Fojar38 posted:

that guy who recorded that wuhan protest just got arrested so you know it was legit

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-police-idUSKCN12N0EQ

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Police in China's central city of Wuhan said they have detained a person for spreading rumors in what a state-run newspaper said was a video purportedly showing a demonstration involving workers at Wuhan Iron and Steel (Wugang).

Brannock posted:

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Harnessing the power of big data and the ubiquity of smartphones, ecommerce and social media in a society where 700 million people live large parts of their lives online, the plan will also vacuum up court, police, banking, tax and employment records. Doctors, teachers, local governments and businesses could additionally be scored by citizens for their professionalism and probity.

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On this basis, citizens were classified into four levels: those given an “A” grade qualified for government support when starting a business and preferential treatment when applying to join the party, government or army; or applying for a promotion. People with “D” grades were excluded from official support or employment.

Blistex posted:

Welcome to the wonderful world of being a Korean University Professor! "A++++'s for everyone (so I can keep my job)"

Sheep-Goats posted:

So no graded assignments or feedback on how students are doing until the end of the term? Good luck with that.

ladron posted:

Pretty loving much, I have a shitload of stories I could tell, and they';re all super super unbelievable to anyone outside of Asia because they are injected with Krazy Korean Kulture.

source = was a professor in korea for a bunch of years

Phlegmish posted:

see if she has some cash on her while you're at it

Sheep-Goats posted:

Baronjutter posted:

Where they being assholes or actually couldn't understand you? I spent a good 20 min listening to some Irish teens talking on a train before I realized it was some sort of english and would probably have a hard time having a conversation with them unless they slowed down a bit.

Grand Fromage posted:

Yeah the foreign crime rate in Korea is minuscule compared to the Korean crime rate. And that's the reported one, the actual one is most certainly higher. You are much safer at all times staying around foreign areas. Also that's all "foreign" crime, if you limit to just the western teacher/GI/engineer group it becomes absurdly tiny. The majority of foreign crime is ethnic Koreans from China and laborers from SE Asia. Which, to be clear, are still way less likely to be criminals than the locals--there's just a whole lot more of them than the honkey population.

You can use this in Korea to find good food though. Ask Koreans what the dangerous part of the city is that you should avoid. That is, invariably, the foreign neighborhood and will be full of great Chinese/Vietnamese/etc food.

Grand Fromage posted:

Yes? that's what I'm talking about. The Korean rate is about 20x that of the non-Korean. The non-Korean is not officially broken up into groups that I'm aware of because there are only two groups in the world, Koreans and Foreigners.

Haier posted:

http://i.imgur.com/3PN1jwC.gifv

Telsa Cola posted:

Someone mentioned that they get real angry if you call them a foreigner while they are abroad, even more so if you do it in whatever language they speak. (It's because they are essentially using it as a slur for those people and how dare you think that about me)

MetaJew posted:

Was that a marked up price for a foreigner? It did sound pretty expensive.

Pirate Radar posted:

So on TCM--yesterday, I was told that according to Chinese medicine, a man shouldn't ejaculate too much, no more than 2-3 times a week, as it will drain the "hot" energy from his body. Women, being naturally "cold", want to steal that heat for themselves.

Haier, when you go see the doctor, please have her take your temperature both before and after plunging.

Ceciltron posted:

Iirc long fingernails were a sign of wealth since it meant you don't have to work with your hands, so they don't break off or get worn down.

Deceitful Penguin posted:

They also often combine them with multilevel marketing scams and there was a really good article, that the Guardian reprinted about it.

Because if there's something worse than peddling fake medicine, it's making others do it in a false hope they'll finally escape poverty by doing so.

mikerock posted:

I post on the luckiest page in this thread to say that there are no floors, suites, or apartments in the Trump Tower in Vancouver which end in the number that can not be named on this page. It is the last building in the city which will be allowed to do this.

Blistex posted:

North Korean propaganda really exaggerates some European features to make them look scarier. US soldiers are usually, tall, gaunt, have really dark sunken eyes, big noses, and mouths. They try and make them look as alien as possible compared to the Korean seen in propaganda posters that all look like chubby 4 year olds.

Boiled Water posted:

I take a small solace in the fact that the scale seems to top around 1% and not 50.

Boiled Water posted:

Shayu posted:

I cannot believe that in my life time I could of legally owned a slave somewhere in the world, this is too terrible to think about.

Deceitful Penguin posted:

Apparently Chinese men need all the help they can get in being 'men'.

also human trafficking chat is kinda strange; is it really not that well known? I mean, yeah, my discipline is kinda into issues like that (I mostly know the issue through where it intersects with child soldiers and civil wars) but dang

I thought most people woulda heard at least about it through chocolate, seeing as the majority of it (at least in W-Africa, which is a major exporter) is harvested by slaves, who are often children and the fight against it hasn't gone well because when they try to raid the farms they usually murder all the slaves which leaves little evidence of the culprits

McGavin posted:

The de facto national beer in China in terms of liters downed is Snow. It's the most popular beer in the world by a lot. Considering that it's only available in China, enough is consumed so that everyone in China drinks 10L annually.

Sheep-Goats posted:

It says NSFW right in the post?

Also I think "horribly maimed" is maybe an exaggeration but w/e

Glenn Quebec posted:

I like the 283 in the middle of it all.

wildemere posted:

More awesome behavior, got a court date the old uncle.

http://shanghaiist.com/2016/11/02/sydney_park_pee.php

Ceciltron posted:

Anywhere BUT the botanical gardens and would agree with you.

Imperialist Dog posted:

I'm stopping off at a Subway before proceeding to our school sports day which is held in the middle of nowhere. There's a huge lineup of elderly people running past it, queuing up for a free newspaper that they will immediately take, unread, to a recycler to exchange for a few cents. There's another guy in front of me ordering food, but as he's doing it two extremely old, bent-double women are staring at him. They've actually just moved BESIDE him to get closer to look at the food. Like they're between him and the cashier now.

Ok, I finished ordering. The clerk asked me what I wanted on my sub, right? And for every ingredient the old ladies repeated it in amazement. "Look, he pointed to the vegetable, and she put the vegetable on the bread!

They have lined up for the free paper beside this Subway for ... six years, I think, and are still amazed by the concept.

Falun Bong Refugee posted:

First worlders cannot resist the intrensic need to exploit countries poorer than their own for their benifit while lambasting them for the very problems their explotation caused in the first place. Most of them lack any self awareness whatsoever.

Grand Fromage posted:

I do have Chinese friends who I can talk to normally but they were all people I met outside of China. The one I know here lived outside China for quite a while and is from a rather persecuted minority so she really is not a fan of this place. Finding a Chinese person who both likes China and is capable of a normal conversation is the white whale I've been chasing.

Pon de Bundy posted:

Yes this is all good but how was your *looks up further in thread* plunging? experiences in india

india doesn't strike me as Good for That

LentThem posted:

man, so much smoking and hotpot

The Great Autismo! posted:

that would hold true if it were the same across the board but i literally sit in meetings at work in chinese and give presentations in chinese at work and talk to my boss and HR in chinese at work and they have zero problems ever understanding me, so either they are just nodding their heads and just guessing what i'm saying correctly for the past few years, or people giving me blank stares when i'm talking to them in chinese have the issues. i only have HSK4 level though, the guy i work with has HSK5 and the same thing happens to him.

it would be nice if the simple solution was to go home and practice more, but you've completely missed the point. i imagine you did it on purpose, though.

fish and chips and dip posted:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/09/world/asia/china-mao-hitler.html?_r=0

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Mr. Rehage’s statement was “subjective,” meaning incorrect, and is therefore not protected speech, Zhu Wei, the deputy director of the Communications Law Center at the China University of Political Science and Law, was quoted as saying in one of the articles.

Sheep-Goats posted:

Yep

Once in a while you will have someone explain to you in a patronizing tone why this is a smart and just policy too, like the gutter oil fudge on a melamine tainted sundae

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In an interview, Mr. Zhu, the communications law professor, restated his accusations and insisted that those living outside China’s borders could be bound to Chinese law for their online speech. Mr. Rehage, he said, had violated the so-called Seven Bottom Lines.

These are Internet speech rules laid out by the director of the Cyberspace Administration of China, Lu Wei, in 2013, Mr. Zhu said. They require Internet users to respect China’s laws, state interests, socialist values, moral standards, social order, people’s rights and the truth.

“If he compares Mao Zedong to Hitler, putting aside legal issues, I think he has violated the ‘social order’ or ‘moral standards’ of the Seven Bottom Lines,” Mr. Zhu said.

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But he said he worried about the safety of any foreigners in China who might look like him. “I am a little concerned by the people who have been calling for my murder,” he said.