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When you have to face off a formidable IJN fleet off Guadalcanal with a scratch force to boot 🙃

When you have successfully sunk an IJN battleship with radar reckoning 😏

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Dear Caroline:

You'll no doubt be acquainted that such is the (latin) translation of the city you loved and lived in for a couple of years. I don't know if today's Hong Kong is, indeed, a fragrant harbor, but you do seem to be sprinkling it with incense in this blog post of yours.

I would not like to belittle your adopted town's merits, and can believe that they adopted earlier and better measures when dealing with COVIT-19 than anybody else. One of the difficulties of learning from other cultures is that we cannot avoid cherrypicking, and this is an issue because in our real, dirty and grimy world, it is very seldom that you can transplant purely good stuff from a different culture into your own. Everything in culture is deeply entangled, and makes sense within the structure (I feel Henrich would be pretty supportive with me in this), and it comes with its own unavoidable negativities. Traditionally, Confucian cultures are very hierarchical, disciplined, meritocratic, appreciators of learning. While these traits can be seen as 'positive', they are incompatible with a very American (and partially also Western) deep individualism, disrespect of traditions, norms and rigid social orders and relations. This means we suck when it comes to taking quick and effective, top-down measures, but in the long run is more conducive to growth, prosperity, freedom and individual well-being.

You know which other Rationalists fell in love with the East? Well, many Enlightenment thinkers, actually, including Voltaire. For them, the Qing Dynasty was an example of the sort of secular, meritocratic, enlightened Despotism they were wishing at home, with themselves, of course, occupying the comfy places of mandarins instead of all those church bishops, archbishops and cardinals. It is not a theme that has completely melted away - one can still find books that extoll the rise of the Asian Tiger economies as based on Confucian values, and who look with longing eyes to the red sun raising over China. Later entries from your blog seem to show that you awoke not many months after this blog post from your Oriental dream, though.

Quote:

 China is the wisest and best governed country in the world

Voltaire

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To distract myself from the horrors of reality, I've been diving into Javert/Valjean fanfics. Some are lovely, some captivating, and some just silly but amusing. I've even found several favourite authors. While I'm fully aware that these interpretations of Javert and Valjean bear little resemblance to Hugo’s characters, they provide entertainment, feature some recognizable traits, and are often well-written. However, as a historian, I can't help but cringe at the anachronisms and messy everyday details that crop up.

I can overlook most of these issues, given the specific nature of fanfics. However, one recurring detail that baffles me is the frequent mention of TEA in almost every Valvert fanfic set in the canon era. I can take it that they eat porridge and eggs with bacon for breakfast – let it be, at least it doesn’t happen that often. But TEA?! In France? In the 1830s? At home? To indulge in tea drinking during this period, one would have to be either a crazy Anglophile or Sinophile. And one had to be rich to afford it. While it's true that the French did drink tea (Napoleon himself was a fan), it was largely limited to aristocrats or wealthy bourgeois. Valjean might qualify as the latter, but he wouldn't likely splurge on such a fancy beverage for himself. And let's not forget that tea required expensive porcelain tea sets.

Furthermore, tea was typically enjoyed outside the home in fashionable salons de thé, rather than being a household beverage like it was in Britain. So, if you're writing Valjean/Javert (or any Les Mis) fanfic, please reconsider having them drink tea. Water and/or wine would be a much more plausible choice. Or at least explain why they drink tea. Even coffee wouldn't be ideal, as it wasn't yet a common household beverage at that time. It was the Germans who first adopted the tradition of making coffee at home, as it was initially considered unsuitable for women.

My opinion on French food:

Very slimy. The French love their slimes. Every dish has to have a goopy slime sauce. Not a fan of this.

Foie gras: I used to like it, but then I ate some really bad foie gras that made sick and I don't like it anymore. Bad memories.

Crepes: good.

Galettes: very good. Galette with ham, emmental and an egg is like the classic lunch thing at a crêperie and it's pretty based.

Lots of red meat, not a fan.

Too much steak, I hate stake. Every french guy just eats stakes.

My sister had a French boyfriend who called himself vegetarian because he only bought "one ham per week" have I mentioned this on here?

Paradoxically I do like beef tartare. But bad beef tartare is really bad so be careful.

France does actually consistently have really good french fries. Like almost any restaurant will have fries and you should get them.

Underrated French regional cuisine: Lyonnaise.

Not French food proper but Paris has many good spicy noodle places. I guess there is a big-ish southern Chinese diaspora population there? Many good spicy noodle places. Maybe it's cause Louis XIV was a sinophile.

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by the way it is not Chinese New Year, it is in fact the Lunar New Year. 

Don’t be a Sinophile, Asia is far more than China ! 

For example the Vietnamese are celebrating the Year of the CAT rather than the RABBIT this lunar new year.

I wouldn't call the Truck Driver (that what I'm gonna call TA) a weeb, though, because a weeb is normally obsessed with Japanese culture and media, largely anime. I think the correct term to describe the Truck Driver is "Sinophile", since he obsesses over Chinese culture and kung fu, despite his apparent ignorance of Chinese culture.

thanks, i didn't know there was an exact term for what i meant. im glad I was understood initially tho

I just can't get over the fact that Leibniz was a massive chinaboo.

If you look up "sinophile" he's the main image of the wikipedia article, lmao

what are your experience with sinophile you encounter in real life

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The Mongols had already wrecked Eastern Europe

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The Mongols had already wrecked Eastern Europe prior to Kublai becoming the Great Khan, and most of the Miami Hurricanes Grinch Santa Middle finger haters gonna hate shirt north and east of the Black Sea were under the control of the Golden Horde. The Mongols had proven that they could not only take the castles of Europe, but also beat its armies soundly. That’s where the technically yes part comes in. Based on what we saw, the Mongols were entirely capable of defeating the western European powers and invade Europe. But the key thing is that as I mentioned, the lands to the north and east of the Black Sea were ruled by the Golden Horde. By the time Kublai became Great Khan, the Mongol Empire was functionally four different realms. There was obviously Mongolia and China, which were Kublai’s domains, but there was also the Chagatai Khanate in Central Asia, the aforementioned Golden Horde in eastern Russia, and the Ilkhanate in Persia. The three latter khanates nominally owed loyalty to Kublai, and indeed the Ilkhanate was originally founded and ruled by his brother Hulaagu, but the fact was that they were independent and did what they wanted. For the most part. This is where the logically no part comes in. Kublai came to power after a civil war with his younger brother Ariq Boke, and the war essentially solidified the independent nature of the other three Khanates. To sum up a long answer, yes the Mongols could have done it if they wanted to, but they didn’t because of their own political situation and the fact that Kublai was a sinophile who ended up adopting the Chinese culture and system because it suited his needs and ambition.

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I headcanon James as a bit of a sinophile.