Mandarin Classes Lesson Fourteen - Dinner Conversations
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Today you will learn Mandarin that you would (maybe) use at the dinner table. We meet Pingguo’s (ex) coworker - the delightful Xiaomei. She has graduated from slicing off toes to exchanging her body for material things, like cell phones and perfume.
From my travelling experiences with my guy friends in Asia, it seems like Asian girls (girls who grew up in Asian and have never been outside their home country) are all, in they’re own way, a bit like prostitutes. Particularly, Laos, Vietnam, and Thailand - girls in these places who are not officially prostitutes but have a “regular” day job usually want gifts or money in exchange for sex. Very different from what I’m used to in Canada. Yes, probably has a lot do with them having zero money. Even in China girls have a touch of this kind of mindset, particularly girls who are from the countryside and don’t have as much money. It’s not really a big deal to me, it’s just kind of annoying. Like, when you just want to hang out with some girls, but they only want you to buy them a stupid necklace.
In Shanghai there is a different level of this “prostie” mentality. The really hot girls here don’t work and their parents don’t want them to work. Their parents want them to invest all their time and money into looking pretty so they can snag a rich guy. Once these hotties are snatched up they are completely “taken care of” - rent, monthly allowance (10,000rmb or so), clothes, etc are all paid for. However, if the rich bf thinks money and gifts seals their relationship as a monogamous one, he’s way wrong. These girls has loads of free time on their hands to date guys who are much more fun than these rich stiffs. At the same time, the rich bf seems to be treating a few girls the same way. So, in the end, it seems like everybody is cheating on everybody but no one seems to care because both parties are satisfied (kind of).
Another useful link about learning Chinese:
- Seriously, why Chinese? - Here in Taiwan, the situation is not different, because Taiwanese people also want to know why I study Chinese. My habitual answer is because the language intrigues me. Today, however, I asked myself that question. …
