Comments on: Laowai, Misbehavior, Sex Parties and China

By: justrecently

justrecently — Thu, 21 May 2009 06:31:36 +0000

I think Naw is a bit angry.

By: Naw

Naw — Thu, 21 May 2009 04:34:56 +0000

As you’ve figured out, there are two things that happen when you talk about white men having sex in Asia:

1. Everybody immediately becomes angry and moralistic. Even libertines suddenly discover an uptight side they never knew they had.

2. You get tons of page hits.

Oh, and 3. you get racist behavior from people who ordinarily consider themselves strict egalitarians. Somehow, it’s OK to be an ugly bigot, as long as the correct scapegoat is being used.

By: justrecently

justrecently — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:12:54 +0000

Let’s not leave purchasing power out of the account either. Incomes may be distorted in China – but after all, the foreigner won’t stay in China, but return home to a world of pretty different prices.
People in China who hate the disparity may take issue with foreigners’ incomes if they like. But they could take issue with some compatriots’ incomes just as well.

By: MyLaowai

MyLaowai — Sun, 17 May 2009 14:41:46 +0000

“they feel jealous for them, because they even 20 times their salary if foreigners do exactly the same work as they do. This actually pisses me off as well – economically totally stupid.”

It’s only “stupid” because you don’t understand the basic laws of supply and demand, the fact that you possess skills or abilities or attributes that are in high demand and short (or no) supply locally.

And it’s only “stupid” to people who’ve never lived in a country where everyone around them is hostile, where they can’t get a bank loan, where they have few (if any) friends, no family, no support network, where the food is utterly god awful, where the air and the water actually seem to want to kill them…

Anyway, there are times when certain people do deserve to get paid more. A lot more.

By: Aremonus

Aremonus — Sun, 10 May 2009 23:27:59 +0000

I can actually understand it, if a 28 years old farmer here, who’s probably never been to bed with a woman and knows less chinese characters than I do insults me. I mean, this guy is really unlucky – and in a country with 15% more women than men, he’s probably not going to marry. So now if there is a guy who is rich, successful and gets girls, it’s easy to get him jealous.
If smbd insults u too much, just give him 20 Yuan. That’s cruel, but better than shouting^^

Anyway, I don’t think the reason for the jealousy of some Chinese lays in the behavior of certain foreignenrs – I think it’s much more, that they feel jealous for them, because they even 20 times their salary if foreigners do exactly the same work as they do. This actually pisses me off as well – economically totally stupid.

By: Hoeness

Hoeness — Sun, 10 May 2009 19:40:31 +0000

Yeah, Internet is pretty impressive

“So, Hoeness, if you decide to date or marry someone outside of your race, you have to have the guts.”
Believe me I do. I have enough guts to “kick ass” if some person insults me or my family; that’s my problem I guess.
Got too much bad temper to ignore it

Anyhow: I’d like to close my arguments with the statement that everybody should seek their own luck in the way the person prefers. Lifestyle, sexuality, whatever.
Nevertheless keep in mind: don’t take yourself too serious, keep it decent. You are still guests in China, don’t outrage the creepy “mob” as some stupid laowai did it – until their true identity were revealed by the human flesh search.

Kinda creepy even though most of them are “Heroes behind the keyboard”.

By: Nino

Nino — Sun, 10 May 2009 17:36:20 +0000

If you travel throughout Asia as a white person, you’ll meet people who love you, value you highly, think you are rich and you’ll find people who will insult you on the street in their language and you have no clue why. It’s not your fault and that is unjust. But hey, White people before us made this impression on the locals, what can you do? You have to accept it. It happens to the Chinese who travel to Germany as well, right? They also experience all kinds of behaviour from locals here. And I have a Chinese girlfriend now for quite a while and I encountered admiration, envy, anger, insults, congratulation… Be it in Europe or Asia. So, Hoeness, if you decide to date or marry someone outside of your race, you have to have the guts. Same goes if you date a woman 50kg heavier or 40years older than you. People are (including us here) superficial, some less, some more. So, I tell you, Hoeness, who cares what people think about you and your Chinese wife? And who cares what people write on blogs? You can always click that X on top, you can always just ignore what people say. And I think we should all mind our own business when it comes to dating and sexual preferations. Jedem das Seine. Sure, we can agree or disagree about someones behavior, which means we wouldn’t do the same, but in the end, each individual has to live up to his own morals and stand behind his own decision. Junjie, you showed very clearly the double standards in these issues. Very good post. One word (Playground) triggered all that Internet is impressive.

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