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Q: You know you've been living in China too long whenn.......?????
You have renewed motivation to learn more Mandarin...
but the reason is you want to be able to swear at all the people who annoy you.
close to 4 years now, and I an happy, to now, call China home....the chances of my ever going back to Canada are slim.
I just think this is a better place.......... very little difference for me, lifestyle... fabulous new things to see and appreciate.
andy74rc:
Just wait to hit the 10 years mark..... you're still in honeymoon phase.
your face gets covered with red spots from the last gutter oil mystery food you ate.
then whatever mystery China had left suddenly loses its appeal.
I naturally answer with some putonghua even when out of MK,,, seems weird to not. I mean seems weird to fish out the English words to reply. But of course the global language and my native language are Anglais... lol (now try to figure out where I was birthed)
You have renewed motivation to learn more Mandarin...
but the reason is you want to be able to swear at all the people who annoy you.
When people telling you bare-faced lies or breaking their solemn word hardly surprises you at all.
When you find absolutely everything just plain boring.
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^^^When you experience the psychological equivalent of that^^^
You create an account on here for the sole purpose of pretending to be someone you're not and post weird as fuck "questions".
When you honestly can't tell the difference between......
BlightyMatt:
Absolutely!....Being a Britisher I've the inherent disadvantage of trying to follow the rules. In China this means I'm 2nd best. It is a double standard though, the natives don't follow them but as an outsider we are expected to.
Case in point - the health check that we need to get to have invite letters. Means nothing in China as we have to get another in country anyway.
So I am loathed to pay £100's and wait weeks to get an appointment for a worthless piece of paper....so I bought an ink stamp that I made up to read my local medical centre's address. Got my mate to copy my last medical details and sign it as his doctor and then stamped it with my stamp.....hey-presto!...done!
My GF at the time said "Ahhhh.....now you are thinking like a Chinese person!"
earthizen:
Now that is pretty creative, haha. Nah, you still aren't "mainland china" enough, normally a mainlander wouldn't be sharing this so honestly, not even on the internet. You are a saint relative to them.
You start eating fries with chopsticks and let chinglish expressions like " I lived in that hotel last night" creep into your vocabulary
You see an old person fall down and helping them isn't an option you would consider.
earthizen:
Or, you feel nothing upon hearing "Wang Yue (Chinese: 王悦; pinyin: Wáng Yuè), also known as "Little Yue Yue" (Chinese: 小悅悅), was a two-year-old Chinese girl who was run over by two vehicles on the afternoon of 13 October 2011 in a narrow road in Foshan, Guangdong. As she lay bleeding on the road for more than seven minutes, at least 18 passers-by skirted around her body, ignoring her." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Wang_Yue
[edited: video footage from security camera capturing the accident and passers-by, warning: pretty graphic. ]
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Yue_Yue_Accident.ogv
Youtube video (need VPN). Washington Post reporter reported this and another incident --- American woman saved girl who attempted suicide. Chinese' s excuse --- we did nothing for fear of getting sued, even the court sided with the victim who sued the good samaritan who helped her. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dOmYKS0b9aM
When seeing dead bodies (in photos or 'live') doesn't bother you any more...
(ok, bit too serious an answer - but probably right).
Shining_brow:
There's one in a pic above this. Also on videos of accidents and the like.
Otherwise, neither have I (here).
When people serving you food by touching it with their bare (likely unwashed) hands doesn't come as a surprise anymore..
When you start elbowing old women out of the way so you can sit down on the bus.
juanisaac:
Worse still is when you start elbowing a few people in a bus stop to get into an empty bus.
When you turn the shower tap to blue to get tepid water, and turn it to red to get cold.
when you would rather be in the comfort of your apartment than deal with whats going on outside.
When you have a HSK level 6 yet never ever talk to the local people but give them blank stares or a poker face instead.
rasklnik:
When people say laowai and point at you...but you just lower your eyes and drink another beer...while cursing in Russian/French/Or Youba.
When you cross the street without looking left or right, believing the traffic will stop for you. And don't really care if they didn't...
When you remember when this question was last posted
