Chinese shenanigans

[Samurai_Jerk]

[matsuki]

Genius...destroy your camera, career and reputation in one fell swoop.

[Russell]

Swiss launch special train for Chinese tourists due to 'cultural differences'

A special train for Chinese tourists has been launched at a mountain resort in Switzerland, following tensions over cultural differences.

Swiss newspaper Blick reports that some tourists visiting Mount Rigi in the Swiss Alps have become incensed with Chinese tourists crowding the corridors while taking pictures from the train.

There are also reports of rudeness in packed carriages, and some even say they’ve seen tourists spit on the floor.

Peter Pfenniger, chief of Rigi Bahnen said the huge influx of visitors from Asia had brought the struggling railway company back on track, but that “their strong presence is a challenge”.

Almost half of the foreign visitors to Mount Rigi are Chinese, following an advertising campaign after the mountain’s management entered a partnership with an organisation from Chinese Mount Emei.

To ameliorate tensions, special trains have been created for tourist groups from Asia. Toilets are now cleaned more regularly, and signs have been put up “showing how to use them correctly,” the paper reports.

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[kurogane]

All tourists are A'holes, but they really do bring a special innate ability to the game, don't they? We're having problems in Vancouver because locals will stop and laughingly watch the Chinese tourists being fuckwitted peasants abroad and then get bitched at by local Chinese for it. I eagerly await the day when we all long nostalgically for the days of the American and Japanese tourist deluge.

[Coligny]

What a chinese only train might look like:

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[yanpa]

All tourists are A'holes, but they really do bring a special innate ability to the game, don't they? We're having problems in Vancouver because locals will stop and laughingly watch the Chinese tourists being fuckwitted peasants abroad and then get bitched at by local Chinese for it. I eagerly await the day when we all long nostalgically for the days of the American and Japanese tourist deluge.

Am thinking about carrying a long pole with me so I can prod Chinese tourists who STAND ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ESCALATOR

[legion]

All tourists are A'holes, but they really do bring a special innate ability to the game, don't they? We're having problems in Vancouver because locals will stop and laughingly watch the Chinese tourists being fuckwitted peasants abroad and then get bitched at by local Chinese for it. I eagerly await the day when we all long nostalgically for the days of the American and Japanese tourist deluge.

Am thinking about carrying a long pole with me so I can prod Chinese tourists who STAND ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ESCALATOR

I just look at them and wonder how their share portfolio is doing.

[Russell]

All tourists are A'holes, but they really do bring a special innate ability to the game, don't they? We're having problems in Vancouver because locals will stop and laughingly watch the Chinese tourists being fuckwitted peasants abroad and then get bitched at by local Chinese for it. I eagerly await the day when we all long nostalgically for the days of the American and Japanese tourist deluge.

Am thinking about carrying a long pole with me so I can prod Chinese tourists who STAND ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ESCALATOR

Nah, methinks you wouldn't dare to do this with these Western Chinese...

[Samurai_Jerk]

What a chinese only train might look like:

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Well they are known as the Jews of Asia.

[kurogane]

Except that Jews either have proper manners or know somebody that does, whereas Chinese are just Chinese. It's like the Bubble Era Japanese flood x 10 - 300% on the manners. John Belushi couldn't have made this shit up. And they're still touchy fucks, even though they're trogs. It's a shame white people were so mean to them before it mattered. Or maybe they were just prescient.

Russell, ..........ummmmmmmmmmmmm, that's East.......

[Takechanpoo]

its Hakka, isnt it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakka_people

[matsuki]

the Chinese tourists being fuckwitted peasants abroad

This is the issue with most obnoxious tourists though...more money than manners peasants...the Chinese just have the numbers and the 500% "normal" talking volume.

[kurogane]

Yes, that's a fair point. Sheer numbers and boorish upbringing was always the problem with the stereotypical Ugly Americans in Europe, as an example, and even Russians for that 2 years when those sad fucks could afford it. The Chinese do seem to bring a new level of ignorant peon to the tourist table though, and I am not convinced that is simply the normal species wide Ahole percentage (the 10%-ers): they really do seem to be louder, more boorish and comically ethnocentric. How bad are Chinese toilets that somebody that can afford a trip abroad doesn't know not to shit on the floor?

[Samurai_Jerk]

The headline says Chinese tourists who I'm sure are the cause of the segregated trains but in the article it says:

To ameliorate tensions, special trains have been created for tourist groups from Asia.

I feel bad for any non-Chinese Asian tour groups that get put on those trains.

[matsuki]

Yes, that's a fair point. Sheer numbers and boorish upbringing was always the problem with the stereotypical Ugly Americans in Europe, as an example, and even Russians for that 2 years when those sad fucks could afford it. The Chinese do seem to bring a new level of ignorant peon to the tourist table though, and I am not convinced that is simply the normal species wide Ahole percentage (the 10%-ers): they really do seem to be louder, more boorish and comically ethnocentric. How bad are Chinese toilets that somebody that can afford a trip abroad doesn't know not to shit on the floor?

They definitely lower the bar...but it's just an excessive % of peasants. My friend that is managing a shop in the U.A.E right now....his diverse staff of peasants from all over the globe make him lose faith in humanity on a daily basis.

I feel bad for any non-Chinese Asian tour groups that get put on those trains.

I'm sure most Japanese and Koreans would looooooove to be on those trains

[Samurai_Jerk]

I feel bad for any non-Chinese Asian tour groups that get put on those trains.

I'm sure most Japanese and Koreans would looooooove to be on those trains

You can rest assured that Japanese won't be herded onto those trains.

[matsuki]

I feel bad for any non-Chinese Asian tour groups that get put on those trains.

I'm sure most Japanese and Koreans would looooooove to be on those trains

You can rest assured that Japanese won't be herded onto those trains.

I guess that would actually require going to Switzerland

My boss goes there all the time (one of our suppliers is based there) and is always ranting about how most Japanese think it's some sort of peaceful utopia and "Japan should be more like Switzerland!" "They're fucking idiots! They have no idea how armed they are!!"



His other fav is the forced military conscription:

On September 22, 2013, a referendum was held that aimed to abolish conscription in Switzerland. However, the referendum failed with over 73% of the electorate voting against it, showing the strong support for conscription in Switzerland.

[Russell]

I feel bad for any non-Chinese Asian tour groups that get put on those trains.

I'm sure most Japanese and Koreans would looooooove to be on those trains

You can rest assured that Japanese won't be herded onto those trains.

The article states that it is non-obligatory to get on those trains.

Most Japanese are world-street-wise enough by now that they wouldn't get on those...

[Coligny]

Most Japanese are world-street-wise enough by now that they wouldn't get on those...

I have a really nice bridge to sell you...

[Samurai_Jerk]

China’s Nouveau Riche Have Landed on America’s Campuses

Chinese students abroad used to be seen as diligent, penny-pinching, and idealistic. No longer.

When Lingjia Hu arrived in the United States from China in 1996, she did so thanks to a scholarship that would allow her to pursue post-doctorate training at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Raised by a family of doctors, Hu told Foreign Policy she wanted to “save the country with science,” but there were no opportunities for her back home. At Xiangya Hospital in Hu’s native city of Changsha, the best medical institution in China at the time, the lights would intermittently turn off because electricity was unreliable. When Hu moved to Colorado, she did a homestay with an American family. It would be six months before her first bite of Chinese food in the United States, only after learning how to drive to the local take-out restaurant. She then married, raised a son, and has lived in Denver ever since.

Fast-forward to Boston in 2015, where Yikun Wang will soon enter his senior year as an undergraduate at Northeastern University. Wang hails from Anhui province, a historically impoverished region of China, but pays full tuition at the private school — which charges over $44,000 per year — and lives in a co-op with two other Chinese students. Wang said he often sees young Chinese peers cutting class, driving luxury cars, and going into the city for extravagant weekend shopping trips. He is an economics and finance major, and hopes to pursue a career in investment banking. While he thinks that he may stay and work in the United States after graduation, he is an anomaly: For many of his peers, the American higher education experience, Wang said, is a bit like a four-year vacation.
In less than two decades, the image of Chinese students studying in the United States has transformed drastically. While Hu and Wang are just two of the hundreds of thousands of Chinese students who have made the trans-Pacific journey, they embody the archetypes of each generation. The Chinese students who arrived in the early 1980s — when then-paramount leader Deng Xiaoping first announced his “open door” policy, which allowed Chinese scholars and students to study in the United States after decades of national isolation — represented some of the nation’s best and brightest. Funded by international scholarships and money from Beijing, they sought to escape poverty and instability for a land of opportunity. The majority wanted to stay in the United States, where they could get a green card, land a job, and integrate themselves into American society. They were, in other words, pursuing the American dream.

But for many Chinese studying in the United States in 2015, time spent stateside is but a steppingstone to a Chinese dream — one that’s for sale. Thanks to the immense purchasing power of the growing Chinese middle class, the image of the humble and diligent Chinese student of the 1980s has been replaced by that of the entitled fu’erdai, or the second-generation scion in a wealthy family, who studies abroad in order to return home to run the family business. The fu’erdai pay full tuition, often study finance, business management, or economics, and spend their time clustered together. At the University of California Los Angeles, rising senior Jing Li said that many Chinese students have “formed a sub campus,” capable of living a life apart from their classmates.

[matsuki]

Japan 'disappointed' by Chinese leader's WWII speech
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asi ... 98014.html

"Tokyo had requested that Beijing make sure that the event was not so anti-Japanese, but instead contain elements of rapprochement between Japan and China," top government spokesman Yoshihide Suga told reporters.

"It was disappointing that such elements were not in President Xi Jinping's speech today."

No wonder politicians in these countries tend get into comedic fist fights...the level of schoolgirl bickering here is off the charts.

"The unyielding Chinese people fought gallantly and finally won total victory against the Japanese militarist aggressors, thus preserving China's 5,000-year-old civilisation and upholding the cause of peace," he said.

Xi described the eight-year conflict as "a decisive battle between justice and evil, between light and darkness" and said the victory had "re-established China as a major country in the world".

[Samurai_Jerk]

Not sure I buy this but ...

Driven to Kill

In April a BMW racing through a fruit market in Foshan in China’s Guangdong province knocked down a 2-year-old girl and rolled over her head. As the girl’s grandmother shouted, “Stop! You’ve hit a child!” the BMW’s driver paused, then switched into reverse and backed up over the girl. The woman at the wheel drove forward once more, crushing the girl for a third time. When she finally got out from the BMW, the unlicensed driver immediately offered the horrified family a deal: “Don’t say that I was driving the car,” she said. “Say it was my husband. We can give you money.”

It seems like a crazy urban legend: In China, drivers who have injured pedestrians will sometimes then try to kill them. And yet not only is it true, it’s fairly common; security cameras have regularly captured drivers driving back and forth on top of victims to make sure that they are dead. The Chinese language even has an adage for the phenomenon: “It is better to hit to kill than to hit and injure.”

[wagyl]

If you look at at the awards to the families of the dead, and compare them to the awards to those who linger on needing continued medical attention and home modifications and support for the rest of their lives as a vegetable, in any place in the world, then you might agree that the only thing that stops actions like that happening in other places is that car insurance covers both death and injury. If injury was uninsured, it could make the difference of a life of poverty for you and you children, or just losing your house.

[Russell]

If you look at at the awards to the families of the dead, and compare them to the awards to those who linger on needing continued medical attention and home modifications and support for the rest of their lives as a vegetable, in any place in the world, then you might agree that the only thing that stops actions like that happening in other places is that car insurance covers both death and injury. If injury was uninsured, it could make the difference of a life of poverty for you and you children, or just losing your house.

That could be, but who could drive in good conscience over an injured person multiple times?

I thought only psychopaths could apply...

[Salty]

... I thought only psychopaths could apply...

Wait for it... wait for it....

[matsuki]

who could drive in good conscience over an injured person multiple times?

[Salty]

Damn, I thought for sure that Takachanpoo would have been here by now to claim that all Chinese are…

[Russell]

I am now in Switzerland checking out that story about the special trains for Chinese.

The Swiss guy I spoke with didn't know about those, though he told me that nowadays lots of Chinese people visit Switzerland.

He also told me about some problem some hotels had with Chinese people. Breakfast buffet usually means you take what you eat, but there was the problem that Chinese only ate a small part of what they took, forcing the hotels to throw away huge amounts of food. So, those hotels placed signs in Chinese to explain that that was not how it works in Switzerland (actually, it is not how it works in the rest of the world either).

Seems that the problem is solved for now, but if they have such a rich history of 5000 years, they should be able to figure that out by themselves, not?!?

[Coligny]

Better than the Russian tourists who wants doggy bags at breakfast buffet...

(Wuz just the husband, the wife was fifty shade of red...)

[Samurai_Jerk]

Fake rice made with paper found in Guangdong

The woman surnamed Cai told reporters that she and her family hadn't noticed anything amiss until about half way through their meal when she bit down on a piece of rice that was "unusually hard."

According to Apple Daily, Cai then took the piece out of her mouth, inspected it closely and watched in amazement as she rolled it out into a tiny strip of paper.