09/19/23 - If it wasn’t for how fast we’ve grown, they would never have stopped using the word “china doll”.
Under the hashtag #western media exposes that Lisa has signed a contract with an American company, a blogger writes, “What the hell is a flat, curveless Asian girl going to do in America against world-class divas, when she can’t sing, can’t write music, and can’t even dance all that well? I think she not going to accomplish much except reinforce American stereotypes of Asians as easy.
At least American pop stars look fit and healthy. No matter what she dances, she looks like a stripper.
Some bands really don’t have a grasp of themselves at all. The only reason they ever put out anything anybody would remember is because all four of them worked on it together.
On her own, she might’ve been able to make it in Asia, but how far can she possibly go in America where the beauty standards are as opposite to flat, curveless Asian as possible?
Maybe she needs to get butt implants first? Then dance on stage with her ass hanging out?”
Comments say, “Did she buy a whole year’s worth of trending hashtags at Sina?”
“China dolls, right? The west’s been obsessed with it for hundreds of years. If it wasn’t for how fast we’ve grown, they would never have stopped using the word “china doll”.”
“I feel like she doesn’t have even a single quality necessary for popularity in America.”
After Evergrande fell apart, millions of future houses all over China were abandoned, their owners left homeless. Mrs. Lee was one of these people. She had bought a unit from Evergrande in Wuhan, Times New Town.
In order to buy a house for her son, Mrs. Lee drained all of her savings, and had to borrow an additional 100+K. Full of anticipation, she paid 400K for the down payment, and paid 4500 RMB per month in mortgage for two years. And now, her house will never be finished.
After the house fell through, everyone in the family blamed Mrs. Lee for her decision those years ago. They all ignored her for two solid years. She was even kicked out of her home by her daughter-in-law. Even the lock on her door was changed.
Now her daughter-in-law is demanding a divorce. In order to save his son’s marriage, she had to go beg her DIL’s family, even kneeling down to them.
She said, “Because of that house, my whole family’s falling apart. If I was going to die, I want to die in that house.””
Comments say, “How dare the DIL say anything when she didn’t put a cent towards it? Her son is absolute trash too. Evergrande is even more of a piece of trash.”
“It sounds like she’s blaming her DIL, but shouldn’t she blame her son more? Or rather, she should be blaming herself—she raised him into such a bastard. She’s the primary cause of her situation.”
“My house never got built too! All the developers are in leagues with the government. I’ve complained everywhere and nobody will take my case.”
“Never thought I’d be so touched by a kid. The boy I tutor is really naughty. He never works on his homework properly. He’ll find any opportunity to chat with me. One time, he asked, “Why do you work as a tutor?” And I answered honestly, “Because I need to earn money to live on.” After he heard, he was still just as chipper as always, so I never thought he paid much attention to the answer. But afterwards, he started doing some extra things.
Like he kept giving me snacks to eat. I would bring him snacks too, and he’d always say, “Don’t get me any snacks next time.” I’d ask him, “Why? Don’t you like them?” And he would say no. But if I keep pressing, he would just insist he just doesn’t want any snacks.
A couple of weeks ago, his family was going on vacation, and weren’t sure if they still needed me as a tutor once they came back. On the last day, I asked him, “If this is our last day, would you miss me?” He pulled his clothes up and covered up his face and said, “I’ll miss your snacks.” Children aren’t like adults when they lie. It’s obviously to tell.
Since a couple of days ago, he’s been asking me if I like Harry Potter. I said of course I do, everyone’s read it. When I was about to leave, he insisted on giving me his favourite book. I looked, and it was Harry Potter. It wasn’t a cheap edition at all, so I kept pushing it back. He couldn’t win against me, so he yelled, “You’re so mean!”
From this week, I was tutoring him, when he pointed to a map of China and asked me, “Where have you been?” I answered honestly that I’ve never been out of our state. I’ve told this to a different kid I tutored too, and he just went, “Wow, really? You’re so old and you haven’t been anywhere?” But this little boy didn’t say anything in response, but suddenly said, “I want to write my story now!” He said he wanted to write a travel log. He forgot what he’d actually done, so he had his mom send all their vacation photos to me, and then introduced me to all the places he’s been and what he’d seen there. And then he chirpily said, “See? That’s all there is to it. It’s not that special. Now you’ve seen it too.”
One time he asked me, “Don’t you have kids you have to tutor in the morning and afternoon?” I said, “The kid I had in the afternoon wanted to move in the morning, and that conflicted with your time, so I dropped him.” He suddenly got angry and said, “I want to study in the afternoon! I love studying in the afternoon!“ ”You just said yesterday that you prefer mornings. Alright, let’s be quiet for a moment and look at our work,” I urged him. When it got to break time, he stared at me and suddenly burst out with, “But what about money to live on?” At first, I didn’t get what he was talking about. “If you don’t keep your schedule full, are you gonna make enough money to live on?”
I never thought I’d be so touched by a ten-year-old bratty boy. Working outside by myself, my emotions aren’t always super stable either. But so long as I’m hanging out with him, I don’t feel like life is too hard.”
Comments say, “See? This is what girls like—a little bit naughty, a little bit stubborn, a little bit tsundere. Not the kind of boy who only knows how to pull girls’ pigtails and come up with shitty nicknames for them.”
“It’s true—I discovered after I started tutoring that kids in rich families are super polite and sweet, and both the kid and parents show a lot of respect towards me.”
“See, he doesn’t like tutoring at all, but he doesn’t want to say anything that might make you sad.”
“He’s so sweet! He’ll protect OP’s pride. He’s stubborn, but he still tells OP with his actions how much he loves her. He’ll remember the things you tell him, and he even shares his travels with you.”
“I remember getting a complaint from a parent when I worked at a preschool for a ridiculous reason. When one of the kids in my class found out, they said, “Don’t be sad, Miss, it wasn’t your fault.” I wasn’t really that upset before, but hearing that made me want to cry.”
“This is the kind of kid I like!!! Not the screamy, tantrummy, rude kid with no parents to watch them who made lewd jokes at little girls!”
“A true story that threw my emotions into turmoil.
Before China was liberated, there was an exotic dancer in Shanghai. Although she worked in a lowly job, she was still touched by the hot-blooded young men who were trying to save their country at the time. And she also joined the underground communist revolutionaries. Being an underground revolutionary in Shanghai was one of the hardest jobs that existed. She had to sell her own children to get money to fund her activities. Unfortunately, she was arrested and killed in the beginning of 1949, falling in the small hours before dawn arrived.
After China was liberated, the Shanghai government organised effort to find her child.
An exotic dancer at the very bottom of society still felt the full weight of responsibility for the survival of China. She was willing to sacrifice herself and her children. She fully believed in victory.
And all those hot-blooded young men who encouraged her to become an underground revolutionaries probably died too, I figure.
But their comrades didn’t let them down. They did win in the end. And they fulfilled their promise. After generations of hard work, today, China is stronger and wealthier than she could’ve possibly imagined. We have the greatest industrial power on earth, and are the second strongest country globally.”
Comments say, “I remember that Zeng Zhi [communist party leader] had two kids that she gave away in Fujian for funds too.”
“You could give the KMT another ten chances, and they still wouldn’t be able to win.”
“And look at feminists these days.”
“I’ve discovered an interesting phenomenon—after their 40s or 50s, women will mysteriously start gaining weight. My sister’s in her fifties now. A couple of years ago, she was still super thin, very poised. And yet, starting from last year, for no reason at all she started putting on weight, especially on her stomach. She’ll not eat all day and just drink water, and still weigh 2-3 pounds more the next day. After the winter and the holidays, after eating some solid meals, she gained like 5-6 kilos all at once. Right now, she’s 163cm and 69kg! My wife has went through the same thing—she hasn’t even all that much, maybe even less than she ate before, mostly fruits, and she’s doing more exercise, but she still can’t lose weight. No matter what she eats, she puts on weight. I have no idea what’s up. Does anyone else have the same thing?”
Comments say, “Fruits are really high in sugar, which can turn into fat.”
“It’s just slow metabolism. It’s the same with men too. When they get to this age, they’ll get fat too.”
“But all the men around me start getting fat at 30.”
Under the hashtag #thoughts during breakfast, a blogger writes, “Why do a lot of people feel like the moon is fuller overseas than in China? I played a little psychological test with our CEO yesterday. I asked him to rate Princess Diana.
He gave her 85-95—a very high score. In his mind, Diana was a commoner-born Princess who spoke her mind and loved charity. She deserved a very high point.
I said, but what if I told you about Princess Diana from a different angle? She wasn’t commoner-born at all, she’s just from a poor aristocrat family. She had super bad grades as a child. The Prince could’ve picked from many girls, and ended up choosing her because she was young and stupid.
After her marriage, she tried to elope several times. It was practically an open secret that she was having an affair with her horse-riding coach. Lately, it’s been revealed that Prince Harry wasn’t even Prince Charles’ biological son. She only did charity because she had nothing else to do anyways.
How many points can she get now?
Everyone laughed.
The west only looks so nice these days because that’s the image some people want to covey to us. All the stories you see in Reader [Chinese magazine] are just stories.
Now do you know why the moon is fuller in the west? Because the media’s been painting a western moon for us to see.”
Comments say, “China’s media only knows how to tell us to reflect on ourselves.”
“Are all westerners burglars or whores?”
“Chinese experts love to talk the west up. That’s pretty well-known.”
Lately, a policeman in Jiangxi was waiting at a phone repair store for his phone to be fixed. He overheard a woman next to him pick up two calls back to back. What she said drew his attention. He heard this woman tell one call, “Sweetie, you off of work yet? Was it hard today?” And just as she hung up, she got a video chat from a different man, where she went, “Hey, sweetie, I’m picking out phone at the phone store. I kept telling you I needed a phone, and you just wouldn’t buy it for me…”
His training made the policeman very sensitive to this, and he immediately reported the situation to dispatch. After he received instructions back, he summoned the woman to the police station for interrogation.
It was discovered that the woman, Ms. Xu, was a livestreamer. Starting from March of last year, she has been adding large amounts of male strangers to her wechat, using a fake identity as a divorced woman to talk to them. After they fall for her, she’ll use various excuses to ask them to tip her large amounts of money during her livestream, and transfer those earnings to her own account. So far, she had earned 180K RMB this way.
Currently, Ms. Xu is under arrest for suspected fraud. The case is still under investigation.”
How is Ms. Xu's behavior fraud?
The prince harry rumours are just proof that humans love a good story more than they love facts! I remember this being a thing in western media years ago and that it was pretty thoroughly disproven, but it's wild to me that some people still believe it. It's a bit mean, but I can't look at him without noticing the too-close together eyes and the lumpy nose bridge he inherited from charles!