Existential angst can be learned

[mercuriosity]

Oh, I fucking love this. Apparently I'm supposed to learn Chinese characters by inscribing them on a grain of rice--or, you know, by having to squish them into really small spaces on the worksheets we're given. Here I am, being graded on my handwriting, and I'm given a little box not two centimeters long in which to write three fairly complicated

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[thorne_scratch]

He ends by saying: "In the end, am I Chinese? Or American? What does 'home' mean, after all? Where is my home?"

"Why did I wake up in this washing machine? Where are my pants? What could I have drunk last night?"

[mercuriosity]

As a Chinese-American person, these are the kinds of soul-searching questions I have to ask myself all the time.

[bravecows]

omg best textbook ever.

In a point and laugh way, yes. But! Identity crises! That's so great!

[mercuriosity]

They used another French example, too! That's two lessons, and two bizarre Chinese-French comparisons so far. I think this might be the most cracktastic textbook I've ever used.