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As well as my dislike of needles, /this/ is why I never get #tattoos - "cultural awareness" training given to old bill (from late 90s and put together by the Church of England who wanted to keep relevance and clout in increasingly secular "Cool Britannia" era) stereotypes men of #ESEA ancestry with tattoos as #Triad / gang member (I also fit some of the other stereotypes such as having a clean car with a personalised registration mark and driving around late at night)

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Some gammon is claiming logistics/warehouse businesses in *Mid #Suffolk * (a good 15-20km from #Ipswich) are not employing locals but staffed by "hordes of #Chinese citizens from the mainland".

If any of that were in the slightest true, I would have noticed this - I'm always driving around the area and I'm near enough only #ESEA person there other than my own relatives and a few local healthcare workers, (many of whom work at same place as me!)

@ben my full name is widely duplicated in SE Asia (due to my fathers side of the family being Malaysian Chinese and me having a single Western given name without any Chinese characters) - companies based in #ESEA countries routinely gave me the title of "Mr Great Britain" or "Mr Reading / Lower Earley" (a suburb of Wokingham near Reading where I once worked), presumably to avoid confusion with similarly named staff at their companies 😁

The saddest thing about Nadiya's experiences is she is a good few years younger than myself, yet nothing really improved in all that time.. I can definitely relate to the pressures to be both #British and #Asian at the same time, in varying different proportions depending on who you happen to be around at the time #BritishAsian #UK #ESEA #Desi

bbc.co.uk/articles/c1wnqrer3w9

BBCNadiya Hussain: ‘Constant pressure to prove how British I was’Cook Once, Eat Twice host Nadiya Hussain talks Bake Off, anxiety and the joys of eating banana peel.

Just had a sponsored post for an #ANPR #surveillance camera scheme appear in my #Meta feed, from a company that sells "normal " #CCTV equipment. and burglar alarms. The kit seems as capable as that used by the public services, yet is clearly intended for small private users (such as guarding a yard/car park). Such schemes are widespread in #ESEA countries, but its the first time I've seen one advertised to the #UK market..

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@gerrymcgovern its worrying too as Malaysia is one of the richer and more advanced #ESEA countries these days. Also the elcos (electrolytic capacitors) appear to have been quite carefully picked off and sorted separately - I hope those aren't being resold and finding their way into "new" equipment! (it is the early failure of these low cost but important components which creates a lot of e-waste in the first place)

as an aside, my late father was once a reporter for NST..

Haiyaa : A British #Singapore #Chinese businessman was kidnapped from the #golf course and worked over in #Hertfordshire and threatened in an attempt to get a ransom in #cryptocurrency , amid scenes that wouldn't have been out of place in a Hong Kong action movie (this level of #crime is rare amongst the #ESEA community nowadays, although it did occasionally happen in 1970s to 1990s)

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv2d5n

BBC NewsGolfer kidnapped in Hertfordshire told he'd be 'killed', jury hears A jury hears how a wealthy businessman was snatched from the golf course and then held to ransom for $15m.
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@purplepadma @TCMuffin in the countries where this has been tried - mostly in #ESEA (East and SE Asia, particularly #japan it is only because of depopulation and ageing (there aren't enough young people around in some regions to work as carers); and the projects haven't been that successful..

technologyreview.com/2023/01/0

MIT Technology Review · Inside Japan’s long experiment in automating elder careBy James Wright

Other retailers are available but Angela Hui's thoroughly good & powerful read Takeaway - her memoir of growing up in Beddau, in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf to the north west of Cardiff, is 99p currently at that Big River's UK eBook store.

It shines light on life in the takeaway, blending Chinese & Welsh heritage & gives voice to the experience of immigrant parents & the meaning of ESEA identity.
#book #reading #wales #cymru #food #esea

In 2011, broadcast engineers in #Singapore were transmitting footage the Formula 1 Grand Prix via Singapore Telecom, and sent "bars on red" as a test pattern in the PAL video feed to the #EBU (the large red field shows up distortion in the PAL analogue video).

The specifications don't define which order the bars and red field appear (normally they are at the bottom), so they took this opportunity to be patriotic at the same time 😁 #ESEA #TootSEA

youtube.com/watch?v=ORZOmLeoik

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@denisbloodnok @eniko

I've been watching various videos of industrial processes in #ESEA (East and SE Asian) countries. Most of the videos are recent (well after 2020) but *everyone* is wearing masks in the factories - in some cases its protection against chemicals/particulates but I'm also seeing the same in CAD and admin office areas. This is across multiple different countries too, KR, SG, JP, CN - everyone is now masked at work...

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@sarahc the phenomenon of feeding cats around ports leftover fish scraps (mentioned in the article) is still common today in #ESEA countries (particularly #Japan ) - there's a whole subculture where "uncles and aunties" travel to the fish docks feed the cats, and film/photograph them with DSLR cameras and its where a lot of the cat pictures and videos come from - it even predates YouTube by a few years, and started as soon as digital cameras became affordable...

Heard an interesting "fascinating trivia fact" on #RadioCaroline this afternoon - instead of the usual "national underpants day" type stuff you get on other stations, the presenter went into quite some detail about how #Jakarta #Indonesia is sinking due to #ClimateChange, and the whole capital is being relocated to #Borneo - an island shared between #Indonesia, #Malaysia (I have extended family who live there) and #Brunei

#ESEA #TootSEA

aljazeera.com/news/2022/11/9/h

Al Jazeera · Why Indonesia is abandoning its capital city to save itBy Al Jazeera

TBH I believe the zoo - a sun bear is a fairly common native species in nearby #ESEA countries, many are recovered from the exotic pet trade by Environment Ministry officers and if they cannot be released back into the wild, offered to zoos worldwide - there are a couple in Colchester Zoo just up the road from me.

It wouldn't be worth the effort dressing up a human in a fursuit to LARP as one (and as the zookeeper points out, impossible in the summer heat)

theguardian.com/world/2023/jul

The Guardian · Chinese zoo denies its sun bears are humans dressed in costumesBy Amy Hawkins

#LGBT+ folk in #Malaysia complain (not unreasonably!) that the stunt of The 1975 at their gig has only stirred the pot and made things more difficult for them in the long term - activism that may be more tolerated in the West has worse consequences in the more conservative #ESEA nations..

bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-6628

BBC NewsMatty Healy: Malaysia LGBT community angry at 1975 'white saviour stunt'Locals affected by singer Matty Healy's protest say it was disrespectful and did more harm than good.

The 1975 cancel more gigs in #ESEA countries, having been yeeted from the stage at #Kuala #Lumpur #Malaysia on the orders of SKMM/MCMC (Malaysia's Communications Ministry) after challenging anti #LGBT+ laws. Paradoxically it seems the one #ESEA country which seems more tolerant is now #Singapore !

bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-6628

BBC NewsThe 1975 cancels Indonesia and Taiwan shows after Malaysia LGBT rowThe band has cancelled upcoming concerts in Indonesia - where homosexuality is shunned - and Taiwan.