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Egor Duda's avatar

Do "Liang" and "Han" refer to names of people involved, or their ethnicities?

If it's the latter, is it common to mention the ethnic background of people involved in news about criminal incidents?

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Chinese Doom Scroll's avatar

Those are their names. The police typically doesn't go into too much detail about the ethnic background of just suspects, or people involved in fairly minor crimes. It's only the sort of thing that gets talked about if a crime gets big enough that it's getting it's own section on the evening news. Then they'll go into the backgrounds of everyone involved to pad out time and stuff.

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Jules Yim | 芊文's avatar

I couldn't resist reading the Weibo comments on bathhouses for myself and omg, I think I'm still tearing with laughter

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Chinese Doom Scroll's avatar

I haven't been to a proper Dongbei bathhouse, but I'm from the north too, and at least in my hometown, they give you these ridiculous disposable bootie shorts to wear when you go get scrubbed, and they don't touch anything covered by the shorts.

If an auntie pried open my buttcheeks, one of us would have to die that day.

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