Tags: fun, politics, quiz, www.
Categores: Culture, Fun For Visitors, Internet Finds.
While doing research for one of my papers, I came across a quiz that ranks one’s political orientation on 2 spectra: Liberal vs Conservative, and Libertarian vs Statist. It is apparently revered by many journals and newspapers as quite accurate. I think liberal and conservative need no explanation. 
As for the other scale, a libertarian is one who believes that individual freedoms should be prioritized over socialist ideals, and a statist believes otherwise. A more commonly used word for statist is authoritarian (not to be confused with tyranny, since tyranny is a corrupted form of authoritarianism).
Red dot denotes my score.
Due to my nomadic upbringing, I’m naturally liberal. On the other scale, I lean a little closer to authoritarian than libertarian. From my position on the two axes, I think I would be classified as a social democratic.
How did I infer that from such an abstract graph? Because I’m a political theory student. Hahaha! For the rest of you: to find the label for where you stand on both axes, check out this political spectrum by Miguel Duarte. Duarte’s spectrum visually coincides with the one used on the quiz. I can’t say I agree with his labeling, because I am definitely not a democratic socialist but it’ll give you guys a rough idea about where you stand.
Take the quiz here, and let me know of your results!
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I apologize for my recent boring entries. I’ve been very sick with the (Singaporean) flu. My housemates’ parents came to visit and brought the flu along with them. I am absolutely impervious to the Canadian flu, but I am quite susceptible to the Singaporean one. Now, with my menstruation, the timing couldn’t be worse. I am sickly and feel shitty at the same time. Bah.
Hopefully, I’ll feel better before the next entry because there is something interesting I’ve been dying to blog about, (which requires a little more brain power than someone with a constant headache can produce.)
Tags: chinese, quiz.
Categores: Daily Life, Fun For Visitors.
No, they have nothing to do with each other.
So, about the Chinese condoms, I learned how to say condom in Chinese in class yesterday. For those who want to know, it’s “保险套” correctly romanized as “bao xian tao”. Pronounced like “bow shien tau” for those who can’t read Chinese-style romanization. Our textbook chapter was discussing about how condoms sold in vending machines signified the advancement of Chinese society. How ridiculous! But that wasn’t the funny part. My professor, having come from China, was so embarrassed about the chapter he actually said that he wanted to skip this chapter, “but it was important for us.”
DUDE! We’re in 4th year of university for goodness’ sake. There’s nothing embarrassing about condoms among 22 year olds. Besides, who hasn’t done sex ed in 10th grade?!
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Now onto favorite animal. It’s something fun for all my visitors. So be sure to participate. Here are the instructions
Pick three of your favorite animals. The first being your most favorite, the third your lesser favorite. Then think of as many adjectives as you can to describe each animal. Now, click “read the rest of this post” to see what it’s all about! Be sure to let me know what your animals are.
STOP HERE! WRITE THEM DOWN FIRST, THEN LOOK BELOW!