Irony and sarkasm. People never know what irony is. And they think that is ironic, it makes me sick...
What are the worst misconceptions you know of?
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Well there are a lot of Japanese who love tradition, but like Newton says, for every action there's an equal and opposite reaction. This is true in this case. There are a lot of Japanese people who reject traditional Japan and focus on anything cutting edge or new. Definitely understandable for a country that is relatively recently starting to embrace it's place as a world citizen.Keepitclean said:
And I don't mean to imply that people are being elitist when I hear questions like "can you use chopsticks?" and things like that. It's actually more like over-sensitivity. They want to make you feel comfortable and unfortunately the way they do that is by using stereotypes like they're always true. The thought process is goes something like this: "Oh I have an American friend coming to visit! I'll take them to Burger King!" and they think that's a nice, culturally sensitive thing to do. For example, I ate dinner once a week with a traditional Japanese farming family because I was teaching their son English, and they never, ever gave me chopsticks. But the kicker was they made very traditional Japanese food, and it's all designed to be eaten with chopsticks! I had a hard time eating udon noodles like they were spaghetti.
The ironic thing is I'm kind of fueling misconceptions about Japan with these posts concerning misconceptions that some people have here. Not everyone in Japan believes these things I'm mentioning, it's just that I meet so many that do. But just to be clear: There are many many worldly Japanese people around. But also a few people who think that Americans have hamburgers for every meal.
P.S. The thing about the 4 seasons is still really weird, because of all these misconceptions, it is by far the most prevalent. Like, even among people who have traveled extensively. Most people whose bubbles I burst over this thing just act surprised, but there are some people who even argue with me! They literally are trying to tell what the weather is like in my own country, despite never setting foot there. That is definitely a very small minority though.
That being gay is disgusting, wrong, and should be illegal.
A girl in my form actually said this in an RS class. *Headdesk*
A girl in my form actually said this in an RS class. *Headdesk*
I have a fair few...
1. all gamers are fat, cheeto-fueled, perma-virgins who only emerge from their cave to buy either A. piss or B. buy more cheetos and red bull
2. all people with glasses are neurotic anti social dweebs
3. all intelligent people are neurotic anti social dweebs
4. anyone who likes games like CoD:MW2 or BLOPS is a consumerist idiot
5. anyone who isnt an athiest is a narrow minded sheep
6. anyone who doesnt wish someone a painful death for simply being less intelligent is an idiotic pussy
7. all republicans are racist, homophobic, gun toting nutsacks
8. all americans are overwieght ignorant fucktards
9. all guys have the intelligence and sophistication of baboons
10. girls are better behaved than guys. as boys, we called eachother gay and threw mud and spiders. teenage girls build up a facade of friendship amongst eachother, waiting to catch their prey at their most vulnerable. boys are like the warriors of valhalla, we fight amongst ourselves but we all go home in the end. girls are fucking velociraptors.
1. all gamers are fat, cheeto-fueled, perma-virgins who only emerge from their cave to buy either A. piss or B. buy more cheetos and red bull
2. all people with glasses are neurotic anti social dweebs
3. all intelligent people are neurotic anti social dweebs
4. anyone who likes games like CoD:MW2 or BLOPS is a consumerist idiot
5. anyone who isnt an athiest is a narrow minded sheep
6. anyone who doesnt wish someone a painful death for simply being less intelligent is an idiotic pussy
7. all republicans are racist, homophobic, gun toting nutsacks
8. all americans are overwieght ignorant fucktards
9. all guys have the intelligence and sophistication of baboons
10. girls are better behaved than guys. as boys, we called eachother gay and threw mud and spiders. teenage girls build up a facade of friendship amongst eachother, waiting to catch their prey at their most vulnerable. boys are like the warriors of valhalla, we fight amongst ourselves but we all go home in the end. girls are fucking velociraptors.
I also can't stand fucking hipsters... that's not really a misconception, because just about every conception about them is TRUE. LIKE THE CONCEPTION THAT NO ONE LIKES THEM. I DONT KNOW WHY IM MENTIONING THIS, I JUST DISLIKE HIPSTERS. I ALSO DONT KNOW WHY IM TYPING IN ALL CAPS.
I have a double-minor in tech theatre and philosophy. I spent four university years getting said degree. Having a post-secondary degree, I can be put on the fast-track for officer school.Skullkid4187 said:
Then I signed up as an enlisted man. Not even an officer, which would have been easy pickings for me. Becoming an officer is something I'm still considering for the future, but not right now. So yeah, SMRT PPL JOIN ARMY! Sometimes. And I have yet to meet a truly stupid ass who has not yet been kicked out.
My own favorite misconception to pick apart (though it doesn't bother me that people believe this): The misconception of self.
The concept of self is tacked on after the thought has already been formed and sent. You are nothing but a brain, with inputs and outputs. The idea of 'I did this' is built the same way any other thought is. Consciousness is in for a rough ride, if neuroscience continues along the path it seems to be heading. The picture isn't yet complete, but the basics are there, and they aren't pretty.
In the same vein; the idea of 'inherent meaning'.
Meaning is not a thing, it is an event. There is no such thing as inherent meaning, merely ideas being interpreted individually into individualist meanings. A theatre example (though film would also apply); there are many playwrights who enjoy creating performances that have no meaning, performances that provide no answers and let the audience come to their own conclusions (you've probably seen this before; that pretentious-as-fuck show that 'no one understands').
The problem is that that is literally all brains do; interpret their own meanings from things. Stripping away 'inherent meaning' to let an audience find their own meaning is impossible, because inherent meaning does not exist.
Sorry to get all bullshit-philosophical on you. But hey, I got my degree in philosophy, and where better to use it than a geek-and-nerd community forum?
I like the soapboxes 'round here. Very comfy.
I'm sorry, I have to disagree with this. If this was true then how can any two people, or a society for that matter, agree on the meaning of anything and communicate?john_alexander said:
Then those people are called agnostic atheists.Zeeky_Santos said:
Atheist: They lack a belief in any god(s).
Agnostic: They lack knowledge of any god(s)
That anyone, who make a blanket proclaimation that they follow something as a moral guideline, aren't then every bit as responsible for every sentence of it as had they uttered it themselves. This for both religious scriptures, and secular ideology.
You have The Sun to thank for making people think all Muslims are terrorists. They make you think either, "All Muslims are terrorists" or "Not all Muslims are terrorists, but they still want to bomb you a little."
A lot of people think fat people constantly eat, but I eat less than most skinny people I know and my potions are smaller.
Not all people on benefits are lazy scroungers who are too stupid to get a job. There is people like my house mate who sits on his lazy arse playing the 360 constantly and bragging about getting money for it, but there's people like me and my friends used their time to constantly search for jobs until we finally found one.
A lot of people think fat people constantly eat, but I eat less than most skinny people I know and my potions are smaller.
Not all people on benefits are lazy scroungers who are too stupid to get a job. There is people like my house mate who sits on his lazy arse playing the 360 constantly and bragging about getting money for it, but there's people like me and my friends used their time to constantly search for jobs until we finally found one.
When people think Jesus was black, one of the most annoying things in the world is when people hear that Jesus is white and then start trying to argue that he was black because they cant think sensibly.SL33TBL1ND said:
Also all sorted of stupid misconceptions about nearly every single religion there is, if anyone ever brings up any religion in a conversation you can be pretty certain that 90% of whatever being said are misconceptions unless you have someone of that religion around.