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uber but with chinese characteristics http://qz.com/786179/uber-china-driver-scams-ghost-drivers-are-freaking-out-passengers-and-scamming-uber-for-money/  Passengers using the ride-hailing app in several Chinese cities have reported seeing their requests picked up by drivers with creepy profile photos of zombie faces. According to Chinese news site Sixth Tone, the point of these ghostly profiles is to scare passengers into canceling the trip, so they are fined for a few yuan (less than a dollar), which goes to the driver.
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Accretionist posted:Driving culture gets weird. When I was in Naples, Italy, it was the worst driving I've ever seen. It was like if you so much as made eye-contact with another driver, it was a sign of weakness and you were getting cut-off or not let in. Like, my sister was stopped at a stop light once. This got her rear ended. The other driver said he kept thinking she was going to accelerate any second now right up until the crash. It's like bumper cars except every hit costs you money so you try to avoid but, fundamentally, it's still bumper cars logic. It's just weaving in and out and around all the time, nothing else. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjGXn249Fc0
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Chomp8645 posted:So not only was there not a food embargo, but China specifically rejected offers of food assistance while actively exported large amounts of food at the time they were starving. The other guy gets it. You lose face if you owe other people anything because it shows the other person is better than you and you dont want that. On the macro scale, you want to show that you are a strong country and have every other countries' respect at the bargaining table. On a more local level, this also means you want to fight tooth and nail to pay for other people's meals when you guys go out to eat.
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McGavin posted:I have had so many free meals because of this. It's more like a pride thing which is actually one of the negative aspect in the western culture but doesn't really exist in China.
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Medicine with Chinese characteristics http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/clinical-fakes-09272016141438.html China's food and drug regulator recently carried out a one-year review of clinical trials, concluding that more than 80 percent of clinical data is "fabricated," state media reported. The scandal is the result of "breach of duty by supervision departments and malpractice by pharmaceutical companies, intermediary agents and medical staff," the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) said in its report. The review looked at data from 1,622 clinical trial programs of new pharmaceutical drugs awaiting regulator approval for mass production, according to an expose in the Economic Information Daily newspaper. More than 80 percent of applications for mass production of new drugs have been canceled in the light of the findings, with officials warning that further evidence malpractice could still emerge in the scandal. According to the SFDA report, much of the data gathered during clinical trials were incomplete, failed to meet analysis requirements or were untraceable, the paper cited a source in the agency as saying.
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Also Coco is the name of a famous singer in the chinese province of taiwan back in the 90's. She was born in the chinese region of hong kong, later expanded internationally and even performed at oscar.
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Sheep-Goats posted:There was some food noise in Taiwan but in general they were considerate when they ate. Thai people have the best overall table manners of anyone on earth. and when you put Chinese in a Thai buffet.. 
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The Great Autismo! posted:like today I went to swim for working out and two...I would guess 10-12 year olds followed me into the locker room and one of them was like "the foreigner will shower maybe we can have a look" and they awkwardly stood at the shower while I changed and I just ignored them because why ever bother. I had an old man scream in my face when I was changing clothes HALLLOUUUU after I finished my work out. I had a girl in my apartment complex, after I held the elevator door for her, tell me she didn't want to take this elevator. And a grandma and her granddaughter got up and moved seats when I sat down next to them on the bus. Just stay out of the country if you see all the above as a negative instead of a country that's changing and improving itself after so many foreign powers ravaged it in recent time. But of course you are going to stay while taking advantage of the place and milking for all its worth like many others have done.
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The Great Autismo! posted:ya you should be probated from the forums, i think is what we decided. mods? It's actually fine if it's used topical and not used as a slur. Like how Xi Dada recently pronounced nong as the word for 'clothing' in his speech. Also School Nickname posted:My first ever attempt at photoshopping something (using GIMP). Mods please don't ban me for using the n-word.
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The Great Autismo! posted:posting on page 88 of the China thread Just ya'll wait till page 888.
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This is few page back but lol @ all the people here complaining about the locals not understand or giving you guys a blank stare when you speak the local language. Because, for some reason, the foreigners seem to unable to admit that maybe, just MAYBE that they suck at speaking the local language? Especially with language using multiple tonal pronunciations that will end up being completely off and unintelligible if the speaker dont say it right. At best that it seems funny when they butcher the pronunciations, or it can be down right irritating and annoying. Go home and practice more instead of complaining about it.
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Welp. There's your problem. You are equating someone haven't zero problems understanding you to that your pronunciations can be understood by everyone. Some people can be good at dealing butchered pronunciations. But some people just can't understand them at all. This happens in english too but it's much more severe when foreigners say a similar word but with broken tones that can mean completely different things. My earlier point still stand, which is go home and practice more. But I guess this is the mocking chinese thread so we should follow the racist joke of "it's easier to just blame it on others and save face" even thought you are literally doing this subconsciously at this very moment.
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Sheep-Goats posted:The tones are not hard at all after like two weeks of being in China and native speakers flatten and often flat out fail to pronounce tones all the time. If anything speaking intelligible Chinese to a Chinese hick gets you stared at harder than speaking really lovely Chinese because that's fukken bizzaro eowowowoeowow It's quite funny to see great examples of Dunning-Kruger effect at full swing right here.
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The Great Autismo! posted:it's not the dunning-kruger effect when you have taken an exam that says you have passed a certain level Wait where have we seen this before? And didn't we just ragged on asian countries for their exam based education system? Also, it's hilariously that you are trying to point to a test that's "made up of listening comprehension, reading comprehension and writing and contains a total of 100 test items" to try and prove how well you can butcher the pronunciations  I guess the upside is that you basically shows all the traits that we laughed at earlier so you might actually be a local after all.
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The Great Autismo! posted:you can think whatever you want, lol Yeah, like those people who couldn't understand you when you try to speak to them 
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Lazer Monkey posted:Your username makes me suspicious of you using a alt specifically made to troll this thread.. And the fact the person just can't admit that possibility and want to point to *~some tests~* that they took to prove how well they can speak just makes it funnier. Especially since it's in the same country they derided for having lovely exam based education system. nong fucked around with this message at 01:36 on Nov 5, 2016 |
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Third World Reggin posted:Saying it happens is not racist. Saying it always happens is racist. My bad if I misunderstood them as most posters seems to be saying that it always happens.
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Falun Bong Refugee posted:I'm a dick to you guys intentionally because you deserve it. I enjoy making you squrim in your safe space by merely pointing out the obvious. And I totally agree with you that most people here are loser expats (or sexpacts judging from the last few posts) who thinks they can speak perfect local language because some tests they took, when in fact they are spewing unintelligible garbage.
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big time bisexual posted:attn: haier re: post 90s beauties the joke is the phrase for "CAPABLE" is actually from two words that means "CAN DO" and the "DO" part can also be translated to 'gently caress' essentially it jokes about "hiring: looking for husband that can gently caress the most, money isn't important, as long as you can gently caress"
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fish and chips and dip posted:On the contrary, most people I know are all like "look how amazing China is, they get so much done, Chinese education is so good, we should emulate China", doesn't even seem to be limited to a specific political leaning. People have to remember that China didn't try and build up with previous foundations as it was all raped and pillaged by the Japanese. They had to make do with what's handed to them and they are actually doing really well. With all the lawlessness of westernized 'democracy' they wouldn't be where they are today. Just look at how the USA is doing on a world level and what they did in Iraq.
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Coolguye posted:let me just sit in awe of building a crony-capital military-industrial complex and billions upon billions of dollars of useless and literally empty construction undertaken for no other reason than some government dipshit's gordon gecko style real estate deal, culminating in an economic system so robust that the existence of loving bitcoin fills its owners with mortal fear of disenfranchisement Not to make it into a political thread but you should look at how the recent tax bill in the United States of America was passed and re-read what you've wrote carefully. fish and chips and dip posted:Love it how she keeps reffering to Americans in the US a foreigners. 
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Devils Affricate posted:The new tax bill is some bad poo poo, but it is nothing compared to the systematic, focused persecution that the Chinese government carries out daily on the country's poor/rural population. They literally don't allow you to move to higher tier cities based on your lower class background. If you tried to explain the problematic issue of gentrification to a Chinese person, they probably wouldn't be able to comprehend what you're talking about, because such a concept is so far removed from even being considered a problem as opposed to the natural order of things. eames posted:pretty hillarious drama surrounding Zotac and one of their sponsored SC showmatch events, admittedly not very relevant to their GPUs but we have enough sad vega news in here.
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Coolguye posted:government-linked officials in China own over 80% of the economic activity in the country also lol you want to talk about aids, the person who enabled an aids epidermic in the US are literally in your country as the vice president RIGHT NOW it's pretty out of touch to criticize what other countries are doing is 'bad' when 'bad' is better than the 'worse' that came before
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hakimashou posted:One thing I do legit miss about China is hanging out at the tea shop with friends drinking gongfu cha prepared by the nice lady for an hour. 
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