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I just spent 20 minutes explaining communism to a Chinese person (Dubbug).

Yeah...that's the weirdest thing I've ever done.

Date: 2006-03-17 09:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xuincherguixe.livejournal.com
I bet that had the potential to be a very interesting conversation.

I can just see some cute cartoon character waving a little sign around and shouting 'Free the proletariat'

Date: 2006-03-17 09:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flewellyn.livejournal.com
Heh. Dubbug's not very political.

She did try to understand it in terms of cookies. Like, if her sister had cookies, and she told her sister to give them to her, and then gave back how many she figured her sister should have.

Something like that...

Date: 2006-03-17 09:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xuincherguixe.livejournal.com
You have to admit though, all that cuteness has great potential for political power.

At the very least, it would be very difficult for any authority type figures to whack her.

Date: 2006-03-17 11:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flewellyn.livejournal.com
Yes, but she denies being cute.

In fact, she says she's a big bad mean bug. She wants to have a hurricane named after her...Hurricane Dubbug.

"Then people will look at the hurricane and say...that's one BAAAD Dubbug!"

Date: 2006-03-17 03:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kimberly-t.livejournal.com
Really the weirdest thing, or just the most ironic?

Date: 2006-03-17 03:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pope-guilty.livejournal.com
Power comes from the barrel of a cute gun, after all.

Date: 2006-03-17 05:32 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sheistheweather
I didn't know she was Chinese. XD

Date: 2006-03-17 10:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flewellyn.livejournal.com
Probably the latter. Although conversations with Dubbug can be very weird.

Date: 2006-03-17 10:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flewellyn.livejournal.com
Yup. Canadian-born Chinese, but Chinese.

Date: 2006-03-18 01:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stuntviolist.livejournal.com
So...

She's a Chinuck?

Date: 2006-03-18 04:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flewellyn.livejournal.com
I asked her, and she said "Shouldn't it be Chanada? Or something?"

Date: 2006-03-18 05:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xuincherguixe.livejournal.com
I think that means she's Canadian, rather then Chinese :P

Date: 2006-03-18 05:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flewellyn.livejournal.com
Culturally Chinese. Her parents spoke Chinese natively, and English is still her second language.

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