#Beautiful place in Asia
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kumrattourism Ā· 1 year ago
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Sangar Top Meadows Dir
Sangar Top Meadows is located in the upper mountain range of Dir Town district. This Meadows is located about 35 minutes away from Dir Bazar. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Dir District Pakistan
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wgm-beautiful-world Ā· 5 months ago
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Beautiful place in Miyazaki, JAPAN
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dailystreetsnapshots Ā· 7 months ago
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Arang Kel, Pakistan
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arc-hus Ā· 1 year ago
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Asia Society Centre, Hong Kong - Williams Tsien
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melodramaticwanderlust Ā· 3 days ago
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šŸ“Peh Leh Lagoon, Thailand
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emiliano-77 Ā· 1 year ago
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downfalldestiny Ā· 2 years ago
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Just amazing view ā›±ļø !.
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stevejobsvevo Ā· 2 years ago
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thebroccolination Ā· 2 years ago
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I remember one of the most influential moments I had on my body image while living in Japan.
One Saturday afternoon, my Japanese coworker and I went out to lunch, and as we left the buffet, stuffed to satisfaction, she said, ā€œI shouldnā€™t have eaten so much. Iā€™m already the fat one in my family.ā€
I was distracted thinking about something else, and I thought she was joking, so I made a noncommittal kind of noise. Iā€™d only been in Japan for half a year at that point, and I was already tired of the extensive fat-shaming almost everyone took part in, so I just disconnected whenever it started.
Then I glanced at her and realized she was serious. She had a self-deprecating half-smile, and she didnā€™t seem to be setting me up for one of those, ā€œNo, but youā€™re so pretty,ā€ responses. She was just stating a fact. This person, who probably couldnā€™t have pinched more than a pinkyā€™s width of fat anywhere on her body, was ashamed of her size.
Meanwhile, I was twenty-three and deeply, profoundly hated my body. Back then, I would have given most anything to be her size.
And in that moment, I realized: itā€™ll never be enough.
No matter how petite, how skinny, how svelte, how toned, how whatever. The societies many of us live in profit off of the desperation of mass misery, and no amount of dieting would ever give me a pass from that misery. If I was thin, thereā€™d be some other issue to ā€œfixā€, like ā€œweird elbowsā€ or something else that I havenā€™t even thought about because no oneā€™s had the opportunity to tell me how much it costs to adjust it yet.
I realized in a mall on a Saturday that the joy Iā€™d been chasing had to come from disengaging from the whole chase, not from changing my body.
And I mean, Iā€™m not totally there yet, even over a decade later. Itā€™s difficult to love what youā€™re repeatedly told is wrong about yourself, and I hated my body for much longer than Iā€™ve been actively trying to love it. I cling to offhand compliments about my looks, and I feel a twinge of guilt whenever I enjoy the ā€œwrongā€ foods, and I fantasize about how much easier or happier life would be if I looked the way my coworker looked then.
But at least I know to my core that it will never be enough for them. No size, no shape, no degree of perfection will ever be enough for the societies and cultures Iā€™ve lived in that judge oneā€™s morality by oneā€™s body. Relatives of mine in the States over the holidays tortured themselves with ā€œI was being so good so farā€ and ā€œIā€™m going to be bad tonightā€ and itā€™s just so pointlessly cruel that weā€™re set up to think this way about ourselves.
I made a lemon-glaze cake over the holidays, and almost no one ate it because so many people were dieting.
I did, though.
I just love the irony that living in a culture so rigid about weight actually freed me somewhat from the chase for an impossible goal. I bought diet pills as a teenager, and I couldnā€™t believe as recently as last week that a woman I was attracted to was hitting on me, but at least I know Iā€™m in this snow globe now, and it makes breaking out of it easier.
Since university, Iā€™ve been committed to exercising to gain muscle because I wanted to lose weight. But now I do it mainly because I like the strength and the flexibility that comes along with it. My weightā€™s never hurt me or my immune system or any aspect of my life. My brain did that, and my brain was just reacting to a lifetime of fear-mongering.
It will never be enough until you disengage from the chase.
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mithliya Ā· 1 year ago
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I'm from Asia, and the overwhelming majority of us would straight-up not date white people. Some ethnicities are more likely to date out than others, but overall we're good, no thanks. Women who do date white foreigners tend to be levelling up economically (no judgement there from me) which is a well-known fact. While there is definitely white colonialist beauty standards at play in the majority of places, I have lots of experience with the corners that bs hasn't reached (Nepal, for a generally big example, where they love dark skin and certain features) - and even within the spaces where European-centric standards do apply, the majority of non-white people aren't interested in dating actual white people as a first choice. It has nothing to do with white people's racism or disinterest in non-white people lol. I don't know about the Middle East of course, but I think your experiences of Asia seem limited to the more English-speaking, cosmopolitan areas perhaps - or maybe you are talking about Japan, which I am not familiar with personally. However even in Korea I have a white friend (born there) who can't get a boyfriend because- in her words- men there sort foreigners as "fun times only" and local women as "marriage material". It's a bit ridiculous to think that billions of non-white people are genuinely thirsting over white people, it's simple not true - most people prefer to date within their race. Lots of people do feel attraction to white people, for the reasons you outlined or naturally as well, but your experience does not seem univeral (outside the Western sphere). It was kind of bizarre at first to come across this thinking in Western spaces but now it's just deeply agitating, because I notice non-white people in Western countries really do act like they're less attractive and it's insane to me. Like sorry, but here in my part of the world, certain Asian features on women are considered the height of beauty among these communities (to the point where that's problematic in and of itself). Definitely white beauty standards have wormed their way here too, but again, it didn't change most Asians' sexual preferences - it just made them look for those features in their own (not everyone, but most - yes some people would date white).
interestingā€¦ my experience has been the exact opposite. while i know some people would not marry a white person, theyā€™re still the standard of beauty and marrying a white person can be almost a status symbol & people do act like dating them means youā€™ve won somehow. this applies for the middle east and i know similar standards exist in south & east & southeast asia. my gf explained the same type of phenomena exists in taiwan and neighbouring east asian countries & ive observed similar mindsets around white ppl being considered the most beautiful among south asians and west asians overall.
iā€™m not referring to english-speaking cosmopolitan areas either, iā€™m thinking of countries like the philippines and india and pakistan and basically the entirety of the middle east. admittedly iā€™m not familiar with nepal thoā€” itā€™s interesting to hear they prefer dark skin there, which is in contrast to the rest of asia in which colourism is very prominent.
i did notice white people are generalised as more of a ā€œfun timeā€ thing in many cases but people will still not look down on you for marrying a white person & shun you for it the way they would for marrying a black person, for example. the people generally think white people are the most appealing but often prioritise marrying people of similar backgrounds for the sake of cultural and familial standards.. not bc white people are deemed unattractive in asia. in fact, the whiter you are, the more beautiful you are deemed.
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kumrattourism Ā· 1 year ago
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Kumrat Valley tour
14th August 2021#Dir #Kumrat Valley Khyber Pakhtunkhwa #Pakistan Tour which was supervised byĀ  Rana Ahsan . This is a memorable photo from the group tour
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wgm-beautiful-world Ā· 8 days ago
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dailystreetsnapshots Ā· 1 year ago
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Suzhou, China
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arc-hus Ā· 8 months ago
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Terracotta Studio, Điį»‡n PhĘ°Ę”ng, Vietnam - Tropical Space
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melodramaticwanderlust Ā· 19 days ago
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šŸ“Okinawa Coral Reef
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headspace-hotel Ā· 9 months ago
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The knowledge of some common plants
Since many people don't know most of the plants around them, this is information on some plants that are commonly seen in many places throughout the world
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This is Lamium purpureum, also called Purple Deadnettle.
It's called deadnettle because it looks like a nettle but it doesn't sting you
This plant is a winter annualā€”it grows its leaves in the fall, lasts through the winter, and blooms and dies in the spring
Its pollen is reddish orange. If you see bees with their heads stained reddish orange, it is likely because they have visited Purple Deadnettle
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This is Trifolium repens, white clover
It is a legume (belongs to the bean family) and fixes nitrogen using symbiosis with bacteria that live in little nodules on its roots, fertilizing the soil
It is a good companion plant for the other members of a lawn or garden since it is tough, adaptable, and improves soil quality. According to my professor it used to be in lawn mixes, until chemical companies wanted to sell a new herbicide that would kill broadleaved plants and spare grass, and it was slandered as a weed :(
It is native only to Europe and Central Asia, but in the lawns they are doing more good than harm most places
Honeybees love to visit clover
Four-leaf clovers are said to be lucky
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This is Achillea millefolium, Common Yarrow
It has had a relationship with humans since Neanderthals were around, at least 60,000 years, since Neanderthals have been found buried with Yarrow
Its leaves have been used to stop bleeding throughout history, and its scientific name comes from how Achilles was said to have used Yarrow to stop the blood from the wounds of his soldiers. A leaf rolled into a ball has been used to stop nosebleeds
It is a native species all throughout Eurasia and North America
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This is Cichorium intybus, known as Chicory
The leaves look a lot like dandelion leaves, until in mid-spring when it begins growing a woody green stem straight up into the air
Like many other weeds, it has a symbiotic relationship with humans, existing in a mix of domesticated or partially domesticated and wild populations
It is native to Eurasia, but widespread in North America on roadsides and disturbed places, where it descended from cultivated plants
Its root contains large amounts of inulin, which is used as a sweetener and fiber supplement (if you look at the ingredients on the granola bars that have extra fiber, they usually are partly made of chicory root) and has also been used as a coffee substitute
A large variety of bees like to feed upon it
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This is Phytolacca americana, known as Pokeweed
It is easily identified by its huge leaves and its waxy, bright magenta stem
It can grow more than nine feet tall from a sprout in a single summer!
If you squish the berries, the juice inside is a shocking magenta that is so bright it almost burns your eyes. For this reason many Native American people used it for pink and purple dye.
It is a heavy metal hyperaccumulator, particularly good for removing cadmium from the soil
All parts of the plant are poisonous and will make you very sick if you eat them, however if the leaves are picked when very young and boiled 3 times, changing out the water each time, they can be eaten, and this is a traditional food in the rural American Southeast, but I don't want to chance it
British people have introduced it as a pretty, exotic ornamental plant. I think that is very funny considering that here it is a weed associated with places where poor people live, but maybe they're right and I need to look closer to see the beauty.
If you see magenta stains in bird poop it is because they ate pokeweed berries- birds can safely eat the berries whereas humans cannot
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This is Plantago lanceolata, Ribwort Plantain
It grows in heavily disturbed soils, in fact it is considered an indicator of agricultural activity. It is successful in the poorest, heaviest and most compacted soil.
The leaves, seeds, and flower heads are said to be edible but the leaves are really stringy unless they are very young. Of course, it is important to be careful when eating wild plants, and make sure you have identified the plant correctly and the soil is not contaminated
I have also heard the strings in the leaves can be extracted and used for textile purposes
and that's some common plants you might often see throughout the world
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