{"id":159,"date":"2007-05-20T11:43:02","date_gmt":"2007-05-20T18:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2007\/05\/20\/a-new-stereotype\/"},"modified":"2007-05-20T12:00:53","modified_gmt":"2007-05-20T19:00:53","slug":"a-new-stereotype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2007\/05\/20\/a-new-stereotype\/","title":{"rendered":"A new stereotype"},"content":{"rendered":"

Facebook: not just for stalking anymore. It’s amazing the things you can learn while bumping around Facebook.<\/p>\n

One of the things I recently learned was that the feather duster is the preferred implement for Chinese child whoopin’<\/a>. (Apparently you hold the feathery-end and whop them with the stick part. The more you know.)<\/p>\n

So having come across that new stereotype, I had to go hunting for others. Sure enough, I started to notice a trend among the many photos I had seen.<\/p>\n

Here’s my new stereotype: Asian people take a lot of pictures of women standing beside flowers. [Most of the links below are to Facebook pictures, so your enjoyment of this post may be impaired by not being in the SFU network, or not having a Facebook account at all if you’re a complete loser, Eugene.]<\/p>\n

Let’s start with some clear examples of the genre. We have Nicola in Hawaii<\/a> and Jessica, a former 120 student, went to a tulip festival<\/a>. That last one might be too easy to count<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure that this one of Eunice can be included<\/a>, she’s not much of a good-Asian-girl, but there are flowers in the background. Check.<\/p>\n

Daniela, while not Asian herself, was in Thailand for her flowers-and-tree picture<\/a>, so I’m counting it.<\/p>\n

Suyoko inherited her obsession with the garden from her father<\/a> (the Japanese half). There are also thousands of pictures of him with various plants hidden away somewhere.<\/p>\n

On the family side, I have a picture of Pam in the back yard<\/a> and one of their Ama<\/a>. I’m sure I have seen a Kat-with-flowers picture, but can’t locate it at the moment. Kat’s experience is “we don’t want to waste the film on just the flowers… go stand beside the flowers so we can get a picture of them.”<\/p>\n

Finally, just to show that it’s not an exclusively-Asian phenomenon, here’s Sara and some kind of flowering tree<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Facebook: not just for stalking anymore. It’s amazing the things you can learn while bumping around Facebook. One of the things I recently learned was that the feather duster is the preferred implement for Chinese child whoopin’. (Apparently you hold the feathery-end and whop them with the stick part. The more you know.) So having […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}