nickmeister posted:

Exactly this. It was a big budget Chinese movie that wanted to buy themselves a fancy white star for their movie. Not really an example of "white-washing."

Haier posted:

This is old, but...
http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzA...dGj9E9wfk3dn#rd

CHINESE PUAS!!!!


"Now, we all know that you have no idea about basic sex education or the mechanics of sex, or even what sex is, but here are some tips to seduce your person of interest:

For men-
1. Buy a house with an 80 year mortgage. Not a small house in a bad neighborhood, but a medium-sized house well out of your price range.
2. Buy a car. Nothing domestic, idiot. It should be at least a Honda.
3. Make sure you have enough money in your bank account that you can let her spend it freely and/or collapse to her demands, or send much of it to her parents.
4. Don't worry about exercise or quitting heavy drinking or smoking. Be wormy and wiry, or squat and fat, whatever suits your interests. After age 35 please consider getting a flat-top or a buzzcut hairstyle.
5. Tell her that you think blowjobs are dirty and disgusting. Giving her oral sex is triple dirty and disgusting. No matter what, do no go near her lady parts except to wash your penis inside of her!

For women-
1. Be 25 and under. Maybe 26 is okay if he likes cougars. Beware of any man that admits to liking a woman age 27 and older. This is bad for social harmony.
2. Try to be cute and pretty. If not, there are many APP to help you edit your face into something more desirable.
3. Constantly starve yourself so that you show moderate malnutrition from a distance, especially hair loss/thinning.
4. According to Traditionurl Chinese Medicine, water makes you fat. Please do not consume more than 300mL per day. Avoid water unless it's in a salty broth or China Famourse Hot Pot. Just ignore the constant dull headache you have daily, and western pills for that are bad!!!
5. Go to the gym and take photos of yourself in front of the mirror or on the exercise bike. Show no signs of physical improvement after months of going to the gym. Don't change your diet. Keep starving yourself, too.
6. Avoid the sun at all costs. What are you, a loving farmer? Stay the gently caress out of the sun. Bring an umbrella with you outside always. Don't worry about vitamin D deficiency.
7. Oral sex for a man or woman is dirty and should be avoided as much as the sun. DIRTY. YUCK! You'll get SICK!
8. Kill yourself if or when you reach age 30 and are not married already.

Haier posted:

good advice

ladron posted:

does anyone with archives have haier's advice about dating women of different ages? it was great and catapulted him to stardom, imho.

simplefish posted:

Wendigo Jiba

Haier posted:

Nongcobo Jiba

Haier posted:

I'm the guy that is so used to the North American system of everything being open on holidays (and his first CNY in China) that he assumed the supermarkets nearby would also be open, and therefore didn't stock up on provisions and is now out, or nearly out, of important stuff.

quote:

China wakes up to its mental-health problems



But sufferers are routinely treated as a danger to society

LAST year Li Tian (not her real name) spent a month in a mental hospital. She has suffered from depression for years, but was not particularly low or anxious at the time. It was just that world leaders were preparing to gather in Hangzhou, the eastern city where she lives, for a G20 summit. Ms Li manages her illness with medication, but the authorities have it on record that she can be “unstable” (their evidence: she spent three months in a psychiatric hospital with postnatal depression some years ago). The government did not want any public outburst to mar what it saw as a hugely important event. So “someone from the community” visited her father, Ms Li says, and “suggested” that she check in to a psychiatric facility. Sufferers are still routinely treated as a danger to society.

Ms Li is relatively lucky. Most people with mental disorders in China never receive treatment. There is often a stigma attached to such ailments. Some think that people with psychiatric conditions are possessed by evil spirits. Many see mental disorders as a sign of weakness, and regard them as socially contagious: a relative of someone with a serious disorder may find it hard to marry. Families sometimes have their kin treated far away to hide the “shame” of their condition, or keep them hidden at home. Even many medical students worry that those working with psychiatric patients risk catching their disease, says Xu Ni of “It Gets Brighter”, a mental-health NGO in Beijing.


Ms Li, however, sees a doctor twice a year. Every weekday she attends the Chaoming Street Rehabilitation Centre, a drop-in facility for people with psychiatric problems. There she talks openly about her illness, shares her experiences with other sufferers and learns new skills.

But the centre is one of only a handful of its kind in China. The country is woefully ill-equipped to treat mental conditions. The psychiatric system, such as it was, was largely dismantled after the Communists seized power in 1949. Under Mao, those who displayed symptoms of depression risked being viewed as traitors to the socialist cause, which was supposed to fill everyone with enthusiasm.

Few were diagnosed with depression until the early 1990s. By then the health system was beginning to lose state backing. Hospitals were having to support themselves, and psychiatric services were not seen as money-spinners. Ms Li was rare in having her postnatal depression diagnosed: new parents often know nothing about the condition.

The taboo fades
Attitudes are beginning to change and China is waking up to the prevalence of mental illness. Outpatient visits increased by more than 10% every year between 2007 and 2012. Use of antidepressants is rising fast. Young, educated urbanites are increasingly using the internet to seek help privately for their mental-health problems.

The government is also making a greater effort. In 2004 it launched a programme aimed at increasing the number of community mental-health facilities (with doctors on hand, unlike the Chaoming centre). Some provinces now give free medicine to people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other conditions. In 2012, after decades of deliberation, China passed its first mental-health law. The bill called for yet more facilities, an increase in their staff and efforts to raise awareness of the issue in schools, universities and workplaces. It advised against confining sufferers against their will (patients are pictured above in 2010 at a facility in Luohe, Henan province). When the law was passed, about 80% of people in mental hospitals were there involuntarily, by some estimates.

But change is slow, and the rapid transformation of Chinese society is making it all the more difficult for many to get the care they need. The migration of tens of millions of people into cities has broken up families and left many sufferers undiagnosed or with no one to turn to; people often resist seeking help because they are too embarrassed. As incomes have risen, so too has alcoholism, but fewer than 2% of addicts ever seek treatment because very few Chinese consider it an illness.

New mental hospitals have opened and care has improved at some existing ones. But many such facilities still treat their patients as prisoners. A person familiar with them describes them as “unspeakable”. Others describe clanging metal doors, patients strapped to beds and staff who humiliate inmates. In Hangzhou, Ms Li endured repeated bouts of electric shock therapy for postnatal depression during her three-month stay at the city’s Number 7 People’s Hospital.

Psychiatric resources remain largely devoted to preventing ailments from threatening social stability. Any kind of unusual behaviour in public, not just actions that are physically threatening to others, can be deemed such a risk. Ms Li’s experience during the G20 was typical. Officials often round up people with mental disorders before important political events. Mental hospitals are also sometimes used to detain political dissidents who have no diagnosis of mental-health problems.


Doctors remain in short supply. In 2014 the country had about 23,000 psychiatrists—1.7 for every 100,000 people (see chart). Many of these were not fully qualified. Psychiatrists are paid less and have lower status than other medical specialists. Medical students at Peking University receive only two weeks of training in psychiatric care (they used to get none). Few of China’s nurses and social workers (of whom there is a woeful shortage) have experience in psychiatry. Qu Zhiya, the head of the Chaoming centre in Hangzhou, used to work in a textile factory; she has no medical training and earns just 2,300 yuan ($335) a month. Mental health-care resources are concentrated in cities; two-thirds of rural counties have no psychiatric beds at all. Medical insurance often does not cover mental-health treatment.

Even if they accept that they do need care, sufferers from psychiatric problems may still try to resist it. People with a certified mental problem can find it hard to get work: since the Chaoming centre opened in 2007 not a single member has got a full-time job, says Ms Qu. So families often have to shoulder an even greater burden, with financial woes compounding a lack of medical or emotional support.

The pressure can have appalling consequences. On January 20th a 42-year-old woman with a psychiatric condition was found locked in a cage in a wood in the southern province of Guizhou. She had been put in it by her brother, who claimed the local government knew about her case. Several such incidents have been reported by the Chinese media in recent years. They are China’s real shame.

nickmeister posted:

So you called him mandingo because of a typo once? Or are you like that guy who thinks about porn whenever a black person is mentioned?

Deceitful Penguin posted:

Mainly I just find limpwristed liberals praising/admiring him funny, because the man was a stone cold killer who refused to denounce violence as a means of political change and an avowed socialist, which isn't exactly the archetype to admire the average American liberal, asian-american or no.

Haier posted:

I was coming back from a friend's house and saw this. There were about 50 bikes out there, but this little pile was being formed.

Deceitful Penguin posted:

Nah, it came up a bunch when the obits hit and people were loving up. It still brings a lil smile on my face thinkin' a that. Also the whole racial element doesn't translate the same overseas mate, so no. Is this another one of those American things? If so, sorry mang, didn't mean to offend.

Mainly I just find limpwristed liberals praising/admiring him funny, because the man was a stone cold killer who refused to denounce violence as a means of political change and an avowed socialist, which isn't exactly the archetype to admire the average American liberal, asian-american or no.

Gorilla Salad posted:

Do you even have the faintest loving idea what apartheid was?

nickmeister posted:

I dunno about the Asian American thing or how that is relevant.

Do you mind telling me who he killed?

Also I'm pretty sure he wasn't a socialist or communist. Not that that is necessarily a bad thing. Wouldn't "limp waisted liberals" like that sort of thing anyway?

Deceitful Penguin posted:

No, I'm not only ignorant of history but of politics as well,

Gorilla Salad posted:

Tell me something I didn't already know.

Jimmy Little Balls posted:

In Shenzhen for a few days. First impression is that this is where they dump people too weird even for normal Chinese society.

JaucheCharly posted:

Do how they'd do unto you and ask if they have guns and gunpowder in China.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

"Some provinces now give free medicine to people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other conditions. "
http://www.economist.com/news/china/21715701-sufferers-are-routinely-treated-danger-society-china-wakes-up-its-mental-health

Phlegmish posted:

Demand an apology for Pearl Harbor

Blistex posted:

I just had an, "and everyone stood and clapped" moment. I'm sitting in Pearson International waiting for my flight to Calgary and eating a Pita. A (what I assume) Mainland Chinese University student is eying me while eating a Mozza burger. Just as I am getting up to go to my gate he summons up the courage to speak.

"Why are you wearing that? Taiwan is China!"
<Pointing at my KMT pin that I have on my jacket lapel for exactly this reason>

"You are not Canadian, you would not understand".

Blistex posted:

I just had an, "and everyone stood and clapped" moment. I'm sitting in Pearson International waiting for my flight to Calgary and eating a Pita. A (what I assume) Mainland Chinese University student is eying me while eating a Mozza burger. Just as I am getting up to go to my gate he summons up the courage to speak.

"Why are you wearing that? Taiwan is China!"
<Pointing at my KMT pin that I have on my jacket lapel for exactly this reason>

"You are not Canadian, you would not understand".

Sheep-Goats posted:

Not bad

Blistex posted:

I just had an, "and everyone stood and clapped" moment. I'm sitting in Pearson International waiting for my flight to Calgary and eating a Pita. A (what I assume) Mainland Chinese University student is eying me while eating a Mozza burger. Just as I am getting up to go to my gate he summons up the courage to speak.

"Why are you wearing that? Taiwan is China!"
<Pointing at my KMT pin that I have on my jacket lapel for exactly this reason>

"You are not Canadian, you would not understand".

Tardcore posted:

Whats that soldier statue sitting on? I cant tell what its supposed to be.

Haier posted:

Wait a week for all the freaks to come back and it gets clogged up with Hunanese being retarded as gently caress. Then it's really a party.

Haier posted:

BCR posted:

Thought it was a pig at first.

Haier posted:

Tardcore posted:

Whats that soldier statue sitting on? I cant tell what its supposed to be.

luv 2 date boys posted:

I've been majoring in international policy and minoring in the Chinese language and somehow US-China relations managed to degrade to the point of nuclear war threats and the Department of State got destroyed. Haha, gently caress me.

e: at least alcohol and weed are still legal