{"id":62622,"date":"2015-01-31T19:10:54","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T03:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=62622"},"modified":"2023-09-16T05:26:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T13:26:11","slug":"the-call-of-the-genes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=62622","title":{"rendered":"The Call Of The Genes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I asked a friend who&#8217;s lived his whole life in Australia but his genes are Korean, who he supported in the following match. He said South Korea.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ItDQ6u-c_zs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s currently in Japan and reports: &#8220;Japan is a polite society, I personally find the servility and bowing and scraping a little irritating but it is nice to be in an environment which makes no particular pandering to diversity, it just is what is is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lil: &#8220;I like that people in Japan care so much about society that they wear face masks when they&#8217;re sick so they won&#8217;t spread their disease to others. Unlike in the US where people sneeze full blast with their mounts wide open. But, sharing is caring I guess.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chaim Amalek: I knew an ABC (American Born Chinese) guy studying engineering at a very well regarding school who, when asked what motivated him in his studies, answered &#8220;To help the Motherland.&#8221; &#8220;You mean the USA?&#8221; I asked. &#8220;No, China.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I asked a friend who&#8217;s lived his whole life in Australia but his genes are Korean, who he supported in the following match. He said South Korea. He&#8217;s currently in Japan and reports: &#8220;Japan is a polite society, I personally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=62622\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2571,182,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asians","category-australia","category-race"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62622"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152013,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62622\/revisions\/152013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}