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By: Simpson's Paradox » Chinese Bargaining

Simpson's Paradox » Chinese Bargaining — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:01:28 +0000

[...] Manfred’s house. Xuemei asked how my job search was going, and I told her I interviewed at Singapore Academy, a few training schools, and X College. Xuemei’s daughter gasped and said “X College? [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:40:00 +0000

Chinese girls want the white boyfriend for now but they marry the Chinese man forever.

By: meg

meg — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:32:00 +0000

If they were after a green card, joke’s on them, Stick’s not going to propose!

Peter – With or without Stick, I feel like Paris Hilton here… people keep taking my picture but I’m not quite sure why I’m famous.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:10:00 +0000

Not only that, there are many young couples arrived to US, that wife wanted to settle there, but husband wanted to go back, or otherwise, some were with their children, and they divorced and separated for their own reason or children, that all family had to suffer that, and no one could escape this turmoil. Chinese called that American Reconstruct, that they had to restart everything from 0, even from language, but in US, they would never step into mainstream due to their language, education, finance and other value difference, they called it Lost in America, and they could not go back, for they could only live and struggle day by day and imagine tomorrow would get better, when their children so called ABC grown up and adapt to local culture, left them, they were total abandoned by China, America, their children, and the dream that once they had now a bubble shattered. I’ve seen this a lot, in the small town of US, in the big city of China, every street corner of Brooklyn and Queens that filled with Latino music, in hunger of African child… the whole world is the same, as earth rolls around.

By: john

john — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:27:00 +0000

Yeah, Chinese girls have reputation for green card sickness.
But you rarely see any Chinese guys desire things like that.
The girls like American guys and think Americans are simple, naive, and they can drive their American dream by grabbing one, while American culture praise true love and freedom, so often most Americans live in such value that would easily think the girls love them, but the girls just want to get out to have better life like Thomas Hardy novel 'Return of the Native' portraits.
Tragedy, and Chinese culture, love is deeply connected with security.
that's main difference for the two culture now, in current economical difference of two nations, maybe after 100 yrs, it will change, people do not slave their love and life under money.
I pity them.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:10:00 +0000

Felt the same thing on my own body the two times I were in China:

With the missus I was just gazed at and “helloed” at, but alone I became some sort of celeb and a hot one too. My mirror tells me something is not right in that regard.

By: tintdude

tintdude — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:34:00 +0000

I would be careful meg. Those Chinese girls are green card hungry vicious dragon ladies.