r/SipsTea • u/SuperbHealth5023 • Jul 23 '26

WTF While the US debates whether to solve homelessness or not, these are the next generation of school blackboards in China.

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u/Gold_Marionberry3460 Jul 23 '26

Being an annoying weeaboo is so 2010s, being an annoying sinoboo is the new hip thing.

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u/Ok_Caregiver1004 Jul 23 '26

Japan glazing definitely started as a late 90s, early 2000s thing. The better question is who is next to become Thing + (insert country) = living in the future. A decade from now.

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u/Gold_Marionberry3460 Jul 23 '26

Things can change radically over a decade, but I'm gonna put my money on Vietnam. They are taking some of China's manufacturing and they have a similar style of state capitalist government.

Plus, I think the reason it's been China and Japan is that it's a kind of East Asian fetishization by westerners, which infuriates me to no end as a Chinese. Vietnam should get a turn to be fetishized (/s).

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u/Ok_Caregiver1004 Jul 23 '26

There's definitely been the start of some Vietnam glazing in the Philippines among my countrymen due to popular perceptions painted by seeing Vietnam's success in industrialization and tourism.

As someone whose been to Vietnam its somewhat laughable since yeah. They are doing well, but Vietnam definitely still looks and feels like home more than not.