That's a stretch

I've only met 1 or 2 families who still speak min nan from Taiwan.

almost everyone i know here knows how to speak taiwanese/minnan

it's generally considered a lot more casual

though it can just depend on whatever both parties feel like, i've heard it used in many different settings

certain politicians that want to appear more "taiwanese" will use taiwanese in speeches

as with @porco said, if you go south of taipei, taiwanese will be used more and more until it's just what people will assume you'll use by default

I wish there was a nice resource to learn min nan / Taiwanese from English

it's a beautiful language and I only know a handful of insults

ji bai

kan ni na

pua ma :D

only words I know

does someone have the big china steel greentext

this one?

aye, thanks

np

a friend mentioned intentions to work in the car industry in china

so i had to tell him

Oh my god

I hadn't read that before

Holy shit <:thinkjojo:333980344044879872>

I knew China was fucked but holy damn

i love that greentexrt

everytime i read that greentext its more relevant

It's true

Too much reckless abandon for short term individual gain

Likewise I've had Chinese bosses in the US who got out of the rat race in China, set up shop in the US

and continued their fraud practices

Usually talking up a good game, making one sample, then a solid second order

Third order is a container, in which they've cozied up, and they'll pay later via invoice

Get the goods, sold, never pay for the third order which was the container load, claiming the items were defective or etc

They got the money selling the otherwise functional items from retail, the producers in China were fucked, and likewise cycles down etc etc

Vice versa my current bosses are Chinese, and operated a shop in the US. Only inspected a few times, but had Chinese managers

Because the bosses no basis or background of running a business, they let the suave managers run the show without an accounting system

About $100,000 stolen later, they wise up and fire the Chinese managers and so on

Same thing with the Taiwanese here, but they have a penchant for lighting up their warehouses on fire to claim the insurance money if their business goes sour -- the majority of the insurance agencies which are Chinese speaking are Taiwanese run, so it's near automatic approval

Most of the people paying for the insurance are the Mainland Chinese clients, so there's little to lose, esp when the times are booming now

https://www.chinalawblog.com/2017/06/garlic-more-garlic-china-trade-and-fairness-an-update.html
This is one of my buddies company as well. His parents company owns the garlic market AFAIK of the entire west coast. They take state subsidized garlic and dump it in the US for way below market rates

Chinks out of my garlic reeeeeeeeeeee

Rest assured, it's a family run business and outside of the father, his children are absolutely fucking retards