Why do Asians take photos all the time?
🍋 For Asians the photo is more important than the actual experience.
They can go to a far away, expensive place just to take photos and eat noodles, then go back home, thinking this is "holiday".
They will drive to a mainstream tourist site, jump out of the vehicle, and quickly selfie the 'landmark' or 'Welcome To XYZ' plastic sign, pretending to be “happy” for a minute.
Doing nothing but take some fake funny poses for the photo. They never tire of it.
Then they feel the mission is accomplished and immediatly return to their relentless routine (i.e, constantly worrying about food and the price of every little thing).
🍋 They always "pretend" to have some fun on photo - then back to being serious, petty and neurotic again.
They will only
“pretend” to climb a rock
“pretend” to swim
“pretend” to read a book
“pretend” to light a fire on the beach
“pretend” to have fun
… just to take a picture of it!
They never actually do the activity. It's all about creating a fake impression on photo.
They never even glance at the ACTUAL city or landscape or activities.
No interest in the culture or anything. Just photo, eat and back home. Yet somehow they think this shows off their "success" in life or whatever.
If they go to a restaurant, they will order some food first and then go for a photo shoot session outside of the restaurant.
They also buy some food just because it "looks good", then take photos of it, then have someone else eat it.
Then when they leave the restaurant, it's time for another photo-shoot session for 10 min in front of the restaurant’s plastic sign.
In a shopping mall, any of those plastic decorations they put out of for fake mall "events" is an opportunity for massive photo-taking.
It does not occur to their minds that it's just a useless plastic decoration.
They are never happy with 1 or 2 photos to document the experience, it is a 10 to 20 min maniac photo shoot session EVERY TIME.
All are doing fake things just for the photo to show off to their friends.
They know that all their fake friends and family are also taking fake poses to show off to others, yet this continues on and on...
Millions of terabytes of memory are thus being powered 24/7 in data centers all over the world just for meaningless bugpeople's photos and videos - that no one is ever going to look at again.
🍋 EXPLANATION OF THIS BEHAVIOR:
For Asians, reality or truth don't really matter. What matters is how things "look like".
For example if you "look rich", it is the same as if you were actually rich.
If you "look poor" however, they will never believe that you might actually be rich but do not care about external appearances.
In Asia, all you have to care about is external appearances.
They only see the material world, with an extremely poor inner emotional and intellectual life.
🍋 Jealousy is a primary factor in Asian life
Jealousy is the main motivation which pushes them to "top-up" anyone who has or does something better - hence the copycat mentality.
Asians believe life is some sort of permanent "competition" between people to "grab" more or "squeeze" more out of life.
They are simple-minded copycats. So the more Asians are taking photos, the more Asians are following them and doing the same thing. They never realize the absurdity of it.
🍋 Simple-mindedness
Unlike a Westerner who might have already a serious experience of life by age 20, Asian life is all based on trite routine and family-based stuff, so anything new outside of eating noodles with your family is already seen as a major adventure.
Therefore, anytime Asians do something slightly out of their strict daily routine, they absolutely need to photo it frantically.
They don't have the "who cares" attitude of many Western or other cultures.
And they are very much more into trite little things. For them, every detail matters.
🍋 Therefore, the photo-taking mentality is a product of all of this taken together:
Photos are free, so you better take as many of them as possible
Photos give you "face" in front of people, and you can fake that "face" very easily in a photo
Photos can give the appearance of a great time and a happy life, at no extra cost.
For Asians, having the appearance of a great life is the same as having a great life.
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