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Grand Fromage posted:Have any other countries mass confiscated passports like this in recent times? The only countries I could think of that might have are places where nobody had a passport anyway like North Korea. This isn't even the first time they've done that in China- there have been repeated passport confiscations in Tibet over the last few years. People are frequently told that they need to hand in their passports so they can get new ones with new technology, but then no new one is issued. It's so common Tibetans have been passing around guides for what to do when police come to take your passport: http://highpeakspureearth.com/2016/tibetans-online-raising-legal-awareness-legally-issued-passports-cant-be-confiscated/
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Would read that novel but it's missing the noble savage who understands that the British way is best and is ashamed of his countrymen's behaviour
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Pirate Radar posted:I've asked Taiwanese people what they think and they go more for Spider-Man, actually  There are many more spelling errors on this mural.
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being Muslim in china sounds pretty bad , but it looks like our Hero only cares if they are down for casual plunging !!
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Pon de Bundy posted:being Muslim in china sounds pretty bad , but it looks like our Hero only cares if they are down for casual plunging !! Being Muslim is pretty bad everywhere, even in Muslim countries.
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Islam has been inside China for a long time, it is not so bad, as long as you are Han. Non-Han, especially in the frontier provinces, are prone to abuses, regardless of if they a Buddhist or a Muslim. The Uyghur people had a bad reputation in Beijing, that they would ask for a cigarette and when you handed it to them they would threaten you with a knife, make you hand over your wallet.
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Canadian Government moving to deport and strip the citizenship and permanent residency status of up to 800 Chinese immigrants who they assert fraudulently obtained these statuses. There has been a lot of controversy about the Canadian Government's ability to be able to revoke the citizenship of a Canadian, largely in the context of young people going to fight with IS. In my opinion this is the only situation, where citizenship is obtained in a fraudulent manner, where using that power is warranted. My wife is a Permanent Resident and we did a lot of work to get that status for her. People like these who cheat the system are not who we want in Canada. http://www.cbc.ca/news/investigates/clients-of-convicted-immigration-consultant-facing-deportation-for-lying-1.3868330 quote:Clients of convicted immigration consultant facing deportation for lying
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Over 100 people to the same address? How stupid can you get?
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nickmeister posted:Over 100 people to the same address? How stupid can you get? You could be the Canadian government, who fell for it 100 times
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Fojar38 posted:You could be the Canadian government, who fell for it 100 times Fool me once, shame on you, fool me 114 times, enjoy being clapped in irons and kicked out of the country.
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I'd have more sympathy for the ones who were dirt poor and legitimately looking to live in Canada and become a part of actual Canadian society. It seems like a lot of them are just rich people, who like rich people all over the world, want to skirt the rules normal people have to follow? I'm not Canadian, but I'm assuming you guys have enough of those already. The guy in the 7 million dollar home strikes me as odd, since you'd think he could have gotten in to Canada legally.
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Immigration rules are so complex and difficult to meet that it's no wonder so many people feel taking the risk of being caught is more preferable than to follow the rule. Why not just make the legal way as easy as the illegal way? Those rules are rarely broken.
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Shayu posted:Immigration rules are so complex and difficult to meet that it's no wonder so many people feel taking the risk of being caught is more preferable than to follow the rule. Why not just make the legal way as easy as the illegal way? Those rules are rarely broken. They're not really. At least in Canada they're mostly just time consuming from my the experience my wife and I had. From what has come out about this it seems like a lot of it centers around forging entry and exit stamps in passports which leads me to believe that these people were lying about how much time they spent in Canada while the application process was under way. You're required to spend at least 3 of 5 years in Canada and you have to provide documentation to back up that claim. It is very difficult to work in Canada legally during that time, so it sounds like these people were living and working in China while saying they were in Canada. It seems like it was a case of this is how poo poo works in China so it works like this everywhere else right?
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nickmeister posted:The guy in the 7 million dollar home strikes me as odd, since you'd think he could have gotten in to Canada legally. He probably could have, but that would be hard and involve following the rules. The scam was that they were claiming full-time residence in Canada, while actually still living and working in China. After a number of years of residing in Canada (and a bunch of other hoops) they would become eligible for citizenship. But they don't want to live in Canada yet, they just want to have the option available if they ever need to get out of China in a hurry.
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Facebook Aunt posted:He probably could have, but that would be hard and involve following the rules. The scam was that they were claiming full-time residence in Canada, while actually still living and working in China. After a number of years of residing in Canada (and a bunch of other hoops) they would become eligible for citizenship. But they don't want to live in Canada yet, they just want to have the option available if they ever need to get out of China in a hurry. Oh, I get that. They want an escape hatch. But it seemed like that guy was actually LIVING in that mcmansion, not just using as a way to hide his money from the CCP.
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Haier, I think you'll find someone eventually, though they might not be the kind of person who wants to chat with guys on WeChat. In my experience girls training in software engineering or with Masters degrees who face some prejudice because they're "leftover women" tend to be much more open minded and are less susceptible to the bullshit of Chinese society. They also know how to get around the firewalls so have read a lot of news from the Western world and have a broader picture of how the world actually works. Also that poo poo about the Canadian scam is unfortunate. I got PR in Canada 6 months ago and every case like this increases the scrutiny over PR applications which makes it more of a complicated process. It's already much more of a headache than it used to be. Especially for people from Asia, a lot of whom just want to settle in a more stable country.
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Facebook Aunt posted:He probably could have, but that would be hard and involve following the rules. The scam was that they were claiming full-time residence in Canada, while actually still living and working in China. After a number of years of residing in Canada (and a bunch of other hoops) they would become eligible for citizenship. But they don't want to live in Canada yet, they just want to have the option available if they ever need to get out of China in a hurry. Canada has a pay-for-citizenship program like St. Kitts and other tax havens
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Improbable Lobster posted:Canada has a pay-for-citizenship program like St. Kitts and other tax havens * Offer only valid in Quebec
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nickmeister posted:Oh, I get that. They want an escape hatch. But it seemed like that guy was actually LIVING in that mcmansion, not just using as a way to hide his money from the CCP. Nah, he had fraudulent entry and exit stamps in his passport as well.
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Maybe he should have started his own business scamming his fellow countrymen while sloppily circumventing the law? Surely it wouldn't have taken the government more than two years to catch him?
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Fun Fact: this movie was shot on land that was used for nuke tests. A lot of the crew and cast got cancer.
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Alzabo posted:Fun Fact: this movie was shot on land that was used for nuke tests. A lot of the crew and cast got cancer. Including the Duke himself.
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loving John Wayne as Temujin? what is this poo poo? This is up there with Alec Guinness in Lawrence of Arabia.
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"Facing a ‘tidal wave’ of dementia, China is running out of time". http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/dementia-crisis-in-china/article33047108/?cmpid=rss1&google_editors_picks=true quote:“I desperately wish mercy killing would be allowed for people with this kind of disease,” said her daughter, Luo Shan. “It is such torture. And we are so helpless, just waiting for death to come. We look at the way our family suffers, but can do nothing.”
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I thought they "Solved" the problem by just dumping them in the country side.
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I have a Chinese Coworker whose mother has dementia. Jesus it's depressing.
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My parents died when they were young enough not to get dementia, I can only imagine how horrible it is for all those involved.
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My grandmother forget who her grandchildren were, then towards the end forgot about her own children.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34483448quote:One in three young Chinese men will die from smoking, study says
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the other 2/3rds from food poisoning and construction accidents
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So there overpopulation problem will be solved in a few decades or so?
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Stringent posted:No, I say the same for Japanese, but as always not to the same degree. Agreed. Completely useless once you stop living in Japan. The industries where Japanese is useful abroad pay like poo poo so why bother. I should have majored in Spanish.
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I know a lot of people who are happy living in Japan and plan to stay there permanently though, and a couple working at like app startups where they do translation and PR stuff but it's all online so they live wherever. I don't meet very many people planning to stay in China for the long term, especially as time goes on. My first year here I met some but the country's roaring backwards so fast now that most people seem to have an exit plan in the near future. Japan seems like the most pleasant East Asian country to live in so it's not that weird? People like Taiwan too but I don't really know much. Like it definitely seems the pleasantness is Japan > Korea > China and that is also unsurprisingly the ranking of places people seem happy to stay in long-term. Anyway it was just what I have personally encountered, not a universal statement. Also I learned German so lol. Not even useful in Germany everybody speaks fluent English.
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mikerock posted:They're not really. At least in Canada they're mostly just time consuming from my the experience my wife and I had. From what has come out about this it seems like a lot of it centers around forging entry and exit stamps in passports which leads me to believe that these people were lying about how much time they spent in Canada while the application process was under way. You're required to spend at least 3 of 5 years in Canada and you have to provide documentation to back up that claim. It is very difficult to work in Canada legally during that time, so it sounds like these people were living and working in China while saying they were in Canada. When we were doing the paperwork for my wife to come to Canada (her and myself did it, no agency) as a permanent resident it took about two months to get all of the supporting documents ready, and that was mostly because she needed to get them translated. From the day that we mailed the package to the day we got the confirmation that she could enter Canada was less than three months, and was almost too fast because it meant we had to cut our stay in Korea short by a good 2 weeks or the entry Visa would expire.
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But with Japanese you can watch anime.
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