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Trammel posted:I was in Xi'an in 2012 and there were huge anti Japanese demonstrations in the city and even rumors of one person being beaten to death by a mob for driving a Japanese brand vehicle. It was definitely a thing to have red ribbons on your (Japanese) car during that period. I also saw signs in shops saying "no dogs or Japanese". I remember one Japanese restaurant I used to go to temporarily shut down and never reopened during that period. I also used to know a girl who sang beautifully telling me that it would be a good thing for China to nuke Japan and just kill them all. She also said that black people scared her and she wouldn't live in the same building as one. Her father was in the police. So, yeah, China is a land of contrasts. Was that linked to a specific event? I know there have been times when some right wing idiot in Japan did something stupid and there'd be mobs smashing sushi restaurants in China for a bit. You can always drum up active hate but I didn't encounter the kind of pervasive Japanese hatred that I did in Korea. I have no problem believing it's out there though, I just never ran into it that I can remember.
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ok thread it's time to go where the interesting things are Beijing shuts all schools and goes to 'alert level two' to tackle new coronavirus outbreak caused by 'contaminated goods and interpersonal communication' as China blames European strain have those devil europeans brought their barbarian virus to peaceful china? or are we seeing the results of chabuduo lockdown
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Grand Fromage posted:I can also back up the opinion of Indians that Blistex experienced. When mainlanders would tell me what countries/peoples they hated, the list was almost always this one and in this order: What was the reasoning for Mexico
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Alan Smithee posted:What was the reasoning for Mexico His English was real bad and so is my Chinese so I'm not sure. I think he was mad Mexicans claimed to have invented chili peppers, which obviously came from China.
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I thought it was cause they dared to stop chinese fisherman from poaching the vaquita dolphin
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I also once was doing an extra class for some middle schoolers and one wrote "I hate Mexico" in the tell me about yourself assignment, crossed Mexico out, and corrected it to Italy. Never got an explanation of that one.
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Grand Fromage posted:I also once was doing an extra class for some middle schoolers and one wrote "I hate Mexico" in the tell me about yourself assignment, crossed Mexico out, and corrected it to Italy. Never got an explanation of that one. Tomatoes in food?
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Grand Fromage posted:I also once was doing an extra class for some middle schoolers and one wrote "I hate Mexico" in the tell me about yourself assignment, crossed Mexico out, and corrected it to Italy. Never got an explanation of that one. noodles? call it your noodle incident
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China's Supreme intelligence knows no bounds, they have discovered the carrier of Covid-19 is ... Salmon! Blame Norway! Apparently. There is no more Salmon in China.
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The White Dragon posted:ok thread it's time to go where the interesting things are Before that they were blaming Black people. With BLM in full swing they are going after orange instead. It is DM so salt required. WuFlu was never beaten like it has been in New Zealand or Taiwan#1. Especially if the time line is shifted to late 2019 as people would be running around everywhere by either New Years. China's numbers have always been nonsensical because China gotta China. It should have exploded like it did in New York.
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oohhboy posted:So when are we going to stop all this engagement BS and enter the next cold war? This is really getting out of control. Not only do we share far fewer values with China than we did the Soviets, they gives even less of a drat with how they treat anyone or anything. when trump declares taiwan an independent nation to the protests of the taiwanese in june 2021 or hell, maybe to the cheers of the taiwanese. a lot can happen in 12 months.
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Grand Fromage posted:Was that linked to a specific event? I know there have been times when some right wing idiot in Japan did something stupid and there'd be mobs smashing sushi restaurants in China for a bit. You can always drum up active hate but I didn't encounter the kind of pervasive Japanese hatred that I did in Korea. I have no problem believing it's out there though, I just never ran into it that I can remember. It was related to the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands dispute, and it happened all over China and Taiwan. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_China_anti-Japanese_demonstrations Also around that time was a water cannon fight between a Japanese vessel and a Taiwanese one: 
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Grand Fromage posted:I also once was doing an extra class for some middle schoolers and one wrote "I hate Mexico" in the tell me about yourself assignment, crossed Mexico out, and corrected it to Italy. Never got an explanation of that one. World Cup maybe? I've certainly never forgiven them for 2006.
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Kevin DuBrow posted:It was related to the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands dispute, and it happened all over China and Taiwan. Ah yeah, I remember that now. Good ol Ishihara.
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My favorite part of that was how Taiwan, not immune to caring too much about worthless rocks, also chimed in to say the islands were in fact theirs.MrMoo posted:China's Supreme intelligence knows no bounds, they have discovered the carrier of Covid-19 is ... Salmon! where did u read this? In everything I've read the chinese gov specifically said it wasn't carried or spread by salmon, probably in fear of everyone going and trashing fishing boats.
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Magna Kaser posted:My favorite part of that was how Taiwan, not immune to caring too much about worthless rocks, also chimed in to say the islands were in fact theirs. Our school fed us all salmon at an end of term dinner literally a week ago, no symptoms yet.
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I'm sorry, but that salmon was left uncovered for the 10 minutes it took you to eat it. I would advise that you make peace with your loved ones and/or gods.
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WarpedNaba posted:I'm sorry, but that salmon was left uncovered for the 10 minutes it took you to eat it. I would advise that you make peace with your loved ones and/or gods. Look it's not some deadly toxin like rice.
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Alan Smithee posted:like Saudi annoying We had a lot of Saudis too. They were actually pretty cool but had real backwards ideas about stuff, as you would expect. but at least I got the feeling they did their own work instead of farming it out like the Chinese kids.
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Grand Fromage posted:Was that linked to a specific event? I know there have been times when some right wing idiot in Japan did something stupid and there'd be mobs smashing sushi restaurants in China for a bit. You can always drum up active hate but I didn't encounter the kind of pervasive Japanese hatred that I did in Korea. I have no problem believing it's out there though, I just never ran into it that I can remember. I always find it quite funny that the majority of sushi shops in Australia are actually run by Chinese and koreans. This is purely based on the shop keepers appearance and manner though. To me Koreans, Chinese and Japanese all look so uniquely different its pretty easy to tell them apart.
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NZ has wuflu again via english travellers, crumpet strain
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"The British Exchange"
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BrassRoots posted:but at least I got the feeling they did their own work instead of farming it out like the Chinese kids. I get how this works for homework, papers etc. But for in-person exams, how do they get away with it? Many of my exams were open book, but this didn't help unless you had a solid understanding of the subject matter. And if you failed your midterm and final, it doesn't matter how many stolen/purchased homework or papers you submitted, you're gonna get the F.
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grellgraxer posted:I get how this works for homework, papers etc. But for in-person exams, how do they get away with it? Many of my exams were open book, but this didn't help unless you had a solid understanding of the subject matter. And if you failed your midterm and final, it doesn't matter how many stolen/purchased homework or papers you submitted, you're gonna get the F. At the university where I did my undergrad there was a big cheating scandal a few years back where some of the international students were paying this one Chinese PhD student to write their exams for them, counting on the proctors not looking closely to see if the picture on the student ID matched the person. It worked for a while until he tried to write an exam for a female student with an extremely female Chinese name and seemingly forgot that there was other Chinese grad students who might recognize that. One was proctoring the exam, took one look at the name on the paper, was like "There's no way in hell that's your name" and the guy was done. Multiple expulsions (and IIRC deportations once their student visas were cancelled as a result) ensued.
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A student tried that at my school once and when caught explained that since Chinese people can't tell foreigners apart, he assumed I couldn't tell Chinese people apart and I wouldn't notice.grellgraxer posted:I get how this works for homework, papers etc. But for in-person exams, how do they get away with it? Many of my exams were open book, but this didn't help unless you had a solid understanding of the subject matter. And if you failed your midterm and final, it doesn't matter how many stolen/purchased homework or papers you submitted, you're gonna get the F. There's not a lot of planning and forethought put into it, also. I had a number of students whose parents decided that they were too dumb to pass the gaokao and go to university in China, so instead they'd go into our international program and go to college in the US. Because attending a US university without speaking more than five words of English is easy. Turns out, not so much. It's also harder to just bribe a US university for grades than to bribe your Chinese schools. By no means impossible, but harder. There was a study that IIRC Harvard did to try to figure out why Korean students had something like an 80%+ failure rate and it concluded that they don't speak English and therefore weirdly could not handle school in English.
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:write exams Maybe off topic but what dialect is this? And what verb would you use for making a test, e.g. if you're the professor? Edit: I've heard Germans use it a lot, but I had always thought it was just a mistranslation. Shadow0 fucked around with this message at 17:42 on Jun 17, 2020 |
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Shadow0 posted:Maybe off topic but what dialect is this? And what verb would you use for making a test, e.g. if you're the professor? Canadian English? As for the professor, I guess "created the exam"? I mean "wrote the exam" also works but it's all about context. If you're talking to someone in their early 20s at a Canadian university and they're all like "Oh man I barely slept last night and now I have to go write the exam for calc 201", it'd be pretty clear they meant they have to do the exam, not create it.
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I'm Canadian and used the term "write exam" to describe the act of sitting down and taking a test.
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Writing the exam is what the professor does, a student sits it or takes it.
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as an american i've never heard the phrase 'write the test' used for anything other than the teacher actually creating the test. the students 'take the test' regardless of if they're writing essays or filling bubbles.
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In the UK you "read" economics at a university, maybe that turn of phrase blows your mind too.
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In Canada you take tests and write exams.
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mikerock posted:I'm Canadian and used the term "write exam" to describe the act of sitting down and taking a test. Very much the same, and from the other side of the country no less.
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"write the exam"? What kinda profanity is that? Guess it's what we expect from people who "gently caress the dog". 
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This is a real revelation to me. I've always considered "write the exam" to be as commonly used and understood as "take the test" and would never have thought this could be construed as anything else in the English speaking world.
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UltraRed posted:"write the exam"? What kinda profanity is that? Guess it's what we expect from people who "gently caress the dog". Guess we've really poo poo the bed with this one, eh?
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McGavin posted:In Canada you take tests and write exams. You can also sit for an exam, but that’s less commonly used
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Officer of China’s People’s Liberation Army Arrested At Los Angeles International Airport.quote:Wang provided information to CBP that he had been instructed by his supervisor, the director of his military university lab in the PRC, to observe the layout of the UCSF lab and bring back information on how to replicate it in China. CBP received information that Wang had studies from UCSF with him which he was taking to share with his PLA colleagues, and he had sent research to his lab in China via email. Wang similarly told his supervising UCSF professor that he had duplicated some of the work of that professor at the lab in China... Wang also wiped his personal phone of WeChat messaging content earlier the morning he arrived at LAX. Make sure to check out the attachment at the bottom so you can download the Wang complaint.
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