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Fojar38 posted:I don't really have one because I'm not sure how you can quantify badness beyond saying "Yep, that person is bad." K/D ratio? Yeah same. Mao is really really bad but to be fair he had the biggest country in the world to gently caress up so the sheer volume of his fuckup is related to that. Also a lot of Mao's crimes were stupendous idiocy rather than deciding "hey let's kill 20 million people". Pol Pot intentionally murdered like 1/3 of Cambodia in just a couple years. Sheep-Goats posted:Almost all of my girlfriends in Thailand had a story about the time dad was drunk and driving them around on a scooter and they crashed. Everyone I knew in Korea had a story about almost choking to death on bones as a kid but didn't see the value of removing tiny bones from chicken and fish before serving it. One of the biggest mind blowing things I ever did for a Korean friend was show her how to fillet a fish. She literally did not believe it was possible to remove the bones from a fish and I won ten bucks.
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Grand Fromage posted:
Wait she never had sushi before? Oh right, Gimbap is loving ghetto. What a broke rear end country
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LentThem posted:Kids are precious Nice "crumple zone".
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caberham posted:Wait she never had sushi before? Korean sashimi comes with bones in it, at least where I lived. I've asked a couple Korean chefs about that and they both told me it's too much trouble to remove the bones. And with triggerfish specifically crunching the bones is apparently part of the deal. Koreans generally like sashimi in full rigor mortis or still half frozen so it's chewy. If she's had Japanese sashimi it probably just didn't occur to her to think about the lack of bones. Gimbap is good though.
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somebody post awesome wechat stickers plleeeeeassseeeee
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Grand Fromage posted:Korean sashimi comes with bones in it, at least where I lived. I've asked a couple Korean chefs about that and they both told me it's too much trouble to remove the bones. And with triggerfish specifically crunching the bones is apparently part of the deal. Koreans generally like sashimi in full rigor mortis or still half frozen so it's chewy. If she's had Japanese sashimi it probably just didn't occur to her to think about the lack of bones. I feel like I never really got the Korea hate until I read this post.
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Stringent posted:I feel like I never really got the Korea hate until I read this post.
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Sheep-Goats posted:Almost all of my girlfriends in Thailand had a story about the time dad was drunk and driving them around on a scooter and they crashed. i never rode a scooter before thailand and i went a little too fast on a lovely dirt road and ran into a pothole. wasnt drunk tho
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basic hitler posted:Imo mao was bad and did nothing good the official CCP stance is 30% bad 70% good. I always thought it was weird they had that as an official thing.
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Hm, let's see what Shanghainese youth think about black people. Ew that black guy is sitting in one of the reserved seats, it's rude but also I'm uncomfortable to be near him - how can I make him leave?   
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http://bc.ctvnews.ca/costly-crash-lamborghini-and-ferrari-collide-in-massey-tunnel-1.3206987quote:Costly crash: Lamborghini and Ferrari collide in Massey Tunnel What's left out, according to reddit, is that they were both Chinese kids. EDIT: https://www.reddit.com/r/starterpacks/comments/5lqgf1/the_chinese_international_student_starter_pack/ This thread has some hate against tuhao international students. Haier fucked around with this message at 05:21 on Jan 4, 2017 |
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Grand Fromage posted:Korean sashimi comes with bones in it, at least where I lived. I've asked a couple Korean chefs about that and they both told me it's too much trouble to remove the bones. And with triggerfish specifically crunching the bones is apparently part of the deal. Koreans generally like sashimi in full rigor mortis or still half frozen so it's chewy. If she's had Japanese sashimi it probably just didn't occur to her to think about the lack of bones. The "pepper peeker" girls and I used to frequent a Korean sashimi place that must have been owned by a Weeaboo since everything was served Japanese style, plus the décor seemed like it was trying to be Japanese, but a little off somehow. There was also a big nori-bang setup in the middle of the room, so you could enjoy drunk salarymen blaring the Wonder Girls or Rain while you were trying to eat. It was just a little ways from the Jihaeng Station in Dongducheon. We would always get the "king plate" with ~80 pieces of different fish, squid, shrimp, etc. for about 70k won, which was a really good deal considering it was a feat for us to be able to finish it off given that it came with a ton of sides. The really nice thing about this place was that it was Japanese enough that you didn't have to worry about blockhead Korean guys coming in, so we could enjoy our meal and nori-bang sessions without someone approaching them and warning that "the wayguk was no good"! Jeoh posted:the only thing worse than mao is korea  But Jeoh you really are the loving worst. Your heart is as vile as a meth lab in some trashy trailer. just kidding
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From the reddit thread in my last post. This is so true for all of the Chinese I had class with in university.quote:There was a senior that I was stuck in a group with. Super easy class, just writing based. One day we had to read a scientific paper of our choosing and write a one page response. We had about two hours, ample time considering we knew the professor wouldn't be reading or grading these anyway, and this kid simply could not finish the assignment. After 4 years in America, in an engineering school as an engineering major, he couldn't write 3 paragraphs about a paper within his field. quote:I'm an American PhD student working in a lab in the US. About 90% of my colleagues in my lab are Chinese. This is right on the money. Haier fucked around with this message at 05:37 on Jan 4, 2017 |
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caberham posted:Oh right, Gimbap is loving ghetto. What a broke rear end country I believe the word you are looking for is juche
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Haier posted:From the reddit thread in my last post. This is so true for all of the Chinese I had class with in university. But many of them try really hard NOT to immerse themselves in foreign culture.
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nickmeister posted:But many of them try really hard NOT to immerse themselves in foreign culture.
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Magna Kaser posted:the official CCP stance is 30% bad 70% good. I always thought it was weird they had that as an official thing. He is the foundation of the CCP so they can't throw him under the bus like everyone else. So they make up dumb poo poo like this or blame the Gang of 4 so that the rest of the party who are equally as dumb and at fault get shielded. Imagine if the U.S government's base of power is still predicated on the corpse of George Washington.
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nickmeister posted:But many of them try really hard NOT to immerse themselves in foreign culture. When I went to high school we had a Korean student (a grade under me) that was there for a school year-long home stay. The family (they had a son the same age as him) took him all over the place and he did a lot of things that he couldn't do in Korea. ATV and snowmobile riding, going to parties, having free time to hang out with friends in town, sleepovers, etc. He socialized and joined the basketball team and even joined the yearbook committee, and I think he might have had a girlfriend. They went to Toronto and loaded up on a lot of Korean foods that he introduced them to, but for the most part he just ate whatever they were having. The two boys were almost inseparable, and kept in touch after he went home. The next year the family got a guy from Southern China who was the complete opposite. Since there were no foreign-born Chinese students in the school he made no effort to make any friends. He approached and tried to make friends with a 1/2 Chinese girl who was born here, but he creeped her out because he could literally not stop checking out her breasts (she was unusually stacked and eventually got a breast reduction). He had no friends (despite getting frequent invites to parties and social events), never talked to anyone in school, and basically lived in his room playing Diablo II 24/7. The homestay family's son tried to get him out of the house repeatedly, but the Chinese student made it clear that he didn't want to be friends with him. The homestay family took him to Toronto to get Chinese groceries, and he convinced them to buy upwards of $300 worth of foodstuffs (most of it instant noodles). For the remaining 8 months he lived on Chinese Ramen noodles and whenever they went out to eat he always insisted that they go to the Chinese buffet. I'm pretty sure when he went home he had a case of mild malnutrition due to his diet and never exercising. As a teacher I've seen these two scenarios happen several times. The Korean guys always do very well, and the Korean and Chinese girls usually do amazingly well on all fronts and end up being really popular with everyone as they are usually outgoing, smart, and cute. Chinese guys 100% always go full antisocial and either convince their parents to bring them back early or literally lock themselves in their rooms and only come out if they have to.
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Blistex posted:When I went to high school we had a Korean student (a grade under me) that was there for a school year-long home stay. The family (they had a son the same age as him) took him all over the place and he did a lot of things that he couldn't do in Korea. ATV and snowmobile riding, going to parties, having free time to hang out with friends in town, sleepovers, etc. He socialized and joined the basketball team and even joined the yearbook committee, and I think he might have had a girlfriend. They went to Toronto and loaded up on a lot of Korean foods that he introduced them to, but for the most part he just ate whatever they were having. The two boys were almost inseparable, and kept in touch after he went home. The school I went to had a sizable Korean minority. While they did hang out with each other and speak Korean, many of them also spoke English reasonably well and had non-Korean friends. I wonder what in their respective cultures affects their attitudes so much? I can make a guess at mainland Chinese, but I know little about Korean culture.
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Here's some interesting stuff. Apparently there were Chinese enlisted soldiers in the Civil War. Relevant stuff for this thread: some were in the US because their dads sold them into servitude, after serving in the army for decades they got denied citizenship, and one guy who by a fluke actually got American citizenship had it taken away from him because someone got suspicious at how he would show up to vote on polling day. I was unaware that you could strip someone's American citizenship; is it a post-WWII thing to prevent the recurrence of stateless people? http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1270170/gettysburg-redress  Pictured: Joseph Pierce, from Guangzhou.
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Blistex posted:Chinese guys 100% always go full antisocial and either convince their parents to bring them back early or literally lock themselves in their rooms and only come out if they have to. This has been my experience too. HK kids fine, Taiwan fine, Korea fine, the very rare Japanese dude (japanese international students seem to be 99% ladies) also fine. Mainland chinese guys? Full on anti-social often with simmering rage and resentment at being surrounded by horrible confusing foreigners. Is it something to do with face culture that they're too scared of possibly losing face in any sort of interaction in a language they aren't confident in and a culture they don't totally understand?
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Grand Fromage posted:Korean sashimi comes with bones in it, at least where I lived. I've asked a couple Korean chefs about that and they both told me it's too much trouble to remove the bones. And with triggerfish specifically crunching the bones is apparently part of the deal. Koreans generally like sashimi in full rigor mortis or still half frozen so it's chewy. If she's had Japanese sashimi it probably just didn't occur to her to think about the lack of bones.
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If I had to guess I'd say it's because they've been having xenophobia taught to them for their whole lives up to that point.
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Haier posted:http://bc.ctvnews.ca/costly-crash-lamborghini-and-ferrari-collide-in-massey-tunnel-1.3206987 Driving across the Georgia Viaduct in Vancouver today I passed a Tesla covered in snow with its side view mirrors still folded in. The snow covered the back window, and rear passenger windows. I gave it a lot of space.
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Fojar38 posted:If I had to guess I'd say it's because they've been having xenophobia taught to them for their whole lives up to that point. Also their upbringings as "little emperors" might have something to do with it. Girls in China have the same cultural upbringings, but are not taught that the entire world has been created to serve their every need, so they have the ability to adapt instead of being pouty little twats who go into a seething rage every time something is not how they want it. This is really apparent from an early age when you can see countless videos of Chinese children being very disrespectful (hitting their mothers/grandmothers, etc,) and they are 99.99% boys.
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At my university, it was the Korean students (male and female) who hung together at all times and refused to speak to their randomly assigned, non-Korean roommates. I'm still friends with the Japanese exchange student who decided to join a bridge club and became besties with a friend of mine who started bringing her to social events. She was thoroughly confused by Rocky Horror night, but she was a good sport about it.
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LentThem posted:Kids are precious Whats so horrible sbout having kids on a bike?  Sometime the kindergarten is too far to walk there all the time. 
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the heat goes wrong posted:Whats so horrible sbout having kids on a bike? Newton's first law.
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the heat goes wrong posted:Whats so horrible sbout having kids on a bike? The kid in the first photo is sitting in a basket, not a seat
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nickmeister posted:But many of them try really hard NOT to immerse themselves in foreign culture. This isn't really a chinese issue as much as a going to a different culture thing, and international students are always crappy at socializing if they have a more similar group to attach to. The number of Chinese students at like every US uni is huge now cuz they all want that sweet international student money so the problem gets compounded. I studied abroad in Asia a couple times as an undergrad and most of the european/north americans who spoke English decently, myself included, formed little cliques and p much never talked to any locals and lived in a small space between the dorms and the nearby (mainly expat) bars. We lived in Taipei for like 6 months and everyone in our class socialized with only the other English speaking European or north American students, and no one socialized with any local Taiwanese college kids despite the faculty really trying to get us to. I don't think any of us knew any Taiwanese people despite all that time there. One kid from Spain remarked his English improved way more than his Chinese during his time in Taiwan.
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the heat goes wrong posted:Whats so horrible sbout having kids on a bike? I too want my kids to suffer TBI rather than bother with helmets.
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LentThem posted:Hm, let's see what Shanghainese youth think about black people. Are there not priority seats on both sides of the car? Is the other person old or disabled or something? There's a black China vlogger I like to watch who has mentioned that people only seem to care about priority seating when they see him using it, LOL. Imperialist Dog posted:Here's some interesting stuff. Apparently there were Chinese enlisted soldiers in the Civil War. Relevant stuff for this thread: some were in the US because their dads sold them into servitude, after serving in the army for decades they got denied citizenship, and one guy who by a fluke actually got American citizenship had it taken away from him because someone got suspicious at how he would show up to vote on polling day. I was unaware that you could strip someone's American citizenship; is it a post-WWII thing to prevent the recurrence of stateless people? VEEERY interesting. Thanks for posting this!
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My usual India de-rail: I saw this on a news site. (I believe) Two of the victims in the Turkey nightclub attack a few days ago were Indian. One of the bodies returned to India today:  They got her just like common luggage. Indians love to wrap their luggage in cellophane. Is this a common practice for remains?. It was an actual coffin, too, but look how small it is. I don't know if she was blown up, but drat.
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Magna Kaser posted:This isn't really a chinese issue as much as a going to a different culture thing, and international students are always crappy at socializing if they have a more similar group to attach to. The number of Chinese students at like every US uni is huge now cuz they all want that sweet international student money so the problem gets compounded. I'm really glad I didn't go to Taipei. Can't really say I have any Taiwanese friends, but I have plenty of acquaintances and very rarely get dragged into English conversation.
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Haier posted:My usual India de-rail: You're looking down the lenght.
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nickmeister posted:I'm really glad I didn't go to Taipei. Can't really say I have any Taiwanese friends, but I have plenty of acquaintances and very rarely get dragged into English conversation. It's not Taipei as much as a group thing. If there's a group of more culturally relatable people with less of a language barrier most people aren't going to branch out because it's more work and more awkward.
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Magna Kaser posted:It's not Taipei as much as a group thing. If there's a group of more culturally relatable people with less of a language barrier most people aren't going to branch out because it's more work and more awkward. My buddy did his study abroad in Taichung I think. He said he spent most of it in a 酒店.
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