BCR posted:

My unofficial rankings of the different chinas

China

+ If you're a 20ish year old white male, you will enjoy the lack of rules, heavy drinking no fucks given culture.
+ Being competent is seen as a superpower.
- Everything is poison
- You will be reminded of your guest worker status repeatedly and randomly

Taiwan
+ Is no 1
+ had a civil society so you can be a goddamn adult, doing adult things and having adult opinions
- less pay because less people so on the money but thank gently caress you're not part of the meat sandwich that is rush hour China public transport
- too many expats coming from Korea who are so so soooo damaged

Hong Kong
+ has warm south China climate
+ has independent thoughts
- on the way to being just another chinese city
- the rent on a loving rabbit warrens shelf is some ridiculous bullshit because the the loving elite went from fygm cocksucking brits to fygm cocksucking china elites condemning the under 40s to max commute japan hours work with a bowl of noodles being the only loving luxury you can have

Singapore
+ hot
+ small
- is a claustrophobic company town that you need to fly out of once a month to get somewhere where you can finally loving breathe goddamnit

basic hitler posted:

what would happen to an explicitly maoist but entirely populist cultural revolution style popular movement

would the government still disappear them and crack heads or would they more or less tie their hands and look the other way

nickmeister posted:

I don't know. On the one hand, if you don't have an Asian face you're going to be treated like some sort of radioactive alien no matter how well kempt you are. On the other hand, they're white so they can still get laid without trying if they put down their DS for a moment. If you're black or brown, you REALLY have to put your best foot forward to get something approaching decent treatment.

Sheep-Goats posted:

Growing up poor is a good reason to insist that your people have always had horses.

Vesi posted:

They're super careful about letting anything become popular including their own programs, like how the anti-japan movement was suppressed a few years back after it became inconveniently big.

BCR posted:

- too many expats coming from Korea who are so so soooo damaged

Sheep-Goats posted:

Also while I appreciate that growing up poor in a lovely environment and drawing your identity from an abused people lends some advantages and creates other obstacles, but everyone has things they can forgive for and things they can't. I grew up in a place where our minorities were natives and have heard the usual "gently caress you white boy" at 2am walking to my car or diatribes about my thieving lying soul at 1:45 am before leaving that same bar, that's fine. If I run into some kindly old native woman telling me a story about how the earth was made that's fine, I'll be nice to her. But when a young man in 2017 wants to insist that his people have had horses since the time the turtle laid the world egg I'm not going to bend over backwards to allow for it or understand how his tortured soul came to this misalignment, I'm going to laugh at him.

I would like to think that if I were a member of that community and rich white kids from Toronto were willing to do four years of college and then come out to the loving wasteland I inhabit with no worthwhile girls to make no money teaching a lot of kids that don't give a poo poo that maybe I'd give him a little more respect and not try to get him fired for carefully explaining science to a 12 year old.

In a science classroom you have a duty to teach science. Same for history in a history classroom. Science and history often have conclusions that are at odds with closely held personal beliefs, including very tender ones, for a lot of people. Part of learning is running into those things and having them run over you sometimes and that doesn't just go for those that have never been run over before, it also goes for those that have. There's no such thing as a just abuse -- getting injured by someone else happens, whether they are right to do that however doesn't have much to do with the fact that there's an injury involved or in the capacity of the injured party to bear another injury. We have a human obligation to lessen the impact of these kinds of things when we can but it's wrong to go into fantasy land to prevent a collision to begin with.

Jeoh posted:

the last person to do some vaguely maoist poo poo was bo xilai and look where that got him

Outrail posted:

I guess the other option is 'I'll make an effort but instead of the 'best' women I'm going to plumb the depths of the metaphorical jungle for undiscovered cryptofauna' and we get the Dr. Livingstonesque Haier (who is doing very important hands on cultural studies and please never stop posting).

Haier posted:

Efexeye posted:

ew, dude, wtf

Haier posted:

LOL, y'all act like you've never waited until she went to the bathroom so you could stuff the used condoms and clean-up tissues into your bag because you're worried she might try to stuff them up her cooch when you leave her house.

I walked 5km back home with them safely out of her 'gina.

Haier posted:

LOL, y'all act like you've never waited until she went to the bathroom so you could stuff the used condoms and clean-up tissues into your bag because you're worried she might try to stuff them up her cooch when you leave her house.

I walked 5km back home with them safely out of her 'gina.

Accretionist posted:

The preferred nomenclature is, "a beautiful halfie."

ladron posted:

please expand upon this, sounds like some good stories...

Pirate Radar posted:

Eh, some damaged and some not. But I do meet a lot of people here who taught in Korea before and have the usual range of Korea experiences from "eh it was okay I guess" to "man, gently caress Korea so hard"

WarpedNaba posted:

I know the Darwin awards exist, but why.

JaucheCharly posted:

A good way to remove eyebrows?

quote:

"After three years in the job it was a first for me, too. He was trying to film himself while barbecuing and was holding the phone with his chin when he dropped it into the BBQ between the slats. Hahahah."