02/05/24 - “Loving freedom” is just such a ridiculous excuse to make. Nobody would believe it.
“The existence of “Chinese immigrants” confuses the whole world.
There’s been Mexicans who’ve complained before, “The money that you Chinese people get stolen from you is enough for a Mexican to live on their whole lives. We Mexicans cross the border because we can’t survive anymore, and are just looking for a living in America. You’re don’t lack for money, you’re well-fed and healthy, why put yourself through this? Do you want to be beaten, raped, and robbed?”
America radical right wing nationalist rednecks may be retarded, but there’s a reason for their doubts. Black people and Mexicans come to America to make money, but Chinese people will go so far as to sell their houses and assets and travel halfway across the world with all their money…
And once you’re in America, they’ll never have the same income and lifestyle as they did before. They have to work under the table jobs, beg for food, survive in the wilderness, and face life-threatening hate crimes and Black Lives Matter shoplifting…it’s totally unreasonable.
If it’s not for profit, it must be for “ideology”.
With 1.4 billion people around, there’s gotta be a lot of Westaboos, bastards tricking others into emigrating, and people who dream of free lunches. I’d get it if it was just one person with problems with his brain, but when so many people throw their money and lives away trying to run to the other side, of course that scares Americans.
Look at you guys. You’re organised, numerous, don’t fear hardship, don’t need money, look decent, talk decent, and make up the same excuses, that you can’t survive in China anymore, that you’ve been oppressed, that you love America. That’s fucking terrifying.
“Loving freedom” is just such a ridiculous excuse to make. Nobody would believe it.
Put yourself in their shoes. If one day, China was at the top of the world, and a lot of random white people and black people started flocking to China, and most of them were morally bankrupt corrupt officials or businessmen, losers, scumbags, criminals, bankrupt…and these people sold everything they owned, abandoned their family, travelled halfway across the world, and tried to claim that they’re not here for money, but that they were “oppressed” in their home country and are here seeking “freedom”…
And they would even put their hand on the Dao De Jing to swear that they will cut off all ties with their home country, swear loyalty to us, and fight with our enemies…
Wouldn’t you be scared? Would you dare to trust them?”
Comments say, “I heard that none of them were deported. That makes me feel better :P”
“Snakehead [the agent who helps illegal immigrants get to where they need to]: You could’ve just normally immigrated, and yet you insist on crossing the border illegally. What a great guy! Mexicans: You could’ve had a great life in China, yet you insist on letting us rob you. What a great guy!”
“Let them go. Anyone who wants to go should GTFO right away. Don’t say anything that might discourage people.”
“The promotional poster for the new TV Show “Life After Labour” has caused a lot of controversy. Commenters have said that all four expecting moms have slender limbs and perfect make up, and don’t look like they’re expecting at all. The Korean drama “Nursing Home for Mothers” looks a lot more realistic.”
Comments say, “Look at their hair—it’s so obviously recently dyed! Who would dye their hair while pregnant? It’s so fake!”
“Why can China only remake other people’s shows? Jesus Christ, all my favourite Korean dramas have been remade in China. I don’t get it. Sure, there’s nothing new under the sun, but could you at least try a little? You can at least film something that makes sense in China, and not just completely copy-paste from someone else, right? There’s nothing characteristic to China in this!”
Under the hashtag #this generation of young people are very progressive, a news blog writes, “Going home for the New Years whether you have money or not used to be what everyone looked forward to all year, but now, young people seem to have a lot of trouble deciding whether or not to return home for the New Years. For a lot of young people, New Years is like the hardest stage in a video game, and almost all their anxiety reaches a peak as the holidays drew near. The young people who find themselves floating in big cities want to go home on the one hand, and yet fear dealing with social relations in their home town on the other hands. Looking at the row of grey “SOLD OUT” notices on 12306 [train ticket purchase app?], they might even feel a little relieved, “If I can’t get a ticket, then I have a perfect excuse not to go back, right?” As Chinese New Year arrives, some people might already be on their lengthy return trip, while some are still buried in work, and some are still hesitating. For young people who are allergic to Chinese New Year, how should they spend this period of time?”
Comments say, “For a lot of people, home is a safe harbour, and relatives are not.”
“Got laid off a week before the New Years.”
“We’re not getting any days off for Chinese New Year this year. Who the hell can make it back home?”
Under the hashtag #average height for Sichuan men is 171.49cm, a blogger writes, “Dou Dou [her son] is 179cm now, and he’s the tallest kid in his class. A lot of people say that now that we have good nutrition, all our kids can grow tall, but that’s not true at all. There’s tons of young people under 175cm around Sichuan.
Sichuan doesn’t get much sun all year round, so Vitamin D deficiency is a pretty common problem among kids there. And Chinese health guides only recommend Vitamin D supplements before 2 years old, without any consideration for geographical differences. And doctor wouldn’t care enough to suggest it either.
Another big problem for kids these days is sleep deprivation. 10PM at night is the peak for releasing growth hormones, and a lot of kids are still up doing their homework at that time.
The secret to Dou Dou getting taller than any of his parents is 1. we never stopped giving him Vitamin D, and 2. he has an early bedtime. 8:30PM for early primary school, and 9:00 for latter primary school. Now that he’s in middle school, he goes to bed at 9:30PM.”
Comments say, “Ohhh, so it’s vitamin D! I always thought northerners got taller because they ate more.”
“Isn’t that decided by genetics more than anything else? 8 months out of 12 are freezing in Dongbei and you can’t play outside. And kids nowadays don’t want to go outside even during the summer. But they still get plenty tall. If you’re short, no amount of vitamin D will actually fix it.”
“How do you pull off going to bed by 9:30PM in middle school? Does his teacher not leave any homework?”
“I often see a grandma in my development hauling home all kinds of garbage, collecting them to sell to recycling centres. Her son hates this habit, and gets mad at her every time he sees her bringing stuff back. Once, we had a power outage, and I saw them fighting over this grandma’s garbage downstairs again, so I asked, “If she’s so bored at home, and she’s used to being frugal and scavenging for money, that’s understandable, right? Why get so mad at your own mom?” And this guy sighed and started telling me about his past.
He said that during his lowest point in his youth, he managed to get by selling garbage. He thinks that garbage bins are the last hope for those who live at the bottom of society. Everyone who is completely out of money and on the verge of despair can get something in their stomachs by rifling through garbage bins. His mom has social security. She doesn’t need more money. So she shouldn’t take away what these people rely on for survival. People who have full stomachs shouldn’t take away the garbage that starving people rely on.
That’s a brand new angle I’ve never considered.”
Comments say, “Wow, you would never think of something like this if you hadn’t actually been through it yourself.”
“It’s true. I’ve got an old couple who’ve got pretty substantial social security in my development, and they’ll fight with the intellectually impaired over garbage. And that intellectually impaired guy’s primary livelihood is picking through garbage.”
“It’s the same thing for celebrities going on livestreams. They’re already making so much more than normal people, why are they still squeezing people out of platforms with their natural advantage?”
“Yeah, if your life isn’t too bad, then leave some opportunities for other people.”
“My MIL makes 6K a month, and has a basement crammed full of cardboard boxes. We’ve fought with her countless times, until she came upon a video saying something like this one day. She took an afternoon to fully clean out her whole basement, threw everything out on the street for someone else to pick up. She said she’s never been that relieved her whole life.”
“My grandma has social security, so she never picks up garbage. She’s always said, if I took all the garbage, then what are poor people supposed to take?”
“It’s true. There’s an old grandma next to my development who picks through garbage to support herself, and there’s a whole bunch of grandmas in my development with substantial social security who’ll band together to bully her and rob her of her garbage. So that grandma could only come over to pick through our garbage late at night or in the early AM. I got so mad that I’ll deliberately hand my garbage to her specifically, and if anyone else tries to butt in, I’ll scream at them to GTFO.”
“”If we paid janitors more, they wouldn’t get to keep their jobs anymore.” I saw this from another comment section. It’s an argument I’ve never thought about.”
A tiktok video of the top ten candidates for Ms. Universe. Op says, “None of them are thin like a skeleton. This is actually healthy standards of beauty.”
Comments say, “Their limbs are just as thin as Chinese celebrities, they just have thicker chests and hips, but that’s genetic. That doesn’t change whether you’re thin or fat.”
“They’re still thin, they’re just not as childlike as Chinese entertainment industry.”
“They’re actually all pretty thin, at least lower than normal weight. Most super thin people in real life are around 52-60kg and 175-180cm. Anyone who can become a celebrity in East Asia are severely underweight. Anyone who’s 168cm and more than 50kg is considered “fat”. A lot of us have been misled by Chinese standards of beauty.”
“Heard a coworkers of mine complain lately that his wife is taking care of the baby at home, and demanding that he has to pay her the same money as a month-sitting nurse, 8000 RMB a month, until the baby can start going to kindergarten.
When she had a baby, they hired a month-sitting nurse for a month, 8000 RMB total. Once the nurse left, his wife offered to be a stay-at-home mom, but wanted the same pay.
He thinks his wife is being ridiculous and doesn’t want to pay her. His wife says that the month-sitting nurse doesn’t even do as much as her, because the nurse only takes care of the baby and makes month-sitting food, whereas she takes care of the baby, cooks, does laundry, and grocery shopping.”
Comments say, “Once women get pregnant and have kids, they become the bottom of their family. Anyone can come bully them.”
“It’s both their kid though. Shouldn’t they share the cost? Like maybe 4K a month?”
“So just keep hiring a nanny and let your wife go back to work then. Everyone will feel better that way.”
“I want to write a novel where the female lead falls in love with her male classmate when she’s young, and prepares to marry him once she graduates, but they’re forced apart by the boy’s rich parents. She ends up marrying someone else and has a daughter. Many years later, she meets her classmate again, and this time, she decides to get a divorce. The classmate sees how rich she’s become and gets a divorce himself too. He leaves both his sons with his ex-wife and gets together with her and they have another daughter. The classmate feels that at this point, he’s gotten control of her wealth, and starts to demand money from her to start a business. She refuses, and he starts abusing her and threatening her for money. So one day, at night, she dismembers him, throws him into the ocean, and moves her money out and leaves the country.
She learned at the end that while romance is great, she loves money more.”
Comments say, “I can’t even imagine how great this novel would be.”
“Write it! Now!”
“Cultural invasion is scary. China’s never had a tradition of using chrysanthemums for funeral flowers. It was during WWI in Europe, that they ran out of fresh flowers in the winter, that they settled for using chrysanthemums. This tradition only made it over to China in the 20th century, and only gained influence in the 80s with the advent of TV shows and pamphlets about “flower language”. And it’s completely replaced actual Chinese traditional culture, and made a lot of people absolutely convinced that it’s actually a Chinese tradition. Can’t our TV shows do a little more research? Especially if it’s a historical show!”
Comments say, “Maybe it’s like birthday cakes? I think birthday cakes is the most successful case of cultural invasion.”
“Is it possible that sharing and mixing cultures is the way human civilisations develop and improve, and there’s no such thing as “cultural invasion”?”
“They banned burning paper, so people have to settle for chrysanthemums. All our ancestors are starving down there, and we can’t even send them any money over mobile pay, because they banned burning phones too XD”
“A woman has been stuck on the Hunan highway for three days [due to excessive snow]. She posted four photos to her social media today, saying that local villagers have come by to sell food for 40 RMB per bowl. It’s the first hot food she’s had in the last three days. Commenters reply to her, “You know the price of cabbages in Changde, where it’s snowing the most? 10 RMB per pound. You’re getting a pretty sweet deal for 40 RMB per meal.”
Honestly, it this happened on a train and it was pre-cooked food, nobody would complain.
This is special circumstances. It’s freezing, and these people have to hike a long way to deliver you food. Although there are certainly kind villagers providing free hot water and food, you can’t hold them to that. It costs them time and money too. You really should be grateful being able to get some hot food in this weather.
Do you guys think 40 RMB a meal is expensive?”
Comments say, “No, it’s not. And if you think it is, you can just not eat it.”
“It’s not expensive at all. Price of ingredients plus delivery time—especially with all this snow, delivery must be hell.”
”If nobody was willing to hike around in this weather, it wouldn’t matter if you offered to pay 400 RMB. So so long as someone’s willing to pay it, the price is fair.”
A blogger posts a chart of retirement age versus average lifespan:
And jokes, “My mom retires at 50, and will live to 86. I’ll retire at 65 and live to 67. She’s 23 years older than me, so maybe we’ll die together.”
Comments say, “Dying together isn’t so bad. Then I’ll still be with my mom in the afterlife, and nobody will dare to bully me.”
“I mean, this is one way to deal with an ageing population—go die once you’re done being useful.”
“What’s wrong with this comment section? This kind of shit is worth getting sentimental over?”
“Germans retire at 65, French people at 64, British at 66, Japan’s extending their retirement from 65 to 70. These countries must have terrible average lifespans, right?”
So, one thing about immigration to the US that mostly doesn't get brought up - there's two kinds of illegal immigration. One where you come in legally, but stay past when you said you would. This kind of illegal immigration doesn't really bother people (unless you start committing *actual* crime), but it gets lumped in with the other kind (i.e., "you never had permission to come in the first place") for political reasons.
And then *that* gets lumped in with *legal* immigration, also for political reasons.
(And that's even before getting into regional variance)
Is there any information on which kind of immigration we're talking about for these "chinese immigrants"?
I'm curious, what term are you translating as "Westaboo"?