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[Mr.Engrish]

[MisterButtkins]

[Mr.Engrish]

Inner Mongolia.

I never thought of that actually, the Russian part makes sense but Koreans?

When you say " loads" how many are we talking about roughly?

I would imagine most are students?

[MisterButtkins]

[Lobster]

One load of girls = 24 general mixed foreign girls, 132 Korean girls or 6 Russian girls.

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[spicykimchi]

[basbas]

i think the chinese and asians in general have very skewed perceptions of what a foreigner should look like...I am often reminded of something I saw when I worked in korea. I used to teach community center classes and I would give my kids a test once a month on the material we had studied...I would buy them pizza let them watch a movie while I corrected their test...I would always get the pizza from the same place...this little pizza place around the corner from the community center...on the window of the pizza place there was what I can only assume was supposed to be a cartoon character that was supposed to be Italian...he was a fat guy with a beard and chef's hat but he had blue eye and blond hair. This to me always looked really 'wrong'...not that there aren't blond italians, it's just that when I think of an Italian I think of someone who looks like Rudolph Valentino or something...you know dark eyes and hair...

I don't think this proves anything (it was just an observation of course) but I think for a lot of people in china if you don't correspond to 'the look' they have in their minds about what foreigners should look like then your somehow cheating them and their not getting their money's worth or something along those lines...

I've tried explaining some things to chinese people concerning genetics

about 1/4 of people in the English speaking countries have blond hair...

about 1/4 of people in the English speaking countries have blue eyes...

(These are just approximations, it certainly varies from place to place but on average this is about right)

sooooo doing a little simple math the odds of having blond hair and blues eyes is about 1/8... pretty low all things considered...

I also try to remind them them that there is no relationship between what someone looks like and their ability to speak a language. Despite what our vulgar Chomskian friends think there is no biological hard-wiring for a particular language...Chinese people aren't 'biologically' better suited to speak chinese, russian people aren't biologically better suited to speak russian. Anyone who doubts the veracity of this last point is invited to take a newborn child from anywhere in the world and put him on the other side of the world in a totally different language group, come back 10 years later and he will speak the host language perfectly, come back 10 years after that and try to teach him his 'native' language and watch him struggle...This shows what a lot of people have suspected for a long time; language is a cultural artifact and nothing more...

[Qaaolchoura]

I'm pretty sure that most people (certainly most women) who have red or blonde hair don't actually have naturally red or blonde hair. And if you really care about eye color you can get special contacts.

Now me, I may have brown hair and brown eyes, but I have a type of skin which is physically incapable of tanning, which is usually a nuisance, but I do get some perverse enjoyment when people in Asian countries comment with awe on how white my hands are.

[Miles Smiles]

[GeminiTiger]

Last night my girlfriend was watching some signing competition on the internet that is called "Asian Wave". It had several foreigners as backup performers, mostly doing some dancing in the background.

First I saw the man and I thought to myself, whoa, that dude is not handsome at all for being on TV.

Later I saw three white girls. Zoomed out it looked pretty good but when they finally showed the faces I saw 3 giant Russian rather large noses and hard chiseled looks, anything but feminine looking.

I stopped watching.

[7969]

A wise choice sir.