesting research opportunity npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Yarnspinner has a pretty good take npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Things I never thought I had to say ‘my pet insurance deductible’ npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Someone on a call told me they liked reading about my info dumping about #Food even though they don’t love food as much as I do. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Sometimes I read people say they need help moving to SF, and I’m so excited to help them, then I read ‘do not care about nearby food’ or ‘prefer to be near straight people’ and then I close the tab npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I’m not worried about the zombie virus from The Last Of Us, I am already part cordycep (it is a very common ingredient in our soups) npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I find many of the northern styles of biryani to be very good technically, but also 1/10th the flavor in terms of spices. If I’m not feeling the warmth of a ton of pepper and cloves riding through my biryani while I eat it, I’m most likely not wanting to eat it npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Biryani is one of my all time fave foods. I tend to prefer the southern styles which isn’t easily available outside of south India. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Tiny bat npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I don’t understand people who hate spoilers. I love them. In fact I will read a synopsis of the whole thing before I watch something sometimes. Also if a show has been out for five years and you haven’t watched it, it can’t be a spoiler to talk about it npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I also have a video somewhere of me chewing qat in Sana’a. I no longer put random plants in my mouth npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan A decade ago I decided to make a video of me trying a betel nut in Little Myanmar in Singapore. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Drivers have really lost it. Not only are they driving like maniacs, they are blocking the crosswalk, forcing people to walk into oncoming traffic. Today: drivers are angry you are walking on a sidewalk because they can’t do a three point turn onto the sidewalk that you are on npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan "Bali’s water is disappearing. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan sorry for the *stack link, but many writers i like from developing countries are on it, and this is an impt post: npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan The Chinese word for ‘owl’ is ‘cat headed bird’. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Everything is weird but Daiso has a ‘pet nose mug’ npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Nobody in the history of the universe has ever, ever, wanted to paste rich text. Even if they did, the colors are all wrong. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan @nprofile…myvq very close. He’s a large Samoan man, so it fits too. Also dressed in bling npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Was not expecting to hear super effusive yelling of my name while walking along Van Ness but turns out it’s my least online and most favorite friend who had lost his phone and thought he had lost me forever (we are not on any socials) npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan Also, I think that southern Chinese immigrants have had a long history of mutual aid. When I was growing up I thought it was just people wanting to stick to each other in a new place but after becoming an immigrant myself and learning about the terrible odds of their lives in California and elsewhere, it seems like it made sense that they had to help each other. When railway workers were massacred, repeatedly, Chinese business people funded the legal responses; arranged for repatriation; fought for compensation for all. Of course they also benefited from importing this labor. But there seemed to be some sense of kinship in some way or more a sense of, ‘it doesn’t matter how rich I am, they’re coming for all of us anyway’. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan I think sometimes of how my mom’s side of the family probably lived in dwellings like these in Fujian, at least until they left for the ‘southern seas’. You were probably never lonely, but you were probably also overwhelmed sometimes. That feels like the push / pull of both models to me. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan It’s hard to generalize of course, northwest and south asian cultures are very different. Even in talking to south asian friends, I think the idea of greater female independence in some East Asian cultures is fascinating. Unless you’re from a super trad family (and I would honestly be surprised to meet someone like this in Singapore / Taiwan / HK / China), I feel like gender in almost all Chinese cultures is just ‘if you make your own money, go to town’. There’s still other shitty things, but less expectations around what you’re supposed to do as a woman. We over index on education and money, more than.. I dunno, serving a man? I think it’s different in Korea and Japan. npub1azwfulf8yrg2ae9e2zleljhtzcwfy96lkvq6xfmfxznw9acv3y0q39gph5 Adrianna Tan There’s an interesting model emerging in China where hetero single women, are opting out of marriage completely and settling down with each other in a platonic way. Divorced women are joining them too and co-parenting: https://youtu.be/7r-4OiXcLGY
