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Vagabundo
Joined: 26 Aug 2010
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| She always talk about the fact that I can't act "black" or she'll say your so "white", so to be an educated black person that doesn't speak ebonics I'm acting "white". |
she's merely following a large segment of the African American society in the US in believing this, much less saying it.
See Bill Cosby several years back. |
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Triple007
Joined: 29 Nov 2010
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| Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 10:48 am Post subject: |
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| Must move to Korea first. |
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Weigookin74
Joined: 26 Oct 2009
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| How much are apartments in those cities? What do schools typically provide for accomodation? Some seem to; some don't. If I had a free apartment in Beijing or Shanghai and made 11,000 RMB, how much would I save and what would my average costs per month be? |
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Menino80
Joined: 10 Jun 2007
Location: Hodor?
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| Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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| A vast amount of trade, especially exporting is done in the Cantonese ports, e.g. Shenzen; Guangzhou. It's definitely a very valuable language to learn. |
Agreed its a good language to learn but I'd disagree if it was suggested to be the first language to try and learn. No doubt one will learn some cantonese just by living there but the employers in america will ask for mandarin. Mainland china is where they are moving to. Hong Kong has the more prestigious MBA, that's why they are going there than mainland China. |
Where did you hear this? In Ottawa, an most Chinatowns around the world, Cantonese is the lingua franca - not Mandarin. |
I live in Chicago's Chinatown. Cantonese (actually Tai Shan hua) was the lingua franca 10-15 years ago. It is probably 50-50 now, and everybody speaks and understand Mandarin if pressed, at least in the shops. |
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atwood
Joined: 26 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 5:39 pm Post subject: |
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I was just in Shanghai. Apartments are very, very expensive. I was told the country's full anem was China: Apartments Unavailable.
I was just there to transfer planes but the fog/pollution was so bad you could barely see the skyline. |
How much per square meters if you don't mind me asking? |
The guide said but I forgot. Obviously, it depends on how close you live to the city center--the further out the cheaper. She mentioned that the first questions asked of young men looking to get married is, "Do you have an apartment?" It seems the answer was often no. |
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metalhead
Joined: 18 May 2010
Location: Toilet
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| Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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| That's true though, ask any Chinese guy why he isn't married yet and his reply will be 'Because I don't have a house of my own', pretty weird. |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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| I live in Chongqing. I find it much more varied and fun than Korea, and I lived in Busan in the former. |
I have no interest in moving to China...but IF I did, it would be Chongqing! |
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hondaicivic
Joined: 01 Jul 2010
Location: Daegu, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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| atwood wrote: |
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I was just in Shanghai. Apartments are very, very expensive. I was told the country's full anem was China: Apartments Unavailable.
I was just there to transfer planes but the fog/pollution was so bad you could barely see the skyline. |
How much per square meters if you don't mind me asking? |
The guide said but I forgot. Obviously, it depends on how close you live to the city center--the further out the cheaper. She mentioned that the first questions asked of young men looking to get married is, "Do you have an apartment?" It seems the answer was often no. |
Here's a mind blowing idea:........how about both chinese men and women work together "equally" and help each other buy an apartment, instead of waiting for the guy to provide one. This also can be applied in Korea and elsewhere in Asia as well. The women in China/Korea/Asia seriously need to get rid of this princess complex and stop being so goddamn dependent on their men. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| That's true though, ask any Chinese guy why he isn't married yet and his reply will be 'Because I don't have a house of my own', pretty weird. |
Given the housing bubble in China and the market distortions caused by the CCP's 1997 housing hand-out, its more than weird, its downright sad. |
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cragesmure
Joined: 23 Oct 2010
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| Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 9:27 am Post subject: |
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| That's true though, ask any Chinese guy why he isn't married yet and his reply will be 'Because I don't have a house of my own', pretty weird. |
And not because there are 10 million more men than women in China. It's because they don't have an apartment. In other breaking news, white people are all dirty, women deserved to be raped and no people have ever been massacred in Tienanmen Square. |
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Sergio Stefanuto
Joined: 14 May 2009
Location: UK
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| Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 11:00 pm Post subject: |
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Shanghai, 1990 v 2010 (jpeg)
I've no interest in working in China at the moment, because I'm perfectly content where I am, but eventually I'd love to. |
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happiness
Joined: 04 Sep 2010
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| Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 12:21 am Post subject: |
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| metalhead wrote: |
| That's true though, ask any Chinese guy why he isn't married yet and his reply will be 'Because I don't have a house of my own', pretty weird. |
saving face. |
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Skyblue
Joined: 02 Mar 2007
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Shanghai, 1990 v 2010 (jpeg)
I've no interest in working in China at the moment, because I'm perfectly content where I am, but eventually I'd love to. |
That's nuts. |
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Oreovictim
Joined: 23 Aug 2006
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Menino80
Joined: 10 Jun 2007
Location: Hodor?
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| Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 6:22 am Post subject: |
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| Kuros wrote: |
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| That's true though, ask any Chinese guy why he isn't married yet and his reply will be 'Because I don't have a house of my own', pretty weird. |
Given the housing bubble in China and the market distortions caused by the CCP's 1997 housing hand-out, its more than weird, its downright sad. |
It's hardly a bubble in most of the country. In the first tier cities yes. |
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