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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago

I mean, this is conflating a fifth of the humans on Earth, so you should consider this borderline misinformation, but I believe, East Asian cultures tend to take things rather literal. So, sarcasm is often not understood, and I guess comedians overplaying stories or using satire might not land as it tends to in Western cultures. I assume, it's more situational humor and absurdism.

But yeah, here in Europe, we have stereotypical German humor, stereotypical British humor etc., so you should assume that different regions in East Asia or China will have different humor, too. Maybe there's no comedians where that girl is from, but in other regions there are...