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NanNingJay
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the author writes something in pinyin then 'helpfully' translates it into chinese characters. The author is writing to (presumably) people newer to China. Yet assumes they not only know Pinyin but actually if they dont its because they only know the characters wtf? Broadly speaking, what's so wrong or foolish about compliments? If you have straight legs (yes, Chinese value this, how straight your legs stand) then why not say thank you? If someone does compliment the morals of your society, you really don't need to 'brush it off' and its not because you 'just happen to be born there' either. Recently I was told Canada must have good social morals for they have a healthcare system. (though its definitely not free!) and yes this is because my grandparents along with a union of Christian ministers, with a certain biblical morality, got together and developed a system with a Pastor who was elected by the people to office etc and so on. So this isn't some accident of birth. Its not like the actual soil of Canada just had this by happenstance but because of what people do, what morals they hold, how they continue valuing such things, electing such things and for that matter not abusing those things. I recently had a Chinese telling other Chinese how in Canada he was amazed to see someone put a 'Dont Walk on Grass' sign and even with no authorities looking, to his amazement, even young people in a hurry would stop and walk a very long way around, careful to obey the rule! Nobody even spit phlegm onto the grass while walking along it!!! This is, in part, because my culture (me, my family, my friends) deliberately inherited his morality, we chose to keep it, we even work and practice it as much or more in our lives. So no, don't 'brush it off' like its a joke and has no meaning or value since 'you didn't choose where you were born'. You do choose to keep, grow, preserve those moral values so be proud of it. (or be ashamed of bad ones because those too are your problem that your countrymen and you are responsible for, make, promote, continue). But in some of these compliments I have to say I am not so privileged, so elite, so proud, so self-aware of my beauty that I not only love getting compliments on my beauty but take it further by having the luxury of refuting them and brushing them off. A woman being whistled at walking past workman is thrilled. A woman who can then act offended is truly the highest on the superficial and social ladders. How nice it must be. The internet kids tell me its something related to a word 'humble-brag' but the point remains the same.

Apr 10, 2016 00;51
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