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🧋🍜🍣🥟🍚🍵🍶☕️🇹🇼🇺🇸🌺🦉🗝️Extroverted introvert Taiwanese American talking to myself out loud.
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Thinking of my sister today. Harvard was a singular obsession with my mom during my childhood and it became my sister’s singular obsession throughout her short life. It became my own source of insecurity as a 2.8 GPA Asian (we exist) who sucked at math and standardized tests.
Look how proud my dad is in 1995 when my late sister graduated from Harvard.
We lost her 9 years later to suicide and I’ve spent the last 16 years redefining what a life well lived actually means for me and everyone I can impact.
#WorldMentalHealthDay
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@notcapnamerica
When you want to say something but it’s Alabama so the answer is right there.
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🥲 Hello NY friends please eat here for me.
New Taiwanese restaurant in
#Brooklyn
run by a 77 and 79 year old couple. It’s their first restaurant and they love to cook Taiwanese meals but please be patient because it’s just the two of them they said.
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F*cking brilliant.
When Bible passages are read to people who think it's from the Quran.
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For the record, Democrats tried for a 3.8% pay raise for our soldiers in 2015.
But go ahead and congratulate yourselves for 2.1% raise.
Our annual defense bill gives our troops the largest pay raise they've seen in six years. This is well-deserved.
#2017NDAA
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Look how proud my dad is in 1995 when my late sister graduated from Harvard.
We lost her 9 years later to suicide and I’ve spent the last 16 years redefining what a life well lived actually means for me and everyone I can impact.
#WorldMentalHealthDay
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@mychal3ts
@MichLovesMoney
People like him are why more people like you are needed in this world. ♥️
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Two headlines that represent what it’s like to be Asian-American at any given time. 😂
#CrazyRichAsians
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THEM: Taiwan is called the “rEpUbLiC oF cHiNa” so that means it’s part of China. Otherwise why would it be called the ROC?
ME:
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“Taiwan citizens used to be allowed into this building and they’re not allowed now. How did that change?”
I hope journalists continue to ask these questions at the
@UN
next week because my dad enjoys laughing at these videos with me.
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@alisoneroman
I love how you call a woman a bitch and another a sell out and then whine about being bullied because you fell off a self awareness tree and hit every branch on the way down.
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@davidan
♥️ Sub-3.0 GPA Asian Americans are the secret weapons to dismantling the model minority myth.
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@davelu
It’s not an easy topic for anyone to discuss but it’s important for our AAPI community to see ourselves as more than our degrees. What a loss to the world when we are crammed into one lane for what success means in this one life we all have.
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@originalspin
Can’t wait for his boba review where he accuses people of trying to choke him with tapioca balls.
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@shannonrwatts
As an elected official in such a key government position, I think the American public deserves to know what is going on with his health.
Especially since it’s apparently now a recurring issue.
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Taiwan ambassador to US
@bikhim
will be the likely DPP running mate for Presidential candidate
@ChingteLai
when he announces his pick next week.
I am here for it. She’s a badass. Here’s a clip from last year.
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“...three things that have contributed to America's shrinking life expectancy in recent years: drug overdoses, chronic liver disease, and suicide.”
This is not American Exceptionalism. We have serious mental health and quality of life issues to address.
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If you’re Asian American and only show up for “fighting discrimination” when you feel it threatens your 5 year old’s chance at Harvard then please stop embarrassing the rest of us with your MLK quotes.
I had a 2.8 GPA average and figured my life out. Your kid will be ok.
#ACA5
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@profwolff
Your ability to talk shit about the U.S. while being in the U.S. is actually a great example of a level of freedom that people in countries such as China do not have the privilege of experiencing.
Also, here is the final medal count since we’re being petty.
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I feel her IDGAF protest energy.
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♥️ 18 years ago today I gave birth to a 9.1 pound baby and then I blinked and he turned into a young man.
🎂 Happy Birthday to my son. I still can’t believe I raised a little human to adulthood as a single mom. Going to cry all day now.
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@Variety
I see in the comments that people object to my oversimplification so I’ll be more clear.
His adopted daughter of his ex-wife who he first met when she was 10 years old and then began a sexual relationship with when he was 56 and she was 21.
Is this more clear now?
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@nealvinay
@AchmatX
I think it’s possible to be angered by the voter suppression but also inspired by the people who line up anyways as an individual act of defiance.
I feel both.
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🥭 China just banned mangoes from Taiwan in an election year for the same reason it banned pineapples, cookies and beer last year when Pelosi visited Taiwan.
Same reason it banned k-pop from South Korea when it was upset about their missile defense system.
Same reason it
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Tulsi every time she senses a chance to emerge from irrelevance.
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@CocoaFox023
@harper
This is something they used to do in China to pump up the optics of box office numbers. A fake tycoon who is now on the wanted list there used this tactic as a way to attract investors into his P2P lending company that invested in the films. Total Ponzi scheme.
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@MeidasTouch
#TrumpKillsPuertoRico
and still found time to throw paper towels into the crowd like a sociopath.
Then waits until an election year and approves the real aid they should have gotten 3 years ago.
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MOM: Show to Twitter.
Mom wanted me to show you all her Taiwanese Beef Noodle Soup tonight and let you know it cost less than $4.00 for a big bowl at home so she doesn’t know why I keep wasting money and risking COVID to eat this at a restaurant for $20 a bowl.
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@Phil_Lewis_
Not that it matters to people who thrive on divisiveness, but just a reminder that a majority of Asian Americans prior to the trash Supreme Court ruling actually supported Affirmative Action.
Ed Blum recruited a subset of AAPI that never represented the majority of AAPI. It was
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🇺🇸 Just asked my very apolitical 30 year active duty Navy officer ex-hubby to vote for Biden in Nov ...and he said yes!
He enlisted at 18 and has NEVER voted. His way of staying neutral. Agrees that he doesn’t want Trump’s name on his retirement certificate. lol
#BidenHarris2020
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In 2023, normalize just calling Taiwan …Taiwan.
Not Chinese Taipei. Not a province. Not a renegade island. I personally don’t care for the ROC either. It’s got too much baggage attached to it.
Just call it Taiwan.
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@davenewworld_2
I’m just saying, there’s a lot of out of work bouncers right now from clubs and bars being closed. It shouldn’t be the responsibility of store employees to deal with these kinds of assholes.
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@illuminaryETH
It absolutely is. The stigma of mental illness and culture of not prioritizing mental health left my sister hiding her depression and bipolar disorder for 2 years before she passed. It’s also why I talk about it like a broken record.
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I recognize her from the rally.
Hard to be Taiwanese and forget a white woman with Chinese government approved propaganda sign standing across from me yelling “Taiwan is part of China” to my face. 🙄
Justice will prevail! Taiwan is part of China! The United States should not interfere with China's internal affairs!
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Listen to the :54 second mark.
It has been reported that two black people were killed in a Kroger in Kentucky today. Listen to this interview with the son of the man who confronted the shooter.
#ThisIsAmerica
. 2018.
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For those who are unfamiliar with Taiwan Ambassador Bi-khim Hsiao, here’s a clip from last year when tensions were high.
She’s a badass. Can you imagine if she was able to speak on Taiwan’s behalf in the UN? They’re not ready.
🇹🇼 Taiwan’s ambassador to the U.S. (
@bikhim
) retweeted me today.
☺️ My parents are big fans of hers so I’m going to share this with them and hope mom doesn’t ask me to teach her how to “Twitter”.
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@githii
I dated an Australian Chinese guy in my 20s when we were both expats in Shanghai. His first time visiting the U.S. we were at a stop light and he said loudly with genuine surprise:
“Your school buses. They’re really YELLOW. I thought that was only in the movies.”
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@MattWalshBlog
When I was 27, I felt the pressure to get married and have a baby before 30.
Turned down a lucrative career offer and met a man at 27. Got married at 28. Had my son at 29. Left a toxic emotionally abusive marriage at 31. Divorce finalized at 32.
Spent the next 15 years as a
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To be clear, IDGAF if someone wants to create a gluten free msg free variation of something that passes for Chinese food. Add kale to it, I don’t care.
No need to make food by Chinese people wrong as the selling point for her gentrified version.
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@kuokuomich
Appreciate it. She was someone who I was only starting to get to know before she passed. I spent my childhood jealous of her and she spent it focused on getting into Harvard.
So talking about her is how I honor her life and remind people that AAPI are more than our degrees.
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@uofcincy
@_Sotzingg_
...please also do so on behalf of the 1,000+ full tuition paying Chinese students in Cincinnati as well as the Asian American students on campus since racists have a hard time differentiating who they target.
Having professors like that sends a bad signal.
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@AndyPierrotti
I don’t think
@GovKemp
is prepared for this level of fuck you, I’m voting energy.
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Indigenous Taiwanese make up 3% of Taiwan’s population but up to 60% of Taiwan’s special forces.
The next time you hear some condescending think tank “expert” in DC talk about Taiwanese not wanting to defend Taiwan, send them their way.
"Guarding our home."
The Indigenous Taiwanese ex-soldiers helping prepare the country for war.
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@Variety
@NicholasFerroni
♥️ rest in peace. he made a generation of gen x latchkey kids laugh.
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A reminder that the name "Momofuku" is "an indirect nod" to Momofuku Ando, the Japanese Taiwanese inventor of instant ramen.
His family should send a cease and desist to the Korean American guy sending cease and desists to other Asian entrepreneurs.
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🧋Want a timeline cleanser?
Here’s a cute thread that explains the importance of Taiwan’s upcoming elections in a way my 7 year old niece can understand.
Yes, I used the help of AI for “low effort Sanrio inspired” cuteness.
#Taiwan
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@globaltimesnews
I think it’s ironic that someone who represents a government that literally destroyed centuries of Chinese culture during the “Cultural Revolution” is talking about “remembering roots”.
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♥️ My sister’s birthday was Sunday. We lost her in 2004 to suicide. She would’ve been 49.
This is my favorite photo of us. We had just arrived as little immigrant kids from Taiwan in 1978. Just wanted to share because time flies and people we lose stay alive in our memories and
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🏅Congratulations to Taiwanese Paiwan judoka Yang Yung-Wei on his gold medal win at the
#AsianGames
!
He is indigenous Taiwanese. No one should have to wear a “Chinese Taipei” uniform during their biggest life moments. Go
#TeamTaiwan
!
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@A_Herkenhoff
You know what’s exhausting?
The entitlement coming from people who need to be coaxed into a “coalition” this late in the game. Like, WTF. There’s a lot of work to do and many ways to be in action.
My candidate didn’t make it either. I’m over it. Too much at stake. Let’s go. 🙌🏼
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“Half of the world’s commercial container traffic passes through the Taiwan Strait each day. Taiwan produces the majority of the world’s semiconductors and plays a key role in global supply chains.”
UN Resolution 2758 never said Taiwan is part of China.
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So happy these Taiwanese kids got to hold up the actual Taiwan flag and not some complicit piece of cloth that says “Chinese Taipei” on it.
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@washingtonpost
Perspective:
@SenMcSallyAZ
saying FUCKING while voting to take healthcare away from Americans is wrong — it harms Americans. Where was your perspective on that?
Calling the asshole in the WH a motherfucker does not.
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“Trump then put on a fake Japanese accent to recount his conversations with Shinzo Abe over their conversations over trade tariffs.”
I know it’s no surprise that he would do this. Just a reminder that this is racist.
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The text from my Taiwanese mama I was waiting for this morning. LOL
Congratulations
@wutrain
! 🇹🇼🇺🇸
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The benefits of Taiwan being free is there’s nothing stopping 11.8% of Taiwan’s citizens from moving to China if they want to live that censored life so bad.
Don’t need to vote for everyone else to be colonized for your “unification” dreams. Just go.
A poll released by the Taiwanese Public Opinion Foundation yesterday showed 48.9 percent of Taiwanese support obtaining formal national independence, while 26.9 percent support maintaining the “status quo” and 11.8 percent support unification with China
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We actually passed
#Taiwan
President
@iingwen
’s motorcade this morning on the way to the Reagan Library.
@LizLizzy76
filmed it so I could show my mom and dad. ☺️
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This is Taichung, Taiwan. City of my birth. Island of my ancestors including those of aboriginal decent.
It has never been under PRC control but those who need a VPN to troll on Twitter will tell you otherwise because it’s the propaganda they grew up with. Bless their hearts.
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@abbydphillip
@VivekGRamaswamy
“American citizenship for me but not for thee” folks are so predictable.
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🇺🇸 Thank you
@RepJeffries
for taking the time to meet with President
@iingwen
while she was in NY.
#Taiwan
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FYI. The
@WHO
is the agency of the
@UN
that was pressured by China to take away Taiwan’s observer status and ban Taiwanese people from entering UN buildings since 2016.
Taiwan’s life saving patents and technology are welcomed by the UN. Our people are not.
Taiwan's COVID-19 vaccine maker Medigen becomes 1st private manufacturer to share its vaccine patent and tech with
@WHO
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@ThisIsWenhao
This hurt feeling stuff is getting ridiculous. If anything they owe this Apple employee an apology for hurting his feelings. Jerks.
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@tedcruz
Is this true though? If so, can you do something about it?
Ted Cruz is literally blocking the confirmation of the chief counterintelligence official at the State Department AND the next Ambassador to Israel.
Incredible levels of projection.
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@YueMillward
I didn’t know anything about the Cultural Revolution until 1995 when I visited China for the first time during college.
I bought 2 books for my trip that I didn’t know were banned. One was “Life and Death in Shanghai” by Nien Cheng and read it on the plane ride there. Couldn’t
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"I can still see some voices speaking out for freedom here," he said of the teahouse. "It's somewhere you can speak freely and don't have to worry about propaganda, which is a kind of spiritual comfort."
Happy that Hong Kongers feel this way in Taiwan.
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No one is forcing the Chinese government to use force. Taiwan just wants to be left alone.
The only Taiwan question is what the people of Taiwan want.
No such thing as “reunification” by a government that has never controlled Taiwan. They are the foreign interference.
Once the Chinese government is forced to use force to resolve the Taiwan question, it will be a war for reunification, a just and legitimate war supported and participated in by the Chinese people, and a war to crush foreign interference: Lieutenant General at 10th
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🥹 I am so glad they added English subtitles of this short and symbolic film between outgoing Taiwan President
@iingwen
and her VP (and next President)
@ChingteLai
.
I shared it with my dad last night and it made him emotional.
這個短片《在路上》温馨感人，寓意深远。
“我很珍惜台湾的一切，我愿意用生命来守护！” - 賴清德
This short film "On the Road" is warm and touching with a profound meaning.
"I value anything from Taiwan, and I'm willing to protect it with my life!" - Lai Ching-Te
Taiwanese
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My Asian-American friend said that people drove by yelling "get the fuck out of our country" this morning.
She lives in Seattle.
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Why don’t some of you have a conversation with your 58% male and 55% female relatives first before expecting some of us to show empathy for people who support our dehumanization.
We’re busy living our best lives now without their noise.
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“Born in Japan to Taiwanese and American parents, Hsiao’s own life reflects the desire felt by many in Taiwan to forge a distinct Taiwanese identity.”
@bikhim
is going to make a great VP of Taiwan.
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If my soup doesn’t come to the table this hot, it’s too cold. 🔥
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Adding the Kaohsiung Lantern Festival to my Taiwan travel list.
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