I am a Chinese(in mainland China),you can ask me some questions other than the government

[Overly Serious]

Hello. I haven't replied to this thread before but I read much of it with interest. I want to thank you for all your time posting here and I hope it doesn't lead to problems for you.

I would like to ask you how easy it is to get books in China on the history of your country. And are there areas of history that are forbidden? In the West we say that "History is written by the winners" and there are lots of things in our own history that are hard to get unbiased or accurate information on. China has a reputation for having a lot of censorship and propaganda. Does this interfere with academic freedom for historians?

I would also like to ask what is the typical Chinese view on Israel and Zionism?

Thank you for your reply. I'm sorry I didn't know you were British.
About Britain, I know it is divided into four parts: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland，There was a referendum on independence in Scotland in 2013. Do you know the specific attitude of the local people towards the independence movement? And how do the English view the independence movement in these places?

My answers will be a little different from the other reply you got. As you might imagine, many people view the same thing differently.

The Scottish independence vote took place before anybody knew the UK would leave the EU. If the Scottish people had known this they would have probably voted to leave so that they could remain part of the EU. Generally the relationship of Scottish people to English is friendly rivalry. Most don't want to actually leave but some politicians promised them they could "have their cake and eat it". This is an expression meaning you get something you want without bad consequences. It means you can eat the cake, or you can have (possess) the cake. But you can't eat the cake and still have the cake afterwards. The idea Scottish nationalists presented to the Scottish people was that they could have freedom from any decisions made by English politicians but miraculously keep financial support, military protection, deals and influence in England. Fortunately, most Scottish people are smart enough to realize when they're being sold a "pipe dream". (Another expression meaning it seems good but is not real, coming from 'opium pipes' that people smoked).

Scotland has a lot of oil refineries from North Sea oilfields. The Scottish Nationalists think that if they separate, they will have lots of money from these oil fields all for Scotland. But it wont happen.

Most of the English would be sorry to see Scotland go. Very few Scottish people still speak the Scottish language. The accent is different and there is national pride, but the reality is Scottish and English people aren't really any different from each other culturally.

In addition, what mentality did the British choose to support brexit in the referendum on brexit?

There are two views on this. Much of the media and those who wanted to remain in the EU said that the Brexit supporters were all racists who hated foreigners. This is quite funny when you realise that the EU is the largest White protectionist state in the World and makes it hard for Britain to buy goods from non-White nations, such as food grown in African countries. There were two really big reasons for Brexit support, I think. The first is sovereignty. The EU was originally a trade agreement and it grew into more and more of a powerful body itself and laws which it made immediately became UK laws; and its courts were superior to UK courts. People didn't want to be ruled by other countries even if they had a voice amongst those countries.

The second big reason is immigration. People in the UK wanted to be able to decide for themselves who to let into the country. Angela Merkel the German premiere, opened the EU to enormous numbers of immigrants from other countries such as Libya. Many people were very unhappy about this. I think Merkel is the reason that the UK voted to leave. If she had been less determined to let in so many immigrants, the UK would probably have stayed.

About the queen of England, what is the attitude towards her by British? Are there any negative comments about her on the Internet?

Not many. Most people just don't think about her that much. But she is regarded favourably by most because they view her as a symbol of the country. Legally she still has a lot of power but through tradition she never uses it. It's a strange situation that came about through British history. The French killed all their royal family. But in Britain, they survived and in the turmoil that followed were eventually allowed back and a balance of power was negotiated. They would keep many of their legal powers over the country but they didn't use them because it was a very delicate balance and they didn't want to push their luck too far. Mostly they were happy to just be rich and spoiled and over time it came to the point that the King or Queen had power but stayed out of politics and didn't use it. Today, the Queen could legally do a lot of things but if she did there would be a huge crisis that would end with their powers being taken away from them.

They are still very, very rich and very, very well-connected, however.

I have also seen some documentaries about British history. How do the British treat the historical hatred with the Celts (mainly the Irish)? Do people have a psychological gap compared with the great history of the British Empire in the past?

That hatred is gone these days. At least for the English. A lot of the hatred was from cheap Irish labourers coming over to England and working for much less money than the English labourers.

People still make jokes about the Irish, though. For example:

Two Irishmen were working in the town. One would dig a hole and the other would follow behind him and fill the hole in.
After a while, one amazed onlooker said: "Why do you dig a hole, only to have your partner follow behind and fill it up again?"
The hole digger wiped his brow and sighed, "Well, I suppose it probably looks odd because we're normally a three-person team. But today the lad who plants the trees is sick."

I hope all this is interesting to you. I have one last question and it is the most important - Can you get me Li Bingbing's (李冰冰) phone number?

 

[Bayun Fulan]

can we meet up at the Dog Eating Festival in Yunan?

Sorry, I've only heard of Guangxi dog meat Festival. As for dog meat, I only ate it once when I was a child, and I have forgotten the taste. But now there is a dog killing restaurant downstairs. To be honest, I don't know why Chinese people like its taste so much, and this behavior seems barbaric. The good news is that Shenzhen has enacted a law banning cat meat and dog meat. Although many people oppose it, I support this law。

So about the Three Gorges Dam, it's going through the usual motions of wear and tear for it's age, but it hasn't sprung any major leaks. Although, the reservoir did cause the water level to rise enough to cancel some archeological projects. Plus, Taiwan or some other country had threatened to destroy it with they invaded China.

And also, has anyone protested against the government-mandated lockdowns? Because it's pushing small business owners into defying them from a lack of revenue.

I think there are, but it is impossible for him to oppose directly, even if he only complains on the Internet。

What happened to Maggie Cheung? I miss her.

Sorry, I don't know the stars of Hong Kong very well。

hey @andabeeryy

How do you type hanzi? Is it a Latin keyboard where pinyin is converted to hanzi, like "zhongguo" --> "中国"?

Of course, and we also have voice input and handwriting input。

What is the kfc porridge like?

I haven't heard of it, but this funny food mix is usually bad。

Thanks for your replies! I have another question if you don't mind. I'd say a majority of Americans have a positive view of the Chinese, although many detest the Chinese government. Our media doesn't encourage a dislike of the Chinese people, but there is some criticism of the CCP. However it seems like the Chinese media push a negative view of the West. How many of your countrymen view the West with contempt, versus those with a more neutral or positive perspective? You seem to have a pretty friendly view of us -- why do you think that is?

Thank you. It's good to hear that。

Basically, our media always stand against the western system and Western culture，Coupled with the atmosphere of nationalism, people have great dissatisfaction and prejudice against the governments of western countries and the western countries themselves. For example, because of some discrimination against Asians in the United States, people also discriminate against white people and think that their country is based on the sacrifice of Indians. Because some black people who enter China illegally stay in China, people also blame black people. The same example is that people hate the Japanese because of the wars of aggression in history, the Koreans because of cultural disputes, and the Indonesians because of the anti Chinese incident in Indonesia, and so on。

Such people are the mainstream on China's Internet, but some people think that Westerners have been deceived by their government. Some people also admit that there is a gap between China and the west, and recognize the excellence of western culture. However, they think that China should surpass them in the future。

As for me, in fact, I was a similar nationalist in the past. I was loyal to this country and hated the speech advocating learning from the Japanese (at that time, the speech was more free and the mainstream public opinion was not so strongly against the West). But in 20172018, there were a lot of bad events in our country, which started to make me think about the past ideas。

At this time, I joined some niche forums to learn more about the country. Later, I browsed some blocked websites through VPN. These things changed my previous ideas. Through my own thinking and communication with similar people, I had a new attitude. I no longer have prejudice against the West and see it A lot of the good things about the west, and most importantly, I've learned that there's no point in arguing about radical ideas。

 

[NerdShamer]

So, do you have any famous criminals in China? Outside of, you know, the ones who get disappeared for being dissidents?

Because America is has an ever-growing list of them.

Like from a guy who went insane over a zoning dispute, so he turned a bulldozer into an armored fortress.

The Zodiac Killer, famous for taunting the authorities with encoded messages as he was killing people.

The Unabomber, who was sending bombs through the mail and resulted in one of the most expensive investigations conducted by the FBI.

 

[Bayun Fulan]

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Chinese traditional conservative culture and thought。
in addition, many parents think that the virtual things will have a great negative impact on their children. Even some parents report the cartoon with pink hair characters because they think it is advocating hair dyeing。

Currently I am about half way through this thread and I can say that your mannerisms do indeed imply that you are genuinely a student from China. My observation mainly is because of how specific your references are and this is because back a few years ago I befriended a dude that came to Canada from the CPP and he spoke very similar to you. Not meaning to cuck to hard, but I can admire the tenacity of your countries work ethnic despite the dismay towards Westerners. Especially because he had quite a remarkable grasp on academics that is indeed lacking in mainline Western culture, as well seemed rather conservative in his views.

Though I am mainly going to ask my question from a Canadians standpoint, just generally because there are some differences. What do people in China think or Canada, and their relations with Canadians? People here are very hesitant towards what would be considered to be hate speech, because our Liberal government has mirrored a lot of the legal provisions that limit certain expressions, and or cross racial lines with in our legal framework since at least the instillation of the Human Rights Code.

Though the sentiment people have had and especially since the virus is quite a fair sense of resentment because of this specific situation. I'm quite appauled on the discovery of some of the manners in which on how racial preduice has been ingrained with in mainline society in China, because again things in Canada are very PC culturally. Though the notion that Zionism being associated with the machinations with in the US government, and Western government narrative is not surprising, considering that making those associations in the West are very taboo.

I think these type of engagements in dialogue are excellent and reaching out on such a forum like this is problematic, especially in Western culture. Hence you made a good choice in picking the forum to engage with. In reality none of our governments are truly representative of their people, here the only difference is that the tactics of suppression are not so brute force unlike in your country.

I wish you well and have a good Christmas and Happy New Year. I know that isn't a thing in China like the West, but best wishes.

Thank you. To be honest, because of my poor English level and your long reply, I spent a lot of time to understand the meaning of your sentence. Could you please explain the meaning of "PC culturally" and the full meaning of this paragraph
“Though the notion that Zionism being associated with the machinations with in the US government, and Western government narrative is not surprising, considering that making those associations in the West are very taboo”?
I'm sorry I don't understand it, because I can always translate other meanings。


With regard to Canada, after the Meng Wanzhou incident, people have been complaining about Canada's behavior. Coupled with the Canadian government's accusation against China, people began to be hostile to Canada, calling Canada a dog of the United States. People also do not understand that marijuana is legal in Canada. However, a large number of Chinese still immigrate to Canada, believing that life in Canada is better than that in the United States. There are many examples of this contradictory view of a country. For example, many Chinese are fans of Japanese animation, but they also resent Japan's behavior during World War II and praise Hiroshima's atomic bomb. Due to some anti China actions of northern Europe, Chinese people are also full of complaints about these countries. However, in many Chinese books, the Chinese think that northern Europe is also a peaceful paradise full of fairy tales. Most of the Chinese people's views on foreign countries come from the media and some news from these countries. After all, there are not many Chinese going abroad in terms of the total population. In addition, can you tell me what you or ordinary Canadians think about the Meng wanzhou incident and the legalization of marijuana?


As for China's nationalism and patriotism, I think that although it has always existed, it has become more fanatical in recent years. In addition to the guidance of the media, China's economic development has made great progress, so people have more confidence in the West and began to despise the West。


Finally, thank you again for your blessing. Now our country also celebrates the western new year, which is called yuandan festival. However, we still pay more attention to the traditional Chinese New Year—— Spring Festival. The Spring Festival in 2021 is on February 12. At that time, I may return to my hometown. Every year, we will watch the TV program of the Spring Festival evening party at the night before the Spring Festival. You may know the traditional customs of Chinese people on this day, I say a special one. In the south, especially in my hometown, people don't eat dumplings during the Spring Festival, but they eat Yuanxiao，also called tangyuan. Maybe many Westerners don't know about it. Chinese people don't pay much attention to Christmas, but I know it's equivalent to spring festival in the west, so I wish you a happy Christmas ahead of time。

Hello. I haven't replied to this thread before but I read much of it with interest. I want to thank you for all your time posting here and I hope it doesn't lead to problems for you.

I would like to ask you how easy it is to get books in China on the history of your country. And are there areas of history that are forbidden? In the West we say that "History is written by the winners" and there are lots of things in our own history that are hard to get unbiased or accurate information on. China has a reputation for having a lot of censorship and propaganda. Does this interfere with academic freedom for historians?

I would also like to ask what is the typical Chinese view on Israel and Zionism?



My answers will be a little different from the other reply you got. As you might imagine, many people view the same thing differently.

The Scottish independence vote took place before anybody knew the UK would leave the EU. If the Scottish people had known this they would have probably voted to leave so that they could remain part of the EU. Generally the relationship of Scottish people to English is friendly rivalry. Most don't want to actually leave but some politicians promised them they could "have their cake and eat it". This is an expression meaning you get something you want without bad consequences. It means you can eat the cake, or you can have (possess) the cake. But you can't eat the cake and still have the cake afterwards. The idea Scottish nationalists presented to the Scottish people was that they could have freedom from any decisions made by English politicians but miraculously keep financial support, military protection, deals and influence in England. Fortunately, most Scottish people are smart enough to realize when they're being sold a "pipe dream". (Another expression meaning it seems good but is not real, coming from 'opium pipes' that people smoked).

Scotland has a lot of oil refineries from North Sea oilfields. The Scottish Nationalists think that if they separate, they will have lots of money from these oil fields all for Scotland. But it wont happen.

Most of the English would be sorry to see Scotland go. Very few Scottish people still speak the Scottish language. The accent is different and there is national pride, but the reality is Scottish and English people aren't really any different from each other culturally.



There are two views on this. Much of the media and those who wanted to remain in the EU said that the Brexit supporters were all racists who hated foreigners. This is quite funny when you realise that the EU is the largest White protectionist state in the World and makes it hard for Britain to buy goods from non-White nations, such as food grown in African countries. There were two really big reasons for Brexit support, I think. The first is sovereignty. The EU was originally a trade agreement and it grew into more and more of a powerful body itself and laws which it made immediately became UK laws; and its courts were superior to UK courts. People didn't want to be ruled by other countries even if they had a voice amongst those countries.

The second big reason is immigration. People in the UK wanted to be able to decide for themselves who to let into the country. Angela Merkel the German premiere, opened the EU to enormous numbers of immigrants from other countries such as Libya. Many people were very unhappy about this. I think Merkel is the reason that the UK voted to leave. If she had been less determined to let in so many immigrants, the UK would probably have stayed.


Not many. Most people just don't think about her that much. But she is regarded favourably by most because they view her as a symbol of the country. Legally she still has a lot of power but through tradition she never uses it. It's a strange situation that came about through British history. The French killed all their royal family. But in Britain, they survived and in the turmoil that followed were eventually allowed back and a balance of power was negotiated. They would keep many of their legal powers over the country but they didn't use them because it was a very delicate balance and they didn't want to push their luck too far. Mostly they were happy to just be rich and spoiled and over time it came to the point that the King or Queen had power but stayed out of politics and didn't use it. Today, the Queen could legally do a lot of things but if she did there would be a huge crisis that would end with their powers being taken away from them.

They are still very, very rich and very, very well-connected, however.



That hatred is gone these days. At least for the English. A lot of the hatred was from cheap Irish labourers coming over to England and working for much less money than the English labourers.

People still make jokes about the Irish, though. For example:

Two Irishmen were working in the town. One would dig a hole and the other would follow behind him and fill the hole in.
After a while, one amazed onlooker said: "Why do you dig a hole, only to have your partner follow behind and fill it up again?"
The hole digger wiped his brow and sighed, "Well, I suppose it probably looks odd because we're normally a three-person team. But today the lad who plants the trees is sick."

I hope all this is interesting to you. I have one last question and it is the most important - Can you get me Li Bingbing's (李冰冰) phone number?

Of course, any book in China must be censored, so history books are no exception. There are not many problems in ancient history books, but in modern history, especially in the history after 1949, a large number of sensitive contents have been deleted (which you should be able to guess). Many of these histories have been artificially processed and transformed. The author will use some methods to guide people's thoughts when describing these history。

There are also many conspiracy theories about Jews in China. They believe that Jews control the United States, but some Chinese books also describe Jews as great and intelligent races. Due to the relationship between Israel and the United States, the Chinese do not like Israel, but generally speaking, there is not much hatred (Chinese and Jews had similar experiences in World War II, Shanghai helped some Jewish refugees)。

Thank you for your reply about Britain. As for Li Bingbing, it's obvious that the phone numbers of all the stars are controlled by their agents, so I don't know。

 

[Kanuckski]

Chinese traditional conservative culture and thought。
in addition, many parents think that the virtual things will have a great negative impact on their children. Even some parents report the cartoon with pink hair characters because they think it is advocating hair dyeing。

Thank you. To be honest, because of my poor English level and your long reply, I spent a lot of time to understand the meaning of your sentence. Could you please explain the meaning of "PC culturally" and the full meaning of this paragraph
“Though the notion that Zionism being associated with the machinations with in the US government, and Western government narrative is not surprising, considering that making those associations in the West are very taboo”?
I'm sorry I don't understand it, because I can always translate other meanings。


With regard to Canada, after the Meng Wanzhou incident, people have been complaining about Canada's behavior. Coupled with the Canadian government's accusation against China, people began to be hostile to Canada, calling Canada a dog of the United States. People also do not understand that marijuana is legal in Canada. However, a large number of Chinese still immigrate to Canada, believing that life in Canada is better than that in the United States. There are many examples of this contradictory view of a country. For example, many Chinese are fans of Japanese animation, but they also resent Japan's behavior during World War II and praise Hiroshima's atomic bomb. Due to some anti China actions of northern Europe, Chinese people are also full of complaints about these countries. However, in many Chinese books, the Chinese think that northern Europe is also a peaceful paradise full of fairy tales. Most of the Chinese people's views on foreign countries come from the media and some news from these countries. After all, there are not many Chinese going abroad in terms of the total population. In addition, can you tell me what you or ordinary Canadians think about the Meng wanzhou incident and the legalization of marijuana?

I'm just one perspective in this but when it comes to Meng Wanzhou and her arrest; The impression I get is ignorance of it happening or approval because they think it hurts China and Huawei. Since Huawei 5G networks are seen as security risks and an arm of Chinese spying into other countries. As for weed, it was a very popular election promise from Trudeau, though it turned out mediocre in practice. At the time you'd see articles of economists talking up what a massive funding move this would be and the government would get so much money through taxing legal weed sales. It was super hyped up but is pretty mediocre now. Justin Trudeau turned out to be a low quality drug dealer and the requirements to sell weed legally are considered very restrictive for a highly taxed low quality product. So it's not very appealing to potential legal weed stores either. Many Canadians still prefer to buy from their old illegal dealers, those that have converted to legal stores begrudgingly acknowledge it's safer and more convenient. I know there is a subreddit on Reddit dedicated to connecting old illegal dealers to their customers in Canada. However it is blocked in Canada and you need a VPN to access it because of the government demanding Reddit hide it from Canadians.

As for the poster you responded to, I won't speak for them, so I'll only explain terms. But "PC culturally" refers to the politically correct culture in the West and wider Western Bloc. Some examples would be things like increasing and often people and media supported censorship of slurs and what they consider wrong think or wrong opinions. As well as extreme protectionism of LGBTQ+ and non-white races (mostly transgender or black people) It tends to be seen in a negative light in outsider forums like these. But on mainstream websites like Twitter is seen as very popular. The core base of it is usually naive collage-age students. As for Zionism being associated with machinations of the U.S government. Zionism it's an extension of Jewish belief. In conspiracy theories Jews are seen as having massive control over the U.S government and other various influential things.

 

[NerdShamer]

For the context behind the PC culture in Canada, it essentially boils down to "all people are equal, but some people (transgender, women, and certain races) are more equal than others."

One of the more notable incidents is that a transwomen named Yaniv wanted their balls waxed. The woman who was supposed to do it refused because her religion prevents her from touching male genitals. Yaniv filed a civil lawsuit and essentially won it, if I'm right.

 

[Kanuckski]

For the context behind the PC culture in Canada, it essentially boils down to "all people are equal, but some people (transgender, women, and certain races) are more equal than others."

One of the more notable incidents is that a transwomen named Yaniv wanted their balls waxed. The woman who was supposed to do it refused because her religion prevents her from touching male genitals. Yaniv filed a civil lawsuit and essentially won it, if I'm right.

Yeah, Canadian courts are embarrassing because of the judges. In the Western provinces there's actually a massive amount of pushback since the western Canadian provinces tend to get used as spearhead for BLM shit and it tends to get shut out quick. But that won't stop the courts from doing shit that leads to articles like this. Something else I'd like to add that's just awful about Canadian culture is Anti-American sentiment. It dominates our intellectual circles and has since the U.S won independence from the British. In past times people turned to nationalism and loyalty to the crown. Then it turned to an unapologetically Canadian prime minister as the symbol and rallying point for Canadian culture. Now its PC shitters morally grandstanding on Americans because they are stinky unlike the Canadian welfare state. It's the most embarrassing part of the culture here. Most Americans love Canada and that love is largely rebuked by retards in a humiliating insistence of Canadian moral superiority. America really should have just annexed Canada in the war of 1812 or vice versa.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

How tiny is your penis? The world needs to know.

 

[Bayun Fulan]

So, do you have any famous criminals in China? Outside of, you know, the ones who get disappeared for being dissidents?

Because America is has an ever-growing list of them.

Like from a guy who went insane over a zoning dispute, so he turned a bulldozer into an armored fortress.

The Zodiac Killer, famous for taunting the authorities with encoded messages as he was killing people.

The Unabomber, who was sending bombs through the mail and resulted in one of the most expensive investigations conducted by the FBI.

Yes, there are famous ones, such as：
Bai baoshan, the famous bandit, who killed many people including the police with rifles.
Long Zhimin, who with his wife killed 48 people by luring them and buried all the bodies in their own yard.
Jin Ruchao，who made explosions that killed 108 people.
Yang Xinhai, who fled four provinces to commit rape and homicide, including body rape, killed 65 people.
Gao Chengyong, who committed 11 murders, rapes and dismemberments between 1988 and 2011, was not arrested until 2016.
Huang Yong, who created a special tool for killing, lured and killed 17 teenagers.

Ma Jiajue, a college student, killed four dormitory staff with a hammer because of conflict. And Lin Senhao, a Fudan University student, killed his roommate with poison. These two incidents are famous because they happened in famous universities。

Cai Dongjia, a famous drug making case in boshe village, Guangdong Province, turned a village of thousands of people into a famous place for manufacturing drugs. This village is called a drug village. In 2013, the government dispatched troops to occupy the place。

There is also a case that has not been solved so far - Diao Aiqing incident, a student of Nanjing University, was dismembered, and the murderer has not been found。

As you may know, this website records many major cases in various countries. In fact, I happened to see this page on a domestic website. There are some big cases in China that I have never heard of before。

High Score - Encyclopedia Dramatica

encyclopediadramatica.wiki

As for those who have disappeared due to different political opinions, domestic news generally does not cover them, but foreign news reports a lot. Sorry, I don't want to talk more about this。

 

[NerdShamer]

You know Encyclopedia Dramatica is satirical, right?

Although, they're right about the "high score" page. And I'm kind of surprised that ED isn't blocked in China, yet; on account of the content that they host.

 

[Least Concern]

One of the more notable incidents is that a transwomen named Yaniv wanted their balls waxed. The woman who was supposed to do it refused because her religion prevents her from touching male genitals. Yaniv filed a civil lawsuit and essentially won it, if I'm right.

No, Yaniv lost and was ordered to pay the fees of the defendants. But at least one of the defendants was driven out of business by the case.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Thanks for answering the previous questions @andabeeryy.

Anyway you know how in Japan they use honorifics like "-san" or "-chan"? Are Chinese honorifics still commonly used in China?

 

[NerdShamer]

No, Yaniv lost and was ordered to pay the fees of the defendants. But at least one of the defendants was driven out of business by the case.

I knew he got something out of it, couldn't remember what it was.

 

[Overly Serious]

Thank you for your reply about Britain. As for Li Bingbing, it's obvious that the phone numbers of all the stars are controlled by their agents, so I don't know。

That's okay - I didn't really expect you to have her number! I just think she's stunning.

But I am curious about whether The Meg was popular in China? American studios have been doing a lot to try and court the Chinese market in recent years. Whether that is sticking a famous Chinese boxer in the Transformers movie, casting Chinese actors or, less admirably, censoring themselves. In the Star Wars movie posters a main character who happens to be Black has a very small picture in the Chinese version but a normal sized picture in the American version. There's also a plausible story that he was supposed to be the romantic interest for the lead actress but they thought a relationship with a Black man would be badly received in China so they changed it. I don't know if that's true but I'm curious how popular it is in China when American studios do this sort of thing. Did Chinese people go to see The Meg because Li Bingbing was in it?

I mean, I did - but that's just because she looks great in a wetsuit.

For the context behind the PC culture in Canada, it essentially boils down to "all people are equal, but some people (transgender, women, and certain races) are more equal than others."

One of the more notable incidents is that a transwomen named Yaniv wanted their balls waxed. The woman who was supposed to do it refused because her religion prevents her from touching male genitals. Yaniv filed a civil lawsuit and essentially won it, if I'm right.

I just want to interject that a woman should not need to invoke a religious justification in order to refuse to handle someone's balls

But it is getting so bad in Canada that I would not be surprised if she were forced to without the religious excuse. Especially if that religion weren't Islam.

Yeah, Canadian courts are embarrassing because of the judges. In the Western provinces there's actually a massive amount of pushback since the western Canadian provinces tend to get used as spearhead for BLM shit and it tends to get shut out quick. But that won't stop the courts from doing shit that leads to articles like this. Something else I'd like to add that's just awful about Canadian culture is Anti-American sentiment. It dominates our intellectual circles and has since the U.S won independence from the British. In past times people turned to nationalism and loyalty to the crown. Then it turned to an unapologetically Canadian prime minister as the symbol and rallying point for Canadian culture. Now its PC shitters morally grandstanding on Americans because they are stinky unlike the Canadian welfare state. It's the most embarrassing part of the culture here. Most Americans love Canada and that love is largely rebuked by retards in a humiliating insistence of Canadian moral superiority. America really should have just annexed Canada in the war of 1812 or vice versa.

@andabeeryy I want to add to the above that one of the nauseating things about PC culture is the double standard. For example, in America a White person wearing "Blackface" (make-up to look Black) is considered a terrible thing, very racist. But Justin Trudeau has done this multiple times and the press and his supporters ignore it. But if a Right Wing person did that their career would be over.

 

[Bayun Fulan]

You know Encyclopedia Dramatica is satirical, right?

Although, they're right about the "high score" page. And I'm kind of surprised that ED isn't blocked in China, yet; on account of the content that they host.

Websites blocked by China are usually blocked only after the mainland has gained certain popularity. For example, reddit, pixiv, ehentai and ao3 are all blocked after being known by more and more people。

Thanks for answering the previous questions @andabeeryy.

Anyway you know how in Japan they use honorifics like "-san" or "-chan"? Are Chinese honorifics still commonly used in China?

I can't speak Japanese, but I know that the use of honorifics in Japanese is very complicated.
In modern Chinese, many honorifics are no longer used，We usually only use it in writing. The most common way is to use 您 instead of 你 as the honorific title of the other，They all translate into you in English。The others mainly use honorable words when addressing each other and modest words when describing ourselves。

But I am curious about whether The Meg was popular in China?

I'm sorry, I haven't heard of this movie, but I searched it and found that its rating is not high in China。

I don't know if that's true but I'm curious how popular it is in China when American studios do this sort of thing. Did Chinese people go to see The Meg because Li Bingbing was in it?

In fact, Chinese people seem to be less likely to buy movies with Chinese elements. They think that these foreigners can't really understand Chinese culture, so these films are quite different. For example, Hua Mulan is an example recently，Many Chinese have criticized the film. In addition, there is also a film Monster Hunter recently released in China, in which there is a line about the Chinese people. Because it is considered to be racial discrimination against the Chinese people, the film has been taken off the shelves in domestic cinemas。

 

[NerdShamer]

So, how well did The Great Wall do in China?

Over here, in the States, it's just another action movie that was set overseas. I found to be kind of mediocre, aside from the fighting.

 

[Least Concern]

In fact, Chinese people seem to be less likely to buy movies with Chinese elements. They think that these foreigners can't really understand Chinese culture, so these films are quite different. For example, Hua Mulan is an example recently，Many Chinese have criticized the film. In addition, there is also a film Monster Hunter recently released in China, in which there is a line about the Chinese people. Because it is considered to be racial discrimination against the Chinese people, the film has been taken off the shelves in domestic cinemas。

Hmm. From Wikipedia:

Just after the Chinese release on December 4, 2020, the film caused an uproar on Chinese social media because of a scene in which Jin's character jokingly asks: "Look at my knees!", and to the question "What kind of knees are these?", he replies: "Chi-knees!". Through the language made by the film's subtitles, Chinese viewers interpreted this as a reference to the racist playground chant "Chinese, Japanese, dirty knees", and therefore as an insult to Chinese people.[30] The film was removed from circulation, and Chinese authorities censored references to it online. Tencent had reportedly prepared modified versions of the films omitting the line but even these showings were pulled.[31] The reaction to the film also caused Chinese users to review bomb Monster Hunter: World in reference to the insulting lines.[32]

Constantin Film apologized for the dialog and stated they will remove the racially-insensitive dialog from the film before it is rereleased.[33] Jin said that for his character, the line was "to proudly proclaim he is a Chinese soldier, not just his knees, but his arms, his head, his heart".[30] Anderson stated that "It was never our intention to send a message of discrimination or disrespect to anyone. To the contrary - at its heart our movie is about unity," and that the line had been removed from all international versions of the film prior to their releases.[30]

It's interesting because it feels like Hollywood recently has been making action movies with mostly white American stars plus one random Chinese star that most Americans have never heard of and expecting it to make money in China even if it fails in the US - America is making movies explicitly for the Chinese audience. The Meg, Pacific Rim: Uprising, most of the Transformers sequels. This Monster Hunter movie looks like one of these movies, and even without the Coronavirus problem, I doubt it would have been a success in America alone. If it's shut out of Chinese theaters, it probably won't make anything close to its money back.

 

[Positron]

How do you type hanzi? Is it a Latin keyboard where pinyin is converted to hanzi, like "zhongguo" --> "中国"?

The traditional way of typing Chinese (Cangjie input method 倉頡輸入法) is based on the decomposition of the Chinese characters into constituent parts, called "radicals". Each radical is assigned a letter of the alphabet (the letter "x" being the grab-bag of all "undecomposable" parts). The advantage is that one can type a character in at most four keystrokes; the disadvantage is that you have to memorize the radicals (and the letters they represent) and a series of often recondite rules of decomposition. It is mainly used in the business setting where typing speed is important; the rest of us resort to a Simplfied form of Cangjie, where you key in the first and the last radicals of the characters you meant to type and then pick it from a (usually very long) list.

Pinyin only works if you know the dialect and have installed the relevant input schemes in your computer or phone. The Pinyin scheme for Mandarin obviously doesn't work for Cantonese. Speaking of phones, I guess most people these days just write on the screen with their fingers and let the AI figure it out.

 

[Gay_Frog]

@andabeeryy
Is there some must read of good chinese nationalist person that is english? Can you talk about the tourmours that happen in 2018+? And what is the concensous about South America and Western Europeans?

 

[Cheeseman]

i really appreciate your want to open up about chinese/american realtions. i have had a lot dealings with china with past employment and grew to know them as unyielding and would cut corners if they could negotiate contract wording enough every time. but you have shown me its really not that severe.

its not even that upsetting of a question but the fact you have answered it multiple times in such a calm manner, i have big respect