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The worst thing coming out of China is easily all the staged pranks and sketches on social media. So unsubtle and poorly acted. It's always mainland China, never HK or Taiwan. Kill me now
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Up until 1997 in Hong Kong, there was regular poppy selling in November; small paper (plastic felt in Canada) flowers that you'd affix to your lapel or breast pocket. Money goes to the Royal British Legion, which (supposedly) takes care of retired vets Hong Kong. The Battle of Hong Kong took place here when Japan simultaneously invaded Pearl Harbour, Hong Kong, the Philippines and Singapore, and it was an absolute slaughter. Indian Army troops held off the Japanese while Scottish commanders committed suicide when they realised their drunken troops had let the Japanese waltz all over them, and Canadians were used as cannon fodder when the Japanese poured across Victoria Harbour and fought their way through the middle of Hong Kong Island proper. Hong Kong Chinese volunteers were pretty much murdered on the spot. If you walk around with a metal detector high in the hills you still find a poo poo ton of bullets, ordnance and sometimes unexploded grenades and bombs. Anyway, every year I help out in poppy selling, and since I work at a school I usually run an education campaign in concordance with the fund raising. I recommend the picture book "Three Years and Eight Months" by Icy Smith, who you can tell is from HK due to her name. I'm at a new school this year, so I made the usual pitch; I'll conduct information campaigns, oversee the fundraising, put up posters, monitor everything, you guys don't have to do a thing. Well today the principal comes by and tells me she heard how enthusiastic i was for the fund raising (literally a box where kids can put in a five dollar coin and grab a paper flower), but we just can't do it because ... ... because it hadn't been done before. I get away with a lot of stuff at the school because I ignore protocol and just do what I think it's right for the students, because this if you go through official channels you'll get the Automatic No. I just wish it weren't so predictable.
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# ? Sep 29, 2016 14:56 |
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So are you gonna do it?
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# ? Sep 29, 2016 15:39 |
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The basket of Rene Changs
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# ? Sep 29, 2016 15:39 |
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Me [25 M] with my Chinese girlfriend [23 F] of two months, may be twisting Chinese culture to her advantage
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# ? Sep 29, 2016 15:56 |
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nerdz posted:The basket of Rene Changs McGavin posted:Me [25 M] with my Chinese girlfriend [23 F] of two months, may be twisting Chinese culture to her advantage
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# ? Sep 29, 2016 16:27 |
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Imperialist Dog posted:I just wish it weren't so predictable. Do it anyway, when they ask why you're doing it just ignore them. Or change the subject. Or tell them it's your culture and they wouldn't understand.
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# ? Sep 29, 2016 16:36 |
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McGavin posted:Me [25 M] with my Chinese girlfriend [23 F] of two months, may be twisting Chinese culture to her advantage
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# ? Sep 29, 2016 18:40 |
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nerdz posted:The basket of Rene Changs Lemme guess, judging by the polos, slacks, and bad shoes all recent Chinese immigrants? It's like these guys have been conditioned to love puffy faced authoritarians ▽▽▽▽ (much in the same way that your average British workingman has been conditioned to to seek out people with inbred royalty looks for authority). Dr. Killjoy fucked around with this message at 18:51 on Sep 29, 2016 |
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Dr. Killjoy posted:Lemme guess, judging by the polos, slacks, and bad shoes all recent Chinese immigrants? These guys love their puffy faced authoritarians. It's also a subliminally conditioned behaviour from living in a past imperialist patriarchy. Minorities gravitate to what's "normal" even subconsciously.
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# ? Sep 29, 2016 18:50 |
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# ? Sep 29, 2016 21:10 |
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more lies from the unnamed country
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# ? Sep 29, 2016 22:36 |
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I'm watching the second season of Mr. Robot, but reading this thread has left my suspension of disbelief shattered whenever the show hammers its "When China Rules the World" schtick. I just laugh at it. Though I have to say B.D. Wong is loving excellent in it.
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# ? Sep 29, 2016 22:38 |
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Taiwanese doctor injects kids with cat saliva for allergy treatments derived from TCM and homeopathy. Is this China enough for this thread? http://doubtfulnews.com/2016/09/patients-loved-board-certified-doctor-who-administered-weird-vaccines/
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# ? Sep 29, 2016 23:10 |
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Starting at about 07:30 yesterday morning, my landlord decided that a team of men should jackhammer, saw, and pound down the walls on every floor to put in a new, very unneeded elevator. They are using some heavy duty tools and sledgehammers and the whole place shakes until about 17:00 when they go home. It could be a month of this poo poo. FML.
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# ? Sep 30, 2016 02:20 |
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The Great Autismo! posted:this is probably because i have to assume that a few of these people didn't make it China just is used to the consequences of blind leaps forward.
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# ? Sep 30, 2016 02:31 |
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Chinese hurt feelings will never not be funny. http://www.whatsonweibo.com/another-apology-to-china-anger-displays-nationalism-on-chinese-social-media/ According to some commentators, the sensitivity over “hurt feelings” sometimes becomes problematic. Last July, Japanese vlogger Kinoshita Yuka, known for eating large quantities of food on camera, came under fire after she posted a video of herself eating 137 bananas. Chinese netizens wondered if Kinoshita was eating bananas that originated from the Philippines, and if the 137 bananas were an allusion to China’s 1.37 billion population, as a revenge in reference to the South China Sea verdict. The YouTube video soon triggered another war of words between Chinese and foreign netizens, as many Chinese netizens viewed the act as a deliberate insult aimed at China . One comment read: “At a sensitive time like this, you release this video of you eating 137 Philippine-grown bananas to insult the Chinese, are you dumb? Do you think the Chinese are easily bullied?”
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# ? Sep 30, 2016 02:34 |
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Farmland Park posted:“At a sensitive time like this, you release this video of you eating 137 Philippine-grown bananas to insult the Chinese, are you dumb? Do you think the Chinese are easily bullied?” ...yes?
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# ? Sep 30, 2016 02:37 |
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Farmland Park posted:Chinese hurt feelings will never not be funny. jesus. does chinese society go to the tumblr school of thought and feelings.
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# ? Sep 30, 2016 02:51 |
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man so good at reading between the clues and seeing the hidden anti-chinese conspiracies that it's a wonder china doesn't have its own infowars
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# ? Sep 30, 2016 02:51 |
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Imperialist Dog posted:
Why are so many goons copying my life
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# ? Sep 30, 2016 02:52 |
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Dr. Killjoy posted:man so good at reading between the clues and seeing the hidden anti-chinese conspiracies that it's a wonder china doesn't have its own infowars All of Chinese media is basically "Chinese Infowars". They hold back a little with the English language articles, but the Chinese language ones are full on tinfoil. Like that professor at a military academy claiming Zootopia was an American attack on Chinese culture http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-china-zootopia-20160414-story.html There are plenty of other example as well. If you are interested http://cmp.hku.hk/is really good for an analysis of Chinese media.
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# ? Sep 30, 2016 03:03 |
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China goons: How are you spending the national holiday week of China getting owned by foreign invaders for thousands of years? I will be hoping for an exodus of home-town-goers and maybe I can find a nice quiet area to take a walk. I doubt it, though. Last year was insane everywhere and using the Metro was like a simulation of being a brightly colored plastic ball in a fast food playground ball pit.
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# ? Sep 30, 2016 04:08 |
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Outrail posted:Do it anyway, when they ask why you're doing it just ignore them. Or change the subject. Or tell them it's your culture and they wouldn't understand. If it were mainland maybe but that poo poo doesn't fly in Hong Kong. I'll still do some small-scale stuff, but nowhere near where I had in mind. In further studies, an interesting thing happened! I'm trying to teach the kids the difference between fact and opinion, like how facts can be checked and in some cases you can run an experiment to see for yourself if something is true or not, while opinions usually have words like "think", "feel" and use comparatives/superlatives (better/best). I used "Hong Kong is part of China" vs "Hong Kong should be its own country" as a sentence example. Because the school is quite Chinese, the students are streamed by academic ability. The A class gets the top kids, B the middlings, and C the troublemakers. Interestingly, the A and B classes thought HK independence was desirable (although that was not the point of the exercise because the gov has made it a crime for teachers to promote HK independence), while C, with the lowest academic ability, overwhelmingly voted no.
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# ? Sep 30, 2016 05:31 |
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Farmland Park posted:Chinese hurt feelings will never not be funny. by 2025 china will have replaced america as the worlds centre of economics, education, diplomacy, and culture
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# ? Sep 30, 2016 06:13 |
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http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2016/09/backlash-online-chinese-nationalism/ Is There a Backlash Against Online Nationalism? Vaguely interesting, since it would mean Rene Chang and Levon Wei's arch nemesis in Vancouver might have to tone it down a bit.
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# ? Sep 30, 2016 07:50 |
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url posted:http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2016/09/backlash-online-chinese-nationalism/ Hyper-nationalist dickwads all over the internet definitely aren't helping the CCP's PR but if they live in Vancouver then nobody can do anything about it.
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# ? Sep 30, 2016 07:53 |
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China has non-dash lines boundary issues. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-37515391 quote:China's recent obsession with glass tourist attractions has gone round the U-bend with the opening of some see-through treetop public toilets.
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# ? Sep 30, 2016 08:04 |
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Who needs a toilet when you're already in the woods? That sounds very wasteful.
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# ? Sep 30, 2016 08:14 |
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url posted:http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2016/09/backlash-online-chinese-nationalism/ Oh gently caress, Sixth Tone is also state owned? Now I will ignore them like I do with all state owned media in China. Second, I think the article is giving Chinese authorities way too much credit, there is no way they have self awareness enough to realize that this blind nationalism makes them look like spoiled children.
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# ? Sep 30, 2016 08:37 |
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http://i.imgur.com/IqIR1C3.gifv
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# ? Sep 30, 2016 08:39 |
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You kinda need to post the pictures too edit: done tastefully, it could have been amazing. But tasteful and money don't always go together
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# ? Sep 30, 2016 08:41 |
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quote:Despite a boom in the construction of glass bridges and walkways in scenic locations in China in recent years - in some cases so popular they had to be closed - bbc should really know better than to repeat this obvious face saving bullshit you don't loving close poo poo down when it gets popular
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# ? Sep 30, 2016 08:55 |
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you do when more people means more weight and more cracks in the glass bridge
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# ? Sep 30, 2016 09:02 |
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When "how many people have you let into this bridge" meets "I just sell tickets".
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# ? Sep 30, 2016 09:07 |
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The London mayor and the Guardian don't seem to understand the fact that downtown London (and Manchester and Liverpool and even loving Slough, lol) have historically always been a part of China: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/sep/29/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-inquiry-foreign-property-ownershipquote:In China, experts predict the current scale of global investment in UK property could rise significantly over the next decade, with a “new wave” of middle-class investors from mainland China quadrupling the amount of money flowing annually into foreign real estate – including the UK – to $200bn (£150bn) in the next 10 years.
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# ? Sep 30, 2016 09:08 |
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Fojar38 posted:bbc should really know better than to repeat this obvious face saving bullshit The chinese (goverment) are so easily butt hurt, that they dare not risk offending them.
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# ? Sep 30, 2016 09:09 |
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My old school was in a rural HK village (it means it was a whole 15 minute walk to the KCR station), but mostly served middle class parents. Someone put a giant banner across from the school advertising London properties as investment so parents would see it when they left the school.
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# ? Sep 30, 2016 09:30 |
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Today I asked students to name a hero from Chinese history and all of them said Mao immediately. It took a second for me to contain my disgust before I could continue.
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# ? Sep 30, 2016 09:33 |
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School Nickname posted:I'm watching the second season of Mr. Robot, but reading this thread has left my suspension of disbelief shattered whenever the show hammers its "When China Rules the World" schtick. I just laugh at it. Though I have to say B.D. Wong is loving excellent in it. I don't plan to watch that show at all, but I want to know how they're portraying China. Please tell!
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