42 sats \ 6 replies \ @cryotosensei OP 10 Jun \ parent \ on: Travel Light FiresidePhilosophy
Cool. We have a Chinese saying that goes “One kind of rice can nurture a hundred kinds of people.” Different responses to the same stimuli.
Before my mind pivots to feeling the gravity of a situation, I typically subscribe to the victim mentality: why and how did I land myself in this shithole?! So, knowing that others have been through worse is well n fine, but it doesn’t excuse the fact that I’m in a shithole haha
One kind of rice can nurture a hundred kinds of people
一样米养百样人
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Yes! I say it this way, though: 一种米养百种人
I have always wanted to ask: to what extent does the typical Korean understand Chinese/Kanji characters? I see them sprinkled all over the place during my travels in Korea, but don’t know if the Koreans actually use them in daily life
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I'd say the cutoff is around 30 years old? The older generation still had to learn them at school. People don't use them though, other than the occasional 小 中 大 to describe portion sizes at the restaurant. Maybe still a few fancy newspapers sprinkle a few around.
I lived in China for a while hence my intermediate conversational skills.
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You could tell yourself "I have a couple of weeks to figure this out before I starve to death." That's a pretty big buffer.
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Or I can resort to cannibalism: https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/a-clash-of-royalty-king-cobra-cannibalism-documented-for-the-first-time-in-singapore