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Fashion Brand? Cult? MLM?

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[-] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

USian garment manufacturer who has ~~sweat shops~~ multiple employment opportunities for ~~slave labour~~ workers out in Asia; therefore their products will now be tariffed upon import.

Edit: They are Canadian, see below, but incorporated in the US.

[-] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Lululemon is Canadian, but you're right about most of the products being made in various Asian countries.

But also their CEO is a piece of garbage and nobody should be buying their overpriced shit anyway.

[-] LastWish@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Apparently the creator is also racist and purposely named it to be hard for speakers of East Asian languages to pronounce, but I believe everything I read on the internet.

[-] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 0 points 2 weeks ago

Is that even really a thing? Because in Germany the stereotype is the other way around, as in asian people pronounce r as l. I've never heard either irl though.

[-] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

Fascinating. The trope in the English speaking world seems to be:

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

Dang, they got us

[-] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 0 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah I'm aware that's why I'm confused 😅 The German and English R sounds are different but L sounds virtually the same so idk if it has something to do with that.

Also fyi at least in Japan and Korea the stereotype is less about white ppls eyes and more about our long noses, pale skin and obesity. In other words they took a close look 😅

[-] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 weeks ago

I’ve got no idea why German and English seem to have flipped the trope. I hope someone else can provide an answer here.

I knew about the whiteness, obesity (and body odour?) but the long noses is new to me. Kind of makes sense, there they are, sticking out of your face for everyone to see.

[-] crapwittyname@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I think it's 50-50, because the Chinese l sound is pronounced with the tongue in the position somewhere between the Latin r and l sounds. So it's just as likely to be heard as a "wrong" L or a "wrong" R.
The fun part is that the tropes stick to our own way of pronouncing the letter (r becomes l or vice versa) instead of attempting to pronounce the Chinese sound correctly...

[-] LastWish@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

My understanding is most East Asian languages don't differentiate between L and R, or the sounds are not the same as in English. I've heard it before in the wild.

[-] teft@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I used to live in south korea where they have this phoneme. The sound is midway between an r and an l. It’s similar to the way spanish pronounces v and b the same way with a sound midway between the two.