The White Dragon posted:

i hate that spam has become some kind of luxury demand item that costs $5 to the can

it's a peasant food because the peasantry is supposed to be able to afford it, a decade ago you couldn't buy it for more than 50c a tin

Grand Fromage posted:

Actual Spam instead of Korean knockoff Spam is high dollar poo poo in Korea. You see gift packs of it around Chuseok.

A lot of China is reversing on street vendors and encouraging them again so I wonder if the Chengguan are just going to be extorting them for money or sent to beat up some other old people elsewhere.

Alan Smithee posted:

can they not make perfectly good asslip meat?

Grand Fromage posted:

I only tried it once that I know of and it was disgustingly sweet, because Korea.

stephenthinkpad posted:

Does Korea have unusually high diabete rate like China?

Grand Fromage posted:

Actual Spam instead of Korean knockoff Spam is high dollar poo poo in Korea. You see gift packs of it around Chuseok.

A lot of China is reversing on street vendors and encouraging them again so I wonder if the Chengguan are just going to be extorting them for money or sent to beat up some other old people elsewhere.

Nothingtoseehere posted:

Why did they start/stop suppressing them to begin with? Them not being 'modern' enough for the new china then them suddenly being a integral part of chinese identity?

Nothingtoseehere posted:

Why did they start/stop suppressing them to begin with? Them not being 'modern' enough for the new china then them suddenly being a integral part of chinese identity?

Grand Fromage posted:

As for why they suddenly reversed, I'm not sure. The article I saw about Chengdu doing so mentioned how it created 100,000 jobs overnight, and the fact that they just reversed course so suddenly in the past month or two makes me think it may be an emergency thing to try to prop up the economy.

Grand Fromage posted:

It's not really a CCP problem, it's Asian technocrats in general. Even Bangkok is trying to get rid of street food last I read which is loving wild.

And it's not like this is just poo poo Tourists Like it's the foundation of the entire community. Street life is one of the great things in Asia that we mostly lack in the US.

E: This aspect of the Chengguan isn't just China either, at one point (dunno if it's still happening) the Seoul government was hiring literal mobsters to go out with sledgehammers and bust up street stalls and beat the old people running them half to death.

WarpedNaba posted:

I wish street food was more of a thing in NZ - sausage sizzles and the white van are great, but...

Alan Smithee posted:

i would never get food from a white van personally

Magna Kaser posted:

For Shanghai anyway they were talking about relaxing rules on street vendors last year. Covid kinda jumpstarted everything.

Shanghai was probably the most strict on removing street vendors but you still saw a lot, normally kinda down less-traveled alleys and in the gates of xiaoqus. Locals like them so you'd someone coming to warn everyone when the chengguan would be coming by.

When I worked in Chengdu around my office building every morning would be tons of street vendors. I guess everyone had kind of an agreement cuz around 845 or 9am or so theyd all start packing up and running inside as the chengguan came by, at the same time every morning right AFTER the breakfast rush hour.

street food rules so im happy for this change.

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/gBsJwO39saXgWhmqnIJYMQ posted:

Chinese women 'should be allowed to have multiple husbands'

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China has too many unmarried men due to its severe gender imbalance: 30million by 2050 to be exact.


And one professor has called on authorities to consider letting women have two or more husbands at the same time to help resolve the long-standing social issue.


Prof Yew-Kwang Ng, a 77-year-old economist, said that his proposition could be a way to help the nation's army of bachelors find their better half as well as happiness.





Prof Ng, a Special Chair Professor at the School of Economics of Fudan University, stressed that single Chinese men would have more and more difficulties in securing an ideal partner in the coming years due to growing competition.




Prof Yew-Kwang Ng



Unwed middle-aged men would have to compete with much younger rivals to win the heart of a limited pool of single women, the Malaysia-born expert said. 


'[If a man's] natural biological and psychological needs cannot be met appropriately, it will certainly bring a substantial negative impact on his happiness,' Prof Ng noted in an opinion piece published on June 2 through popular Chinese outlet NetEase.  


In the column, he put forward two possible solutions. 


One is the legalisation of prostitution, and the other is polyandry, a form of polygamy that allows a woman to take two or more lawful husbands.


Neither practice is permitted by Chinese law.


Prof Ng said while prostitutes might satisfy men's urgent biological needs, they would not be able to provide life companionship as wives would.





'If it weren't for the serious imbalance of the male and female ratio, I would not think of polyandry at all,' he argued. 


'Secondly, I do not promote or encourage polyandry. I only think that faced with [the problem of having] more men and fewer women, [the government] may perhaps consider polyandry.'


He suggested that many men, such as him, would agree to share a wife with others than running the risk of having no wife at all.


Prof Ng is not the first expert who has come up with unconventional ideas to help unmarried Chinese find their significant other.





Mao Shoulong, a renowned scholar, said in 2017 that the government should allow more foreign women to live in the country in the hope that some of them would end up marrying its 'leftover men'. 


He wrote: 'It could be an advisable tactic to aptly improve the reformation of the immigration policy and let more foreign women come to live and work in China to relieve the "bachelor crisis".' 


Traditionally, baby boys are preferred by Chinese parents because of their ability to carry forward the family name.


Decades of illegal baby gender selection, prompted by the one-child policy, has caused the country to suffer from a severe gender gap.


The gender ratio between baby boys and baby girls has reached 1.3 to 1 at its highest.


Around 15 million Chinese men between the ages of 35 and 59 won't be able to find a wife by 2020 and by 2050 the number could be nearly 30million, it is estimated. 


Many Chinese bachelors, mostly from southern China, have paid high prices to marry Vietnamese women after failing to find a Chinese partner, prompting human-trafficking concerns.

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Traditionally, baby boys are preferred by Chinese parents because of their ability to carry forward the family name.

HerStuddMuffin posted:

I love the for the love of god will someone think of the men undertones in that article.

Well What Now posted:

China y/n?

Pham Nuwen posted:

no y

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HerStuddMuffin posted:

I love the for the love of god will someone think of the men undertones in that article.

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Mr. Fix It posted:

hey, it worked in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Kharnifex posted:

Huawei is going to activate their phones remotely to kill everyone.

stephenthinkpad posted:

Heinlein also purposed a big family solution with multiple husbands and wives and many children in Friday. You have to sign a contract to join the family.