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This is how bad it's gotten. I saw a woman walk into a Starbucks and ask for a cup just to walk out and pretend to sip from it. It was empty

Taiwan girls just seemed more chill

The way they dressed was much better too

Less weird shit

I've lived in taiwan half my life and the girls here just seem normal

Yeah agreed. Just normal chicks

Hong Kong was similar too, but they had their own ways too

they do dumb girl things like girls do but nothing so ridiculous like the things you just described that happen in china

almost seems like another planet despite being just across the strait

China seems like a pretty weird place

While Taiwanese society does a lot of things better than we do. I often find myself thinking "if I have kids and they're half Taiwanese, they will probably be better / more ambitious / more successful people if they grow up in Taiwan, rather than here"

It makes me curious. If I were in health to check it out, I would.

the encouragement to study and have a successful career is much stronger than here in Taiwan

I'm a halfie myself, i dunno

i spent my early years here and then half of my later childhood in the US

i think if i grew up here i would have just been content doing whatever

the US gave me a lot more ambition

i dunno how it is over where you're from, though

switzerland, i think?

I'm Italian but I'm in Switzerland right mow. I think what you're pointing at is the sense of individuality which is a little lacking in Taiwan. But I don't think you would have been content to do whatever, if at least one of your parents taught you not to

I see that "life acceptance" if we can call it like that in my girlfriend. However she has a way bigger sense of responsibility and ambition to improve herself than I do

So I believe that a kid growing up in a society with such strong values on education and responsibility, like Taiwan, can potentially have a better life than someone who grew up in a lax "just do what you feel like" society like Italy

We can put it in the negative way: we are just way more full of ourselves and arrogant in the west. But maybe a little of that influence could let someone who grows up in a Taiwanese society, help him to exploit the system there in his favour

not sure if I'm explaining my thoughts properly tbh

i agree entirely and people shit on me when i ramble about the current state of western culture

中國朋友 literally means chinese friend

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E87c5xoDzI0

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@transience the irony is that mainlanders rarely take showers. They think it's bad for you. Most of them just use different buckets of water to wash their gooch, face, pits etc. It's a complicated matter

In the winter that is. In the summer they are usually pretty sweaty so they shower more often

did he just put CHINA in all capital letters to emphasise that his video is about China?

CHYNA

typical serpentza

He thinks "SEO" is making 2 or 3 words in his titles all caps, one of them being china

Do CHINESE people really EAT DOGS??

Yeah

Why

this YELLOW powder ENDED the war in VIETNAM