are conventions in online writing to compensate
Show me someone who uses... too many... ellipses... and I'll point to someone with living memory of the Reagan administration. Have you ever noticed in social media how people of a certain mentality and generation............ will use way too many........ ellipses... to the point of looking downright foolish?
Or emojis for that matter, it's like a malaphor, someone just completely misusing paralanguage.
Le mot jihad à la base veut dire lutte contre ses péchés
Similarly unfortunate in cultural context, one of my German schoolmates' surname was quite literally the N-word. Suffice to say she had trouble creating a Facebook account, through no fault of her own.
love in arranged marriage tends to increase over time
I'll call bull on that. What Gupta & Singh might call love, I'll call "resignation" or "adjustment" to a cohabitation arrangement.
In China, for example, it is normal for couples to wait until regular jobs have been secured, as well as until appropriate housing becomes available
Funny how when young people here in the West do this, it's all doom and gloom from the clientelist press, screeching and mewling about "birth rates collapsing" and "great replacement" and other dogwater nonsense.
in the Internet age
A lot of the sex tourism done by westerners in Asia has this overt connotation, and it's as obvious as it is degrading and culturally insensitive.
It's also worth noting how a lot of culturally conservative men in the West tend to idealize "submissive asian women" as their ideal partner, precisely due to the stereotype associated with them.
self-disclosure of private information
e.g. all these posts I keep writing here. Maybe I want to show that I'm doing the homework, maybe I'm spilling my beans too much, who knows?
others view outsiders with suspicion
In Germany, even in a small quiet village, people looked at me real weird for saying hello or "excuse me" while walking past them on the street. And this is in a part of the country where there's fifty thousand Americans within a 30-minute radius.
marginalized people, including women, see the world differently.
This often makes it all the more absurd and frustrating when we see marginalized people endorse and absorb the culture of their oppressors. "Latinos for Trump" for instance, puzzle many who don't understand how those people operate.
valley speak
For those who want to feel a bit better and mock our current disgusting, horrible excuse for a demon wearing human skin, we can always chuckle at how our current Homeland Security Advisor / head of Gestapo Stephen Miller is a 40-year old bald babyface who speaks in a California Valley Girl accent. You can't unhear it now!
The professor sees the situation as an example of individual merit but according to the researcher, the Iranian student draws on the Persian tradition of shekasteh-nafsi, which "motivates the speakers to downplay their talents, skills, achievements, etc
This in return is a small part of the overarching culture of "Taarof" (تعارف pronounced tah-roff): the complex, sometimes a bit silly but very rich in subtlety and implication art of Persian social etiquette and hospitality, emphasizing politeness, deference, and rank. It's a whole choreograpy of polite, (often insincere but not negatively) refusals and offers, such as refusing food or payment or gifts multiple times before accepting. Some Asian cultures have similar attitudes, but my Persian teachers told me of the wild stories of the lengths people went to insist on being the one to pay the bill at a restaurant or coffee house bordering the levels of a comedy film.