PassiveAggressiveNotes.com » Singapore http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com funny (if not necessarily "passive-aggressive") notes from pissed-off people Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:51:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 For Mr. Korean http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2009/04/29/for-mr-korean/ http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2009/04/29/for-mr-korean/#comments Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:00:11 +0000 Kerry http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/?p=10944 “There are many ethnicities crammed into a fairly small area here,” writes John in Singapore, “and sometimes there are…frictions. The red bin referred to in the note (at the bottom of the photo there) is an incinerator for firing up offerings to various deities/dearly departed by Chinese Buddhists. They are all over the place here in Chinatown, and everybody knows what they’re for.”

Without a doubt, John says, “The Korean gentleman using it as an ashtray is provoking his neighbors deliberately.” How…how…what’s the word I’m looking for here?

For Mr. Korean

related: it’s not a race (it’s a social construct)

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