If they’re young enough they might be mimicking a joke without understanding the function of jokes.

Here’s a diagram of how anteaters store their tongues as well!

That tongue is for excavating insects out of wood right? That’s very interesting that it also uses it for annoying other animals.

Based on that description, that dude on the left is a tall fella.

The remaster has Nani attend University, leaving Lilo in the care of their neighbor whose known their family forever, Tūtū. She also has an alien teleporter that allows her to visit Lilo frequently.

The film seems to choose to use some fairly hand-wavy solutions at the end so that they don’t have to compromise the happy ending with bittersweetness.

Like, I don’t think anyone would say Nani made the wrong choice by fighting hard and making sacrifices to hang onto her little sister in the original film, even though that holds its own sad implications.

I also think that the backlash over this new script is fairly justified, since it completely erases all the consequences that any real person in Nani’s situation would face for making the same decision. There will be feelings of abandonment if you surrender your position as primary caregiver, even when it’s the right choice. The movie goes out of its way a bit to have its cake and eat it too.

Those enclaves are seperate cultures from mainland China’s and over time each culture will likely diverge from one another.

Cultures are physically manifested through direct interactions between individuals. Because of that, cultures constantly shift and evolve over small increments, and physical space has a large impact on how those shifts occur. Even if concerted effort is put into making the local enclave’s culture the same as mainland China’s, that enclave has surrounding influences from the American culture it’s inserted into, and it will thus shift differently from the mainland somewhat. The lived experience of each culture is also going to be different in various ways.

Because of this, I think it’s reasonable to state that a person born and raised in New York Chinatown is going to be culturally distinct from a person born and raised in LA Chinatown, and they both would be distinct from a person born and raised in mainland China.

This is the problem with heritage BS. If you are not from said region, you are not that region’s ethnicity, because you are not apart of that region’s culture. It’s that fuckin simple.

If you’re from Scottish ancestry, but born and raised in New York, you’re a fucking New-Yorker. At best, you are a Scottish-American New-Yorker. Your kids will just be New Yorkers, though.