How'd you lose your job?

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This is where I wanna go

Looks good

It's a bit off, so not too much tourists

Korea sounds nice. We were going to go but my fiancee doesn't like korean food lol

Too spicy or not enough insects? <:tipsfedora:383326576609329162>

I don't know I think she thinks it's all barbecue

I for one welcome our new Chinese overlords. https://youtu.be/EvXROXiIpvQ

No but seriously I'm scared AF about this Chinese dystopia we might be about to live in.

Same

More likely though, I'm afraid the US will try to do superpower things after it's not a superpower anymore, and that it will have consequences.

US is behind with upgrading its infrastructure for IoT and smart grid stuff

I see it relaxed

Yes as Europeans, we don't have to care. We are either the US bitches or the China bitches. At least China treats us like a super fancy museum

Automation will hit every country harder depending on population

If shits going down I'll go back to my family's farm and that's it.

If we all reach the singularity without massive negative consequences all the better

And that's going to happen before China buys us all

your family will replace you with a chink bot

Chink bot <:chink:323022148870602752>

Will it love me long time?

yes it will also make t-shirts and get As in maths

China would be so incredible if the people weren't so fucking horrible

Speaking of which https://nextshark.com/chinese-mans-hit-run-victims-turn-wife-son/

Jesus Christ

Seems like lady Karma was quite bitch again

unless he got life insurance

<:thvnk:332928260004642827>

That would be a complicated chicken egg

My fiancee dad lives in a pretty quiet area of the country. Some guy was drunk driving and flipped his car on one side and they saw it and dragged him out of the car

They didn't call the police because they know he'd go to jail for drunk driving

I told him "what if he was drunk driving and hit someone? What if it was your daughter?"

He said "none of my business"

He couldn't understand that the guy will drink and drive again and could kill someone

There's this overwhelming sense in the country that you shouldn't report anyone for anything

Don't give bad reviews , don't report people for their bulshit etc

I mean its not cool to drink and drive but at least there's some semblance of discretion left after decades of communist indoctrination.

@kaetaa *There's this overwhelming sense in the country that you shouldn't report anyone for anything* *unless they're foreigners that you suspect to be spies

righto actually

I wonder if its a pushback from those weird mandatory circlejerks where you accuse people of crimes

Don't be a rat tbh

also anyone seen the kids working at train stations, what's that about?

legal child labour?

ive never seen that yet

do they sell peanuts?

no they stand by the gate and ticket machines and help people

except they don't really help people cause they're kids and aren't that great at talking to people

friendlier than the normal people though

Might be volunteering for cs hours

I did that once and I wrote about it in my college apps

Kids in Indonesia are different tho. I had a very interesting conversation with a male sex worker (day time surf instructor) about growing up poor in indonesia

i was at a bar in malaysia speaking to this very beautiful waitress in english and she was talking about how shes still learning and is going to school etc

i said how old are you and she said she was 16

holy shit it really put things into perspective

oof

and those who give up school become either street vendors, surf instructors, or sex workers. or a combination of those

even bars and restaurants want employees with hospitality degrees nowadays

The point is that everything has a degree in most parts of Asia. A dual system like Germany's "Ausbildung" (3 year mixed on the job training + school combination) would save a lot of countries

same in the uk

as in everything has a degree

Especially for more applied jobs, like working in a restaurant

Well everyone decided to drop apprenticeships as the US did. God knows why..

To have a bigger percentage of the population have bachelors, even if they're useless ones

26 % of the people hold a degree in Germany, almost 40 % in Taiwan

Koreans mate

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What did he mean by this

It's even funnier considering that they're over saturating on economic "desk" jobs because mom and daddy told them so.

Thats pretty much everyone outside of some germanic countries and some local stuff stateside

Sure

But here you got quite an educated population

And they go out of their way avoiding engineering courses with higher wages, because muh reputation

Literally full autism

The next big reccession is going to be in a couple years when banks pull the rug under a bunch of baristas making minimum payment on interest for school loans

cant watch either so not sure of the content

Are the dogs actually being raised for that or are they just euthinized strays?

@porco I could

But I don't see the link

robots are cheaper and easier to maintain than apprentices

http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201804100028.aspx

Tsai sounds pretty desperate on this one

Anyone have any reccs to learn chinese?

>inb4 screenshot

I know but I deal with chinks heavily and most of thier english isn't passable

yes take Chinese classes, unronically, learning online is really difficult

I am taking Chinese classes since about a year now, 2 x 1 h / week

And I am about to pass HSK 3

fug thats going to be pricey here

where do you live?

Like, country

new york border but I only sometimes go there

mainly need to learn whatever they use for wechat

Pinyin?

I can find Chinese lessons with professional teachers in your area for roughly 30 $ / hour

isn't that totally fine? I pay much much more

I pay 50 CHF (52 $) / hour

Oh private lessons

Christ why did I only look at community college courses

Yes at first you usually just learn talking / listening and pinyin. Learning characters usually learning characters follows much later

Shit, google translate isnt that great for anything but formal stuff, maybe I can just run it through a text to speech

Do you need only written communication?

Pretty much but learning chinese is something I need to do anyway.

I'd just invest the time and do it the right way

might take you a year to be productive in written form

but you'll have it for life

(and you will be able to find yourself a Chinese cutie)

Eh... I dont really like chinese people here. Either go full normie if second gen or pretty much refuse to leave Chinatowns. My dad calls train routes from boston to new york orient expresses

chinese cuties dont exist

I think Chinese women are pretty attractive. It's not everyone's thing

Depends on the region I guess

Remember generalising China as a whole is like declaring Europeans good/bad looking..

small chinese women are gold

>Asian call someone tall

>they're average size

or slightly below average

Tall is relative

All my relatives are tall

:_:

are they though

people in the NBA are tall

They're all heightier than I am

How tall?

I'm 179 and maybe saw a handful of people reaching my height in Taiwan, while being below average here

Onw of the reasons id want to travel to asia is to see the small avg population

Me being 185cm tall

@plasticsword am tall. Asians try to stealthily take pictures and the few that work up the courage to speak English ask if I play professional basketball

how tall is tall?

im 170cm and people in china say im tall but I'm below average

below average in china or?..

below average else where

maybe average in china or slightly above

depends where

there are some smurfs in china

are Chinese severely malnourished?

Yes

no idea why they are so tiny. Asians who grow up in the western world are taller

probably food, weather, etc

I grew up in China so all the internationals at my school are taller than I am ;_;

I should have stayed in China I was so powerful there

@plasticsword#5248 205cm

@plasticsword

Do chinks care a lot about height?

I haven't noticed any on that topic with my Koreans

not anymore than anywhere else

All chinks are the same height so

I return to China in 7 days :(

Hopefully for just 6 weeks

IKTFW

so close to getting out

man buys ~1000 USD of corn snacks https://youtu.be/1jOifYpRTLg

sorry I meant 10000 USD

hyaku man = 1 million

@why am I 𝓐𝓛𝓘𝓥𝓔#8731 why

For clicks and shits

Japanese youtube is dogshit

JapTube? 🤔

@web weeb police japanese how its made and varous other shows about agrarian and industrial production are literally top teir

^

@johnfrum u know any that come to mind?

Begin japanology, Begin Japanology plus is garbage, after the retarded burger came on it went down hill.

this channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYzQNgIwqgo ?

Japanese YouTube is Dogshit?

Man I hope you're not talking about niconico

https://youtu.be/iaMgWNKGwrQ

Vid unrelated

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAJS9B4UpAY

what about all those youtubers in asia?

The japanology stuff is fine just fast forward past the American part

I actually enjoy it

The american stuff started becoming a larger part of it, I do the same thing but its annoying.

@Geartooth whats your reason for not liking it?

just curious

@Julian Chinese

The language I mean

Also I love Western Culture and the Cold

So I really hate this place

@Geartooth you in hong kong?

yo laowais living in china, does discord work there with no probs?

no need for VPN and shit?

it works but sometimes loads pretty slow. i recommend using a VPN at all times to use any kind of non chinese programs

even if stuff isnt blocked its purposely slowed down

you will benefit greatly at all times from a VPN

just asking because a friend is going to shanhai and we're wondering if we can keep contact trough discord lol

it seems like the mobile app works fine because it dosent use google captcha

>try to learn rudiments of chinese so I can skip some lessons

>completely similar words are diffrent because of the pitch

monotone it

@kaetaa yep

@Joldberg monotoning Chinese doesn't work. Like at all.

mainlanders cant even begin to understand if you fuck up the pitch. If you go to a restaurant, and you point at the menu and try to say "I want this" in mandarin, but you fuck up one of the words, their brains cant fill in the gaps and understand what you are trying to say

they just sit there confused and can't read between the lines or use context clues or anything

i swear

no cause it would like a deaf person talking

you gotta sit there and really think what they're saying

but cmon what possible things could i be saying\

im in your restauraunt pointing at the menu after calling you over

theres only a few things it could be

im not gonna point at the tofu and say "i like cigarettes"

Well what was tge point of becoming commies if you didn't fix your language while geniciding everyone and destroying culture

Mandarin has been around for less than 50 years I think

nah must be like 70 years now

Why would anyone decide to make thier language pitch based

its just another systen

its the same you know your abc

they just have sounds that are just those sounds

Except thier sounds are based on notes like they are birds

its like c s and z

potentially they can sound similar

I can get that but adding nasal, throat and chest sounds fucks with me. I can't even get my mouth to make some sounds that are apparently essential

Anyway,are there any recommended apps to learn the basics? Or should I just torrent Rosetta stone.

there was a small site I used for a while

called nuli.com or something

never kept to it

I can recommend https://www.chineasy.com

Are Chinese people attracted to any particular race?

Are they racist against any of them?

where are you from?

Does it matter?

yes it does

Just wondering

so I can make my point

White ppl?

No no, just the country

I'd rather not

well I wouldn't say there is more or less racism in China than in other parts of the world

Asians in general are just more open about it, less strict on political correctness

What about the dating culture? Are they as open as the western countries?

But I wouldn't say they think much different than people of other places of the world. You might encounter all kinds of different people

You obviously have a bonus being a foreigner in terms of dating culture, all around the world

You will find open minded girls, you will find traditional girls. This depends a lot on your geographical position. As in the western world. People from large, international cities tend to be more open minded than people from forsaken villages

chinese hate black people

and think brown people smell like shit

they like europeans sorta

dislike americans

Darkies are bad, indian is questionable but my parents still sus af on them

Also they told me to dislike the rice hat people

Parents are ok with whities, but grandma says to only get a ching chong wife or imma have a bad time

>indian is questionable
What do you mean by this

They let me and my siblings be friends with them but they say shit like "be wary of him"/"watch out for him"

Judging by your profile picture of xi jinping, I assume you are Chinese?

Canadian born ching chong ya

>xi jingping
>pfp is winnie the pooh

there's something I'm not getting here

https://yandex.com/search/?text=xi%20jingping%20winnieh%20the%20pooh&lr=10513

https://yandex.com/images/search?text=xi%20jinping%20winnie%20the%20pooh&stype=image&lr=10513&source=wiz

lmao

what is yandex

A Russian search engine that surprisingly often has better and more relevant results than Google

Also it's not blocked in China FYI