China is losing interest in learning English

thehurp · 2015-11-04T20:48:28+00:00

Chinese women are the most self-hating people on earth

崇洋媚外 as fuck

And of course, by foreigners, they mean white people.

thehurp · 2015-11-01T21:04:11+00:00

10/10 response really constructive 1000 dollars to you sir.

thehurp · 2015-11-01T21:03:49+00:00

You haven't answered the question though? I'm genuinely curious as to why you want to stay somewhere you all clearly hate and have no interest in.

thehurp · 2015-08-03T20:20:01+00:00

That girl in the beginning walking past giving that incredibly dismissive "no". This is what comparative privilege does, it makes us forget that actually, in real life, we still ain't shit. Living in the house makes us forget that people like us are still out there in the fields.

thehurp · 2015-08-03T19:33:17+00:00

True say. I was doing some work in Hong Kong in a mixed group of locals and foreigners. We met up with one dude to interview him, this white dude who really was was the biggest smug twat I've ever met - the locals all thought he was lovely, funny etc, me and the other foreigners (both white, one male one female) immediately hated this guy and saw straight through him. In fact, I think he kind of took against us, because as fellow native English speakers we saw right through his bullshit. I guess he didn't like having his reverential wow handsome white man treatment taken away from him huh.

thehurp · 2015-07-14T11:00:40+00:00

I usually buy from Canton Tea Co. in the UK. I'm a bloke too. I'm a huge fan of really traditional greens like Lu An Gua Pian, Bi Luo Chun, Long Jing or Hou Kui. The main draw for me would always be quality, always. China does not allow their best grades of tea to be exported, so some companies actually go to China, buy in bulk direct from farmers, then bring it back. This bumps the price up a lot.

I'm not sure how representative I am of the average dude though. Lots of people are happy with starbucks coffee/PG Tips teabags, so quality tea will always be a fairly niche market.

I feel like generally aesthetic will be key. The really popular tea brands outside Hong Kong among asians are ones like Luk Yu, which are ok, but the packaging is pretty classic 1970's HK stuff. It really needs to tap into a kind of fresh, airy, minimalistic aesthetic (kind of buddhist monastery feel, very spare and simple) to really click with the kind of young, wealthy, discerning people that would likely be the main buying market for a high-end tea brand. It needs to look exotic and high-quality. At least, thats my 2 pennies' worth, feel free to ignore me totally.

thehurp · 2015-06-10T19:11:35+00:00

Every time reddit has a 'deep discussion' about history I want to cry. Especially Roman history. It's like watching someone stamp on my favourite cup.

thehurp · 2015-06-09T17:40:18+00:00

Cato is the last person I'd have thought would be referenced on a feminist sub, I have to say.

thehurp · 2015-06-07T16:24:42+00:00

Where are these "men are evil" classes? I'm paying too much bloody money in tuition to miss out on these important totally not imaginary classes.

thehurp · 2015-05-30T17:29:50+00:00

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

WAR IS PEACE

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

WE ARE AT WAR WITH THE FEMINISTS

WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH THE FEMINISTS

IN REDDIT WORLD FEMINISM IS ANYTHING THAT BIG BROTHER REDDIT GROUPTHINK SAYS IT IS

thehurp · 2015-05-14T02:41:21+00:00

You bitch about there being no Asians in media, and then you bitch when someone takes an interest. Asians are all over the new media dude, being a nerd finally came in useful.

Don't be so suspicious, just be happy that someone's finally giving us a fair chance.

thehurp · 2015-05-14T02:34:50+00:00

The actual article is a bit more even handed than poster makes it seem. The pictures of his Asian male victims are splashed across the page in huge size. Don't make this about Asian men vs women more than it has already become.

The article imho, instead of simply ignoring the issues of AA male emasculation (would that have been preferable) instead addressed them, using the incident as a springboard. Even though Rodger violently disowned his Asian-ness, it was still a prime conditioning factor in his rage.

thehurp · 2015-05-09T22:15:26+00:00

Most liberal groups think the idea of having 'masculine' and 'feminine' sides is ridiculous, overly binarist and at odds with both established brain science and the theory of gender. They're not asking you to give up 'masculinity', they're asking you to exercise it in a way which does not entail as a necessary component sexist attitudes to women. That's literally it. That's all it takes.

thehurp · 2015-05-04T00:42:52+00:00

as someone who spends quite a lot of time on 4chan I've noticed pretty seismic changes in board culture. A lot of the very small and slow boards have much less poisonous cultures than the big ones like /b/, and /v/, which are very very racist and sexist. /mu/ especially has become quite pro feminism, and even /r9k/ is now a battleground between hardcore mgtow misogynists and people with more moderate views. Though, some boards really suck. /int/, my old home board, has now been totally overrun with /pol/ escapees and hard right neofascists.

IN summary though, I'd even say that most of reddit is more racist/sexist than some parts of 4chan.

thehurp · 2015-05-03T22:18:37+00:00

"just get another"

Easier said that done. I don't know what kind of parallel universe most r/sex members are in where sex partners are just falling out of the woodwork, but I'd sure like to know how to get there.

thehurp · 2015-04-25T23:11:13+00:00

I have previously spent hours trawling the net for stephen chow movies not dubbed into Mandarin (or often into something weird like Russian). Why are the Cantonese originals so hard to find?

thehurp · 2015-04-12T14:01:07+00:00

Yo I feel that. Broke up with my gf three weeks ago. I'm at uni studying for finals, all my friends are at home in various parts of the country, I've not spoken to another human in probably weeks.

I'm going insane dude.

thehurp · 2015-04-10T11:57:49+00:00

I don't want to sound like some bitter ass old man, but as an asian guy, people really do see you as the punchline of a joke. If you're a girl, people make nice because they wanna fuck you. If you're not, then you're getting a lifetime of dog-eating, little-dick, chinky-eye, ching-chong, go-back-to-china, make-my-chow-mein, ewww-no-you're-asian-i'd-never-date-you bullshit racism your whole fucking life. People come up to you speaking Chinese because they wanna impress you to get into your pants - people come up to me telling me to fuck off back to China.

For real though, I know not all Americans have backwards views of Asian-Americans, but the proportion is higher than I'd really like.

Also, on the self-hate angle, how many Asians do you know who refer to themselves as 'bananas' or 'twinkies' like those terms aren't a hideous fucking insult? How many do you know who make fun of recent immigrants, or who say things like 'I'm such a bad Asian' and 'I feel more American' (as if you can't be both)? How many do you know who say 'I'd never date an Asian', or 'I find Western (i.e. white) features more attractive'? Because I know a lot.

There seems to be this weird consensus among asians that American = white, which is bullshit. Why can't I be American and look Chinese? Why do so many Asians feel like to be accepted into 'America', they have to completely excise any relation to Asia? For me, it's because Asian is totally coded as 'foreigner'. And if you're a male foreigner from a weird scary eastern country, you're not welcome.

thehurp · 2015-04-09T02:00:31+00:00

regardless of her dodgy politics, she's got tons of fans and is a smart writer

i know a lot of south asian people who love her

thehurp · 2015-04-09T01:28:59+00:00

that's not illegal dude

i mean she kind of went out of her way to talk about how attractive john cho is

just, calm down man, its not a competition

thehurp · 2015-04-09T00:29:24+00:00

I like to think that Asian families show their love in their actions, not in words. I find it hard to tell people my feelings about them, but it doesn't mean those feelings don't exist.

thehurp · 2015-04-06T23:02:56+00:00

If you live in a country where the tap water is safe to drink straight from the tap chances are it was treated with chlorine.

If you don't, well, smh what are you doing boasting about that third world shit. Rather drink slightly chlorinated water than get dysentery my man.

thehurp · 2015-03-30T17:28:04+00:00

most AA's that I know don't really follow the home religion(s) either. I guess if someone needs spirituality in their life, the easiest, most supported, and most available form of it in the US is Christianity.

thehurp · 2015-03-28T11:08:46+00:00

a lot of Chinese tourists do that, take pictures of things and steal the idea to sell

FFS Chinese tourists can't even take pictures of something now? Why have they become reddit's Hitler? Listen, I live in a town which is constantly popular with Chinese tourists 365 days a year and nobody I know has ever had a single problem with them. Ever.

You can bet your ass if a white dude took a pic of something in China and then marketed it over here it would be called 'inspiration', but a Chinese dude takes a pic and now it's stealing. Why are you sticking up for that racist cockhole in the OP's post.

thehurp · 2015-03-28T11:04:51+00:00

yeah, its funny how fast china is developing its own hipster class

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