Parabems Brasil!!

Brazil elected their first female president, which is cool (I wish we had done something similar). The lady was jailed by the ex-dictatorial regime in her country, but now she can make a change- hopefull. My hat goes off to here and the wonderful country of Brazil.

I Second That Motion, Americans Dont Be Hypocrites

Here is an excellent post about a small American company potentially losing jobs to the Chinese. Its based upon an article here, The article is about a company in New Jersey that makes uniforms for the Girl Scouts of America. The owner of the company cannot compete with the Chinese on price and if he loses this bid he may go under. The author of the blog post I referenced made some good points. In essence she said if you want to have jobs stay in America (and imho, live like an American) then pay American prices. What I have learned while living in China is that we Americans and westerners are not really lazy, so dont give that idea that ‘its just another greedy American company” or those lazy union laborers etc. The bottom line is the Chinese have lower prices, but consider that they obey no laws, copyright or other. The typical Chinaman is given only 2-3 days off per month. The typical worker works around 12 hours per day. Taking all of this into consideration I have to wonder just wtf they are doing with all their time. Can you imagine if all those American or German scientists dedicated so much time to inventing things, we’d probably have cold fusion. So use your heads, read her post, forward it, or do something to make a change…have you thought about reducing your “china footprint” today?

Chinese Outcasts

These guys are normal manual laborers in China. (the guys with the large sacks slung over their shoulders). They are poor , as in super poor. The monied Chinese despise them, think they are like pollution obstructing the view of their country. These guys usually speak their own dialect and are illiterate, but to me deep down inside are much better than 80% of the other Chinese I meet.

Chinese Traffic

I thought The Chinese Were Good at Math- Where are The Other Two?

I went to this building the other day and took the stairs from the 16 to the 9 floor.But remember, this is China so anytihng can happen. So while taking the stairs, I noticed this. Apparently in chinese monkey math, the 15th floor perches upon the 12th and not the 14… And its true, the signs were not mismarked.

Why Do Chinese Do That?

Did you ever notice how Chinese will post comments on English language sites and claim to be from the west. They will then give an opinion about chicom china or Ti.bet or something but all the while they are trying to convince us that their not really a Chicom. I saw this the other day on yahoo. Some Chinese guy with a tag of something like “true American” was saying that all we Americans need to do to resolve our debt issue is to sell 3million homes to chicoms… No one got it, I mean how dumb are we, do we really think this post came from one of us? Not necessarily the subject matter, but its the way they write that gives them away. For instance in chinese they have no past nor future tense, no articles (a , the, etc) and plurals. Thus, the typical chicom writes like this: Example of chicom pretending to be westerner…. “I am typical american. I live in China four years ago. China government is very good one. China person have human rights, good. America government can sell home China. America government can make money…” Something like this.. i think i was going to comment on it then thought, fk it , if we are too stupid to see through this ruse, then act on such ideas. As an aside, I have noticed more foreigners posting under names like ‘love china’, on the chinadaily websit, all in order to sneak in funny comments about the Chinese and avoid the censors….

Restaurant- How the Chinese Do It

This is pretty common in China, in many restaurants they prepare and leave the food like this. I guess its to show the freshness of the produce, and it is truly fresh. Each day they usually buy new vegetables and such.

Did you Ever Notice This in China…

Did you ever notice how funny the Chinese people are. I dont mean funny as in ‘haha’ but as in wtf? My current rant is about the ability of the Chinese to act odd in front of strangers or foreigners. Your typical Chinaman who happens to be lucky enough to own a car has outdone 96% of his peers, but when we foreigners see this, its a yawner, much to his chagrin. Your typical Chinaman driving his BMW is almost god-like to your locals who consider sating their appetite by sucking on some roots or tree bark to be normal, but once again to anyone who has lived in modern societies, its a non issue. So what I have noticed is that the local Chinese will go overboard to attract the attention of foreigners, or try to show that ‘no they are not backwoods ingnorant laborers and thus equal to those of us in the west who have had flush toilets since time immemorial…’ What I have seen that they do, and please feel free to correct me if I am wrong, is to show that they actually possess many of the same goodies, ie electronics or ‘fashion’ purses as the rest of us. Perhaps a few examples will help to clarify. 1-while on the subway yesterday and ever day, it never seems to slay me how your typical chinaman will appear to be sleeping while standing, but as soon as a foreigner, any foreigner comes (white skinned is better to them,however) they change, they morph. Once the foreigner or foreigners arrive, the chinaman will brandish his/her Iphone and practically stick it in your face, they will peck at it, mess with the earbuds, the whole while loooking at you out of the corner of their eyes, its as if they are trying to appear confident, but somehow fail. A lady did that to me yesterday. She sat next to me and did almost everything humanly possible with her Iphone, pulled at it, pecked messages, toyed with it, tested every feature and such. I was going to tell her that its great she has such a wonderful phone, to spread the love as it were. But at that point she hacked up a tremendous lump of phlegm and spat it towards the subway door. After gagging, I merely wiped my eyes and pretended to be asleep. 2-On airplanes, in between taking off their shoes and socks and trouncing up and down the aisles, they will also do this. The other day while on a flight, a lady in her 30’s just had to play with her ipad, i swear the whole time she was watching me more, looking for my reaction it would appear. They brandish it when you walk by, actually tilt it towards you, probably want you to comment. I would really love to tell them how great it is that they can now enjoy an Ipad, Iphone or Kindle, and not have to lug around that little red ‘Mao’ book, like their brothers sister and parents had to. Tell them how freeing it is to not worry about the Red Guard savagely beating them for not loving Mao enough and forcing them into the kowtow position for hours… but I feel this may be politically incorrect and culturally unacceptable.. So I just blog… all this after hacking spit

China at Night

Another China Photo