my favorite thing in the whole wide world is when white people try to give interesting facts about themselves and try to make themselves sound worldly
and the best they can come up with is "I studied Japanese in college" or "I lived in China...for two months."
like IDK I lived in Japan for a year on my own where I had to work and pay rent and get healthcare but it doesn't feel like something to brag about so much as a fact of life that usually gets dragged out of me unless it's relevant to the conversation
like you want a cookie for venturing outside the US to some ~exotic foreign land~?
@guerrillarain L. Ron Hubbard lived for 2 weeks in China and it became a thinnnnnnnnnnnng
@ruth I saw the same thing with this girl on Masterchef!!
who was suddenly an expert on Szechuan cuisine because she spent two weeks in Shanghai like if you don't GIT