Topic: news Language Wars: English-Speaking Chinese Person Meets Mandarin-Speaking Foreigner

Gee........i wunder how many long- term "guests" are living in Chinar? At what point are they no longer "guests" and begin to have feelings about their new environment, both "positive" and "negative"? How many "guests" in Chinar get the privilege of going to work everyday and dealing with the "happy citizens"? When was the last time you asked a guest to run your business, pay your taxes, or educate your children? Is there a time line or some kind of qualification certificate when the Chinese decide that you are no longer a "guest"? Fluency in Mandarin? CCP membership? Minimal capital investment? (he,he) I suppoze that you wouldn't say rude things to guests, or let them see your dirty house and fighting relatives, or attempt to cheat them at the market. "Guests get best!". The idea of foreigners being "guests" in China is typically an Amerikan meme promoted by apologists for Chinar and is usefully exploited by the CCP. When some foreigner screws up, or says something uncomfortably true that causes loss of face, the "foreign guest mantra" is invoked (Because you wouldn't do that at home, right?). The Chinese themselves don't feel this way (just ask them when the camera is off), they just see "economic opportunities" and "peaceful development". I have seen many rich Chinese tourists act like jackasses in Amerika, and they could care less about "American Culture". Lots of Chinese hate foreigners too and don't like to see them in their country taking their jobs (that they can't do) screwing their women(that they don't want)and stealing their money(that they stole fairly from someone else), but need foreign ideas,IP, investments, and English lessons right now (for a little while). They would be glad to get rid of us if they could. Amerika also hates its foreigners, but needs the cheap labor and $$$ college tuition fees. For years, it has been loss of face and humiliation at the hands of foreign powers that has driven the Chinese "economic miracle" to succeed at any cost, even taking on "Foreign Friends". "Foreign Friends" will be screwed here if they are dumb enough to believe that everything Chinese people say is true. They have even gotten foreigners to repeat the dumb shit that Chinese people say in Chinese! Chinese people also screw each other and laugh about it, so screwing the laowai is no big deal anymore, and is morally/historically justified by CCP. You should be laughing too when some "old China hand" is gonna "tell you like it is" or chide you for being your cynical American/European/Western self because it IS FUNNY how the CCP has gotten laowai to do their work FOR THEM for free.It is called the Central Propaganda Department. We're obviously not in Amerika, Darwin. Quit lecturing us with bumper sticker wisdom and say something ORIGINAL. Some of us are not here out of choice but necessity, and we need to vent once in awhile. If it were as simple as "just go back to Amerika/EU" then fewer of us would be here, as Amerika and much of the EU is currently an economic wasteland and we are a little bitter about it. Adapt to this. BTW Charles Darwin enjoyed eating exotic, nearly extinct animals that he discovered, just like the Chinese. Have a nice day!