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The erstwhile Chinese gooseberry, as its archaic English name suggests, finds its root a hemisphere away in China. Its original name in Chinese, mihoutao — “macaque fruit” — refers to the monkeys’ love for it, according to the 16th century Chinese medicine encyclopedia, the Compendium of Materia Medica.
It all began in 1904, when Mary Isabel Fraser, the principal of an all-girls school, brought back some Chinese gooseberry seeds from China. They were then given to a farmer named Alexander Allison who, planted them in his farm near the riverine town of Whanganui. The trees went on to bear their first fruit in 1910.
The gooseberry’s rebranding didn’t happen until almost 50 years after Allison’s trees bore fruit, according to New Zealand’s official history, when agricultural exporter Turners & Growers started calling their U.S.-bound Chinese gooseberries “kiwifruits” on June 15, 1959.
The fruit’s importer told Turners & Growers that the Chinese gooseberry needed a new name to be commercially viable stateside, to avoid negative connotations of “gooseberries,” which weren’t particularly popular. After passing over another proposed name, melonette, it was finally decided to name the furry, brown fruit after New Zealand’s furry, brown, flightless national bird. It also helped that Kiwis had become the colloquial term for New Zealanders by the time.
Demand for the fruit started to take off, and by the 1970s, the name kiwifruit took root across the Chinese gooseberry trade, cementing its popular imagination as the quintessential New Zealand product. All this happened while China was occupied by a decade of the Cultural Revolution.
Large-scale cultivation of the kiwifruit can now be found in many countries, including the U.S., Italy and — ironically — China, which became the world’s top kiwifruit producer by 2014, and where the fruit is commonly used to make jam.
60 countries told the U.N. that outside forces shouldn't interfere with China's internal affairs
mmmm. Who do we believe? The U.S. lapdog AKA the U.K. who lies for a living. Just look at the crap coming out from the BBC. Or RT.
I know where my money is on.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Black Sea Fleet has fired warning shots at a British Naval destroyer – citing an incursion into their territory.
However, the UK Ministry of Defense claims they weren’t warning shots, and that the Russian fleet was simply conducting a routine exercise in the region.
The UK vessel reportedly crossed into Russian territorial waters at 11:52am local time, at the northwestern part of the Black Sea near Cape Fiolent.
Russian authorities claim warning shots were fired just after midday, but there was no response from the British vessel.
Furthermore, at around 12:15am, Russian aircraft performed precautionary bombings along the British vessels’ course.
British officials dispute this claim, and maintain that their fleet received prior warning of a gunnery exercise being undertaken.
‘No shots were directed at HMS Defender and we do not recognise the claim that bombs were dropped in her path,’ the MoD’s press office said.
The UK ship has since left Russian territorial waters.
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They don’t intend to take on the whole world by themselves, they expect the whole of Judeo-Christendom to join the next Crusade!
Inevitably, the “freedom, rules-based-order, et c.”, rhetoric will devolve into the “western-civilization, and Christianity” thing!
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AssassinsMace
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Asian-Americans say nothing and the racists get to write the narrative. Asians don't even have to act racist. Just the assumption that Asians are racists is enough for people to justify attacking you. Anyone else it's called free speech doing that to Asians. How absurd to believe a 61 year old Asian immigrant savagely attacked someone. When I was in high school a fellow student once told me he believed Asians spend dinner time making fun of black people which is his excuse for disliking for Asians. WTF? I wasn't going let him get away with that so I told him, "That doesn't happen. It's actually far worse than you think. Asians don't even think about you to have a discussion at the dinner table." Why is there a victim culture in the US? Who wants to be a victim? In the US, even whites want to be a victim hence what the whole alt-right is all about. People in the US fight over who's more a victim than the other. It's because in the US being declared a victim means special status. You're protected and expect special dispensation. They want attention. So when you tell people like these you're not even on theirs minds to care to hate you, it's worse. That's why you see minorities in the US feel more in line with whites than Asians. They have something with whites. They don't with Asians hence why you'll see minorities follow in-line with whites on US foreign policy in Asia. Why do you think with these anti-Asian attacks it runs the gambit of ethnicities doing the crime. Minorities don't like Asians because they've got nothing to guilt Asians except just to assume you're a racist. But they can attack you because of your race because they have that privilege because they're victims. You take a look at the list of "official" victims in the US none of them can claim Asians participated in their oppression through history and that's why they also tend to hate Asians. They can't lay a guilt trip on you and they see the stereotype Asians "doing well" in the US, it just pisses them off hence why the only thing they got is to automatically declare you have to be racist to make you guilty of something. They can be racist towards Asian but they think nothing of it. I've said this before what the West fears most about is China will do to them in the future like what they're doing to China right now. Acting like China doesn't exist and matters. That will be worse than hell for them. China being the major power in the world and they're being ignored. It's cultural hence why minorities in the US fear the same thing. A whole world passing them by just like they're doing to Asians right now. They hate Asians because Asians are occupying space in their God's universe and Asians are not showing their appreciation to their God by rewarding, aka volunteering to be slaves and handing over all our money to them for it... I was on the attack on the comments section to an article that was whining how come whites were the face of anti-Asian violence going on when you see all ethnicities attacking Asians. I commented it's because it whites that whisper into their ears to blame all their problems in life on Asians like they're whispering into Asian ears that it's black people attacking Asians on the streets. What a f*cked up world they've created. And they wonder why there are people in this world that don't want a Western world order.
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Western publication reprint news over and over with no research. Sometime its obvious when you see the copyright at the bottom, sometimes its some other thrash rag just paraphrasing what they read from another news source. News is about making $$$$$, driving traffic to the website.
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