I too am currently editing my PhD thesis and am looking forward to having brain space again as well. Like reading a book instead of papers or knitting/crocheting something more involved instead of mindless boring things. Your explanations of the art project you're involved in are always so fascinating!
Hey Anushka, I think I can explain why your last name is spelt this way. It's actually related to our dialect and totally not made up! Tay is the dialect pronunciation (probably Teochew or Hokkien) of your last name, while the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation is Zheng. During the registration of last names in English alphabets, our ancestors said it in dialect (as Mandarin Chinese isn't really the spoken language in their hometowns, or most of them are coolies and did not receive much education in China then) to the person recording it, so it was romanised like how it sounded. It's really common during those days in the British colonies. I'm a 2nd generation Singapore Chinese and that's how my grandparents described it to us! This kind of resulted in many variations of the same last name for people in the same dialect groups (Yeoh and Yeo, Yeow and Yaw, New and Neo to name a few) and most of us future generations kept it. I hope this makes sense :)
I do look forward to your chatty updates and a never disappointed. I agree that we should not delete or cancel the past - history is there to be learned from, otherwise we make the same mistakes again. Books should be left as they are. Statues should be left in place as reminders that life can't be viewed as black/white, there are infinite shades of grey. That humans are not just one thing or another, that they are very complex beings, that it is possible for good people to do 'bad' things - especially when those things were not considered bad in the society of that time. So a person who built hospitals for the poor should not be obliterated because they also kept slaves - they can further contribute to the good of society by remaining a symbol of the progression of society and used to teach future generations. These things are all evidence of the continuing evolution of Homo sapiens sapiens
Thanks for your comment and your kind words. I think that the matter of statues is a different discussion about how we engage in our public spaces, and which people and values we are commemorating as a society. Particularly in a democratic society (or what's meant to be one!), I think it is only a good thing to scrutinise who is being mounted on a pedestal (literally, in the case of public statues!). I also see it as an exciting opportunity to reconsider who might represent us in a more equitable way.
The US is going through a terrible backwards time in politics 😢 We progressives have had a lot of work to redo . I am glad you brought this up, I joined Patreon. You are so refreshing.😊
Those socks are so pretty! And yes, as a fellow PhD student I sympathise - even when there is time, there often isn't enough brain energy to knit anything complicated. On an unrelated note, what's the lipstick you're wearing in this video? I've been after a warm bright red like that.
I love Anne of Green Gables. I prefer the adaptation starring Megan Follows over the Netflix version (probably because that's what I watched as a little girl with my mom). I believe there's also an adaptation starring Martin Sheen that's not bad. I did enjoy watching the Netflix show, but it was a bit to gritty. Now I'm in the mood to re-watch them all. Good watches to get through my WIPS.
While I think it’s important to remember the racism and colonialism, I think children can have trouble separating what is there so we remember atrocities of human history and what is there because they are good ways of thinking. I think about the children who read those books and see someone like them, the only person like them in the book, being treated poorly, and I don’t want them to think they should be treated poorly. And I don’t want the white children to read those books and come to think that treating people who are different is okay. I think about how I thought that everyone who had a statue must have been a good person to get a statue made of them, and I now know that isn’t true, but I didn’t when I was younger. I think children still can read these books, but we need to be aware of how much of sponges they are.
You're right! I have certainly felt like that as child, feeling alienated by colonial descriptions of Asian people in fairy tales, as one example. I think that it's time to expand the literary and cultural canon and venerate new authors as "classics" to be read by the younger generations.
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I too am currently editing my PhD thesis and am looking forward to having brain space again as well. Like reading a book instead of papers or knitting/crocheting something more involved instead of mindless boring things.
Your explanations of the art project you're involved in are always so fascinating!
It's so tiring isn't it! And feels interminable! All the best with your thesis 👏
🤩🤩 the new oregano socks. The perfect spring green.
Hey Anushka, I think I can explain why your last name is spelt this way. It's actually related to our dialect and totally not made up! Tay is the dialect pronunciation (probably Teochew or Hokkien) of your last name, while the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation is Zheng. During the registration of last names in English alphabets, our ancestors said it in dialect (as Mandarin Chinese isn't really the spoken language in their hometowns, or most of them are coolies and did not receive much education in China then) to the person recording it, so it was romanised like how it sounded.
It's really common during those days in the British colonies. I'm a 2nd generation Singapore Chinese and that's how my grandparents described it to us! This kind of resulted in many variations of the same last name for people in the same dialect groups (Yeoh and Yeo, Yeow and Yaw, New and Neo to name a few) and most of us future generations kept it. I hope this makes sense :)
Hi Genevieve, yes that's the situation :)
I do look forward to your chatty updates and a never disappointed. I agree that we should not delete or cancel the past - history is there to be learned from, otherwise we make the same mistakes again. Books should be left as they are. Statues should be left in place as reminders that life can't be viewed as black/white, there are infinite shades of grey. That humans are not just one thing or another, that they are very complex beings, that it is possible for good people to do 'bad' things - especially when those things were not considered bad in the society of that time. So a person who built hospitals for the poor should not be obliterated because they also kept slaves - they can further contribute to the good of society by remaining a symbol of the progression of society and used to teach future generations. These things are all evidence of the continuing evolution of Homo sapiens sapiens
Thanks for your comment and your kind words. I think that the matter of statues is a different discussion about how we engage in our public spaces, and which people and values we are commemorating as a society. Particularly in a democratic society (or what's meant to be one!), I think it is only a good thing to scrutinise who is being mounted on a pedestal (literally, in the case of public statues!). I also see it as an exciting opportunity to reconsider who might represent us in a more equitable way.
Very well put!! I agree 100%!!!
Very nice Episode Anushka… thank you! ❤🙏🏻👏👏👏
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The US is going through a terrible backwards time in politics 😢 We progressives have had a lot of work to redo . I am glad you brought this up, I joined Patreon. You are so refreshing.😊
Have you tried steam blocking the Ch. characters and see if that makes a difference? Could be a solution to ripping back 🤷🏻♀️
Those socks are so pretty! And yes, as a fellow PhD student I sympathise - even when there is time, there often isn't enough brain energy to knit anything complicated. On an unrelated note, what's the lipstick you're wearing in this video? I've been after a warm bright red like that.
I love Anne of Green Gables. I prefer the adaptation starring Megan Follows over the Netflix version (probably because that's what I watched as a little girl with my mom). I believe there's also an adaptation starring Martin Sheen that's not bad. I did enjoy watching the Netflix show, but it was a bit to gritty.
Now I'm in the mood to re-watch them all. Good watches to get through my WIPS.
While I think it’s important to remember the racism and colonialism, I think children can have trouble separating what is there so we remember atrocities of human history and what is there because they are good ways of thinking. I think about the children who read those books and see someone like them, the only person like them in the book, being treated poorly, and I don’t want them to think they should be treated poorly. And I don’t want the white children to read those books and come to think that treating people who are different is okay. I think about how I thought that everyone who had a statue must have been a good person to get a statue made of them, and I now know that isn’t true, but I didn’t when I was younger. I think children still can read these books, but we need to be aware of how much of sponges they are.
You're right! I have certainly felt like that as child, feeling alienated by colonial descriptions of Asian people in fairy tales, as one example. I think that it's time to expand the literary and cultural canon and venerate new authors as "classics" to be read by the younger generations.