tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321329750397667796.post5309701552597147871..comments2024-03-26T19:47:09.310+08:00Comments on Lao Ren Cha - 老人茶: Out of RangeJenna Lynn Codyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04032277820150000198noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321329750397667796.post-609864428392729032015-12-05T19:38:30.311+08:002015-12-05T19:38:30.311+08:00...because part of me feels like, if someone mocks......because part of me feels like, if someone mocks my looks, skin, weight etc. to my face, I can just dismiss them as someone not worth listening to. "Shallow ****. I don't need to give him/her any more of my valuable time." Then you know they are the problem, not you. <br /><br />But when nobody does that, but you sense that somehow you don't measure up, you never quite know Jenna Lynn Codyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04032277820150000198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321329750397667796.post-1370268866542665762015-12-05T19:35:40.745+08:002015-12-05T19:35:40.745+08:00Well, obviously I can't know what it's lik...Well, obviously I can't know what it's like to be an outsider to my own culture. And I do think you have really good points. <br /><br />I'd just say that as an American woman who doesn't fit the beauty stereotype in America (which absolutely exists) - wide Polish face, wide Polish bum, wide Polish waist, honkin' nose, frizzy, wavy hair, wide Polish shoulders - I do feel thereJenna Lynn Codyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04032277820150000198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321329750397667796.post-9386629058929813812015-12-05T00:18:48.622+08:002015-12-05T00:18:48.622+08:00As a Taiwanese-American in her mid-20s who grew up...As a Taiwanese-American in her mid-20s who grew up in America and had a somewhat more liberal mother, I have to side with the original Taiwanese author. It is much, much more freeing in the west for a young woman. You make a good point that as the foreigner, you are not held to the same constraints as native citizens and that's it's easier to romanticize a foreign culture. However, your Girl in Taiwanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559680717730178641noreply@blogger.com