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Oh my God, you can't just ask someone why they're not white
Skill issue
Just gotta wait until Tuesday
When it rains, why doesn't it rain lemon drops and gum drops?
Cause you personally are not throwing enough of em from the sky.
Why am I not born in an advanced space-faring alien civillization? 😥
Based on your username... ermm... Aren't you?
Oh I'm an alien alright, but I'm not an ALIEN like you know... roswell.... area 51 type of alien... certainly not an advanced space-faring civilization... probes into space DOES NOT COUNT as "ADVANCED SPACEFARING CIVILLIZATION", jesus christ they haven't even put a person on the moon yet... 🤦♂️
Let's call it a grey area.
Irish I was Mexican.
O - O - O- O’Really?
Lol, I am Irish and Mexican
Well, if you're like me it's because all your ancestors 15 generations back all sat in the same small region and probably never came close to meeting anyone from Ireland.
Ever had any Irish in you?
It's unlikely.
The probability of a random English speaking person being Irish is approximately 7.1856/1493 ≈ 0.00481, which is a pretty low number. There just aren't that many Irish people.
Oh yes this "birth statistics" thing... like this line of thoughts is causing me a sort of existential crisis...
Like... me being born ethnicallt Chinese in Mainland China was literally a statistic... its like amongst the top 2 countries in terms of births, even account for one child policy... like its over 10% chance... and oh yea there were like 400 million that were born against policy.. like me 🫠
In terms of world population...it's a 1 in 7 chance
So... yea I'm just a statistic...
But what's not a statistic is the fact that I'm a diaspora... that's kinda rare for China in terms of percentage...
But then again I'm Taishanese (台山) ancestry... so that's just standard for us... most of Chinese Emigration have Taishanese ancestry...
I wish I was Norweigian... but the odds of being orn norweigian is like impossible... sad 🙃
Why am I here?
I think about The Egg by Andy Weir sometimes... what if I die now then get reincarnated as a woman in the middle east, then spawnkilled... 👀
okay sorry I'm just rambling now xD
Probabilities can be counterintuitive. Just because something has a low probability doesn’t mean it never happens. You can make those probabilities vanishingly small by stacking specific combinations like ethnic background, first language, country of origin, current country of residence, religious upbringing, and so on. The more you stack, the lower the probability of someone being exactly like you.
I once visited a science expo that demonstrated this by asking questions about traits like eye color, ear shape, and even quirks: Do you write with your left hand? Do you kick a ball with your right foot? Do you peek through a hole with your left eye? When you combine all these factors, everyone turns out to be a "unique" snowflake.
The counterintuitive thing is, even though the stacked probability of you existing might be astronomically small, you’re still here. Unlikely things happen all the time. If you expect to see a specific rare event, you'll be waiting a million years. If you look at events that have already occurred, you’ll find their probabilities were just as tiny.
When you think of it like that... an NSA agent can read through all my posts and, without even needing to get my IP, they could uniquely identify me by cross referencing their database.
I mean who else in the world is (these are already info I've posted here and am comfortable with publishing... I don't care about hiding this):
- Born in China
- Somehow survive One Child Policy as the 2nd child
- Immigrated to the US
- Speaks Cantonese and Mandarin with Taishan Ancestry
Literally just these 4 datapoints narrow down to like... probably no more than like 100 people (I assume, I don't have the stats)
Then you filter for: everything else like age... citizenship... how long been here... cities lived in... favorite Animes, Movies, TV shows...
Bingo, I'm the only one that matches that...
Hello NSA, ya got me! 👀
(Assuming the info is real... who knows... maybe I obfuscated some details...)
I wanna publish a memoir some day so I'll just see how unique/intriguing my story is... 👀
I wish I was a huge bearded Irish dude.
I recommend watching Jacksepticeye... it's very therapeudic...
You could try cosplaying as one.
The Irish have no trolls. It's the Nordic who have them.
Maybe you are
Because you know how to grow food?
Is it because you a USian?
Nationality is a somewhat nebulous concept.
Sometimes there is a legal definition. Sometimes there is a - often racially influenced - folk definition. There are, of course, others between and perhaps beyond these.
If any manage to exclude you, there's your answer.
That doesn't necessarily mean that they're right, of course, but some hold more weight than others.
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