Today I Learned

What about immigrants? All the Cantonese speakers I know also speak Mandarin, presumably because for immigration etc you are more educated = also fluent in Mandarin? I am just guessing.

Still insane to list it as one option

ETA I just read more.of your comment because.my brain is broken. So basically yes. Strange graphing

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Hm, well that kills my theory. Most Cantonese speakers I’ve known have also spoken Mandarin so I thought maybe. But I see a lot of things that do this, like reference “Asian” as if it’s a vertical and it’s like…that’s like 50+ countries? It doesn’t even make sense to look at it as a singular group IMO. So many huge disparities.

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Agreed.

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Likely, yes. Also it’s advantageous for a Cantonese native speaker to learn Mandarin in a way that isn’t true in reverse.

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So, some of this I knew, but other info was new to me. Plus nice to see it all together.







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THANK YOU. I saw this years ago and then lost track of it and couldn’t find it again. :heart:

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Today I learned that Karlie Kloss is married to Jared Kushner’s brother. I’m still processing.

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I didn’t recognise the names Karlie Kloss or Jared Kushner

But after googling them I can see why they might be married. I feel like its similar rich people circles.

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So Karlie Kloss is Ivanka Trump’s sister in law?

(I also didn’t know who Karlie Kloss was and had to search Jared Kushner even though he was vaguely familiar)

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Correct! It’s definitely a US-centric group of people and they are def both rich so that makes sense. I just had no idea they were married and she’s this very famous super model and…IDK, it seems like I would have known this already? But I came across it kind of at random. Weird.

It’s like when I first found out Felicity Huffman and William H Macy were married. Rocked my world for a second.

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There was a super awkward moment a few seasons ago on Project Runway where a contestant who was in the bottom made a crack about how she (Karlie Kloss) could wear it to dinner with the Krushers.

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Hahaha, yeah IDK how I missed this?!

This guy does seriously cool local history stuff:

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Anyone else utterly fascinated by videos like these?

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I’m usually more of a How It’s Made girl but this is intriguing!

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It IS how it’s made! For crime! :joy::+1:

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Hahahaha true!

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Yes! I just got into learning about gold money laundering. It’s a whole thing and I need to know more. Have you watched the Dirty Money series?

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Yes I LOVED dirty money. So good. Vice I think it was recently did a piece on Snapchat in the UK being used to recruit kids for money laundering through their accounts. Small amounts and more people used so it doesn’t send up flags. Wild.

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