Moridin920 posted:

Does this mean I (as a white college degree holding male) can go to Korea and get a decent job and know 0 Korean?

Grand Fromage posted:

A shocking number of people in Asia consider themselves to be literally a different, superior species to other races

Like I wasn't allowed to donate blood in Korea because foreign blood is different and if you injected it into a Korean the Korean would die

Lucy Heartfilia posted:

I've also heard the the tape recorder thing about teaching foreign languages in Japan. What the gently caress is wrong with the people who thought this is a good idea?

Let us English posted:

Language pedagogy in Asia is non-existent. Students get English yelled at them and are kind of expected to just figure it out through osmosis. Until they get to high school, then their magically supposed to read and understand asinine texts about the finer points of Confucian morals and/or electron microscopy or other such nonsense.

Gorilla Salad posted:

That might just be because you had the AIDS you filthy foreigner

JaucheCharly posted:

What is "perverted sex"?

angel opportunity posted:

I learned Chinese my first two semesters from a guy from Taiwan who hadn't been back to Taiwan in like fifty years.

We learned stuff like:

我管這個人叫麗麗

這個人多麼好啊

我在中國住 (we learned this word order as like the standard word order)

A misanthrope posted:

syscall girl posted:

If you enjoyed it it's perverted.

JaucheCharly posted:

"She was strangely aroused by his foreign, sour smell of beer and cheese. His large moustache bristled with sexual energy as he flung his cape around her. Taking her down a road that would end in drugs, prostitution, madness and the aids."

spankmeister posted:

Haha, oh man that's classic! Especially if you don't know any Chinese.

Modest Mao posted:

learn some chinese

Lufiron posted:

the stories in this thread aren't really selling china and asia in general as a place I want to be and learn the languages of

Modest Mao posted:

Morkies posted:

because of the ASPM gene, the white man has a natural deficiency in the perception and recognition of the tones that are so essential to comprehending the oriental tongues, so you're not missing anything

spankmeister posted:

Haha, oh man that's classic! Especially if you don't know any Chinese.

caberham posted:

My girlfriend never left China and her English is amazing. I thought she studied overseas or something but nope.

Modest Mao posted:

Let us English posted:

Language pedagogy in Asia is non-existent. Students get English yelled at them and are kind of expected to just figure it out through osmosis. Until they get to high school, then their magically supposed to read and understand asinine texts about the finer points of Confucian morals and/or electron microscopy or other such nonsense.

Modest Mao posted:

Modest Mao posted:

learn some chinese

Arglebargle III posted:

tl;dr

Arglebargle III posted:

kinda like in my animes?

Blistex posted:

Jilted bride contemplates jumping.

Morkies posted:

The history of the world tells a tale of the continual displacement of populations, each by a worthier successor, and humanity gains thereby. We ourselves are no descendents of the aborigines of Britain, and our colonists were invaders of the regions they now occupy as their lawful home. But the countries into which the Anglo-Saxon race can be transfused are restricted to those where the climate is temperate. The Tropics are not for us, to inhabit permanently; the greater part of Africa is the heritage of people differently constituted to ourselves. On that continent, as elsewhere, one population continually drives out another. Consider its history as it extends over successive centuries. We note how Arab, Tuarick, Fellatah, Negroes of uncounted varieties, Cadre, Hottentot surge and reel to and fro in the struggle for existence. It is into this free flight among all present that I wish to see a new competitor introduced-namely, the Chinaman. The gain would be immense to the whole civilized world if we were to out-breed and finally displace the negro, as completely as the latter has displaced the aborigines of the West Indies. The magnitude of the gain may be partly estimated by making the converse supposition –namely, the loss that would ensue if China were somehow to be depopulated and restocked by negroes.

The pressure of population in China is enormous, and its outflow is great and increasing. There is no lack of material for a suitable immigration into Africa. I do not say that it would be possible at any moment to persuade communities of men and women from Southern China to establish themselves in Africa; but I am assured, by excellent authorities, that occasions of political disturbances frequently arise when it would be practicable to do so by the promise of a free, or nearly free, grant of land. The Chinese have a land hunger, as well as a love for petty traffic, and they would find a field in which to gratify both of these tastes on the East African Coast. There are many Chinese capitalists resident in foreign parts who might speculate in such a system and warmly encourage it. If once successfully started, it ought to maintain itself. The colonist could not starve; and when they began to succeed they would send money to their relatives to enable them to follow, just as they now do from the many other parts of the world where they are located. For these reasons it is probable that the streams of emigration from China have sufficient "head" to enable them to reach and overflow the coasts of Eastern Africa if they were watched and judiciously diverted in that direction.

I have finally to speak of the political effort necessary to secure a free right of occupancy and of settlement at suitable points on the coast. No very serious obstacle seems to stand in the way; certainly none was met with when Liberia was founded. It is probable that as the success of such an enterprise would be of equally great value to all nations commercially interested in those parts, no national jealousy would be excited by its promotion, and the necessary territory could be obtained with little difficulty and at a small cost, to be advanced in the first instance as a charge on the land and hereafter to be redeemed.

waitwhatno posted:

So, did the withe man make it or did he perish from this world? Post the rest and stop teasing.

Morkies posted:

The history of the world tells a tale of the continual displacement of populations, each by a worthier successor, and humanity gains thereby. We ourselves are no descendents of the aborigines of Britain, and our colonists were invaders of the regions they now occupy as their lawful home. But the countries into which the Anglo-Saxon race can be transfused are restricted to those where the climate is temperate. The Tropics are not for us, to inhabit permanently; the greater part of Africa is the heritage of people differently constituted to ourselves. On that continent, as elsewhere, one population continually drives out another. Consider its history as it extends over successive centuries. We note how Arab, Tuarick, Fellatah, Negroes of uncounted varieties, Cadre, Hottentot surge and reel to and fro in the struggle for existence. It is into this free flight among all present that I wish to see a new competitor introduced-namely, the Chinaman. The gain would be immense to the whole civilized world if we were to out-breed and finally displace the negro, as completely as the latter has displaced the aborigines of the West Indies. The magnitude of the gain may be partly estimated by making the converse supposition –namely, the loss that would ensue if China were somehow to be depopulated and restocked by negroes.

The pressure of population in China is enormous, and its outflow is great and increasing. There is no lack of material for a suitable immigration into Africa. I do not say that it would be possible at any moment to persuade communities of men and women from Southern China to establish themselves in Africa; but I am assured, by excellent authorities, that occasions of political disturbances frequently arise when it would be practicable to do so by the promise of a free, or nearly free, grant of land. The Chinese have a land hunger, as well as a love for petty traffic, and they would find a field in which to gratify both of these tastes on the East African Coast. There are many Chinese capitalists resident in foreign parts who might speculate in such a system and warmly encourage it. If once successfully started, it ought to maintain itself. The colonist could not starve; and when they began to succeed they would send money to their relatives to enable them to follow, just as they now do from the many other parts of the world where they are located. For these reasons it is probable that the streams of emigration from China have sufficient "head" to enable them to reach and overflow the coasts of Eastern Africa if they were watched and judiciously diverted in that direction.

I have finally to speak of the political effort necessary to secure a free right of occupancy and of settlement at suitable points on the coast. No very serious obstacle seems to stand in the way; certainly none was met with when Liberia was founded. It is probable that as the success of such an enterprise would be of equally great value to all nations commercially interested in those parts, no national jealousy would be excited by its promotion, and the necessary territory could be obtained with little difficulty and at a small cost, to be advanced in the first instance as a charge on the land and hereafter to be redeemed.

Blistex posted: